Greetings Mayors, Upgrade Dr. Vu’s Tower and unleash more disasters in this all new update! Dr. Vu has been busy; he has redesigned the Vu Tower for his new and powerful experiments. Experience more powerful disasters and collect Vu points to unlock three new disaster challenges: The giant robot, the lightning storm, and the tornado! Additional New Features: New Road upgrades – Boulevards, Avenues, and Street Car Avenues New specialization – House of Worship New social feature – Visit a friend, stranger or Mayor Daniel and collect gifts by popping bubbles 16 New Achievements The maximum slots available in the City Storage has been increased Bug fixes: Fix for Global Trade HQ crashing UI fixes for 800x480 and 800x540 devices Fix for a rare crash that prevented user from entering the game Adjusted the way population scores work for the Landmark, Entertainment, and Gambling Specializations Happy building, Mayors!

Well, it looks like I will be done with this game as of today.This update is not an update, it is a reset, and a total money grub.Currently I have over 1 million population, have only 10 unlocked land zones left, and 300k simoleans. I now have 500k in road upgrades due, can't get any keys because you have to upgrade @ big $ the ALREADY PAID FOR Vu Tower before you can get to any meaningful disasters, the Trade Center is chocked full of Vu items because there is no longer a benefit and it is too costly for most to upgrade. You'll never get enough keys using only the ship. The new "achievements" are a joke because you get no credit for what you've already accomplished, and they are 3 dollars. whoopdie f'n doo. Add to that you have to collect stupid storage upgrade items again because the increase to storage (which you really only need because you have to collect locks, cameras and bars).WHY WOULD ROADS THAT WERE PERFECTLY GOOD ALL THIS TIME NOW BE INADEQUATE WHEN I HAVEN'T ADDED ANY HOUSING?Add to that the view is so zoomed in now I can only see about 1/8 of my city at a time.You completely ruined the game this time, idiots.FIX IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT HESITATE. DO NOT TALK IT OVER. RESET TO PREVIOUS VERSION - NOW.

A word of advice -- do NOT update this game. Within a day, all of your six lane roads will start having traffic problems and you'll be forced to spend hundreds of thousands of simoleans to upgrade them into the new street types. If you don't have the simoleans, well tough. Your people will become unhappy, which will cut your tax revenue. Which will make it even harder to get more simoleans. Etc., etc.I'd avoid the hassle and just build 600k worth of structures, then demolish them. You'll achieve the same result as upgrading and your Dr Vu won't suck.

So far I'm liking this upgrade. Thank you. However, I have economic empire and importer rewards at 3* which needed 250000 to achieve. New reward for master trader and master purchaser set new 1* at 500000 each but do we really have to start again or is this another glitch? Same happened for wealthy and the new master of simoleons, starting from scratch to earn 1500000 for 1*? Design or error?

"New Road upgrades – Boulevards, Avenues, and Street Car Avenues"Very misleading. The implication is that these updates are optional. But these "upgrades" are effectively mandatory and will cost hundreds of thousands of simoleons.Six lane roads can no longer handle all traffic. So, within a day or so, you'll start having traffic problems and have to spend a LOT to upgrade your road net, more or less at the same time. Effectively, this update will confiscate hundreds of thousands of simoleans. I now wish I could reinstall the previous version. Fair warning.EA, are you sure this isn't the "Disastrous Update"?

Good Lord! Where do I start? Will you even listen?I'll take this bullet by bullet...1) Let's start off on a good note. I like the gift bubbles a lot when visiting other cities. It's a nice perk and you can get some good stuff to use and/or re-sell. The fact that you offer Tokyo Town items and even "dollars" was refreshing. B) I will depart from some of the others and say the road upgrades are cool. Yes, they are expensive but I was kinda thinking that something more to work on is ok with me. And they give the city a different look. Also, a tip already mentioned: Move your buildings of the the road then back on to it and it clears the mandatory upgrade and all your sims are happy. I will just work on the upgrades anyway unless I'm short on cash.Next) WHAT IN THE HECK DID YOU PEOPLE DO TO THE GTHQ NOW? It's even more useless than before, if that's possible. 80% of the items are Dr Vu (more on that next) and I went hours upon hours without seeing a single dozer part and items that I could find once in a while like fire pits, rolls and such have nearly disappeared altogether. You have to run across them by sheer luck.4) Dr Vu's tower is kinda stupid now. Why go through a challenge and not get a key? Then you offer up 500 or so coins! I can get double that by selling my Dr Vu items in the GTHQ, if they sell that is with the massive glut of them there. The upgrades to the tower are of but with the road updates it's become to pricey.E) More slots in City storage??? I don't have the room to save up 18 (my next upgrade cost) of each item when I already have 20-30 slots tied up in dozer parts, always waiting for the one part I need, 5-6 slots with Tokyo parts (you don't dare sell them) and the one saving grace is I don't have to keep Dr Vu items anymore because there is a bazillion available in the GTHQ. Does it seem strange to you folks that I don't have the storage capacity to store the items I need to increase my storage?Next) This brings us back to the root problem in your thinking. You want us to pay real money to play the game. See, if I were you guys I'd make this game playable and a fun experience. Make it challenging but far less dependent on real cash to advance at a reasonable pace. With that, I would roll out a moderately more advanced game NOT dependent on real cash (but with an option to buy things if one is so inclined) and sell it as a monthly fee or one time cost but NO games with Having to pay to move along. Make it challenging but usable. Have a railway system, more construction options, building styles ect... USE THIS GAME currently to wet everyone's appetite for the new pay for it monthly or 1 time purchase game that could use the current platform. By making this game enjoyable people would be more willing to recommend your company and pay for a more advanced version of the "real" game.7) This leads me to the final thing. Why can't you actually listen to us, respond to us and even take some of these suggestions? You might get less hate mail about it if you responded to peoples concerns and in effect reap the rewards of good publicity and the increased sales of your other games... Seems like a sound business model to me. Use this game a positive, fun model for people to get hooked on to purchase a newer version that really works without trying to get into their wallet at every corner. Let us PLAY a game reasonably and I think you would have oodles of monthly 2.99 or 3.99 subscription payments coming in...I'd thank you for reading but past experience tells me you won't...So sorry for you actually, you are missing out on a REAL cash cow-Sad Mayor-

