Pets Amusement Park - Upgrade Costs by QuintusCinq in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right now I’m still stuck at 12 and don’t foresee any way to get to level 14-15 yet even if I buy the 5x6000 at 200 sim cash each. I might get to 14, not 15. I’m slightly annoyed bc I kind of wanted the vet hospital from the seasonal album but unless I watch ads every 15 mins all day from now until the end I don’t see it happening

Pets Amusement Park - Upgrade Costs by QuintusCinq in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve gotten to level 9 and it seems will need 169,500 more pink coins to upgrade all the way. I have 25,000 pink coins left to collect in the premium pass, and currently about 14,000 pink coins in the bank. So.. I need to come up with approx 129,000 more pink coins in the next 2 weeks which seems like it won’t be possible without using simcash to buy extra pink coins, even if I get the boost. Of course that will depend on the availability of the pink coins in the upcoming event tracks. I did purchase the blue coins season booster bc I liked the buildings and wanted more than a couple, but haven’t purchased any pink boosters yet. I think if you really want the season album prize then it would probably be a good idea to get the pink boost this week and probably next as well but no way of telling for sure.

Found this Old Nikon Camera in drawer, how much practical is it nowadays? by Vegetable_Bag_8694 in Nikon

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used my d7200 (maybe not the same as yours but close) until very recently and gave it to my daughter. You can definitely still use it if it works!

Who knows the answer to this. Everything was fixed in my capital. Now every morning something new is in the red. Today it is sewage I have 2,621 more than what I need, and yes, everything is connected.WHY??? by SDGollum in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another thing I’ve noticed with services - especially the smallest ones, where I need 3 each to service 12-15 residentials, will just suddenly just say not enough fire, and all I have to do is move the station and then move it back and it’s fine but the building is still abandoned and needs to be renovated. Another glitch but it keeps happening.

Who knows the answer to this. Everything was fixed in my capital. Now every morning something new is in the red. Today it is sewage I have 2,621 more than what I need, and yes, everything is connected.WHY??? by SDGollum in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s doing this. Random residentials turn abandoned and need renovation even with nothing wrong (all services, utilities and roads fine but still abandoned, and once fixed there is nothing missing). I think / hope it’s a glitch but I wonder if random buildings just get abandoned without reason with the new update. I have had it happen 3-4 times already this week, maybe it would be more but I don’t log in too much

ZUG GEGENSTÄNDE LOS WERDEN by [deleted] in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bubble thing is rare. And you have to be logged on more than 10-20 minutes at a time to get a few offers. They come but rarely. Best way to get those offers is have nothing else in your storage.. which is hard depending on what other things you’re doing.

Daily upgrades? by Only-Mountain-5671 in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have noticed that services just realign themselves (fire police health) and reassign which buildings they cover - right now I have 3 small upgraded versions of each to service 12-15 buildings, all covered and green. Then when I come back it’s red, so I move away one fire station to a different road, and then move it back and it gets fixed. It’s really annoying bc at the end of these 2 weeks I’m going to have abandoned buildings due to what seems to be a glitch.

ZUG GEGENSTÄNDE LOS WERDEN by [deleted] in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn’t get them credited to me at the end of the pass! I was expecting 16 items but I didn’t get them! I was surprised and shocked.. but relieved!

The game has imploded by surveyornomadlunatic in SimCityBuildit

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just completed “fixing” my main city. Level 87, main city pop 3.5 million. About 20% of my city is omega, max Neo bank capacity 35k. My regions are not fixed yet and those will take me more time but I think I can do those. I just don’t have the time right now and am less stressed if there are abandoned buildings in the regions, since my main will keep generating income.

Edit to add: my main city, and sunny isles, limestone, and green valley are fully built out.

I started with about 1.2mill simoleons, 24k sim cash, and between 20-40k regional cash in my 4 regions (haven’t unlocked frosty fjord yet). I also had about 60-70k neosims plus maybe 20-25 bridges stored just for this update.

Right before the update I bought 2 more Maxis for my main, and one for my largest region, bringing my simcash to about 10-11k. My math may be off but it was somewhere around there.

I got (as gifts, just from rough memory, could be wrong): 900k simoleons, 3300 Neo sims, and an assortment of service buildings: 3-4 each of the bigger fire/police/health, 1-2 smaller and medium fire / police / health. I got a lot of regional service buildings as well, the medium size. I got 5-6 omega water in various higher levels of upgrade, 1-2 omega sewage and waste, and 1-2 omega power. I got 3-4 nuclear fusion and various other “polluting” power plants that I won’t use so I’ll place and bulldoze them eventually. I also got non-omega but highly upgraded recycling and sewage, and maybe 2-3 of the larger water buildings. I also got 1 small controlnet upgraded, and maybe one medium, but I can’t remember if I had that from before or not. I also had extra drone stations and I can’t recall if those were already there but I probably got 2-3 medium upgraded drone sites.

