Yesterday, I talked about my current strategy for RisingStar. I thought I'd sort of do the same for dCity. You'll see why "sort of" soon enough...
For those who don't know the game, dCity is a city simulator on Hive, which has been around probably longer than RisingStar.
Its history is not all rosy. Early game adopters enjoyed exceptional returns for the first year or so. I was not one of them.
Those who came later - like me and others I know - may not be very happy with the outcome, because the game economy soon started to get into trouble and needed adjustments, so we started to see huge taxes, culminating with levels of over 100%, including today.
That doesn't mean there aren't ways to earn with dCity. In fact, it has easy passive ways to do so.
But the gameplay itself is complex and any strategy needs to be revised from time to time (including by restructuring the assets you hold - a rental market would really help!), or you won't be competitive.
I don't think I am very competitive at the game, because for example I still have lots of income-producing cards, although the tax is 100+%.
At the same time, the population keeps growing (slowly). That's a good thing because I need more.
I have a good education level, so I make some tech discoveries every once in a while. Sometimes I sell these NFTs, although with the newest update of the game technologies are needed (I need to re-read to see what for).
Sometimes I get a little bit of SIM for my war shares, but I don't have many.
But what I like the most is the passive way to earn. And that's from the SWAP.HIVE:SIM diesel pool.
Now, I'm a small fish in this pool, but I consistently add to it. So, it has 26.7% APR diesel rewards + 7.6% APR BXT rewards + swapping fees. And one of the rewarded tokens is SIM, so I can compound it. That's quite well. I actually contribute to the swapping fees, since I usually add to the pool asymmetrically (I exchange half of SIM to SWAP.HIVE and then add the liquidity).
And that's not all. The same SIM I hold in the diesel pool counts for the SIM Power, and that increases the voting power, but especially, it gives me a small share of the HIVE rewards daily.
Are you playing dCity? Do share some advice, if you'd like to.