Neosimoleon

Interesting, so if you saw the price of your third ControlNet increase to 10,800 before your bank upgrade, this would indicate that each incremental service unit increases in price, perhaps arbitrarily. i'm less convinced now it was a glitch, and more just EA implementing arbitrary pricing tiers to slow down expansion.... your experience with drone bases is mirroring mine when i bought my first basic drone base earlier.

I guess I'll just stop after my upgrading my existing 21 OMEGA residences. after that, it's going to be too much hassle to get more drones, controlnets etc when the marginal price for services expansion isnt predictable or rational. i guess OMEGA cities and their economics are strange after all...

So here's where we stand on this silly economics of marginal OMEGA services:

I have 3 small drone bases, the fourth costs 5400, the fifth will cost 9600 (thanks @bettysadog...)

First Basic drone base costs 6700, the second costs 16200....

Second small Controlnet tower costs 5400, the third costs 10800

One expansion idea: since basic OMEGA's start by giving you 100/day, prioritize the creation of new units and do small item cost upgrades before seriously trying to "max out" each structure. this will get you neosims faster in the long run (to the extent your power,water,etc services allow). I have 21 units, giving average ~155/day. Only two are maxed at 200/day, which takes a lot longer to do. My income is 3000/day, which is still slow expansion, but hey I also have better things to do this 4th of july weekend anyway.

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@bettysadog wrote:

Today I was able to take advantage of what maybe was a glitch and it worked to my advantage! Imagine that? I had 4 small drone bases and was checking on buying another. The price shown was 9600 NeoSimoleans for an increase of 4. I then checked the cost for a Basic Drone Base and to my surprise, it was only 6700 for an increase capacity of 9. I then checked on the refund if I demolished one of the small drone bases and it was 2700. So for a total outlay of 4000, I increased my drone capacity by 5. Now I checked the costs afterwards and the small base costs 5400 and the basic is 16,200

I also purchased a second Small ControlNet Tower for 5400 and now the cost for the next one is 10,800. I have upgraded my bank to 10,000 however I realize now thats not enough to get another ControlNet so I guess my Omega adventure could end. I also have upgraded my storage to 25 and found that still is not enough capacity to upgrade multiple zones. That part of the upgrade doesnt seem very well thought out. And when every function of Omegaland, building upgrade, storage increase, bank increase, all use the same items, it makes for very expensive canisters

As costly as this whole Omega thing is, it amazes me that a fully upgraded Omega property only pays 200 NeoSimoleans a day! At that rate it would take 2 weeks to purchase a Dozier Wheel from the NeoMall. And i just discovered that only 4 Omega upgrades will have a hard hat at one time and that's probably a good thing because of the limited storage. I have 11 Omega buildings upgraded to the max and have 5 in various stages of upgrades, and that seems to be too many to do at once...

Hey its only simoleans...

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