Here is my weekly status and giveaway. I also talk about an OST track that I like. Please make sure to read the rules to qualify for the giveaway. I chose a track from a game that I played in the past.
Way of Life
I chose Way of Life as this week's track because this was another busy week, and it's a track that I have always loved listening to. This track plays in Trials from Zero in the opening. I always loved the opening from the first game of the Crossbell Arc, and I still think that the Crossbell Arc is the best Arc in the Kiseki (Trials) series. The first video is the HD opening for Trails from Zero that the Geofront did during their fan translation of Trials from Zero. This patch has been taken down because the official English versions have been released and NISA did request help from Geofront for the official translation of both Zero and Azure. When I played this game in the past, it was through the fan translation from Geofront. I haven't played the official version, but I did buy the game to support the game developers. The second video is the full version of the song, and the third video is an English cover of the track. I think the lyrics are great and they fit the game's entire theme.
I think about the entire Crossbell cast when I hear this track. They started as a mix of match of various different professions thrown in because the Police didn't like how bad they looked compared to the Bracers. As the team worked together to solve crimes, they grew closer and closer together, and the population of Crossbell grew to admire them. The image above perfectly shows how amazing the cast of characters that didn't know each other became close to each other. The image comes from the wiki for Trails From Zero.
Do you like any of these tracks? If so, why?
Giveaway
The giveaway item is a musician. It has 115 fans, 110 skill, 3 luck, and 3 IM. Musicians are good for everyone because they increase your stats and help you in the rankings.
Rules
In order to participate:
- Leave a comment with the name of the card
- 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. This giveaway is weekly so there is one week's worth of time for you to enter.
Results of the Last Giveaway
The winner is 
Thank you to the rest of the valid participants who did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: Other participants: 
Current Status
I gained 45k STARBITS over the past week. I didn't get to do all the millionaire missions, but I did make sure to place a 4 hour mission every night, and I got a bit lucky on the reward drops. I got lucky this week and got an epic card from my weekly card pack opening.
Current Ranking
My rank went down by 1. They have been making a few changes to the rankings, so I expect to stay where I am for now, but I may drop a bit depending on what happens in the next few updates.
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 won't 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.