dCity Investments - weekly update

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I’ve been writing about several aspects of dcity so far, but I would like to add to that a weekly update about changes that I have made. Tutorials are great for understanding a certain aspect of the game, but along side these it is great to also be able to get insights on day-to-day strategic choices from players that are a bit further ahead in the game. That is what I will try to provide you with in these weekly updates.

Currently I have two dcities. One on my main account @elbrava, which you can find here. My aim for this city is to simply grow as fast as possible and enter the top200 of dcities. This will likely require me to invest more money to make that happen.

My other dcity is for my @invest4free account, which you can find here. This second account I set up specifically to show that through being active on Hive, you can become an investor for free. You will actually be able to build an investment portfolio that will generate passive income for you through being active on Hive.

As dcity is extraordinarily profitable I also decided to start a dcity for invest4free, but I will only invest what I get from being active on hive. Also I will use the Hive that my posts generate to grow my Hive Power, not my dcity. The only source of income for my dcity is at max 50% of Hive that I win from contests that I join and from selling some hive-engine rewards for my posts. Over time the SIM income of this dcity will become big enough to be the main source for growth. So for this dcity I will try to grow as cheaply as possible. This means that growth will be slow, but also it means that I will make different decisions for this account, than my main account.

Let’s look at the stats of my two dcities.
@elbrava

  • Rank: 282
  • Population: 393
  • SIM income before taxes: 337
  • SIM income after taxes: 212
  • Unemployment: 3
  • Popularity: 96 (this gives a 24% population bonus)
  • Education: 24 (technology discovery chance 0%)
  • Creativity: 7
  • Probability to bring new citizens: 3%
  • Training chance for Homeless and immigrants to be trained: 6% (12% at the moment because of education tax)
  • Crime rate: 32%

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This weeks developments are:
First of all a shout-out to @dkid14 who gave me a free technology card! Free Internet Connection, a technology that boosts your Education by 5%. Thanks a lot for this free gift!

Then, I was able to buy 3 new random cards this week from my SIM income and Hive rewards for being in the top 300 of dcity rankings. It is really ramping up and one day this week I was even surprised that I was able to already buy a new random card again. The price drop of the SIM token helps with that.

If you are still buying dcity cards with Hive, then you are doing it wrong! Buy SIM tokens at discount instead!

The first card was not really a lucky one, since I got a park and you get those cheaper from the market than 800 SIM. But I do not mind too much, since I do want to boost my popularity and Park’s are quite nice for that.

The second card was better, a Farm. With my current popularity I already don’t need much extra population to make the Farm produce SIM income. Since I had some unemployment due to the Park, the Farm was an excellent follow up.

Third card was a lucky one. A Solar farm. At first this card might not seem like a really good card, since it only produces 5 SIM. But it also only needs 5 workers and gives a nice popularity boost. So the Income vs Worker ratio is pretty good already. However, when you get the right technologies, then the Solar farm becomes the best income card you can get in terms of Income to worker ratio. Even better than a Casino or Shopping mall.

I like to think of Solar Farms as the endgame power cards.

Even though my progress wasn’t bad at all, I still dropped quite a bit on the rankings. I think that after the initial Bitcoin price jump hype people have started looking at dcity again. Possibly some people also investing some Bitcoin gains into their dcity. Who knows?

Fortunately I still have 50+ Hive on Ionomy to trade with that I can invest if I drop too low in the rankings. I think I’ll wait until I am at around the 290th position to pull that hive from the exchange to invest it into

I also got a free Immigrants card and a free Homeless card this week, so that is pretty good as well.

@invest4free

  • Population: 31
  • SIM income before taxes: 28
  • SIM income after taxes: 17
  • Popularity: 5 (this gives a 3% population bonus)
  • Education: 0 (technology discovery chance 0%)
  • Creativity: 0
  • Unemployment: 2 (14,29%)
  • Probability to bring new citizens: 2%
  • Training chance for Homeless and immigrants to be trained: 0%
  • Crime rate: 6%

This weeks developments are:
I got a free Homeless card, so I didn’t have to buy one. Who doesn’t like free cards?

I then was able to buy a Public Restroom and a Park, so that is pretty good for my little dcity. Most of that is from Leo rewards for some of my posts, of which I sell 50%. But the SIM income is starting to add up as well. It is about 100 SIM per week now. It goes a bit up and down with the almost daily changing taxes.

