It can't go on like this...
I hope that many players will see this and respond. I am thinking that enough is enough with bug fixes and 10 new ones coming. I'm tired of paying a lot of money and not being able to use features. I'm tired of hotfixes taking forever, others get it done. I'm tired of reading that bugs break games. i'm tired of getting the impression that publishers don't care about the players. players who also play other games are already making fun of it, as EA says - it's not a bug, it's supposed to be a feature. EA, you have enough money, please give maxis what it needs to fix bugs faster. You are dependent on us players, and if people stopped playing you wouldn't make any more money with the sims. At some point it's just enough.⚠️You’re Not Losing Players Because of Bugs — It’s Because They Feel Lost
Have you ever stopped to think what happens when a new player opens the Mayor’s Contest today? Chances are, they’ll feel completely overwhelmed. They’ll see dozens of elements, hidden rules, unexplained mechanics… and instead of feeling excitement, they’ll feel confusion and frustration. And then? They’ll close the game. Maybe for good. The Mayor’s Contest was once an easy-to-understand, fun competitive mode. Now it feels like a maze, with no map and no guide. Even experienced players are feeling exhausted, not challenged. To be clear: ✅ The recent update has potential. ✅ The depth is welcome. But depth without clarity turns into chaos. And chaos — especially in a mobile game — leads to disengagement and abandonment. 🔗 Let Me Be the Bridge Between You and the Community I’m not just another player. I’ve built one of the largest Spanish-speaking communities around SimCity BuildIt: 300+ videos on YouTube teaching strategies and game mechanics. A Discord server with thousands of active players. A federation of clubs and presidents across platforms. Creator of the BEST Method, a strategic system to master the Mayor’s Contest. **My entire network is based on fair play and integrity — we have zero tolerance for hackers, crackers, or any form of cheating.** I talk with real players every single day. I know what’s working, and what’s not. I understand how to translate your vision to the community in a way that engages, teaches, and retains players. And I can bring you real feedback to help guide better decisions — not based on guesses, but on the voice of the people who love your game. 🧠 One Last Thought If your goal is to grow the game… Then don’t just build features — build understanding. Because without it, even the best ideas can become the reason players walk away. 📬 Contact If you’re open to improving the Mayor’s Contest with clear communication and community insight, I’m ready to help. YouTube: @AtlantisIslaAtlas Website (EN): islaatlas.com/en Email: [edit: email address removed] Let’s work together to make SimCity BuildIt better — not just for those who pay, but for everyone who plays.Crimes against the republic era battle missing
@CG Meathead When you released the schedule for era battles it showed Crimes Against The Republic running twice a week for the duration of the Pirate era, yet only the Knight fall event is showing in the in game events tab for this coming Wednesday - please can you confirm if the Crimes Against The Republic event is due to run as per your schedule?Impossible trick
I have been playing the alpha, and thought about the endless flips. If you are able to do endless kickflips, 360 flips, shuv-its. Why are there 2 shuv-it controls? Would it be 'impossible' to make a 360 shuv-it flick into an impossible trick, and in the future, if you want a 360 or infinite shuv-it, you'd just hold the shuv-it control? feel free to shoot holes into this idea.FIX THE GAME
It amazes me that we continue to support this game by spending our time & money on a product from a company that can't make their own game work! With every update, the game gets worse and worse with no solution of old bugs & getting swarmed by new ones. Very simple base game ones at that! Has EA fired all their game developers, coders, testers etc....I just am not understanding how they are failing this horribly.Chill, everyone, pirates aren’t that bad
Pirates, as a faction, are an interesting aspect of Star Wars that hasn’t yet been explored. It’s not a bad thing they’re being added, the problem is how they’re being used to paywall the new events and such. I, for one, am very interested to see the characters added. Ithano has an awesome design, as do many others that have flown under the radar. Also, pirate clone trooper? That definitely sounds interesting.
stop giving us new content and PLEASE fix your game.
