What better way to begin the Gala Games Town Star review than with the clarion call?
Gather around O ye NFT gamers, Gala brings thee glad tidings.
Funny, right? But if you are an experienced gamer you would have played or seen a game by Gala. The Gala platform is one of the top NFT gaming platforms out there. And one unique thing about Gala is its penchant for developing or hosting the most engaging titles you can find.
This article will focus on the first fully developed Game by Gala, Town Star. I will be reviewing the gameplay, the in-game assets. And most importantly, I will be showing you how to earn from the game.
Whether you’re a newbie or not, make sure you stick around because there’s something in here for everyone. Even veterans will benefit from the hot tips I will be dropping in this article that will take your gameplay to the next level and earn you more cash.
That said, this article will be an in-depth analysis of Town Star. But I also have a separate review of all the hottest games on Gala right now. So, if Town Star is not up your alley or you just want to check out other exciting titles from Gala, then do well to check that article. I review each game and also provide excellent tips for making good money from each one.
Without further ado, let us get started.
What Is Town Star?
Town Star is Gala’s flagship game that revolves around farm and city organization. It is a competitive farming game from one of the co-founders of Zynga, the company behind Farmville.
Each week, the top players on the leaderboard win big prizes and every day, players complete challenges to unlock and collect TownCoin play-to-earn rewards! The goal is to grow, gather, and craft your way to building the most efficient and productive town imaginable.
Town Star is built on Gala’s decentralized network and utilizes the Ethereum blockchain. All assets in the games are NFTs, of course. This means that players can trade these assets on the secondary market for money.
Gameplay
Town Star is an immersive and strategic farming game that has found a large following among those who love the age-long practice of farming. The game tests your farming as well as your management skills. It involves utilizing limited space and resources to build, manage production, and craft goods from your farm’s output.
The game also provides an AI workforce attached to your farm which you will manage to get maximum output and craft goods of higher quality.
Town star does not require you to choose specific actions of units like in other farming games. The game assigns you two tools that help you build and manage your farm.
First are the buildings with specific functions and the AI workforce that helps run the farm. The AI workers function according to the building they are attached to. This means that AI workers attached to a barn will perform all the duties required in the barn.
Now, the role of the AI workers in Town Star is predetermined. So, you are not required to control them. They pretty much work independently and because they are highly intelligent, they tend to be super-efficient with their assigned duties.
In Town Star, you’d have to heavily rely on your knowledge of the roles of the buildings and the AI workers. This is crucial if you’re going to create the most efficient and productive town possible. Don’t forget that you are supposed to do this using the limited space and money available.
How You Earn in Town Star
Town Star is a free-to-play game, which is awesome news for those without the resources to begin their venture into the world of play-to-earn gaming.
Now, when you start the game, you get a limited supply of money and a farm. You’re then supposed to utilize these two resources you’re given to earn more money. For the most part, you will make your money from selling goods to nearby cities. And then from your income, you’ll cover the cost of running your farm and keep the rest as your net profit.
The first step to earning real money begins by accumulating as many Star points as possible. Your aim is to climb to the top 100 on the leaderboard.
Now, how do you achieve this? There are a couple of ways to earn Star points. But primarily, you earn some Star points for every delivery you make to a nearby city. And the quality of the goods delivered determines the number of star points you get from the delivery. So, if your goods are really high quality, you’ll earn more star points than someone who delivers mediocre goods.
But if you find the competition to rank high on the leaderboard too tedious, you have other options. You can purchase some NFTs to earn some Star points as well. These NFTs come with special bonuses to production, characters to assist your workers, and more.
Apart from boosting production, placing an NFT in your town also makes you eligible to earn Towncoin.
What Is Towncoin?
Towncoin, ticker symbol $TOWN, is a fungible ERC-20 token which serves as the official play-to-earn reward of the Town Star game.
If you choose to, you can sell your TOWN tokens for cash on a crypto exchange, although it does involve a process.
First, when you earn a Towncoin, the token is added to your GalaChain Inventory. If you want to take your tokens out of the Gala ecosystem, you have to first convert it to the Ethereum network. This comes with some fees, so keep that in mind.
Once you’ve successfully converted your Town tokens, you can store them in your wallet. Or if you want to, you can exchange them at any crypto exchange you prefer.
In-Game Assets
Town star’s architecture is consistent with the play-to-earn model. It has several in-game assets which you can earn from. The assets include the NFTs and the TownCoin – the game’s native coin.
