Buying two epic cards: Quasar Sport and Turbo in Moonkarts
After playing many races in Moonkarts and losing, finishing in 2nd or 3rd place, mainly due to the low stats of my cards, which were very poor, I decided to buy a higher rarity car and driver. I was using Lunocity X (rare car) and Luna (common driver), which in total gave my car 63 health, 121 speed, 54 handing and 53 acceleration.
Because my car was having difficulty taking the curves, and no matter how hard I tried to drift, my car would end up crashing, losing precious seconds, so I needed to reverse and then move the car forward again. The good thing is that they only consume 3.9 fuel per race, so they are very economical and you might want to try them when get into the game, but they're not worth it if you like to be competitive.
So, looking at the Moonkarts market, I decided it was time to buy the epic cards, I wanted to buy them cheaper than on the market, so I checked the Arcade Colony Discord, and looked to see if anyone was selling them in the market section. I found out that ostricone (high ranking player), was selling cards, so I sent a DM, and bought both epic cards for 5 dollars (19.31 hive at that time). If you want to buy them on the market, the total cost is currently $3.39 for Quasar Sport and the cheapest epic Driver costs $1.94, so the total is $5.33. Not too much, but at least I saved a few cents. Please, only do this if you are sure the user has a good reputation, I did this because ostricone has a lot of cards in the game and a high ranking in moonkarts.
Cheapest epic driver and card on the market.
Now, with my new epic cards, my car has significantly more stats, so currently my car has 85 health, 130 speed, 76 handling and 75 acceleration, so it will definitely perform better. My handling and acceleration are the stats that have improved the most, so I played a race to test it out.
I was previously in 36th place with 1003 ranking points, almost last, let's see if I can get a higher rank with my new car and driver.
My car now take curves very easily, not perfect of course, but definitely much better. It was a tough race, as both of my opponents are very good and ranked high in the leaderboard, but I managed to get second place, which gave me 1018 ranking points.
Now, I'm in 28th position on the leaderboard, this will give me 1599 colony tokens at the end of the season, not bad, when I get them I will stake them and get a better staking factor, which will increase my colony token earnings.
I also bought 2 scripts from the hive engine market and staked them, so I could stake 1 more card in the auto vault to generate more fuel, which is needed to get rewards in the game.
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So, I currently have 4 scripts staked, in theory I can only stake two cards, but the game allows me to stake 3 cards, but does that mean I will receive all the fuel from all 3 cards? To see what would happen, I pressed "Claim Fuel".
The game gives me a warning that I don't have enough Script to claim the whole fuel generated by my 3 cards.
I claimed it anyway, so instead of receiving 7.59 fuel, I only received 5.07. I guess I only got the fuel generated by my top two cards, which are my cars, which produces a total of 4 fuel every 24 hours. So, I needed to have 6 scripts staked in total to receive the whole fuel for 3 cards. But for now, staking two cards is fine, I'll probably stake more in the future.
Now, my two epic cards, Quasar Sport and Turbo, generate 26.6 fuel per day, which by the way is the same fuel they consume per race.
Since my car and driver look lonely, I will try to get at least 1 power up and some tech cards, this way I will increase even more my racing efficiency. That's all for now guys, take care :D
All images are taken from Moonkarts.
Other hive games:
Splinterlands: https://splinterlands.com?ref=aubryd
Terracore: https://terracoregame.com?ref=aubryd
