Hi Mayors! I'm starting this thread for all your feedback about the changes to Club Wars introduced with Club Wars: Arenas. What do you like? What do you feel could be improved? Why? Anything you want to share - we would love to hear what you think! Thanks! -Mai

Wow. 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 etc4) 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.

Hi Mai,I have lots of feedback regarding the updates. But first thing first, the update causes the game to lag terribly. It becomes far worse than before.All of us in our club r having great difficulty loading the war map, get the attacks in, do repairs and even getting our messages onto the club chat. One of my team members can’t even go pass the tutorial stage because he is under shield when he starts the tutorial and the tutorial refuses to let him proceed!Please let the developers know of this. They need to resolve this ASAP. The updates are useless if the game is not even playable in the first place.

Hi,Sorry to say that this update is very bad , and here are the reason :1) You decrease the reward , before by scoring 12k we used to get the 1st golden chest , now with same amount of points , only the 3rd silver chest2) We get less chance to get war card upgrade , because now you had the war simflouz, the different kind of booster into the rewards you can get from chest3) no way now to know the favorite and most powerfull desaster from ennemy citySo at the end I just feel you did this update just to give us less and you add all these purchasing option in the meaning to make us spend more real cashPlus this update will not resolve the probleme of the cheating teamThanks for reading it

why isnt anyone from EA responding and acknowledging this ? Mai you ask for feedback and then disappear ?? what kind of community management is that ? Everyone is experiencing issues across the board and its time you as the EA representative faced up to it and provided some information on what is being done to resolve this matter.

‘‘This update is terrible!!! The rewards for the EXCESSIVE amount of inventory that one has to spend in order to buy war tokens is ridiculous. You loose a war and you get demoted??? We can’t even figure out the rules. Who put the intro together? Did you run it past anyone who wasn’t in on the programming/planning? And of course the SLOW RESPONSE, I had 800 points to go to get 12,000 points, a new chest and win the game and I couldn’t play it. You can’t even begin to imagine how annoyed I was. That loss cost me over $100,000 simoleons, trying to buy inventory (which took forever) plus all the inventory I made and got NOTHING for, all because I couldn’t get into the war zone to do any bombing. Only 1 other player on our team stuck out the whole game and they got 1/2 the points they usually get, because the game response time was impossible. 2 other players tried and had to bail. THERE IS A LOT MORE TO FIX THAN RESPONSE TIME: better prizes OR make it cheaper to play war allow club members to opt out of wars. Their city won’t show up on the war map, they won’t be able to buy war items or attack anyone nor can they be attacked. They also will not get any war prizes. This helps for people who never play wars, but do challenges instead, to help the team. It also allows players to take a beak from wars, without penalizing the team. Players should be able to change their status, but only in between wars. Uncomplicate the wars. This upgrade was over thought, over micro managed and does absolutely nothing to increase the pleasure of the game. Seriously, what did you add for the players? We’re still doing the same bombing with the same weapons that use the same tokens and we get less prizes for it. Then to get the better prizes it’ll cost us more in time, inventory tokens, simoleons and now some other stupid currency. Unfortunately for AE, players are already seeing that spending money will not make this new war release anymore fun to play. THUMBS DOWN FOR THE WORST “UPDATE” EVER!

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GermanMayor1982
7 years ago
Couldn't agree more with you @mountainvision

The new update is really frustrating and for me and my guys there is no reason any more to play wars with that rewards.
18k for a golden chest where you might get simoleons or golden keys - no thanks!

I spent HUNDREDS of Euros for war packages, but after this update I won't spend any more cent until EA starts to listen to us.

(Disappointed) GermanMayor
rooz31
7 years ago
And the award for most incompetent, apathetic and useless community engagement goes to....EA !!!!
J6niceL
7 years ago
Yeah, I agree that this is Simcity Buildit, not Simcity War. Club wars is a great addition to boost interactivity of the game. But the latest update requires us to heavily invest in wars and getting less rewards at that! Please note that we play Simcity Buildit in the first place to build cities, not playing war games.

And I like the idea about adding Platinum war chest. If EA only changes the goal post for gold chests, it is still quite acceptable, but to change it for silver chests is way too much. If EA thinks that this is going to push us to spend real money, well, it is not going to work on me. With cheaters and feeders (I had just fought another feeder team—tell tale sign: they have high war points but have lots of low level cities) around, I don’t see the point of upgrading my attacks since there is no way to win them unless my team put all our focus on it. In fact, at one point, I wanted to stop attacking when I got 6k because 12k for next SILVER chest, not even gold, seems too much of an effort.

In addition, one of my teammates told us that he didn’t get any rewards after war. What is this? All the efforts for absolutely nothing? I was feeling pretty bummed about getting far less rewards already. I can’t imagine how he felt to get NOTHING.

EA, do you have any plans to compensate us for terrible lags and glitches experienced earlier? One thing Niantic (developer of Pokémon Go) always do better than you is that they acknowledge the problems and give some freebies to us when they don’t deliver. Maybe it’s time to learn some PR skills from them. With all the money you have, I’m surprised that you couldn’t get better people to do planning and development.
PinnacleValley
7 years ago
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.
Anonymous
7 years ago
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.
Anonymous
7 years ago
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_Mai
EA Staff
7 years ago
Hi everyone,

First of all - thanks for letting us know about the lag/latency issues you were experiencing. As EA_Jason said in the specific thread for the issue, it should be fixed now, and I hope you are playing as usual. Please, use this thread if you want to keep talking about that issue: https://answers.ea.com/t5/SimCity-BuildIt-Support/Latest-war-update-massive-lag-issues/m-p/6712134#M11490

Thanks for your feedback so far - I will go through your posts now, just wanted to write to thank you for taking the time to let us know what you think 🙂

@roraly - the start of wars should work as usual: President, Vice President or Senior needs to initiate it.

-Mai
SimCityAbdul
7 years ago
EA_Mai the idea is cool but could you able to have arenas as skins and get the war reward based on Elo points? Other than that, the game lags a lot during war now and could you keep the rewards the same as were before(3 Platinum Keys, 30 SimCash and 3 Cheetah Tokens) at least for Mountainous Mayhem and so? Also want to point out that when you got all the way into the corner by the NeoMall, there is this black spot. I don't if you fixed it already but it is really annoying. I am using an Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8 Inch 2016.
SimCityAbdul
7 years ago
@J6niceL yes. I had the same issue too. I had won 3 bronze chests and 2 sliver chests and did not get them. I called @EA and they did nothing. They said I will get them in a other war. It really made me upset and I was thinking of uninstalling SimCity BuildIt
Player_5cd3srva
7 years ago
Really disappointing that EA does not listen to the community.

My club is now playing the 4th war in a row versus teams that stay forever under their shield.

Decreasing the number of warchests has made it even worse then before.

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