So, I think there's a case for making accounts with almost no activity. If someone just wants essentially a cold storage wallet that should be an option. I think it's good for the platform to have the lowest cost possible option available for people that aren't here to comment away. It doesn't really hurt the network to have these, and it can be good for people to safely store steem and sbd. It makes sense there is a super low cost option.

The question is what to do about accounts that do want to transact. The options are power up steem, delegate steem, and there appears a third option of delegating RCs. Though that third option doesn't exist yet.

So, this experiment is new and it hasn't been super clear for the last while exactly where RC pools and RC prices would land. I think things are a little more stable so it's a little easier to see. As before it looks like an account needs about 15 steem power to have a decent experience. The question is how to get it there.

Steem Monsters and other dapps could give away free steem, could delegate free steem, could charge more and give back some steem as power, or could charge more and give back some steem power. In the future we could also choose to delegate RCs.

I tend to think the best long term solution is to delegate RCs. This is already under development and there are github issues related to it. Maybe parts will be here before SMTs launch in March. Maybe not. I don't think it's safe to count on them.

So, I think RC delegation is the long term solution. The short term solution is likely charging more and putting steem on an account, or charging more and putting steem power on an account, or simply relying on the social aspect of this place to work itself out.

These things can also often happen socially where new accounts find places like the minnow support project share they don't have enough rcs to interact enough and kind people delegate small amounts of SP to them. I've seen that happen over the year and a half the place has existed. The steem monsters discord group is filled with people that want to help others as well. You can see that through the sheer number of contests that members run. I think folks could also wade into the discord and let people know they are RC limited and folks will help.

I don't think it should be automatic that everyone and anyone can suddenly get a ton of activity on the chain. This will lead to spam and spam will reduce all of our rewards. So, I currently like that there is a gate to higher activity. The question is how to pay for the gap for users who aren't spammers.

So, between now and RC delegation I'm torn between charging more to delegate or hand back steem power, or having the community delegate. Also, keep in mind that we have a free upvote service. Folks can get powered up by getting a introduceyourself post out there and getting votes from the steemmonsters community or steemmonsters account.

So, it's not currently seamless, there is still more work to do 2 weeks after HF20 landed, and in the meantime there are very low cost social work arounds (150 steem power for a week costs 1 steem last I checked, and could cover 10 new accounts for 1 week).

As for Steem Monsters all prioirities are maxxed on getting fighting out. Which happens on sunday. Once that's done there's time to look at other things like "what do we do about new accounts created through our service?"