Here is my weekly status and giveaway. It's a bit later than usual and my internet is still not up. I am currently using my mobile phone to post this right now. It was another week of seasonal missions but my luck on getting them is a bit worst compared to last week. I decided to open 12 extra packs in the middle of the week to see if I can get more Scary Mary during the event.

Giveaway

I decided to just give an instrument that I haven't given out yet before.

The giveaway item is R98 RS 16 and it is an instrument under the Production music lessons. With 50 more luck, you have a chance of getting more drunk fans and it benefits you if you run production lessons.

Rules

In order to participate:

• Leave a comment
• 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.

Results of Last Giveaway

The winner is @subidu.

Thank you to the rest of the valid participants that did not win but might be interested in the next giveaway: @ravenxbr, @luizeba, @oxidil, @servelle, @michaeldav, @specialfeelings, @steemmillionaire, @dejan.vuckovic, @imfarhad, @josueprime, @ruralio, @finris, @handtalk5, @minus-pi, @silver-edge, @harpreetjanda, @misterabaddon, @saimaali, @maurojd, @mario02, @mairapanelo, @lacandela, @nozzy, @scotty297, @guurry123, @apocalypticblast, @tim.hendrix, @listik303, @andrik, @yeckingo1, @bitai, @poppopprego, @deanlogic, @rafasete, @stewie.wieno, @tawadak24, @oskarl21, @rayius, @supriya.gupta, @cryptodd, @lifeskills-tv

I transferred the Bugle below and you can verify the transaction here

Current Status

Well it looks like I earned around 165k starbits over the past week. With the starbits from last week, I was able to buy some extra packs. So it looks like the seasonal mission does impact the amount of starbits I earn but I feel like the instruments do offset the starbits I may of earned.

I got a duplicate Bizzo and 2 more Scary Mary from the 24 packs I opened. Now that I have 6 Scary Mary cards, I just need 5 more so I can make an animated version of it.

I didn't really bother with the market this week as I was busy but this is my list of seasonal instruments I have left over after trading a few away. I am getting really close to getting a animated drum and almost half way to getting the bass version as well.

Current Stats

Using the discord bot, I got my stats.

Current Goals

My ranking is down from last week and the extra 12 packs didn't help as much. Then again part of it could of been blamed on me losing track of time during work. So I wasn't able to keep the missions going on as much.

Either way, I still plan on opening as many packs as I can before the end oft he seasonal event. The Scary Mary itself makes it worth opening for as I can always sell them to recoup costs later if I need to.

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 want 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.