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[Suggestions] Improvements for the game
Let's use this thread to suggest some improvement that may make the game better. Here are mine: Graphics: - Changing weather : Rain, Snow, Fog, Sun... - More cars in the roads. - Citizens in the streets ! - Moving clouds shadows. - Birds, Fish... Animals ! - More buildings models. - Possibility to change the terrain we build our city on. Having different styles: Desert, Forest etc. If non coastal the port will be replaced by an airport with a cargo airplane or a train station. Gameplay: - Possibility to move the roads. It costs a lot to upgrade them, bulldoze isn't a good solution. - Possibility of pausing the game in order to move buildings. When I want to change the layout of the city, if I move temporarily a building in a place that isn't covered by services, the happiness of the citizens quickly drops. Pausing the game will allow us to have enough time to change the layout of the city without being preoccupied of the consequences of moving the buildings. - Ability to zoom out further. - Ability to plant some trees or add a lake just for fun, without incidences on the happiness of the citizens, just for the beauty of the city. - Ability to send a friend request when visiting a player's city. - Possibility to invite a friend to play the game via Facebook. - Leaderboards with the most populated city, the richest city... - Ability to giva a grade for the beauty of the cities and have a leaderboard. - Ability to buy directly from the Trade HQ without visiting the player's city. - Ability to start a new city from scratch. - Upgrading factories directly without the need to bulldoze them. - Same thing for parks and services. - Taxes don't provide enough money to support the growth of city and the need of the citizens. It costs a lot to build services. Same thing for the trade, it is not sufficient to make enough money. We need to have another source of income or may be you should increase the income from the taxes. If you have more suggestions, do not hesitate to post in this thread.
Serious Concerns About the 2.0 Update, Monetization, and Player Trust
Hello, I am a long-time SimCity BuildIt player, and I feel obligated to express serious concerns regarding the 2.0 update. Although I have not yet received this update, the growing volume of negative feedback from players is deeply troubling. Many reports indicate that years of accumulated progress, resources, and effort are being diminished or rendered meaningless. Players who have invested countless hours into this game now feel that their dedication is being disregarded. This situation unfortunately aligns with a broader pattern seen across EA titles, including PC games from other departments. Aggressive monetization strategies, updates that prioritize revenue over enjoyment, and a declining respect for player time have become increasingly noticeable. This creates the impression that long-term player loyalty is treated as a resource to be exploited rather than valued. It is also important to note that SimCity BuildIt is not without alternatives. EA is not operating in a vacuum. There are other city-building games on the market that offer enjoyable experiences with fairer systems and significantly lower financial pressure on players. If long-time users feel that their effort and progress are no longer respected, many will inevitably look elsewhere. For many of us, this game represents years of careful planning, patience, and commitment — not a short-term distraction. A single update should never place that investment at risk or undermine the trust built over such a long period. I strongly urge the development and management teams to reconsider the direction of the 2.0 update, to protect existing player progress, and to address the growing dissatisfaction within the community. Continuing down this path risks permanently damaging player trust and driving loyal users away. This message is written out of concern, not hostility. However, the frustration and disappointment among long-term players should be taken very seriously. Sincerely,
Years of building destroyed by 2.0 update today
I’m too overwhelmed to try to rebuild any of this. Most buildings are now red and hard to move with reboot needed every few minutes due to the pink and black freeze when touching area of capital city. Omega building cost omega tokens I don’t have and cant afford to buy. Even if I was rich, I can’t figure this nonesense out to fix it. I just paid for mayors pass. Wow! please do not ask me to submit pics and play with my IOS ipad function. This is You, not anything on my side. After a year of freezes every few minutes, spend some bucks to expand and Update your servers so we stop getting kicked off and have to reboot. I’m soooo disgusted with EA service and now this buzz killer is thrust upon us. SHAME!Epic Project FAQ
