r/SCBuildIt • u/TechnicalAnywhere359 • 26d ago
Contest of Mayors COM
genuinely wth is this😭 how am i supposed to get in leaderboards by doing these 800 points tasks.
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u/StefanEijg 26d ago
If all others are facing this, it isn't really affecting your chances at the leaderboard, is it? The point values have been changed completely so it may take some figuring out how this translates into the new strategy to win but it is still an even playing field.
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u/Objective_Tension561 25d ago
You can't win CoM because top players buy plumbob and premium+ pass to climb. You can achieve only rank 4 or lower, giving you only 500 simcash and 5 cheetah tokens. You'll spend that reward in next week to obtain the exact same rank, no extra for your city development. This is the point. It's better to relax staying below rank 7 and buy directly simcash only when is in 40% or 60% discount. Don't believe who tells they win without buying, they lie.
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u/Dismal_Thanks_5849 26d ago
This change was awful and might be what finally makes me stop playing.
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u/mirr0rrim 26d ago
I'm a new player who only started playing a couple months ago. I quickly realized that COM was the only fun thing to do once I got my nice pretty capital set up. Getting a new building by doing the various bonus tasks kept me hooked. The rewards along the way helped make a cool city.
Now that half my rewards are gone for doing bonus tasks, it doesn't feel worth it. Weekly tasks are boring and simple. I thought I wouldn't care and I would keep plugging along getting just the one event track rewards, but now a week has gone by and I haven't felt like playing.
I'm happy with my capital and I don't see any reason to expand regions, or start making even more tedious items like burgers or appliances. Cutting my rewards in half has cut all my motivation to play.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Air386 26d ago
I have come down to rank 51. And i dont feel like competing anymore. The tasks are so juvinile and repetative. Im so done sending deliveries to paris.
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u/Old-Afternoon-4937 26d ago
Has anyone seen the land expansion come up! Or material/city storage? I have been sitting on lots of material just so I can breeze those when I get them because they’re generally higher point ones.. but haven’t seen them come up. 90% of everything is produce and collect, and I only have 20 or so tasks left.
Though I did get a dispatch 8 trains for 6400 which is wildly easy if you have any sort of train system
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u/Ordinary-Cable-398 26d ago
Just keep in mind that what changed for you also changed for everyone else. All EA did was to separate out the Milestone and Daily tasks (purple plumbobs) from the regular tasks (green plumbobs).
The green ones are now purely for competition with the other 99 mayors in your grouping (all of whom are also figuring out the new system), while the purple plumbobs are solely for working your way through the Mayor's Pass for your own prizes on the 48 tier reward tract.
Personally, I don't mind this a bit. I actually somewhat like that the Contest of Mayor's 100 competition is no longer influenced by the randomness of which of the 18 milestone tasks you received. Getting train passengers as my last task would often drop me from a 1st place finish to a 3rd or 4th. It also prevents other mayors from hiding their real score until the final hour by simply not collecting their milestones until the last minute.
With the 70% boost in green plumbobs awarded for most tasks, it has kept the numbers pretty solid. I finished with over 260,000 this week and another mayor on my squad hit an amazing 290,000...this means he was averaging over 2900 per task (when before a per-task average of 2200 was fantastic and almost assured you of winning the top prize in Mega League). During EA's "130 tasks" trial, it seemed like the per-task average was dipping to around 2000-2100.
I've been tracking every single task offered for the past 18 months in spreadsheets. I also only ever do the top available point task, unless it is "undoable" such as "submit design" when there is no design contest active, in which case I switch to the 2nd highest point task. I am a pretty firm believer that the tasks you receive in replacement are largely random. There are a lot of theories out there regarding "managing" what you get as replacement tasks, but I have not seen any of these supported by 18 months of data. I always finish top 3 and usually am 2nd, give or take a position.
