Rising Star Meme #74 - NO Abuse!

The Fastest Way to Get Banned in Rising Star

is to multi-account! The game has been pretty strict about it and it's literally warned once you log into it:

Rising Star is a Free-to-Play. In order to stay a prospering Free-to-Play game with almost no entry fee, the game has to stay true to an untold rule and that is shifting the reward curve towards the newer players.

Everyone has agreed to this rule (with or without knowledge). Everyone is given a free chance at the game and city of Buskeria, but abusing that chance and trying to leech off of the game everyone is so invested in is not something anyone would want and is not tolerated.

I say this because the burden has always been on the dev team's shoulder to monitor and deal with this stuff. I just like to do my part since it's my investment as well. (The game is not 100% decentralized, but I feel the responsibility to spread the word and awareness for the % that IS in fact decentralized and I am invested in. It's our money, after all! You wouldn't want abusers to steal from that, would you?)

You might think that's it, but there's more!

No Card Lending or Sharing

While other games like Splinterlands have their own gameplay and mechanics, the case is different for Rising Star. In a game like Splinterlands, renting is built into the game itself and is vital for the game's ecosystem. While in a game like Rising Star, renting has no place since the game is more "Collection Based".

There's also the inevitable issue with card-sharing that stems from the way the game is built and is handled. It could be solved with some extra rules and some more coding, but that'd be some extra burden and unnecessary restrictions while we, as a community, can easily train to avoid doing so. It's also easy to detect due to the blockchain nature of the game, so there's no need to worry about it.

Helping Out the New Players

"My friend just started playing Rising Star. Lemme help him start by sending over a couple of cards"

NO

This one might look like an unnecessary or strict rule. "What the heck? It's my friend and my assets, I can use them however I want" is what you might be thinking of. Let me put it this way:
This process of helping out newbies for free is somewhat like the previously mentioned multi-accounting and IS harmful to the game's environment. Your friend is new? Don't give him the fish - teach him how to fish, instead! There are lots of ways you can earn on Hive and you can use them to fund your journey. New players joining the game while putting in no money at all is the one-way ticket to the game's economic collapse!

You might be thinking "What the heck are giveaways, then?"
Well, giveaways are not directed at a single person (like you helping your friend) and don't have much value either. You get lucky and win among another 20, 50, or even 100 contestants. It's got that element of RNG as well, so it's fine. At least that's how I'd like to think about it.

I believe that helping out your friend in return for something (not just giving out freebies so that they don't have to spend a penny) is fine, but that's just my thought.

Final Word of Advice

Rising Star is not a complicated game, it was never meant to be. The rules are in place to keep order. If you think rationally about the game's economy and play truthfully, there's no need to worry about the rules or even being flagged!
But if you try to play the system in place in any way, I gotta tell you that you're playing yourself before anything!!

Play truthfully and keep busking!
Cheers~