Town Star NFTs
Town Star NFTs allow you to take control of your gaming experience through real ownership. These scarce items give you a variety of assistance and benefits in the game. Plus, because of their ability to be converted to the Ethereum virtual machine, they can be transferred out of your Gala Games account and traded on external markets.
1. VOX
In mid-2021, the cuteness of this NFT avatar nearly broke the internet. Despite its good looks, the VOX has no additional benefit to the game other than being in your town and earning rewards. All it does is wander around randomly and sometimes get into mischief. You can purchase VOX from Opensea.io and trade it on secondary markets.
2. The Bots
The bots are faster and more efficient than AI workers of the same function. Some are available in the native market, while most of them are available only on the secondary market.
The bots are of different types and their names indicate their function. They include: FarmBot, Cranebot, Elfbot, Saltybot, Mr. Puddles, and Buggy Mr. Puddles.
3. Resource Stands
The stands provide a continuous source of a specific crop, cutting out the need for farming fields to some degree. They are a great addition to your town in the game.
Examples of stands include; the wheat stand, sugar stand, and cotton stand.
4. Extra storage
The extra storage is for efficiency purposes. It gives you a better handle on what goes where on your farm, rather than storing everything in one basic silo.
There are several types of extra storage like wheat storage, brine storage, grape storage, and sugar cane storage.
5. The last category of NFTs in the game includes: alfa fountain, water tower, express depot, and solar panels.
The Competitions
In the gameplay, I told you that you earn from the game by participating in the competitions. Now let me explain how you can do that.
There are two competitions in the game which I will cover in this article – the weekly competition and the daily challenge.
Let’s start with the weekly competition.
Town Star Weekly Competitions
This competition started even before the developers added play-to-earn mechanics to the game. Every player participates in this competition just by playing the game and earning star points. But to win the prize attached to the competition, you must accumulate enough star points to rank high on the leaderboards.
The weekly competition begins every Tuesday and ends at the end of the week. The top 100 players on the leaderboard share the weekly payout of 198,000 Gala.
Meta Changes in the Weekly Competitions
The meta changes are announced weekly on Sunday or Monday before the next competition begins. The announcement of the meta changes is highly anticipated in the Gala games community because it affects many aspects of the gameplay. These include worker wages, production costs, proximity bonuses, dollar and point values of certain items, and more.
If you’re still confused as to what meta changes are, meta changes are pretty much dynamic rules of the game. They change periodically, which is why you need to make sure you keep up as they affect your gameplay.
Daily Challenges
The daily challenge is another way to earn from the game. And to participate, you need to own in-game NFTs. As you can probably tell from the name, you’d need to complete your task within 24 hours. This task could be anything from earning a certain number of Stars to shipping a minimum quantity of a particular good. Anything along those lines, really.
For the Town Star daily challenge, each day’s task resets at 0.00 UTC for everyone. So, you have from 0.00 UTC to 23.59 UTC to complete the daily challenge.
How to Unlock and Claim Play-to-Earn Rewards
Town Star is free to play. But simply playing the game does not guarantee your earning. There are certain things you must do in the game to earn.
1. Get Yourself Some Gala Power
The amount of liquid GALA, TownCoin, NFT owned, account age, and maybe in the future referrals determines your Gala power. The simplest way to get started with this is to acquire GALA or TownCoin and store them in your wallet.
2. Secure Your Season Pass
Town Star has seasons. And if you wish to earn TownCoin, you’d have to hold an NFT ticket known as the season pass. The pass gives you access to the daily earning potential of the daily challenge.
3. Place Your NFTs in the Game
Each NFT is connected to a specific amount of daily TownCoin that you can earn. NFTs must be placed in-game at some point during the 24 hours and be active when you claim your TownCoin. Even if you placed them in your town just two minutes before the countdown expires, they are still eligible for earnings as long as you meet the other requirements.
4. Claim Your Rewards Before the Deadline
Finally, you have to claim your coin before the 24 hours countdown expires or forfeit the reward.
A Final Word Before You Go
Now, I need to clarify that the play-to-earn server is different from the free-to-play server. And the major difference is that there is no competition in the play-to-earn servers. The leaderboards are only there to show how you are doing compared to other players.
There are no GALA rewards on the play-to-earn servers either.
So, in the play-to-earn server, you earn from playing the game without actually participating in competitions.
Alright, so we’ve seen a lot about this game. In this article, I simply gave an overview of the game as well as a few tips for making money. In my next article, though, I will be going in-depth and covering specific strategies for earning up to $200 per day from Town Star.
So, make sure to look out for that article and I’ll catch you then.
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