SimCity BuildIt - Tip and Tricks Guide [WIP]
The Basics You place residence units and upgrade them by using resources that can be created at your factories or stores. Each item has an amount of time it takes to get ready. When you upgrade a ...
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I think a good section to add to this would be tips on placing police, fire and parks. More so parks because it isn't clear outside of the population boost radius their benefit if any to the city. Like will residents outside of the population boost radius visit the park or complain that they need a park to go to. For some reason police and fire stations don't have identical coverage radius. one is 10x12 and the other is 12x12. Roads count against this. So if one were to do most efficiently use the land and do the following - - - - indicate roads x x x x indicate residents:
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x x x x x x
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that would be 6x12. So if you placed a fire and police station across the top street the one would cover beyond the bottom road the other wouldn't. I haven't been able to figure out a placement pattern for them. And having parks mixed in complicates trying to figure out a pattern as well. Unless a park takes the place of a 2x2 resident leaving the 2 or 3 squares unused. But anyways it would be nice to have info from players who have sorted that stuff out already and have the benefit of their tips for placing these three things.
I used a city block model of two, four by six building space with roads all around.
In the centre of the pair of blocks I used a park a small medical a small fire and a small police. You lose two building plots but get 10 fully serviced building plots - and 100% happy citizens. It's cheap to expand whilst you build population and get the cargo ship unlocked. Before all the utilities unlock you actually get 11 building plots.
This modular format worked for a long while - as I started to use the hospital, fire and police top buildings I was able to recover some of the space. I was able to use the small units on the edge of my city where I could not fill in a complete pair of city blocks.
I have 9 expansions with 71 residential units and space for another 20 and everything is fully serviced. City Dooby Doo
In the centre of the pair of blocks I used a park a small medical a small fire and a small police. You lose two building plots but get 10 fully serviced building plots - and 100% happy citizens. It's cheap to expand whilst you build population and get the cargo ship unlocked. Before all the utilities unlock you actually get 11 building plots.
This modular format worked for a long while - as I started to use the hospital, fire and police top buildings I was able to recover some of the space. I was able to use the small units on the edge of my city where I could not fill in a complete pair of city blocks.
I have 9 expansions with 71 residential units and space for another 20 and everything is fully serviced. City Dooby Doo
- When you get to a higher level and even perhaps at lower, the best thing you can make is metal figure it out time taken you can make 30k per hour, when people stop buying go to wood 20k per hour, when your storage fills up go to plastic it gives you some time to trade on the gthq but switch back to wood asap. I ran with 20 sell slots and never had a problem getting the simoleans I needed. Cheers 😉
