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Anonymous
11 years ago

Explaination from the staff

I received this after my complaint about the 500 coins:

" If two buildings are reduced to rubble during a particular Disaster, and the Reward information for that Disaster says '0-2' Keys, you would receive either 0,1 or 2 Keys for the *whole* of that Disaster.
Therefore, the three randomised reward options you could receive are:
a) 2 Keys -- both buildings would reward you with a Key
b) 1 Key -- one building would reward you with a Key, and one building would have a Simoleon reward
c) 0 Keys -- both buildings would reward you with Simoleons"

So you can get max 2 keys for the " whole" disaster. Even if 5 buildings are destroyed.
Byeee simcity. Going to delete it.

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Yeah, ok, sure. That explains how it works. But what it doesn't explain is how they could possibly think that this was a good design.

    Since the GTHQ is swamped with Vu items -- 20 out of 24 on average in a test I did using a Lvl 18 city -- it seems apparent that the new Vu upgrade is universally hated.

    Perhaps if the game designers actually played the game and did some beta testing they might avoid the kind of disaster they have created.

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    Yes, this upgrade seems remarkably infuriating. They either failed to beta test it, or worse, they knew how much it sucked and released it anyway. Maybe some executive's job was on the line if this upgrade failed to ship?
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    Just upgraded to level 4 launched alien invasion Promised 1-2 keys destoyed 2 buildings All i got was 1 key for 1st building and 500 simoleons for 2nd building
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    Well, they promised 1-2 keys and you got your 1 key. It isn't 1-2 keys per RZ destroyed.

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    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    I got a lv3 dr.vu's tower. Then I can play ufo disaster. That give to me 1or 2 key. But I couldn't receive them. I got just 500 reward. You should check this.
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    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    I was super excited when this update came out because I thought/hoped they were restoring the old model where you could get 2-3 keys per RZ destroyed in disaster events. Sadly to my surprise this is not the case. I don't see how or why anyone would bother spending so much gold to upgrade the tower to get let down by the results! The robot event yields a maximum of 3 keys for 5 RZ destroyed! Really?? Why would I bother with upgrading the tower for that!! There are two viable options to fix this agregious error.

    1) Make it do that the key ranges are number of keys per RZ! As it should be. This would make the robot event yield 10-15 keys total and thus would entice me to spend the million or so gold required to max the tower.

    Or

    2) Drastically increase the gold reward for non-key RZs destroyed. To the tune of 15-25k per RZ. This would make it worth my while to fix destroyed buildings...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    I agree with everyone here. The new Vu tower is not working. Until it's fixed all my Vu items will be going to global trade as well.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    You would think they would have addressed this issue by now. What has it been 3 weeks? Everyone is selling their Vu items and those Vu items you get through bubbles and try to sell are sitting in your trade center until Daniel buys them. What it also has done is decrease the demand for other items because no one is using items to rebuild buildings. I use to sell multiple items in my trade center by advertising just one. Now it takes considerable more time to sell items that were in high demand prior to this upgrade. I've hung in there after some very unpopular upgrades. But this one leaves me wondering what in the heck they were thinking.

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