These Epic Project FAQ are user compiled, if there's any mistakes please share your knowledge. Last updated: April 10th 2016. Q. How many points are required to achieve each level of epic project? A. bronze (turtle): 10 silver (llama): 80 gold (cheetah): 160 Q. How many speed-up tokens can you accumulate? A. You can only have at most 5 bronze (turtle), 5 silver (Llama), 5 gold (Cheetah) at any time. In order to collect more token parts from Epic Project buildings, you must first drop below 5 speed-up tokens of that type (ie spend the speed-up on a commercial building). Note: You can exceed the 5 limit if you win speed-up tokens (e.g, from League rewards) Q. How many buildings must you collect from to make a speed-up token? A. Initially 3 Turtle (bronze) building tokens = 1 Turtle speed-up token Initially 6 Llama (silver) building tokens = 1 Llama speed-up token Initially 9 Cheetah (gold) building tokens = 1 Cheetah speed-up token EDIT: since February(?) 2016, the number of token pieces required to make a speed-up token increases as you build more projects of that type. E.g, I have about 45 gold projects, and I require 19 gold token pieces to make 1 gold speed-up token. The maximum number of pieces required to make 1 speed-up token is capped at 20, depending on how many bronze/silver/gold projects you have (per type, not total) NOTE: If you haven't collected tokens for a while (1-2 days?), it will initially take 3/6/9 pieces to make 1 speed-up token. Q. How often can I collect a token from an epic project? A. New epic token parts become available 24 hours after you last collected a token part from the building, with one exception: when you complete an epic project, it will immediately give you a new token part, and then will give you another token part when the rest of the buildings (of the same type?) produce their next daily token. If a building has a token part available but you don't collect it, it will not accumulate token parts. If your token parts become available at noon on Monday but you don't collect them until 3pm, those buildings will next produce token parts at 3pm on Tuesday. All buildings of the same type seem to sync when they generate token parts, but different token types do NOT sync with each other automatically. However, it's possible to manually sync them by simply waiting on one set until the rest become available (I have done this for ease of collection). Q. Is there a limit to how many epic project buildings you can have? A. No limit Q. Which specializations can be used to create an epic project? A. Education, Transportation, Beach, Entertainment, Mountain, Gambling, Landmarks Q. How many different epic project designs are there? A. There were originally 24 unique designs, but that was recently increased to 60 in March 2016. There are 3 different colour schemes for each design. All designs and colour schemes are achievable regardless of whether you reach bronze/silver/gold status. Project images: see the screenshot below Q. What are the names of each epic project design? A. Each specialization has a set of building names. They do not match to a specific design or colour scheme. Q. After I complete a project, how long must I wait before I can start another project? A. If you finish a gold project early, the next project will become available after 12 hours from the time you finished. If you failed to reach gold project after the 24 hour timer expires, the next project will become available 12 hours after the timer has expired and you revealed the Epic Project building. Q. What sort of buildings can become Epic Projects? A. Only the regular residential buildings can become Epic Projects (not Parisian/London/Tokyo). Q. Do Epic Projects have higher population? A. Yes, Epic Project buildings can hold 31% more population (1836 -> 2411). Q. I don't like the task that's been assigned to the specialization building, can I request a new task? A. No, that task will remain there until you complete the task, or delete the building. Q. I have 12 specialization buildings, how come I only have 8 tasks? A. Only 8 tasks can be active at any one time. Once you complete a task, a new task bubble will appear above another specialization building. Q. What determines the specialization project that I can build? A. After a regular residential building is selected for an Epic Project upgrade, it will be assigned a specialization depending on which specializations are within range of that building. You can move that building within range of any other specialization and refresh the plans to change to a different design. If no other specializations are within range, you'll get the error message which is displayed in the image below. Since the March 2016 update, you can now move the epic project to a new building (prior to starting the project). Links: Epic Projects cost breakdown: http://answers.ea.com/t5/SimCity-BuildIt-Strategies/Epic-Projects-cost-breakdown/td-p/5107298 How to quickly complete Epic Projects: http://answers.ea.com/t5/SimCity-BuildIt-Strategies/How-to-quickly-complete-Silver-and-Gold-projects/td-p/5074909
Oktoberfest Week 2 Seasonal Currency
If you use the bake sale perfectly for a whole week, you can accumulate a total of 30,086 seasonal currency. I used my seasonal currency only to purchase the 2 buildings required for the album for week 1 and week 2, and I have upgraded the Oktoberfest Fun Fair to Level 8. I have used the bake sale frequently. I have the Premium+ Mayors Pass. And I am still 40,000 points short of being able to upgrade the Fun Fair to Level 9 in order to complete the album. I think someone screwed up their math somewhere and either overpriced the levels for the Fun Fair, or didn't provide enough opportunities to accumulate Seasonal Currency. If I wanted to spend even more money, I'd have to spend at least $26 on straight purchases of Seasonal Currency just to complete this week's album. I call this a bug. Please fix.
SimCity Burnout
I've been playing it for a few years now, and I think I am finally starting to experience SimCity Burnout. Seeing my cities , that I worked so hard to build, now fall into disrepair for reasons out side of my control has made me consider giving up. It was bad enough that I didn't think i could ever reach the population quota to gain access the Frosty Fjord region, but now I can't even keep up with the irrational new services demands. This is especially true for my Omegas. Games are supposed to be fun, not exhausting and depressing. SimCity you really screwed things up big time. 😠Significant game lag. Cannot play.
