MegaCryptoPolis Guide

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MegaCryptoPolis is a blockchain-based simulation city-builder game that allows players to earn as they play. Every asset in MegaCryptoPolis is an NFT.

These assets can be rented out, bought and sold within the game or on secondary marketplaces, or you can level up and govern a district and collect taxes. There's a lot to do in the game — and lots to learn — so let's get into it.

Highlights

• City-building strategy game
• Played in browser
• Crypto wallet required

Not free to play

All assets are NFTs

Anonymous development team

What is MegaCryptoPolis?

Launched in 2018, MegaCryptoPolis is a city-builder strategy game where players buy land, develop it and gather resources to earn cryptocurrency.

MegaCryptoPolis is similar to conventional simulation games like Cities XL and SimCity 4. There are even natural disasters like storms, fires and floods.

However, unlike these traditional games, MegaCryptoPolis players can earn as they play because it's built on blockchain technology.

Image source: MegaCryptoPolis

Success in MegaCryptoPolis largely depends on how many buildings you have, your citizens and the time you're willing to put into it. Like many other city-building games, strategy is key.

MegaCryptoPolis is played in a browser, and requires a crypto wallet — either on the Ethereum or Tron network. And this game isn't free to play. You're required to invest some ETH or TRON to get started.

If you're willing to invest, there are many ways to play including:

Playing MegaCryptoPolis

The first step to playing MegaCryptoPolis is to get a crypto wallet if you don't already have one. You need an Ethereum-powered crypto wallet or Tron-powered crypto wallet. For an Ethereum wallet, MetaMask is a great option.

Once you have a wallet, you will need to buy some ether (ETH) or TRON, depending on the network you want to use. You can buy either of the two currencies at most major cryptocurrency exchanges, such as Binance, Gemini or Crypto.com.

With a loaded crypto wallet, follow these steps to play:

1. Connect wallet. Go to MyCryptoPolis's official site, hit the highlighted Play button, choose your blockchain and connect your chosen wallet.
2. View the map. Once the game loads, you're presented with a large map showing undeveloped land, developed land and land with ongoing construction. Browse for undeveloped and unclaimed land to buy. You have a map on the lower-left side of your screen to help you navigate the city. You can also buy developed land — but that's more expensive — or you can rent from another player.
3. Develop and play. Once you buy a piece of land you can build your desired structure and start playing. There are several structures to build including Residential, Office, Municipal, Commercial, Industrial, Production and Energy.

To play this game, you're going to need to invest. You must have cryptocurrency to play, and buying land is the only way to progress.

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The point of the game is to develop a piece of land and increase its value to earn, then buy more land — think Monopoly meets SimCity, but with more micromanaging.

Increasing your piece of land's value also increases the surrounding lands' value: Investors are attracted to high-value land. High-value land can help you turn a profit on your property.

Besides buying undeveloped land, you can also buy developed land. This option is a bit more expensive, though. Select a building you wish to buy and make an offer to the owner.

If buying undeveloped or developed land is too expensive, you can rent a building until you can get the funds to buy land and materials needed to build your desired building or structure.

Building structures is how you really start to earn. There are many types of structures each with different functions and earning methods.

Residential structures	Modern houses, villas and condominiums. With these buildings, you have a place to breed citizens.
Office buildings	Business centers and office blocks. Use office buildings to collect taxes from other players.
Municipal buildings	Hospitals, police stations and fire stations are all types of municipal buildings. These structures can earn you a portion of the district fund and global tax in the event a natural disaster occurs within its district.
Commercial buildings	These include supermarkets and trade centers. Commercial buildings enable you to earn by selling citizen stamina recovery services to other players.
Industrial buildings	Include smelter plants and mixing plants. Use these buildings to produce structure building materials like wood, metal, sand and stone.
Production structures	Steelworks, glassworks, brickworks and factories are all production structures that turn basic materials into complex materials. With these buildings, you have a place to turn wood and stone into bricks, sand and metal into glass, or metal and stone into steel. All these materials can be sold to other players for crypto.
Energy structures	Include water plants and power plants. With these structures, you can produce electricity and water.

MegaCryptoPolis also has something called influence points. These define a buildings' operational effectiveness, and how much you can earn from the building. The amount of influence points you can generate depends on the level of the building, the type of building and the level of the buildings around it.

What is the MegaCryptoPolis token?

