On **Splinterlands** there are **three Ranked game modes** that can be played: - **Wild Format**: it is possible to use cards from all sets, Wild Pass must be paid each season, multi-accounts, bots and battle helpers are allowed - **Modern Format**: only cards from the last two sets released in time order can be used, multi-accounts are allowed but bots and battle helpers are prohibited - **Survival Mode**: it is possible to use cards from all sets, multi-accounts, bots and battle helpers are allowed |Modern Format|Wild Format|Survival Mode| |-|-|-| |||| **I consider very positively** the recent introduction of **Survival Mode** (Feb. 27, 2025) because: - **more game modes = more possibilities for fun** - the Survival Mode created **new use cases for cards** and in particular created an interest in accumulating multiple copies of the same card.  If you are not familiar with Survival Mode you can read the post I wrote and published four days ago in which I explained in summary what Survival mode is and showed how to exclude cards you do not want to use in Survival Mode to avoid the Cooldown period for cards used in a battle lost in this format. ||Post Link: [New Splinterlands Survival Mode: How To Exclude Cards + My First Survival Battles (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/new-splinterlands-survival-mode-how-to-exclude-cards-my-first-survival-battles-engita-6b1)| |-|-| So I like Survival Moed but there are **two aspects that I don't like** of the **current Ranked Play structure**: - **two out of three ranked game modes permit the use of bots** (in my opinion it should be exactly the reverse). - **human players who want to play only against human players can only use two sets of cards** (in my opinion human players should always be able to use all cards of all sets only against human players without being forced to play against bots if they want to, for example, play with Alpha, Beta and Untamed cards) On Splinterlands **I like to play manually only against human players** and for this reason **my favorite Format is the Modern Format** in which I have a collection of NFTs of my own that allows me to have a lot of fun and allows me to be competitive in the **Diamond** leagues of this format.  If you click on the next link you can see my last battle I played in the **Diamond I** league of the **Modern Format**.  View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_2fedd36fb34e16dd742dda4e84efdbb8?ref=libertycrypto27) **I also enjoy playing in Survival Mode** although I will immendiately stop playing manually in this format the moment bots take over human players as they do in Wild Format and if that happens I will also use a bot in this format. In this post I share **my daily play activity in Survival Mode** also because it might be useful for those who have not yet tried this new game mode and want to do so and because I do not have many cards that can be used in this format and therefore my situation might be similar to the situation many players are in. Before I started my daily play session in Survival Mode my **starting point** was: - **Battles**: 25 - **Wins**: 12 - **Rating**: 240 - **Tier**: Wood - **Avaiable Cards**: 923 - **Depleted Cards**: 109 - **SPS staked**: 131436 - 51000 (delegated) = **81436 = SPS boost x13.30**  In Survival mode **cards used in a lost battle enter a cooldown mode** = cannot be used in all ranked game modes (Modern Format, Wild Format, Tournaments, Brawls) until the cooldown period is over.  Screenshot from: **[Introducing Splinterlands Survival Mode](https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/introducing-splinterlands-survival-mode)** My **weak point** in Survival Mode is that **I have very few summoner cards**. In fact, as you can see in the screenshot below I have 27 summoners that I could use in Survival Mode but from this number I have to subtract the summoners that I have delegated/rented to other players and the summoners that work in my lands.  Thanks to the **useful Peakmonsters filters**: - it is easy to obtain the **complete list of summoners that can be used in Survival Mode**. - it is also possible to quickly see **how many summoners are in cooldown**.  Screenshot from [my cards section](https://peakmonsters.com/@libertycrypto27/cards) on [Peakmonsters](https://peakmonsters.com/) As you can see in the next screenshot I have **14 summoners in cooldown** and **7 summoners not in cooldown** for a total of **21 summoners usable in Survival Mode**.  Screenshot from [my cards section](https://peakmonsters.com/@libertycrypto27/cards) on [Peakmonsters](https://peakmonsters.com/) Obviously I am not planning to remove from rental my level 3 Byzantine Kitty which earns me 32 DEC per day because in tier Wood of Survival Mode my gains in SPS are very small and would not justify this action of mine  For the same reason I am not intending to use in Survival Mode the summoners that I use in Modern Format because in this format I play in Diamond leagues where my SPS gains per win are much higher than Tier Wood in Survival Mode.  However, I'm very curious to see where I can go in Survival Mode with my 21 summoners and I'm also curious to find out what seasonal SPS gain I can achieve. Today in **my first battle** in **Survival Mode** I met a player much stronger than me because he had a **Power = 1241330** compared to **my Power in Survival Mode = 80815**  I didn't lose heart and tried to field a battle formation that could at least give my opponent a minimum of difficulty even though I had few strong cards to choose from. When I saw my opponent's battle formation, I was happily surprised and it shows that **in Survival Mode an average high CP does not always have to be scary**. I lost the battle but not in the “overwhelming” way I expected.  