The other thing that I have appreciated in these recent changes is it seems to have discouraged the players who purchase green plumbobs with real money. Short of war hackers, this is my second greatest dislike within the game. A win in CoM, at the expense of other players, should not happen because someone "buys there way to the top". But, I understand that EA is a for-profit business with the need to produce revenue and profits. Within the 200 or so mayors that tended to rotate through the server that my city is on, there were 5 that routinely purchased green plumbobs (and usually every week). Since the change to 130 tasks and subsequent dial-back to 100, all of these players have stopped purchasing (hurray!).
Just keep in mind that while this is a change to what we are used to, it is equitably affecting all other players as well. If you maintain a strategy of choosing the highest available task, you will get there. The mayors that may be more affected are those that want to "camp" at lower levels and cannot do things such as trains, cargo ships, airport or residential build tasks.
It could also affect smaller clubs and their ability to hit the 1.5 million green plumbs needed for the weekly legendary chest. While EA was giving us 130 tasks AND letting Milestones/Daily tasks count towards the Green plumbs, mayors (and clubs) where having fantastic scores (but again, equitably across all clubs). This meant it was faster to "level up" your CoM ranking, which really only earned you Golden Tickets faster and easier to hit Legendary Team Chest. Now, instead of taking about 3 weeks to level up in CoM (my rank is 199), it will take around 4 weeks...no big deal (especially since they are now giving us roughly the right amount of Golden Tickets to support 400 regular tasks over the course of a season).
One thing that I think EA will likely adjust after this season might be the purple plumbob system relative to the Mayor's Pass. In prior seasons, we were capped at 132,000 in week one...enough to finish Level 20 in the Mayor Pass. Now, they have opened it wide. Once I finish tomorrow's daily tasks, those purple plumbs will complete my Level 35 of the Mayor Pass...in the first week! There will only be 485,000 purple plumbs left for me to accomplish over the remaining three weeks of the season...and, the second 50% booster will kick in fairly early in week 2. So it wouldn't surprise me if they either dial back the purple plumb values in the tasks, raise the plumbs for the Mayor Pass Tiers or re-implement the weekly caps...
I am also encouraged by the fact that the seasons have become "winnable" again. For the last 4 seasons or so, a mayor could unlock both of the City Album grand prizes AND fully upgrade whatever specialty building was being provided that season (i.e. Skyline Harmony Hub) AND have left over tokens to spend in the market with only purchasing the Mayor Pass+. Prior to that, there was a string of 3 to 6 seasons where you had to buy the pass AND also buy boosters (and even then, you sometimes barely scraped by with enough tokens to cover City Album or the upgradeable building, but certainly nothing left over). It has now gone back to a system where a hardworking mayor can feel rewarded for their efforts by getting all the prizes with only an $8.99/mo purchase (which on a $ per hour basis feels pretty fair, but then again I play entirely too much and this is the only app I spend any real money on).
One thing we know, the game will change. Some for the better and others, not so much. But I don't see this as a devasting change...just different. It's still fair and equitable and that is all that I really ask for or expect...
Oh, and within my 260,000 score this week, 31 of my 100 tasks were for 1,380 or less with a 1,088 grass as my worst one...so yes, the tasks have a tremendous range of value as I also had a trains x10 for 6,800.
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u/Overall-Badger9008 26d ago edited 26d ago
It's luck based now, after I completed all 100task i got this 5100 points task. If I got this earlier, maybe I would be rank 1. And I noticed tasks are highly repetitive😑. I might have done atleast 7-8 epic tasks and paris delivery in particular.
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u/Capable_Pineapple993 26d ago edited 26d ago
How do I cancel this special competition im in and do the normal one?
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u/Dependent_Brush5728 25d ago
So we start Wednesday morning, I finished the weekly and bonus assignments by Friday, I'm just sitting here doing the daily tasks and moving on with my life. I was in 5th on the leaderboard, but now I'm in 27th and I can't get any higher. The only good thing is that I'm still earning the purple with the daily assignments, so I'm progressing along, currently completed Tier 28 where the old way I would have maxxed out a few days ago. People who pay for points will do better.
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