My fair and fellow dCitizens, I wish you well once again from the rugged mountains of Colombia's Central Cordillera. From my forested perch, I have been thinking about the nature of play, and have come to realize that not everyone seems to be playing the game in the same way, or even on the same level. This is probably as it should be, as in every avenue of life the social operates both openly and invisibly, and each person engages within their desire and ability.
So how many ways can we play?
Let's consider first that the game consists of having some amount of tokens in your HIVE wallet. These tokens interact and produce stats, like INCOME, POPULATION, EDUCATION and CREATIVITY. As noted in this Population Tutorial, just understanding the fundamentals of the game is the first task for any player.
Combining and creating cities to maximize the effectiveness of different types of mining, whether SIM-mining, using events, Education/TECH-mining, Creativity/Background-mining, or Homeless/Immigrant-mining, is a fun game for a certain type of player, a player that likes math and numbers.
Having a city and growing it, learning the game, and creating new strategies, I will refer to all this as 'Playing with Tokens'. As you can see, there are many types of strategies within this section.
This is contrasted with 'Playing with Markets', which is a completely different type of play. The sheer joy of buying something for a nickel just to sell it for a dime cannot be overestimated, for a certain class of player this is better than having their name on any leaderboard. There are many different types of token in dCity, and this yields countless arbitrage opportunities, and since different sized cities interact differently with each token, the market in dCity has been a place of intense interaction over the past year and more.
There are card flippers and bulk buyers and low price snipers and population stackers and Income arbitrageurs. That you can play with tokens while you play with markets in dCity is, in my opinion, one of the great reasons for its success.
Playing with Content
Some of you will surely know that you can produce content on the HIVE blockchain with the very same HIVE wallet that you play dCity with. I try to be especially verbose while President, and its something that I wish more presidents would do. Posting is a way to promote dCity, yes, but its also a way to interact socially and maybe even earn some more tokens.
As mentioned in my last post, I am working on something, I am calling it 'dCity Digest'. And we have made good progress teasing out the curated votes from the @dcityrewards account.
My goal is to set up a post designed to reward players who post about dCity with HIVE SBI, which is another great program that I have been involved with for almost 4 years. Instead of receiving the rewards for nomination myself, I will be setting @dcitygame as the nominator, which will allow this account to accumulate vote balance that will continue to nurture the dCity Reward Pool, as long as the account keeps posting.
Playing with People
And this leads me to a more advanced level of play, which is playing with people. Some of this is touched on while playing with markets and playing with content, but really, the social level opens up a number of interesting and additional possibilities. Some of this happens directly in the dCity Discord.
There has never been a closer and more anticipated election that the upcoming; athough I don't have data I would venture to say that this is the highest number of voters we have seen as well! There are three days left, and whether or not I will continue to be your president, I will continue to be player and will be playing this game socially (as well as all of the other levels!)
Play Governance
The governance level of this game is unprecedented, there is no other game like this, we are ahead of the curve, and it is one of the great things we can advertise about it because there is a lot more to come. While I am super excited we are going to rock sites like dappradar with our huge tx numbers, I also would like to get players who are interested in tokenized governance.
The amount of assets and automation operating under SIM governance, or at least on behalf of it, is quite astonishing, and you don't need to have any dCity NFTs to take part in this! You can vote for holding rewards for SIM holders, and that makes this almost a completely separate game to play!
Consider, apart from the reward pool and the beeswap liquidity and the Automated market maker, the @dcityfund manages thousands of dollars on behalf of the game in stable coin defi.
There is one really interesting thing about my policies, and that is that the Global SIM power is drying up. This should make the SIM governance 'mini-game' more attractive, raising the SIM holding payouts for all SIM holders as well. If you don't like how your NFT tokens are performing, you might consider selling some or all of them for SIM and playing a different game for a while.
As always, its 'Player's Choice'
Freedom and Friendship!
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I do not understand this game. My city has taxes of more than 100% and almost all of them basic. It is impossible to win right? I am doing something wrong?
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Your city will continue to mine Homeless and Immigrant cards, and your Job Centers will continue to attempt to train the ones you have.
For you I will replace 5% of basic tax with Jobs Tax so that your job centers have a better chance of performing.
There is the issue of a Law Firm card, but your city is probably too small to handle it at this point.
The presidential race seems to be quite close. I don't really make much posts about DCity since it tends to be on the sidelines recently. It is just mining immigrants and training workers.
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I already did few posts about dCity when something happened to me in the game. Most of time when I bought more SIM to buy a lot of cards, or to make updates of my city.
But that's a little more difficult now, because when I used to be able to mint new cards every 4-5 days, now, just before the taxes reached +100%, i was taking me 17 days. So there was no updates to make.
Except to present the game, I think with the actual taxes nobody is able to make posts except the bigger accounts which are still making at least hundreds of SIMs
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Thank you @ecoinstant, for using the CO2 Compensation Coin (COCO / SWAP.COCO) on Steem-Engine or on Hive-Engine to reduce your CO2 footprint. You want to join? Buy some COCO / SWAP.COCO and transfer them to CO2Fund's account @co2fund.
Upvoted to thank you @ecoinstant for supporting the CO2Fund by, e.g., supporting posts, banner presentation, SP/HP delegation, dustsweeper gifts, helpful tools, etc.
you have my vote.
and this !pizza