Re: OMEGA TIP

The problem is you can't USE the simoleons from the "regular" part of the game.  This addition is like a game in it's own.  With really weird rules....

GT

I'm glad to see others embracing the Omega adventure. I have quit the COM and epic challenges and have devoted the last couple of weeks to Omegaville. But this part of the game has more quirks than can be listed here. Here's my slice of it:

1. 26 Omega buildings-22 maxed out upgrade-wise

2. 3 small ControlNet Towers

3. 5 small Drone Bases and 1 Basic Drone Base

4. 3 Omega Labs

5. Storage upgraded to 30

6. NeoBank upgraded to 13,000

7. Level 68 2.8 million sims

To afford the 7000 per canister cost of omega items, I produce products round the clock. I have been able to maintain my level of simoleans throughout my participation in Omegaville and afford everything listed above

To work around the capacity limitation with storage and the neobank is a definite challenge. Especially after you have upgraded a few times and find that your next level of drone upgrade exceeds your Neobank capacity by 200%. Same with the ControlNet. Right now for me to purchase a 4th ControlNet small tower is 32,400 neosimoleans. Considering my capacity in the bank is 13,000, how may pieces would be needed to upgrade that many times? It is actually quite easy to fill up your storage with 30 pieces, which makes maneuvering around difficult. And the NeoMall, although helpful at times, rarely has more than 2 omega pieces available at one time. 

When I find I'm out of storage, upgrading a property is a great way to reduce inventory. The last upgrade usually requires 9 to 11 pieces, but then you end up with not enough variety to complete any other upgrades right then. Another tool I have used to bail myself out is the 100 neocash purchase of the one item you need to upgrade. I buy on the fly and usually only to make the final upgrade

All in all, I like the Omega thing. Its new, different, challenging and all of the other things that allow us to justify our masochistic tendencies...

I've been managing to consistently upgrade my builds while still just having the 25 slots available for storage, although now i have 3 buildings waiting to upgrade to max so it is difficult waiting for the right combination of items.

I'm getting to the stage of just buying things to actually lower my neosims

The only way to out maneuver the Omega storage buildup by a significant measure will be to increase it up to at least 70. That would require 11 units of the resources required. The main problem with increasing the storage is that for each successive iteration the resources required change. The random system of processing the materials is amusing as usual but they should add few more slots at the research lab or the ability to build new ones. I'm  currently at 35 and have taken a leave from the Omega part for a while for building up my 'old' storage.

I hope you get to 70 in the next month. With your level it shouldn't take much long.

Woah that is cruel. I too noticed it just now, the 9 capacity drone base costs 16200 for me too. Goodbye Omegaville... 

By the way, how much will the bank expand from 16000 to? 19000? Asking because the largest drone base costs 21000, seems saving for that one should be the right choice now..

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@Alaxyendra wrote:

Woah that is cruel. I too noticed it just now, the 9 capacity drone base costs 16200 for me too. Goodbye Omegaville... 

By the way, how much will the bank expand from 16000 to? 19000? Asking because the largest drone base costs 21000, seems saving for that one should be the right choice now..

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to go from 16000 to 19000 requires 5 each of the . Its probably different for each person but its asking for 4D printers, projectors and jet packs

And I still don't understand how those things will help increase bank capacity. However I think you should wait till you upgrade bank till 21000 after 19000 (hopefully) and purchase deluxe drone base

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@Alaxyendra wrote:

And I still don't understand how those things will help increase bank capacity. However I think you should wait till you upgrade bank till 21000 after 19000 (hopefully) and purchase deluxe drone base

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Oh I totally agree. For the additional 1200 neosimoleans you get 5 extra drones with the basic. Its just after coming up with the 12 pieces required and to find out you are short by 200 neosims, the last thing I want to do is collect now 15 pieces to get to 19,000. and then it would be 18 more to get to 22,000 so that is something that will happen down the road. I tend to take these levels of achievement one at a time with this game

But it certainly makes sense to do so

I asked in another topic but received no reply. This topic is definitely germane...so I'll try here.

If you bulldoze a single drone (or any size drone for that matter), do you get a commensurate decrease in drone cost? 

I'm almost tempted to try it myself just to find out.

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@Scups12 wrote:

I asked in another topic but received no reply. This topic is definitely germane...so I'll try here.

If you bulldoze a single drone (or any size drone for that matter), do you get a commensurate decrease in drone cost? 

I'm almost tempted to try it myself just to find out.

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I dont know exactly the answer, I figure not many people have had the opportunity to bulldoze drone bases. Here's what I do know...

After buying a few small controlnet towers, the cost now far exceeds the cost of a basic tower. I anticipate that after I buy one of the basic ones, the cost for a small will go down. And I think it works similar for drones. Right now the cost for the small and basic drone base is within 1200 neo's of each other. Previously I was able to buy the bigger basic base for less than the small, after which the cost for the small did go down

We are all navigating through uncharted waters here, so trial and error may be our best tool...

Imho greedy ea have ruined the game with the omega stuff. I have about 1.4m sims in my city, i decided to get involved with omega buildings and these are the reasons i will probably throw in the towel and delete the game from my phone.

1) the omega update is a completely separate game within a game which kind of renders the original game useless and untouched
2) the omega items are ridiculously expensive
3) the mall where you can buy these items is full of expensive rubbish that you dont want and maybe one or two overpriced omega items that 9 times out of 10 you dont need
4) you end up filling your omega storage with like 10 of 1 particular item and hardly ever have the right combination of items to upgrade buildings before you fill your storage, but then you're stuck because YOU CAN'T SELL THESE ITEMS and you can't upgrade the storage because of course you never have the right combination of items for that either.
5) i got offered ONCE to buy an omega item by the game and i was offered about 100 neosimoleans for an item that would have cost me 2000-4000 in the mall. I mean seriously wtaf?
6) when you make new omega items in the labs you only get a very small percentage of omega items plus a load of items u don't want, which you then can't sell because the global trade thing is like a ghost town now and you have to wait for the bot to buy them.

