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.
Heiyue Trade Company
I chose Heiyue Trade Company as this week's track because it was the only oriental track before the Calvard Arc came out. This track plays as you enter the Heiyue Trading Building in the Harbor District of Crossbell. The transition near the middle fits so well when you get to meet the manager of the building Cao. It was always hinting towards some things happening with Heiyue in the future, and after you learn what they are, they mean business. I have talked about the Assassin Yin before in a previous post, and Heiyue was the one who ended up hiring her as part of the story. The music combined with when Cao appears was quite memorable because I immediately knew he would be a huge part of the plot down the line.
I think about Cao Lee when I see hear this track. Cao is essentially a manager of the building, but it is a front for the Chinese mafia. He is known as the White Orchid Dragon, and he is also quite good at martial arts. However, he prefers to scheme from the back, and only gets involved when he needs to. There are some plot twists in the Calvard Arc where you learn about his origins. He has the perfect persona of a villian, even though he helps the protagonists from time to time. The image comes from the wiki for Cao Lee.
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
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 131k STARBITS over the past week. I was doing so great at the start of the week, but once Thursday came around, things went bad. I was busy all of Thursday in meetings, and I completely forgot. Then Friday was a holiday, and I was busy catching up on stuff over the weekend. I didn't get anything great from my pack openings this week.
Current Ranking
My rank went up a bit. My time played wasn't so great, but the new unique cards probably helped pushed me up quite a bit.
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.