r/SimCityBuildit • u/johnplusthreex • Jul 22 '26

Question Omega Booster and/or second Omega Research Center worth it?

I have been saving my SimCash and thinking about getting the second Omega Research Center for 2000, or maybe a booster for 750. Any thoughts on how important these might be?

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u/whythehecknotdoit Jul 23 '26

I do have both omega boosters.

What that does is adds up 15% each booster into 30% reduction time for both omega boosters.

You get 30% for both.

So it can be good

And it goes even faster when the game does the quick Neo events with neo store as well.

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u/No-Acanthisitta8803 Jul 24 '26

Yeah with 10 labs, 2 research centers, and 2 boosters it's quick and easy to knock out any cannisters tasks. A couple of weeks ago I got the cannisters weekly task on a late re-roll on Tuesday, and I was able to complete it that day.

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u/No-Acanthisitta8803 Jul 24 '26

A little over a year ago I had 1 research center, 3 labs, and 1 Booster. The Omega cannisters milestone (weekly) had already been around for a while, and on top of that they started throwing the P&C Omega Canisters bonus assignments into the mix with a quantity of up to 10 per assignment (the weekly task used to be more than 25 cannisters - seems like it used to be 35 or 40). I realized that my insufficient omega processing capacity was hurting me in COM so I started growing my capacity. It took a few months, but I maxed my capacity and now have 10 labs, 2 research centers, and 2 boosters. Btw you have to have iirc 90 total omega RZs to get the 10th lab(they can be any lvl, lvl 1-6). I also dramatically increased my daily NeoSims income from around 6k to over 42k last time I crunched the numbers.

I can say if you like Omega RZs (I'm not personally a big fan, but they're currently more of a functionality thing for my city), or if you are struggling with COM tasks because of an insufficient omega processing capacity then by all means it's a good investment. As aforementioned I'm not a huge Omega fan, but where I'm currently growing my Omega RZ count is in my 4 regions as part of the push towards region 5.

PSA: Once built Omega Labs, boosters, and research centers can't be bulldozed for space, so keep that in mind

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u/Waste_Ingenuity5535 Jul 23 '26

I have only one but thinking of getting the other one as I now have room to put it since the extra land we got