Suggestions for SimCity BuildIt

@AshleyBase  Welcome to the forum. It’s obvious you put a lot of time and energy into your first post and I strongly agree with 3 points you offered...the first making reducing the cost as simple as increasing because it takes too long to reduce to gift price (1 simoleon) for club members (excellent suggestion and the first time I’ve read it, well done). The second being related to the redundancy of CoM tasks (which has been raised a couple times before)...at least don’t repeat the same task within the next 5 assignments - preferably 10. The third point being reduce the length of the war games to 24 hours (this suggestion has been raised multiple times over the last couple of years) which only makes sense. 
Beyond these three suggestions and the Facebook issue that I’ve not seen the balance seems to boil down to is “it’s too hard”...guess what, it’s suppose to be - after all it’s a competition. I enthusiastically take exception to your proposal of increasing war assignments in CoM...in fact I honestly believe that all war assignments should be excluded from CoM as each is a stand alone contest. Quite frankly the lion share of cheating in CoM stems from war games (currently I’m seeing a city 4 levels above everyone else 70k ahead of 2nd place that was not in the top 50 yesterday with a 150k average in war games...seems a little unusual). With the current condition the war game assignments are very much overvalued and the ones that take planning, coordination and management to achieve are very much undervalued such as the electronics, animal feed and chemicals you mentioned.
I’ve been here since the beginning (guess that makes me a long-term player as well) and from the very start of the war games I stated war assignments do not belong in CoM...if you were around at that time you clearly understand why. I’m not an opponent of the war games, actually I really enjoyed the competition and camaraderie until the bubble “strategy” sucked the life out of the contest and once addressed (2 years too late) the hackers and cheaters came out of the shadows and darkened the horizon. I’m hearing a few positive comments but only time will tell.

This is simply a city building game at it’s core that requires planning, organization and development skills and should always remain true to the SimCity model that clearly separates it from all others. The Buildit part is what causes the issues.

I hope you take my comments In the spirit they are intended - you made some good points (which I gave you an xp for) and some that in my opinion are misguided. I wish you the best and look forward to your future posts.

Hi there and thanks or your response. I’ve been reading you posts here for a long time now, so I appreciate your opinion. I agree with a lot of what you have said especially in relation to CoM…I see your very valid point and after reading your comments, agree that all war related activities should be excluded from CoM and players should have other ways of making points in Mayor’s challenges with, as said before, a greater variety of tasks.

However, I don’t agree with some of your comments about it boiling down to being too hard. I don’t think it’s too much to ask not to have to scroll through your entire depot to list several instances of items for sale located at the very bottom. Nor is it too much to ask to make earning gold keys a little easier or adding a marker to Cargo ship and airport. However, I do think that it is unfair on legitimate players to have to list every non-usable war item individually…this change (though I understand the reason for it) makes it really hard on every legit player. 32 sales slots in Trade Depot is hardly sufficient when you have 40+ ammo boxes to sell and no one except Daniel’s City buys them once every 72 hours. It’s a bit unreasonable and not too much to ask to increase the number of sales slots as EA won’t restore the selling of war items back to 5.

Ever since this change, I have seen a staggering rise in hacker clubs. We are in a war against one now and so far, I have not come across a club that is so maxed out on disasters and supplies. All but a few are like that and definitely all have their storage hacked judging by their individual scores. Besides, what’s the point and where’s the fun when you have absolutely everything? I’ve worked really hard to get to war rank 60 and it’s taken me a long time and a lot of real money to get there, but at the same time I feel like I’m also being ‘punished’ for what hackers do. The problem here is that such drastic changes breed more hackers and for every hacked city that gets banner, 3 or 4 new ones are made. I see this every day sitting in Arena 6 with war ranks 1 and cards maxed to level 15.

Let’s face it…this might be a city building games, however if it wasn’t for the war component, SCBI would have half the players it has today. Most of us are only in it for wars and that includes me.

Again, thanks for your time and for your response 🙂

Take care,

AB

@AshleyBase I’m glad you understand the intended spirit of my response and appreciate your perspective. I have a clearer understanding of where you’re coming from and it’s consistent with what I assumed...your focus is on the war games, which is perfectly fine and I have no issue with at all.

It appears that there are four items you take exception with to my generic classification of too hard. The 1st & 4th item appear to be related so I will save for last. The 2nd item refers to making gold keys easier to earn (perhaps may be reworded as they are difficult to earn or even too hard) which I don’t disagree with but with careful planning and coordination the can be obtained, just not at the rate some desire. The 3rd item is related to adding a marker to Cargo and airport shipments...perhaps I’m missing something but there’s always a boat or airplane in front of my terminals (yes, you have to look to see where the plane is going...but I already know - gets back to planning factor).

The 1st and 4th items appear to be related to the inability to put 5 war items up for sale in one slot...being a long time player you know exactly where everything is located and doesn’t take but a second to get there...I know it must be frustrating having to go to get war items 32 times but any change to accessing your depot won’t change that. The issue appears to boil down to the fact that EA’s corrective action has made it more difficult to pass along items legitimately which somewhat offsets the unique and unusual advantage gained from feeders (cities & clubs) supplying their primary city. In the process it has made it more difficult for legitimate players (too hard) but it certainly helps level the playing field and increases visibility to hackers...which is a very good thing. As related to your 40 ammo boxes, I’m guessing you didn’t acquire all of those in one war and were simply remiss in putting them up timely...back to planning.

I completely agree with you the war game element brought in a large number of f

I completely agree with you the war game element brought in a large number of folks and has been an economic windfall for EA...in spite of themselves. It has also brought with it feeders & feeder clubs and cheaters and hackers that were not prevalent prior to the war games. In the beginning it was a lot of fun and hopefully soon it will be again. I’m glad you enjoy the war games. Take care.

(I apologize, there was a glitch in the upload)