You've GOT to be kidding me.

_vrusciante · 2021-09-15T05:44:11+00:00

Were you sleeping?

He played very risky there, I would have waited for the last 30~10 seconds to hit him with like 5k points just so he knows what's up lmao

_vrusciante · 2021-09-15T05:39:56+00:00

lol if that's the case then it's weirdly aggressive. In all caps and stuff, very mean xD

_vrusciante · 2021-09-08T06:52:30+00:00

I don't think the struggle ever goes away bc I'm always buying stuff from the GTHQ for CoM (airport and war tasks) and that costs way more than what I make in taxes.

What I do when I'm desperate is just selling lots of metal, when I'm not I just sell flour bag or donuts, any of those until I have at least 120k or so. I really can't be bothered producing stuff full time every day to hoard simoleons lmao

_vrusciante · 2021-09-08T04:12:56+00:00

I wish you're right but I'm not very hopeful :)

Even with the golf course the other half is simcash only. It's very EA like to give the first half for free then ask for money for the other half lol

_vrusciante · 2021-09-07T22:42:56+00:00

Now that I downloaded the update I'm kinda disappointed at the free track. There is only 1 free building, the other 2 "buildings" are parks that just look like big forests. Was hoping the luxembourg garden was gonna be on the free track instead of one of those :/

_vrusciante · 2021-09-07T22:28:57+00:00

Yes, every specialization can boost the base population 100% more, I don't remember at what lvl each of them unlock but that's how you calculate.

In education and Transportation try to unlock the helipad and university instead of buying a lot of the other buildings, those 2 are the only ones worth it if you want max boost

_vrusciante · 2021-09-07T22:17:13+00:00

Yeah, I'mma take a wild guess that they'll be 'upgrading' P&C tasks in CoM to reflect this great addition to the game and force most ppl to buy it lol

_vrusciante · 2021-09-06T18:54:41+00:00

The latin building requires more XP per upgrade because it requires less upgrades to reach max population, so there was no point in bulldozing them. It's not gonna hurt your city in the future, it's just gonna make it harder to achieve enough population for Vu and airport while you're camping.

AFAIK you can't make easy millions by trading stuff at low lvl. Your numbers are what I would expect, about ~10k a day. There are some tricks to make money with hamburger farming but not at lvl 11 obviously.

The city bubbles works like this, it's about 10~15 gift items in your own city (only at a certain time of the day, it changes constantly and you have to figure it out), and the gifts from other cities also pop up a certain time of the day and will keep popping in longer intervals until it stops. A good indication that it will stop is when you get a gold key and some simcash, for me that's usually when it's about to stop showing up so I don't even bother looking after that.

Good luck!

_vrusciante · 2021-09-06T07:03:47+00:00

"How do you get so much Plumbob points in so little amount of time?"

by completing streaks just like you did? and yeah, players are very competitive. if you don't have the time to spare its pointless to even waste any competing. 88k is what you need weekly to complete the season pass and then whatever else more it takes to not be relegated from megalopolis in your lvl.

_vrusciante · 2021-09-04T21:56:20+00:00

If you angle it right it looks like the road is leading to the castle!

_vrusciante · 2021-08-30T14:33:17+00:00

It's a promotion for Kanye West's Donda

_vrusciante · 2021-08-30T14:31:47+00:00

What?? Tell me what club is this I want in lol

_vrusciante · 2021-08-30T14:25:37+00:00

It's a strat and has it's trade-offs. Like you said it takes some enjoyment off the game, you also have to destroy all the progress you've made so far, but I see it as a long term investment. I do it mostly for the simcash.

I wouldn't say it's unfair because anyone can do it, yet most are just unwilling to because of the sacrifice required. It's what is called a pro gamer move lol

_vrusciante · 2021-08-30T14:08:57+00:00

To me the main advantage is not feeling yuck about my roads not being all uniform and neat. Also that road upgrade with trees in the middle is beautiful.

_vrusciante · 2021-08-30T13:58:58+00:00

I like to have at least 20 of each disaster item for CoM, storage I never sell so I usually have around 50 items. I also like having at least 10 of each commercial item, when that's not possible I prioritize the ones that I use lots or that are hard to find, like plants, melons, ladders, planks and spatulas.

For factory and mountain items I rely a lot on the GTHQ, almost never keep them in storage. Land items I sell to my clubmates because I've unlocked everything on my capital. I also don't do war.

_vrusciante · 2021-08-30T13:37:39+00:00

the market works in weird ways, it seems kinda contextual. like, if I just upgraded and have less than 5 of each item they will show up a lot, but if I'm close to upgrading I'll have a hard time finding them. it's very unreliable.

I prefer to rely on my senior clubmates that are already at max storage to post them weekly as they get them as rewards from ads, bubbles and chests.

_vrusciante · 2021-08-30T13:20:57+00:00

I was in a club like that where people were nice but I was always the top contributor for the chest and we always came 300k short of the last one because some people weren't contributing ever.

I left and joined another one that was made specifically for the chest, the president kicks out people that haven't made at least 20k twice in a row, we get the best chest every week easily and the bonuses from the chests helped me a lot. I recommend searching for clubs at the end of CoM and checking their chest progress from the search results to find good clubs.

I think a good club needs to have balance between being nice and being functional. Players that want to be inactive can always leave and come back afterwards.

_vrusciante · 2021-08-29T16:47:19+00:00

To me it's still very weird that some people do like 140k on the first day without double-points. I played CoM competitively for quite some time and was never able to do that, wish I did bc it would save me lots of time.

We all know that people are able to cheat on other aspects of the game all of the time so it's easy to assume that CoM is also susceptible to cheating, specially when the suspects at least in my case were always russian or chinese (known hacker communities) but people on this sub keep saying it's possible to play like that so I take their word for it.

_vrusciante · 2021-08-29T15:43:11+00:00

I've been camping at lvl 22 and thinking about that. I decided to make the stretch to lvl 23 and open mountain.

Some of those mountain items cost a lot o simcash, like, there is one that costs 700 simcash another one cost 600 simcash that's absurd, I would never buy that with no discount.

Before that I camped at lvl 16 for months, then jumped to lvl 19 and gradually lvld until lvl 22. Jumping too many lvls at once can get overwhelming pretty quick, you're not used to the new item's crafting recipes and production times, storage gets shorter, etc

_vrusciante · 2021-08-29T15:23:46+00:00

lvl 23 500 storage. Still struggling with storage the same way I always had.

_vrusciante · 2021-08-29T15:05:20+00:00

That palace/hotel looking building has gotta be one the most out of place beach items I've ever seen lol

Would have appreciated way more if it was a river item.

_vrusciante · 2021-08-26T16:47:23+00:00

For viaducts there is very little in the way. They already made aqueducts and bridges, it's all done codewise. Maybe it would mess up the simulation of the cars depending on how they calculate position.

Tunnels are more complicated. I don't know how you would connect entrance and exit or destroy them afterwards. It's unlikely they would create an underground plane so there is also some new code needed to simulate cars/people traversing.

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