dCity Investments - weekly update

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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 @elbrava, which you can find here. My aim for this city is to simply grow as fast as possible and enter the top200 of dcities. This will likely require me to invest more money to make that happen.

My other dcity is for my @invest4free account, which you can find here. This second account I set up specifically to show that through being active on Hive, you can become an investor for free. You will actually be able to build an investment portfolio that will generate passive income for you through being active on hive.

This weeks developments are:
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Last week I have continued buying Farms for prices between 950 and 1050 SIM, which is a good price as long as you have the GMO farming technology. This turns the Farm into one of the most profitable cards in the game, if you are buying on the market.

Every once in a while someone busy all Farms up to 1300 SIM or so, which is too expensive for me. But soon the price goes back down to sub-1000 SIM prices.

But I have also started to deviate from this growth strategy, as I noticed that Job Centers and Research Centers are getting very cheap. Today I bought two Research Centers for only 800 SIM per card.

I like the thought of getting my own ‘free’ technologies. They are not free, because you need a lot of Schools, Universities and/or Research Centers, but I would really like to get one of those tier 4-5 technologies. That would definitely be worth it.

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For this account I cannot buy that many cards per week yet, but it is certainly increasing nicely. I bought some Farms and Restaurants, which give a nice boost to income.

I also decided to buy some Job Centers. I have got 3 of them now, to train some Homeless and Immigrants. Mostly as an extra source of income, as I will be selling them.

If you would like to get some training or education done in your dcity, then I think this is a good time to start investing in it. The prices are getting lower by the day.

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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If you would like to start investing in dcity, because it is fun and very profitable. Or you want to get more hive to increase your investment. Then why not start a Risingstar account?

Risingstar is completely free and once you start leveling up it starts to take less time with bigger rewards. As soon as you hit level 20 you can start to withdraw your Starbits and convert them to SIM that you could invest in dcity. The combination of these two games is a really solid way to generate funds that you can use to invest in other things.

It is a very fun game, with a lively market for the NFT cards that you get while playing. So along with earning Starbits, you will also get cards that you can sell for any Hive-engine token you like.

Check the game out here, I am sure that you won’t regret it.



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Great update here man, love it! I wanted to share something that I learned I think we talked about in one of your previous posts: percentage of gaining new citizens. I recently made a few purchases for cards and I paid attention to my percentage. Every 50 popularity you get, your percentage of getting new citizens goes up by 3%. I don't know when that formula changes, seeing your larger city at 30% but 891 popularity I would think it would be higher but there must be some kind of formula that changes it. If you already knew that, then good! I just learned it myself lol

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Ah that’s interesting. I hadn’t really out much thought into that yet.

Popularity is important indeed, but I think the amount of homeless and immigrants also matters.

Would you be interested in the gmo farming technology. I mined one and don’t need it myself.

You helped me loads to get started with splinterlands, so I’ll give it to you for free. It does lower the popularity of your farms though, so that’s why I ask.

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Yeah that would be awesome I appreciate it man! I will just make up the popularity difference with parks. Those are a nice inexpensive way to get a little boost. With my income over 400 I've been able to invest in a decent amount of cards often so that's been nice!

Always love to help out when I can, just a little bit in Splinterlands goes a long way!

With immigrants and homeless, that's important so that's why I've been trying to figure out how to bring in more of them. I actually got 2 criminals somehow so I was very confused why my population, income and popularity took a serious hit. The criminal card caused -50 popularity so you get a big hit to the city that depends on that. I transferred them to an alt for keeping at the moment. Eventually I might bring them back if they end up being useful later on.

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Great update Elmer, and interesting about Farms, I have GMO farming so I will try and buy some more farms, just need to keep the crime low too, we now have the Criminal card which means that crime is always needed to keep as low as possible to avoid those, keep up the great work and have an awesome day.

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Sounds great Erik.

Yes that criminal card is not nice to get.

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