Long ago, Splinterlands introduced a barrier to playing by requiring that players own a certain value of cards in order to advance into the higher leagues. Now they prepare to change things up by removing that restriction and adding a new formula that encourages players to hold staked SPS tokens to improve match rewards.<\/strong><\/p>\n Since the introduction of their SPS token two years ago, the Splinterlands teams has slowly and steadily worked on integrating the token into their game system and making it the backbone of the entire Splinterlands ecosystem. So it\u2019s really not a huge surprise that they announced plans to use staked SPS token as a new measurement for generating rewards.<\/p>\n In the current Splinterlands system, players have a Collection score. Collection scores are calculated based on the number of cards a player has in their account. Collection scores gate access to higher-ranked leagues. Even if you are an amazing player and don\u2019t need a huge collection to win matches, if you don\u2019t have enough card value in your collection, you can\u2019t advance to higher leagues.<\/p>\n Personally, I never liked this system to begin with. But since it\u2019s introduction they\u2019ve added a card rental system, and everyone has just gotten used to it. But now, this pending change upends the previous status quo, and there will be some shockwaves felt!<\/p>\n![\"Splinterlands](\"https:\/\/www.playtoearn.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Splinterlands-NFT-Cards.jpg\")