@apemingclub has received just 3 hive to start this challenge, that is the amount of HIVE to create a new account, which you can do in the peakd.com wallet page.
The challenge is to get started on dCity as cheap as possible, as cheap as 3 hive.
I swapped 3 hive for 2.992 swap.hive and then used the SWAP tab to buy SIM with the Swap.HIVE
I am testing this set up with 3 Ice Cream Shops and Two Basic Homes. You could also do any combination of 3 Ice Cream Shops, Music Store or Barber shop, they all require 3 workers, give 7 popularity and 8 SIM income.
We are currently raking in 3 SIM income, which comes out to ~60% apr on ~1800 SIM spent. But the taxes are high, hopefully we can earn 4 and 5 sim sometimes.
I also purchased a Free Internet Card, even though it doesn't yet matter, it was very cheap. I was looking at the cheapest cards to buy with SIM.
We have 90 SIM left, after unlocking GMO tech, again it doesn't matter but maybe one day we will grow to have a research lab.
I think the best possibility would be to earn immigrant and homeless cards. We probably should save up for another music store or equivalent, to boost popularity and income a bit more first.
Immigrants currently sell for around 60 SIM per unit, and homeless sell for 30 or more SIM per token. Ice cream story is currently the cheapest at around 453 sim, and I still have 95 sim, so we need around 358 sim, or 6 immigrants tokens.
Our interface says we are getting 2%, I'm not sure if that's rounded but we are eligible every two hours because we have 21 popularity, well above the 10 minimum to mine these citizen tokens.
I suspect that citizen mining will be the primary mode of advancement, but we will see how fast we are able to mine the citizens and at what price we can sell them.
WHat is the challenge? - Play with me!
Take 3 hive and play dCity with me. If you already play dCity you can use an alt account, but if you play splinterlands or blog on hive, I want to ask you to try dCity.
Use my recipe or create one of your own, the first month with largely be RNG randomness about dropping homeless and immigrant tokens.
Common recipe -
3 x Ice Cream/Barber Shop/Music Store
2 x Basic Home
The top player at the end of the competition will win this entire city when the challenge is complete, which could effectively double their investment up to that point.
Rules - Spend 3 hive
reinvest all dividends
maximize growth rate
This is a hardcore challenge. New players can start here and move out of the challenge, I have talked to a few sponsors that will be incentivizing new players for trying out dcity, the 3 hive challenge is just the beginning, if you like it - feel free to buy more tokens.
Old players can just use an alt account to play along, no sending cards from other accounts.
Make sure to use the #dcity tag when you post about the 3 Hive Challenge. This way you can get used to producing reports on HIVE and having the possibility to generate additional tokens or conversations with other users. If you never write a post then no one can write you comments.
Welcome old and new alike - to the 3 HIVE Challenge!
Awesome! I've been wanting to try this game but haven't had the time to figure it out. This gives me a reason to put in a little time and try it. I bought a chunk of SIM a few months ago for the HIVE drips. I've probably earned about the 3 HIVE required here over that time so...now I'm really playing for free. :-)
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Hmm, make Dcity great again.
cool idea. I have had no idea what dcity was but have always heard about it. Missing out on that is what made me make sure I tried rising star. It's boring but I feel like I'm not on the sidelines with the hive games anymore. Oh, and splinter too but dcity seemed a little more confusing for me.
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Dang this is taking longer than I thought to get my first citizen 🤔