Introduction
Town Star is a farming simulator with a unique features. How can a farm be competitive? It’s simple! Every week you enter into a fight for leadership in the ranking table, based on the results of which you can receive valuable NFTs.
The art of playing Town Star
Farming simulators are usually perceived as fairly simple games, but that’s hard to say about Town Star because it turns the farm-building experience into a competitive adventure where every second counts.
Before the start of each season, meta item is announced and brings more stars and cash. In order to begin the full production of a meta item, you will have to build a whole production chain. For example, to make pizza you will need to grow wheat, then process it into flour from which you can make dough, which is only 1/3 of the necessary ingredients to create pizza.
In Town Star, each cell has separate weather conditions depending on the environment and all your actions have consequences. For example, having built an oil refinery, pollution will affect all nearby cells, affecting the growth of plants and animals, slowing down their development and further production of products. Moreover, pollution is only one of six factors affecting cells.
Due to the abundance of mechanics, changes in locations and meta items for each new season, it is worth developing strategies in advance and thinking through plans for the development of your production.
NFTs and their essence
NFTs in Town Star are buildings that have increased productivity and provide you with the opportunity to receive GALA tokens for using them.
Finished buildings have a significant impact on the dynamics of the game, because they make it possible to start producing the resources you need much earlier. You can purchase a full chain of buildings that will allow you to quickly get to your final strategy for the season.
Top Rating and Path to the Top Without NFT
As is usually the case, fighting against those who have invested more money will be very difficult, and sometimes even impossible. Having said that, getting into the top 600 without NFTs is not such a difficult task if you prepare a suitable strategy for the upcoming meta.
During the “May Mayhem 2023” event from Gala Games, I managed to get to rank 589 without an NFT, given that there were about 4 hours missing from the start of the season and that there was more activity during the event than usual.
What helped me get ahead of many players? Adapting my strategy on the third day of the season, where every little convention affected the profit enough to overtake other participants. Most players, after reaching a certain point in the construction of their farm, don’t try to improve their results, leaving it in automatic mode. By improving the production of a scarce resource even by 1 per hour, you can continue to rise in the rankings.
Seasons and events
Seasons are the basis of the game, after each season ends you have a couple of days to prepare for the next season. Thanks to the constant change of seasons, changes in meta items and locations, the game maintains dynamics and a constant need to adapt, which allows the game to remain interesting.
Events from the developers also add interest to the game, for example the spring/summer event “May Mayhem”, in which players competed over 15 seasons (1 week each) to receive additional GALA tokens and NFTs.
Conclusion
Town Star redefines the farming simulator by reinforcing the competitive spirit through leaderboard rewards. Thanks to the constant change of meta and location, each week is unique and requires something new approach, which allows you to maintain some dynamics.
The game is well suited for fans of the city planning and competition genres.