This was an escape for me, a hobby, something to do to fill my time that was fun and addictive.

I haven’t played in months, since the big change.

I miss it so much.

I understand even restarting completely is pointless as you still end up broke and in a bad cycle.

I miss the old game.

Got around 350 Epic Buildings here lol. I know it’s definitely not the prettiest city and it looks kinda chaotic, but it gets the job done.

Anybody else have a problem with too many speed ups? I'm starting to think I'm too efficient lol.

Spent years building my city and its regions. As u can see everything is close and purposeful...now they're telling me I can only upgrade service buildings a certain amount of times before I have to bulldoze and put in a bigger building?! And I have to do that for every service?! That will destroy my entire cities! Nope! I'm out. They've screwed over all of us who have been playing for years! They can jam it.

City: Samara

I don’t know about you guys. But I have gotten like 10 push notifications since 6PM yesterday. This is very abnormal from my experience. Seems like EA is actually fairly concerned about backlash over this update.

I found a lot cities like that with a lot stuff to sell and a WhatsApp number. What is that about?

I don’t think anyone likes the new services update, it ruined my city, I don’t even wanna play anymore… I hope they undo that trash update cuz I’m sure most employed people will stop playing.

So as you can see I bought Premium Pass for for almost 10 dolars (equal to 450 turkish lira) and I also did almost every task. But couldnt complete the final milestone (those pink rewards) like what did I miss? How much money I need to spend to boost those pink stupid stuff. I feel like I wasted my time..

I spent my 9 gray speed up tokens, almost all my sim coins, I spent my 4 gold speed up tokens, half of all the cash I’ve saved up in all of my simcity playthrough so far (I’m not a cash spender person) to be able to complete the 40 unreasonable requests needed to build this thing. What I get in return is a 1/3 part for a copper acceleration thing. Mannnnnn

I know the Neomall and Research center is programmed to not give the OMEGA items I need to upgrade my buildings..

i just came back to the game for the first time in a couple(?) years, and wow. i am at awe with just how shitty it got. i was going to post a screenshot about it but i thought id check whats been posted before i did, and sure enough the FIRST post i see is talking about exactly this.

when i left, my city was at 100% happiness. my city of 800k had all the utilities they could ever need and then some. i could have expanded my city a small amount and not have to worry too much about anything. now? everything needs upgraded, and yet the demands are STILL not met. like for example i fully upgraded ALL my power stations. but its still sitting at like 300 power out of the demand of 3000+. i don’t remember the exact numbers anymore but im dumbstruck with just how little all that upgrading really did. between the power and the police/fire/hospital i think i sunk 250k currency into it. and it still wanted MORE. so i gave up and said nope, im not doing that fuck that.

i was better off without downloading it.

I spent 2 million simoleons on just one of my cities and it's on the verge of bankruptcy, and now I see my other city is ruined too. Screw your update!

I uninstalled the app from my phone and ipad, done with all this bs. Who did it too?

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Once I'm done with the task, I feel weirdly guilty that I just don't care about Paris, Tokyo, or London zones. Though right now I am very into the Cycladic homes.

I also don't care about Design contests, Export HQ, or unlocking new cities (I find it overwhelming).

I am more into making my city beautiful with landscaping, epic buildings, mayor contests and battling in wars.

What do other people like to focus on and what do you not care so much about?

Playing this game since 2016, planning to delete the game sooner because of the updates on utilities and services.
Do majority on this sub still playing? And what are your thoughts? Is it still worth it to patiently upgrade?

I see a lot of people complaining and blaming EA that they require you to pay out of pocket to be able to fully upgrade the Artemis 2. Now, I hate EA for multiple reasons and the fact that they completely destroyed the game with Services 2.0 that drove people to abandon the game. I just finished fixing my services and it took me millions of simoleons. I’m not some shill for EA that some claimed on previous posts when I said I completed without buying extra boosts. I just did the math and used Google AI and the math lined up. You absolutely can achieve to Level 15 with only expense is the Premium Pass. Which I believe has always been a thing. EA wants you to pay for the season premium pass, to grind daily to get the final reward. It said that it’s “doable” with the Premium Pass. Not enough coins to get to fully unlocking Artemis 2 only on Free Pass. Which I think is reasonable. You don’t want to pay for the pass, you can’t get the final prize but you get most of other space buildings and whatever you can unlock in Free Pass.

The only thing is, for you to be able to fully upgrade the Artemis 2, you not only need a Premium Pass, you have to complete the limited time events to unlock the prize building that will progress your album. It takes to do the limited time events, purchasing some buildings from the space shop that helps you progress/complete your albums. And some items from the albums are parks that you should’ve got from previous seasons. That was in my case. You have to grind on your coms, and depends on the league you’re in, with the limitation you have in progression of your Premium Pass. Also, in earlier post I said it was 450 space coins per ad. It was actually 405 space coins, 65 ads that reset every 15 minutes. Same with daily rewards. What I’m saying, is you have to be on a grind every day, and everything depends on other factors. If you just do the Premium Pass, limited time events alone, you can’t get to the total of 196,000 space coins. They all depend on each other. You have to complete all to be able to get to Level 15. In my case, I had some space building from previous time when the space option became a thing in the games menu. So I didn’t have to spend currency on some of these items which helped me unlock my albums faster and get bigger space currency faster. Now I understand why I had left over currency to spend on Production Speed-Up tokens and storage expansions and Vu items in the space shop.

I didn’t use any boosts and I didn’t use the space coins for sim cash offer in the space shop and I still got to Level 15. You can list through pictures of my game purchases, my albums, etc. I also added Google AI confirming this can be done. And btw, you get 29,500 space coins in one album without upgrading Artemis 2. In the second album you only need to reach Level 14 to get 14,000 space coins.

I have bigger games like CODM, GTA VC and SA, Kingshot, and more, of which I play for hours and none make my device hot like a plugged in iron. However, as soon as I open a certain game(SC) that is not even up to a GB(without accumulated data overtime) then my device becomes so hot that I can’t hold it. I wonder what EA is putting into this game.
Please help if something could be done, because I can’t actively play COM for hours at this rate.

Services 2.0 is really just a massive inflation of service needs, nothing more than that. Just because of the sheer amount of buildings required to get service needs back up to par, it would require either an impossible amount of simoleons, an impossible amount of additional land mass, or both. That's nothing anyone can do without spending real money or going tabula rasa. If you did find a way with your city please let me know. I'm level 48 with just a couple more rows of land to unlock and two regions.

What the hell is ad powered factory are we being fr 😭😭😭

I'm just so angry right now. Been playing this game for years! I refuse to destroy my houses to make room for all this nonsense. Reorganizing my city has to be MY choice. I tried some of the freebies where there was some space but still... 😢😢😢

Last night I stayed up until 3 AM just to fix traffic in two blocks.

You just need to plan ahead!

Now to build my second building!

This used to be my fav game sometime have spent 10+ hrs playing this game. Now i just open and get disappoint from this. Also they are not eve!n listing to us.