Every time you collect resources there is a pleasant chiming sound. Every time a building is upgraded there is a fireworks show. SimCity BuildIt certainly makes you feel good about waiting for those resources to cook up though. You’ll spend the majority of your time farming resources from the factories in order to cash in on residency upgrades in order to afford the service buildings. The cheaper ones have smaller radii so you’ll have to buy a group of them to cover your entire city. Unfortunately service buildings cost a lot. So, logically, a bigger city will need more fire stations. Service buildings they will only serve the residential buildings they are in close proximity to. Then, after progressing through a few levels, the need for service buildings (like fire departments) arises. Early on, the solution is simple: add in some wind generators and water towers which automatically function no matter where they are placed. Parts of your city will simply shut down if they go for too long without electric, plumbing, and so on. Every time a residential building is constructed or upgraded, it comes with a handful of coins which are needed to purchase utilities, more factories, or city services like fire stations and sewage plants. Instead, players must use their factories to farm resources to build up their residential areas. This isn’t a traditional SimCity game, and there is very little city management to do beyond remembering to not put a factory right in the middle of a residential area. Like most check-back-in-ten-minutes-for-your-resources games, SimCity BuildIt forces players to wait various chunks of time for various types of resources. Planning out the neighborhoods that quickly begin to sprout into towns and then grow into cities wouldn’t be so bad if my involvement with the construction of my city was more, well, involved. SimCity Neighborhood PlanIt just doesn’t have the same ring to it though. It leans more towards being a puzzle game where you spend a lot of time waiting to get the pieces of a neighborhood to put together. Contrary to the name, SimCity BuildIt isn’t really a simulator game. But times have changed, a decade and a half has gone by, and here we are with a new SimCity.Īpproaching SimCity BuildIt expecting a similar experience to previous SimCity titles is going to leave you disappointed.
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