DCity is a game in Hive wherein you build your own city and increase your population and income. In this game, you will collect and accumulate your cards which represent buildings, technology, and citizen that help your city grow. Each of them will help increase your population, income, popularity, workers, education, and creativity.
Attributes
To understand the game, you need to learn first the very basic things which you will encounter when you start playing the game.
| Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Population | Total number of people living in your city |
| Income | Total SIM income you could get every 24 hours |
| Popularity | Gives a bonus to your population |
| Workers | Working people inside your buildings to receive income from it |
| Education | Increase your chance of discovering technology |
| Creativity | Increase your chance of finding background |
| Technology | Represents your city's technologies |
You can see the following total attributes in your city's dashboard.
Buy Cards
In order to develop your city, you need to purchase cards either in SIM Token or HIVE.
Look for the BUY text in the top right corner and click it.
Once you click the BUY text, a pop-up will appear and you need to select whether you will purchase by SIM or HIVE.
After that, you will need to choose either 1st edition cards or 2nd edition cards. If you are new to the game, I would prefer that you need to purchase the first editions and then go for the 2nd edition cards once you have collected most of it.
Buy Cards in Market
Go to the top-right corner in your City Map and then click on Market.
You will then redirected to the Market interface. From there you can purchase a much cheaper card or even sell your own cards there. Aside from Buying cards, you can trade SIM and BEER Tokens.
Citizens
Increasing your popularity increases your chance of getting new citizens in every 2 hours
| People | Details |
|---|---|
| Homeless | Gives you 1 Population and -1 Popularity |
| Immigrants | Gives you 2 Population and -2 Popularity |
| Worker | Gives you 1 Population |
| Workers | Gives you 2 Population |
| Hard Workers | Gives you 1 Population |
| Artist | Gives you 1 Population and 1 Creativity |
| Artists | Gives you 2 Population and 2 Creativity |
| Scientist | Gives you 1 Population and 1 Education |
| Scientists | Gives you 2 Population and 2 Education |
1st Edition Cards
When you purchase 1st edition cards, you will get random cards below. Each of these cards does its own attributes.
2nd Edition Cards
When you purchase 2nd edition cards, you will get random cards below. The same with the other cards, it has own attributes but this time it has additional attributes like education and creativity.
Technology Research
Go to the top left corner in your city map and select Technologies.
From there, you do research on the technology card so you will able to discover it. You can research one technology card at a time and cool down every 36 hours before you can research again. But you have the option to force reset by paying 900 SIM.
You have the option to do research according to your preferred tier, either Control, Education, Automation, or Utility. If ever you manage to collect all the five technology cards in one branch will give you a 1% bonus to population which is really a good advantage towards boosting your population.
Backgrounds
You have now the chance to get your new DCity background by increasing your chance of creativity.
Auction
You can also bid cards in Auction.
All you need to do is make sure that you have the highest bid in order to get the card.
Events
There are four active events in this game. Each of these gives you bonuses but you need to send specific tokens to activate them.
| Event | Send Token | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| BEER Fest | 5 BEER | Gives a random 50-100 bonus to the population for 24 hours. Chance to get a Worker or Hard Worker. |
| Science Convention | 100 STEM | Gives 40-120 education for 24 hours. Chance to get Scientist every 2 hours. |
| Art Convention | 250 CCC | Gives 80-180 creativity for 24 hours. Chance to receive Artist every 2 hours. |
| WEED Fest | 75 WEED | Gives a random 40-120 creativity for 24 hours. Chance to receive artist and double WEED farm production. |
Events can be found in your City Map.
Government
This is a new addition to the game where players will select a President for 14 days. The President will help influence some stats but would return more tax as well. You can see the tax details also. The current President as of this writing is 
Earn HIVE and SIM
You can earn HIVE by making sure that you will belong to the top 200 players. You can also earn SIM Tokens by cards that you have purchased that have income stats in it.
Losing SIM income
There will be a chance that your city will get robbed or you have unemployed citizens which will result in to decrease in your daily SIM Income. To avoid being robbed, you need to make sure that you have cards that helped decrease the crime rate. And for the unemployed citizens, you need to have new buildings to make sure that you have enough vacant for future workers.
Strategy
Make sure that you purchase a card every day if possible so you have developments in your city. Once you have at least a minimum of 800 SIM income daily then you can now purchase a card via your daily SIM income.