Hey Mayors! We hope you are all keeping well, and that your citizens and cities are happy and prospering! Our new game feature Design Challenges is finally here! So, Mayors let your design skills and creativity flow. Please feel free to drop us a quick post below with your thoughts regarding this feature. What do you like about Design Challenges? What would you like to see done differently? However, please remember to keep the discussion on-topic and directed toward the Design Challenges only. Any comments that are not focused on this will be removed. Have fun Mayors, and we are looking forward to seeing what you all create and comment on shortly!

@EA_Leeloo again ea showing how much they understand about the game. My biggest com task is to vote on designs which i can do in 4d 12h...I have no interest in your stupid updates but now they are ruining my game, so yeah this city design thing is just a wsste of time and ruins ones contest. Nice!

agree. At least with the monster it only took up a 1000 pointer if you're lucky, and you could just ignore it for the whole contest. This can ruin your CoM due to bad luck getting it. And of course if you skip it, it will come back in a couple of turns I bet. To me, this is getting ridiculous. I personally don't want to do the design challenges. But the game is trying to force me to do it with CoM tasks. I just want to design my real city, not one that disappears after submitting with a small photo, that I can't even see again unless I remember to take my own photo. It's a nice feature for some people. But keep it out of CoM, CoM's already hard enough without this random disadvantage

So you launch the new city design challenge for everyone on the same day a new COM season starts. For the first 3 days you can’t do anything because the first challenge is not active until then. You then randomly scatter city design challenge assignments throughout COM which depending on the type of assignment you will not be able to do for at least 3 days and maybe even 5/6 days by which time COM will be finished for the week. Absolutely brilliant. Do you actually pay people with real money to come up with this garbage?

Seems they added 3 tasks related to the challenge.-upgrade house in challenge (have seen 1 for 800pts, 2 for 1,600 pts )-vote in challenge (2500 pts)-submit a design (2500 pts)I usually ignore city monster tasks since they are low value (500 per attack). But don’t want those 2500 tasks sit in my CoM list for 48 hours.I agree to remove city design challenge tasks from CoM.

While you’re at it remove all war games assignments from CoM...they never belonged there and it is absolutely ludicrous the value they carry.

Design Challenges Update - We Want Your Feedback

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MsCulver007
4 years ago
I’ve been playing SimCity since near the beginning. And before that, I played Sim City on PC. I’m a double Art major with a focus in business. I’m opening two businesses in the next two months. I am exactly the type of person that should love design challenges. The concept of design challenges is a great addition to SimCity. The idea of creating an area for gamers to spread their wings in expand their creative abilities is a natural extension of this game. However, it falls completely flat by charging SimCity gamers regular prices to use all of the supplies to create the city. It makes it way too costly and therefore completely undermining the whole thing, making it not worth it to do much with it. If you really want people to get into design challenges then it has to be different than the rest of the game. Otherwise everything is costing too much making SimCity take too much time, too much effort which endangers the game’s longevity. I highly suggest you guys reformat design challenges to be a place where SimCity gamers have access to all SimCity supplies for free, giving true freedom and a unique experience to create amazing cities for the challenges. And of course all the supplies used would only be good with design challenges and cannot be transferred to the other cities. This would draw more interest to SimCity, inspiring people of what they could do with their own cities and make people really want to put out the effort to create amazing things. It will make people want to go back to their cities and earn certain items because they will know what they can do with them. In business, not everything has to be charged money to bring attention and more financial success. SimCity is in danger of being repetitive, costing too much, and taking way too much time to accomplish very little. Seems like they’re greedy. Reformatting design challenges could really bring some New blood to the game, kind of like the attraction to the freedom that Minecraft offers.
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4 years ago
this update is no good. try to improve this voting method. I think like him
yagn9wy5yv8x
2 years ago
This one seems obvious, but, I worked so damn hard on my Japan City… moving items, making a river, etc. And I woke up this morning to see that the voting already started and I missed my chance to submit the city. Now there is no longer any button to submit. There should be a notification saying “8 hours until submission deadline”, or “the deadline for submission is past, would you like to enter the voting now?” The game could lock your ability to EDIT the city, while extending the ability to SUBMIT the city, until the end of voting (you might receive less votes), in case you are sleeping during the deadline.

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