Broken Leagues: A Vicious Circle. Splinterlands! 

I think it would be best to get rid of leagues. If people didn't know they were in "silver" it wouldn't matter. Psychology is so much of this

Also,they hired archmage to provide only 100 bots for modern...100 ? Are you kidding me? Why not freaking1,2 thousand?

Okay, this is a crazy ramble on rant, but I hope it makes sense, I only put forth 1 suggested change, but I try to clarify why modern is the way it is and how it's a lot harder to fix than it might seem. The reward distribution is already heavily weighted to modern, but the majority of players in modern are trying to play at the highest level and only a small portion (the best of the best) will make it to the highest levels meaning that there is lots of big decks relegated to lower leagues, liquidity bots are only a band aid and will have limited effect. They will cause ratings inflation pushing people up a little and then they will face the same max decks, just a division or two higher as only a proportional number of users can be in each division. I'm not sure how to get more casual players in modern, but it's very clear that their needs to be a lot more players there before a casual player player will see non max decks in B/S/G leagues... it's a catch 22. One for sure problem in wild is that the reward multiplier has to be reduced to 0 for zero staked SPS(instead of x1 minimum), being able to stake nothing and still earn with just SB cards is being abused heavily causing crazy ratings inflation that only compounds the problem because rating is used in glint/sps earned calculation. Modern is basically a sh!t show, the best of the best are loving it, but it's extremely hard and costly to break into that group and if you aren't in that group, you are banging your head against a wall. Here's some numbers... simple and very rough numbers to make it easy, 5 leagues with a flat +- 20 and everyone pushing ~50% win/loss means that each league can accommodate roughly ~20% of the active players regardless of what decks they have (ratings inflation will push the percentages in the upper leagues up a little by season end). In modern you have ~70% of the active players thinking the should be in champ, but only ~20% can be in champ, so ~20% end up in diamond, and another ~20% end up in gold, and then some in silver... let's say there is 1000 players in modern now and you want that current ~70% of existing champ decks to be able to make it to champ, you would need to have about 2500 NON champ players join modern for the existing champ level decks to all end up in champ league. A catch 22 on gaining 2.5k modern players is that if we did somehow manage to get these players in modern, it would thin the rewards out quite a bit (like ~60%) as there is a lot more people earning which in turn would make it less attractive to compete for (still a lot better than wild at the same tier though). Liquidity bots won't make a huge impact unless there is a LOT of them. You have the opposite problem in wild, I won't go full on numbers, but let's say 10,000 wild players and only 2% have champ worthy decks, you will still have ~20% of the 10k users in champ league.

The last comment you made: renting out your cards and still playing champ in wild is my current strategy. For me, it is the lack of incetive to play daily. Nothing to buy for glint or things are too expensive to even bother. I don't care if I get 100 or 300 sps a day from playing in modern daily as my stack is at a level I am happy with. There is simply no carrot to chase and the game at this point feels like a chore. Really a pitty as this is the first time I have every card in modern to crush ldb. I am simply not incetivised enough. Plus the 60 people above me on the ldb mostly let human bots (scholars) play their accounts. Which feels like cheating as well. You don't face the actual owner of the cards, who you know from discord, but some specialised soul, offering a paid service whicch takes the fun away for me, too. Not so much fun as I thought it would be.

There will be 0 new players under these new circumstances. Curent playerbase is shrinking, not switching formats. Rewards are nonexistant since implementing sb cards. We are just waiting for team to make another trap for next generation of fools which are willing to leave money to team and their friends.

The irony of it all. Ban bots so the team has to add bots. Just goes to show "be careful of what you wish for". The team should provide an ingame bot for a fee. The revenue can go to fund the DAO. It would also help the NPE in that he wouldn't need to jump through more hoops to get a third party bot.

in wild, I'm in champ 2 and making 3.5 SPS and 600 glint. In modern I'm gold 3 and making 7 SPS and 250 glint. So I'm making double the SPS in modern gold than wild Champ but half the glint. I've only been playing modern for a few days so I'm still moving up but I'm basically playing with a maxed CL deck, a few mid level RW cards, and no rebellion. In gold 3 I have a 70% win rate. I am facing all maxed decks but I'm facing that in wild too so it all just seems like a trade off. Personally I enjoy playing wild better because I have a better card selection but modern is forcing me to hone my skills.

What they did not count on when they said "it will all settle down and silver ppl will play silver etc" is that EVERYONE without maxed decks just fucking left.

devs went wrong with the elimination of leagues (bronze, silver, gold, etc). They should go back to old days, otherwise they should give more rewards to wild instead of modern, cause most of the people will be there as it seems for the background you showed us.

Well in gold modern you get more that in champion wild, in modern you earn much more that in wild, the only problem is that people are so laisy and dont want to manually play so they will just bot in wild. Under champion there is a 20rating points inflation idnyou win 3consecutive games, and that's why there are more people with low decks in diamond wild than people in high elo in modern. In wild it's easy cuz there are a lot of bots so they easily scale , but remeamber everyone has 50% winrate when they reach their max league. In modern the same thing is happening , you will see bronze/silver decks in diamond cuz the 20rating inflation , but since there are lower nr of players in modern, they will need more time to reach higher elo with their decks. So that's a problem of time and laisy from the people. Give them time and stop crying for nothing. Dont create problems where there are not problems. Modern is free, you can earn 9 sps battle , rent a deck with 300dec/800dec and play with gold/diamond deck, play ranked, tournements, brawls and make a lot of money. Oh but you are laisy people....

Wen TH?