dCity Investments - A change of strategy- weekly update

I’ve been writing about several aspects of dcity, 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 Hive 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 Hive account@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.

This weeks developments are:
Hive account@elbrava

About 1,5 weeks ago I looked at the best earning dcity in the game. The one from Hive account@themightyvolcano. Whereas a lot of other players in the top 10 have zero sim income, he actually has the highest of any player in the game.

One thing I noticed is that he has no basic homes or apartments. He only has luxury homes. I realized that this was because he is maximizing his sim income and luxury homes have by far the best sim/population ratio of the population cards available in dcity.

I hope to do a full analysis of his dcity somewhere this week, but for my own dcities I started focusing on getting more luxury homes.

Then I also spoke with Hive account@r1s2g3 who told me he had sold all immigrants, because of the negative effect they have on popularity.

I did think about this and decided that I would buy luxury homes and then sell as many immigrants and homeless as possible.

Because this lifted the negative influence on popularity, I was able to still a huge amount of homeless and immigrants.

This was helped by my two job centers turning 3 homeless into workers. I then also got quite a few new homeless and immigrants which I sold.

This has resulted in quite a nice increase in sim income and also my population boost from popularity rating is much better. This is basically free population.

So now my average income per dcity card that I own has gone up significantly and in order for my dcity to grow fast I need lots of SIM.

Hive account@invest4free

I did also compare the sim income per card ratio between my two dcities. And I found that for Hive account@invest4free this was absolutely terrible.

Mostly because of all the negative popularity cards I have. It was a very cheap way to build a dcity, but not the most profitable one.

I do still think it was a good way to start cheap and some income is better than no income, but I also felt that it was time to change things up a bit.

So I bought a luxury home for this dcity as well. This allowed me to sell some immigrants and then I was able to buy another, which allowed more selling.

Then I realized that I could probably sell my 8 public restrooms for about 200 sim each. This also have some room to sell more homeless.

I was indeed able to sell them and buy two random cards. I got a stadium and a farm, for which I feel lucky. Also this results in a better income and a better population.

I am still in doubt about the wind turbines, since they have quite a nice income for the workers they need. But if I can pick up a cheap weed dispensary or restaurant in return for the 3 wind turbines, then it is definitely worth it.

After all, for this dcity I don’t care about population, since I am no where near the top300. So all I care about is maximizing sim income and that works really best when you have to buy less population cards, because of your high popularity ratio.

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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