It is the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022. I know that several are already in the new year. There are still 4 1/2 hours before I will experience the new year. This was my last Luke Scavenger Hunt of 2021. https://www.wearealiveand.social/hive-155221/@darmst5339/lukeisalive-luke-is-waiting-for-the-launch-of-listnerds
@darmst in January 2022
First Daily quest of the season and I am still in 2021. I had the Earth quest and it did not take me very much time to complete all 5 wins. Once I did, I claimed my reward. It was a Venari Heatsmith. I will be able to level it up again.
It is my pleasure to be able to participate in today's Hive Power Up Day #HivePUD This will be my fifth month in a row to be able to participate. I save up Liquid Hive during the month so that I can power it up on the first day of the month. You have around 21 hours left if you would like to participate in the first HPUD of 2022. https://ctptalk.com/@darmst5339/hivepud-starting-off-2022-with-a-power-up-fifth-time-to-participate-in-a-row
We had some friends in town for the week and one evening we went out sightseeing. One of the stops was this old Hotel which has an historical marker. That was not the interesting part. It was that the old train cars were turned into hotel rooms. Can you imagine booking a reservation at a hotel and then find out that your room is the caboose? https://www.wearealiveand.social/hive-119826/@darmst5339/iaac-day-190-a-caboose-as-a-hotel-room
With the Splinterlands season end, I was able to get back up into the Silver III League so I received 12 loot chests. When opening the chests, I did receive 7 cards however they were all common cards. During one of my daily quests, I had received two rare cards from the two loot chests I opened so I might have used all my luck up during the season and did not save any for end of season rewards. But there is always this next season.…
It felt like it took forever for me to finish this daily quest. It was a Water quest which I always have trouble with. When I claimed my loot chest, I had 18 minutes left before I could start my next one. So it took me almost a full day to complete this quest. My reward was a legendary potion. Hopefully this next one will go a little easier.
A lot of the times it is what you are accustom to that when it changes takes you off guard. Well, the December was the warmest on record with temperatures in the upper 80F last week. Now a cold front has come through and the temperature dropped to 24F last night. https://www.wearealiveand.social/hive-155221/@darmst5339/iaac-day-191-over-a-50f-degree-difference-from-last-week
It did not take me long at all to complete this quest. It was the Fire quest. I was very surprised that I got the wins almost all in a row. However I am glad since the prior ones have taken a while to complete. When I opened my loo chest, it was a Pelacor Mercenary
I need a different strategy for 2022 than I used last year. My deck has been growing but I have not been advancing at the pace I would like to advance. I need to get leveled up Summoners to be more competitive. The sales price is around $4.00 each so now may be the best time to get them. My rating of 877 and power of 11,215 placed me solidly in Bronze I. I am normally able to make it up to Silver III prior to the end of the season. Each season, once I get over 1,000 in…
I wanted to finish my quest earlier today but the game was down for maintenance. My quest was Death. I only liked one more win to complete it so when the system came back up, I was able to get my one win. Then I opened my loot chest and I received 2 Credits. Wow, I could not have been more disappointed.
Today's quest was a Life quest. I battled for the last two hours straight to try and complete it. I had the first three but then went on a losing streak but now finally won my last match. In opening my loot quest, I received a Legendary Potion. Hopefully it will be true when I use it and get me a Legendary (Gold) card.
It felt like it took forever to finish this Life quest but when I finally did I received a rare card - the Venari Bonesmith. With all the loses, I have dropped to Bronze II and need to try and get back up to Silver III before season end.
The Luke Is Alive Challenge has helped me reach a new milestone in ClickTrackProfit. I have now surfed over 10k pages at Cup Of Traffic. There are several other Cup of Traffic milestones to complete the Cup Of Traffic Mastery but I have reached six of them for now. https://ctptalk.com/@darmst5339/lukeisalive-luke-has-completed-another-milestone-at-clicktrackprofit
I have created my 2022 goals and share about the HiveStats tool that will provide stats so that I can keep on track to achieving my goals. The full details are in my post on the Hive Platform. https://ctptalk.com/@darmst5339/hivestats-great-for-tracking-goal-progress
I was having a challenge completing my daily quest which was an Earth quest. I kept losing but when I played a different splinter I would win to keep up my rank. I joke about that because my rank has dropped to below 700. I need to do better there by the end of the season. When I opened my loot chest, I received 10 credits.
