As I mentioned in my previous post, I was going to be playing Rising Star heavily for at least the next month, and see how I do earnings wise, and how much fun I am having, to see if I continue further. I mentioned I would be doing a earnings report one week in, and another at the end, although I may end up just making these weekly posts instead!
The P2W Confession
I will say at this point, for complete transparency, I gave myself a slight headstart by buying a Pizza Box, a Pizza Slice, and mid-way through the week, the Jedd Character Card. While the initial investment was low, I am not 100% Free to Play. In total these came to about 25000 Starbits, which right now would cost 7.1 Hive, or just under $6.5 at today's prices. This means I spent less on this game than I did just to get the spellbook in Splinterlands, which is a very low investment in my opinion! If you are a Splinterlands player, it would be easy to scrape together a similar initial investment.
So with 25000 Starbits put in, how did I do for a first week? I've tracked my daily results below:
I've earned back 9600 of those Starbits already! That's a 38% return on the initial investment (Which is easily withdrawable at any time - every card I've bought is re-sellable again!) in just 7 days - at this rate I could expect to see an easily 100% return in a month. There are a few things to consider however:
1) I will be getting less achievement rewards going forward
While small, there is a large influx of achievements and rewards early in the game for the first x amount of times running each mission. While these are only around 10-20 Starbits each on average, they do add up to a fair little chunk. These will dry up as I am running the same missions again and again rather than quickly progressing to new ones!
2) Ego
As I am now over Level 15, Ego comes in to play. If I'm totally honest, I don't totally get how it works, but I do know I need to keep my Skill Level above my Fans. Due to this, I have already started to do Music Lessons. While this is a great long term play, it does mean I am using Energy for something besides earning - which is obviously also going to decrease current earnings! As it stands I think this game is going to be a long-term steady earner for me, so I am more than happy to optimise for the long term!
Conclusions + Next Steps
For a visual update - here is a screenshot of my stats!
So far, so good! I'm enjoying the game, the community are great and so helpful (Shoutout to everyone in the Discord who answered my questions!) and the earnings are good too! My next aims are a second cold pizza slice as I am often finding myself waiting for energy, and then 300 fans owned permanently to be able to do everything in the first stage! After that I will slowly pick up some instruments to increase my Skill from Music Lessons and then see where this game takes me next!
I'll be back in a week to see how we did this week compared to last, but for now, good luck in your mission drops!
