A rough estimate depending on which education buildings you get
Someone had asked if there was a post to indicate how much you would have to invest if you wanted to make a straight up, full education city and start mining technology cards, so my newest city was the easiest to use.
First I will show all the cards in this city. This is including the tech cards free internet connection and open source to boost the education and require less buildings, but without them you will still need to buy a chunk of education buildings plus the workers to fill them all, so it is good if you can get these tech cards and someone might be willing to sell it cheaper, especially if you are new to dCity!
If you take away the tech cards you will be left with about 131 less education and only a 21% chance to discover technology, so you will be required to buy the additional education and population buildings.
Let's focus on the costs involved for the city if you also buy the technology cards as that is what we have and it is worth getting, or you could buy free education and then get all universities, giving them double the effect and requiring some less education buildings.
Now to work out the costs and this will be a rough average based on current prices and amount needed for each building and the tech cards.
Buildings:
Apartment - 36, Cost: 4.685 * 36 = 168.66 Hive
Hotel - 8, Cost: 4.809 * 8 = 38.472 Hive
Laboratory - 7, Cost: 5.370 * 7 = 37.59 Hive
Luxury home - 20, Cost: 1.270 * 20 = 25.4 Hive
Research Center - 30, Cost: 3.530 * 30 = 105.9 Hive
School - 74, Cost: 2.130 * 74 = 157.62 Hive
University - 16, Cost: 3.970 * 16 = 63.52 Hive
Tech cards:
Free Internet Connection - 1, Cost: 4 Hive
Open Source - 1, Cost: 60 Hive
Total average cost in HIVE for this city = 661.162
And for the amount earned per day?
With current low taxes, 558 SIM a day at current around pegged prices = 2.76768 HIVE a day (36 cents USD) which seems small, BUT it is a technology city with a maxed 25% discovery chance with which tech can also be sold off to earn more HIVE back and tech discovery is daily so you just have to wait until you find them, plus all the cards are there and readily available to sell on the market if you wish to, meaning you can profit easily by holding the city for a while before any plan you have to cash out.
So at first it would be best to go to your technologies page and use the SIM to unlock tech for discovery.
You can always buy a small bit of SIM if you want to unlock more tech by resetting the cooldown, or buy the tech card Better Documentation Practice which is going for about 35 HIVE right now but reduces cooldown to 24 hours, so everyday you will be able to unlock a new tech to potentially discover which is handy if you won't be resetting the cooldown.
So if you are deciding to invest and make a full technology city so you can discover the tech, you now have a rough idea of the costs with current prices, with give or take some HIVE in case you have to buy some more of one education building or are just going to buy the cheaper ones to make the city cost less (Research Center, School, University and Laboratory) if one of the others you can't get all of at the cheaper prices you are wanting to pay.
This is not financial advice but a setup of a city to make it city #5 I have on dCity as I myself believe in it. Do your research and ask questions, then decide yourself if it is for you!
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Thanks for the estimate.
It indeed isn't giving maximum returns, but seems to give more than 100% with max chance to discover TECHs. So i believe it's not a bad investment if someone is looking to mine techs. Who know one can end up some level 4 or 5 tech pretty early and can get investment back early.
Thanks again.
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With current prices of some tech, you can net some nice bits of HIVE, more will go up if needed for other crisis cards that are coming with the combining of cards. So it makes up for a bit less SIM, when you do find tech.
I'm at 9% right now for education discovery chance in my city, with the goal being 25. I started playing dCITY mainly as a game at first and later realized it could provide a steady stream of daily tokens. For the first time, I got a tech card two days in a row after a push to up my education percentage. I would love to get multiples of some of the expensive cards in order to optimize my city and fund future growth. dCITY is a fun game!
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That's awesome to hear you got some tech. All tech matters and hopefully you get at least a higher tier tech soon that you don't need to use, so you can sell it and build your city to provide a bigger income!
Not new to dcity but gave up after a few weeks when it was still with only first edition cards. Felt like I did not get the ROI as the new edition came out and value of cards were free falling. I am assuming it is now different and there are multiple paths to obtaining better ROIs. What I did not notice you mentioning was if with this tech city we are able to obtain new tech do we hold it to earn more or sell it to reduce principal cost? Is it even possible to sell the new tech? Thanks.
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Slightly modified amount earned part to say you can sell them to get HIVE.
You can get multiple of each tech but only use 1 of each as they don't stack. So you can sell others and gain HIVE back. Prices of some tech cards have gone up quite a bit, as in the announcements on the dCity discord it has new posts, which includes things coming like combining cards, where tech cards are used for the crisis cards and then people were buying them up.
Many ways you can earn now and prices of some 1st edition buildings have shot up, even some second edition cards too.
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STOPI've been thinking about doing this as my main city has extra education going to waste. But I am not sure about pulling those education buildings from my main account. I guess the income from said building stays the same no matter where they are though. I may just try this, thanks @thegoliath.
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It's worth it if you have a heap of spare education, as you could get another city discovering more tech for you and still be gaining the income. Then you just got to sort out sending population there. But when you make a nice chunk, it's good to diversify into new cities.
You're welcome.
DUDE! Set up my tech city with 17% education yesterday before the drop and got a damn tech card!!! BOOM!
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Haha nice! Pays to get that extra tech city setup ;)
Thanks for sharing this info. I am reading up on Dcity posts, trying to wrap my head around this game. Not sure where to start.
Already started a city and hope to get to know and understand the game, along the way. It's the third blockchain game I'm trying and I hope to have finally found one that I can continue playing. Cryptobrewmaster - to name another - really doesn't keep me entertained.
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There are many strategies depending on what you want to do and dCity is more passive once you are setup. But you will still want to boost the city with SIM (maybe more HIVE too) so you can grow and earn more as well. Just keep learning and you will be good in no time :)
Thanks for the breakdown + info 😃
You've got my vote to become president. Have a great day!