Are the dcity in-game events worth it?
One of the most awesome features of dcity is the fact that other tokens can be used in the game. The BEER token, CCC token, Stem token, Weed token and the Gamer token can all be used to fund an event in your dcity.
Since all these hive-engine tokens can be bought and sold. Their prices fluctuate. This means that a certain price point it is just not worth it, but also when the price is low enough it can be an absolute no-brainer.
I have compared the prices and the amount of tokens you need for an event and would like to share with you what I found out. I will list the event, the current price in Hive and SIM and the benefits of the event. Finally I will tell you if I think it is worth it to hold such an event in your dcity, or if you would be better of just buying cards from the market. Since these prices change constantly I might start doing a weekly update post to tell you if you should get some of these tokens.
I do use the lowest selling order price for the token to calculate the total price, since I assume that you would want to immediately buy the tokens. You could obviously try to get your tokens cheaper by setting a buy order that has a lower price than the highest sell order. But that makes my calculations a bit more complicated and I choose to not do that. If you can get the tokens cheaper, then you probably should.
BEER Fest
The Beer Fest requires 5 BEER tokens and at the current selling price of 0,2799 Hive (it is actually Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 1,3995 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 317 SIM.
This gives you a 20% chance to get a worker or a hard worker every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 2,4 workers per event. But you can be very lucky with these events or not, so I cannot guarantee that it will work the first time. But by the time you had a 100 events, you should see that probability show up in the results.
Now Workers and especially Hard workers are really useful and I think also quite overpriced on the market currently. So personally I would definitely sell Hard worker and try to fund the next BEER event with it.
The average price for a Hard worker on the market in the last 30 days was 517 SIM, mostly because they are quite rare. But as you can see, selling one will easily fund your next BEER Fest.
Finally, the BEER Fest also boosts your popularity, which means that you will likely also get some extra Homeless or Immigrants cards as well.
All in all, I think that a BEER Fest is a good event at this price point and quite a good allocation for your funds.
Science Convention
The Science Convention requires 100 Stem tokens and at the current selling price of 0,032 Hive (it is actually called Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 3,2 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 724 SIM. This makes the Science convention quite an expensive event.
This gives you a 20% chance to get a scientist every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 2,4 scientists per event.
The great benefit of scientists is that they not only provide you with 1 Population, but also 1 Education, which is useful for discovering Technologies. Something that a lot of dcity players are very interested in. This might even have caused the price of Stem to go up, who knows..
The average price for a Scientist card on the market in the past 30 days was 391 SIM, so even if you get only 2 Scientists from your event it is still more profitable to invest in this event than to buy Scientists from the market. I got lucky in my last event and got 3 Scientists. I am really happy with that result.
Finally the Science convention will also give you an Education bonus for the curation of the event, so it will increase your chances to discover a Technology. If that happens, then a Science convention is absolutely worth it, regardless of the Technology card you get. You could even sell the Scientists you get, in order to be able to fund your next Science convention to have another chance for discovery.
But if you want to build your Education rating long term, then you should probably better get a School, University or Research Center. In the end that will help you more to get those technologies you would like to get. Especially if your chances of discovery are still below 5%, then the Science convention is probably not really worth it.
Art Convention
The Art convention requires 250 CCC tokens and at the current selling price of 0,002112 Hive (it is actually Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 0,528 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 119 SIM. This makes the Art convention the cheapest event in dcity by far. And since it boosts your Creativity you might discover a nice new background for your dcity.
This gives you a 20% chance to get an Artist every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 2,4 artists per event. That is about 50 SIM per Artist. Considering that Homeless are being sold for about 70 SIM, while having a -1 to popularity, means that stacking some CCC tokens to get some Artists is an absolute no-brainer.
The fact that Artists also give a +1 to Creativity is nice, it might help you to get some nice backgrounds, but currently I am mostly interested in the fact that they are now the cheapest form of Population for your dcity.
So get some cheap CCC while you can! Remember you Neede 250 per event.
WEED Fest
The Weed Fest requires 75 WEED tokens and at the current selling price of 0,08947 Hive (it is actually Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 6,710 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 1518 SIM. This makes the Weed Fest by far the most expensive event in dcity currently.
This gives you a 20% chance to get an Artist every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 2,4 Artists per event. But clearly at this price in comparison with the Art Convention, you would be an absolute fool to do this for the Artists. Also it has a lower Creativity bonus than the Art convention.
So why would anyone still start a Weed Fest? That is for the bonus it creates for Weed Farms. It doubles Weed Farm production. A friend told me his Weed Farms produce about 0,085 WEED per farm per day. So this means that even with the current price for WEED there is a break-even point for the Weed Fest. This is the point where your Weed Farms produce more than 75 WEED daily.
Because if you can spend 75 WEED to produce more than 75 WEED, then you make a profit. The extra backgrounds and Artists are just a bonus. You would need 883 Weed farms for it, so I don’t know if anyone has been able to accumulate such a number of Weed Farms. But it would be an interesting strategy for your dcity.
Obviously when you sell the backgrounds and Artists, then you would reach the breakeven point sooner. Also when the price of WEED would go down and more people would start these events, then the pool gets bigger and potentially the Weed farms produce more Weed. We will have to see.
For now I would advise new players to ignore the Weed Fest.
Poker Night
The Poker Night requires 20000 Gamer tokens and at the current selling price of 0,00009 Hive (it is actually Swap.Hive on hive-engine) this makes the total cost 1,8 Hive or if you convert SIM for it then it costs you 407 SIM.
This gives you a 15% chance to get a Gambler or 5% chance to get an Addicted Gambler every 2 hours. So on average you should get about 1,8 Gamblers and 0,6 Addicted Gamblers per event. These have negative popularity, so a Gambler is really the same as a Homeless. The Addicted Gambler will at least give you some income, so it is a bit more interesting. Personally I would sell them.
If you have some Casino’s in your dcity, then you will get some Gamer tokens for free and you can then use these to start the Poker Night events.
But other than that I would not recommend this event over the Art convention unless you want to use the special feature of the Poker Night: lowering the Crime Rate of your dcity.
Conclusion
If you are looking for an event to get some population, then you should focus on the BEER Fest or the Art convention. At the current prices the Art convention looks really good. But the BEER Fest with it’s Popularity bonus is also really nice, since it will increase your chances to get free Homeless and Immigrants.
The Science convention is useful for boosting your education and increasing your chances of discovering Technologies. The Weed Fest is mostly useful for boosting your Weed Farm’s production and the Poker Night is mostly useful for reducing your crime rate.
Thank you for reading and see you next time!
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