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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Anonymous
7 years ago
It been weeks and no one in the world has reached Arena 3 yet, not mind Arena 6

They totally messed this up and its a TOTAL FAIL
x-Darlena-x
7 years ago
Our club is currently in our 3rd war in Arena 2 (Desert). As a relative newcomer to the game (I started after the original war feature started) I just want to say:
➡I find it a lot more enjoyable being in a war where the opposing club fights back, so far that has been the case in this arena for us
➡the war boosts have increased the opportunities to develop tactics and strategies. We are still learning those.
➡I agree with others that the increase in points needed to get rewards is too much. I shudder to think what points will be needed in the next arena . Maybe some clubs have decided to throw a few wars to avoid being promoted to the next arena. That could be why the previous respond to me hit that old problem of an opponent being shielded for whole war & little fun
➡We would really love to see a messaging system where a Pres or VP could send some feedback to the opposing club Pres. If you are worried about nasty messaging limit it to in game emoji. Maybe add a few new emoji "awesome war", "respect", "no respect" etc
➡And if people go back to the first feedback page when wars were introduced - there are a lot of similarities to what has been said at the start of this thread. Wars didnt killnthe game, the war changes wont either.
Dar
Vice Pres
Australia @ War
DarthMortar
7 years ago
Since Simcity is alll about spending real money on sim cash one understand why it takes so log time collecting war items.

The one thing I dont like with club wars is the shields. A lot of other clubs simply attack just to the point that they are on top and under shields. Then stay under them until the war is over. A god and fair way would be that the shield is just for a short period.
kadoka66
7 years ago
Following my earlier comment,
My club has decided to reduce number of wars to 4 a month and concentrate on at least one COM and try and get those chests which let's face it, are worth far more for city building than the rewards you get after war.
I think war would have been better executed if you had made it a separate part of the game. I wouldn't even have minded if you had to earn currency to take part.
But as it is: war items take up space in the main storage, you need to build items to get war items, so city building comes to a complete halt.
Is this not a city building game first? Well it should be.
If you could make war a separate part of the game, and make it more tactical, it would be a welcome addition, but right now, it's just a necessary evil. Dr.VU is just a necessary evil lol.
Forget war, I would love you to add the following PVP ideas
1. Assisinate the city mayor ( you travel to another city and try to assasinate their mayor while he is travelling around the city visiting places.) Maybe you have a crosshair and you have to hit him when he gets out of the car. You could make special versions where a really important VIP comes to visit and you have to try and kill them.
2. Visitng someone else's city and liking it. Everytime you get a like on your own city, you earn a reward. The city with the most likes gets a reward at the end of a certain amount of time.
3. The opposite version of idea 1. You have to spruce up your city to impress a visiting VIP. You get so much time to prepare your city by positioning special buildings in certain places. Then the visitor drives around in a motocade and gives you thumbs up or thumbs down and you earn points for each. Cities go in a ranking and highest scoring city wins a prize or something similar to the current COM using this idea.
4. You get to redesign someone else's city. You propose a new design to someone and if they accept your design and switch it for their existing one, you earn so many rewards. If they decline, you don't earn anything. Maybe you have to pay so many SIMS to accept and that's how EA monetizes it.
There are so many other cool things you could do other than war.
Anonymous
7 years ago
I suggested limited time to teams that hide in shield. That's not fair play. 24hours wide in shield... It's important to change that! Thank you
Anonymous
7 years ago
Last 4 wars against opponents wide in a shield... More than 20 hours. If you don t do a limited time to stay in a shield we don t spend itens and you don't get money.. We just want to play! Thank you
x-Darlena-x
7 years ago
A couple of wars later.
Great war hooked on a feeling. End time suited us more than you is what it came down to & end score did not reflect how close we were.
I am happy to discuss our tactics versus yours if you wanrt to.
Dars
Australia @ War
x-Darlena-x
7 years ago
Devs - We need capacity to at least msg opponent leaders after a war! We have had some awesomne opponents some beat us while we beat others . I would really love to say greatt war, lots of fun! ps we didnt win all of those.
🙏🙏🙏🙏 give us this capability
Dars
Vice Pres
Australia @ War
J6niceL
7 years ago
Yeah. It will be cool to be able to send encouraging msgs like “Great War!”, “U guys are awesome!”, etc.

And now, I start to appreciate war currency more. The good part is that now the repairs give war currency, which is way more useful than simeoleons. And war currency gives us an alternative way to source for war stuff. Just counting on deliveries only to get war stuff is too tedious as we need more of them to fight stronger opponents.

Still, I have my grouses about the various issues mentioned in my previous posts, which I hope to see them sorted out.
mountainvision
7 years ago
We too wish there was a way to say “Great War” to our opponents that actually participate throughout, some beating us others not. Also would like a way to reject a club for war we know hides in shield forever and waste our time. We’ve had repeat encounters with these fun killers.
EA could limit time under shield, remove any remaining destroyed buildings so they are back to full health, like an automatic reset.
Unfortunately I don’t think they listen enough.
Plus I would still like to see some improvements in the “building” function of the game. More land!!! A place to temporarily store buildings you don’t want to bulldoze while rearranging city. And please, option to bulldoze ANY omega building, not just the residential and utilities.

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