r/SCBuildIt • • 19h ago

Complaint EA and their never ending grift

20 Upvotes

I get that EA is a business, but the shady and opaque practices they employ seem truly nefarious and unnecessary.

I decided to purchase the mayors premium pass plus and a seasonal coin boost because I really like the Halloween buildings. When you buy the seasonal coin boost they never tell you before hand how long it’s going to last for. You don’t get that information till after you have paid and they certainly seem to lean into implying it’s for the entire season.

I’m aware it’s not, but what I wasn’t aware of was that as soon as you pay for this boost the ad based seasonal coin doubles in the wait time between ads, but the real travesty is that because they changed the way CoM operates there’s now a very finite limit to the amount of the seasonal track you can even advance down. And they know this. So, here I was grinding away trying to get the most out of the money I’ve spent and regardless of my efforts there’s a wall I’m going to hit because EA won’t give more seasonal track tasks to finish until the time period of the boost expires.

They could easily state how much max seasonal coins could be earned with the purchase of the boost, but they purposefully leave it vague. If I’d known I would hit an EA imposed wall on the boost I wouldn’t have paid for it.

I will never understand how the powers that be at EA thinks this kind of sketchiness serves them. While they got some money out of me there will be no comeback for them to get more. It’s a shame. Especially considering all any of us get for this real money we spend is some use license for these imaginary items.

If we’re paying for a boost we should be able to grind and earn as much as our day allows us to earn without them imposing a wall.


r/SCBuildIt • • 22h ago

Buildings That looks awesome.

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18 Upvotes

The buildings are from last year plus this one.


r/SCBuildIt • • 2h ago

Design Challenge Aquatic City - Lovecraft Park after Dark

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17 Upvotes

r/SCBuildIt • • 16h ago

Buildings What do you think having these buildings as parts of the greenway?

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They can save me some SimCash, but do you think the buildings blend well to the greenway?


r/SCBuildIt • • 9h ago

Design Challenge Dc Entry water city

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11 Upvotes

I wish they could give us two areas in every Design Challenge 😫


r/SCBuildIt • • 7h ago

Buildings Beautiful casino

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6 Upvotes

r/SCBuildIt • • 14h ago

Assignments/Tasks Daily/Weekly Tasks Mayor's Pass points

4 Upvotes

Has anyone compiled a list of the mayor's pass points (purple) for each daily task and weekly task under this new format?

Should be without any boosters.

(Trying to plan for weeks 3,4 when my points boost ends)

Also has anyone's strategy changed (swapping out tasks) since this new format? I have the Vote in DC Challenge task but even with my points boost there wasn't a lot of points so I'm guessing I should swap that out next time.

Thanks.


r/SCBuildIt • • 23h ago

Question COM - Land Expansion task, camping, storage

4 Upvotes

Hey folks, I've been camping at lvl 11 for a while now but I'm missing out some big point tasks from COM.

How often do Land Expansion task appear? I've only seen 1 in 10 days of COM.

In addition, does anyone have an updated land expansion map with the current prices to expand?

I'm at 160 land items and this is stacking my storage quite too much.

Thanks!


r/SCBuildIt • • 4h ago

Question Level 6 buildings

1 Upvotes

Did they do something about levels of building ma. Currently I am 15 lvl and I can’t have any 6 lvl buildings (no yellow helmets) what happened