EA StaffWow. No response from EA at all!
I spend money on this game but this latest update touted as making war more “fun” is a fox in disguise. It’s a money generator for EA passing as a good thing for the players. If it wasn’t money grabbing they would not have decreased rewards in any way.
That being said our problem with the game now, since the lag seems to have been fixed without ANY communication from EA is as follows:
1) decreasing prizes is TERRIBLE! Should have started minimum prize with original (3 platinum keys).
2) Chests way too expensive. 18,000 for first gold chest verses 12,000. Why not just add more chests: Bronze, silver, gold, platinum.
3) no site to explain and give ALL info on changes, like how much each chest cost. I only got to 3rd silver chest so only know what first gold chest requires not 2nd and 3rd. Why not a help page will all war facts like prizes etc
4) in general I wish EA had an official site with game info like maximum numbers of tokens needed to generate a token, maximum boosts information.
5) This is SimCityBuildIt, not SimCityWar. When will EA do something to help land maxed players? Allow us to bulldoze any omega item we want? Improve ability to rearrange city when space not available. I can store boosts but not other items. I’m sure there’s a fix for this.
I have spent more money than I’d like to admit on this game but EA is ruining it for me. So this cash cow is done. I will invest minimal $ on this game.
And the award for most incompetent, apathetic and useless community engagement goes to....EA !!!!
Our club started our weekly war game on Thursday evening and I warned all about the issues that had occurred during the week. The game was a little sluggish Thursday night but by the start of war everything seemed normal. To the best of my knowledge everything went fine based on the feedback from our club and everyone received their chest (across the board we weren’t overly excited by the reduction of simcash). There are several good points and several not so good but all in all it appears to have leveled out after a very shaky start.
I agree with most of the points mentioned until now.
However, having a look on the positive side of this update, here would be some points :
- the War store makes things a bit easier when you need one specific item. I had a hard time finding for example Hydrants in the past. In the last war we had, I bought 3 Hydrants via this store.
- the War money. Finally, specific currency to buy war items. I would like to find them though more often when repairing stuff and more often in the chests.
- I like energy booster concept, to help colleagues who have better resources.
What could be better:
- creating a specific store for war items
- Prizes were low before, now are even lower, for the amount of time and energy spent in a war. 20 Simcash for 2nd Arena , that's really nothing. You can earn this same amount during a day randomly via chests or presents. The same for platinum keys. EA should something into this direction. You can earn more stuff by CoM in this case.
One more question:
Does anyone know if War starts automatically now?
Our last war was not initiated by anyone , or at least we haven't seen the usual message in the Chat window :D
EA StaffEA The club wars are a good added feature but lm sure you have already been informed but during wars you need to do something about clubs staying under shields. Not only is it frustrating to see a club staying under shield but it ruins the enjoyment of going to war. Clubs can stay under shield throughout the duration of the war which means the other club have to wait with the expectation someone will come out to play. Surely this isn't right & spoils the enjoyment. EA lm sure l speak for many who have experienced this problem who have sat aimlessly hour after hour waiting for some action. My suggestion is quite simple, if a club decide to stay shielded this can only last for a short duration of time then they all become " unshielded" its not rocket science pls guys give us a break do something to stop the montony of having to wait..& wait..& wait in more cases to no avail it just dosen't make sense its a war !!
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Hello Everyone. I wrote just few messages on this forum, but I'm reading it from more than an year.
When EA introduced wars, there has been lots of complains. Most of all are about the bubble strategy.
Here's my 2 cents: yes, find an enemy that bubbles is annoying, 'cause you can't recoverif you're behind nor make points to gain chests.
Even more annoying when it's used from almost the beginning of the war.
But the point is: good or bad, it's a legit strategy. And even if I hate finding clubs who bubbles, I think that call'em cowards is not good.
Until not cheating, everyone has the right to play as they wish, and they're just using an opportunity offered by game's dynamics.
It do exixts strategies that forces opposite clubs not stay bubbled (if they want to win or get chests), it just needs to apply these strategies, even if is not always easy.
The true problem IMHO is not a legit bubbling, but unlegit players that still have too easy life.
I'm talking about "magnet players". People who uses magnetism again and again and again on every single war.
I got a 1.5M city, lvl60, war rank 19. I play wars every 3 days since EA introduced its (ok, at the beginning cooldown was a little longer, but let's go on).
I never used a single kind of attack for more than 10 times in a war, simply because it was difficult to get the needed items.
It's truly possible to obtain an higher number, sure, having megalopolis with faster production, and/or by spending real cash, simcash, and/or having teammates that sell you needed items, but... Let's not blow ourselves behind lies, using a single kind of attack for more than 20 times is not possible. Or better, it could be sometimes possible, with the right astral conjunction, but it can not be the usual way. Not at all. Expecially when is not a single player in a club, but the whole club doing so.
For example, we're now in war with a Polish club. 16 players. Still 8h to the end. 294 magnetism used!!! (single players: 43,36,32,30,29,28,27,27,21,8,7,5,1,0,0,0). 588 anvils+588 hydrants+294 binoculars.
That's not fair. Not legit.Impossible!
And, as I said, that's the main problem IMHO, not bubbling.
That's not a news, but the sad thing is that EA still haven't managed a way to solve this problem.
I appreciate your opinion I just don’t agree, the turtle strategy is cowardly and used by individuals who do not have the talent, confidence, or courage to participate in what they signed up for. It’s difficult but your job is to stay in the lead because you never know.
It’s hard to say the use of only magnetism at the rate shared is legal or not - EA refuses to share the rules publicly and with enough farming with multiple cubs, feeders/satellites you and your club have access to and with the ability to purchase items in the war store it’s feasible. More likely than not replicated items may figure in somewhere in the process. That’s only an opinion based on feedback I’ve received from others.
Dear PinnacleValley, thanks for your feedback!
While not agreeing, you're almost saying what I was meaning: staying in the lead is a good way to cut a lot of bubblers, 'cause they'll have to stay unbubbled to try to win. While as I said I don't like too finding bubblers, the thing I don't agree is just calling'em cowards. Somehow, it's a way to insult someone who's just playing the game in a different way than us, but not cheating. Who gives us that right? (Btw, it's just my opinion).
About magnetism, just two things to mind about: first one, true, EA rules are nebulous, but in terms of use is clearly written that secondary accounts from a same "root" must not be created just to support the main one. That could be enough to have the way to punish.
Second thing I met a lot of clubs using this cheat, and read about a lot of other ones. That means lot of players. It's not possible all these players manages their lot of satellites in a legit way and not simply as supporters. Cheaters uses to search a way to simplify things, not to complicate its. And in my experience war items can be traded only by teammates. That means that every cooldown period all of these cheaters (let's call'em with their own name!) should regroup with their feeders to trade items that feeders had collected meanwhile. For what said before about cheaters, that sounds unreal, totally unreal!
Too, every legit club should receive requests by lot of satellites in their cooldowns, but that's not happening...