I spend WAY less time playing this game now simply because i go in the game, i see i don't have the omega items i need, the stupid mall doesn't have the items i need, so i just request new plans for all the omega buildings and quit the game again, rinse and repeat.

This is a cynical greedy attempt by ea to get people to spend real money which im not falling for....like all the other cynical greedy attempts in the past - like suddenly moving the goalposts with road upgrades for example, and on top of that the constant spam in the game to watch videos (so so lame), etc.

If you want to know how to do this properly ea, look at how supercell do it, as for me im deleting this game which i have been happily playing for over a year because it's obviously just going to get worse as has been the trend the whole time I've been playing.

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4) you end up filling your omega storage with like 10 of 1 particular item and hardly ever have the right combination of items to upgrade buildings before you fill your storage, but then you're stuck because YOU CAN'T SELL THESE ITEMS and you can't upgrade the storage because of course you never have the right combination of items for that either.

5) i got offered ONCE to buy an omega item by the game and i was offered about 100 neosimoleans for an item that would have cost me 2000-4000 in the mall. I mean seriously wtaf?

In my experience I get offers to sell Omega stuff when my storage is almost full. Haven't played enough with Omega to say exactly when but I think it is when there is five or less slots left. I decline the offers and almost immediately get a new one. Repeat until satisfied. Currently I have an offer of 4 pieces for like 900.

/Brian

make new buildings and upgrade them

I've already done that, and now I have no more real estate available until I unlock the rest of the area of my map....which will take years thanks to exponentially rising amounts of dozer components I need to collect.

I could demolish parts of my city, but no thanks - what's the point, I'm done with the game.

I have since had another offer to buy an omega item - in my omega storage I have 10 x 1 particular item, 9 x another item, then 1 x various other items, totalling 25 items. I have never had an offer to buy one of the items that I have 10 or 9 of, otherwise I would have taken the ridiculous 100 neosim offer just to get rid of one of them, I've only had offers to buy the valuable single items I have.

In the mall i only ever get items that I don't want/need, not that it matters as my storage is full.

I can't upgrade my storage because I don't have the right combination of items.

I can't upgrade my bank for the same reason.

I continually ask for new plans on my omega buildings but never get a combination that I have.

Check mate.

Game deleted. Well done EA you greedy ****s

i can safely say this has not been the case with me, although i still haven't passed the bank having more than 10k and 25 storage spaces but i do continually get layouts i need in the end and have enough items for upgrading bank and storage, however, i need to be really patient for the extra bits i don't have.

When it comes to Omega, I've managed to get to 55 storage and 25000 Capacity in NeoBank.  

It is very true that the start to offer to "buy" (at greatly reduced rates..) your Omega items when you are close to capacity in storage.  I did at first pay "100" to complete the upgrade because they REFUSE to give you the item you NEED, but now I have discovered if you keep saying "NO" to the sale and get even closer to your storage max, they seem to cough up the needed item.  I also will have them change building plans on the Omega buildings to NOT INCLUDE any items needed for upgrading Storage or Bank.  

Seems to be working.  I'm still not certain I really like this part of the game, but it has been contributing to my point during Contest of the Mayors.

GT.

I'm been patient with the Omega related items.  But I have to say it's very trying and tiring.

I only do anything Omega related when a Mayor's challenge requires it.

Which brings me to a very sore point:  One of the challenges is getting a certain number of Neosimoleonss.  In every case except one, the amount required was always more than the Neo residences produce in a 24 hour period.  I'm usually 12 hours short.  And hoping for an offer to buy some of the stuff is exceedingly rare.  Unlike everything else, no amount of cheetah tokens will help, no amount of SimCash will help, no amount of Neosimoleons will help.  You are stuck either never starting the challenge, starting and aborting, or seeing it through at a tremendous cost to time.

Deliveries can be sped up with Simcash.  Missing Dr Vu items can be handled by Simcash.  Creating 18 fire pits can be handled by lots of cheetah tokens.

Even making 51 electrical components when the factory capacity is only 50 can be handled by using Simcash to make the 51st item (avoiding an extra seven hours of wait time).

But collecting Neosimoleons which could require 36 hours with no way to speed it up?  That's just ridiculous.  If you're going to take people's hard earned money, then provide a way for us to give it to you!  Or change it.

@Restville an option i would recommend is not to collect from your neo buildings for a while and then hopefully it gives you the required amount.  Although i don't know myself how much you can hold before it caps.

Hope this helps.

EQFetish, A couple questions for you:

At any point does increasing your bank or storage capacity, or a Deluxe upgrade reduce the wait times of the Research Center or Omega Labs? What about increasing Lab processing? (I'm guessing no, but thought I'd ask.)

And does purchasing the deluxe ControlNet make it easier to collect the Neo Simcash from atop the buildings? Someone in another thread said it appeared that the linking of coins seeme dto coincide with the location of you ControlNet Towers.

Thanks.

to be honest i don't think doing the OMEGA is worth it.  

I will definitely be continuing to finish the area that i've dedicated to it, which will hopefully give me about 4k neosims a day but just the area, patience, time and LUCK to complete them is massive.

Keep it simple i say.

I agree it's not worth it. But, if you've put the effort in to build up Omega Buildings and you can net 3-4k neosims a day, and you forget about the rest of the Omega update. Those neosims can essentially purchase daily tokens, upgrade parts etc. some of which are not available unless you scavenge the Trader HQ for hours. So that is really the bonus ... is that worth it? still, probably not.