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.
Blitzkrieg
I chose Blitzkrieg as this week's track because I was thinking of a different track, but this played while I was thinking about it. The other track I was thinking of was Atrocious Raid, and it was one of my favorite tracks from Cold Steel I, but this track reminds me of it. I think the overall flow of the track is similar, and I like how they also mixed in the victory theme into the track. Cold Steel II is in the middle of an ongoing civil war in Erebonia, and Class VII is going around the country gathering their various members and figuring out what to do. This track plays inside a fortress just like Atrocious Raid as you try to save the family member of someone in Class VII.
I think about Fiona Craig when I see hear this track. She is the sister of Elliot Craig from Class VII. Elliot was unsure about his path, but his sister was already following the path of a musician (which is also Elliot's aspiration). I just feel that she is a very calming character as she is showing affection towards Elliot and later pushes him towards his goal. The image comes from the wiki for Fiona.
Do you like any of these tracks? If so, why?
Giveaway
The giveaway item is a musician. It has 115 fans, 90 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 147k STARBITS over the past week. I thought I did better, but it looks like my luck on ego wasn't the greatest. I lost quite a bit based on bad luck, and I had a few days that weren't so great. I didn't get anything great from my pack openings this week.
Current Ranking
My rank went up by 1, and it looks like my time played went down. I am not sure how I moved up, but I will take it, but I thought I did do more missions throughout the week. I did slack off a bit towards the end of the week though because work kept me busy.
If you want to join Rising Star, feel free to use my referral link.
! [Rising Star 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.