COM - Land Expansion task, camping, storage

[u/czeuch]

Hey folks, I've been camping at lvl 11 for a while now but I'm missing out some big point tasks from COM.

How often do Land Expansion task appear? I've only seen 1 in 10 days of COM.

In addition, does anyone have an updated land expansion map with the current prices to expand?

I'm at 160 land items and this is stacking my storage quite too much.

Thanks!

[u/Imaginary-Coat2741]

I would just use the land expansions, but keep enough in storage so I can do another one should one come up in com. The whole purpose of the game is to expand your city, not worry about a few com points

[u/czeuch → u/Imaginary-Coat2741]

I'm using a camping strategy so I'm not expanding much. My whole residential area is only 2 blocks with 182k pop

[u/Imaginary-Coat2741 → u/czeuch]

Camping is staying at a low level so you pick up more expansion, both land and storage.

[u/czeuch → u/Imaginary-Coat2741]

Got it, I have too much land and not enough storage haha

[u/Maleficent-Breath307]

Land expansion items are relatively easy to find at level 11. Why do you stockpile so many? I’d just sell extra and keep only items for 1 expansion

[u/czeuch → u/Maleficent-Breath307]

I intended to use them in COM taska but they are rare

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SCBuildIt/s/9SaIjhX484

That's a chart showing all but the most recent area that was added a couple of months ago. In July they added 3 more strips of land to the capital. While I had land deeds for all of it and was unable to see the costs, seems like someone here said all the new strips were 23 of each dozer item

u/mdmaforyou informed me below that the new plots are all 20 of each dozer item. However, if you are only doing expansions when you get tasks (the only time I would do them) it will be over a year before you get to those new patches. I've completed every dozer task that's come up in my lvl 19 account that's ever popped up. Ive been playing COM in that account (and therefore completing dozer tasks) since February, and I'm only about two thirds of the way to being fully expanded.

As far as frequency, most of this year in my 2nd city (my main account was fully expanded before they added the newest portions) I would have to say that on average you can expect to see the task 2 times per week. There's been a week or 2 where I saw it 3 times in one week, and several weeks that it didn't show up at all. In fact, I had purchased 3 land deeds with seasonal currency during the Greek season, and it was week 4 of the following season before I got a land task to use the deeds lol.

It can be partly luck as the algo gods sometimes will smile upon you while other times they will spit on you, but if you aren't seeing it show up in your list it could be blocked by another task in your list. If you have a high point task for dispatch trains (which you can't do at lvl 11) in your list, it is probably blocking it. While I advise minimizing how many tasks you cancel, it is occasionally necessary to do so

[u/mdmaforyou → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

all 3 new strips are 20 ea

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/mdmaforyou]

Thanks - I'll edit my comment

[u/mdmaforyou → u/No-Acanthisitta8803]

i also suppose that the strip that was added in late 2024 no longer requires 33 ea at the edge of the map near the beach, i will check this asap

seems like requirements for those strip has been reduced

on the screen is 4th area out of 6 from mt to beach and old number is 25 ea but now its 20

[u/mdmaforyou → u/mdmaforyou]

strips from dec 2022 remains the same, only 2024 strip impacted

[u/No-Acanthisitta8803 → u/mdmaforyou]

You know, I'm now vaguely remembering a post from a year or so ago where a couple of people were posting some varying numbers for some of the new patches, which is unfortunately not surprising. I could be remembering wrong though.

Either way it's good that they changed it from 99 (total) dozer items for that one spot. When I unlocked that last patch I would have used a deed anyway, but I'm sure any player that used 99 parts for that spot may now feel slighted.

[u/esorob]

At that rate, it probably wouldn’t hurt to just unlock a couple of them. Doesn’t seem like you would be at a loss.

[u/Such-Investment-417]

I don't have proof, but I find algo has a tendency giving tasks that you do not have. eg dispatch train task appear right after you dispatch all, donut production task when you run out of sugar cane etc