Weekly Mayors Competition Problems
The new competition versus other mayors each week is supposed to be pitting us against "100 mayors of the same city level" yet my bracket is dominated by 40s and there's even a level 73! Not to menti...
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Unfortunately I was 12th on my ladder last week so I'm still in the basement. This week I'm rotating between 1st & 2nd with someone twice my level ahead of me, and the player behind me is also twice my level. After the first day of this round there are only 24 active participants in my ladder, I'm sure that will change, hopefully. It takes a lot of pre-planning to get near the top and a lot of time is required online to be anywhere near the top, that might be a problem since most players work or go to school. I'm retired so I've got nothing but time! Based on current ladder standing I should be able to move up this week, I just don't want those who make little to no effort to reap any kind of reward, including advancement. The concept is FANTASTIC, a deep thinker came up with this, I applaud his/her efforts. It's literally a game within a game. And I know that over time the minor issues will be worked out.
That's where I ended up too. Although, I'm going to end way higher than I did last week. I'm currently in 2nd with my current active assignment and one more to go and I'm already 1000 above where I ended last week.
What I've been doing is preparing for assignments before starting them. In this case, I happened to get Make Electronic components, Make Drills and Make Couches, which all paid off to the tune of 1500-2500, so I started some of each. Since they're all components of each other, it worked out well. I didn't start the assignments until I already some available. Items can be ready to collect when you start an assignment. Just don't collect them until you start the assignment and it will count, so it's not like you have to start completely from scratch. You can prepare yourself well in advance. Cheetah tokens help too. 🙂 I had to be very careful not to collect something by accident, which seems to happen to me all the time just navigating around the city.
With what I currently have planned, I should end around the 10,000 mark instead of the 6000 mark I was last week.
My only complaint about it would be this......
You only get 10 assignments that you're able to do. If you accidentally start an assignment that is impossible, such as this week was upgrade 3 paris zones and I don't have any paris zones that are not already maxed and don't want more. I started the assignment by accident, canceled the assignment, I went from 10 assignments to 9. If you don't make any progress towards that assignment, they should just stop the assignment and put it back into the assignment queue. Not create a new assignment and take away one of your assignments. I did that once last week and once this week or I'd end higher than I'm going to now.
It's nothing that can't be worked around or being very diligent with which ones you start, but I'm not liking how they did that part of it. There should possibly be some way of passing on an assignment that is not possible of completing. I don't want more Paris, London or Tokyo zones since they can't be upgraded for speed-up tokens. I already have the 10 of each required for certain Landmarks.
I LOVE this game! I play it WAY too much. I love almost everything about it. . However, this whole contest of Mayors gives players who want to blow their own real money on simcash an unfair advantage over people who really can't afford to waste hard earned money. Much to my chagrin, I have already given into the pressures of this and wasted about $5 to $15 of my own real money just to keep up with the other players who are stupidly spending at will or hacking the game for simcash. How stupid am I to get sucked into that logic of using my own damn money to play this free game?! I just can't afford to do that anymore because it's insane to waste your money on this. So I really have no incentive to compete with players who can just buy their way to wining these contest. I believe that's how the game designers wanted it. I wish they could be make the contest fair to those who want to play honestly and fairly without buying their way to victory for a game that gives them no real life achievement. This is same situation with epic projects as well. Players can just buy their goods with simcash to get easy epic points. It took me an entire dame day to get to 160 points just to earn a fraction of Cheeta token. it was painful and wasteful process. Sorry dude, that is not freaking worth it! But, never the less, this game let's you do what ever the hell you want with your own city so I really can't complain too much. I'm really just open for any tips to overcoming these disadvantages.
