Change in value of turtle tokens?
After completing my most recent epic challenge, I noticed that it is taking 4 turtle tokens to equal one speed-up item. Previously it was only requiring 3. Has anyone else experienced this or know wh...
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If you look at the dates of these replies it didn't start all of a sudden it started at different times and points in the game.
Soooooo they plan to screw you from the start!
I need 13 pieces to make a cheetah token now. It's been steadily increasing from the original nine ... is there a cap in sight?
Does anybody know what causes it to increase? Is it due to how many tokens you've created and/or how many epic buildings you've created?
Ever since the upgrade or the release of the Contest of Mayors, it has been taking 5 turtles to make one bronze speedup. Silver has increased to 8 and cheetah has stayed at 10. The problem with turtles is having to make more of them to compensate for the increase. It takes only a few minutes to reach the first tier and then you are stuck for another 23 hours and 55 minutes or so until it ends and then another 12 hours to start another epic challenge. Plus it seems like I am using less bronze as they are soooo slow compare to the silver and gold.
And yes I would complain if they hung me with a new rope...
I am convinced that it is in direct relation to how many epic buildings you have.
I just finished my 7th cheetah building a few days ago.
Prior to my 7th cheetah building I had.....
2 turtle
6 llama
6 cheetah
Under this configuration it took me 3 turtle pieces, 6 llama pieces and 10 cheetah pieces to get 1 token. This was the same before and after the Mayor's Contest update.
Upon completing my 7th cheetah building, Llama went from needing 6 pieces to 7 pieces. I need to pay closer attention to the other two to see how many pieces it takes. Llama just stuck out like a sore thumb because I was at getting one token per day and I missed it by 1 piece. I thought the pieces required was changing as I was adding new ones, but couldn't confirm it until now. I believe I started with Llama only needing 5.
I have read another thread where someone said they wrote EA about it and got a response back that said something to the affect of yes, the more you have, the more is required, but it will top out at some point and not go any higher. Although they did not tell him when it would top out and quit requiring more and more pieces. So for that, I have no answer either.
I have basically stopped playing the epic building game it takes away from building my city, you constantly keep throwing your useable inventory at one building for a day then you get back into the game and here goes another one same with the mayors challenge.
I'm not on face bleck or twit and don't really care.
I still have the first version of sim-city and saved an old computer just to play it every now and again, Still love it.
sooooooo I just keep playing my way and get pissed when they change the game to gather in more money.
they ain't gettin any of mine. don't tell me it's free to play then make it so I have to Pay!
@Haroldk1 I'm the same way with Simcity 2000. I used to still have Sim Streets and Sim Copter around too, but have since misplaced the disks. That was a long time ago and for all I know is now with my ex-wife. 🙂 LOL
I agree as far as the Mayor's contest is concerned. I decided it's not worth playing. I'll look at it and if there are assignments to further my goals like "launch X disasters", "Clear X disaster areas", "Complete a shipment for such and such" then I'll launch and do those. If only doing those kind of assignments gets me a key and some coin, then that's another key or more coin than what I had before, but I'm not going to spend countless hours making a ton of product I don't need.
I disagree about the Epic projects though. With enough Epic buildings, it makes the speed of the game a whole lot bearable and right now I'm about at completing one epic project a week, so it barely puts a hamper on my game play at all. It's enough to slowly start building a stock of speed-up tokens, but not so much that I can't enjoy the other aspects of the game as well.