MEGA is the native token of MegaCryptoPolis. The token powers MegaCryptoPolis's macro- and microeconomic system. It is an ERC-20 governance token that enables holders to get voting rights. Holders of the coin can vote for proposed game changes.

MEGA tokens have a fixed supply of million tokens which have been equally distributed between the Tron and Ethereum blockchains.

There are one million MEGA tokens on the Ethereum network. The tokens can be used to play the MegaCryptoPolis game on the network. Holders of the tokens can also use them to buy materials needed to construct buildings and run business operations.

There are also one million MEGA tokens on the Tron Network. On the Tron network the tokens can be used as a store of value, to trade, and swap for any materials on the Ethereum network. The tokens enable holders to earn TRX.

How to buy MegaCryptoPolis token

MEGA is listed in several crypto exchanges including Hotbit, ShibaSwap, and Mooniswap. You can't directly buy MEGA with fiat so you need other cryptocurrencies like BTC or ETH to swap for it.

Besides buying MEGA from crypto exchanges you can get them by playing the MegaCryptoPolis game. There are several ways you can get the tokens:

• Locking various virtual resources like wood, water and energy in the vault inside the MegaCryptoPolis game.
• Owning or renting a building and appointing citizens to produce materials.
• Govern a district and collect taxes from corporations in MEGA. You can also manage a corporation to claim MEGA from the fund.

To get MEGA from a crypto exchange, buy ETH or BTC first then swap it for MEGA. We've listed a popular cryptocurrency exchange.

It looks like MEGA may not be available to purchase on an exchange in the US.

You can still purchase MEGA by using a decentralized exchange (DEX) instead. Decentralized exchanges are web applications that run on blockchains like Ethereum and allow users to trade any asset directly with one another.

How to purchase MEGA using a decentralized exchange.

1. Find MEGA on a decentralized exchange and make sure MEGA can be traded for ETH which is the native asset of Ethereum. Popular DEXs include Uniswap, SushiSwap and 1INCH.
2. Buy ETH to trade for MEGA using an exchange like Gemini. You will need to purchase enough ETH to swap for MEGA as well as ETH to pay for transaction fees on the Ethereum network (known as gas). You can use a service like Etherscan to get an idea of how much gas fees currently cost.
3. Transfer the ETH into a web 3.0 wallet like MetaMask to connect to the DEX.
4. Trade ETH for MEGA on the DEX of your choice, following the instructions on screen. Make sure to leave enough ETH in your wallet to pay for gas.
5. Wait for the transaction to finalize and the MEGA tokens will arrive in your wallet.
6. You may now keep the tokens in your web 3.0 wallet or transfer them somewhere more secure like a hardware wallet.

You can follow the same process when you want to sell your tokens, or come back to this page to see if they can now be traded on an exchange in the US.

How does play-to-earn work with MegaCryptoPolis?

MegaCryptoPolis offers several ways to play and earn. Here are the core strategies:

• Buy and sell assets. Everything in the game including land, buildings, citizens and pets can be bought and sold.
• Develop land and construct buildings. With a piece of land you can build buildings that enable you to earn, and you can also rent your building(s) for crypto. Or, you can own a building that produces materials to sell to other players.
• Municipal buildings. Municipal buildings include hospitals, fire stations and police stations. Natural disasters like storms trigger payouts to police, floods to hospitals and fires to fire stations.
• Own a district. You can earn crypto when you bid and win a district. Owning a district enables you to earn some commission for every land purchased in your district. You also get a part of the tax collected from core actions like building, destroying or upgrading buildings.

What are MegaCryptoPolis NFTs?

Every digital asset in the game is an NFT, an ERC-721 token and are stored in your crypto wallet.

Land

The most basic thing players can buy in MegaCryptoPolis. Land can be bought with cryptocurrency in the game, or purchased on secondary marketplaces.

Structures

Once you have bought a piece of land you can build your preferred structures. Each building begins at level one. With enough resources, you can upgrade a building to a maximum level of seven. You can also buy structures on secondary marketplaces such as OpenSea.

Image source: OpenSea

Citizens

Citizens give life to buildings. This simply means no building can start operations without the required number of citizens. For example, a level one building needs at least two citizens to start operations while a level seven building will need up to 20 citizens.

Each citizen has seven qualifications: strength, endurance, charisma, intelligence, agility and luck. Each qualification defines the best work the citizen can do. For example, strength is used for industrial work while agility is used for energy work.

