They should end the focus, because the cards possessed that are not part of the daily focus are practically unusable, even more so when the airdrops are over. It would take the focus off and leave the win ranking, so all the cards would have their general utility and not just limited to the daily focus.

The focus chests being in current league instead of last seasons high league should help a lot, but for accounts that play most of the season in one league and cross into the next one near the EOS it seems it may still be better to not let them promote.

The season long rental option seems interesting but I think it will depend on what the  folks who rent out cards and the ones who rent them do how it will affect the market. I am not sure if it will behave as expected or not.

``New Daily Focuses'' 

if 10 to 15 are to be added, i assume that there are many skills, of which new players with low lvl cards have no or only very few cards.
 that sounds bad, for example camouflage how many cards do you have in modern on bronze, silver lvl that can do that? 2 pieces that are turned off when magic is banned?

Great Improvements!

Also please reconsider the 24-hour reset clock to at least 23-Hour & 50 Minutes or allow it to trigger automatically. It's extremely annoying right now as it's hard to have a fixed routine seeing the reset time slide a bit each day as it takes time to claim rewards and get another focus.

Something else that could be done is generally make it harder to get reward points and give bonuses to players that have a bigger & balanced collection or those that hold a lot of Splinterlands Assets similar to how the Airdrop points work. The time required to play has gone exponential since the game got more competitive/fun combined with the fact that you now basically have to play 30 matches daily to get most of the rewards. It's a change that would encourage players to collect more cards and hold assets while rewarding whales who have money but not always the time allowing them to quicker get the chests earning their rewards.

Regardless, I've been enjoying the game a lot more since the changes and these new changes for sure will add to this. Keep up the great Stuff!

This full season rental option is phenomenal and very forward-looking.  Great job The Splinterlands team for doing such a great job early on in this new format and seeing what is working and what needs re-worked.

so, as a renter, we have to spend DEC to rent or whatever and get the power of our desired chest before opening the focus. I think you just said to the players that come back to go away again.

Very nice changes, especially the daily focus mechanic update.
It's good to get RShares for both the daily focus and EOS reward at the same time.

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Very interesting changes. Looking forward to them. I'm very curious how some of these changes will workout for bot accounts who are still trying to navigate the rental market. Like getting focus points for any win with owned or rented cards and season rentals. Seems like it might bring a lot more of them back into the mix. 

> the rental market is a key component in the overall economy and the increase in rewards has provided a lot of additional value to renting cards. One of the reasons we believe that this has not been reflected in rental market usage and pricing as much as we had hoped is that it is quite difficult to manage and get stable, predictable pricing for large rental collections with the current daily rental system.

I don't think this is accurate to say. The entire rental market has changed its complexion. Not a single cards is valued even close to what it was before the change. Some cards have been cut to nothing and others have gone up 100x. Factoring in that we lost end of season ramps, DEC got cut in half, and we lost 2/3s of the daily active users, the fact that the rental market is riding about 20% lower than it used to is pretty impressive. I know I'm making way more DEC today than I was then. Its not worth anything anymore but I'm making lots more of it !LOL

Unrelated but with CP taking a dive recently and the new rewards cards riding just above burn value, I think I'd be reconsidering halving the CP requirement for Modern format. 


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> ... playing at least one card that has either the Sneak, Snipe, or Opportunity ability.

I guess that's anyway the case in the majority of the games, so I wouldn't really need to focus on that focus. :)

> For example, if a player has a Life element focus, then they will still earn focus points based on the rshares earned from a battle win even if they use a different element ...

That means it's even more profitable to just focus on playing as successful as possible, even if neglecting the current focus.

> ... but if they choose the Life element and use Life cards in the battle, then they will receive bonus focus points above the amount of rshares earned <b>for each Life card they used</b>.

I wonder why the bonus points (also for example for gold foil or alpha cards) are calculated according to the <b>absolute number</b> of cards and not the <b>percentage</b> of these types of cards in the team?
If I use for instance a gold foild "Scarred Llama Mage" plus a gold foil "Kron the Undying", and that's my whole team, then that means 100 % of my used cards are gold foil cards. If my opponent uses altogether 7 cards (1 summoner + 6 monsters) where 3 of these cards are gold foil cards they have a potentially higher gold foild bonus, even if less than 50 % of their team are gold foil cards.