Rising Star: R85 Carly Rare Musician NFT Giveaway #24

I wasn't able to fully concentrate on doing missions but I was able to increase the skill points I get off music lessons and earn a decent amount of starbits as well. As I have more starbits compared to last week despite my purchases, I am doing quite well on increasing my balance. I know I should be using the starbits more but I am conflicted about putting them into the diesel pools, buy packs or buy individual cards.

Giveaway

There were no triple copies of a rare this time around so I picked a rare card that I did not giveaway before. I got two copies of these cards during my latest pack opening.

The giveaway item is R85 Carly and it has 100 fans, 75 skill, 4 luck and 2 income modifier. The difference in fans and skill isn't that high but it should help new player unlock missions.

Rules

In order to participate:

• Leave a comment
• Include your username in your comment

This time if you do not leave your username, I will not include you in the draw. I want to reward the people who follow the rules.

Results of Last Giveaway

The winner is @irisworld.

Thank you to the rest of the valid participants that did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: @imfarhad, @silver-edge, @imfarhad, @oxidil, @nozzy, @magooz, @amaillo, @edgerik, @finris, @mario02, @ruralio, @javiss, @michaeldav, @listik303, @misterabaddon, @maurojd, @ayush98, @dokudot, @subidu, @skyple, @belhaven14, @luizeba, @deanlogic, @trenloco, @steemmillionaire, @zarwelius, @josueprime, @alter13, @andrik, @servelle

Unfortunately we had two people who did not read the rules and were not included in the draw: @guurry123. I hope you will make sure to include your username next time.

I transferred the Robbie below and you can verify the transaction here

Current Status

Although it wasn't much lower than last week, I was only able to get around 185k starbits last week. I think this difference can probably be chalked up to having bad luck compared to last week and maybe losing a few missions since I wasn't doing a mission all the time. There weren't any epics or legendary cards from my pack openings. I also didn't get any double rare packs either.

I decided to buy a unique card off the market to add to my collection. It isn't the music lesson I focus on but any extra unique card I can get is good for the rankings.

I ended up buying 17 rare Piano instruments. The RS 101 was the cheapest option on the market and I paid around 3,000 to 3,100 starbits per instrument on average. So in total, the cost would be around 50k starbits were used to buy them. However this was able to push me over the 200 minimum skill per Piano lesson. So I will not be buying more pianos from the market for a while.

Current Stats

Fans: 22017
Luck: 4816
Skill: 32385
IM: 355
Ego: 29279 (1212 from drunk fans and 7262 permanent ego)

Current Goals

My time for mission played has not recovered to 6k and has dropped slightly. In fact my points are more or less around where I was last week. Maybe it's because I didn't get many extra unique cards.

I am still quite happy with my current ranking as I am getting more or less around 0.1 SWAP.HIVE per day. Also since it's a new month, tomorrow's pack openings should net me quite a few extra unique cards. This should help boost up my rankings and I am even thinking of buying two sets of 12 packs. Of course I could just buy a few of the unique cards that I don't have but most of them seem overpriced.

If you want to join Rising star, feel free to use my referral link.

Tips (source)

I think the tips are something every new player should know about. It will help people progress in the game and it hasn't really been shared since surya1adiga stopped his giveaways.

1. Take music lessons when possible to raise skill and reduce ego.
2. Having lesson specific instruments helps in receiving more skill from that lesson.
3. Have pizza box to store any pizza received during mission to reuse later.
4. Buy cold pizza slice if possible. This gives 1 refill every 24hours. Comes very handy when you are low on energy.
5. If you have enough of cold pizza slice and pizza box, you will never run out of energy.
6. If you have more fans than skill and you want reduce the ego , you can use a storage trailer to store unnecessary cards. Or you can list the card in market for an unreasonably high price.
7. Ego received for a particular mission increases every time you play it. The ego is reset to base level the next day. So, try to play different missions to control the ego gained.
8. Keep track of your achievements to unlock in game rewards
9. Buy storage trailer (only if necessary) to keep the cards that might have a negative effect. Like a card with high fan count resulting in ego.
10. When earning skill points through music lessons, you can earn more points per lesson if you hold more of specific instrument cards. There seems to be base skill which is rewarded irrespective of the card count and then the skill increases depending on the number of the lesson specific card one has.
11. Try taking up many smaller missions to fill up pizza boxes and have extra energy to play more rewarding missions. But you need to have pizza boxes for this to work.