I started playing the game Terracore recently. This is more of an idle game where you come back every now and then to claim the rewards. There is a battle system and a few other features but at the core, it's an idle game. Terracore is a game here on the Hive Blockchain and it is created by 
Starting the game
The first thing you need to do is to sign in to the game and this requires Hive keychain.
Once you enter, you must first buy citizenship for 20 Hive before you can get started.
Main Menu
After this, you will see the main screen. This lists the stats and the other options available in the game. I suggest claiming the SCRAP right away and using that to upgrade your Stash Size. The Stash Size is the total SCRAP that you can mine before your bag becomes full. When you first start, you start earning 0.36 SCRAP an hour so it only takes a few hours for your SCRAP to be full, and increasing the stash size will help you earn more. Increasing your stash size will also increase your dodge stat.
Engineering increases your mine rate, damage helps you in attacking others, and defense helps defend against other people's attacks. In my case, I find that increasing my engineering isn't worth it because I don't like getting attacked. So the focus for me was on damage and attack.
Battle Screen
If you go to the battle screen, you can see the list of opponents and your battle log. When I first started, this was empty and it only started populating 24 hours after I became a citizen. I am not sure if that is the game's way of making it easier for new players but I did appreciate this.
The thing that I dread the most is what I see when I wake up. When my defense was low, this was what I ended up waking up to and that is why it made me focus on increasing my defense.
Explore Menu
Here is the explore menu and I just contributed a few SCRAP here to check things out. Since I don't have 1,000 to donate, I think it will be wasted and that is what is required to get citizenship on the planet. There is still time so I might check to see how things go first if I should try to get the rest. Donating here will also increase your crit chance. It looks to be 0.025 per favor donated currently.
Bug/Issues
There are a few bugs or issues that I have encountered.
- When you or your opponent fail an attack, it does not show up in your battle log.
- Sometimes when winning an attack, I do not see the SCRAP added to my total SCRAP for claiming.
- Every now and then, the game is broken and I can't claim.
The first one about attacks can be verified in the discord channel and this allows you to see more detailed information about your attacks. I thought it was just a bug because it took my attack attempt and I only verified that I failed my attack through the game logs. As for the second, it has happened a few times and there isn't much I can do about that so I just move on. The last point has only happened a few times and most of the time, it is resolved within an hour so it isn't a large issue. The game is an Open Alpha so bugs/issues are to be expected.
Conclusion
It is a pretty easy game to play and I don't have to do much at all except to claim and do some battles. So this game works well for someone like me who doesn't have as much time during the day. If you sign up using my referral link, I will send 50% of my reward for referring you back to you. Last I checked, this would be 0.5 Hive so if you do decide to, your cost of joining this game would be 19.5 Hive instead.
Have you started playing Terracore yet?
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