Here is my weekly status and giveaway. Work is still messing with my time playing but I just have to do what I can with what I have. Either way, I continue playing and building my deck with each passing week. I am worried about my rank dropping though but it should get a boost when I open packs for the new cards released this month.
Giveaway
It's a musician again this week.
The giveaway item is an R189 Roman and it has 125 fans, 75 skill, 3 luck, and 2 income modifier. All musicians help quite a bit and it will definitely help the people start unlocking more missions.
Rules
In order to participate:
- Leave a comment
- Include your username in your comment
This time if you do not leave your username, I will not include you in the draw. I want to reward the people who follow the rules.
Results of Last Giveaway
Thank you to the rest of the valid participants that did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: 
Current Status
It's around 160k starbits earned over the past week and it's been quite bad. I didn't get any good cards this time around so I am wondering when my luck will improve on that end.
Current Stats
Using the discord bot, I got my stats and an estimated collection value. I also saw a nice little bot to see my current collection value in Rising Star.
Current Ranking
My time played has dropped a lot since last week and it's definitely the biggest drag on my own rank. My ranking should improve slightly from the pack openings this week as there are new cards available. My goal is to stay within the top 75 but higher is always better.
If you want to join Rising star, feel free to use my referral link.
Tips (source)
I think the tips are something every new player should know about. It will help people progress in the game and it hasn't really been shared since surya1adiga stopped his giveaways.
- Take music lessons when possible to raise skill and reduce ego.
- Having lesson specific instruments helps in receiving more skill from that lesson.
- Have pizza box to store any pizza received during mission to reuse later.
- Buy cold pizza slice if possible. This gives 1 refill every 24hours. Comes very handy when you are low on energy.
- If you have enough of cold pizza slice and pizza box, you will never run out of energy.
- If you have more fans than skill and you won't reduce the ego , you can use a storage trailer to store unnecessary cards. Or you can list the card in market for an unreasonably high price.
- Ego received for a particular mission increases every time you play it. The ego is reset to base level the next day. So, try to play different missions to control the ego gained.
Keep track of your achievements to unlock in game rewards- Buy storage trailer (only if necessary) to keep the cards that might have a negative effect. Like a card with high fan count resulting in ego.
- When earning skill points through music lessons, you can earn more points per lesson if you hold more of specific instrument cards. There seems to be base skill which is rewarded irrespective of the card count and then the skill increases depending on the number of the lesson specific card one has.
- Try taking up many smaller missions to fill up pizza boxes and have extra energy to play more rewarding missions. But you need to have pizza boxes for this to work.