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How to improve the Steemmonsters reward system? (Poll + Small Giveaway #3)

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Many discussions have been held among players about the recent changes to the reward system. As a new player I find its current implementation extremely unsatisfying. I complete my 5 daily wins, get a crappy reward card and have basically no incentive to keep on playing (as the amount of DEC you earn in Bronze league is a joke - it will take me over 100 days to earn enough for an orb).

I'm in favor of @simplymike's idea to reward quest streaks in some way. Many games already do this and it would encourage people to log in every day.

Another suggestion I'd like to make is to change the reward quests to task lists instead of having just one quest. On these lists there could be multiple quests for each day. For instance "use a magic attack to deliver the final blow 5 times" or "heal your tank 30 times". This would be more difficult to farm with bots and at the same time keep users playing after completing the initial "5 wins with splinter X" quest.

What are your thoughts on the reward system? Please include in your comment in which league you are playing as this might make a huge difference with your level of satisfaction.

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In case of multiple comments by one person only the first one will count as entry. The winner will be picked at random and is going to receive the card after the poll closes. (Bots do not participate; no upvote, resteem or follow required.)

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I want the old reward system back!

There should be Booster reward for quest streaks.

There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.

There should be other changes to the reward system. (Please elaborate)

I like the current reward system.

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@stranger27(68)· 2593d
Voted for There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.

I am mostly in Silver leagues, sometimes getting in gold3. I do think that current reward system does not correspond the price of the starter pack as it is pretty difficult to proceed further without additional investments and only free way is participating in giveaways and renting some good cards on the market

Thank you for the giveaway! #spt #palnet #sct #battle #sportstalk #steemleo
@stranger27(68)· 2593d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@che-shyr(44)· 2593d
It seems I'm not the only user who tried to play without spending hundreds of STEEM on buying cards.;-) Delegation with splitting the rewards... I've heard of such model. Sounds interesting, I definitely have to try it out. Thank you for the invitation. But I think for developers it would be much better option to give users a chance to win their own summoners, as well as common and rare cards in our daily quests. With our curent reward model, I came to the conclusion that this game doesn't need small fishes like me or @ handtalk5. Looks like deliverers want to have it popular among "big wallets", investors who are ready to pay more to win more. To buy all these packs, orbs and gold cards. That's why we'll alvays have the same bunch of 20-30 people, winning all the tournaments and sharing the reward pool. Unfortunately, our precious time spent on the game isn't equal to someone's money spent, no matter what our whitepaper say.
@travoved(68)· 2594d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@wakeupkitty.pal(63)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@loler555(59)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@akomoajong(66)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
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@vimukthi(76)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@mastersa(54)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
You're totally right! I'm in bronze and it's difficult to justify spending over an hour sometimes to win a single lousy card. And then I see people in gold and above getting crazy cards from their dailies... with enough dec to get daily mysteries etc.

-- they definitely need to focus on retaining new players... pay to win sucks.
@akdx(70)· 2596d
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- There should be Booster reward for quest streaks.
@n1hal(56)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@mrnightmare89(74)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@mrnightmare89(74)· 2596d
the game will be interesting if there will be wonderful rewards, it's true. For me I think in doing a reward's it should be exciting. Like in completing a quest, this should be rewarded with a beautiful. The hardwork in playing should be paid good. In winning streak there should be a rare cards. You know it's hard to win a streak, player's means always having a practice in the game.

that's only I can share but I will go into dpoll to vote

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@viniciotricolor(66)· 2596d
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- I like the current reward system.
@che-shyr(44)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
After 5 month of playing SM, I'm still in Bronze. Why? It's just because I don't have spare money to level up my deck enough to compete with bots, playing 2-3level cards. I can level up some my revard cards, like Rusty or Vampire but I can't allow myself to buy summoners to use these cards. So, it would be great to have some extra quests where we can get summoners as a reward.
@steemcameroon(58)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@chireerocks(75)· 2596d
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- I like the current reward system.
Now Steemmonsters team introduced DEC and SPT Ecosystem and in this perspective in my opinion current reward system is more effective than ever but when we achieve growth then competition rises and for some it will difficult to cope up with this competitio. Stay blessed.
@maxer27(68)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@wakeupkitty(72)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@sparkesy43(60)· 2596d
I have long advocated that the reward system needs a simpler way to grind your deck to a stronger position. The simplest way to do that, would be to include a summoner for each splinter among the reward cards
@dosh(64)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@marianaemilia(75)· 2596d
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- I like the current reward system.
@pedrocanella(66)· 2596d
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- I like the current reward system.
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@anroja(65)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
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@nutritree(55)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@themanwithnoname(65)· 2596d
I like the idea of having different quests to do. The "use ___ splinter for 5 wins" gets old sometimes.
@dwingsworld(59)· 2596d
Think the task list bonus for any kind of winning streak would be great. Perhaps I could do in battle bonuses as well. Basically if you're in a battle in all your monster survive you would get some sort of Angie Crystal bonus or perhaps a card bonus whatever. Thanks for sharing

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@d-zero(71)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
@wonderwop(67)· 2596d
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- There should be Booster reward for quest streaks.
I'm not sure what the old reward system entailed but it would be nice to be able to be rewarded a summoner or orb card. Maybe a mini pack of some kind.

