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Today in Rising Star I decided that I would follow through with my plans and work towards getting 5k fans. I've been sitting on 2700 for quite some time now and I figured that I might as well work towards a bigger milestone. Overall I expect it to take a few weeks of grinding to get there, especially with the bigger hurdle of building my skill points back up.

In other news, I finally have done it. I hit level 40. Now the game really begins...! At least that's what I tell myself every time I reach a new milestone, such as finishing the mission line in the home town and moving up to the local gig circuit. Regardless, I'm having a good time and I'm seeing consistent progress every day that I'm playing. I can't wait to see how my average of starbits earned will change once I start running Record a Demo missions every day.

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Splurging starbits on the vehicles:

As previously mentioned, I was looking at keeping an eye on vehicles vs people cards to pick up for fans. At first I was looking towards getting a handful of people cards before I saw this Touring Coach card come up for sale by Southernbliss for 25k starbits. I still had some spare starbits on hive engine, so I pulled them together and grabbed one of these and...

I managed to snag this Microlight for about 18000 starbits. With those two cards combined, I had a pretty big jump of nearly 1k fans in a single day. Not like that's going to happen very frequently, but I did have the funds for it. Looking at the chart below, we're sitting just shy of 75% of the way there.

Buying these two cards might not have been the best idea to do immediately. The only reason I'm saying this is because adding 950 permanent fans has put me a bit into the corner with all that extra ego. Right after purchasing both of them I was sitting with a solid 15% ego meter; and of course I had +330 drunks from a mission being completed.

I do think I was a bit hasty, but in all honesty, it allowed me to farm out music lessons for the day and was a pretty good excuse to do so... Well, I think, anyway. It just made me a lot more conscious about my fans/skill ratio and I'm worried about running into a large group of drunks.

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Ending:

We didn't get the most done today in terms of missions completed, but we were very close to hitting 700 missions. Still, a +16 mission day isn't something to scoff at completely. It definitely could have moved a lot further if I had managed to find a pizza slice, but funnily enough, it was one of the rare days I haven't found a single one in any mission or lesson. Once again forced to use the almighty pizza slice. Kind of a bummer, but that just means we can always get it out of the way tomorrow.

For now, I think I'm just going to focus on cutting down the gap as much as I can, grab a few more mic cards while they're still cheap, and dedicate a couple days to skill point grinding before I turn my attention to some demo missions.