I restarted Rising Star and took my account to 75 level in no time! How I did this?!

Last summer, amid the overall bear crypto market and professional obligations, I stopped many of my daily hobbies in crypto for lack of free time. One of those was Rising Star. I really liked the game and I always planned at picking it up again from where I left.

Before I quit, I was grinding and struggling to level up, because I started from 0 and without investing any money. Furthermore, I was focused on getting as much starbits as possible in order to buy packs and get those pizzas and pizza boxes. That affected my gameplay, having always a high ego and progressing slowly from one level to the other.

Friends had told me that it would be difficult leveling up the more I progressed. Honestly, it looked like they were right.

As my calendar was getting less busy the past month, I decided to give the Rising Star another chance. I had to continue my journey from level 65 where I stopped after months of grinding to level 75, when you can can unlock your band members.

Being a millennial raised when good music, and rock bands were still mainstream I was looking forward to having my own digital band. Even if that meant a blockchain game band!

Yesterday, a month after I restarted I finally got to level 75 on Rising Star and unlocked my first band member!

Contrary to expectations leveling up from 65 to 75 was fairly easy!

The trick?

First, I started playing from my phone in order to be able to login and do my missions throughout the day.

Second, at nighttime, before I went to sleep I did the "Local Mini Tour Support" mission. This one offers the highest Starbits reward and takes 5hrs that the longest to complete from the available mission. I repeated this mission in the morning during work.

In the afternoon / evening I focused on "Music Lesson" missions that provide 120 XP for 40 energy. Why then? Because my energy was replenished and I also had more free time to be on my phone.

Doing the Music Lesson mission meant that I could do 3x120 XP missions before my energy had ran out. The reason is that in the 2 hours that you need to finish two Music Lessons missions around 20 energy is recuperated and this allows you to go for a third mission.

When my energy was finished, I would use a pizza boost and do another 3 Music Lesson missions. In the meanwhile if I got lucky I would get a pizza slice which I would save in a pizza box and use it after the second round of 3 missions, to play some more.

If not, I would wait till nighttime, do a mission or two and then use my second and last pizza/energy booster to get 100 energy so that I could start the "Local Mini Tour Support" mission before I went to be again.

Working on Music Lesson missions allowed me to lower my ego to zero and now I have a considerable skills suficit not to care about my ego increasing for at least a couple of weeks.

**The key in my approach was consistency. Having a clear goal, a clear plan, and be consistent in the approach you take when you do things. **

Now, I have unlocked my first band member and looking forward to unlock them all and rock some more! I already have rare band member cards and instruments waiting on my deck! Hopefully, epics will follow soon!

Keep on rocking!

PS: Do you play any other free / low entry barrier Blockchain Games on Hive? If yes , what are you guys playing and would suggest me to pick up?