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Life is a game and it's up to us to enjoy it or not - 101.2% taxes in DCity

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Spring has finally started, here in Portugal. The rain stopped somewhere during the night/ early morning, birds are singing, butterflies reappear from their hideouts and taxes are at 101.2%

Welcome to the wonderous world of Dcity, where we have a BOT ( named CityHelper ) for president, where taxes are higher than ever, where city owners/ game players / investors are fighting each other ( verbally ) in the Discord chat as if they're trying to imitate actual politicians. In short, I welcome you to a place where it's ey to forget that we're all playing a game.

This could very well be a metaphor for life in general, now I think of it.

Here's a peak at my city, today:

This morning I checked into the DCity chat, where I witness the drama try to get informed on an almost daily basis.

My eyes caught "100% taxes" and when I checked into my main city's homepage, I witnessed it wasn't a joke.

My aim here isn't to get into the reason behind the taxes being this high ( it's mainly to increase the SIM price that, as of late, has been dropping about 50 percent from the level it aims to hold ) but I want to point out that DCity is more than just a passive income game / just invest and enjoy the ROI ( return on investment ).

I have to admit that I didn't expect it to be so challenging, when I started out putting about 5k of Hive ( currently value: $1100 ) into the game some months ago. Back then, it seemed like I would make back 3x my investment in a year or so. I'm not so sure about that now.

I also thought that I could merely sit back and enjoy the SIM tokens streaming in on a day to day basis and convert them to Hive and other crypto.

It's a different story now. Today my city has an income of 1260 SIM ( 10030 SIM minus taxes ). If it wouldn't be for the law firm(s) that I own, it would be a zero 0 income day.

Anyhow, I could go on and on about this but the point I want to make here is that @gerber managed to make a pretty challenging game. It's easy to feel bad about not getting a decent return on your investment but DCity is working pretty well as a game. And, in all honesty, I like challenges. Just sitting back in my easy chair and collecting 10k SIM on a daily basis would have been way too easy, pretty boring.

I feel I have to make some adjustments, be creative and it helps that creativity is my middle name, my hobby, job, passion, the oxygen I breathe and so on.

In 6 days, DCity will have another president. I'm curious what that will bring as well as what the next 6 days will do for the value of SIM.

Right now, I am just HODLing my SIM and buying small amounts for low prices. I will probably wait till the end of this month, before I decide what to do with my holdings and might buy some more cheap SIM every now and then ( even though my plan was to just collect SIM from the start of February onward ).

If you managed to make it to the end of this write up and you're a DCity player / investor yourself, feel free to share your strategies in the comment section. I'm curious to hear if you're still having fun and if you've made any adjustments lately?

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