/r/SCBuildIt

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This is an unofficial community for the EA freemium 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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32,307 Subscribers

9

Any cool shop layouts?

Drop your cool shop layout below. I want to spice things up with my shops to make them more aesthetically pleasing looking for inspiration.

14 Comments
2025/02/02
05:36 UTC

0

What happened to spooner plains ?

Haven’t seen the real spooner plains in the trade centre for a while. Never used his services but he always had a good selection of stuff. Has been banned ?

8 Comments
2025/02/02
03:24 UTC

1

Trees

Why are trees so expensive? a tree costs 50 simcash (some) that's only 10 trees for 500 simcash, is that really worth it? On top of that a 1x1 tree for that price??????

7 Comments
2025/02/02
01:36 UTC

7

One of my favorite views of my main city

Your thoughts?

0 Comments
2025/02/01
23:05 UTC

26

DC Submission “Protest”

Obligatory (intentionally non-) circular body of water with lots of trees. Grumpy island god as focal point. Didn’t try at all to make it pretty.

Shooting for 2.5.

6 Comments
2025/02/01
22:30 UTC

1

How to make circled mountain taller? The shape won’t change no matter how I try

8 Comments
2025/02/01
13:26 UTC

10

My tropical Paradise

1 Comment
2025/02/01
12:47 UTC

6

Those who've maxed out Storage upgrade, How long have you played for? How long did it take you? What level is your city? And what's the trick?

What keeps you playing the game?

10 Comments
2025/02/01
11:06 UTC

1

Game fixed to rotate to the left

Is there no built-in autorotate feature on the game? Most apps or games I play that are landscape always have the autorotate feature even if the phone's setting is turned off but I've noticed that whenever I play the game it's fixed to the left and doesn't turn to my side of preference. Is there any way to fix this?

6 Comments
2025/02/01
11:01 UTC

10

Limited time items

Will the limited-time offering make a comeback for another season, even if I didn't get a chance to buy this time around?

5 Comments
2025/02/01
09:32 UTC

1

Is simcity server down again?

It kept freezing this screen for 5 mins

9 Comments
2025/02/01
04:01 UTC

21

Tropical Haven DC

I love these tropical ones

6 Comments
2025/02/01
02:11 UTC

6 Comments
2025/01/31
21:32 UTC

3

Ad to Speed up Factory

Please, am I the only one experiencing factories now giving a pop up to watch an ad for instant complete of materials?

This is beyond frustrating as it happens every single time I put something in a factory.

Any options to disable this pop up?

17 Comments
2025/01/31
17:26 UTC

14

Tropical Paradise DC

A quaint little tropical haven with plenty of activities for the nature and science lovers to enjoy! What do you guys think of this one? Any tips or tweaks to make it look better?

2 Comments
2025/01/31
15:56 UTC

0

CoM score at Lvl 12… how???

I’ve been trying to grind CoM in my feeder, thought I was doing well, but the higher scores are insane!!!

Is this normal? Am I in the vicinity of cheaters?

I just don’t know how how you could score sooo high…

The only take I’m not doing are the upgrading houses.

22 Comments
2025/01/31
15:12 UTC

16

Nature reserve in Frosty Fjords

Buildings used: the arctic (landmark), reindeer sleigh (entertainment), Northern Light Hut (landscape). Is there anything that fits in the vibe I should expect?

3 Comments
2025/01/31
05:32 UTC

24

Not enough trees in a spiral I guess

My submission for City of Art

11 Comments
2025/01/31
04:56 UTC

4

Why won’t they let me connect to the railway?

Hi guys, maybe a stupid question, but why can‘t I connect the train station to the railway? This is my 6th station and the others worked fine. But never crossed a bridge so far and I‘m afraid that I overlook something. Thanks a lot in advance!

4 Comments
2025/01/31
03:36 UTC

47

They're not going to give me a city expansion task in COM until I use all these are they? Ugh.

32 Comments
2025/01/31
00:17 UTC

14

I Believe the Sandbox is coming...

