Rising Star, a free to play guide for up to level 20ish
After having played Rising Star for a little over two weeks now I feel I have gotten a firm grasp at the core mechanics of doing missions. So I thought I would share some of what I have learned. Hoping it will help other new players.
My tips for starting out
Unless time is important, always run the mission that cost the most energy or is the highest level you can do. This is because at the start I found that experience points always were trickling in, but starbits were the big bottleneck. And the best way to maximize your startbits earned per % energy spend is to run the highest level mission you can.
If we were to compare the starting mission, Illegal Busking we can see that it will pay me 1 to 21 starbits. I currently have 340 fans so this is why the increase to the maximum earned is higher than 14.
This will allow me to earn anywhere from 1/15 to 21/15 starbits per energy spent. This puts it at best slightly over 1 starbit per energy I spend.
If I on the other hand run the last mission, Saturday Headline, it will pay out anywhere from 350 to 1417 starbits. But the energy cost is also much higher at 100%. But if we do the math of how much you earn. You will see that the minimum earning is 350/100 or 3.5 starbits per energy spent. Compare this to the 1/15 starbits per energy you earn from the first mission that is available. You will see that if you earn the minimum from this mission you end up earning much more than you do if you were paid the maximum from the first mission.
This principle holds true for all missions at the starting location. All of them have a higher payout than the previous one. So this means that you will maximize your starbits earning by running the highest level mission you can.
Buying cards
You also might have noticed that in order for you to be able to complete higher missions you need more fans. There are two ways to get more fans, you can get drunks, that temporarily increase the number of fans you have. Or you can buy cards that have fans on them. All cards you own will add their stats to your stats.
When you are starting out I recommend you use your initial starbits you earn from mission to buy cards that will give you as many fans as possible. This is so you will be able to undertake the new missions.
One of the best places to buy cards is the external marketplace, NFTmart. You can find this if you go into the marketplace then up top it says NFTmart, click there and it will take you to the site.
On this site, you will be able to directly search for a specific card or better yet, search for cards in a certain price range. And this is what I recommend you do. After you have earned your first 1000 starbits, or more. Transfer them out of the game. Then come to this site. Swap the currency to starbits. Then enter 500 as your maximum. This will allow you to buy at least 2 cards.
Scroll down past the instruments, then you come to the "people" cards. These are the cards that have fans. Now look for cards that are as cheap as possible but have as many fans as possible. Ideally, you want a card that has 10 fans. That seems to be the max on these lower-level cards. The second stat you want to check for is the skill stats. But that is only relevant after level 20. So prioritize fans over everything else for now.
If you can find a cheap card with 10 fans, try increasing the max amount to 600 or 700. Then you should be able to see one card or more. Card prices fluctuate, so if there are no good cards then check back again in a few hours or a day. And hopefully, you will find some better cards then. If you can find other cards that are cheaper, then buying 3 cards with 5 fans each for 1000 starbits can be an option as well.
You will repeat this process of saving up and buying new cards until you have a total of at least 300 fans. that is the requirement to be able to run the highest paying mission, Saturday Headline.
Now I recommend that you buy a Pizza Box. This will allow you to store a slice of pizza when you get it. This means you can use it whenever you want. Eating a pizza slice gives you 100% energy. So timing when to eat it can greatly allow you to run more and more efficient missions.
Level 20
You will also hit level 20 right about this time. This opens up a new stats for you, Ego. If you let your Ego run out of control you will earn fewer starbits from missions. So make sure to keep it in check. The easiest way to do this is by running the Music Lessons missions. This will increase your skill, keeping the ego in check.
If you need to, you can also look for People cards with skill and buy those. They are usually cheaper than the fans cards.
But I would use that as a last resort. Because depending on how many fans you have and the amount of starbits you earn. I would really recommend saving up 10k and buying a card pack. I was able to do this before I hit 300 fans. And as you are guaranteed a rare card, I think, and those can have 125 fans on them. If you get a people card. I would use this as a way to see what you need to buy after getting your first pack. If you get s instrument or gear, then you have a good card for later use.
Also after opening your first pack. You can see if you get any instruments and gear. If you do, check to see if any of the music lessons scales with that type of card. Then you want to take advantage of that and buy more cards of that type. To allow you to get more skill points from each lesson. This I would say is the goal after getting to 300 fans.
