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Lesson #2 - The Game Interface and Help Tools
With some conscience that this lesson might quickly get outdated due to the normal evolution of the game, I am going to mainly focus on the mechanics and features inherent on what is behind the web interface, creating also the necessary connection to the main game interface.
(main? yes, anyone can create new interfaces, but let's not get there yet... that's probably lesson #999)🤣
Today's lesson is to address those less easy to spot "quick wins" of the game that can boost your strategy efficiency in the game. In addition, I am going to show you some tools you can also use to either view statistics of the game or help you with choices you sometimes are not sure about.
Game Modifiers
You can mouse-over the map tab page stats to get more information! They show you how you stats buffs get modified. Don't forget that some of them (aka taxes) can change at any time with the "President" decision. The only tax that the President can't change is the "Income Tax". This one changes with the price of SIM in the HIVE-Engine market. The lower the price of SIM, the higher the tax becomes!
Also, pay attention to when Art and Education taxes get set, because your effective Education or Creativity changes along. This only "important" if you have already reached the maximum and wish to distribute or sell buildings on the market.
I recently gaveaway a Social Aid Office! This card, at the beginning of the game, might not be very interesting or even not do anything at all, especially if you are in need of Population. My recommendation is for you to sell it in the early stages of your city and later on, when Population becomes a problem, either buy them again or try your luck on the random issued cards.
Another big mystery is how the crime works (not known, so don't ask). But rest assured, if you are planning on maintaining casinos on your city, be prepared to need a lot of police! There are some technologies that can boost up the effectiveness of police stations. The best ones, if you have just a few police stations are the "Drone Technology" and "Neural Network", otherwise the "Police Equipment" and the "RoboCop". In either of the situations, if you have them all, then the better!
I currently Crime Free (0%✊)
To end this chapter, think about having your homeless and immigrants converted to citizens so that you gradually decrease the negative popularity, which improves a lot your effective population over time. You can get "Job Center" cards until you reach 100% conversion rate (meaning every day you will convert either one homeless or one immigrant). Also, remember to have always both one immigrant and one homeless (minimum) to have always 100% conversion. If I understood correctly the conversion selects one of them to be converted, but if you don't have one of them, it can fail to convert even if you have 100% conversion rate (right 
Additional tools!
Besides the game main UI (User Interface) you have at your disposal a group of other tools that can greatly improve your experience and fun within the game. I will mention the ones I know bellow and what you can expect to find on them:
- On the dCity Discord Server at the #cityhelper channel, you can do everything you usually do on the main interface. So, if for some reason you can't access the website, this will be a great alternative. Type !help to get you started with the available commands.
- Also on the dCity Discord Server, you will find another channel called #bot-commands, where you can find some statistics about the current prices of cards sold and their quantity, among others, like the effective taxes, etc. Another alternative to the website.
- If you are looking for the Bad Ass of statistics about dCity, then check out HiveData.Space (you will love the graphs and the drilling through all the info to plan your strategy). I follow this one daily!
- Then, if you find the main market too hard to navigate and you love online-shopping, but where the seller always offers you the cheapest price first (no more need to order by)? Then check out the NFTMart or the beta version of it, if you wish to be at the edge of discovery (this one allows you to currently see #HUSTLER token sales 🤑).
- Another market alternative is the dCity Monster Market. Different layout, still with the online shopping concept but in this case more towards visualizing prices with filter options per token.
Special Note
You can sell cards for ANY token available at the HIVE-Engine.
This is currently only available at the main interface of the game. Just type the token name in the place of where the currently available selections would appear after being selected. Then click out of the box and if you have a price set, the green button will highlight!
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This hashtag is valid both on Hive and Twitter. So, if you have an account on either and you are up to post about dCity, make sure you use both #dCity and #HIVEGames. If you wish, also tag me on Twitter, the account I use there is mentioned bellow.
Supporting this initiative will be a tremendous help to the #HIVE ecosystem, especially if your area is into the #Blockchain #Games world. For more details of how this started, check the side image that links to the post.
Any questions, advice requests or comments are welcome, either here or anywhere else you find me.
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