What If We Allow Bots With a Penalty on Rewards?
I want to see better match liquidity. I also want to see bigger separation with Steem Monsters Inc, both for the sake of decentralization and to avoid potential SEC threats. Giving special privileges to a centralized party is a Web 2 solution to a Web 3 problem.
- Anyone purchasing assets is helping the game.
- Anyone providing gameplay activity is helping the game.
The problem is that bots are extracting more value with less effort demotivating those who earn by playing the game manually. There have been many cases of MMOs suffering due to banning bots. We would not be talking about Ghost Card bots to provide match liquidity if the community bots were around.
I don't like seeing Ghost Cards above Level 1. I don't want representation without assets. Since the community is ready to accept the principle that bots are a solution; the implementation must come in a decentralized manner.
- Anyone should be able to run bots.
- Bots must be registered.
- No fake assets AKA Ghost Cards.
- Reward penalty of at lest 50%.
Without a reward for the community bots, we will be asking for charity or communism. With regular rewards we will be discouraging manual gameplay. The community will have to decide on an appropriate middle ground. My suggestion is a penalty of 50% - 90%.
Read the last line of the proposal:
The Splinterlands team will NOT earn any rewards from these Team Liquidity Bot
accounts. Ghost Cards will not earn any rewards even if the account has a Spellbook on it.
These bots are purely for liquidity.
I read the part and that is not what I have a problem with. There are bots that use real assets run by @splinterlands that don't earn rewards. My issue is a centralized party having special abilities in gameplay. Ghost Cards is my problem. Players who own assets will have to face bots that don't own any assets. This is sneaking PvE into ranked while making it look exactly like PvP.
perfect I agree 100%
I should have elaborated more that registered bots should comply with terms and conditions intended to optimize the gameplay experience of manual players.
I mentioned registering bots to a friend of mine not too long ago as a potential idea. I think this would be an amazing solution. Registered bots would allow the liquidity needed while their owners could still make some sort of return on their investment.
What if human players were still able to win something upon facing the registered bot? When the bot wins they take 50%, the losing human player gets 25% and 25% is burned?
I came to SPL roughly 2 years ago, diving in head first because of the ability to passively earn. I would love to see that ability return to modern play even at reduced earnings and under the SPL terms and conditions.
I like the idea and wish more stakeholders would adopt such a solution. We should use the the free markets to our advantage and think of bots as a tool rather than an enemy.
!PIZZA
!LUV
!CTP
One more thing. What if the rewards were split to be 25% to the bot winner, 25% to the human loser, 25% burned and 25% back to the SPL Team? Other then pack sales and promos this would give them another way to bring in money to fund things the community needs. Hopefully allowing the game to thrive and the price of our tokens to increase.