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Re: Feedback on Services 2.0 - Can we have more expansions?

I've been playing this game for  10yrs.im worried about this update. Does that mean all my hard work will be lost? I don't want this update tbh.

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  • alifie1's avatar
    alifie1
    New Ace
    20 days ago

    My city is only level 68. I believe Services 2.0 are worse for higer level cities because so many “red” residential homes  that suddenly appear are overwhelming. 

    I think the main problem is, that when  Services 2.0 arrive, you have no idea what works and  what does not.  I wasted a lot of Simoleons  upgrading Services and roads in my regions during the first week.   I stopped wasting Simoleons only after I had no more Simoleons and I realized that what I was doing would not provide results I needed. 

    I had to put all population boosters into storage to make room for necessary reorganisations and to avoid road upgrades. (I really wasted too many Simoleons and NeoSimoleons to upgrade roads.)

    I buldozed about  10% of residential buildings in my Capital (like OldTown, Kyoto, Parisian and London homes - I planed to get rid of these for ages, so I am not complaining).

    Prior Services 2.0 I could not afford more than one of each of Omega services. With Services 2.0, Omega Services (power, water, …) level 1 are affordable, so I replaced old services with Omega Services  as fast as I was able to collect  NeoSimoleons and buldozed the old now redundant services  (to get regular Simoleons).

    The most useful thing I had was Maxis Manor - it has infinite capacity (needs no upgrades). 

    It took about 4 weeks  to get comfortable again, about 8 weeks to get all my population back where it was prior Services 2.0.

     I have not spend any real money to make my population 100% happy. However,  the first 3 weeks of Services 2.0 were stressfull.  

     

     

     

  • GrumpyBedlam's avatar
    GrumpyBedlam
    Seasoned Ace
    21 days ago

    They seldom do, unless it's something that might make players throw money at the game.

  • Vernissa's avatar
    Vernissa
    Seasoned Ace
    21 days ago

    Same here. Just got a message saying services 2 is getting rolled out to all Mayors. They did not listen!