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18xsl7bfn7sz
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago

Simcity Buildit - Follow the rules and you'll be banned!

In recent weeks, new rules have appeared in Simcity Buildit. For example, production times for nails, metal, and wood have been reduced, but demand for services such as water, sewer, garbage, and electricity has also been significantly reduced.

Strangely, these new rules seem to be deployed randomly; some cities are affected, others not, regardless of their level.

For my part, noticing that demand for services in my capital and regions was reduced, I chose to demolish these service buildings in order to use this space to build new residential buildings. Once destroyed, you are refunded a portion of the value of these services. In my case, these were Omega services, so I recovered about half the value of nearly 80 service buildings (yes, I had a lot!). In doing so, the amount available in my neobank reached approximately 40 million, while its limit is 750,000 Neosimoleons.
An hour or two later, my city was banned, excluded from my club on the server dedicated to cheaters.

Following a request for help finding a solution, the SimCity Buildit "specialist" told me that I had used an illegal version of SimCity Buildit to obtain so many Neosimoleons. Such ignorance of the game from a specialist is hard to imagine. It took me 10 years to build this city, and an EA intern gives himself the right to impose his opinion on me?!

In short, if you are affected by these new rules, do not destroy your Omega services if you think the refund amount will exceed your bank's limit.

If a real EA expert is reading this, know that I need help...

3 Replies

  • 4449mtsavnux's avatar
    4449mtsavnux
    Rising Vanguard
    7 days ago

    I decided to keep all my omega utilities because I read of someone else being banned for doing the same thing. They are banning long term players for simply selling omega utilities.   I’ve been playing since the start and this is the worst this game has been. I’m not even sure that I will be playing much longer. I’ve been losing interest really fast this past year. 

  • My omega bank is 150k I buy about 50 - 60 bridges then sell them in order to buy omega utilities plus I also get the omega hq which the next one is 600k neo simoleons to buy.

    The utilities cost 230k+. I hope I don’t get banned for doing this as this is the only way to buy them. It’s very hard to upgrade the bank as I never get the required items needed. I have at the moment 410 omega buildings and I want to get a lot more.

  • Same happened to me. Contacted EA numerous times and after waiting weeks for their reply their answer was that I broke the rules of the contract, but never specified which rule I broke after insisting a second time for a review of my case. 

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