The Day Services 2.0 arrived.

You cannot ignore it. All the residential homes would indicate there is not enough  power, water, … not enough police /health/fire/regional coverage and they go “red”. About two days  after Services 2.0 are launched the happiness starts dropping, and it drops and drops, … the buildings that do not have enough services are abandoned and need to be repaired (after services are provided). As they are repaired and population grows the roads need to be upgraded, due to necessary reorganisations…,  I spent about 3 millions Simoleons to keep my 3 regions green, but had to reorganize my Capital as I had not enough Simoleons for all necessary upgrades. My capital had population over 2 million prior Services 2.0, to keep my Capital green I buldozed about 15 houses, removed most effective  population boosters, and it took me almost a month to get to the point that I enjoy playing again. I still have population only 1.4 millions in my Capital, I cannot place the population boosters  there (yet) as I cannot afford road upgrades yet. 

It hit my two lower level cities over the weekend.

My level 21 city (which is really just a feeder that looks very nice) was easy to fix.

My level 51 city was not easy to fix - even with the gifted service buildings, it still was not enough to overcome the demand in my regions, so I got frustrated and just demolished every single residence in all four regions. I have zero intention of building in the regions again.

Epic buildings are major consumers of service capacity - the game pushes you to upgrade regular residential zones to Epic buildings, so naturally my level 51 city had a decent amount spead amonst the regions. Now the epic buildings like quadruple demand. Epic buildings are not worth any effort - If you have a ton of them, consider demolishing some. I won't be do anymore epic projects.

More for my own realisation than anyone else, but ….

A full upgraded Sunny Isles house i.e. level 6 takes 46 power, and 45 each of water, sewage and water.

So just sizing this into my plans.

Now on day 3 and the abandonments have started. As they say, first power, then one service per day incrementally.

With hindsight, probably would have been better to demolish buildings and make way for the ‘free” compensation items given.

Also remember  that once you have placed a free fully upgraded item, it cannot be stored, only demolished.

so here is what my Frosty Fjords looks like now in the attachment.

Crazy cash grab... how could anyone even have enough simolians to upgrade everything in a 99 city! This is kind of an unprecedented move... just horrible!!! 

Ignore it and don't upgrade if you can. 

You have the same problems as I. This is the first time, after almost 10 years of playing, that i want to quit the game. If I can't be restored to pre upgrade I am gone. 

The upgrades are too expensive, I've given up on the upgrade. City tax is down to just 10k which is terrible, they shouldn't just bombard us with unnecessary upgrades. 😕😕😕

Same here, thanks for fully explaining the effect of the services update. I completely agree that there should had been a better way for this to roll out. On top of the lackluster “gifts” the cost of upgrading services is way to high and increases as you further upgrade the service, the small police, fire, health can’t go high enough to cover level 6 houses, and you have to “restore” houses before moving on which is like added punishment. 

 No notification in advance, just started the game up and told it had happened.