dCity Progress Update #17

Introduction
Good day to everyone, a week had passed in the city and it's time to update the progress of my city and the things that happen in the city. In today's post, I will be continue to look at where to optimize my city for stronger growth and also examine my current situation.

What is dCity?
The game is a city simulator game based on Hive NFTs where one can create a city the way we want it to be. As players develop and grow their cities, optimization is needed in terms of buildings, city population, the income that the city yields and technological developments. While many aspects of the game can be calculated based on the simulator within the game, there is a portion of randomness in the form of crisis event which can bring different kind of impact to city which affects income or popularity. If you like the original SimCity, I am sure you will like this.

My City
The below screenshot is how my city looks like at this moment. I need to halt and new purchases and relook at my city distribution and understand my current income situation.

From having about 30-ish SIM income per day to suddenly becoming 0 SIM. This is something that I need to investigate as it is a very day and night kind of a change.

Unemployment currently still remained at 1 which I am putting under control and monitoring.

The big number of citizen that I am holding so far might still be a potential problem that I need to solve as it can be a possible source of negative income or even additional social support that kills the daily income.

Investigation on Lost Income
After some updates in game, suddenly my income drop to 0 which is very alarming to me and thus I need to do some investigation to find where are my lost SIM income.

First indication:

And with this, I went to look at:

So right now, tax refund is 0 SIM and income tax reduction is at 5.77%. Not sure if the income tax reduction is the situation (I did not visit this page often) but I doubt so.

Next thing I went to see is on the Social Support portion.

Now this is interesting, the amount of Social Support looks huge now. Then I re-look at my current income tab figures:

The numbers now seems to make some sense now on first pass where my current income is definitely burdened by the social support. And this will means that I will need to optimize the number of young citizen holding in my city and also look into boosting the base income and investigate where all the tax refund went to. This potentially means a revamp of my city is needed to be profitable again and get into the top 400 rankings.

Current SIM Holdings
At the moment of writing, the current amount of SIM I am holding has reached 162,00 SIM. Manage to sell a few Young Citizens since the last update and with the changes on increased Social Support, there is a strong need to sell more Young Citizens in order to balance the income and social support cost. And definitely, I also still want to continue working towards getting into the SIM Millionaire Club.

Why Hold SIM?
This is reminder to all that holding SIM (or commonly known as SIM Power) brings about daily liquid hive if one having above 8000 SIM Power. SIM Power is calculated by the from the 30 days average SIM holdings.

With the increase in SIM in my Hive Engine, the 30 day average of my SIM power will continue to increase and then translate to move liquid Hive earning per day. Amount of liquid Hive per day based on current 30 day average is as seen below:

(This is from a day ago, have yet to see the holding rewards coming in for today)

Assuming no increase in Sim Power, I will get 0.84 liquid Hive per month. The numbers continue to increase and building towards the goal I had for using the liquid Hive to fund for Hive Power Up Day as we inch towards a 1 Hive per month from just this earning. At this moment, it look a little too small and insignificant to being able to get 10 Hive per month, however as I continue to grow, one day I know I will reach there.

Closing
New changes for sure that I will need to adapt and make changes within my city. I guess too smooth sailing will cause us to rest on our laurels. So some changes in game will cause us to rethink and relook at our city on how to operate/manage it properly. It is exciting and fun to trigger the brain to think and also examine the current card index to know what cards to get to be most effective.

Special thanks to @ryosai for always answering my questions on the game, guiding me through with your patience and even helping me with my city growth.

Looking forward to the journey of growing the city!

If you're interested to also try out this game, you can access dCity by visiting: https://dcity.io/

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