Now you should be pretty set for the rest of the game. And hopefully, you have learned a few tricks and skills you can put to use when moving forward in the game. If I have missed anything or made any glaring errors, please tell me in the comment sections down below.
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Nice little tutorial how to start the game, wish I could read it when I started 3 months ago! 😃
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Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. As a new player myself I also would have liked a post like this. So hopefully some new player wills tumble across it and find it useful as well. =)
It is worth mentioning tough that it is better to invest into a Birthday Cake (the cheapest cost around 50k Starbits, which is not much in HIVE) and gives you a free energy charge up in every 12 hours. (if you have 2 liek me than every 6 hours or so)
Wish I knew this way before, because it boost up your gain significantly and it is not random like the pizza! 😇
Wuuuut, so you just have the card and it gives you 100% energy, do you have to activate it?
Yes it works like the pizza, but it will recharge in 12 hours than you can use it again! 😅
OMG, I need to get me a ton of those ^^ thank you for letting me know. Now I just need to save up to 50k =S
You better buy some Starbits, which will cost you around 2,5 dollar = 5 HIVE to get the 50k Starbits! (rough calculations), because it is a bit difficult to start without some investment!
And when you are there make sure you are buying this and not the birthday record like me! 🤣
Ah ok, there are several similar things, got it. Thank you again. I am trying to play the game free to play, so the goal is to put as little hive into it as possible. I already splurged on a pizza box, so trying to keep it to a minimum ^^ mostly because I like the challenge more, trying to get the experience of playing the game as a pure game. =)
Alright, have a good luck 🍀 with that and keep us posted how you are doing! 😉
A few tips. Once you buy the cheapest cards out there from the market it is better to buy 12 packs for 100k STARBITS, despite finding doubles. That may be a tip for later, as you probably won't get there until you reach level 20.
After you have your Ego stat, your advice to keep playing the mission that costs the most energy doesn't work anymore. The more you play a mission during a day, the more ego it gives you (and that's a bad thing). So you'll need to vary the missions played, at least to some degree.
One thing I don't believe you mentioned was Pizza Box and Energy Boost cards. They should be among the first you should buy, even if they are more expensive. One Pizza Box is enough, but you'll need multiple Energy Boost cards over time to be able to run what missions you want when you want and without depending on waiting for the energy to replenish.
Thank you for your input. I agree regarding the 12 pack, as they clearly are a better value. =)
And while I think the pizza box is important. I saw no room for when to buy it. In the opening, you need to buy cards to be able to earn more. And then I would argue buying 1 pack is a good way to get you over the hump to be able to run the last mission. So it is no real room to buy a pizza bog until after you start farming the last mission. And that is at level 20.
As a free to play guide, I do not have the "luxury" to put in hive to buy cards like a pizza box. And I can't really see any room until after you start farming the last mission to be able to save up to buy it. Maybe buying it instead of the first pack? But that would mean you are probably stuck farming low paying missions for a long while more.
Regarding not being able to keep running the mission with the ego. I start my day with the long mission, then when it is done I almost have 40% energy so I can run a lesson posting my skill if I need to. If I am still at 0% ego I just save up to 100% energy. That is basically what I do and it works great for me so far.
But I would argue that is post level 20 with the ego stuff, so I was debating whether to put that in there or not. And I decided to not put it in there. simply because of the space it would take up, as I would have to do a section about buying cards that match one lesson type to stack the benefits and so on. I think I hinted at that a little in the post if I remember correctly. But for sure if I did a guide for the higher levels then I would include that part. And I am still only level 22 so I will save that for when I am able to reach a bit higher. =)
Again thank you for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
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Some tips
Buying fan cards instead of packs early is more efficient as a pack only guarantees a rare card but it could be a musical instrument which results in no fan increase
Getting the 10k energy boost (Recharge in 24 hours) which gives 100% energy would be better than getting the cake (recharge in 12 hours) due to the price since u could get 5 energy boost for the price of 1 cake which is like equal to 2 of those pizza, sure they recharge faster but you get less energy overall.
Coffee cups are not that bad, on use they give about 3% energy.
For every 1% ego, you lose 1% max reward value so unless the reward value is quite high, you will not notice it much.
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Ok, so the energy boost card, with the pizza on it is not just a one-time pizza slice? I thought it was stupidly expensive for that. So I never bought it, and it doesn't have any text info on the card unlike the cake does.
Thank you for the information, I really appreciate it. =)
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