I think I will keep growing my dcity for this account the way I have been so far until I get about 800 SIM per week income. But then I think I will change my tactic to start buying random cards instead. I think that by that time it will get more beneficial to start buying random cards.

That is quite a long way away still though, so for now I will stick to Publice Restrooms, Park’s, the occasional Wind turbine and Homeless/Immigrants cards. It is a very predictable way to grow and it gives me some progress every week. Waiting for 4 weeks to get a random card and then be unlucky to get an 800 SIM Public Restroom feels like too much risk at the moment.

That is the update for this week, I hope you enjoyed it!

If you have any questions about your dcity about how to improve it, how to grow it more quickly or any other question. Please do ask in the comments. I try to always give a response.

Thanks for reading, do follow me for more dcity and investment content and see you next time!

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Cool updates! I'm also trying to stay in the Top300, but I think I will need to work harder 😂🤣😂🤣 I suppose that means I would need to invest more 😝😝😝

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Yes you should. Or just enjoy the sim income that grows anyway 😉

How much weed does your weed farm produce daily?

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Hmmm not sure. I will need to check and pay more attention 😂🤣 I just stake earnings for now.

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To support your work, I also upvoted your post!

Do not miss the last post from @hivebuzz:

Feedback from the last Hive Power Up Day
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And the milestones keep coming 🤣 thanks for all these notifications. I love the service you render to the give community.

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Of course they do @invest4free! But it gets more difficult the further you go! We try to keep it challenging but achievable 😉Thanks for your kind words! we love to keep the good vibes and fun on the platform!

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I was actually looking at this game yesterday and I’m trying to figure out how to get started. It is a bit expensive for the cards, 4 hive but I want to give it a try. The passive income from it is great potential!

How often do you have to play it? I like Splinterlands because I play once a day but I don’t know anything about dCity yet so I’m looking for some feedback. Once or twice max a day is all I can do, like 30-45 minutes.

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Hi, dcity was made to be a very low intensity game if you want. If you look at your city only once a week you don’t miss a thing.

It is a little addictive and the investment is serious indeed, but after the initial investment you could just leave it at that and cash in the daily SIM income.

The only reason you need to check your city every one in a while is because you get free immigrants and homeless from time to time which causes unemployment and reduces income. If you check that once a week it is fine.

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By the way, if you choose to invest. Then do not buy your cards using Hive. Instead buy the SIM token. You need 800 SIM tokens for 1 card, which at the current price is only about 3,6 Hive. That will save you almost 10% per card.

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Thank you very much for the info and the tips! I was going to check out buying SIM on hive engine since most tokens are down in price at the moment.

!ENGAGE 50

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You’re welcome, I like to help people out getting started on dcity. It’s a nice easy investment with a crazy roi.

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I just bought 3 cards. I'm a little confused though, I bought 2 1st edition and one 2nd edition but my 2nd edition card is blank. What’s the difference between the editions?

I got a house and a police station in my first edition. Is the police station a decent gain? It seems like it would be.

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That is very odd. If that hasn’t changed by now then you should ask @gerber in de dcity discord https://discord.gg/XzeZGkD

When I use the discord bot cityhelper then I see that it is a hotel.

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Awesome thanks! I’ll have to look at it now, maybe it needed a refresh or something.

What’s the difference between first and second generation cards? Is it different types like alpha and beta? Just curious, I didn’t see that explained in the tutorial.

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Yes it is different cards. The game started with only 1st generation cards. The second generation was introduced a few months ago.

Basically, 1st generation cards will give you more population and 2nd generation cards will give some more income.

Do have a look in game at the info tab in the menu. There you can see all cards and how likely you are to get some of them.

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About the police station, as you don’t have any cards that can get robbed the police station crime reduction is not that useful yet.

But it is not a bad card.

You could try and sell it on the market and try to get some cards that require less workers.

You need 22 more population to make your hotel and police station work, that is with up only have 1 sim income right now.

If you are not ready to invest more, then I would sell either the police station or the hotel, so that you can balance your population and amount of workers needed.

Preferably you want that -22 unemployment to become 0 unemployment.

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Thank you for your engagement on this post, you have recieved ENGAGE tokens.

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I need to get into these games. And, I need to follow both of your accounts 😇

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Haha, thanks. My @elbrava account is not very active at the moment. I focus all my blogging to @invest4free. So I have set up @elbrava for passive income and post only my actifit report there.

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Oops. I followed both. Let's see which one is active and which one is passive.
Have a good day.😀

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