So back in December, we were asked to give suggestions on their FB Page for upcoming or new material we would like to see in the game and I had suggested offering the sandbox. A couple weeks ago a hint that a sandbox could happen came in the form of a question about what we would like to see added to the game and one of the suggestions was the sandbox. After seeing this, I’m a strong advocate to believe that the sandbox is inevitable and it will be added to the game in the near future

Two things can come of this one. It can make the game even better than it currently is, or two, it can ruin the game.

For starters, the sandbox needs to be completely within itself. By this, I mean, nothing within the sandbox can be affected outside of the sandbox. I am suggesting new items are created for the sandbox however, I strongly emphasize that these items can only be used within the sandbox and cannot be asked for residential upgrades or tasks within the COM at any point. Mayors simply cannot be asked to store more items and flood the GTHQ. By saying that that means new industrial/commercial buildings will be made, but only accessible within the sandbox the caveat to this is in order to earn the creation of additional buildings within our sandbox, certain criteria must be met within the current game as we know it in order to keep the current game as we know it relevant (there must be a reason for mayors to still play outside the sandbox).

Next, let’s talk about the terrain. Roads shouldn’t be a 90° turn every time you want to make one we should be able to go straight up the middle and make a 45° road if that’s what we wanna do in this new sandbox. I do believe there should be an application for all of the land water and mountain expansion deeds that we have earned, that cannot be used after we have fully expanded the original game.

Residential units shouldn’t be limited to only going UP in a 2 x 2 space. We should be able to to grow our residential units in a width direction meaning creating large residential complexes.

To be able to earn Departments such as education, travel, etc. we should have either launched a certain amount of train rides, plane, rides or cargo ships in the original game to be able to have access to new transportation. This is important so that we don’t lose sight of the original game and still create reasons to play outside of the sandbox. This is also the perfect place to introduce the underground subway.

Lastly, the premise of the sandbox should run on a revenue generated scale (and not population) meaning what we buy is all based on how much money that we have. Residential upgrades if you want to do upgrades to industrial if you want to do upgrades to commercial we must spend money to make money.

Our tax rate should be reflective upon what our tax rate is in our capital city if we have $12,000 generated every 24 hours in our capital city our tax should be 1.2% we have $55,000 generated every 24 hours we should receive 5.5% of the population. Our City tourism should generate revenue if we build an airport based on how many wings we upgrade to and how many people are coming into our city that is revenue that we have earned for our city based on tourism same thing it should happen for the marina. There is a huge opportunity to modernize the game without changing the fundamental game play of the existing game.

Give us leaderboards!

We can all debate other small additions. Go a Roller Coaster Tycoon route and allow us to set prices to sell items in the commercial stores etc., but IMHO the only way this works is that the current contest nor residential upgrades cannot ask for tasks within the sandbox. Every effort should be made to keep the integrity of the current game as it is. The sandbox should be an alternative means of play to use all the items you have collected with the game and have no where to use them. You can not continue to upset those mayors, who just cannot accommodate so much more at this time by adding new commercial items to our inventory. Create a separate storage warehouse for sandbox items (like omega did) The sandbox needs to be contained, but use their outside progress to determine what they can unlock within the sandbox.

Fingers crossed that when the day comes, they do it right.

Edit: sandbox - this would mean there is no boundaries. You wouldn’t have to stop expanding your land at a certain point because the region is maxed out. You can continue to grow this area without limitations except for your device ( older devices can not handle as much. This is why they wait until operating systems stop upgrading older versions before they allow more land upgrade to the capital city.).

22 Comments
2025/01/30
22:25 UTC

34

NYC

Do you think we will see NYC buildings again? I really want Times Square and Campus library.

16 Comments
2025/01/30
17:04 UTC

3

Burger farming

Does anyone know if Burger Farm still Works?

18 Comments
2025/01/30
16:21 UTC

3

Ads on Regional Exports

I have had the ads fail the last 2 times I watched to speed up the 2 hour cooldown on shipments. I have an epic going on, so I’m curious if others have had that happen before.

6 Comments
2025/01/30
14:08 UTC

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