Epic Project Tasks... (1 Token Per Week?)
I have an Epic Project in progress. There are 7 Tasks available. 3 of those Tasks are requesting 5 Corn. 2 of those Tasks offer 1 point as reward for completion while the 3rd offers 3 points. (Wh...
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Thanks for sharing the strategy.
But it is not easy for mayors who collecting an expansion items. Not much space left in storage to stockpile items.
In specialization can check which building gives epic points.
You need to focus on upgrading your storage (350 is the max), or save up a lot of simoleons to spend at the global trade HQ. I recommend a minimum 100,000 if you're aiming for gold.
Note that different specialisation buildings yield different epic points.
I went ahead and replaced most of mine with 3 point buildings, e.g. all universities for education (except for gambling, there aren't any 3 point building!).
The required parts for each building is random, 1 point buildings do not require easier/cheaper parts, or less parts (but they seem to get harder as you approach 160).
My specialisations have around 6 x 3 point buildings each, and I try and focus on completing only those buildings for 3 points, sometimes I do a 2 point building if it's cheap parts.
I now have 6 x gold epic projects, and 2 x silver. I'm level 53, I started with 280 storage when the update came out, but i've increased to 350 now.
What I do is try and stock 3-5 of each item before I start an epic project building (except for parts that are easily obtained from global trade HQ).
I don't find any parts easy to find in global HQ. I have spent hours looking for several things and t he only advantage is gifts. I also don't think it is possible to get better than turtle when on the levels below 32. Maybe it gets better as you level up but going by comments Global HQ is not an enjoyable part of this game it's just frustrating!
I just completed my first silver epic building after completing 14 bronze. I too felt that anything above bronze was impossible, just as having more than 10 tokens was useless if you didn't get to 80. After reading about how these worked and the different experiences everyone was having, I decided to give it a try. And I am happy to report that I was able to accomplish my goal of 80 in less than 5 hours of paying attention time. I actually reached 30 in about an hour.
The key to accomplishing your mission is to focus on the epic points each building provides. Whereas up to this point I as focusing on items that generated the greatest amount of sims, I now paid attention to how many epic points each item was worth. On this project, I used only 3 points items and no 1 point items. My was transportation project. And I have 3 heliports, so by completing 27 requests, that was 81 items.One task was 5 backpacks, which took 11 hours, so I did it overnight
The other critical thing I found was to expand your storage, which I did to 220 prior to beginning the project. I also stopped any other expansion, such as mountain, in order to maximum my storage ability. I did not make a ton of stuff a head of time and nnever had over 200 items stored. And I had only 5 bronze speedups available, so those were not a ton of help. And I didn't have to spend a bunch of simoleans either, less than 20k.
Maybe the next ones won't be this easy, I don't know. Now I Wish I could convert my bronze buildings to silver
I have 14 x gold buildings so far, and i'm actually struggling to spend the speed-up tokens.
1 gold speed up token will burn through 12 hours of production in 1 hour, that means you need to have a LOT of materials to use them in time. I need to use 1-2 gold speed up tokens just to keep up with collection (you can only hold 5 gold speed-up tokens).
Whilst the production time is good, i'll often run out of materials before the hour is up.
I'm actually focusing on silver buildings now, since 4x speed-up is more value for money. Gold is good with time constraints, but silver is more cost effective. I would also like to do a lot of bronze buildings too, they would really come in handy on the smaller builds like Building Supplies Store and Hardware Store.
Bottom line: Don't get caught up on trying to make gold buildings. Make a lot of bronze to begin with, then a lot of silver. Gold is really only beneficial on commercial buildings like Farmers Market (lengthy build times), and you might not even have enough materials to use the full 1 hour speed-up.
