It seems like my starbits earning last week wasn't a dream. I do earn more than 10k starbits from missions each day using my current mission set up. Of course this could change at any point in time if seasonal missions happen or if I level up and clear out some missions to progress. Either way I am happy to see these changes and it's great to see all the fans that I have gathered over time pay off. In total, I earned over 160k starbits this week and I withdrew about 150k starbits for packs and to buy unique cards.
Giveaway
It's been a while but I decided to give away a musician this week. I would of went with George again but I gave him away in a previous giveaway so I choose Rezz this time.
The giveaway item is R77 Rezz and it has 150 fans, 100 skill, 2 luck and 2 income modifier. It has more fans than skills but it will definitely boost your starbits earnings and help you in the rankings.
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 valid participants that did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: 
I was a bit busy so there were a few people who did not include their username and I did not enter them in the draw.
I transferred the RS 101 below and you can verify the transaction here
Current Status
Even after withdrawing 150k starbits this week, my balance is up from last week. So I would say I am earning starbits more consistently. However I have noticed my starbits after the most recent reset has been quite horrible. I am currently not using more starbits than I earn right now so I am thinking of buying some extra packs once my buffer goes up a bit more and unique cards don't go down in price.
It's been a few weeks but I did manage to get two Epic cards this week. I ended up with E23 Sky and E35 RSV Synth (musician and instrument). The rest of the pack openings are the usual rare cards and I didn't get any vehicles this week.
My level is going up slowly so I also felt like there was no need to buy any petrol cans. Using some of my starbits, I decided to buy three instruments that I did not have. The E15 Mellow Tone was bought because my Piano lessons give me more skill points compared to my guitar lessons now. So I thought the increased skill points was worth the 21k starbits spent.
Unfortunately I don't see other cards that are cheap or worth the cost right now. So I don't think I will be buying other unique cards anymore. With more than 5 HIVE each for rare cards, I can't justify the cost. So I think I might buy more packs.
Current Stats
Fans: 39498
Luck: 8192
Skill: 62104
IM: 590
Ego: 29279 (2860 from drunk fans and 13925 permanent ego)
Current Goals
I maintained over 6k minutes again this week but I think next week's number will be lower since I was bad with time after the reset today. With that I have moved up to 63rd place and I will be getting a 0.1 SWAP.HIVE reward later today.
I wasn't expecting to go up a few ranks but it looks like some people may be taking profits at the current prices so I moved up from last week. I have also noticed that prices for all cards are up so I might have to revise my own strategy.
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.