The game looks great, and as my city swiftly expanded, I felt a mild sense of purpose-even though attaining it required me to pop in constantly throughout the day.- SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition has been updated to 64 bit! It’s funny: I enjoyed those first few days with SimCity: BuildIt. Otherwise, I wouldn’t bother spending cash: It doesn’t make the game any more interesting. Instead, it’s useful for opening up extra production slots, which makes the game work a little harder for you when you can’t check it constantly throughout the day. The conversion rate to Simoleons is utterly terrible I’d have to spend about $40 in real money just to have enough coin to give my city a single education building. I dropped $10 on SimCash to see what a solid chunk of virtual dollars could do for my city, and the verdict is: not much at all. Unlocking extra production slots is useful, however. SimCash shouldn’t be used for buying new buildings, however, as the exchange rate with Simoleons (coins) is very unfavorable.
Otherwise, SimCash is for sale in bundles ranging from $5 to $100 a pop.Īh, the easy way out. Sure, you’re granted a very small amount of SimCash for completing certain mayoral tasks (like hitting population benchmarks), but it’s easily spent with a tap. You can use it to speed up timers, open up additional production slots in stores, or trade it for Simoleons, the earned currency. SimCash, the game’s premium currency, is available to grease the wheels. And as mentioned before, unhappy citizens don’t pay as much in taxes, which means saving up for the next purchase takes even longer. I’ve had my satisfaction rating drop as much as 20-percent after leveling up just because I couldn’t afford some totally new service. However, those buildings are often very expensive, and without them, your people suddenly become disaffected. They’re reasonable requests, obviously-I don’t want my citizens living amidst their own filth, or watching their houses burn down. So you’ll spend the next day or two grinding to earn enough money to appease them once more. Leveling up is almost always a bad thing in SimCity BuildIt, as your citizens suddenly demand a service they never had. You’ll need that money not only to enhance your structures and increase the city population, but also to pay for services-police, medical, fire, etc.-that they gradually demand over time. These two things are strongly intertwined, as happy citizens pay higher taxes (if only this were true in real life), which means more automatic coin earned each day. It’s all done to serve two main objectives: Keep your citizens happy, and continue amassing funds. Rather, there’s always something to eventually do, once you earn or purchase enough coin. There’s always something to do, like upgrading a building or adding services. Over time, the upgrades require more of the advanced items to complete, which means a lot more time waiting for processes to finish. Often, you’ll just take those materials and pump them through other locations-the hardware store, or gardening supplies store-to create more advanced items and tools.
You’ll need metal, wood, plastic, seeds, and more to feed into upgrading your buildings. Your main task is producing raw materials via factories. No surprise there: It’s a free-to-play game designed to make you check back every few minutes or hours-depending on your level of devotion and/or current tasks-to get anything done.
SimCity BuildIt is SimCity in look and name, but it’s a lot simpler and more grinding in nature than the classic games that defined the franchise. Because what strikes me most about SimCity BuildIt is that your hours spent overseeing production chains and city layouts is ultimately rewarded with more obstacles, rather than opportunities. And I’ll probably spend another week popping in here and there, but my initial interest has already faded. You can peek at friends’ games elsewhere-but can’t interact with them-giving you a glimpse at their perfect, beautiful cities while yours stagnates.Īfter those first few days, I spent a few more much less interested, but still going through the motions.
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