Animations spin for 1 second and then freeze for 3 seconds. Can collect 1 item from Factories and then wait 3 seconds before collecting another item. Can not add items to Factories. Cannot vote. Cannot do anything in the game other than chat. Chat is working, but it has a delay when opening and after submitting a message.Egyptian Hospital impossible to get without paying real money
The Egyptian hospital is apparently 7000 points. Each mission is 50, each full good milestone is 150. It takes 140 missions to score 7000 points, 116 if you’re lucky enough to get 8 good milestones. The residences milestones is only 10 per section (30 total vs 150) EA has made the game pay to complete event tracks which is unfair. Every aspect of the game should be possible without paying. Paying should allow the player to finish faster that’s all.Global Trade HQ building unavailable
Help! My son's Global Trade HQ building continually says" Unfortunately this feature is unavailable for you at this time." I've looked it up on your website and I see That the population prerequisite is 10,000 but he has 110,286 people in his city.... What's the problem? Thanks!Sim city build
After being a long time player, I had 4 large cities on the go .A happiness rate of 98% on all of them ,plenty of simcoin to play with and a decent amount coin in the bank took a lot of time and patients to get there and over night all my cities turned red the happiness rate went to 30%, I no longer have simcoins or coin in the bank and the game is pretty much unplayable. Going to be uninstalling game from phone,just a money grab from EA thanks for ruining a great game.Games is unplayable, sort it out !!!!!
Aside from the voting issue, game is unbelievablely laggy, slow and hangs. For pity's sake, sort it out and pause the mayor contest until you fix and TEST and release the necessary updates. Seriously hacked off PS.... while you're at it...... stop with all the loading of crap in the background, which slows the game down, endless 'offer' pop ups....... no ruddy need....I know where they are and will access them if and when I need themQUITTING Simcity, WORST UPDATE EVER!!!
The Game lost its beauty of completing COM tasks, Global Market and everything! There are plenty of problems with this mew Chicago update! COM Tasks - No one asked you to change that, now bringing daily tasks? expecting us to login daily and do? is it a game or a paid job? to daily login? And whats that weekly cap? why u limitting us to do tasks? and no more free 50 tasks? all came under bonus tasks? completely killed the beauty of this game, totally changed to earn money from us! no point of playing anymore! And tasks not getting completed as well, completely buggy! And suddenly new points system came from nowhere to complete mayor pass? a new purple point system? whats wrong with plumbob points? Complete madness and 0 sense of knowledge! 2. Global Market - I mean who asked you to change the design? with that bright background and white typography, we barely able to see the pricings and its really hard to see? 0 knowledge of design sense. And the refresh button at the end instead of middle? cant close by tapping anywhere anymore? just wanna use a back button? and even that design overlaps the storage spaces view? better u should fire the designers first? even a kid knows to keep up spacing and complementary colors? Full of madness! 3. Seasonal Currency - Inthe last Cairo mayor pass, we already told to remove the seasonal currency, because its already became useless and taking the game away from the main idea, but this time you developers came up with 2 seasonal currencies! WOWWW! I understood that this discussion forum is also broke! What we said is no more seasonal currency, EA be like boom 2 seasonal currencies this time? Next time what? 3 seasonal currencies? complete nonsense! And one of the seasonal currency is completely broke, no point of collecting it, no way to spend or do anything? EA completely turned this game into a dead piece of $@*#. No one asked for these unwanted updates? Why the developers cant focus the actual issues instead of developing these stup!d things? Bring back the Old Simcity, until that Good Bye, This would save some storage space! SimCity - BrokeCity ✌️ Deleting the Game, EA You never gonna check this discussion and change the game, This entire discussion forum is also broke! ✌️[INFO] How to find your Player ID in SimCity BuildIt
Our Support team might ask you for your SimCity BuildIt Player ID. To find your ID, follow the steps below. Tap the Settings icon at the top left of your game screen. From the Settings menu screen tap the ‘Help’ button. Your Player ID is located below the blue ‘More FAQ’ button:Graphical glitches in SCBI - Pink Pixelated Frozen Screen
The game has severe graphical glitches. The background shows black and pink checkerboard patterns, and most of the buildings and structures appear completely white, losing all textures. Some menus and icons still display normally, but the overall screen looks broken, as if the textures failed to load. Every time this happens, I have to close and reopen the game to continue playing, but after only a few minutes the issue comes back. This occurred many times today, making the game nearly unplayable. My phone is an iPhone 11, and it still has plenty of storage space. This issue kept happening repeatedly throughout yesterday. [CM - Edited title for clarity]
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