Hello and Namaste dCity players π,
We all are aware that in Jelly13's presidency period dCity tax rate is more than 100%, and as of current voting trend @Jelly13 is going to elect again as a president for next 2 weeks. It means taxes are not going to reduce, and we all have to focus on tax refund, war shares, card minting and auction winning to make our city profitable.
In current scenario, income ranking reward is based on tax refund of your city. The more tax return you are getting, higher will be your income ranking and so higher will be the hive reward. Right now, income ranking has the biggest share in the ranking reward pool, i.e., little more than 50% and that is about 110 Hive daily. The remaining 50 % is distributed among Population, Popularity, Education, and Creativity. Since Income reward is the highest, so here we can make a strategy to earn a ranking reward in income.
We can see above that if you have about 180 tax refund you are ranked under 120, and you will get 0.11 Hive per day as income ranking reward (It can change anytime depends on the performance of other players). If we set our target to get ranked under 120 in income ranking, we will be needed 180 tax refund. If you are already in the game and have before tax income more than 180 than by investing in various tax refund cards this target can be achieved.
If you are willing to invest 100-150 hives(240-360k SIM), then this target can be achieved and your monthly return on your investment will be 3-2%. Currently, there are 9 citizen cards, 1 building card and 4 combined cards available as a tax refund card. Here we will talk about only 10 cards (9 citizens and a building card), as combined cards won't fit in our strategy to get 2-3% pm return on investment.
Only building card which gives 1 tax refund is Church. It is a 3rd generation card, so can be minted by buying directly. But chances are only 5% that you will get this card, i.e., if you buy cards of 16000 SIM you will get 1 Church card, so it is not a good idea to buy directly. Instead, look into the market it is available for just 2000 SIM, go bid there and accumulate this card as much as possible. The lower the cost, the higher the return on investment will be. Check all tax refund cards here in tax refund section.
Other 9 cards are citizen cards which are available in the market but price of cards going higher due to their demand. But keep bidding and keep eye on ask price, as soon as you get a good deal grab it. e.g., currently Lawyer's card asking price is about 20k, and it gives 10 tax refund so for each tax refund will cost you around 2k SIM. If you succeed to buy all your 180 tax refund on an average of about 2000 SIM you will be under 120 rank and your daily income ranking reward will be 0.11 Hive which is around 2.2% pm on investment of 150 Hive.
Keep eye on the asking price of all tax refund cards and keep bidding as well. It could take several days to achieve your target, but it is worthwhile to play strategically rather than playing randomly. One must raise the question that by just investing in SIM power there is double return than this, so why go this way? Answer is, if you are here to play and fun then it is more profitable as with time your accumulated card's value will also be increased and in long term gain will be much higher.
