I never thought I'd be writing this post. When I first came to Hive, I saw a bunch of Rising Star posts, and I didn't get. I'm a music lover, but something about the game didn't appeal to me.
It took months before I'd finally had enough wondering what the fuss was about, and I decided to try it.
Wow!
I can't believe I waited this long. This might be the most rewarding NFT game I've played (don't hate me Splinterlands lovers). The pacing is really well done. There's always something just around the corner.
I can really feel the progress. I'm always thinking: if I just get to X starbits, I can do Y, which will get me through Z breakpoint to unlock the next section.
Between the missions progressing, and fans progressing, and then dealing with the ego system, and then zones progressing, and boosters, and on and on, I'm always progressing and adapting my plans.
Anyway, so on to my first update.
I've made some choices that I'd consider mistakes from the point of view of "optimization." I saved up my first 10,000 Starbits for a pack.
...Because opening packs is, uh, fun?
At that point, all I saw was that fans were holding me back from higher level missions. I needed fans and more fans. Who cared about anything else?
Little did I know that skill would be important when I hit Level 15. Little did I know that getting a pizza slice would practically double my daily Starbits because missions would start costing 90% and 100% energy.
So, I'm Level 22 with about 9,000 Starbits saved up.
Gameplan:
- Save up (1 more day) and get a pizza slice.
- First thing in the morning, run Saturday Headline at 100% energy.
- Run guitar lessons the rest of the day as energy becomes available.
- Fill energy with pizza and run Saturday Headline or Saturday Support overnight (not sure how to factor in the double ego yet to this plan).
The plan is still to buy packs as I get 10,000 Starbits because rolling for expensive cards is way more fun than saving for them at this point. I'll buy individual cards if I get something that really throws my fans/skill ratio out of balance.
I'll re-evaluate and report back when I've unlocked some of the better Local Gig Circuit missions (probably need another pizza at some point).
Let me know what you think. Am I still making silly beginner mistakes?