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22 Replies

Anonymous
10 years ago
Approved
So far I'm liking this upgrade. Thank you. However, I have economic empire and importer rewards at 3* which needed 250000 to achieve. New reward for master trader and master purchaser set new 1* at 500000 each but do we really have to start again or is this another glitch? Same happened for wealthy and the new master of simoleons, starting from scratch to earn 1500000 for 1*? Design or error?
Anonymous
10 years ago
Approved
Is there any clue what the change to specialisations is? Are all able to boost by 100% like parks can, or are there combination rules as before? Is worship another 100% boost too? Like some idea before I splash out on buildings that might not make a difference. Thanks.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Approved
Hi Jamie,

The achievement counter is as designed.

The changes to specializations was to tweak the bonus population you received when placing one of the buildings in the city. A minor bug where the right amount of population was not shown was fixed in this update, and many Mayors with specialization buildings in their cities should have seen a small increase in their populations.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Approved
Thank you Amelie. Just bug fixing so I infer from your message that gambling entertainment and landmarks remain a combined 100% while parks worship education and transport provide 100% each? Your tutorials aren't updated yet so can't check elsewhere.
MeneerHepatica
10 years ago
What i have seen till now a nice update. Just have to explore more.
Only on my phone (Galaxy Note 1) i'm not able to zoom out anymore?? Is this also part of the update? It's a bit irritating to play at max zoom in mode.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Approved
I'm having the same problem on my Droid Turbo. I can't zoom out any longer. Is there a resolution option somewhere?
Anonymous
10 years ago
Approved
"New Road upgrades – Boulevards, Avenues, and Street Car Avenues"

Very misleading. The implication is that these updates are optional. But these "upgrades" are effectively mandatory and will cost hundreds of thousands of simoleons.

Six lane roads can no longer handle all traffic. So, within a day or so, you'll start having traffic problems and have to spend a LOT to upgrade your road net, more or less at the same time. Effectively, this update will confiscate hundreds of thousands of simoleans. I now wish I could reinstall the previous version. Fair warning.

EA, are you sure this isn't the "Disastrous Update"?
SkeeterMark
10 years ago
Well, it looks like I will be done with this game as of today.
This update is not an update, it is a reset, and a total money grub.
Currently I have over 1 million population, have only 10 unlocked land zones left, and 300k simoleans. I now have 500k in road upgrades due, can't get any keys because you have to upgrade @ big $ the ALREADY PAID FOR Vu Tower before you can get to any meaningful disasters, the Trade Center is chocked full of Vu items because there is no longer a benefit and it is too costly for most to upgrade. You'll never get enough keys using only the ship. The new "achievements" are a joke because you get no credit for what you've already accomplished, and they are 3 dollars. whoopdie f'n doo. Add to that you have to collect stupid storage upgrade items again because the increase to storage (which you really only need because you have to collect locks, cameras and bars).
WHY WOULD ROADS THAT WERE PERFECTLY GOOD ALL THIS TIME NOW BE INADEQUATE WHEN I HAVEN'T ADDED ANY HOUSING?
Add to that the view is so zoomed in now I can only see about 1/8 of my city at a time.
You completely ruined the game this time, idiots.
FIX IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT HESITATE. DO NOT TALK IT OVER. RESET TO PREVIOUS VERSION - NOW.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Approved
What is the upgrade "boulevards avenues and streetcars" about? I got excited about the
@AmelieEA wrote:
Greetings Mayors,

Upgrade Dr. Vu’s Tower and unleash more disasters in this all new update!
Dr. Vu has been busy; he has redesigned the Vu Tower for his new and powerful experiments. Experience more powerful disasters and collect Vu points to unlock three new disaster challenges: The giant robot, the lightning storm, and the tornado!

Additional New Features:
New Road upgrades – Boulevards, Avenues, and Street Car Avenues
New specialization – House of Worship
New social feature – Visit a friend, stranger or Mayor Daniel and collect gifts by popping bubbles
16 New Achievements
The maximum slots available in the City Storage has been increased
Bug fixes:
Fix for Global Trade HQ crashing
UI fixes for 800x480 and 800x540 devices
Fix for a rare crash that prevented user from entering the game
Adjusted the way population scores work for the Landmark, Entertainment, and Gambling Specializations
Happy building, Mayors!

streetcar part but I cant find any or how to set them up.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Approved
A word of advice -- do NOT update this game. Within a day, all of your six lane roads will start having traffic problems and you'll be forced to spend hundreds of thousands of simoleans to upgrade them into the new street types. If you don't have the simoleans, well tough. Your people will become unhappy, which will cut your tax revenue. Which will make it even harder to get more simoleans. Etc., etc.

I'd avoid the hassle and just build 600k worth of structures, then demolish them. You'll achieve the same result as upgrading and your Dr Vu won't suck.