I took part in my first @steemmonsters tournament yesterday and did OK. A little on how I fared and the game in general...
More than one account has come to me saying they earn more STEEM in card value by playing @steemmonsters each day than they do creating content.
While this could be taken negatively, I actually think this is how things will progress as we move forward - content will need to be niche (utopian) or considered totally awesome for Steem (@soyrosa's recent work behind getting Steem listed on state of the dapps), you'll need to find a whale-buddy, or you can try to earn your STEEM/SMT doing something - like gaming.
Considering that's what I've been doing during this recent hiatus, I am bang up for this!
I've been playing video games since 86, starting with a rubber keyed 48k Spectrum. Upgrading to the 128k was nice, the Amiga 500 and 1200, even better. Then a flirt with a SuperNES, before moving (quickly!) onto PC gaming. University, women, children, etc, took away my game-time for a while, and when I looked in again around 2008, MMO's were around. Second Life, Silkroad, and Battlefield 2.
After another break, and having realised I should have been using my, pretty sweet at the time, rig for other things (sigh), I returned to gaming to see needs getting payed to play - I was too early/too late, again :P
Anyway, right now is all that matters, and right now we have a game here on Steem. Luckily, I bought a fair amount of cards over the summer when STEEM was 2/3$, and so I have a reasonable deck, and haven't spent thousands of dollars in the process.
You can battle constantly, and will earn cards at the end of each 'season', which lasts somewhere between 2/3 weeks. There are also daily challenges for cards, and these seem like a good option for those steadily building their deck. Yesterday though, Bernie sponsored a tournament with 2500 STEEM in prizes available - that got my interest for sure!
There were limits set on the ranks of the cards and so this gave folks (like me) without a maxed out deck to still be in with some sort of chance. And the above image (you'll need to start from the bottom) are the battles that I played during the tournament yesterday. After a crap start, and a lesson from @clayboyn, things started to pick up. I won four ' best of three's ' in a row, before finally losing 2-1 to @toocurious. @clayboyn finished 4th, @toocurious in a tie of 7th, and I finished in a tied 25th. Not bad, but just out of the prizes. Ah well!
The game is getting slicker, the tournament was easy to join, and I was thoroughly entertained for an hour or so. The SM community looks strong, and right now I think @steemmonsters is one of Steems best assets.
There, I posted!
Happy New Year all, I'm not a huge fan of Christmas at all, but do feel a change in mood for the better once the new year begins.
I'm still on the hunt for work and think that might get a little more serious this next week as people return to their desks.
If you use me as witness proxy, @yabapmatt has been swapped in for @fulltimegeek as he's sadly taken his kit offline.
Cheers, and all the best for 2019. We gonna have some SMT this year?
Asher