This week was fairly good as I earned quite a decent amount of starbits early in the week. However I managed to get a Father Earth from a fellow Rising Star player so I started doing the seasonal missions. There are only a few more days left but I am working on trying to get some of those season instruments. I do not expect this to affect my giveaways in any form because of my starbits buffer.
Giveaway
There were a few choices to pick from since there were multiple cards that appeared twice and there were no rare cards that appeared three times. So I picked an instrument to mix things up since the last giveaway was a musician.
The giveaway item is R62 Chubby Subby and it is an instrument under the Piano music lessons. With 60 more luck, you have a chance of getting more drunk fans and it benefits you if you run piano lessons. Even if you don't run piano lessons, it can help you in the rankings or you can trade it away to someone who wants it for something you need.
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
The winner is 
Thank you to the rest of the participants that did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: 
Unfortunately we had two people who did not read the rules and were not included in the draw: 
I transferred the Robbie below and you can verify the transaction here
Current Status
Last week I stated that I was done with band auditions so I can definitely see the difference between starbits earning and it has added a thousand or two starbits a day. While the seasonal missions will impact my earnings, you can see that I have a decent buffer of 33k inside my in-game wallet.
I am working on petrol cans so I can work on missions on the last map and I keep waiting for discounted cards. Unfortunately I have only found 1 at a discount but I did save 500 starbits. By discount, I mean a price lower than the 5k listed price by the game admins.
My pack openings were fairly good this time with two epic cards this time around. Above you can see the epic musician and vehicle I got. My fans definitely got a decent boost from last week with the addition of the cards in this pack. I didn't get a Father Earth but 
Current Stats
Fans: 22017
Luck: 4816
Skill: 32385
IM: 355
Ego: 29279 (1212 from drunk fans and 7262 permanent ego)
Current Goals
My goals for Rising Star will probably just be the ranking goals. By placing high enough in the rankings, you get SWAP.HIVE everyday.
My ranking is up a bit from last week while I was expecting my rank to drop. There was a single day where I did not play as often and expected it to really hurt my time played this week. In the middle of the week, new cards were released and it helped add some unique cards.
Well petrol cans and level seems to be one of the limiting factors towards how far I can progress. I was also debating about getting XP boost cards but they seem to cost 10 HIVE each right now and I am not so sure it is worth it. However with my current rate of progress, I think it would years to finally do all the missions in the game.
The best thing about my current standing is that I think I have enough pizzas to last my energy usage. Since I would level up slower, my habits or mission patterns would stay the same and I would most likely not run out of energy. Of course in a pizza drought, anything would be possible and I may add another cold slice if that were to happen. To combat the fact that I am doing 5 minute missions more, I have added a few more music lessons to my routine.
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 want 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.