Hello readers,

Golem Overlord aka GO is one of the newest crypto game that launched on hive chain and if you are decently active on the chain, most probably you have heard about this game lately. It’s a idle type game and similar to mining type games where you you can start playing the game by just buying a starter pack (called staff) and the more to upgrade the better your chances of earning. The game launched on hive just in April this year and still in alpha mode but the earning mechanism is live and since it’s released, the team has been able to create some buzz among the hive community. It’s been almost a week and a half I am playing Golem Overlord and from my experience, this game has a good earning opportunity if rightly played and by far, I have pulled out my initial investment to kill the tension of losing money, and right now focusing on upgrading my stats in the game for better earning opportunity.

It’s been only around a month since the game launched but if you look at it’s statistics, I got to say the project is performing quite well despite of rumours of it being another ponzi scheme like drug wars. As you can see from the screenshot above, the game now has over 11k players and most of them are active in last 24 hours. Around 100 players are joining this game everyday and as the entry fee for this game is considerably low (40 swap.hive right now), more and more people are joining and trying to build their stat faster. The main attraction of this game is it’s token burning mechanism, as it’s in-game token PART is used in almost everything - upgrading different stat, staking or burning and till now, the mechanism is working impressively to control the token supply.

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If you focus on the PART circulation on the right side of the screenshot above, 88% of the total tokens are being burned by players to upgrade, stake or burn purpose which is indeed helping the token to maintain a good price point on hive-engine market and another 5% of the total supply is also in staked form right now, thus making it to only 7% of the total tokens being circulated on market in current scenario. Pretty impressive for a newly launched idle type game right? Also, if you look at the daily mint to burn ratio, from today’s data - around 112k + PART tokens were minted today by players but 91k + PARTs are also being burned in today only. If you calculate, 80% + of the newly minted tokens are being burned by players which is helping the PART token to maintain it’s high scarcity and a good current price increase around 1.9 hive per token considering it’s launch price which was around 0.8 hive.

This is my current progress in the game now and I have been trying to increase my PART earnings by upgrading the different stats with the PARTs that I am earning. There are basically 2 ways that you can go with this game to earn - Farm and loot and I am trying to earn from both of them at this point.

Farm PARTS

The main goal in this game is to Farm PARTS and in order to increase your farming, you need to level up your Algorithm and Golem Charging Station.

• Algorithm - The Algorithm stat increases your PART scavenge rate Multiplier.

Mathematical Expression - (0.0003 + Charging Station level x 0.00003) x (1.1 Algorithm level) every 3 seconds

• Golem Charging Station - The Golem Charging Station level increases your part scavenge rate BASE.

Mathematical Expression - (0.0003 + Charging Station level x 0.00003) x (1.1 Algorithm level) every 3 seconds

As you can see, both Algorithm and Golem Charging Station are important aspects in order to increase your PARTs earning. The Golem Charging Station increases your base production of PART tokens whereas the Algorithm multiplies that exponentially. But on the other hand, as you level up you will see that upgrading golem charging station will require more PART tokens than upgrading the Algorithm. Right now, my Algorithm level is at 4 and to upgrade into the next one, I would require another 16 PART tokens but my Golem Charging Station level is at 3 and in order to upgrade it to next level, I would require another 15 PART tokens. But, as I discovered while reading a great post by @edicted I was surprised to find out that upgrading the Golem Charging Station actually results in a higher yield over time and also considerably cheaper than Algorithm.

Attack and Defend

In order to survive and earn in this game, not only you have to FARM well but also have to protect your unclaimed PARTs from attackers or raiders and order to defend against other players attacking your base, you need to upgrade your Fortification stat. On the other hand, to attack other bases you need to upgrade your Power and Faith stat over time.

• Power - Power determines your strength when attacking other players bases.

• Faith - Faith increases the amount you steal on successful attacks and also determines your maximum chance to get SHARD. There will also be a minimum faith level on the skill NFTs.

Also, with a recent update, your rating will also play an important role while attacking or defending against attacks and if your rating is a lot higher than your opponent, you will receive a steal penalty from 5% to 50% depending on the raring difference. The more PART you burn as the game goes the higher your rating will be. So, if you are seeing many players increasing their power and faith a lot but only having 1 or 2 fortification level is for a reason, so that their rating stays low and they get smaller penalties when raiding other’s bases.

My strategy - I have been watching many people suggesting to attack other’s bases when their claim button is active. In this way after attacking you can quickly claim the PARTs and stay safe from getting looted. But, there is a negative point in that process as if you attack and lose, you will be spending a lot more PARTs to repair your damaged golems.

However, I am just doing the opposite, I am attacking just after I claim my PART stash and in this way, even if I lose I will be spending only a fraction of PARTs to repair my golems. But beware, in this process your PART bag will become lucrative to other raiders as you have to wait another 8 hours before claim your rewards again. I am maintaining an upgraded Fortification (level 5 now) to scare of the raiders but it’s not a bulletproof strategy at all because I am yet getting attacked sometimes from high power players. But I think upgrading my fortification one or 2 times more will drastically reduce that in near future.

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If you haven’t joined this awesome game yet but interested, you can use my referral link above. But please do your own research before investing as I am not a financial advisor. Let me know if you liked reading my post and also your thoughts in the comment section below and I will be seeing you all in my next post!

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