Rising Star Game - Crafting Strategy, Alphorn, and the Vintage Band Festival

It’s been awhile since I last wrote about Rising Star Game, and there has been a lot of updates in the game, including the release of Raves and now an upcoming section for Pro Bands. Also, in the Discord community for RSG, a lot of discussion on other aspects of the game, including some new players asking for advice. I am also going to write a little bit about instruments and a music festival I was at this past weekend.

Some players new to the game have been asking for advice on how to better advance in the game and specifically about crafting. Awhile back, I wrote a tutorial on crafting, so I thought I would share it here and my thoughts on crafting within Rising Star – here’s the link to the tutorial I wrote -
https://peakd.com/hive-195370/@thunderjack/rising-star-crafting-tutorial-and-benefits – also, I would suggest waiting until a new player is on the second island and accumulating enough StarBits per day to justify burning StarBits on crafting without impacting regular card accumulation (Fan and Instrument cards are more critical early game).

Crafting is fun, but it isn’t cheap. It is a means to burn StarBits in-game in exchange for crafting parts that can be used in crafting some cool instruments. The reason for doing this, at least for me, is increasing the number of unique cards to boost position on the leaderboard, and bragging rights. Okay, not everyone is interested in bragging rights, but currently there is only a couple of people who have crafted ALL 108 instruments, and it is both time consuming and expensive as it can take quite a few Custom Shop runs to get all of those NiFTy cards.

Completed set of Flying V crafted guitars - screenshot from Rising Star Game

Earlier this week I completed the 12 different G1 Flying V style guitars, and that, along with the G2 and G3 series guitars put me at the halfway mark on one class of crafted instruments. It was a long haul to get that far, just shy of 500 Guitar Fair runs.

If you are interested in pursuing crafting, here is the strategy I am pursuing – save all of your Gold parts until you have a complete set to craft the top instrument in the class you are working on (G1111 for Guitars, D1111 for Drums, P1111 for Production). Gold parts have a 1% chance of dropping, and some parts seem to drop less frequently than others, especially the gold parts. If you have more than one of a gold part, go ahead and use, but save at least one for that challenging top end instrument. I then focused on crafting everything in the top category, for Guitars, that was all of the G1 Flying V guitars. After that, I can kick back and craft the others as parts become available to me.

The other tactic I have now implemented is spending a week accumulating parts for each category of instruments for a week, and rotating which instrument I am running Custom Shop missions on. Yep, fun stuff. That’s the plan. I do hope to finish all 108 craftable instruments sometime over the next year. Yes, it will take a LONG time.

Last weekend, my Bonnie Bride and I went to the Vintage Band Festival in Northfield, which, this year, is a day long musical extravaganza featuring a lot of regional bands of different types, from military bands to Bavarian Musikmeisters polka band, Latin-American bands, and even a Scottish Pipeband. This is a smaller event as The Vintage Band Festival has a BIG event every few years with the one day events in-between. It’s a good time, and it is FREE!

34th Infantry Division Red Bull Band at the Vintage Band Festival, Northfield, 2023

Something that stood out to me was a couple who had Alpine Horns. This is a beautiful instrument, and I had never seen or heard one before.

Musicians with Alpine Horns

The musician on the left is playing an Alpine Horn made of pine wrapped with bamboo, and she is using a French Horn mouthpiece, while the musician on the right is playing a horn constructed of carbon fiber (and it only weighs 3 pounds), and he is using a trombone mouth piece. It was interesting to learn that you can use a mouth piece that is more familiar to you, based on other horn type instruments that you play.

R224 Alphorn - screenshot from Rising Star Game

In Rising Star Game, the Alpine Horn is represented by the R224 Alphorn card. I have a few of them in my collection. Sadly, this card does not currently have an online music track as some of the other instruments do.

That’s about it for this time around. Thanks for stopping by.

*THIS IS NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. Please do your own research before making an informed decision. This is sharing my game play experience only.

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for more information on the Vintage Band Festival in Northfield, MN, check out their website at - https://vintagebandfestival.org/

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