/r/SCBuildIt

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This is an unofficial community for the EA mobile game Simcity BuildIt. While SimCity BuildIt has city building and simulation elements to it, it is geared as a social experience more than anything else. This subreddit is a place for players of the game to gather, discuss the game, and share tips and achievements with the community.

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Welcome to SimCity BuildIt

This is an unofficial subreddit for the mobile Freemium game by EA and Track Twenty.

About r/SCBuildit

While SimCity BuildIt has city building and simulation elements to it, it is geared as a social experience more than anything else. This subreddit is a place for players of the game to gather, discuss the game, and share tips and achievements with the community.


  • SCBI Discord join to chat with other mayors, trade, and make friends.
  • Guides / Wiki player written guides to share tips and tricks.
  • r/SCBI_Buildings archive of all limited time buildings.
  • Posts that are about Mayors Club recruitments or requests, trade, and other socially interactive purposes should be posted in the sister subreddit, /r/SCBuildIt_Classifieds, reserving this main sub for information, news, discussion, screenshots, tips, tutorials, and other content directly about the game itself.
  • SCBI Fandom wiki
  • FB fan group has groups for trading, chatting, and club searches.

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30,169 Subscribers

29

One of the best population boost

Takes up just 2x2 space, covers ginormous 30x30 area. I feel like there's not been a better space:boost ratio ever since this building dropped. It's also very beautiful in my opinion!

18 Comments
2024/08/27
22:40 UTC

3

Worth Restarting?

I have a level 41, 520,000 population city producing about 8,000 Neo-Simoleons a day with a current regular Simoleon balance of 1,800,000. My city storage is about 185 and Omega storage is 25.

Adding to the post: If you zoom out on the city, it basically covers the screen. That’s about how much land I have. Nowhere near the full amount.

I know it’d be a lot to throw away, but my main concern is that my storages and land don’t grow quickly enough, which seems to be the main purpose of camping at a low level.

If I make a new city, how long does it take camping at the right level (with no ‘feeder’ city) to expand land and storages to a good enough level to also level up the city? Would you advise making that move? Does it make the game more fun? Is it easier to continue later down the line in CoM, Wars, etc.?

14 Comments
2024/08/27
21:26 UTC

2

Should I get rid of disasters items if camping at 11 ?

Should I sell these items if I recently started playing the game and have a long way to go before leveling up ?

How hard will it be to get them later on if I need them and how important are they ?

6 Comments
2024/08/27
21:13 UTC

8

Update on my urban farm / farmers market zone

Ignore the sewer, working on another expansion to my industrial area.

I added animals and some crops to expand on my idea of combining farm landscapes with the farmers market. I like where it's going and am looking for suggestions on what else to do with it.

0 Comments
2024/08/27
20:36 UTC

17

My european countryside in progress

5 Comments
2024/08/27
17:09 UTC

11

Train City

Thoughts?

4 Comments
2024/08/27
15:01 UTC

13

Check your Settings, last update might have disconnected your Login Account. Only noticed by chance.

5 Comments
2024/08/27
08:52 UTC

7

Train card costs?

Anybody knows the train card costs? For non rare cards first is 720 and 2nd is 800 afaik. Rare starts at 2400, but I don’t know the rest.

6 Comments
2024/08/27
08:46 UTC

3

OMEGA Research Center vs. Maxis Manor

Which one is more beneficial?

3 Comments
2024/08/27
04:13 UTC

10

How to get modern buildings

So far, every time I develop a “residential zone” property, they always turn into an older style tower. But when I see other cities, people have these more modern glass ones. Does anyone know how they get those?

I added a screenshot — hopefully you can see it — of what I’m looking for.

6 Comments
2024/08/27
03:12 UTC

9

Trains

They will run under the modern greenway. Tried it in my DC and it worked (bottom of pic)

5 Comments
2024/08/27
02:39 UTC

4

How to save city to use on a different device

I've been using this app for years but every time I get a new phone, I have to start SC from scratch. I can't figure out how to transfer my initial city to the new device. So I have been trying to keep my original device alive to play but it's just not working well anymore.
Maybe this is really easy and I'm just being dumb, but I can't figure it out.

9 Comments
2024/08/26
18:42 UTC

2

New Design Challenge — Trains

Can anybody tell me what the icon is this time for the 3 required buildings category? I can’t tell, which is bizarre!

4 Comments
2024/08/26
18:10 UTC

3

Can someone explain “Elo” in design challenge

I have had anywhere from +707 to -42 elo challenge since I started doing them a month ago. Avg is in the 40’s. What influences this? I read the FAQ and it made no sense to me. Only thing I got figured out is population doesn’t matter. I don’t think my designs vary that much to cause that great of a range

How do you all get high “elo” scores? Thank you!

4 Comments
2024/08/26
14:49 UTC

16

The Isle of Wight, the Needles

As soon as I saw this on the Beach Marketplace, I had to have it, it's one of my favourite places 🥰 Day and night photos.

18 Comments
2024/08/26
13:14 UTC

9

quick mention for trains

Just realised you can cosmetically attach a bridge to a railroad track (in DC at least). I really like this. Next it would be cool if the train went over the bridge -_-

1 Comment
2024/08/26
09:08 UTC

15

Train stations

I get the feeling trains are accepted by most players in some form or another now. With that being said, do you think we’ll get to see all the train buildings from this link?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1NWXgGdMPiBxq7fY-XQmYaW0hMU6XRTwN/htmlview?pli=1#

And will it be cash offers like the royal x station today? Or event track? DC? or even a season?

What do you think/hope? And do you already have the royal x?

6 Comments
2024/08/26
08:00 UTC

9

I am kinda a newbie and i have a lot of questions

So i visited this city and found it absolutely beautiful and I've been searching for so long for houses that look like the colorful canal houses in amsterdam and this is the closest i could find but now i dont know which house this is,frosty fjords or another and near the houses theres a wooden pathway how do you get that

If you use a building like telesports arena or movie theatre in the design challenge will it be lost and stuck to the design region or will you get it back(i placed a big lake and a bridge last one and it returned but im not sure If its the same with other im afraid to lose my telesport arena)

what is the most efficient way to get golden keys?

What is the war thing for(i have some chest that costs 2250 to sell because i find club thingy useless but i am not sure maybe it will become useful with progress and I'll accidentally trash it out.

Any ideas on how to decorate royal garden?i have it and wanna use it but it looks ugly everywhere.

With which residential building should i replace some ugly apartments with?

Why is the 2000 blueprint building called "story event chapter" and what does it do

How to make your city greener but not make it too ugly

1 Comment
2024/08/25
19:03 UTC

3

Multiple cities with the same name

I see several cities that are obviously different players but they all have the same name. I didn’t think the game allowed this? Same exact name, different levels and population. Anyone else see this too?

8 Comments
2024/08/25
15:49 UTC

5

Red Battle Boosters

I’m trying my best to understand this game! Can someone clarify what do I do with the red battle boosters? Do I use those on my team or do I use them against other teams?

7 Comments
2024/08/25
11:34 UTC

25

Hohohoo simcity war

3 Comments
2024/08/25
03:46 UTC

5

Same adverts?

I’m curious if the game is advertising to different age groups.

6 Comments
2024/08/24
23:11 UTC

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