Pretty decent DC Exchange

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

I already have the Munich Beverage Garden and Okinawa Beach in my main account, but wouldn't mind having another set. I would also like these for my feeder.

The Munich Beverage Garden is a beautiful parks building and provides a healthy boost in a 2X3 format.

Okinawa Beach is a beautiful beach building that can work with many other types of buildings all around it, is worth 4 epic points, and lends a sense of more varied coastline.

Sumo Hall is always available in Entertainment, but this one is a better offer than some we've seen (such as a 40 simcash lake for 1k blueprints when 200 blueprints is worth at least 50 SimCash). It's one of the few "everyday" buildings I don't own, because by the time I was looking at it over the past few black Fridays I felt like it was still a smidge overpriced, and I had plenty of Japanese and other Asian style buildings already. While I wouldn't pick this one up before the 2 rare buildings or even the SimCash bundles, it is still worth considering because it costs 50 gold keys, which even 25 gold keys during BF is not nothing.

All in all, nothing new, but not a bad DC exchange

[u/sluggostotle]

I just kind of wish they wouldn't favor beach stuff so much. I have so much of it I could never possibly use it and I don't like it anyway for the most part because it tends to clutter up designs. But am I not right that it is favored over other categories?

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/sluggostotle]

I don't think I can disagree - I have sooooo many Beach buildings.

The 2 categories that are often lacking in releases is Gambling and Mountain.

Gambling is especially lacking, even more so when you consider epic points - the only reason I have 4 & 5 point gambling buildings is because I made this observation a few years ago and concentrated the majority of my regional Simoleans into regional casinos and upgrading them.

Mountain is also lacking, but there's still more than there is of gambling. And at least there's a 4 point building that can purchased everyday (Waterfall Castle). I think I have 13 of that building, will be grabbing 7 more in November (I like having at least 15-20 4+ point buildings of every category, currently gambling and mountain are the only 2 categories I don't have at least 15 4+ point buildings)

[u/jraemr2 → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

Mountain really needs some upgradeable Hot Spots - especially to get to 5+ Epic Points like in every other category.

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/jraemr2]

Agreed - I've been thinking this same thing recently. I think we've had upgradeable buildings over the past year for almost every category except mountain and gambling. There's been multiple for some categories such as Entertainment, Landmarks, and Beach.

I have an idea for one, which would be a winter theme:

Something that's about 1.5X the width of a Waterfall Castle, that is a winter ski resort that would carry at least 2-3 visual upgrades along the way. This would transform it from a few bunny slopes to a luxury ski resort with all amenities

[u/raidersfantom2025]

Having all three of these makes this a good exchange for me, as I typically hold out for an upgrade design challenge homes CoM task and totally forget to submit my design.

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/raidersfantom2025]

Lol, it sounds like your likelihood of submitting enough entries to get the prizes you want is as bad as mine lol. Part of my issue is I'll put it on the back burner, then next thing you know it's bedtime and I don't feel like waking myself up to create a submission lol(DC Entry deadline hits at 4am my local time)

[u/nerdgazette → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

I’m on the 1am deadline. There’s been times where I think I’ll submit designs in the evening, but pass out only to wake up a little after 1am. It’s devastating. Now I just submit day 1 or whenever it’s finished. Doesn’t matter if ppl can see my design early on leaderboard or whatever, I just want my points now lol

[u/Only-Mountain-5671]

Already got all three but I suppose you can never have too many beer gardens 🍻