Forum Discussion

Anonymous's avatar
Anonymous
11 years ago

EA Please Read - How To Better Sim City Build It

I have not used any cheats (as I can not find any) and do not do the disasters. I do the cargo ship, trading, and just patiently waiting to gather enough coins to gain money. When I have traffic jams, I move around buildings instead of upgrading roads due to the expensive nature of the road upgrades. 

Some things that bother me - I only have residences yet there is no building requirements for "work place" for my residences. How do they pay for their rent? And why do we not gather coins from the buildings like we do in Sims Free Play? Also, why are there no coin or dollar bonus points for city level upgrades?  It takes me one week to buy one expansion while patiently waiting for them to appear in thought bubbles as well as buying them at 600 coins instead of 800. Some buildings such as the schools are 40,000 coins yet they cover so little space, it is not worth buying - plus the happiness of the population doesnt decrease due to the lack of schools.  This game is quite pointless. I keep playing without purchasing coins or cheating and I don't know why.  I am thinking about buying the PC version of the game so I can build a city and then be done with the game.  It takes too long to upgrade the city and expand land.  Its 45,000 coins to upgrade to a 6 lane road. Thats ridiculous.  Takes forever also to acquire expansion and storage upgrade supplies through thought bubbles.

Also, the number of SimCash needed to speed up tasks should decrease depending on the amount of time the task has been in progress like EA does in Sim FreePlay.

Lastly, For $50 USD dollars I can get 4000 SimCash which I then could use 3000 SimCash for $114,000.  Break it down, I'd be spending $50 USD for The Gambling HQ (70k), The Entertainment HQ (60K) and a small police station (10K).  Thanks.  Not. That's ridiculous. Might as well go buy the PC version for $40 and use cheats to get unlimited money. Ridiculous.

I'm on Level 29 / 131,452 Population / 66/90 Storage / $56,285 (cant buy anything else, no more room, saving for the Depart of Culture in Landmarks for Level 30) / 5 SimCash / 7 Keys (already purchased Hotel) City Name: Hollyspring Heights

11 Replies

Show More
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Playing around with taking a series of screenshots (on a Galaxy Note 2, not a tablet) to make a layout map.

    A lot of the screen is obscured by control buttons. The usable image area is much smaller than the screen, and every screenshot will have to be cropped on three sides before the resulting set can be joined into the final view. Luckily Photoshop can automate that.

    If you haven't tried this yet, moving the view to get the next screenshot is much harder than you'd think. There's no easy way to just move it sideways, or just vertically. Dragging the view means you have to carefully keep the same row or column inside the usable view, so probably it will be easier to just move it small distances and take a lot more screenshots to patch together to provide the entire view with no gaps.

    Unfortunately, the traffic will be different in each screenshot, complicating Photoshop's ability to make perfect joins.

    This is probably more time than I can afford just now. Maybe later.

    {edited to add}

    AGHHH. I just realized that the straight-down view is only "straight down" for a small central portion of the screen; most of the screen is still obviously 3D. D'oh. There is a very small area in the center of the view that might be cropped and eventually joined into a larger view, but this requires a lot of screenshots. Probably one for every building-sized portion of the grid, directly over each possible position. Doing that manually is tedious work, especially because every screenshot triggers BuildIt to run the loading screen again.

    We need a "Save Map" button.

About SimCity BuildIt

Issue with the game? Join our SimCity BuildIt community forum to discuss troubleshooting.8,710 PostsLatest Activity: 15 minutes ago