I now have my first leveled up summoner. I am hoping this helps in my matches. I choose to start with General Sloan as the first leveled up Summoner. There were several listed on the market for $3.46 which was lower than the $3.70 when I had posted about getting summoners 5 days ago. So I was able to purchase 5 cards with 4,133.652 DEC that I had in reserve. https://www.1up.zone/@darmst5339/splinterlands-my-first-leveled-up-summoner-general-sloan
I hope everyone is doing well today and hopefully you are allowed to get out and about. They are starting to tighten up the restriction and increased it to Stage 5. With this, everyone no matter what their status if they are in public places are recommended to wear a mask. A mandate to wear a mask is frowned upon by many of the State Politicians so the local governments instead issue recommendations. But the good thing is that businesses can enforce their own rules. Similar…
I thought I would never finish today's quest which was the life quest. I just kept losing. I would take a break than come back and lose some more. At the end of the day and dropping to Bronze II, I completed the quest and received 3 credits. Maybe tomorrow I will do better.
I now have earned enough merits playing in the guild brawls to purchase my second Gladius case. I received a legendary Gladius card which provides 1000 to my collection power. This will help increase my collection power to get closer to the 15,000 needed for Silver III so that the cards I rent will be reduced during the season. https://www.1up.zone/@darmst5339/splinterlands-increasing-collection-power-with-gladius-cards
With the sunset another day has ended with the promise of a little rest before the next begins. Enjoy and live in the now because you will never know for certain what the future may hold for you. https://peakd.com/hive-155221/@darmst5339/iaac-day-195-enjoy-today-for-tomorrow-is-unknown
Have I told everyone how much I hate the Water Splinter Quest? It used to be my favorite before the Chaos Legion cards were released. I should have had this one completed yesterday. And when I finally completed it I get 24 credits!
I finally made it to level 40 but my rank fell. I forgot that rank is relative to everyone else that is playing the game. I will work on that over this next week. I also purchase another pack. This opened up the Shopping Mall mission that I can now do every now and then. https://www.1up.zone/@darmst5339/rising-star-backward-progress-my-ranking-fell-by-11
I had the death quest today and completed it in less time than it has taken me to complete the others over the past few days. I will be glad when I get better at my matches so I can win more. I made it back to Silver III ranking so rented enough power so that I could open two cards. I received a rare card and an alchemy potion.
The Fire quest was my quest of the day. now that I am back in the Silver III league, the quest are more challenging however it is harder to create a lineup but I love it. After finishing my quest, I received 2 legendary potions.
I had the Fire quest today in Splinterlands. It was a lot of fun but I kept getting rule sets that were better for other splinters so I created with those instead of Fire. Well after a while, I did have enough Fire matches to win 5 of them. When I opened my loot chests, I was awarded with a Venari Bonesmith and a Gorgoya Lion. I was very happy to get two cards after the low rewards I had been receiving.
First quest completed after the season began and and working to fight myself back up into the higher levels. I have a long way to go. In today's loot chest, I received 25 credits. They can be used as part of the credits needed for purchasing the packs when general sale begins.
I was able to finish the next quest very quickly. It was a death quest. I like it when I win several in a row, it makes the game a whole lot more fun. When I opened the loot chest, I received a Gargoya Lion. A card, so I was very happy with that because of the low probability in the Bronze league with only one chest to open.
I lost quite a few matches today but finally won the 5 matches I needed to complete the Earth Quest. When I opened the chest, it held an Alchemy potion. Maybe I will do better tomorrow.
ListNerds is now on the Blockchain. The whole site has been redesigned to be fresh with a very clean design so that the user experience is better than ever. Look how eye pleasing and easy to read the homepage is now. As usual, there are lots of Video and written Tutorials so that you will have to training for actions that can be taken. https://ctptalk.com/@darmst5339/listnerds-relaunched-with-blockchain-earning-components
This afternoon, I was able to complete the Scavenger Hunt by finding Luke 5 times. I started in Westacre which was occupied by Boot Scootin Traffic then rotated between Boot Scootin Traffic Cup of Traffic and Lime Hits 4U. https://www.wearealiveand.social/lukeisalive/@darmst5339/finding-luke
I am slowly grinding away trying to get in a higher league prior to season end. I am currently in Bronze I so I have a little way to go before I am back in Silver III. My daily quest was Earth which was not bad. I opened the loot chest and received a Gargoya Lion. I will take any cards I can get.
I am enjoying playing dCrops. It is a very passive game that is not very time consuming at all. Each season you plant crops then come back later in the season and harvest them. There are four seasons which last two weeks each. I had two Wheat seed and two Turnip seed that I planted at the beginning of the season. I have waited until both were mature so I could harvest them at the same time. https://www.1up.zone/@darmst5339/dcrops-summer-harvest-time-and-looking-to-fall
In addition to all of the functions on PeakD, I discovered in the drop down on PeakD a very useful item. There are some very helpful "Tools". There are graphs for rewards and growth, incoming/outgoing votes, and posts/replies and comment counts to help you manage your activities on the Hive Platform. Check them out. https://ctptalk.com/@darmst5339/tools-in-peakd-provide-clarity-of-your-actions
I had the water quest today. It took me a while but I finally completed it. My loot chest contained 350 credits. I did not know what I could do with the credits so I looked on the market and found a Level 2 Disintegrator which is a neutral card so I can play it with any splinter. I think it was a very good reward.