I play in Gold 1, I can't seem to get into Diamond.
@johndoer123(68)· 2596d
I really like your idea of a more complex and robust rewards system with different tasks to complete. I think we should keep the daily quest, but that we need something else to keep us from just "log in, win 5, log out, wait 24 and repeat." Thanks for not just creating a post and being negative. You pointed out a problem and you are thinking of potential solutions. That means a lot. And as for tagging others, my great friend @simplymike has tagged everyone I could have thought of other then @aggroed. Maybe SM has something new and exciting coming and he can let us know all about it.
@jeffjagoe(77)· 2596d
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- I like the current reward system.
@gillianpearce(67)· 2596d
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- There should be other changes to the reward system. (Please elaborate)
I'm not sure what would be best but I definitely think something needs to be done to help new players improve their decks. If prices keep going up then it simply won't be possible for the average person to get enough cards to compete.

I'm not sure about a task list though as it would still favour the people with the best selection of cards.

I was knocked out of tournaments 4 times today by the same player. I had no chance of beating him because I simply don't have the cards that he has, e.g. the promo cards and both epic and legendary summoners.

I've been thinking about the new player/cards getting more and more unobtainable problem a lot lately and I'd love to hear the developers' thoughts on it.
@chekohler(76)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
I would also like to see you earn more DEC should you hold DEC that would give users an incentive to keep more/stake so they're rewards are more over time. That will also drive up the scarcity of it and people wouldn't just dump it or burn it as soon as they earned it

I'd also like to see more uses for DEC like burn DEC for 2 daily reward quests
@bashadow(70)· 2596d
Arrived from simplymikes shout out:

It has been about 3 months since I played steem monsters, so I am not really familiar with the reward system any longer. Wish I could help, but just got to busy doing other things.

I know I did not like it much when the reward cards for lower levels went way down and reward cards for upper levels hardly took a hit, then setting it so that your reward was based on the highest level you reached not where you finished, just meant that larger accounts touched the upper levels then dropped down to seemingly prevent smaller accounts from leveling upward, I know this was not the real case in actuality, but there seemed to be more than a few accounts acting in this trollish manner enough so that I started to lose interest in the daily quest.

It's a game, and people are going to game it for their maximum benefit. No problem with that at all to a point. But like I said, I got busy doing a few other things lately.
@minimining(65)· 2596d
Task list sounds fun. But is it best... Give a chance to everyone. Like a lottery in every League? Winner get Some steem.

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@senstless(74)· 2596d
Thanks for the tag @simplymike.

This is hard - I am still playing my Beta only Alt - stuck in Gold 3. My thoughts are this - it is hard to start and play for free - but it can be done. Its just a matter of time and effort put in.

Over 7 months I have gotten up to level 3 summoners and a decent deck with reward cards being 90% of my income source. DEC has been nice but it has also caused cards to 3x in price. offsetting any gains. I have never played a tournament or entered a giveaway - Its all just from what I have earned in the game.

I like the idea of a middle ground - and could support a change if they offered challenges like you mentioned and you could earn DEC - but nothing crazy. Challenge Streaks, or other bonuses.

I think beta packs need to stay as purchase/tournament prize only.

As far as keeping more lower players. I am delegating a lot of my extra gold foil cards to members of #SSG who are lower levels and need a boost. While the rental market is great for the top level cards, free delegations can really help those lower accounts get some momentum.
@xplosive(72)· 2596d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.
Plus there should be Booster reward for quest streaks.
@simplymike(69)· 2596d
Guess it will be a good idea to invite some people here to vote. 2 everyone: sorry for the long tag list, but imo this is a pretty important matter if we want to keep new players around...

It would be great if you could share your opinion (and maybe invite some more people) :0)

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@simplymike(69)· 2597d
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- There should be other changes to the reward system. (Please elaborate)
Way to go, @handtalk5.

You already referred to the proposal I made in mypost 'Steemmonsters' 'All-Or-Nothing'- Policy - There Has To Be A Middle Way:

How about rewarding people who complete 7 Daily Quests in a row with a free booster pack? It would be an incentive for them to play and put in an effort every day, while it means a lot less booster packs go out the door for free.

I currently play in Diamond and Champion - I merged my accounts for the exact reason you name: it was simply not worth the time to keep playing in the lower leagues.

I like your idea of giving people a chance to earn more rewards by offering a task list. It allows people to spend as much or as little time playing, deciding for themselves whether they want to earn more reward or not.

Thanks for bringing this up again. The game needs more players, but for that they need to make it more attractive for new players/players with lower level decks.
@abbak7(74)· 2597d
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- There should be a task list with more complex quests running in parallel.

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