October 2019
Can we talk about this Rare Disaster war event currently going on? My team just completed a war against a team that launched 187 Mellow Bellow disasters. The vast majority of those were launched within the first 2 hours of the war. Only half their club members participated and, based on their repetitive city names, the non-participating cities were all feeder cities. We lost this war by almost 500,000 points (The screenshots attached were taken 2 hours into the start of the attack phase). They had 4 players score over 100,000 points each. There is no way that was legitimate. When I checked the SimCity Buildit Facebook page I saw that many other people have had the exact same problem.
I believe this event was launched to help people unlock the shield buster disaster faster; perhaps EA thought this would silence a lot of the upset, honest players. Well unfortunately they failed. Instead of putting our worries to rest you’ve only managed to shine a glaring light on just how much of a strangle hold cheaters have on this game. Honest players have no chance whatsoever of winning at higher levels because EA can’t seem to do anything about cheaters and hackers. The worst part is that, with all the new war related tasks in CoM, if you stop doing wars it means you can’t compete effectively in CoM either. So what are honest players supposed to do?