Everyone is complaining about the market dropping. The good news is that I am not that concerned about the price at this point in time because I am in the accumulation stage. I know there are probably several of you that live week to week and need the prices to stay where they were. I will continue to build my holding until a later point in time. I created about my progress so far this year. Check it out. https://ctptalk.com/@darmst5339/week-3-accumulation-is-still-the-focus
This afternoon, I was able to find Luke once. I started in Bluebarrow which was occupied by Cup of Traffic then rotated from Cup of Traffic tp FrreAdSwap. However I was only able to find Luke once. https://www.wearealiveand.social/hive-119826/@darmst5339/lukeisalive-luke-is-traveling-around-the-northern-pass
I thought the Death quest I was working on would be the death of me. Death is normally only good under 20 mana and all I was getting was high mana matches. I was not going to play Death in those when I knew I did not have a lineup. Due to this, it took 1 1/2 days to finish the quest. I was very pleasantly surprised when I opened my loot chest. It was an Epic Uraeus.
Well I think I am back on track for my daily quest. I completed a Life quest today. But after the Epic card yesterday, I think it is trying to balance out my rewards. I received 18 credits. Oh well, my next quest will be better.
dCrops is a Play2Earn farming game that is very easy to play and does not take too much time. I have two plots of Fertile Land to use for planting seed. Each of these plots can be planted with two seed each. The good news is that I have four Fall seeds so just enough but no more. I have one Pumpkin, two Carrot and one Garlic seed. https://www.1up.zone/@darmst5339/dcrops-it-is-fall-time-to-plant
I finally made it back to Silver III after over half the season is over. It seems like the matches are getting harder or everyone is just getting a lot better. Today's quest was another life quest. I received two cards - Gargoya Lion and Pelacor Deceiver
I was able to find Luke once and then he vanished from the Map hopefully he will show back up tomorrow. https://www.wearealiveand.social/hive-119826/@darmst5339/lukeisalive-luke-vanished
I had a water quest today. I struggled with it and must have dropped back to bronze because I only received one loot chest. The good news is that I received 350 credits. that should get me a few cards.
My internet was out most of the day yesterday when I had been wanting to play Splinterlands. The good news is that it came back on in the evening and I was able to complete my daily quest. It was a life quest. I received two cards from the loot chests a Venari Heatsmith and Gargoya Lion.
Hello everyone. I hope everyone is having a great day. Yesterday my internet went out and was out all day and returning in the evening. It seemed that most of the things I wanted to do involved being connected. Since I was not able to be, I went outside, made a small warming fire and relaxed by watching nature. https://www.wearealiveand.social/hive-119826/@darmst5339/iaac-day-207-no-internet-so-built-a-small-warming-fire-and-relaxed
After opening a pack, I am now able to run a new mission. I am going slowly but surely and purchasing a new pack each week from my earnings. Maybe this new mission will help me accumulate enough to open two packs per week. https://www.1up.zone/@darmst5339/rising-star-improved-ranking-and-new-record-a-demo-mission
my daily quest started out very easy and I won three in a row. the quest was Snipe. Then I went on a losing streak and it seems did not have a situation to use snipe cards. after about an hour, I finally finished my quest. I received 10 DEC and a Gargoya Lion.
This week it seems like the crypto prices has stabilized a little bit. I take this as a good sign that more people are calming down and not buying into the "Sky is Falling" myth. I see post that state "If only this" or If they would". Most of the talk is about topics that most if not all of us have no control. The best thing to do is focus on what you can control which is accumulation for the long term. In a few years, you will look back and say "Why did not I do this for…
I always get Sneak and Snipe quest mixed up. I have no clue why I get them confused they are different. I had a Sneak quest today and all of them but one or two had high mana caps with at least two different rule sets which made it challenging to figure out which one of the two rule sets would impact my lineups the most. In the end, I completed my quest and received an Alchemy potion and 1 DEC. Maybe tomorrow's reward will be better.
Nature with it's infinite wisdom just reminded me that you must live in the moment and take advantage of opportunities as they are presented to you. There are times when you are presented with opportunities that you must be prepared to take advantage of the situation when it happens. If I would have not been paying attention, I would have missed taking photos of tonight's sunset. It was only available for a brief period of time. Or if I would not have had my camera, again no…
My last quest of the season was a water quest. I was able to get through it relatively easy but I still had a few challenges. The two rules sets at a time can be confusing and conflicting but I finally got 5 wins and received a potion and Pelacor Bandit.