I’ve been writing about several aspects of dcity so far, but I would like to add to that a weekly update about changes that I have made. Tutorials are great for understanding a certain aspect of the game, but along side these it is great to also be able to get insights on day-to-day strategic choices from players that are a bit further ahead in the game. That is what I will try to provide you with in these weekly updates.
Currently I have two dcities. One on my main account 
My other dcity is for my 
As dcity is extraordinarily profitable I also decided to start a dcity for invest4free, but I will only invest what I get from being active on hive. Also I will use the Hive that my posts generate to grow my Hive Power, not my dcity. The only source of income for my dcity is at max 50% of Hive that I win from contests that I join and from selling some hive-engine rewards for my posts. Over time the SIM income of this dcity will become big enough to be the main source for growth. So for this dcity I will try to grow as cheaply as possible. This means that growth will be slow, but also it means that I will make different decisions for this account, than my main account.
Let’s look at the stats of my two dcities.
- Rank: 282
- Population: 393
- SIM income before taxes: 337
- SIM income after taxes: 212
- Unemployment: 3
- Popularity: 96 (this gives a 24% population bonus)
- Education: 24 (technology discovery chance 0%)
- Creativity: 7
- Probability to bring new citizens: 3%
- Training chance for Homeless and immigrants to be trained: 6% (12% at the moment because of education tax)
- Crime rate: 32%
This weeks developments are:
First of all a shout-out to 
Then, I was able to buy 3 new random cards this week from my SIM income and Hive rewards for being in the top 300 of dcity rankings. It is really ramping up and one day this week I was even surprised that I was able to already buy a new random card again. The price drop of the SIM token helps with that.
If you are still buying dcity cards with Hive, then you are doing it wrong! Buy SIM tokens at discount instead!
The first card was not really a lucky one, since I got a park and you get those cheaper from the market than 800 SIM. But I do not mind too much, since I do want to boost my popularity and Park’s are quite nice for that.
The second card was better, a Farm. With my current popularity I already don’t need much extra population to make the Farm produce SIM income. Since I had some unemployment due to the Park, the Farm was an excellent follow up.
Third card was a lucky one. A Solar farm. At first this card might not seem like a really good card, since it only produces 5 SIM. But it also only needs 5 workers and gives a nice popularity boost. So the Income vs Worker ratio is pretty good already. However, when you get the right technologies, then the Solar farm becomes the best income card you can get in terms of Income to worker ratio. Even better than a Casino or Shopping mall.
I like to think of Solar Farms as the endgame power cards.
Even though my progress wasn’t bad at all, I still dropped quite a bit on the rankings. I think that after the initial Bitcoin price jump hype people have started looking at dcity again. Possibly some people also investing some Bitcoin gains into their dcity. Who knows?
Fortunately I still have 50+ Hive on Ionomy to trade with that I can invest if I drop too low in the rankings. I think I’ll wait until I am at around the 290th position to pull that hive from the exchange to invest it into
I also got a free Immigrants card and a free Homeless card this week, so that is pretty good as well.
- Population: 31
- SIM income before taxes: 28
- SIM income after taxes: 17
- Popularity: 5 (this gives a 3% population bonus)
- Education: 0 (technology discovery chance 0%)
- Creativity: 0
- Unemployment: 2 (14,29%)
- Probability to bring new citizens: 2%
- Training chance for Homeless and immigrants to be trained: 0%
- Crime rate: 6%
This weeks developments are:
I got a free Homeless card, so I didn’t have to buy one. Who doesn’t like free cards?
I then was able to buy a Public Restroom and a Park, so that is pretty good for my little dcity. Most of that is from Leo rewards for some of my posts, of which I sell 50%. But the SIM income is starting to add up as well. It is about 100 SIM per week now. It goes a bit up and down with the almost daily changing taxes.
I think I will keep growing my dcity for this account the way I have been so far until I get about 800 SIM per week income. But then I think I will change my tactic to start buying random cards instead. I think that by that time it will get more beneficial to start buying random cards.
That is quite a long way away still though, so for now I will stick to Publice Restrooms, Park’s, the occasional Wind turbine and Homeless/Immigrants cards. It is a very predictable way to grow and it gives me some progress every week. Waiting for 4 weeks to get a random card and then be unlucky to get an 800 SIM Public Restroom feels like too much risk at the moment.
That is the update for this week, I hope you enjoyed it!
If you have any questions about your dcity about how to improve it, how to grow it more quickly or any other question. Please do ask in the comments. I try to always give a response.
Thanks for reading, do follow me for more dcity and investment content and see you next time!
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