Hey Splinterfriends!
Splinterlands has a long maintenance and I am on lunch at work 😊
I thought this might be a good time to write up a cool piece that I've been meaning to share!
A few articles ago, I wrote about my "Business Owner Friend" and the advice he shared:
"If you have a weedeater and can mow a yard in 1 hour and earn $20... but see an opportunity to mow a field for $100 but that would take 15 hours... instead of mowing the field and getting the bigger payday...
Mow enough yards to earn enough money to buy a Zero Turn... then take the field job... and mow it in 1 hour..."
That was some of the easiest to understand and relate to, real world use case of "Scaling" I ever heard...
So now I want to help you by showing you a really great way on how to apply that lesson to SplinterLANDS 😄
Lets say you're just getting started... cautiously dipping your toes into the Land part of Splinterlands...
Maybe you want to see how all this works and grow your Plot collection slowly...
Ok... since all workers need Grain... your best bet is to buy a Common Grain Plot...
They're about $15 at the moment and you could put some cheap workers on it to start...
You could go super cheap with a set of Max RF Chaos Legion Commons but your production would be super duper low...
However... it'd look something like this:
Plot: $15
Workers: $2.50 x 5 = $12.50
DEC = 50k
Power = 5k DEC
Overall you have 55k DEC sunk into this and about $27.50
While this won't generate a ton of Grain, it will be moving... but hey... maybe next week you repeat that... and again and again...
Now you have...
4 Plots: 4 x $15 = $60
20 Workers: 20 x $2.50 = $50
DEC = 200k
Power = 20k
So... what's the next step... consolidate!
Sell the 4 Plots and recoup your $60... buy TWO Rare Grain Plots for $30 each and now you have a 10% Bonus for two plots!!
After that you're left with:
Plots: 2 Rare x $30 = $60
Workers: 20 x $2.50 = $50
DEC = 200k Staked (100k Used)
Power = 4 x 5k = 20k (2 Used)
You could also then sell the Common Workers for Rare Workers but there's really not much benefit from a Max Lvl Common (1,000 PP) to a Max Lvl Rare (1,100 PP)...
The real magic happens if you're willing to bump to Gold Foil Workers...
Max GF Common = 2k PP
Max GF Rare = 4k PP!!
You can scale those too...
Just like the Plot example, we could take our workers and do the same thing...
If you're considering this, I would encourage you to start with GF Commons, which are a little more expensive... but provide 2x the PP of RF Commons... and the scaling works WAY BETTER!!
Max RF Common = $2.50 or so
Max GF Common = $4.50 or so...
Economically, at 2x the PP... the GF Common are the better buy anyway...
But then you look at GF Rares...
They are DOUBLE the price for a Max Level...
Common: $.12 x 38 = $4.56
Rare: $.75 x 22 = $16.50
Which means you could trade 4 Max Common GF Worker Sets (20) for 1 Max GF Rare Set (5) and some change...
That means you'd have...
2 Rare Plots $60
5 GF Max Rare Workers $82.50
200k DEC Staked
4 Power Cores (20k DEC)
Take 100k DEC and buy your next set of commons (or sell 3 sets and use it to buy the rares)...
100k DEC - $4.56 x 5 = $43.45 worth of DEC left over or about 65k DEC...
Week 5 with this strategy of investing a small amount each week will leave you with:
2 Rare Plots
5 GF Rare Workers
5 GF Common Workers
100k DEC Staked
4 Power Cores (2 used)
65k DEC chilling...
So now what... that week you can add your Common Plot and Workers...
$15 + $4.56 x 5 = $37.80 or so... but you won't need to add DEC or a Power Core this week!
End of Week 5...
Plots: 2 Rare, 1 Common (All Grain)
Workers: 5 Max GF Rare, 10 Max GF Common
Staked DEC 150k
Free DEC 15k
Power Cores: 4 (3 Used)
See how that scaling works!!! You can do this with $5/week... $10/week... this example uses $40/week... and it grows QUICKLY!
Of course - everything you've earned so far is in Storage... you haven't had to sell it or anything... it's just growing and you could even put it in a Resource Liquidity Pool to compound that growth!
The final piece to this may even be the easiest but it requires you already have Land...
Let's say you have a number of nice plots...
Say 5 Epics or Legendary Plots and a number of GF Legendary Workers...
What's the next easy/efficient way to improve your PP with a little invested each week...
Common Totem Frags are only like $1 each and you need 10 to make a Common Totem. This earns you a 10% Boost on your Plot!
Ok... so even if you only put in $10/week...
Week 1 = 1 Totem
Week 5 = 5 Totems...
Week 6 = ???
Sell 5 Common Totems for $50... buy 1 Rare Totem (25% Bonus) $49!
Start over and repeat until you have 5 Rare Totems!!
After that... it will get a little Trickier going from Rare to Epic... but it will take a little extra planning as the Epic Totems (40% Bonus) are like $360!
There you have it... how to grow from a Weedeater to Zero Turn... Splinterlands style!!
That's all I have for you today folks!! Thank you for reading and I would LOVE for you to join me in game!!
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- CaptainDingus
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Totems for land scaling, that's smart! 💡 More yards = more $$. Great guide!
Consolidating means I’ll have to give up my precious Land Baron title for a while... 😢
That said, I really love the strategy—it’s a solid and valid approach.
Right now, I’m still in the phase of improving my plots and upgrading with better cards and totems.
Would definitely like to add a few higher rarity plots and totems to the mix though… always something to strive for!
Nice post, I'm kind of doing this already. Could be worth mentioning beakers website if people want to plan ahead and try different set ups. I don't have the link to hand.
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