Direct from the desk of Dane Williams.
A look at the dCity population metric changes and potentially lucrative updates to the SWAP.HIVE:SIM LP.
Over the last couple of weeks, the popularity metric within dCity has been lowered.
With the dCity team deciding to temporarily postpone the popularity metric reduction, they are giving players more time to plan their response.
Being an NFT based, mathematical game with a lot of underlying meta that allows players to implement a range of strategies, this lowering has had a significant impact on the game.
Especially to players with large cities, any small change to metrics such as popularity can have relatively large impacts on their gameplay and strategic profitability.
Musings on the latest dCity announcement
The effect of these popularity metric changes on your dCity, ultimately means players need more population cards to fill the jobs.
This pushes the price of the NFTs with population up and essentially makes any strategy that involves citizen mining or human trafficking, more profitable.
As you can see, changes within dCity always have a positive and a negative element to them that all depends on how you have chosen to structure your city.
Pretty cool right?
Yes, but I’m still not really sure why the dCity team has chosen to delay the changes any longer.
While I see the confusion from some of the less engaged players who log in and see their city suddenly requiring hundreds or thousands of extra population cards to again function at full capacity, surely the onus is on them to stay up to date.
If you have tens of thousands of dollars in your dCity, then it is as much of an investment as it is a game.
Surely some personal responsibility to at least have the team’s ongoing official updates sent to you is required?
The popularity factor will still eventually be lowered to 0.60 and I assure you that delaying this change for another couple of weeks won’t make the people who haven’t bothered to check on their investment, but feel the need to complain about it when the optimisation of their city is thrown off.
Anyway, onto the best part of this announcement.
The dCity SIM Hive DeFi Diesel Pool
The best part of the announcement is that the best Hive DeFi Diesel Pool just got better.
That’s right, the team has shuffled the deck and sent more dCity SIM to the SWAP.HIVE:SIM LP rewards pool.
With 3 million more SIM being added to the rewards pool and another 10 million SIM to the rewards, the APR increases from 20% to 30%.
Seeing rewards paid in the highly liquid SIM token with an actual use case, the SWAP.HIVE:SIM LP seems like an absolute no-brainer whether you actually play the game or not.
That’s before I even mention the extra 20% APR paid in BXT AND the SIM holding rewards paid out in liquid HIVE (yes, I know the level of these recently went down).
Yes please.
Gamified DeFi is the future
I like to call dCity gamified DeFi as its the Hive-based dApp which seamlessly blends the two most popular crypto realms.
In order to get involved in both, you’re just going to need a single Web3 Hive account that you can easily create with nothing more than your current Twitter login.
Head to leofinance.io, click the get started button at the top and create your account.
Once you have generated your private keys, you will have complete ownership of your account and access to the Hive Web3 ecosystem that includes dCity and Hive DeFi.
Come and get involved!
Best of probabilities to you.