SimCity BuildIt 4+

Ok. Forget about the bad reviews, this game is cool. I love how you can build your own city and stuff like that and it’s worth the wait to get the skyscrapers and other cool things. I know the bad reviews mostly say that it’s a money grab but I’ve never spent any money on games and this one is still really fun. Though the game COULD be better with less time to progress as I stopped playing this game once I was at like level 100 because it had gotten boring but now I’m giving it a second chance because it’s not that bad and I want to play simcity again. I’ve tried other building games but this one is still the one with the best graphics and best gameplay and I just wanna play until I have a lot of stuff. Also for some reason I still haven’t unlocked club wars but I don’t want to, I just want to expand my city. But you can’t really progress without some stuff like that and I’m willing to see the bigger picture. Also a good addition to the game would be adding an inventory where you can put all your buildings and things temporarily but not actually delete them. Thanks for reading and have a great day :)

It’s fun to start with. You can ignore the ads trying to get you to buy SimCash every time you open the app. You can exchange 30 seconds of your time to watch an ad for a reward. You can get a real sense of camaraderie in club wars. Then as you get more advanced, it takes 7 hours to manufacture some parts, or 9 if you go from raw materials to intermediate and final processing.

If you’re in the zone, trying to win a competition and support your club, your fun can disappear the moment you need one item to take the next step. In theory you can buy that one thing, but you can’t search the market place. You have to wait for it to come up for sale and that means staring at the market screen for half an hour, refreshing every 30 seconds... the item you want isn’t for sale... wait 30 seconds... refresh... no item... wait 30 seconds... refresh... no item... wait 30 seconds... the only way to get around this is to pay real money in exchange for SimCash. There are people out there willing to pay hundreds in order to progress in this game. It’s amazing how often you’ll see an item for sale constantly... until you need it. The game knows what items a player needs and they disappear from the marketplace, probably to keep us online.

All of those prolonged shopping trips and adverts add up to a sickening amount of time. We only live once. Why waste hundreds of hours on a leech of a game?

I got this game about a while back, and only re-downloaded it recently. As expected, there were new updates. A noticeable change was the fact that you had to get 40 epic points to get the turtle speed up tokens rather than the 5 epic points it used to be. I don’t particularly care about the speed up token production, but the epic buildings are the only buildings in the game that look nice. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to get 40 epic points. 24 hours is not enough time, and the limited storage capacity means it’s difficult to stock up prior. In addition to this, on earlier levels, players can’t afford many specialised buildings and the ones they can afford, only produce 1 epic point per several items. After 8 attempts I managed to get one epic building, which was down to luck (as a few of the items I had to collect I already had). This change was obviously an attempt to get more cash as people would have to buy speed up tokens, in game money to purchase the items etc. I am very disappointed as the epic building feature wasn’t easy before the update, but was not impossibly hard like it is now. I suggest changing it back to the way it was as many people are irritated by this feature. And if you are not willing to listen to consumer feedback all it’s going to do is make people delete this game. Please change it so you only need 10 or so epic points to get the turtle speed up tokens. Thank you!