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Maxis Manor

Has anyone had any experience with Maxis yet? Seems expensive but if it can procure Vu pieces, then it could be worth it Along those same lines, has anyone noticed the complete disappearance of Vu p...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago
    @bettysadog wrote:

    One more question. When talking about map coverage, are you including all the expansion areas or just the original 50 x 50?

    4 manors won't cover everything if you've opened the extra 12 land expansions that came last Christmas; I get a gap of 10 tiles in the middle of my map between the two manors I have so far. And that's with 4 additional uncovered tiles on the left and 3 uncover tiles on the right side of my map where i keep buildings that don't require coverage. So over all it's 17 tiles short of the full width. 

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9 years ago
@DestroyISIS wrote:

I bought it two days ago, from what I can tell it produces a Vu item every 24hrs.  As soon as you purchase it you get an item, so ive gotten 3 so far.  My only concern is that with each new item you have an opportunity to purchase, the price seems to be going up.  Remember there are side benefits, the building also acts like a fire house, police station and a hospital (I think that third bonus is correct, I forget).  It is steep, I'm hoping it will pay for itself going forward.

Does it function as all 3 services at the same time or just 1 that you choose? Because if you could buy 1 maxis and it functions as police, fire & health at the same time, then it would be a good deal, right?

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9 years ago
@bettysadog wrote:
Does it function as all 3 services at the same time or just 1 that you choose? Because if you could buy 1 maxis and it functions as police, fire & health at the same time, then it would be a good deal, right?

It functions as all 3 simultaneously. 

All you really gain is space, what used to take 4x2 tiles times 3 separate buildings, now just needs 2x2 tiles. Not a big gain, but it can enable your city to be much better aesthetically.

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    Anonymous
    9 years ago
    @DocVu wrote:

    It functions as all 3 simultaneously. 

    All you really gain is space, what used to take 4x2 tiles times 3 separate buildings, now just needs 2x2 tiles. Not a big gain, but it can enable your city to be much better aesthetically.

    The gain is five 2x2 spaces across 1/4 of the entire map.  That would give 20 2x2 spaces across the entire map.  Another 20 2x2 spaces across the map is 20 more residential areas and could make for a rather substantial population increase.  Although you could functionally use that space for anything.  This is just an example.  I think it's a rather big gain when you consider the affect on the entire map and having 4 maxis manor's covering the map.

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      Anonymous
      9 years ago
      @SomeSimGuy wrote:
      @DocVu wrote:

      It functions as all 3 simultaneously. 

      All you really gain is space, what used to take 4x2 tiles times 3 separate buildings, now just needs 2x2 tiles. Not a big gain, but it can enable your city to be much better aesthetically.

      The gain is five 2x2 spaces across 1/4 of the entire map.  That would give 20 2x2 spaces across the entire map.  Another 20 2x2 spaces across the map is 20 more residential areas and could make for a rather substantial population increase.  Although you could functionally use that space for anything.  This is just an example.  I think it's a rather big gain when you consider the affect on the entire map and having 4 maxis manor's covering the map.

      so compared to having one each of a fire, police and hospital, which is going to provide better coverage and lower cost?

      and in english this time...

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        Anonymous
        9 years ago
        @bettysadog wrote:

        so compared to having one each of a fire, police and hospital, which is going to provide better coverage and lower cost?

        and in english this time...

        Maxis Manor will provide the best coverage.  It covers exactly 1/4 of the map.  4 of them can cover the entire map if it's placed in exactly the right place to reach exactly 1/4 of the map.  If I ever get to the point of having 4, you can bet I'm in for a city reconstruction to get it in the right place.  

        It replaces all 3, Fire, Police and Hospital with a single building.  Each of those also covers exactly 1/4 of the map, but it is impossible to place all 3 in the exact same place so you're always lacking a little coverage somewhere.  Maxis manor fixes that since it's all 3 of those in one building that takes up less space.

        Now which provides the better coverage at a lower cost.  Since they all provide the exact same amount of coverage.....  The lower cost would be to have all 3, Fire, Police and Hospital because they cost simoleons which is easy to get where Maxis manor takes simcash.  Unless you actually want to spend real money to get it quickly, which I do not.

        In my city I'm doing things a little differently for now.  Instead of having a Large Fire Department, Large Hospital and a Large Police Precinct, I have the Fire Department and Hospital, but to cover the same area I'm using 4 police stations and not making use of the large Police Precinct.  So, in my case, Having one Maxis Manor will open up 7 places I could put residential buildings rather than 5 if I had a Large Police Precinct covering the same area.

        Hopefully that was english enough for you. 🙂

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