View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_d567b372c01bf6f024fa13be8865f20a?ref=libertycrypto27)  In the **second battle** I met a player much more within my reach considering the Power statistic.  I won my first battle today in Survival Mode and gained **0.197 SPS**.  View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_e9f97bf6705534e25a7b2005c2b32e9a?ref=libertycrypto27)  Thanks to this battle won, I left Tier Wood to enter the **Survival Bronze III** league!  In the **third battle** I met a player with a Power not much higher than mine but who uses cards higher than tier 1 while I with the summoners I have available can only use tier 1 cards.   View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_adddd566de7c8849e1f07fafa7ec66b8?ref=libertycrypto27) I won the battle and gained **0.257 SPS**. In the transition from Tier Wood to Bronze III league, my gain in SPS almost doubled.  I continued to play until I had all my summoners in cooldown and if you click on the next links you can see all the other battles I played today in Survival Mode. |||View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_65f4da51c709470421ab6359402203c0?ref=libertycrypto27)| |-|-|-| |||View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_c01eeb654169254bfd19cf823044ccfc?ref=libertycrypto27)| |||View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_a78f5c095063cf17e873a0b6ce56f869?ref=libertycrypto27)| |||View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_a78f5c095063cf17e873a0b6ce56f869?ref=libertycrypto27)| |||View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_90da36a450b72fedd55102aa839f4ee1?ref=libertycrypto27)| |||View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_d5db4b0bfca943a2d2019456fd193ffd?ref=libertycrypto27)| |||View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_659b09604804c8a5c1ae292f0ea7bff5?ref=libertycrypto27)| |||View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_1d5b4aa47fb7dfe77d91a622ac65293d?ref=libertycrypto27)| |||View this Battle -> [Battle Link](https://splinterlands.com/battle/sl_7d0864e18d86d1a963e06c8e21f519e4?ref=libertycrypto27)| Today I played **12 battles** in Survival Mode: - **7 battles lost** - **5 battles won** I earned a total of **1.18 SPS** whose market value is **$0.0074718** I earned a very small value by playing in Survival Mode today, but when I'm having fun, in-game rewards matter relatively little to me. But the rewards for those who have a lot of cards and a good amount of staked SPS are much higher and more interesting already from a rating score of 1020. I used the https://beebalanced.streamlit.app/ tool to see the CP and staked SPSs of the **Erlendo** player I met today but decided not to play the battle. When you meet players much stronger than you (with great Power) it is not worth surrendering because in this case 1 summoner + 1 monster are randomly chosen and put into cooldown. The better choice than Surrender is to choose 1 level 1 summoner + 1 level 1 (sacrificable cards) compared to the strongest and most competitive cards.  **Erlendo** uses a collection of cards with a **Power over 9 million** and has **665K SPS staked** and from the battle victory against me he gained **18.21 SPS** which is a good gain considering that with **1020 rating points** he plays in the **Silver III league in Survival Mode**.  After my daily play session in Survival Mode I have no usable summoners and have to wait for some of my summoners to finish their cooldown period to resume playing.  I have 875 monster cards available to play in Survival Mode but no summoners to use. I also considered renting summoner cards as a possible option to play more battles in Survival Mode but in Survival Mode you can only use cards that have a season-long rental (15 days) and spending 15 DEC for a summoner that can go into cooldown for 15 days does not seem like a good choice.  If I find gold foil summoners at least of epic rarity at a low rental price I might try this route as well but I will evaluate what to do slowly and most likely starting March 18, 2025 when daily rentals will be deactivated and the only option for rental will be the seasonal option. image.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23tbnfMtSpztLoajjbU8AAA5m7F6WRScwDLApnAnsYsKoKJi2mBrbgy5mVTEfXpDufrJv.png) I will also consider buying level 1 summoners but only if I find very very low prices. I hope I have given you useful information and some interesting thoughts and thank you for taking the time to read this post :) dividerHive1.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23sx9z9SBeAGnLjpC4YZEJbnWvp7gmst9meuYrBcdD1YTqYVbPR3J1PKNvQtx8RpCHhC4.png) ## References and links **Splinterlands**: https://splinterlands.com/register?ref=libertycrypto27 Splinterlands Discord: https://discord.gg/splinterlands dividerHive1.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23sx9z9SBeAGnLjpC4YZEJbnWvp7gmst9meuYrBcdD1YTqYVbPR3J1PKNvQtx8RpCHhC4.png) image.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23wWs1tmdh82iqmAkL3LyA6tUMAKhSU33qMU7gws3D5gsYS8PHjaWb669XgAoQR3EYkDB.png) ## Important Note **I am not a financial advisor and the information in this post is not financial advice.** If you decide to invest in a Blockchain-based game you should always do so by your own choice, after making your personal assessments and after considering all possible risk factors. **My advice is to always invest only what you can afford to lose lightly!** dividerHive1.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23sx9z9SBeAGnLjpC4YZEJbnWvp7gmst9meuYrBcdD1YTqYVbPR3J1PKNvQtx8RpCHhC4.png) Unless otherwise indicated, the images in this post are screenshots taken from the sites: [https://splinterlands.com/](https://splinterlands.com/register?ref=libertycrypto27)