![]() ![]() I find later in the game as more and more building blocks (resources, etc.) become available with your higher level that this option is a saving grace, because for the larger buildings, you need some items that take forever to build. What you need to upgrade a building to house more people (and build apartments) is completely random, and sometimes the roll of the dice gives you brutal requirements - but thankfully, there is an option to wait 30 minutes for the game to generate you another set of blueprints. These are what you need to upgrade your residential zones as they call for different upgrades. The industrial zones are used to build your basic building blocks such as wood, iron, plastic, seeds, etc. As your level increases throughout the game, more zones of each type are available, but there are always going to be significantly more residential zones than industrial. You do have a limitation on how many industrial and residential zones you can build, which is tied to your level. There are more pressing needs for that money at the early levels of the game. ![]() So be VERY CAREFUL off the start - have some sort of plan in your mind, because if you have to demolish the streets later after you’ve spent needed money at the start, you will be kicking yourself. A change for SimCity BuildIt is also that roads are free, at least to build - later, when you need to upgrade them, it will start costing you money. The residential zones are always free and the starting industrial zones are free (but later, as you unlock the larger ones which have more production slots, they start to cost). You start off in the standard SimCity empty space, and the little icons are blinking, telling you that you have residential and industrial zones to build. That being said, the game itself plays quicker than I thought it would and without hitting that damn paywall. The only time I really zoom in or change the angle is when I want to admire my beautiful city. I do like how far you can zoom out and in though, it gives you a helicopter view all the way down to building level. Nothing fancy or new here, pretty much the same as any other building game. SimCity BuildIt has the standard zoom-in-and-out, swirl-around, side-to-top-type view controls. So the top down view (at least for me) seems to be the best. You always end up tapping the wrong thing. The reason for this is because once your buildings start getting taller, it is pretty much impossible to tap on anything in the isometric view. Relatively straightforward. The game defaults to the classic isometric view when you start each time, but I find I immediately change it to a top-down view. I figured I hadn’t played a Sim game in a while, so why not try it out? I skipped that one, mainly because the majority of the people I knew playing it said not to bother.Ībout a month ago, I got my first Android tablet, and obviously the first thing I did was check out what games were available in the Google Play Store. I follow most of the major releases and have tried them on and off, but I will be honest - I did not participate in the big fancy 2013 release of SimCity, the one where you could only play online (which was removed later due to brutal connection problems). I played it on my Super Nintendo, and then on computers. Many games have come and gone, but I am now about three weeks into SimCity BuildIt. I have a tendency to avoid paying as long as I can, and to try and push through the “paywall”. I am always asked how much money I blow on them, and the honest answer is not that much. Everyone who knows me knows I waste all my free time (and there isn’t much of that!) playing freemium games or free-to-play games. ![]()
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