SimCity forgot its roots and gone to war

I completely agree that SimCity has lost its identity.  It is trying to be a war game but there are so many better war games out there.  What made us fall in love with this game in the first place was the painstaking construction of a beautiful city, not the wars.

this massive increase in war tasks during contest of mayors is not just hitting the pacifists, it also affects those who do wars ... we war once a week.  We also get far too many war tasks and, when not at war, they can’t be done.  Note that going to war is a club decision not one for individuals to take so you can’t unilaterally decide to do it (even as a VP). 

Since the recent upgrade, our club has lost three members who have got fed up and even I (level 90 city) am beginning to lose interest.  These changes are not encouraging more people to do wars, they are encouraging more people to leave.  In the App Store, when I got sim city it had a rating of 4.6; it is not 3.8 and falling.  I bet the recent changes have only marginally increased the number of wars per week (some will have given in) but the CoM points scored will be down, the number of players will be down and other measures also trending the wrong way.

the makers need to make wars an optional extra: take the war tasks out of CoM, ideally altogether but worst case when a city is not at war.

carry on like this and I will be stopping 0laying too.