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Anonymous
10 years ago
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Epic challenges can be too challenging !!!

SimCity support:  I want to point out that the tasks to obtain the speed up tokens (epic buildings) can be ridiculously challenging (a nice way of saying impossible) -- without lots of help from friends.

I recently encountered the following 12 tasks (the only 12 tasks at that moment).  This was not at the beginning but I ended up here after fulfilling the tasks that I could fulfill)  Notice that every one of these tasks requires something from the farmer's market:

5 bread

4 ice cream

4 cheesecake

5 flour

3 bread

5 milk

5 flour

5 flour

3 yogurt

5 cheesecake

5 smoothie

5 smoothie

That's lists all my available tasks (12) at one point during an epic challenge.

If you break down what is needed from the farmer's market, you'll see why it's not realistic.  At least I already had two stars for the farmer's market so it is 15% faster than the default speed.  Even then ... impossible without help.

48 flours (25:30) - 1,224 minutes

24 milks (1:03) - 1,512 minutes

9 cheeses (1:29) - 801 minutes

22 watermelons (1:16) - 1,672 minutes

10 vegetables (0:17) - 170 minutes

Add that up and it would take 5,379 minutes (over 89 hours - you only get 24 hours to complete the epic challenge).  Well you can't accomplish this without using tokens since you only have 24 hours to complete the epic challenge.  But even with all 12 of the tokens you first get, it's not enough!

The most I've had for any token is right at the very beginning:  Four of each type.

Cheetah = 720 minutes for each hour

Llama = 240 minutes for each hour

Turtle = 120 minutes for each hour

Even if I used all four cheetah, llama, and turtle tokens for 4,320 minutes, I am still 1,059 minutes short (17:39).  Since I would have used 12 hours for the 12 tokens, I would only have 12 hours left (now with no tokens).  Yet, I still need more than 17-1/2 hours to clear through all the tasks.  Not possible since that would be five hours past the 24 hours you get for an epic challenge.

So I ask you, Sim City support:  How are you expecting players to get Cheetah tokens when you're putting an insurmountable barrier in front of them?

For those who don't know:

Turtle - three parts to get a turtle token

Llama - six parts to get a llama token

Cheetah - nine parts to get a cheetah token

I have had no choice but to be very good friends with some people.  Some days they help me and other days I help them.  Otherwise it would be impossible to get cheetah tokens.  The global market is of no help because items from the farmer's market is pretty rare.

Become good friends with others and hope they will help you in return for you helping them.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    10 years ago
    I actually enjoy the challenge. And no it's not impossible as plenty of people have already made it to cheetah level on the project. With a decent amount of planning, you can make it.

    I see time and time again that people start the epic project with practically nothing stockpiled, and then they wonder why they can't make it. My strategy is this: stockpile everything that is rare on the market, or takes forever to make (refrigerators, frozen yogurt, cream etc) and ditch everything that you can manufacture relatively quickly (nails, wood, plastic) as well as things that are super common on the market that you can just buy. Max out the storage to 350, have 150k in simoleons on hand and you should have a fighting chance to make it to 160. 80 would be no problem if you follow this strategy.

    Try it out. See if it works. I hope to get my first cheetah token tomorrow once my storage is full (I've been stockpiling for a week now).

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  • @Polaris_Ice  Only part of what you shared is correct...you absolutely need to increase your storage, in fact that should be the primary focus above land, beach or mountain expansion. A strong economy is paramount to your success and a supportive mayor’s club comes in handy. That said, you absolutely do not need a feeder city...invest your time developing your city so it’s strong enough to support Epic challenges and undertake them strategically so that you can take pride and satisfaction in your efforts rather than take an unfair shortcut.

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    SummitVista3310
    5 years ago

    There's another tip to complete epic project. I store specialization buildings which epic points are less than 3 points. Sometimes they require same items for both 1 points and 4 points task. When you store 1-2 points buildings it's alot easier.  

    If you do only 2 points tasks, you have to do...

    20 tasks for turtle

    50 tasks for liama

    100 taks for cheetah

    you only need half of tasks for 4 points buildings, and they dont even ask expensive items for hich epic points buildings. Also 1 player start epic project at one time, so other teammates can support for items until its comleted.   

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