My dCity Journal - Slow Grind To Be Effective

Greeting My Fellow dCity Major and Welcome to my dCity post.

It's been more than a week since my last dCity post, and I have to admit the grow of my dCity is getting slower. A few months ago, a week is more than enough to make many big moves and changes, but recently everything is slowing down.

What makes everything fast or slow? Each strategy games have their own variable, and for this dCity, regarding it is an idle strategy game, what make it moves fast or slow is the market. How much you will spend and how supportive the market for you.

Supportive market is when the volatility and liquidity are high. When you want to sell, someone buy. When you want to buy, someone sell... Sound simple, but it is not... Recently we can buy dCity NFT(s) at expensive price, higher than before... when we want to sell, no body buys so we have to dump at ridiculous market.

I have been monitoring the market everyday, not every hours, but it is an everyday activity for me. Today I spotted something that interesting on the market...

I saw Ice Cream Shop were on the market below 2000 $SIM. I used to buy them below 1000 $SIM but right now nobody wants to sell it at that price anymore. So when I saw them below 2000 $SIM, although it was not as cheap as before, I believed I had to make that call...

There! I bought 4 Ice Cream Shop. I wanted to buy more, but honestly, only 4 that were available on market with that price. The rest were above 2000 $SIM.

To show you guys what I have said above, here I share the screenshot after I bought those 4 NFTs. Ice Cream Shop became 2700 $SIM. The same building NFT are Barber Shop and Music store, which both are not that cheap anymore.

This is the reason why I can not grow fast, the NFTs become limited on the market.

And this is how my dCity looks right now. Everything looks well balanced, so I am quite happy with it but not happy enough because I want to push more. I want to have some notable growth..

So let's do this again, let's buy some more NFTs !

I just bought 3 more NFTs, two are Universities which I have been aiming at for the last few months. One NFT is Luxury Home, I pick that one over basic home because I haven't got one yet.

And this is my dCity looks after the second NFTs purchase:

Overall nothing change, it is slightly better regarding I only buy 3 NFTs more. I should be more significant if I get an extra 10-20 NFTs, but let me remind you again... NFTs right now are not cheap, they are pricey.

I think this is what I would do for today, nothing more. I am eager to see some cheap NFT entering the market, but I am a realistic person... I realize it won't happen that simple, so right now I could only save up more $SIM so when those NFTs come, I could buy them.

What We Can Learn Here

There are two purchases I have made today, the first one I bought 4 cards for 7.564 $SIM. The second one I bought 3 cards at 14.700 $SIM.

Which one is better for me?

The answer is simple, the first one, the 4 cards at 7.564 SIM. they are more needed and cheaper. The second purchase was made because I wanted to push more.

What we can learn here, if you push or rush things in this game, you will end up paying more and get something less because you are paying something that overpriced. Most of the time the right growth comes by opportunity, when you see and buy great NFTs at great price.

Where I Am Now

I play this game with my friends, and currently I am chasing @arveno account here.

In general, his dCity is leading way above me in term of INCOME rank. we only have 42 position gap, but his Income volume is more that twice of mine. So this is not a simple things to do, and there will be a lot of resource I have to spend to catch up with him.

Other than that, I do not see his dCity is better than me. Let sneak peak his account now

in general his account is way bigger than me. He has 604 NFTs and I only have 423 NFTs. more or less, his dCity size is 1,5x of mine.

What I see there that he relies much on the citizens. he has more citizens than me. It is the core of his dCity, which is different from my core which is NFT building. His built is one of the easiest way to climb up on the leaderboard, but I believe he will be struggling with replacing the citizens later.

So there is no exact way to be better than the others. @arveno takes the easy way to climb, and I believe right now he is struggling to maintain his dCity, and I take the hard way, which makes me hard to climb but the maintenance is easy.

Now, here is the real challenge.. How long do I need to climb over his rank? or Will I ever be able to achieve that? leave your guess and opinion below... and thanks for reading my post here.

Thank you for coming by and reading my post here. dCity is a city simulation game on Hive Blockchain. It works based on the second layer Non Fungible Tokens (NFT) on Hive-Engine. Those NFTS represents in-game assets, can be a building, a citizen, a park, a background and many more.

You can dig more about this game on their official account here @dcitygame or you are welcome to join our dCity discord here: https://discord.gg/DEUvBEN2xy

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