We were with our club in the top 250 when we restarted. Now back in arena 4 as well and so far we're usually up against 2/3 lvl 7~11 players and rest 1~4 who are very inactive during war. Sure takes the fun out of it. They don't even bother trying. In the last 10 wars I don't think they even hit over 4k on points all together.
Makes a lot of people being bored (which I don't get personally because there's a lot of other things to do in game). But guess we just keep on going and hopefully it gets better at some point.
You’re right J6NiceL, they constantly complain and whine...i just have a real difficult time understanding what makes someone think hiding is fun or even a well thought out or legitimate strategy. I have to concede they have effected how the top level teams have to play the game...some of the folks have chosen to participate in multiple wars at the same time to get what they need to compete in a legitimate war with their primary club. I absolutely despise the “strategy” and the individual who came up with the bight idea should have to participate in 72 hours straight of bubble wars...
Helmsiki101, I’ve read your last 8 posts and glad to see some new blood and a little different perspective on the game. I think to put in proper context folks are not necessarily bored with the city building side, or the Mayor’s clubs or maybe even CoM...but rather watching paint dry and grass grow caused by the run and hide crowd and EA’s consistent lack of interest and failure to address their customers concerns. People are angry and frustrated and have completely left the game due to this lack of respect they’ve been shown...and taken their expendable resources with them...very wise long term business plan...isn’t it?
@PinnacleValley wrote:Helmsiki101, I’ve read your last 8 posts and glad to see some new blood and a little different perspective on the game. I think to put in proper context folks are not necessarily bored with the city building side, or the Mayor’s clubs or maybe even CoM...but rather watching paint dry and grass grow caused by the run and hide crowd and EA’s consistent lack of interest and failure to address their customers concerns. People are angry and frustrated and have completely left the game due to this lack of respect they’ve been shown...and taken their expendable resources with them...very wise long term business plan...isn’t it?
Thanks, I've been around a little while but not often actually posting.
I get what you mean, although I've been playing way before war was implemented it seems like most people only focusing at war only. But I agree, it can be seriously boring at times and crazy expensive and wars are then a nice way of keeping yourself busy. But when even that is boring....EA reminds me of an other developer I used to game at, they also didn't really listen to their players. It is a sad thing though. I keep playing on for free because it's pointless spending money. I don't even bother most of the time to reach top in CoM.. But in the end, I am satisfied with my city, it looks really nice without spending a $ on it.
Thanks to them, now strategy becomes the dirty word.
In the world of Simcity, the definition of strategy is
Exploiting all possible loopholes of the system, Hiding in shields all day long, Playing whack-a-mole.
I’m now seeing another problem due to this shield system: mismatch between teams.
Prior to the rampant use of strategy, based on our strength, we can go up to 200 and drop to 800. Then cheaters come and force us out of top 1000, which is actually fine, since it is fun to fight them and we still fight teams similar to us in strength (they got forced down too by cheaters).
Now, almost every teams employ the use of strategy, with even those at around 1800th place using that! Naturally, we, who resist using strategy, got pushed all the way down to 2300. And turned out we are way too strong for teams there. So ended up we have a round of boring war where opponents don’t even bother to come out more than once to attack. We were bored to death despite winning. And this is at arena 5.
We had been matched up with an old friend who had solidly beaten us before. I was shocked that they were at 1000th plus place given that they used to be in the top 100. And their line-up is still the same. One of their guys has level 11 magnetism and a couple of them has level 9 magnetism. Now I understand why. Theirs is a big team and they don’t hide. Sad that such a solid team was forced down by “strategists”.
Whether we go up or down the chart, it’s the same boring war.