I wanted to make a more in detail post (TLDR at the end for anyone who doesn't want to read my yap session!) on this forum because I feel like it needs to be talked about as more than a frustrated vent, but the sims 4 team needs to slow down on new content and focus on fixing their game. I understand the devs work really hard and no game is 100% bug free but this is genuinely starting to feel excessive and it's making the game really difficult to play. I've been playing the sims 4 since 2018 (which i know isn't the longer but I'm a younger simmer lol) and in all the time I've been playing this game, I don't think I've ever had this many bugs. I'd have maybe one bug for a couple of days but even then it'd be some minor thing that didn't effect my enjoyment of the game. However, recently, I've found myself using EA's gameplay support forum excessively. I'm come here almost every time I open my game because I'm always having some sort of issue with my game. My farmer and rancher sims crops disappear/turn invisible the second fall hits (and NO i don't mean an out of season crop dying, I mean my fully grown, in season fall and winter plants being invisible for the entire duration of the seasons) and while sure I can still use the gameplay mechanic, after a while (and many weeks) it's very visually frustrating to look at a large field of invisible plants that are still very much in season. Mind you visual issues like this have been bugged dating back to 4 years ago (though my specific issue seemingly only dates back to 5 months ago which is still a long time but a lot shorter of a time frame than four years ago) My sims can not getting married at wedding arches because it says that both engaged sims must be around (even if both of them are right in front of the arch), so I'm forced to do the manual engagement through the romance category which defeats the whole purpose of having wedding arches. With this issue also comes not being able to renew wedding vows because said archers are broken, This issue also seemingly dates back to a minimum of 5 months ago. Another issue I, and a lot of other simmers have, is disappearing terrain paint, and this issue has been happening for YEARS. The only way for me to somewhat circumnavigate is to build whatever im building first, save, leave to manage worlds, go back to the lot, do the paint, save again, leave again, and then load back in. That is absurd, again this has been happening for YEARS. Ever since EA introduced ads into the sims 4 (The opening screen ads and the splash ads) many people have found themselves not able to close or dismiss the ads, again another bug that has been around for a hot minute, that makes the game unplayable, that hasn't been fixed. Or what about the eyelid glitch that makes sims not able to close their eyes all the way? Again, I understand no game will be 100% bug free, but so many of the bugs have been around for months, sometimes even years, and they still aren't fixed, and it's truly ridiculous to see. It's incredibly frustrating to see SO many longstanding bugs be put under the tag "under investigation" when it honestly feel like nothing is being investigated. Or, at the very least, communicate with your community more. Even a vague "Hey guys, we hear your issues with the bugs and we're trying to fix them!" is more reassuring than radio silence or a moderator linking us to another forum for 8 months ago with a person having the same issue as you. If your game is so buggy it's putting people off and stopping you from attracting more people to it, maybe it's time to take a break from being a cash hungry corporation. Please, STOP PUTTING OUT NEW CONTENT AND FIX YOUR GAME. or at the very least shift your focus onto to fixing common bugs that make your game nearly unplayable. I love the sims, it is truly one of my favorite games of all time, but it's disappointing and frustrating to see 6 new expansion packs, 3 new game packs, 2 new stuff packs, and 12 new kits come out in one year while me and hundreds of other simmers have been begging you to fix a bug that first showed up in your game 2 years ago. So, EA, sims dev team, PLEASE FIX YOUR GAMES. TLDR: This game has so many bugs its nearly unplayable (or at the very least VERY frustrating to play) but ea keeps putting out new content instead of fixing month(s)/year(s) old issues and it's getting irritating.
Becoming a Fairy- WAY too simple! (AND EVERYTHING ELSE, TOO!)
Watching James Turner play Enchanted by Nature. Fairies are ridiculously simple to become and then ridiculously overpowered. To become a fairy, you do a handful of simple steps that take 40 in-game minutes and you're set for life. Then you no longer have a Hunger or Bladder need ever again, and can use a single low-price fairy house object to fill all your needs whenever you want. So in just a few real world minutes any Sim can become basically permanently happy and all-powerful forever. What's the point of even playing the game then? You can buy an apothecary item for 20 simoleons that fills ALL your motives, removes ALL your negative moodlets, and fixes your balance. Enchanting a gnome to garden for you makes ALL your plants bloom INSTANTLY, and the gnome drops rare and expensive seed packets that can give you death flowers with literally no effort. None of this is balanced, this is all just cheating- there's no gameplay here, what are you doing? Why is none of this even attempting to be a video game anymore, this is all just play-around-whatever nonsense that completely destroys the GAME part of the game! -You get a seedling, either by...asking someone you just met to hand you one, or buying it on the computer -You plant the seed -You get a text box popup before planting the seed warning you that you're gonna summon mother nature IMMEDIATELY by doing so -The seed is placed on the ground, and sprouts instantly -The seed disappears and does not have to grow or anything -You drink a potion -You go swim in a pond and become a fairy Are you for real? This is worse than "Gather Motes" to become a spellcaster. There's no time investment whatsoever, there's no difficulty, you don't have to find the seed or do any quests or anything to get it, you literally ask for it (Or buy it on the COMPUTER? REALLY?) and you're a fairy within 40 seconds. This pack comes with another questing system, so why isn't something like this tied to quests? This occult requires a seedling and a plant, so why don't you have to prove your worth by successfully growing the plant? You're telling me an evil man who lives in an industrial neighborhood and has no skills or abilities or friends whatsoever can just throw a seed he got off the computer into the dirt, instantly have it germinate, and get magic fairy powers from mother nature who doesn't sense anything off about this request? There's no gameplay to this whatsoever, there might as well just be a "become a fairy" button you get when you click on your SIm. I rarely call content in games "lazy" but this is LAZY.
Stuck in soft lock in the "like any map" tutorial
Since the new update dropped on the 2nd, I've been stuck soft locked unable to move or progress the game any further. All i can do is look at the map and place waypoint markers and as soon as I close the map it reopens with the same dialogue explaining the map again regardless if i click the next mission marker or not. I've been stuck like this for nearly a week and I'm unaware of any work arounds. I've been in the playtest since March and had a lot of fun with the playtest but I haven't been able to try out anything that's new with the update. Are there any possible fixes for this bug or workarounds?