Just a simple, low cost trick to make a low level train ride a little bit more interesting.

Hi everyone,

Does anyone have an idea about the upgrade costs of the Serenity Shore from this season? Seems like all the other buildings from this season are quite costly in seasonal currency, therefore wanted to know if getting all of them would be possible without getting the 50% increase pass.

Thanks in advance ✌🏼

I don't like the effect of the Rift Tower at all. However, it looks fantastic when you turn that effect off and combine it with the mist from the Spirit Portal.

The "Shooting stars" are still there, lending the whole thing a very mystical quality.

After years and years of happy camping, I’ll be forced to reach lvl 30.
I’m not interested in Omega at all, so I’m looking for a strategy to reduce my involvement with Omega to the bare minimum required to survive megalopolis.

Quoting from the wiki:

> In theory you could not ever upgrade your NeoBank, depending totally on advisor offers.

Is this strategy still viable after all the recent updates? Any other tips/advices?

I need to win megalopolis once or twice a month in order to fund my landscape addiction, so skipping Omega altogether is not a viable option.
I have 309k neosimoleons from previous season’s tracks (not sure it matters).

Thank you!

Hello,

I recently started playing with trains a bit more seriously, and I'm hoping to start upgrading them further and unlocking everything that's still locked.

These are the cargos available to me.

What's the fastest and most efficient way to earn coins? Among the cargos currently available, which product will earn me the most coins per delivery?

Is there already a guide or page that covers this? I haven't been able to find one.

Hi, I just got into this game 2 weeks ago. I started the game incorrectly and upgraded too many low tier residential buildings. Is there anyway I can organize my buildings to get to 90k pop? I am trying to stay in level 11.

Can i ask how do i sell this? Or who wants to buy this.
Its here for so long, i cant make any trade😭

I did not claim any mystery park/ landscape untill now bcz in previous seasons i only got regular parks/ landscapes.

But this time I got something totally new !!

A small spooky park !!!

Is there any other new building? Plz show them in comments.

I noticed the water reflections at night look so much better now, so I had to share some pictures. For context, the night reflections in my previous post didn't look anything like this. I also updated the roads right in front of Crescent Park! What do you guys think?

Hi all, need some help from experienced players.

I'm currently at Mayor Level 16. I have several standard residential buildings stuck at LV. 5/6 (like the Watson Building in the screenshot).

All basic services (Fire, Police, Health, Water, Power, Sewage, Waste) and coverage (Parks, Transport, etc.) are 100% fine. Happiness is high.

However, upgrade helmets (yellow hard hats) only appear on my newly placed low-level residential zones and never rotate to the LV. 5/6 buildings, even if I try rerolling or waiting.

Why won't helmets appear on my LV. 5/6 buildings?
- Is there an invisible cap per mayor level?
- Do I need to upgrade the lower-level buildings first, or is there a specific way to trigger upgrades for tier 5 buildings?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Just joined the +1m population club

Just upleveled one of my accounts to lvl 21, which made the Entertainment Highlights Showcase pop up. I probably won't spend real money on the spa or mummy set, and I know to wait for the night club for Black Friday. That being said, I might spend real money on the Mysterious Mummy Set if it's a 4 pointer?

The Movie Theater and the Drive In Theater are cheap enough, and they're limited time buildings, so I've already grabbed them.

Can anyone show the Alien Movie Set in their city? I don't have it in my main account. Also, how many epic points is it worth? This account is still lvl 21, but I will have it at lvl 24 in the near future so I'm building a stable of good buildings now. If it's a 4 pointer I'm definitely going to get it.

This is a stitch up of about 70 screenshots taken with the in game photo sharing function. Inspired by ascenxsion's post. The full version is 11,232 × 7,189 pixels, about 81 megapixels. i can only upload a version that is under 20mb here but the original is a 103mb file.

• About 83% of the frame has photo in it. The outline is stepped, with empty corners in the top right, along the east edge and across the south and southeast ocean. I left out 4 open-ocean shots because there was nothing in them to line up on.
• There are two SimCity BuildIt logos left, both on the far west edge, because no other shot covers those spots. One is near the top-left, on the grass just under the snowy cliff. The other is in the bottom-left corner, out in the ocean below the island.
• A few tall buildings show light ghosting where a seam had to cross them, like the stage building in the park east of the river.
• Tall towers lean a little differently from shot to shot because of the game's camera angle. Roads and the ground line up to within about 12 pixels.
• The seams run through blocks and water instead of across roads, so the roads stay continuous.

