Let me introduce you this game. I will recite from the official dcity manual post that you can check for more information about this game in their post https://peakd.com/hive-140217/@dcitygame/dcity-manual

dCITY is a city simulator game based on Hive-Engine Non Fungible Tokens. The NFTs represent assets in the game. Each individual card a building, citizen, etc., and the total collection of your cards is your city. dCITY allow players to optimize their cities in terms of buildings, population, and income. The aim of the game is to buy new buildings, but also use diplomacy and tact with fellow players to achieve the materials you need to grow and prosper. Obviously, there are several ways you can approach this, but we’ll let you learn them on your own and test them out.

This is a numbers game, but with the added randomness of society. There will be events which can have either a positive or negative impact on your city, depending on how your city is built. Choose wisely when helping or refusing to help another player. They might need your help today, but you never know when you might need their help in the future.

Using Auction Feature

I'm new about this thing and just trying to join the auction, because the price is having huge different than getting the cards on the market.
As example this investor card, which having 11.32 leo bid at this moment, or around 1.65 hive. Let's try to compare it with the market price. Investor is currently having lowest asking price at 8.262 hive. It's 5x different on the price !

But, I still have a question about the auction, because the explanation on the web is too simple :

My question is :
1.Where did the cards come from ? Is it a new mint from system ? Or there is a way for player to put their card on auction. This will affect a lot because if it's a new mint, then it's lifetime is still long, while the cards from people might nearly it's dead time (or even maybe dead when arrived like the one on the market ?)
2.How is the mechanism because the end of auction is on a between time, is the fastest time applied only if there is one bid ? And if there is more bid then using the latest time ?

Well, I hope I could win this auction to learn more, so I will know the ID of the cards. I also wait the answer on the Discord. Please let me know if you have the answer !

What I've Learned So Far

Before I close this blog, I wan't to share one last important things for the new people that want to play this game and for myself as reminder. I would like to put some point that I've learned about this game :
1.Citizen have it's own life, once they meet their limit of NFT minted, the old one will dead. So it's better bought the newest id of citizen;
2.Building have no expired, so they will long last;
3.Put NFT on market and you will lose it's effect on your city. This can help you to offload the dead citizen or other cards with negative effect;
4.Top 400 from SIM Income will get you free mint for the young citizen NFT from Dcity discord channel using --claim at the bot-commands section.
5.Always look at ID of citizen when you want to bought them, because the system won't remove them even they are dead already on selling process, you might get dead people instead.
6.You can check your city value by using !city_value on Dcity discord - cityhelper channel.
7.You can do a simulation before getting a card to see it's effect with simulation tools at the city-simulation tab on Dcity site.
8.There is auction function where we could get cards with lower price than the market.

Next Step

I will wait till the end of the auction, and keep bidding until it's on the price I think too high. I will also share the resut with you later.

Final Words

~Thank You~