Investing in dCity - weekly update

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I’ve been writing about several aspects of dcity so far, but on saturday I 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. 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 dcity was to try to get into the top200. I have now realized that this is only possible with a big investment. Simply re-investing rewards might not even be good enough to stay in the top300. But that is my goal, to stay in the top 300. I have some trading budget that I will invest in dcity if I were to drop out from the top300.

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.

As dcity is extraordinarily profitable I 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.
@elbrava

  • Population: 346
  • SIM income after taxes: 184
  • Unemployment: 0 (0%)
  • Popularity: 80 (this gives a 21% population bonus)
  • Education: 20 (technology discovery chance 0%)
  • Creativity: 7
  • Probability to bring new citizens: 3%
  • Training chance for Homeless and immigrants to be trained: 3% (6% at the moment because of education tax)
  • Crime rate: 30%

This weeks developments are:
I didn’t gain a lot of population, since I focussed on getting a Law firm. For a big city a Law Firm, with its 10% tax reduction is a no-brainer, but for a dcity of my size it is already one of the most profitable cards you can get. As my dcity grows this will obviously only increase.

Then I got a Casino again from a random card and decided that I would sell it again. I sold it for 1800 SIM and got an Ad Agency and a School instead from two more random cards. I did doubt a lot whether or not I would move my Casino to a new account with low Crime rate, but thinking about the ranking I decided to Swap it for other cards, so that I could grow the population of this dcity instead. Next time, I might keep it.

I didn’t buy Basic Home’s this time to let the Ad Agency and School work, because Luxury home’s are actually cheaper now on the market. Obviously you get one Population less, but 1 more SIM income. I don’t know what’s better long term, but a bit of diversification isn’t bad.

Together with the daily Hive rewards for being in the top300, my dcity now earns more than 1 Hive per day.

@invest4free

  • Population: 25
  • SIM income after taxes: 12
  • Popularity: 7
  • Education: 0
  • Creativity: 0
  • Unemployment: 3
  • Probability to bring new citizens: 2%
  • Training chance for Homeless and immigrants to be trained: 0%
  • Crime rate: 5%

This weeks developments are:
I managed to save enough from selling 50% of my hive-engine rewards to be able to buy another Park for the much needed Popularity. I also got a free Homeless card, so I now have 3 unemploymed citizens. So I will be saving up for another Public Restroom, unless there is a cheap Wind Turbine on the market.

I am wondering if this is indeed the best way to grow. Being lucky with a random card could be really beneficial for the growth of this dcity. So, I will likely investigate this in the naar future. Although I like the thought of getting lot’s of Public Restrooms, the cards that nobody likes, but I want to actually make this a worthy investment. So, more on that later.

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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I appreciate your dCity posts. Thanks so much for sharing your strategy. I truly am learning a lot from your notes & from actually playing the game daily 😂🤣

Happy weekend!

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Ah that is great to hear! Thanks for your comments as well. It is nice to have a bit of interaction.

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By the way, do check the ccc price every once in a while. If you can pick up 250 ccc for about 0.002 hive per token, then through the artist event you will get really cheap population. Cheaper than homeless, which has the negative popularity.

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I actually followed your advice on this :)

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Awesome, I got 500 ccc for that price, but I was extremely unlucky and got only 1 artist over 2 events.

So you’ll have to be a bit lucky.

My science event was better, since I got 3 scientists.

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