Citizens have titles that are based on their qualifications, and can breed to create new generations.

Manager	Citizens with all qualifications below seven points.
Top manager	Citizens with at least one qualification with seven to eight points.
Professional	Citizen with at least one qualification with nine points.
Executive	Citizen with at least one 10-point qualification.
Top executive	Citizen with at least two 10-point qualifications.
Genius Citizens	Citizens with three or more qualifications with at least eight points.

Qualifications influence salaries in offices and prices of services for customers in commercial buildings. They also control the amount of materials to be produced in industrial, energy and production buildings. Furthermore, qualifications determine the share of the insurance fund municipal buildings receive in case of a natural disaster.

Pets

Pets include Mastiff, Whippet, Bulldog, Parrot, Corgi and Labrador. Their greatest benefit is that they give qualification bonuses to citizens they're paired with.

Mastiff	Strength bonus
Whippet	Endurance bonus
Bulldog	Charisma bonus
Parrot	Intelligence bonus
Corgi	Luck bonus
Labrador	Agility bonus

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Appliances

Appliances include fire alarms, Wi-Fi routers, CCV cameras, air conditioners and satellites. Appliances are worth buying because when installed inside a building, they increase the building's influence points.

It's worth noting that the maximum number of appliances you can install in a building is three. Also, upgrading or demolishing a building will destroy all the appliances installed.

Image source: MegaCryptoPolis

How to buy NFTs on MegaCryptoPolis

To buy packs of NFTs for MegaCryptoPolis, go to the homepage of the site at mcp3d.com, then select STORE on the main navigation bar. Choose between the Etheruem or Tron network, and select the pack you want to buy — you need the associated cryptocurrency. At the time of writing, though, there are no available packs.

To buy land, browse the in-game map and select the land you want to buy. If someone owns it, you'll see a "For Sale" sign and you can make an offer to the current owner.

You can also buy land and other in-game NFTs on secondary marketplaces, such as OpenSea. If you want to buy an NFT listed on OpenSea, you'll need cryptocurrency to make a purchase and gas fees apply.

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How to sell NFTs from MegaCryptoPolis

Sell your owned land in-game. The crypto wallet you connected to the game stores all your assets. Select the My Blocks to view your owned land and manage your assets.

MegaCryptoPolis NFTs can also be sold on secondary marketplaces. When selling on secondary marketplaces, know that a listing fee, marketplace fee and gas fees may apply.

Image source: OpenSea

Unique game features

MegaCryptoPolis has natural disasters including storms, fires and floods. Owning a municipal building will enable you to handle such natural disasters, earning you a good payout in the end.

MegaCryptoPolis also has its own daily newspaper, called the MegaCryptoPolis Times. The paper is essentially an economic newspaper that shares useful information including land and material sales, the unemployment percentage, the evolution of funds and the previous day's natural disasters.

About the MegaCryptoPolis developers

MegaCryptoPolis is known as one of the first crypto games available, as it launched in 2018. However, there isn't much known about the developers.

We located the name of Alex Li, the chief operating officer of Supernovae.io, which is supposedly the company behind MegaCryptoPolis and the Mega World Metaverse. However, searching for Supernovae.io led to a fake site, and Alex Li's LinkedIn profile may as well be empty.

There are no faces, biographies or even a list of team members available on MegaCryptoPolis main site — and scouring the web came up with little to nothing. While MegaCryptoPolis is considered a successful dApp, developer anonymity doesn't exactly send trust signals. When dealing with something as volatile as cryptocurrency, transparency is key.

MegaCryptoPolis roadmap

MegaCryptoPolis developers are working on many updates for the game, mainly, a metaverse expansion called Mega World Metaverse. A few other planned updates coming up include:

All in all, these updates aren't partpically groundbreaking, but the game has been out since 2018.

Bottom line

MegaCryptoPolis is an interesting game that echoes back to early city-building games like SimCity. The pay-to-play and play-to-earn aspects of MegaCryptoPolis add a unique monetary spin on past classic city-builder games.

On the downside, the game isn't cheap. How much you might spend playing the game is worth considering before playing it. The game has also gotten more complicated with all its upgrades over the years. Additionally, little is known about the developers.

It may be better suited for gamers that are familiar with cryptocurrency, NFTs and blockchain games — and especially suited to those who enjoy strategy games, loads of patience and a lined pocketbook.