These Epic Projects Are A Bit Ridiculous
I like the idea of the epic projects. It's nice to be able to get an extra tier in the residential upgrades, and I like being able to earn the tokens that will speed up the creation of commercial go...
Forum Discussion
Hmmmm, I made gold in under 12 hours with less than that, so I'm thinking that isn't the determining factor in epics. I've tried in the past (transport) and had troubles as I only have 4 transport specialities, but when I did beach, (of which I have heaps) it was much easier. With transport I only had 4 tasks at a time, with the beach I had about 8 or 9 concurrently, so even when I had three seperate tasks at the same time, each needing 4 paint cans, I still had other tasks to do while the paint was being made. Same goes for harder tasks which take a lt longer - always 2 or 3 I could do while others cooked. I have 11 beach items, and there were always a couple not with tasks. At least 5 are high point items (3 epic points per task). I think this is the key.
I started with 40k gold, finished with about 5k, and did a factory upgrade along the way as part of that. I did have to sell a lot of special tokens to keep cash flowing, and always sold excesses of what I bought. I even made a few k from selling steel constantly. I did have to use a few speed up tokens I had, though given I did it in less than half the time, it's probably not as necessary, especially if you can stock up first.
My population is under 550k, income 19k odd each 24hrs, 9 factories. That said, while it is possible to do, it was a most frustrating and unpleasant experience and one I'm keen to avoid doing again - I just wanted to see how I could do. If you want to do it, you should find it relatively easy if you stock up gold - 100k should be fine, ensure you have a lot of specialisation properties (preferably high value ones), and stock up on long build items in storage first.
Indeed. 100k and padding the City Storage in advance is the same technique I've been trying to use.
I'm not sure about how the Tasks are generated. 90% of the Epic Projects I've attempted have been very tough. Tasks usually yield 1-2 points with the 3point Tasks being rare. I did have a nice run on the last Epic Project [Entertainment, I believe] wherein I was getting more 3 point Tasks and with nearly complete exhaustion of 75k+ Simoneons, half of my complement of high production items, and 23 hours later I was able to scrape together enough points to get my 1st Gold Epic Project.
It was such an exhausting experience that I won't be trying for that level again any time soon.
My greatest frustration with that run is that I had a ton of items in my City Storage that sat unused. The Tasks repeatedly hit me for the same items 2-3 times. Especially after the 140-sh point range. I was getting slammed with Tasks of 4-5 Refrigerators, 4-5 Couches, 4-5 Fire Pits, etc. It was maddening. All the while, I had quantities of 4+ on Cupboards, Backpacks, TVs, and Gnomes in my Storage. Oddly enough, as soon as I started to sell those off those unrequested items to fund my efforts to hunt down the items I needed for Tasks via the Global Market, then the Epic Tasks started to request those items. [gives Epic Tasks the finger and tries not to throw my phone.]
Points aren't random, they're allocated by building type, bigger and more costly are three pointers, eg Marina is always a 3 pointer, lighthouse 2 pointer, surfer beach 1 pointer. I wouldn't be surprised if tasks are deliberately set at what you don't have in inventory. Having lots of coffee I didn't get one request the whole 160.
- I TOTALLY AGREE 100%!!!
