This week wasn't lucky for me. Most of my assignments were production. And they were items like 12 microwaves, 9 fire pits, cheese cakes, pizzas and lawn mowers. Very daunting and frustrating, didn't get many house upgrades this time even when I chose a low point task hoping to get more variety. I had 9 assignments left today was hoping for vu or upgrades, thought I had potential to cause an upset but got screwed with making fire pits and other long production items. Just wasnt worth it, actually more like impossible. Think I will focus on getting gold tokens with the epic projects and accumulating vu items. And maybe try again in a month but I don't think I'll ever get more than 1 platinum key ever.

City league:One grand prize is 5 platinum, 10 gold tokens, $100K.Two big prizes: 3 platinum, 5 gold tokens, $80K.Five Medium prizes: 1 platinum, 3 gold tokens, $60K42 Small prizes: 6 gold keys, 2 gold tokens, $30KMetropolis league:One grand prize is 20 platinum, 200 sim cash, 10 gold coinsTwo big prizes: 15 platinum, 100 sim cash, 7 gold coins5 medium prizes: 5 platinum, 50 sim cash, 5 gold coins42 small prizes: 1 platinum, 5 sim cash, 3 gold coinsThis week I thought I'd be more competitive since I have an airport, - and I was number one for a while! - but ended in 14th place, so a small prize, no league advancement.My point total was 58015; first place was 77560.

Oh I know what you mean - the luck of the draw with assignments!Had my allowable number of assignments done in just over 3 days! Why couldn't I do that in high school? 🙂I planned well, chose big-point assignments, and spent a lot of time playing. ....no, I do not have a life 🙂 I also used a few llama speed-ups, since I had them.Nearly didn't do a vu assignment, thinking I didn't have enough vu items, but in the end I decided to spend simbucks on the missing piece. A 3000 point assignment is more valuable than a couple of simbucks that can be easily replaced in a video-ad or two.I did time-out on one assignment though. I had left my tablet at home when I went out for 6 hours. Doh! Lesson learned.Ended up in 4th place in town league, so I got gold keys instead of the more desirable platinum, but at least I got a swag of simoleans.Next week: City League. WOOHOO!! Is there a list of the leagues and the prizes for places other than first place? In Town League 1st and 2nd get platinum keys, and further down you get gold. Do you get platinum further down the list in higher up leagues? Or do you have to be in the top spot?I am only on level 24, but have been playing the Contest of Mayors since level 17, and have advanced every week. I am still fine-tuning my strategy, and have yet to get a platinum key. I'm only doing this for platinum keys! lolMy gameplay at the moment is based around the contest, and less on population or anything else.

I got demoted this week from the Metropolis league back down to the city league. I didn't have as much time this week to work on the contest and had seventeen tasks to complete at the end. This is OK with me though cause i don't think one can win the big prizes in the top two leagues (SimCash being part of the prize) unless you spend real cash to complete the tasks. Example The Metropolis league has 40 assignments you need to complete in 5 days of the contest. So if you have a task that requires to complete 3 air cargo shipments to say Paris ( the time between planes in my game was 12 hours) one has to waste a full day waitng to complete the task unless you have Sim Cash to cancel the wait time and complete the task.( It would have required 28 SimCash for me to complete this task that way).From what I have witnessed so far the higher point tasks are assigned to Air Cargo Shipments. So if most of you points are obtained doing the Air Cargo Shipments you don't stand a chance of finishing in first place

Must give credit to EA. They have finally found something that would tempt us to use real money. I haven't used real money but have used simcash on that one missing vu item and also on another item that you suddenly couldn't find in the trade market. That week was worth it though, got 3rd place but having a hard time breaking out of city league. As for the video commercial prize, I find I am always getting the unshown prize 100 per cent of the time. They've rigged it man. And that prize is usually something lousy and notice when do you get simcash prize there's always another box that that has simcash.

I purposely did the bare minimum, came in #78 I think, just good enough not to get demoted. I only did tasks I would normally do. No airport tasks, and only a few vu tasks to clear stock.I'm boycotting the contests until it's an even playing ground with rewards worth competing for.

So...how did you this week with contest of mayors

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Anonymous
10 years ago
@Arcadia0426 wrote:

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...

Nope not really into it for the small prize and nothing about this Contest requires only a smallish effort, except for maybe not competing at all. Something is always better than nothing and I was just trying to say something positive, instead of complaining like everyone else here seems to do...

Some people would complain even if they were hung with a new rope...
Anonymous
10 years ago
I agree that even getting a small prize, at least in the City league (and I presume on up), requires more than a small effort. I gave a small to medium effort in my first City league, and missed small prize by 8 spots. I was not happy, but I could have picked some better tasks. I think in the higher leagues, there should be something given to spots 65 or 60 and up, even a "tiny" prize of a couple of gold keys. Frankly, unless you don't really participate at all, or a real small amount (like only half your assignments), you should get something for your efforts. I will try harder this next week to at least get a small prize and stay in that realm until I've built up enough to make a run for a larger prize.

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