I noticed a very recent change, there was a message i got in game this morning talking about some change with upgrading omega homes....
I didn't exactly read it ☹️ which reminds me how there should be a way to view old messages you have received...
This does mean i don't know exactly what the change was or if it was permanent but i have a few things to outline here anyway 🙂
I guess this comment will pretty much just be about:
Omega Upgrades
The change i do see is that normal items are needed to upgrade omega homes.... I personally think this was an awful idea because it adds an extra layer of difficulty in building omega homes....which i will explain... in case it isn't obvious (and adding more difficulty to the game makes it less fun)
Currently to upgrade omega homes:
- To upgrade an omega home before you needed to collect items from the lab that would be put into your storage.
- The items were always "random" so you might not get the items you need
- If you get the right items you can upgrade the house
- An alternative is if you re-request the building plans so you have another chance to get the right items, however this is generally a pain
- To build a new home you will need all this but also a slot of land covered by the control net (which costs neosims to place) and also enough drone capactity (which is increased by spending neosims)
Upgrading storage and neosim bank:
- This is neccesary because otherwise you won't be able to buy more control nets or drones to expand your omega housing capacity because of the increasing prices. You will also need to increase your storage because otherwise you wont have enough storage to collect items to upgrade houses or upgrading neosim bank
- You do this by collecting more items from the lab of a specific type
Old problems and solutions:
- If the items you have are the wrong type you will be stuck (supposedly) because you cannot get more items to upgrade your storage to get more items from the lab....
- However there are two ways to solve this:
- Firstly the normal way is to use the popups where you can sell omega items
- The second way is easier
- It is to place a completely new omega home (providing you have enough drones and control net) and because its a low level omega home it should be cheap to build so you have a higher chance of having the correct resources to upgrade it
- By upgrading it you will free up your storage to get more items from the lab
- If you have no omega house capacity because of lack of drones and control net space, you can bulldoze a house to provide the space for a new home
New issue:
- Now that omega homes require other materials to upgrade them, you have to "craft" the resources which takes time and makes the game feel slower again
- This means you have to craft items that could be sold on the market to gain money....
- All to waste on an upgrade of an omega home which you have to bulldoze and rebuild
- And then you have to re-upgrade it again with more extra crafting which makes it more difficult, until you have the right resources for a storage upgrade of omega items
Omega houses are in fact a lot more difficult to make now and considering how i was just trying to upgrade my neosim bank which for me requires 7 of 3 different types of items...
And i have 6 of the first and 8 of the other two but i only have 35 storage.....
This means i need 21 of my items in my storage to be the correct type... which is possible... but i already am at 35 items so i need to get rid of some omega items to get this upgrade...
Now i do not want to bulldoze my buildings because it will mean i will loose resources i could sell for simoleons or use in COM or epic tasks.... and this means getting this upgrade is even harder than before!
Not to mention omega buildings requiring "normal" items looks strange to me and generally feels harder because of the extra time needed to upgrade one building (where as before i could upgrade a level 2 omega home instantly because i had enough items that i would probably also have the right items too, i now have to wait 4 hours to craft resources before i can upgrade the level 2 home.
This means that i have a third limit ontop of control net and drone capacity... which really, is unneccesary and ruins the fun
(I really liked how omega homes were in a way nicer to build because they had their own items that may have been random but in the end it was completely separate to the rest of the game with simoleons that was connected to the market which is a pain to use...)
(The new change - even if temporary, i wouldn't know because i accidentally closed the message ingame - made it linked to the rest of the game which ruins the fun because its not separate - the fact it was seperate allowed me to upgrade my omega town freely even if i was not doing so well in the rest of the game (which is the case for me) and so because it used to be more doable it kept me playing the game because i had something that was always achievable. Now, i need to "craft" more items for them.... which means, I can no longer upgrade my omega part of my city because i will end up struggling even more in contest of mayors!)
I would suggest changing upgrading omega homes to how it was before (only needs the random items)
Omega recycling centre
I know that some people do not want to bulldoze buildings and don't like the simcash method, so I would suggest a new building (Omega Recycling Centre) for merging two omega items into one different one with no crafting time because it cannot be used infinitely anyway (people will run out of items) and if it did have a crafting time, it would again be pointless because there will be times when you get to max storage and cannot do anything about it.
This will help with getting the right items and should stop people complaining when they do get "stuck" (as long as it had no timings) - If there really has to be a cost to it, it could cost 100 neosims as well (fixed amount) so that it is cheap but still costs something to recycle the items.
(in fact i personally would like such a recycling system because it would mean i still have to use the lab (normal method) and i can also get the last one item i need by getting rid of the other items i don't need).
The menu for this could simply have a list of items in your storage and you just select two and click a button and a different item will appear. (adding more omega items would probably be bad I think because there is already quite a lot). I guess if it was possible to choose the output item instead of it being random, people would probably like it more even if the recycling cost was 1000 per recycle, but then the lab would be less useful and it needs to keep its usefulness 🙂 . So having recycling omega items produce a random item that is not one of the recycled items would be better 🙂
TL:DR:
- There should be a way to view old messages that you recieve
- Omega homes should only require omega items like before
- There should be an omega recycling centre to recycle two omega items into one with no crafting time and no cost (or maybe 100 neosims maximum)