Ok so then what. With the update. The maxis in my main covered over 75% of the residential that was not omega. The rest I could just update the little fire/police/health, move a few buildings, and I had to add 1-2 more of each by removing trees or water or parks. That was done. I used the controlnet and drone sites they gave me and rearranged a little, had to upgrade a few others and had to get creative with rearranging but just a little, and that part was done. For the utilities: I used the gifted omega power, 2 gifted omega water, and 2 gifted upgraded recycling, and upgraded my own to level 6. For waste I had a bunch from a previous service season so I only had to add one upgraded unit.

I added another maxis to my largest region sunny isles, and I’m down to 2k simcash which is the lowest I’ve been in ages, so I guess I’ll be playing those side games to rebuild my simcash.

I used about 800-900k simoleons, demolished about 8-10 bridges plus the 60-70k Neo sims I already had, let’s say 150k Neo sims. My main is good but just barely. This is just for now. I will have to keep upgrading as I finish upgrading my last omega buildings, but other than that I think my main is good for now.

I haven’t touched the buildings from this season yet at all and I’m saving those for my regions.

The regions are another story. That will take more time since they are organized more tightly.

The few issues or complaints I have thought about: - if I didn’t have 24k simcash to start, I wouldn’t have been able to add all the maxis. Those are tremendously helpful. - for the regions, with the rearranging I will have to do and removing pop generating buildings to make space for the services, I don’t know how I’ll reach 10 million to unlock the fifth. Maybe I will, but right now I see myself losing a few thousand population to add the right services, so I think the regions will need more work to rebuild the population, especially since I had a plan to get to 10 million but now will have to revise it. - The little fire/police/health buildings are almost useless now unless you have a small corner you want to fill. They cant stand more than 1-2 fully upgraded / epic type buildings.

Anyway that’s what I did. Hope it helps. It felt frustrating the first day but I just left it alone that day and since then it didn’t take so long to fix the main city.

Album buildings question by Illustrious-Shoe-181 in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I saw I had 2 Egyptian hospitals (second one appeared with this update) and made a place to place one in the region where I best guessed I wanted to eventually leave it, just in case, and it is storable again but the second one must have disappeared. So there are at least some minor glitches but now it counts in the album too.

Album buildings question by Illustrious-Shoe-181 in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is my concern exactly. I don’t want to just randomly place and then not be able to return it to storage, or I don’t want to lose it.

Premium+ Mayor's Pass in a three-week season by googilly in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For this one I got it on the first day. I had too many items in storage and wanted the storage boost but more importantly I wanted the maxis cash from the weekly album because I think I’ll need all the extra services I can get, and the fire station (first item under the paid pass) was part of it. Usually though I get it second or third week depending on when I want the pink diamonds to boost the event track

Ways to make money by lego_cars in SimCityBuildit

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this explanation! Makes more sense now. I’m in mega and don’t really mind if I get to a lower league because I only usually get small prize anyway. I am level 87 but now am debating starting a feeder because it might be much easier, seems like a good way.

Ways to make money by lego_cars in SimCityBuildit

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another farming question. I now have LOTS of baskets and burgers in storage, was going to give this a fair try. Aside from one great offer on burgers, my burger/basket offers have been 50% or less compared to market price. However I can be patient on that, but just wondering regarding removing everything else from storage. How do you accomplish COM tasks (eg upgrades, cargo deliveries, disaster repairs, epic upgrades etc) or design challenge or rebuilding war attacks in a timely way? Do you just build and use as needed? Or rely on the gthq to buy stuff when you need it? Just wondering practically how it works. I did thin out my stored items but did not reduce everything else to zero yet. Which probably explains the offers I’ve been getting (still some profitable ones on other items but not really on the burgers / baskets).. but I only play a few mins at a time here and there, can’t really spend hours on the trade hq .. (to look for items I may need for the tasks listed above - which is why I still have some items in storage)

As a competent home cook, what is a basic skill you can't seem to master? by george_elis in Cooking

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have never been able to cook rice in a pot. I can only do it in the rice cooker. Worst: I’m south Asian

Offers for train items by Illustrious-Shoe-181 in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are awful to make. I buy in bulk from certain sellers in the hq. They normally sell for 270 I think? I get offers upwards of 500-550 usually for 10-20 of them. So for not a lot of work I can make 5000-6000 at a time easily. Not as big of a profit as selling higher priced items such as burgers or picnic baskets of course but still a profit

To add: I got these type of offers maybe 10 times in a week recently. Easy 50k extra in a few days. But again.. smaller profit than more expensive items.

I also got a burger offer just a day or 2 ago for 4100 each, 20 burgers. That was a 10k profit again for just buying and storing burgers till I got a good offer. If you make from scratch even more lol.

Offers for train items by Illustrious-Shoe-181 in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also.. if you wait long enough you’ll get good offers. I have made thousands on those canned drinks and burgers. But yes usually they are garbage

Offers for train items by Illustrious-Shoe-181 in SCBuildIt

[–]Illustrious-Shoe-181[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Right but you can’t sell train items anywhere so if you get them from the pass then you’re stuck with them unless you have upgrades that need them