dCity, formerly SteemCity is another interesting community project on the ~~Steem~~ Hive blockchain that is using the latest NFT technology offered by ~~Steem~~ Hive Engine. It’s a It is a city simulator game where players are buying NFT in form of a cards, that represent buildings and then try to optimize their city production.

Players are rewarded with the in-game token SIM on a daily basis based on their city production. Once per week the top 150 players are rewarded with STEEM and HIVE based on their ranking on the leaderboard.

The game has been around for more than two months now. In the first weeks there wasn’t even an interface but only discord bots. It is a very early stages and there are a lot of plans for future development like new card types, governance model where the players will decide game mechanic, new technologies etc.

Here we will be looking into the following:

Cards issued by date
Cards issued by type
Cards issued by player
SIM and STEEM rewarded to players
Cards buying with SIM and STEEM
Top Earners
Overall SIM issued
Number of unique players

The period that we will be looking here is from the start of the game, at the end of January 2020 till April 10, 2020.

The report is a bit late and the last days are not included here.

Cards Issued

Here is the chart of the cards issued daily

This are cards on a daily basis that have been purchased from the house. Players can buy cards with SIM or ~~STEEM~~ HIVE. One card cost 800 SIM or 4 ~~STEEM~~ HIVE.

The chart above doesn’t include cards like immigrants and homeless that players get randomly.

Looks like There are few spikes in the chart with around 1500 cards bought per day. On average there is around 550 cards issued daily. The total number of cards issued by April 10 is 34,713.

Here is a table of the number of cards issued for each card.

Card	Quantity
Basic Home	10,504
Luxury Home	5,206
Restaurant	1,980
Apartment	1,833
Shopping Mall	1,801
Factory	1,756
Police Station	1,751
Weed Dispensary	1,744
Zoo	1,373
Gym	1,345
Airport	1,080
Garbage Dump	1,057
Bank	1,043
Cinema	966
Circus	957
Steem Sign	317
Total	34,713

When a player buys a card from the house, he gets a random card from the above, based on the drop rate that cards have. Basic Homes have the highest drop rate and are at the top of the list and The Steem Sign the opposite, being the rarest card.

Cards Issued by Player

Here is a table with the top 15 players that bought cards.

Rank	Player	Cards
1	mfblack	2,039
2	dustindivitto	2,003
3	muru	1,405
4	shitsignals	1,405
5	themightyvolcano	1,375
6	diverse	1,158
7	broncnutz	1,085
8	fantasycrypto	1,076
9	rollandthomas	989
10	inri	936
11	manoldonchev	889
12	bearbear613	884
13	forykw	883
14	bobawondua	859
15	raymondspeaks	830

As noted, cards can be bought with SIM or STEEM/P.
These are cards bought from the house, the @steemcitysim account. The cards are tradable so cards both on the market are not included above. Also, some of the players can sell the cards, meaning not necessarily holding such a number of cards.

SIM Rewarded

The game is rewarding its players with SIM on a daily basis. Here is the chart for the daily amounts of SIM rewarded to players.

As we can notice the amount of SIM rewards has been increasing since more cards are issued daily that are bringing SIM to their players. In the period above a total of 6.3M SIM has been distributed to players. At todays price of the SIM token that is around 4,500$.

Top SIM Earners

Here is the table

Rank	Player	SIM
1	dustindivitto	701,945
2	diverse	690,521
3	themightyvolcano	622,631
4	mfblack	195,420
5	rollandthomas	191,764
6	raymondspeaks	190,419
7	abrockman	185,022
8	inri	184,102
9	bearbear613	183,088
10	fantasycrypto	161,943
11	bosmob	144,351
12	shitsignals	119,370
13	broncnutz	114,539
14	reseller	114,121
15	superlotto	113,250

# STEEM Rewarded

As mentioned STEEM rewards are also distributed to players on a weekly basis based on the players ranking. 50% of the cards sales goes into the reward pool, and 10% of that is distributed weekly to players.

Here is the table.

Date	Rewards
3/1/2020	2,126
3/7/2020	2,397
3/14/2020	2,932
3/21/2020	3,100
3/28/2020	3,373
4/4/2020	3,708
4/11/2020	3,870
Total	21,506

A total of 21k STEEM distributed to players till April 11. There are also HIVE rewards distributed after the HF happened and the reward pool gained HIVE tokens as well, but this are not included here.

The top STEEM earners

Rank	Player	STEEM
1	dustindivitto	1,890
2	themightyvolcano	1,852
3	diverse	1,367
4	abrockman	798
5	fantasycrypto	737
6	mfblack	669
7	raymondspeaks	618
8	bearbear613	559
9	inri	543
10	rollandthomas	487
11	shitsignals	403
12	broncnutz	384
13	bosmob	372
14	ifunnymemes	346
15	reseller	256

Buying Cards with SIM

Here is the chart for daily SIM spent for buying cards from the house.

We can notice that more SIM is used for buying cards. This is in correlation with SIM rewarded. A total of 4.9M SIM has been used for cards buying from the house.

Here is the chart for cards buying with STEEM/P.

A total of 115k STEEM has been spent for buying cards from the house.

Number of unique players

As unique players are counted accounts that have been purchased cards from the house. New unique accounts are added to the existing ones.

A total of 365 unique accounts have purchased cards from the house till April 10, 2020.

All the best @dalz