@Forgotten_Woods
I think the idea is to entice or encourage mayors to build cities. After all, at its core, SimCity BuildIt IS a city building game.
I do agree with you that achieving a population of 3,000,000 can seem overwhelming at first, but it can be done over time. You also always have the option of placing a new Regional Hotspot, and of course, upgrading that one will require less population and less regional currency to upgrade. I personally choose to upgrade all until their Epic Point value is 4, then I place them in storage, (to save space), and placed new ones. When I do an Epic project in the Region, (especially when Hotspots are worth double points), I bring all of them out of storage. That's just me, but it might work for someone else as well. I don't do it this way to avoid building my city, I do it because I enjoy competing in CoM and as we agree, it takes time (and tons of resources) to achieve some of the population requirements to do an upgrade once you've gotten to a certain level. When my Region is "population ready" I fully intend to bring my half-finished Hotspots out of storage and upgrade them fully. The animation on some of them is really cool!😎
Have fun and thanks for your input!
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