The NUMBER ONE #1 thing we NEED for the NEW PLAYER EXPERIENCE NPE! Splinterlands! 

Some interesting thoughts. I have always thought the game needed a free-to-play mode and agree that it in some form should be part of the player experience. I also like the ghost card idea, as many people have reported enjoying the ghost card tournaments. The only thing I could see as an off-shoot is that they would have a heavier server load with the influx of the free-to-play mode. How much, who knows, but it would be another cost variable to account for. Thanks.

it a step in the right direction.

You are correct Psilence, sadly Matt has said he does not want a free to play mode. The masses are not going to fork out 10 dollars to just try a game.

It's a cool idea, but it's a lot more complicated (ie. coding work) than it seems, and with Matt coming out and saying they are going to need money from the DAO just to keep the developers they have, it really seems like a more simple solution is going to be the target. I'm not a big fan of letting everyone have max ghost cards to play with in any mode other than tournaments... I get you don't earn with them, but the desire to own good chunk of the cards will be very little and you would likely see the price gap between the "best" cards and the chaff get bigger. I know it's not a complete solution, but I think letting people play matches for no reward is something that should happen... like in wild, if you don't have a permit, you can still play, but you don't use energy or earn anything for those matches, modern would have to have a toggle between play 4 fun and play 2 earn. This would be a very easy change to implement, for the most part, everything would remain the same, the back end would just determine if they need to calculate and distribute rewards based on a single variable (permit/no permit or flag in modern). There is obviously more logistics in there, but it's minor stuff. Ultimately, the thing we need most for NPE is the NP part, we've been hemorrhaging players with every change and there is almost zero new players... the longer it takes to get some marketing going, the bigger the mountain we will have to climb and with the team worried about paying developers, where is the salary going to come from for a marketing person/team... the DAO may have to step in on that front as well.

once again what is the purpose of the rental market? are we shy'n away from the rental market? iam for it, i rather go with this idea instead of having a rental market-great idea for a proposal👍🚀🚀🚀

The game needs pve not just pvp. Until we get a pve mode where new players can avoid plots and get immersed in the story I don’t see splinterlands growing It will take a lot of coding and work but I don’t see any other way Even free to play- you go against bots and get slaughtered or you can battle out of bronze because you are new. You don’t want new players to get frustrated too quickly

A F2P max-level experience would be good if the cost wasn't so prohibitive, maybe you'll get bites. But like.... a 5k to 100k for a max deck, that's.... a turn off. The issue of SPL is marketing to whales, instead of making it affordable and making it accessible. Should cost the same as MTG Arena /Hearthstone/Legends of Runeterra as a non-F2P player. By that I mean, the amount you have to spend for a max level competitive deck. Buying everything, no renting.

No new player will keep playing a game against bots or battle helpers. Simple as that. As long as the game allow bots and battle helpers, we will bot trainers..