A letter to the game planner of SimCity BuildIt

When wars began, in 2017 I think it was, the magic number was eventually to get any weapon to level 10 and I for one was delighted when I done that although I don't remember which one it was! 🤣 Getting anything worth having to level 10 was more of a challenge and the amount of SimCash and keys required was and still is phenomenal. I eventually got my Mag to level 10 too, that took about 5 or 6 years and I am struggling to get it to level 14 now.

Now I see cities that are in their infancy, virtually no population, their VU towers are pretty underdeveloped and I just don't understand how they are legitimately earning enough keys and SimCash to be floating around with level 20 everything!

Yeah sure, gold keys are nowhere nearly as rare nowadays, seeing as premium passes seem to throw them out at ya and the same goes for platinum keys too but even at that, it has taken me 1000's of keys and Simcash to get my weapons to the levels they are at but I have very few over level 10.

So how are these players that have been around the game for 5 minutes doing it?

They are either throwing an absolute fortune at the game or by other means which is something EA have been totally reluctant to deal with - cheaters.

I refuse to call them hackers, in my day these were people who tried to gain unauthorised access to other computers/networks. I call them crackers because that's what they are doing - cracking the game's coding to enable unlimited coins, simcash etc. I dunno what they are hoping to achieve by doing so - bragging rights?

Like a lot of people have already said previously, they are ruining what was a brilliant game and EA have done very little about them.

As a footnote, speaking of EA/T20, they're doing a grand job of ruining it too this last 3 or 4 years!