Re: Maxis Manor

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.

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@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.

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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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@SomeSimGuy wrote:

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@bettysadog wrote:

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 pieces, especially gloves? Previously, remote controls were at a premium but now it seems to have shifted to gloves. 

Or is it just me?

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There was a conversation about this the other day.  It's not like a store for Vu items.  A bubble will appear above Maxis Manor offering you to buy an item at a simoleon price, but it happens so infrequently that it's not really a good source.  Yes buy whatever becomes available, but it's not like you can buy what you want when you want it.

Yes, it shifted to gloves.

Is that just your opinion or do you know for sure it has shifted to gloves?

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@bettysadog wrote:

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Is that just your opinion or do you know for sure it has shifted to gloves?

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Good point.  I can say that in my game it shifted from remotes to gloves, but we've now seen different people's games behave in different manners.  Others have said it shifted for them too, but just because it did for us does not mean that it did or it will for you.  Apparently, there is no consistence across platforms in this game either.  Something could be one way under android and entirely different under IOS as I'm figuring out by talking to people.

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@SomeSimGuy wrote:

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@bettysadog wrote:

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Is that just your opinion or do you know for sure it has shifted to gloves?

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Good point.  I can say that in my game it shifted from remotes to gloves, but we've now seen different people's games behave in different manners.  Others have said it shifted for them too, but just because it did for us does not mean that it did or it will for you.  Apparently, there is no consistence across platforms in this game either.  Something could be one way under android and entirely different under IOS as I'm figuring out by talking to people.

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Well it has shifted to gloves big time for me and at the same time there has been a very noticeable lack of any of the three available, either thru the Glob Mkt or balloon pops. 

Going back to maxis, these can be purchased as services. Does each maxis building function as one service or does it provide all 3 simultaneously? I assume that depending which service you purchased it through determines which service it provides. Again, it would be a good deal if it provided all three, but combined with limited availability of Vu items plus a large purchase price, the value greatly diminishes. 

Your thoughts?

Based on the description when you click on the building under Fire, Police or Health categories it acts as all 3.  Seems like a good deal, to bad I didn't look at the coverage area, I might be wrong if it's small.  As I mentioned, it appears to provide a random Vu piece purchase opportunity every 24hrs using gold not simcash.  

As for the lack of getting certain Vu pieces, I've not seen any real issue, I compare it to getting Beach or Mountain pieces, just random hit-or-miss.

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@DestroyISIS wrote:

Based on the description when you click on the building under Fire, Police or Health categories it acts as all 3.  Seems like a good deal, to bad I didn't look at the coverage area, I might be wrong if it's small.  As I mentioned, it appears to provide a random Vu piece purchase opportunity every 24hrs using gold not simcash.  

As for the lack of getting certain Vu pieces, I've not seen any real issue, I compare it to getting Beach or Mountain pieces, just random hit-or-miss.

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For me, beach and mountain pieces show up about 6 to 7 places in the Market every time I go to a new screen. In fact just recently I bought my way to a beach expansion and it took me about 15 minutes to purchase 54 pieces, because they are so available. Like I said, Vu pieces have literally disappeared.

And you are seeing that discrepancy ONLY because Vu pieces are being held so people can do disasters.  I, and everyone else, are tossing those Beach and Mountain pieces onto the market since we have little, or no, interest in expanding either.

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@bettysadog wrote:

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@DestroyISIS wrote:

As for the lack of getting certain Vu pieces, I've not seen any real issue, I compare it to getting Beach or Mountain pieces, just random hit-or-miss.

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For me, beach and mountain pieces show up about 6 to 7 places in the Market every time I go to a new screen. In fact just recently I bought my way to a beach expansion and it took me about 15 minutes to purchase 54 pieces, because they are so available. Like I said, Vu pieces have literally disappeared.

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I believe he was referring to the obtaining of Vu items through opinion bubbles and neighbor visits and not about Market availability.

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@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?

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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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@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.

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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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@SomeSimGuy wrote:

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@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.

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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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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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@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...

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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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@SomeSimGuy wrote:

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@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...

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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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Yes thank you

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

I bought 2 maxis when they first came out and they do cover a large territory-so much that I could now use smaller station in other places. These were bought at a fair price but 

 I find that the 2 ones that are left are 4000 dollars so are ridiculous  in price. Lots of vu items on a rotating basis.

I agree price is outrageous, how ever, l  am buying the first 2. Since one can play the season contest and get to play Megalopolis 3 times in a row one can easily afford them by placing 1st or 3rd place. I just did that.