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@Gogot SimCity BuildIt for mobile is technically "SimCity 6," and the last official SimCity game put out by EA, and probably the last SimCity we're gonna get from them for a while. SimCity BuildIt is pretty much the mobile version of SimCity 2013, but with more expanded options and is based on the freemium model. The reviews and backlash weren't great on that one either, but it's proven to be popular with 50 million downloads as of 2017 as EA continues to expand and add DLC to it. As I said in my post, Maxis has been shut down for good and the employees and SC developers and etc have been either laid off, quit, or moved on and dispersed to other areas of EA to work on other projects, namely The Sims, which is also on life support and facing the ax too after the last one didn't go down well either with consumers or reviewers. Will Wright has also seemingly moved on from SimCity as well and does not have any plans to do anything regarding that. Given how EA and the industry and world today is, I can see EA attempting to reboot and try it again in a few years because the fanbase is too strong and it's too lucrative to let it die forever, but in the meantime, the SimCity franchise is officially dead and gone for the immediate future.

Are you using any public transportation? It helps a lot. Especially buses. Use all forms of public transit like buses, boats, trains, maglevs, and airships. There are no mods to reduce traffic, but there are extra public transportation mods like subways and elevated trains.

I just bought it, as its going for $20 in the Apple App store right now. Its 100% off-line mode and Origin free. The servers are still up, but barely anyone is on it, so if you choose to go online, you're going to waiting for a looooonnng time before someone joins you, if at all. And you better hope that they aren't trolls or anyone with ill intentions. As in someone who builds a bad, unhelpful city, or abandons you and your region, leaving you to pick up the slack. Having played through it for the last couple of weeks and have thoroughly mastered the game, here is my two-cents about it. Pro: It does introduce some good ideas and concepts, mostly based off of and around economy/economic management of a city, something that was introduced in SC2000, but for some reason, left out of SC3 and 4. I like how Airports and Landmarks are truly functional as far as them attracting tourists and commerce. As you would expect, the graphics look good and the detail you get on individual sims is good. The charts, graphs, and data management and visual presentation on such data are great. Con: Just about everything else about the game. This review sum it up for me in a nutshell: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/21/wot-i-think-SimCity/#more-146846 And these posts: But to add to those, it's pretty egregious that they left out terraforming, region editing, and of course, the small city size, that even with the mods to make it bigger, it's only slightly bigger, and still criminally small. In that respect, it's ridiculous that they added all of these buildings to plop and use, but they lack the space to include even half of them. Even the region system is extremely flawed and nonsensical. It's bad enough you can't edit the existing ones or create new ones, despite these huge regions, you, both in on and offline mode, only three of them and one great work between them are directly connected. The other cities in the region don't connect to your three. So its basically one huge region split into mini-regions that have nothing to do and zero interaction with each other, which is bizarre. They also left out a whole lot from previous Sim games for some reason: no beaches, no farms or farming, no subways, no Zoos, Museums, Courthouses, Prisons, Military Bases, I can go on and on. Playgrounds and sports fields are considered "low income/middle income," for some reason as if rich kids don't play sports or use playgrounds?!? Everything must connect to a road, and in general, how car-centric it is. No city ordinances. You can't even cut funding to services. They dumbed it down to an "on/off" switch to the individual public buildings. And let's not even go into disasters. They're cool to watch, but that's just it, you can only watch, you can't do anything as far as directly deploy emergency services/military to control and contain it. Nothing at all. Its pretty much SimCity Societies and SimCity Buildit combined the desktop version. It's hardly a true city simulator, but more of the mobile gaming, plop and look and forget ported to a desktop aiming to rope in the Farmville/Mobile gaming generation. Like the reviews I posted noted, the actual city simulation that exists in it is pedestrian at best, and broken at worse. And since EA killed off Maxis and development for this game and continues to snub longtime fans like us, I don't see any new DLC to add the many missing features or correct its many issues for this SimCity, or the SimCity franchise as a whole in the near or far future on the horizon other than expanding on SC BuildIt. It's going to be SC4 and Skylines forever I suppose. Based off of everything I said, yeah, don't waste your time or money unless you really, really, want to seeing as how its cheap to buy now and you don't need server access to play.

Thank you all very much!

Hi everyone! I've been searching high and low to find these buildings. Anyone know where I might able to find them? .