Rising Star Weekly Giveaway #202 and Betting the Fate of the World

Here is my weekly status and giveaway. I also talk about an OST track that I like. Please make sure to read the rules to qualify for the giveaway. I chose a track from a game that I played in the past.

Betting the Fate of the World

I chose Betting the Fate of the World as this week's track because this was another busy week and I wanted something more epic. This track plays in Trials of Cold Steel IV when your entire party gets ready to enter the final dungeon. Before that happens, there are some fortresses guarding the final dungeon that your allies must take care of. These fortresses are replicas of the Salt Pales that destroyed an entire country. There are 5 different fortresses and you must defeat all 5 using the people out of Class VII. This includes people who you could not play as normally. The five parties are jaguars/knights, SSS, Liberl, miscellaneous characters from the erebonia arc, and the overpowered party.

I think about the Salt Pales when I hear this track. Although the ones generated in Cold Steel 4 were fake ones, the real one did ruin an entire country, North Ambria (where Sara was born). I remember hearing about the Salt Pales in the Liberl Arc, but it was kind of mentioned in passing during one of the side episodes in the third Chapter. It hits harder when you find out more about the Jaguars and what Sara's past was like. The image comes from the wiki for Salt Pale.

Another cool thing about the Cold Steel IV Salt Pales is the ability to use characters that you normally wouldn't be able to. Some of them such as Vita and Victor can be used in Trials in Reverie, but it was the first time using them as part of the actual story. Vita and Victor are part of the overpowered group that I mentioned. It was the easiest party to clear the side dungeons with. The image comes from the wiki for Vita and Victor.

Do you like any of these tracks? If so, why?

Giveaway

The giveaway item is a musician. It has 135 fans, 70 skill, 3 luck, and 2 IM. Musicians are good for everyone because they increase your stats and help you in the rankings.

Rules

In order to participate:

• Leave a comment with the name of the card
• Include your username in your comment

This time if you do not leave your username, I will not include you in the draw. I want to reward the people who follow the rules. This giveaway is weekly so there is one week's worth of time for you to enter.

Results of the Last Giveaway

The winner is @mario02 this week.

Thank you to the rest of the valid participants who did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: Other participants: @middle-earthling, @kryptogeier, @gatet, @davideownzall, @ladymisa, @henruc, @steemmillionaire, @hatdogsensei, @blitzzzz, @lumpiadobo

Current Status

I gained 35k STARBITS over the past week. I wasn't able to play as much as I would like and I missed a few of my millionaire missions, too. I got lucky this week and got an epic card from my weekly card pack opening.

Current Ranking

My rank went up by quite a few ranks because of the new changes to the rankings that they implemented. Unique cards account for more of the rankings now and that has boosted me up quite a bit.

If you want to join Rising Star, feel free to use my referral link.

Tips (source)

I think the tips are something every new player should know about. It will help people progress in the game and it hasn't really been shared since surya1adiga stopped his giveaways.

1. Take music lessons when possible to raise skill and reduce ego.
2. Having lesson specific instruments helps in receiving more skill from that lesson.
3. Have pizza box to store any pizza received during mission to reuse later.
4. Buy cold pizza slice if possible. This gives 1 refill every 24hours. Comes very handy when you are low on energy.
5. If you have enough of cold pizza slice and pizza box, you will never run out of energy.
6. If you have more fans than skill and you won't reduce the ego , you can use a storage trailer to store unnecessary cards. Or you can list the card in market for an unreasonably high price.
7. Ego received for a particular mission increases every time you play it. The ego is reset to base level the next day. So, try to play different missions to control the ego gained.
8. Keep track of your achievements to unlock in game rewards
9. Buy storage trailer (only if necessary) to keep the cards that might have a negative effect. Like a card with high fan count resulting in ego.
10. When earning skill points through music lessons, you can earn more points per lesson if you hold more of specific instrument cards. There seems to be base skill which is rewarded irrespective of the card count and then the skill increases depending on the number of the lesson specific card one has.
11. Try taking up many smaller missions to fill up pizza boxes and have extra energy to play more rewarding missions. But you need to have pizza boxes for this to work.

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