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Anonymous
11 years ago
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85k population but should I tear it all down?

Hi all,

Hoping for some help here. I'm at 85k population but Ive noticed a few things here.

Firstly I've upgraded most of my buildings but only 3 buildings seem to be the nice modern expensive types - I'm guessing as these were upgraded when I had my Department of Education.

Question one... how do I make my other 23 residences becone the same as the modern ones? Do I tear them down, move the current modern ones away from the Department of Education and rebuild by this?

Also if I get to 90k population and Unlock Vu... will I lose the option of disasters if I fall below the 90k population?

My question being because I'm thinking of getting to 90k unlocking Vu's disasters and then knocking down all residences and starting again but with all my decent service buildings.

Thanks for any help!

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
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    Hi friends from SC buildit;

    I've a question and, since I found no answers to that, decided to open this to other players; 

    I'm currently at level 16. My city has 97K residents and it is very well served of public services. But now I've started placing educational building so my city is getting more and more valued. The thing is that, around the educational buildings, I've already upgraded residential areas to their most, and new upgrades don't seem to appear even as I keep investing in education (with my keys). Only new residential areas are developing to luxury skyscrapers. So my question is: should I move my old skyscrapers to my city's outskirts in order to develop new residential areas in the educationally developed and over-valued center?

    Thanks in advance for your oppinions!  

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
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    Hi, about the skycraper question: I recently found out that you need to dsetroy the building if it got maxed out before the zone became luxurious.

    I would do this process slowly, 1 to 5 buildings at a time.

    About Vu: no, once you unlock Vu you can alway use disasters.

  • Indys2nd's avatar
    Indys2nd
    Hero (Retired)
    11 years ago

    @Mangano_BR wrote:

    Hi friends from SC buildit;

    I've a question and, since I found no answers to that, decided to open this to other players; 

    I'm currently at level 16. My city has 97K residents and it is very well served of public services. But now I've started placing educational building so my city is getting more and more valued. The thing is that, around the educational buildings, I've already upgraded residential areas to their most, and new upgrades don't seem to appear even as I keep investing in education (with my keys). Only new residential areas are developing to luxury skyscrapers. So my question is: should I move my old skyscrapers to my city's outskirts in order to develop new residential areas in the educationally developed and over-valued center?

    Thanks in advance for your oppinions!  


    I moved your post to this thread because you both are talking about basically the same thing. I would recommend you follow the advice of Czeuch and tear down a few buildings at a time and rebuild. It's what I am currently doing. That way you do not lose too much population at one time. By moving the old skyscrapers, you will need to spend extra money on police, fire, etc. When you replace the older buildings with newer skyscrapers, you can afford to keep your current police, fire stations, etc and add other unlocked buildings to your city. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
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    Tearing down buildings sound neat at first. But, have you added up all the resources you will have lost? Think about all the hours and days spent building bricks and chairs and shovels. You are just going to throw that away for a marginal increase? What happens when you like the casino buildings better? Another tear down? Yikes. Plus you will artificially gain levels for building you already had. This opens up more service needs for no real reason(6 lanes!). I say leave em and build fresh ones.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
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    Obviously, with new luxury services, houses that build at later time will look more premium than old skycrappers built since you started the game.

    About population difference between max level houses, the game does not give us any number to check. Anyone can share such information?

    Once Dr.Vu tower is unlocked, the disasters are available. Same rule for the dock, trade post.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
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    Since most of my funds come from building, I have found is usful to contantly destroy large building and rebuild. This avoids the need to upgrade highways etc and allows the purchase  of services. I am currently  ar 250k sims and have solar power,recycling, hositals,fire and police precincts to spare. 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
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    The advantage of destroying larger buildings are twofold. The price of new buildings is low as it is based an the population. You still have all services and you don't  need to constantly expand.