Note: None of this is financial advice.
I know my city sucks right now but I'm doing my best to make it the dystopian dream I envisioned it to be.
I’ve been playing this game for weeks now and I love every bit about it. It’s an idle browser game that revolves mostly around planning the right numbers to build your city based on the game’s changing mechanics. It’s adapt or suffer income loses. The best part about this idle game is the potential kickbacks you can get with money you put into it.
One of the main reasons why I entertained this game is how much costly my mobile gaming habits has been lately. The amount of money I’m spending on mobile apps from Google Playstore goes directly in to their respective devs in exchange for aesthetics that I don’t even have any long term use. I’ve been spending on mobile games for vanity reasons and it didn’t bother me until I came to a point when I no longer have the time to play them. So the account just collects dust and the game will eventually be deleted off my device.
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In comes dCity, a game where I can have the same idle gaming experience but with a twist of earning potential. I don’t think this game is meant to be treated as a real investment contrary to how most of the community treats it but there’s no denying that it’s a viable source of passive income in exchange for Hive tokens. I just think one is setting themselves up for potential financial losses if they banked on the game generating income on the long term. It’s a blockchain game and everyone should know by now that volatility is part of crypto.
The general objective is just building a city and growing it over time. You earn SIM tokens and these tokens can be used to buy more cards or be exchanged for Swap.Hive which is awesome. I made some computation on the potential earnings I could yield just buy holding SIM, buying and selling, and I could definitely say it’s more than what I could earn from just passive voting on the Hive Blockchain. I prefer thinking it as a game you can play and earn on the sidelines but never as a real investment.
There are multiple ways to earn beyond just building a city dedicated for SIM production. You can gamble by buying random cards then flipping them off the market for better rates. You can create a city that uses a certain strategy and flip the entire thing for Hive or other tokens in mind.
At the time of this writing, the falling SIM (dCity’s in game currency) prices have been demoralizing for players that have already “invested” some money into it. But I see this as an opportunity to grow their positions more as the falling SIM prices enable new players more room to plan our their building strategies with more flexibility. Looking at the current market prices at the time of this writing just makes me wish I started at these times because everything is on fire sale at the moment.
A single random card minted costs around 4 Hive or 800 SIM. But players can have the option to purchase their SIM from the Hive Engine market or specific cards from dCity Market to reduce their costs overall. Taxes play a lot in slowing your city’s growth and income overall. But these are just part of the game mechanics present that players can overcome if their city is built flexible to the market conditions.
A lot of guides have already been written on how to plan out your city from start to long term remodeling which can be found here. A helpful tip is not underestimating how the numbers work in this game. It helps a lot to keep track on your spending and selling by organizing your own excel sheet. A lot of factors can affect your income including taxes, random events, and type of buildings you’ve invested on. I won’t go heavily into details on the guides because the best ones are already written for you by players that started out in the early days of the 1st Edition.
It has its limits in terms of content. It's far from the usual stock market idle games and tycoon games I'm used to play idly but it's enough for me. I'm optimistic about new developments coming up during the 3rd Edition and future editions.
This game tests your financial strategy on the long term and how you adapt through the market conditions present. There are politics involved in the game and how the community’s attitude towards the token may also affect the prices. While doing some accounting on the game sounds simple enough, trying to create a city or strategy that could thrive on any market condition is one of the best challenges this game has to offer for the player. You can earn real money just by playing this but your success will depend on how much thought and effort you’ve put into your city. That is, if you consider it as a game anyway.
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