The Land for sale in Splinterlands looks cheap to me and it appears to be getting cheaper. It's not unusual to see a gradual price drop as the hype of a new release starts to wear off but I've been keeping an eye out for bargains and now seems like a good time to swoop.
I think I've got a decent handle on how the land economics will work and I have a strategy in place for Magic Food Production in the Earth and Life Splinters so I thought I could expand into a couple of more splinters to double down on my initial investment. Today I've picked up an additional 8 plots in a new region with a similar mix to my first investment. An Occupied Plot with 2 Magical Plots (Death and Water) plus 5 Common Plots to give me some utility and build out my supply chain.
It's a Swamp dominated region so I should be able to assign almost 100% workers from the Death and Water splinters, meaning that I can once again plan to feed my own workers with the magical food that I am producing within the region. The first step has been to acquire a decent chunk of land and then I'll sort out the Power Cores, source the Grain and Workers to get the land producing over coming months.
Of course it's another fairly high risk investment and the market for land has been trending down so I don't know if we're close to the bottom just yet, but I've done come up with what I think is a decent strategy so may as well back myself and see it through.