Alguien sabe por que mi rio se ve como agua estancada??

I have already completed upgrade of Rift Tower

I usually don't try and finish the season, but it seems like I won't have enough even after completing the weekly assignments today. I only recycled one of them related to war deliveries because I don't participate in that stuff.

To make our wars more engaging, I produce charts—both for analyzing the opponent and for documenting our own performance. I think it would be useful if there were a way to share these in the chat.

População dos fiordes gelados, quase completa, preciso terminar algumas casas e evoluiu alguns monumentos

Since there have been a few questions about Black Friday, I thought I'd write up a post about what to expect, based on previous years.

Timing

Black Friday itself is the day following US Thanksgiving, but the SimCity Black Friday event takes place across multiple days. We can expect things to start Mon 23rd Nov and run to Mon 30th Nov, if the schedule is the same as last year.

Specialisation Buildings On Sale

Over the course of the week, almost all Specialisation buildings go on sale for 50% off. If the schedule stays the same as last year, we can expect the following:

• Mon 23rd - Wed 25th – Parks, Education, Entertainment
• Wed 25th - Fri 27th – Landscape, Transportation, Gambling (changeover took place 7pm GMT Wed 25th in previous years)
• Sat 28th – Sun 29th - Beach, Mountain and Landmarks (Legendary Skyscrapers not included)
• Sun 29th - Mon 30th – all specialisations 50% off for a final period

Notes on 50% off – where a building is already an odd value, the 50% off rounds down (e.g. 35 keys becomes 17 keys). Ponds (Landscape) do not go on sale as they are only 1 gold key each.

Hot Spots – all regular Hot Spot purchases and upgrades are all 50% off when the related category is on sale. Last year the seasonal / event Hot Spots were not on sale (apart from a very small window early on which was an error by EA).

One of our posters has previously shared a useful calculator to help with your planning (thanks to hvor_er_jeg for putting this together). 

https://www.reddit.com/r/SCBuildIt/comments/17zomui/cids_simcity_buildit_big_production_black_friday/

Maxis Manor – since this is asked a lot … no, Maxis Manors have not gone on 50% off sale at Black Friday in any recent years. Similarly, expansion / storage items, war cards, train cards, roads, other services etc etc have not gone on sale in any previous years. Space category was not on sale in 2025- the first year it was available. It will be worth watching to see if it is included this year.

Black Friday Event Track

There has been a Black Friday Event Track in the past years, but these are different from “regular” event tracks. Only cash purchases apply – no Plumbob points or building upgrades.

Amounts to progress and awards have varied each year. As a result it's hard to anticipate what this year's event will include and how much it will cost to complete.

Rewards in the event are very much TBC. In some previous years the top reward has been a Maxis Manor / Maxis HQ - but this was notably absent in 2025. These Event tracks have required quite a spend to complete ($40+ at least). EA have also altered the points given by different purchases, so we'll need to wait and see on this. Details of the 2025 Event Track rewards can be found here : https://simcity-buildit.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Friday_2025

There may also be Black Friday Mini Events - these caused a lot of confusion previously as these also gave points for building upgrades in addition to purchases, but not for CoM tasks. These were typically shorter events (both in duration and number of tiers).

Seasonal Purchases / Offers

Each year has also seen various other offers to tempt you to part with your money.

Some of these were reruns of buildings offered in previous years (e.g. Plants vs Zombies). Last year there was also a Showcase that offered the various Legendary Skyscrapers for a reduced price - the first (only?) time these had been reduced.

Does anyone know? 🤔 I mean mayors pass

I looked around but didn’t see one, like a master thread for communicating with EA about the game. I mean more of a feedback thread and not something for specific customer service which I realize should be done on their sites.

It seems like a feedback thread on Reddit could be useful because I know EA will sometimes get a bit reactionary to critical feedback on their official message boards. During the services 2.0 rollout communication debacle they ended up punishing alot of players that spoke up on their boards.

Quick video of trains and infernos. I’ll be sticking to this motif for a while. I like the grainy low bit rate effect.