My dCity Journal - Accelerating Growth Using Churches

Hello There

I usually make dCity update everyweek, but today I make an exception for making a new update earlier. There is an emergency in my dCity and I am a bit late to respond this one.

I have got 13 people to hire. One NFT is not working, that why you see a number of 161 with yellow background. I haven't bought anything, so I checked the notification..

I do not understand what this is, I lose an auction but somehow I win that Police Station. I should be happy right, but I just feel bitter because this give me a red notification in my dCity map. But it doesn't matter anymore, it's time to fix these all. and as usual, I will follow this rule of thumb::

1. Buildings > Citizens. Initially I bought cheap citizen such as workers, because they are cheaper. I got some buffs, like tax refund, income, popularity by buying special citizens in discount. But when they died, stats dropped badly, and my rank crumbled. So Right now I focus more on buildings over citizens.
2. My Income Rank is mainly generated by young citizens. Instead of trying different methods from selling them and replace them with better NFTs or Cards, whether they are building or citizens, I try to focus increasing basic income and fighting social support cost in order to be able to house in more young citizens.
3. Incase I will add new rule here, they should not change the first and second rules.

here we go then...

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ACCELERATING GROWTH

My goal today is not only to get some population so that Police Station will be working. I need to do more than that, I call it an Accelerating Growth program, which means I will add some NFT that should be add next week and the next after it.

I will add some population, but they are not meant to negate that lack of workers, but I mean I really add them more by getting this 20 basic houses. I see their price is dropping, so I guess it's time for me to buy some of them.

From lacking of 13 workers to be having 86 unemployed workers... I believe my bulk basic house is working, and I have 58 tax refunded there due to a spike on Social Support from those unemployed workers.

It's not a problem for me, because my next steps will negate that. It is to buy many Churches

I buy 17 churches there, so I will get an extra 17 $SIM there, making my rank goes higher again. So here is my recap then:

I add 3 more barbershop because I see too many unemployed worked left. Churches increase my dCity popularity which result in some extra population coming in.

Ok now here my dCity looks right now:

I am very happy seeing how my dCity has grown right now. It looks like my program of adding massive churches to mimic young citizens works well. This is what supposed my dCity will achieve if I do not change anything in masterplan, just having an organic growth from the young citizens.

So what do you think about this accelerating growth program, by adding many churches? Do you think this is good or I just beeing lucky there? please leave your feedback below in the comments.

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COMPARING OUR RANK

I play this game with my friends @arveno and @ramadhanight, although we start not the same time, however the time gap was within a couple of weeks. So I think it is still ok that we are running from the same start and we should be competing on equal time line.

So let see how each of us have grown today:

Above is our rank table, I hope it doesn't break over if you open it using different d.app. Overall @arveno has won almost everything except in Popularity. My dCity is a lot more popular than his, this is because I do not wish to get any building that has negative popularity value.

Is that move a smartest one? definitely not.. It is smart but not the smartest, because many great building NFT that boost your dCity faster and they are a lot cheaper, but they are handicapped by having negative popularity value. So there is a give and take in that value.

Ok back to our comparison, it's a no brainer @arveno is winning regarding he is a rich dude. He should be an Orca here lol.

The last, is about diversification. I like the fact that three of us there taking a different route. We never talk about this, we all just run our own show on our dCity accounts, and it seems the paths chosen are different.

From here I could take 2 different route:

1. I challenge @arveno Creativity leaderboard. He has 100 point in Creativity, and I have only 17. That 83 point gap, but for me, that number is still achievable within a week. This will be a major distraction for me, regarding I am pushing up my leaderboard rank in Income. What's the point of playing games if it is no fun at all?
2. The second one is to focus on my roadmap, pushing up my Income whatever happen in my dCity account. I will have to jump over @ramadhanight rank, he has 188 $SIM which it is 63 $SIM higher. This is definitely a hard task, extra 63 $SIM in Income is very hard and I might not be able to fulfill this within a month. I need to take count that while I am pushing my Income up, he will push his up too. So this must be a double effort from my side.

As I write this post, I haven't decided which path I will choose and I have no urge to decide it as soon as possible. I will take some time, regarding the Crypto market is crazily bleeding everywhere. If you have suggestion here, feel free to drop some comments below.

Ok that's all. thank you guys for reading my update here

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