Splinterlands: Changes to my rental strategy and how to remove posting authority from an application

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A few weeks ago, Splinterlands announced changes to the market listing for rentals. This meant that there were going to be a lot of changes to the rental market and I decided a few days ago to remove all my rental cards. I am unsure how to approach the rental market while this is going on so I plan on waiting to see what exactly happens first.

SplinterRents going offline

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Due to these changes, splinterrents is also going offline. I thought I didn't have any outstanding balance but it looks like I did and I did pay that off earlier today. The pricing of cards is going to be tough but I don't think the low level cards that I have a lot of will rent out for much and I respect them for taking the bot offline while they adapt to the changes. It looks like things are going off temporarily so I think it's possible for it to come back up eventually. Unfortunately, this means that the only rental bot option that doesn't require your private posting key will be going offline.

Revoking Posting Authority

While this account is offline, I have decided to remove the posting authority that I have given SplinterRents to be safe. While I don't think they will do anything, it's better to be safe and I can always delegate out authority later when they do go online and I want to use the rental bot.

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To do so, I went to PeakD and pressed account actions. Under that tab, I pressed the
Keys & Permissions.

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Afterwards, I click on the Authorities tab and pressed the X next to splinterrents.

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Next click the confirm button and approve the transaction. Once you do so, the authority has been revoked and you can see my updated authorities page.

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Changes to my ranked battles

One thing that I noticed over the past few days was the increased options to my fights. One bad thing that I didn't do when the rental bot was active was to make sure to update the spreadsheet. I was always just playing with the same general deck because all of those cards ended up getting put up on the rental market and I was never good in fixing this. I like having way more options to my battles and I have been experimenting with a few things using some of the cards that I generally do not have access to. It's a good thing and I will be able to figure out what exactly I want before I list these cards up for rentals (if I decide to down the road).

Conclusion

The rental changes have kind of changed the landscape of the rental market and even SplinterRents decided to shutdown (temporarily). I don't plan on using a rental bot for now and I plan on watching how things go first before I even list any cards up. There is a cost associated with putting up cards and I want to be careful now because of it. Getting back my cards has also given me more options in my ranked battles and I plan on seeing how things go before deciding which cards (if any) that I want to list on the market.

Are you in the Splinterlands rental market and have you made any changes due to the recent update?

Feel free to leave a comment if you read my post. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer.

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Hey there! I just saw you finished 2nd in the hive engagement league this week, congrats!

I have to ask though, being such a great engager, I wonder why you are not using Threads every now and then (I honestly want your feedback, because engagers like you definitely have some input on this). Anyway, have a good one!

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It has more to do with time. I just think that there are too many threads and I find it easier to comment on a longer form posts. So my focus tends to go more towards posts instead of threads. I know that threads has a lot of potential but that is just my preference.

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lol jk, yeah I can totally relate to that, I sometimes like long form more than short form, some other times I don't have the mind nor the time to read a long post, come up with a good reply, then type it, and threads is just a 30 second experience haha I do hope you give it a try, at least to see where we are at in terms of development!

lol jk, yeah I can totally relate to that, I sometimes like long form more than short form, some other times I don't have the mind nor the time to read a long post, come up with a good reply, then type it, and threads is just a 30 second experience haha I do hope you give it a try, at least to see where we are at in terms of development!

I put a bunch of cards on the market before the changes went into place. I believe this allowed me to avoid the listing fee one last time. Currently I plan on just letting my cards sit and then re-evaluate later. I might adjust some of my higher rental cards but for the most part its a wait and see.

I wish I did that as well. I wasn't sure if they would charge me a listing fee retroactively so I decided against it.

!CTP

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It must be a lot of work moving those cards back into your deck I guess. The good to it is that you now have more cards available for use that might impact your win rate positively.

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It didn't take much work to get those cards back. I think the longest part was waiting for the cards to be off cooldown and available for me to use.

!CTP

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Its a difficult situation to call. I use golem and they seem to be working on it. At the moment I'm still able to rent, and in fact am renting out more as I guess others have pulled their cards away, but long term, I'm not sure what will happen.

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Yea it's tough and it's nice to see that you are getting more rentals. I plan on playing the wait and see game for now. I might level up some cards and then decide whether or not its worth paying the listing fee.

!CTP

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I guess we will have to wait to see how it all plays out. I think it could have been thought out more, but who am I?

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Yea I think they could have taken more time to hash things out with the community but we can't control that.

!CTP

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Yeah, Broke my tiny accounts heart to unlist my rental army. I have been building it for 2 years but this change hurts. When cards are renting for .4 dec a day you need more then 2 days just to cover listing fee.

Honestly it hurt to sell off alot of my rental army. I don't have land. I'm not stacking max cards. I can't. I rent to players who enjoy silver/low gold, letting me slowly build my silver deck. People like myself got punished here more then the rest. Bots included. :(

Yea. I have a lot of level 1 cards and I don't think I will rent cards right away. It's going to take some time before I decide how to move forward but I am in a mood to just watch how things go first.

!CTP

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