Here is my weekly status and giveaway. As 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. I also learned that music lessons will cost STARPRO now. I don't know if the math really adds up though and I might have to calculate things if it makes sense.
Ys 9: Monstrum Nox Music Part 1
I have started off with Ys 9 last week and it's been fun so far. I like the different ways to travel across the city. Right now I can teleport to certain spots using Adol's Crimson line, wall run using White Cat, and glide with Hawk. I don't know if I like all the need for farming Nox before the story content opens up but I do the side quests regardless. I feel like that part is kind of a chore and I don't exactly like the solo parts in the dungeon though. It's different from the usual Ys games because you are stuck in a city and you aren't really exploring the wild unknowns that much though.
This dungeon was fairly short but out of all the tracks in the game so far, this one was the best to me. I kind of wished that the dungeon was longer though. It's one of the first dungeons you go to so I guess they wanted to keep things short. I was definitely in the mood to do some adventuring with this in the background.
This is pretty much one of the first tracks that you open up to as you are running away from the prison. It really does fit things as the first time you have control of your character, you are doing a prison break.
I like the relaxing tone Tranquil Silence has. There is also the first city theme Prison city. Both of them are quite relaxing and it's good to have some calming music when you aren't busy with adventuring. Out of the two, I like Tranquil Silence more though.
Which OST do you like out of the ones that I listed?
Giveaway
The giveaway item is an instrument under the productionmusic lessons. With 50 more luck, you have a chance of getting more drunk fans and it benefits you if you run production lessons. Even if you don't run production 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
The winner is 
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 150k or so starbits again this week. There were no epic or legendary cards this week.
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. Unfortunately, the bot seems to be down right now so I can't get my stats this week.
Current Ranking
My rank is up from last week. I am nowhere close to being near the top 100. It looks like the top 100 is now getting DRIP rewards too.
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.