This week was the worse. I am getting demoted back to town league and I just don't care anymore well depends on my mood tomorrow. I didnt want to play this week but still play enough to avoid demotion. I hate those air cargo assignments where you put the game on hold for almost 3 days. I've already used up the simcash to call the plane early. After waiting I lose a lot of motivation to carry on. I can't stand those production assignments. Once again have to make bread rolls, microwaves and fire pits. I'm really going to sit back now and just be done.
I do agree that some of the rewards are ridiculous. Im in the Metropolis League, where the reward for finishing 9-50 is 1 Platinum key, 5 SimCash and 3 cheetah speed ups. Its bad enough to accept that if you finish 9th, you get the same as the person finishing 50th. In a competitive arena, luck and/or skill notwithstanding, if I somehow manage to beat out 92 of my competitors, you would like I would be awarded something better than the rest. Whats the motivation? A whopping 5 simcash? You would think these awards really cost EA real money, as they dole them out like Ebeneezer Scrooge
That's true about the rewards. I've been trying to get promoted to megalopolis (and this week I did it!) so next contest I will have been in every league. It's very hard to get so close to a big or medium prize and then get knocked down. Last week I was in position 4 at 6 AM EST on Monday, (one hour before the contest end), then got ninja'd multiple times and finished at 9. Small prize, no promotion.
SO... if it seems obvious that you're in for the small prize, or you're happy with the small prize, trying to stay in the top 50 should require only a smallish effort.
Still, there's always the chance that this will be your lucky week...
Hehehe Arcadia0426, I get what you mean about being ninja'd. I *thought* my last 2880 point assignment would ninja me into just inside promotion territory in the last hour, but someone else obviously thought the same thing, and ninja'd the both of us.... so I ended up one freakin' position shy of promotion. Missed by "that much". lol
I aint gonna play this week. ...well not for prizes or promotion, but just enough to not be demoted back to Town. I want to make a good few more speed-ups before I make my next attempt for the summit. 🙂
