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 
My other dcity is for my 
As dcity is extraordinarily profitable I decided to start a dcity, 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.
- Population: 261 (21 increase)
- SIM income before taxes: 226
- SIM income after taxes: 189 (22 increase)
- Unemployment: 3 (1,15%)
- Popularity: 47 (this gives a 15% population bonus)
- Education: 20 (technology discovery chance 0%)
- Creativity: 0
- Probability to bring new citizens: 2%
- Training chance for Homeless and immigrants to be trained: 3% (6% at the moment because of education tax)
- Crime rate: 28%
This weeks developments are:
I bought a random version 2 card again and I got a nuclear reactor card. This has a nice 20 Sim income and needs only 15 workers, but it has a negative popularity of -15. So I actually lost some population bonus. With two park’s, a basic home and an immigrant card I was able to activate the nuclear reactor card. The park’s helped me boost my Popularity rating and actually got me more Population than a basic home would have done.
I also decided to try a Science Convention event for 100 Stem. It is still running, but already I am feeling really lucky, since I got 3 Scientists already from it. On average this event gives you 2,4 Scientists, so I did beat the odds and got 3 already. I have decided to try and sell one Scientist for 750 SIM. If I manage to do that, then I should be able to buy 100 Stem from that again and basically have this event for free.
Since I got some overpopulation again and I have almost enough to buy a new random card, I will likely buy one again today.
I realize it is going to be really hard to stay in the top300. I am reinvesting all SIM and the daily Hive bonus I get for a top300 dcity. Along with all HBD rewards for my posts and selling 50% of all hive-engine tokens. But still I am moving down on the list, rather than up. I was in 260th position last week and today I am in 269th position. Just a few weeks ago I was in 247th position, with a smaller city..
I got a bit of ETH left from Coinbase Earn and decided that I will start converting that to Hive to be able to stay in the top300. I will do a few trades and by the time I am about to drop out from the top300 I will invest that.
It is very clear that a lot of people are trying to game the system at the moment to get in the top300 and get the daily Hive rewards. I see dcities with 0 SIM income, just a lot of Population. Without an income they will fall out of the top300 pretty quickly though. I will likely write a post about this in the next week.
- Population: 17
- SIM income before taxes: 14
- SIM income after taxes: 7
- Popularity: 4 (this gives a 3% population bonus)
- Education: 0 (technology discovery chance 0%)
- Creativity: 0
- Unemployment: 3 (17,65%)
- Probability to bring new citizens: 2%
- Training chance for Homeless and immigrants to be trained: 0%
- Crime rate: 3%
This weeks developments are:
I won another contest, so I was able to buy more cards. Also I’ve been getting some Leo rewards for my posts and by selling 50% of those along with 50% of the other tokens I get for my posts I was able to pick up a few cheap cards from the market.
I bought another Wind turbine, since it wasn’t that much more expensive than a Public Restroom and it does give 1 more SIM income before taxes. I also added another Park, which helped me get my Popularity rating back to 5 and also I got 2 Population bonus from it. I then got a free Homeless card, so Popularity is back to 4 and I should start looking to buy another Public restroom or Wind Turbine.
I managed to save up 368 SIM again, so I will have a look at the market if there is anything I can get for that amount of SIM. That’s the update for this week.
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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