Are the dcity in-game events worth it?

One of the most awesome features of dcity is the fact that other tokens can be used in the game. The BEER token, CCC token, Stem token, Weed token, Gamer token and the DEC token can all be used to fund an event in your dcity.

Since all these hive-engine tokens can be bought and sold. Their prices fluctuate. This means that a certain price point it is just not worth it, but also when the price is low enough it can be an absolute no-brainer.

I have compared the prices and the amount of tokens you need for an event and would like to share with you what I found out. I will list the event, the current price in Hive and SIM and the benefits of the event. Finally I will tell you if I think it is worth it to hold such an event in your dcity, or if you would be better of just buying cards from the market. Since these prices change constantly I might start doing a weekly update post to tell you if you should get some of these tokens.

I do use the lowest selling order price for the token to calculate the total price, since I assume that you would want to immediately buy the tokens. You could obviously try to get your tokens cheaper by setting a buy order that has a lower price than the highest sell order. But that makes my calculations a bit more complicated and I choose to not do that. If you can get the tokens cheaper, then you probably should.

BEER Fest

The Beer Fest requires 5 BEER tokens and at the current selling price of 0,281 Hive (it is actually Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 1,405 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 352 SIM.

This gives you a 20% chance to get a worker or a hard worker every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 2,4 workers per event. But you can be very lucky with these events or not, so I cannot guarantee that it will work the first time. But by the time you had a 100 events, you should see that probability show up in the results.

Now Workers and especially Hard workers are really useful and I think also quite overpriced on the market currently. So personally I would definitely sell a Hard worker and try to fund the next BEER event with it.

The average price for a Hard worker on the market in the last 30 days was 281 SIM, while Basic homes and Luxury homes are selling for the same price.

Finally, the BEER Fest also boosts your popularity, which means that you will likely also get some extra Homeless or Immigrants cards as well.

All in all, I think that a BEER Fest is a good event at this price point and quite a good allocation for your funds.

Science Convention

The Science Convention requires 100 Stem tokens and at the current selling price of 0,049 Hive (it is actually called Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 4,9 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 1225 SIM. This makes the Science convention quite an expensive event.

This gives you a 20% chance to get a scientist every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 2,4 scientists per event.

The great benefit of scientists is that they not only provide you with 1 Population, but also 1 Education, which is useful for discovering Technologies. Something that a lot of dcity players are very interested in. This might even have caused the price of Stem to go up, who knows..

The average price for a Scientist card on the market in the past 30 days was 144 SIM, so you would better buy them on the market than get them through this event.

Finally the Science convention will also give you an Education bonus for the duration of the event, so it will increase your chances to discover a Technology. If you get a tier 2 or higher technology this way, then it is absolutely worth it. But you better buy the tier1 technologies on the market, since they have become really cheap.

So, I cannot really recommend this event at this price point. You better buy on the market what you need.

Art Convention

The Art convention requires 250 CCC tokens and at the current selling price of 0,0029 Hive (it is actually Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 0,725 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 181,25 SIM. This makes the Art convention the cheapest event in dcity, although the poker night comes close. And since it boosts your Creativity you might discover a nice new background for your dcity.

This gives you a 20% chance to get an Artist every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 2,4 artists per event. That is about 75 SIM per Artist. Considering that Artists are being sold for about 100 SIM, it means that the cheapest way to get them is through an event. If you only hold the events to sell the Artists you get, then you will likely make a profit.

So, not a bad event at all.

WEED Fest

The Weed Fest requires 75 WEED tokens and at the current selling price of 0,041 Hive (it is actually Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 3,075 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 768,75 SIM. Because the price of weedcash has dropped by about 50% this event now starts to make sense for dcity players.

This gives you a 20% chance to get an Artist every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 2,4 Artists per event. But clearly at this price in comparison with the Art Convention, you would be an absolute fool to do this for the Artists. Also it has a lower Creativity bonus than the Art convention.

So why would anyone still start a Weed Fest? That is for the bonus it creates for Weed Farms. It doubles Weed Farm production. A friend told me his Weed Farms produce about 0,085 WEED per farm per day. So this means that even with the current price for WEED there is a break-even point for the Weed Fest. This is the point where your Weed Farms produce more than 75 WEED daily.

Because if you can spend 75 WEED to produce more than 75 WEED, then you make a profit. The extra backgrounds and Artists are just a bonus. You would need 883 Weed farms for it, so I don’t know if anyone has been able to accumulate such a number of Weed Farms. But it would be an interesting strategy for your dcity.

Obviously when you sell the backgrounds and Artists, then you would reach the breakeven point sooner. Also when the price of WEED would go down and more people would start these events, then the pool gets bigger and potentially the Weed farms produce more Weed. We will have to see.

For now I would advise new players to ignore the Weed Fest.

Poker Night

The Poker Night requires 20000 Gamer tokens and at the current selling price of 0,000045 Hive (it is actually Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 0,9 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 225 SIM.

This gives you a 15% chance to get a Gambler or 5% chance to get an Addicted Gambler every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 1,8 Gamblers and 0,6 Addicted Gamblers per event. These have negative popularity, so a Gambler is really the same as a Homeless. The Addicted Gambler will at least give you some income, so it is a bit more interesting. Personally I would sell them.

If you have some Casino’s in your dcity, then you will get some Gamer tokens for free and you can then use these to start the Poker Night events. Having Gamblers in your dcity will slightly increase your Casino’s Gamer income, so if you have Casino’s then you might want to hold on to the Gamblers, rather than selling them.

But other than that I would not recommend this event over the Art convention unless you want to use the special feature of the Poker Night: lowering the Crime Rate of your dcity. If you have a lot of bank’s, shopping malls or Casino’s, then regular poker nights could help you combat the crime in your dcity and it will likely be totally worth it, since it now costs only 0,9 Hive and you could sell the Gamblers to reduce the cost even more.

For big dcities with lots of banks, shopping malls and casino’s highly recommended.

Splinterfest

The Splinterfest requires 500 DEC tokens and at the current selling price of 0,0035 Hive (it is actually Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 1,75 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 438 SIM.

This gives you a 15% chance to get a Gamer or 5% chance to get a Splinterlands Dice Pack every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 1,8 Gamers.

Not a bad event, but I don’t know if there are still Dice Packs available and if you do this for the citizens, then the Beer Fest is cheaper and better. If you however want to produce the Entry token with your stadiums, then gamers increase that entry token production a little bit.

Conclusie

If you are looking for an event to get some population, then you should focus on the BEER Fest or the Art convention. At the current prices the Art convention looks pretty good. But the BEER Fest with it’s Popularity bonus is also really nice, since it will increase your chances to get free Homeless and Immigrants.

The Science convention is useful for boosting your education and increasing your chances of discovering Technologies, but is really expensive at the moment. The Weed Fest is mostly useful for boosting your Weed Farm’s production and the Poker Night is mostly useful for reducing your crime rate.

The price of DEC has gone up, so it is not as interesting as it was a few weeks ago.

Thank you for reading and see you next time!

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