Here is my weekly status and giveaway. Like usual, I am just doing some missions at night because I am busy during the day. I was able to do some missions during the day during the week but not as often as I would like. Work has been keeping me busy lately. Please make sure to read the rules to qualify for the giveaway.
Ys 8 Lacrimosa of Dana Music (second part)
One of the games on my backlog is Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana. It's another Falcom game like Trials in Reverie that I talked about during the previous few weeks. I started it up last week and I have been loving most of the soundtracks as I played through the game. I haven't had too much time to play though.
This OST is very similar to Sunshine Coastline from last week and I really loved it. The great music as you explore the beach areas is excellent.
This is some music that plays during the cutscenes at night. I think it's pretty good and I never felt that it was out of place during those scenes either.
Here are two more tracks that I liked from traversing the open world.
There is also good battle music like the one above. So overall, it's been a great time playing the game and listening to the music as well.
Did you like any of the tracks that I mentioned?
Giveaway
The giveaway item is an instrument under the drum music lessons. With 50 more luck, you have a chance of getting more drunk fans and it benefits you if you run Singing lessons. Even if you don't run drum lessons, it can help you in the rankings or you can sell it away to someone who wants it for something you need.
Rules
In order to participate:
- Leave a comment with the name of the card
- 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. This giveaway is weekly so there is one week's worth of time for you to enter.
Results of Last Giveaway
Thank you to the rest of the valid participants who did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: Other participants: 
Current Status
My earnings were about 143k or so starbits again this week. There were no epic or legendary cards and I didn't open the packs until last night because the pack buying service was down. But I guess it lined up properly with the new cards.
Current Stats
I got my stats and estimated collection value using the discord bot. I also saw a nice little bot to see my current collection value in Rising Star. The pizza bot didn't respond so I went with the stats bot.
Current Ranking
I had to wait to get my latest rankings but it looks like I am up 9 spots compared to last week.
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.