Regions - Feedback

Seriously, the new regions are cool and all but I was in for an unhappy surprise when I had to get war items.  Region items should NOT be included. Nor should they be required to upgrade  a Paris or London or Neo building.

Sharing storage already with war items is tough enough.  And it takes so many items to uograde your storage in the first place.  

I literally want nothing to do with regions but I was forced to and now I’m stuck not being able to rebuild or get war items. We just started a war and I haven’t even begun to to collect region items but they are required to get war items.  That’s not right!!! 

Please, please rethink your strategy and keep the regions separate from the main city. 

I’m so disappointed!  

Hi @EA_Mai , like you said in your post about regions: Which region should i unlock first?: ''This is completely up to you. You can choose between the Regions and which one you want to start building in. '' 

We are having a big problem with this, because, its not just an ''up to you'', you should clarify in that post that we will need all the items of the 3 regions for absolutely everything (Ships, building upgrades, airport and war supplies). If we know that at the beginning, we can agree on our club so that each one chooses a different region, because if we all choose Green Valley, for example, we will be stuck (really stuck), since open a next region its really hard, and not possible at this time.

If it is an error, I hope they solve it soon. If it is not an error, please transmit to the developers the problem, and that is, without a doubt, a terrible idea.

In the images that I attached, you can check that my buildings ask for bags, but those are ''Green Valley Products'', you can see in the image, that I cannot unlock it, because I have unlocked Limestone. 

Thanks for your help 🙂 

I didn't know that the new items were needed for everything, and those of the 3 regions, so, we can't keep that, we are forced to grow the 3 regions, right? At least we can help with clubs, however, I think it's still difficult, let's see if they change this in the future ... 

This regional city has ruined a great game I have been playing SimCity for 3 years now after 1 day I don’t want to play it anymore who out there is feeling the same way as me disappointed that your not given the choice if you want to play it or not it’s just there and it it interferes with the original game on your builds 

ditto .... a real problem....unless you want to spend your hard earned SimCash, makes CoM nigh on impossible...needs resolving ASAP please

i have been following this thread as well as exploring what i can in the game, learning whatever i can to see what is the real deal and i think i figured out the blunder, you guys should have provided way more details about what we need to do in the changes/updates once we added a region, and although i get wanting to add more items to the overall game, which is fine, you did it in a very messy way. 

i did realize last night that this is where having a club with active members is where being successful in this early on is going to make a big difference.

so all of you that have club members, get them to start talking and start trading new items with each other. hopefully members have all selected different regions so you can trade items with each other. for example, if i have green valley and another member has cactus canyon and another has limestone then you have something to work with. other than that, you are dead fish in the water and will have a hell of a time playing any aspect of this game.

they just upped the social aspect of this game with this update. now you need other mayors to play with and trade with until you can get all regions up and running yourself.

also, do not be building new residential zones in these regions unless you have a lot of coins to buy the resources you need to make your sims happy 100% first. you can build your factory and store in these regions and nothing else. and wait on designing/building that city up until you have the money, the space in storage and land to move forward, successfully.

not everyone is going to put this together quickly but those that are complaining should be looking for solutions instead of an easy way out. the game is meant to be challenging and solving the challenges is half the fun. now im not saying EA didnt drop the ball here on some level, bc i think they did and probably should have either worked 1 region in at a time in the game, or offered an easier way for us to make coin and gain storage expansions easier prior to this upgrade and i dont mean the lousy 50 or 65% cash discount on the storage items. 8 of each when you need 14? really? that is just a slap in the face if you ask me. what we do need is a real ability to be able to earn these pieces you need to expand onto the regions, rather than just in random pops of bubbles. there has to be other ways to obtain these vital pieces.

so now that you gave us all this great new stuff to have fun with, now why dont you give us some tools that we can actually use to play it. like a new FAQ section? some other way to store items or expand on what we do have? make maybe a club market? and even expand what we see on the market now that there is more to get? 

i think this is a great thing in the making but you certainly didnt do it with clear direction. that is something that should be address, i just dont understand how all the money and people on this, and this is the final result put out to the public. this is what really baffles me.

Are we going to get the ability to collect taxes in the regional currency? Without this I can’t see how we are going to be able to get enough to build up the region. If you sell the new regional items you get standard simeoleons and the in game offers to buy items give only a tiny amount of currency

So a lot has already been said, but just to echo the two "quirks" I see - ⚽ We can't see anyone else's regions  and 🏈 residents in a region should generate tax income in local currency.

In addition, it seems odd that you can't name the city in regions?

Final agreement to some extent is that perhaps selling local items would give you local currency (or at least there could be a mechanism to trade between currencies as we have so many now - a sim "bureau de change"!

Okay, it was cool for about 5 minutes. Already I can't repair my city from a war because the game is asking for things that I can't even make yet in the region. And now I just don't even want to play the region because it's way too much to try to make all of these items AND play war, AND have enough storage to store things, including the increase storage items. I fully agree with others in the thread that the storage increases are going to need to be easier if you want people to keep playing. And to FORCE me to have to continue the region to get items for war is just messed up.

1) add more storage abilities / less expansion items needed to increase storage / a separate storage place for your city vs. region

2) don't require us to play the region to play all the other games within the game (War, city challenges). Especially right away.

3) the game should know that I can't make certain things yet and NOT require them for war repairs. (WAY messed up)

4) Option to delete the region once started - I'm about to just not play anymore, which is sad, because I REALLY like playing war. Wish I would've never opened that region now that I can't get rid of it and it's now made the game 10x more time consuming than previously.

I agree, this is very frustrating. I do not want to have to collect yet another vast array of items. It already takes far too long to construct shipments and with a marketplace that insists on hiding items that you need (because the marketplace has access to the list of items you need) and a slowly expanding storage it becomes even more difficult.

I would like to be able to remove Regions from my game play, but I can't seem to find ANY information on how to do this either.