Lesson #1 - Starting With The Tax Refund

Dear Citizen

Welcome to my second dCity Journal. I started playing dCity from 22232 October 2024 and you can read my first update on the day I started this game here:

https://inleo.io/@dewabrata/journal-of-my-dcity-the-starting-point-abj

On that post I mentioned that I had these as my todo list:

1. Get 3 population with at least one creativity point. I think I know which cards I should get with minimum $SIM needed, I will share it next week
2. Try to build 13 SIM income. This is the hardest one, I know that number won't be easy to achieve. Will I manage to achieve that next week? I don't think so, but I am eager to see how far I could reach or how near I could get to that goal.

And Guest what I have fulfilled all those things!!

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My City Runs Well Now!!

Basically I have no red marking on my city parameters: Population are Ok, my city only has 4 unemployed citizen, Popularity - Education - Creativity all are green. Yeah I see my city has 3% Crime Rate, but citing what @ryosai said in dCity Discord:

I guess nothing I should worry right now. I plan to go big but I plan to not spending big in any game. So I will sit back more and trying to figure out how to get good organic growth in my City.

So as for today, I will do something ordinary. I go https://nftm.art/buy/city to get a NFT that can fight the unemployment however I can't have it red due to lack of people to hire. So I decide to get this one:

3 workers, so it means I still have 1 unemployment left. This seems good so let's play the Ice Cream Song!!!

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Every City Starts With TAX REFUND

I have said my city runs well, but how well it is anyway...

It looks quite strong for a small new city which making 20 SIM everyday, and my city stands on #345 on leaderboard. It means only 344 cities that are better than mine in getting the Income.

So why are the others bad at gathering income?

Here is the fact, currently our president sets our tax up to 100%. So it means every pennies that build up your city income, will be zero-ed by the tax.

At first, I thought this was stupid. Why would we play a game that could not give us anything due to some old-ass zero-ed everything. It's like he wants to stay on top himself. However after deeper study, I think that's the best one.

Dcity is one of the oldest game here on HIVE. If people do not combat the inflation, the token price will already at the bottom of Mariana Trench. so yeah, I can understand that logic and I know some might not adapt to it swiftly.

So because everything is taxed to zero, the only income we can get is TAX REFUND!

In fact all my SIM income come from Tax Refund. There are many ways to push your tax refund high. my way is the simplest one, I buy the best NFT(s) for it, and based on my budget it is the economist.

I have 10 economists in my city, each of them give 1 tax refund and they produce some income too. This is my best one, is it the best one for you and the others too? The answer is no.

Every city has their own stats, which later give the owner different challenge and different problem. What is best for my city might not be the best for your city.

In general I could say Economist is the best citizen you can get for the beginner. But this is as a citizen NFT. Some city might not need them, even they can't deny Economist gives an Income boost.

There is another way, I think it is very good but might not be the best... but definitely it is the most popular and highly demanded. It is getting FREE young citizen or student for being in top 400 Income.

It is free, it gives you a tax refund so it should be the best method right? As much I want to say it is one of the best one, I do not want to mislead other players. There is a big drawback or potential risk if you rely too much on Young Citizen...

However I won't say what the risk are, I will share them in my next post. Let me play another week to confirm it and add more point of view about it too.

So, see you next week...

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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/sad99wQG

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