EA StaffHi Mayors!
Regions just arrived to SimCity BuildIt, let's use this thread for all your feedback about this new feature!
What do you like? What do you feel could be improved? Why? Anything you want to share - we would love to hear what you think!
Still no reply from @EA_Mai ... We have made 4 more clubs to support our 200 plus members for CoM chest... Most of them are leaving and not playing the game anymore due to this ridiculousness. You tried to make money off this but instead you lost a ton of ad revenue. Enjoy losing more players.
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Granted, expanding storage should require less items, or those items be made easier to find on GTHQ.
I find it a tad ridiculous that you'll need (for example) 20 storage bars, locks and cameras to expand at higher levels, which takes up 60 space. And equally frustrating having to trawl through GTHQ for hours to find a few of them.
But at the same time, I don't see how it's such a big dealbreaker that some have made it out to be. Or bad enough to make them quit (following the regional update).
My storage is at 320 only, but I can cope. One has to juggle, and cannot have everything their way.
Want to have big ready inventories of war items? Sure. But that means you have to have less of the 12 new regional items. Just refresh building plans if one is needed and you don't have it. Want to stock up on regional items for building upgrades instead? Then you'll just need to cut down on war items, or have less regular items to fulfil deliveries.
It isn't easy, but it's not impossible either.
I've never bothered with the war business but do belong to a team.
I am at 470 storage now and easily maintain a nice balance.
We all should remember how this game and we started, slogging along building as best and fast as we could.
Now we get another chance or three to create our regions.
Just another slog and as of now, nothing more.
So, just enjoy what you can make and enjoy what we comes our way.
It seems as if the issue of needing items from regions you are not part of has been fixed which is great and with three sections open and building and almost 50K population, this is mellow fun.
To all those poopooing the poopooers about the new regions, of which I am one of the poopooers, It's not that I don't want access the new regions, it's that they integrated the new regions in a way that breaks the base game.
As a software guy myself, the first rule is DO NOT BREAK the production release. They introduced too much too quickly in a game that requires patience and time.
You have to work really hard to get a decent amount of storage in a system that is quite stingy with the rare items required to increase storage, city expansion, etc.
Literally overnight dozens of new items were introduced to every aspect of a game whose storage resources are exceptionally limited for those that abhor games that are "pay to win."
It might be different if everyone was less than level 25 and could gradually acclimate to the new regions and inventory, but for me at level 61 I was in a good place storage-wise and suddenly I was dead in the water so to speak.
Building upgrades, war items, Vu repairs were all suddenly requiring resources I didn't have, random rewards were suddenly eating highly coveted storage space, etc...
Something should have been done to account for all the new inventory or the base game should have been kept isolated with some sort of tiered integration, at least in my opinion.
I believe a lot of people would appreciate regions more if the first regional buildings, the ones that cost 300, were free or much cheaper for the first placement. It’d make the beginning a lot more enjoyable which seems like one of the bigger complaints. Only a few weeks in I’m looking at 10k+ excess currency, making that initial shortage seem like a needless and untimely hurdle.
Also, looking at CoM task “produce and collect 40 crude oil - 1 hour”. It takes 48 minutes to produce that many, or 42 if you have a batch hovering. That strikes me as a little harsh on time constraint and need to observe a timer compared to any other production task.
I have to say that I like the update. As a fully expanded player myself, I was in need of something new. The graphics and the themes are great. I have just unlocked my second region and can't wait to unlock the third one. The aditional storage is also a big motivation to continuing work on them.
However, as the regions don't give us anything in return (taxes), I was wondering what's the point of continuing work on them after unlocking the 3 regions.
So, please add the regional population to the capital city population count. We spend thousands of simoleons in regions, so it would be fair if those regions could give taxes (simoleons) in return.
It was fun having more land to build, but when I have filled all the available space in Green Valley, rising to 20K current population 3K local currency, I can’t still see any reason for investing the - ridiculously scarce - expansion items in the region and not in the main city.
These ecological residents require more than ten times electricity, water and sewage than the less ecological inhabitants of the main city! Waste management demand is even higher (111 demand from 22600 pop. vs 176 from 830K in the main city). I have invested an indecent amount of simoleons keeping regional residents happy and I still can’t see any return other than these 3K local currency.
If I compare the invested simoleons with the return in leafs, the exchange rate between the two currencies should be more than 200/1! But once all residents have their beloved eco market, I don’t see what to do with this precious local currency other than building more eco markets - in expansions I still don’t consider worth opening. So I better go back to my bankrupt main city,
Is this all there is? Am I missing something? Are there some hidden possibilities that will show only at a higher level?
