I couldn't hekp but notice there was an update to the road system which is extremely annoying. After saving $300k in my 290,000 person city suddenly one by one my roads turned red and sucked it all down to $10k in an amount of time that is impossible to keep up with. Now I have red roads with no money.After reading other complaints it seems that when I have the money to upgrade this red road that's other road will go red. meaning that all I'm going to be doing is upgrading roads for days and days.No thanks, that's no fun. Delete.

Agreed. All of a sudden, I have to spend 200k to upgrade roads that were fine before this "improvement". EA, why didn't you just delete 200k from our accounts? It would have been simpler and less infuriating. It's hard to see me playing this game any further. This is a horrible "upgrade". Also, the Dr. Vu "improvements" add nothing to the game except more expense. Oh, and the eternally wretched trade center is now filled with useless Dr. Vu items. Congrats EA; it took multiple tries but you've finally killed this game. Is there anyway to reinstall the previous version? I use an iPad.

To all on this thread:This whole scenario is a "disaster".EA removed a reply that I had made two days ago. Why? because they did not like what I said. I said noting more than the truth and it hurt them because of their "modified freemium business model' concerning this game.EA is not going to respond to us "power players"; more likely the will continue to delete our responses.Issues:1) GTHQ swarmed with Vu items, because players are now not using the disaster challenges.2) Road upgrades are unrealistic, use up all Simoleans one can earn in one day just to upgrade.3) Experience rewards shrink per person per level, forcing a player to stay longer on a level.4) Tax dollars earned shrink per person per level, to $0.02 per person when reaching 1 million Sims5) Building upgrades in later levels cost 2-5 times more than their Simolean dollar worth.6) Selling products on the trade market is being hindered.7) Mysterious missing Simcash8) Players getting charged twice for a Simcash transaction.9) Missing keys10) Bugs, bugs, bugsNeed I go on?Why am I writing this? Not to complain: but to try and force EA to do the right thing, Which is to fix the game "if you are going to spend" your own money to play SimCity Buildit. This game is needlessly taking real money from players and who is reaping the rewards? Certainly not the game player. If you spend your own money to play; then these issues should not be a roadblock to playing this game.We did some research on EA and Simcities original game inventor please follow the below link to those comments to read. And in the meantime lets see if EA has what it takes to either fix this game or to remove this comment off this forum. I suspect we know what hey will do.Comment from nw8240bphttp://answers.ea.com/t5/SimCity-BuildIt-Support/trade-depot-OVERWHELMED-with-Vu-Tower-items/m-p/4560754/highlight/false#M4209

had £700k, decided to upgrade nearly every road but, before finishing, ended up with £3000.Designed to make you spend real cash!

Yes! It is so bad. Getting any golden keys is a pain now too. I hate this upgrade!

I have spent over §700,000 in a little over a week on road upgrades.

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Anonymous
11 years ago
had £700k, decided to upgrade nearly every road but, before finishing, ended up with £3000.
Designed to make you spend real cash!
Anonymous
11 years ago
Agreed. All of a sudden, I have to spend 200k to upgrade roads that were fine before this "improvement". EA, why didn't you just delete 200k from our accounts? It would have been simpler and less infuriating. It's hard to see me playing this game any further. This is a horrible "upgrade". Also, the Dr. Vu "improvements" add nothing to the game except more expense. Oh, and the eternally wretched trade center is now filled with useless Dr. Vu items. Congrats EA; it took multiple tries but you've finally killed this game. Is there anyway to reinstall the previous version? I use an iPad.
Anonymous
11 years ago
Yes! It is so bad. Getting any golden keys is a pain now too. I hate this upgrade!
Anonymous
11 years ago
how and where do I find this? help
Anonymous
11 years ago
I have spent over §700,000 in a little over a week on road upgrades.
Anonymous
11 years ago
I do not like this new roads update. I had over $400000 saved up and now every time I start this game up i have to keep upgrading the roads and now only have $26000 and sims are moving out! I have more roads to upgrade but cost is $46000!!! Thanks for ruining my fun......
Anonymous
11 years ago
It is EA'S way to get you to spend real money for an advertised "free" game. I'm holding a sale on items. If an update doesn't fix this by Wednesday (I gave them a week to fix it), I'm deleting the game. Looking for bargains, you'll know me by my new name ;-)!
Anonymous
11 years ago
Don't upgrade the road. Just destroy and rebuild it
Anonymous
11 years ago
destroying the road does you no good it will just need upgrading again 24 hours later....and after you upgrade that one another one will need upgrading. Every road has to be upgraded like 4-5 times is total *...
Anonymous
11 years ago
I totaly agree. Roads and dr vu upgrade make the game unplayable. The trade center is jammed of vu items. No thanks I don't want then. Besides, the dozers items became impossible to find. You've killing the game. Very sad

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