Sim Empire 9+

I like the game play quite a bit. I don’t like how it automatically grabs whatever is on your clipboard every time there is something there that you’ve copied from another app. If you are someone who copies and pastes passwords, credit card numbers, or other private information from app to app, you should always remember to clear your clipboard (copy a space or something) before opening this app. Unfortunately, Apple allows any app access to your clipboard data without you having to grant permission to it (you can’t block it from being available to all apps). In the newer OS, it shows a quick banner that tells you when an app pastes from your clipboard. Try copying something from Safari and then open this app; an Apple banner will show briefly at the top of the screen telling you the app has pasted from Safari. If you copy from another app, it will say it pasted from whatever that app is. This is not ok and was not declared in the privacy disclaimer.

Cool city building, but there are major flaws. First of all, there are requirements to upgrade your houses, but it does not tell you what they are until you are trying to upgrade them to the next level. As such, there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY to know what you need, and to plan your city accordingly. “Build a decoration nearby to level up your residence” great. Couldn’t have told me that before I built other stuff near the residence? “Oh you can just move the buildings.” No you can’t. If your houses are filled to capacity you. Cannot. Move. The. Houses. You’re just screwed. Also I would like to change the name associated with my Sim account. It cannot be done. You cannot change your account name, which is absolutely baffling. Also, I straight up cannot use my Apple account anymore because something went wrong and now it says there’s an issue and I cannot login so my cities are gone. Furthermore, I purchased the Chinese option for $0.99, but I deleted the app to try and fix the aforementioned account problem, and there is NO RESTORE PURCHASE OPTION, or if there is it is soooooo hidden I cannot find it after a good amount of searching. Final thoughts: interesting game, but wayyyyyyyyy too many problems to be worth it, I may try it again in the future but I am so far beyond done and I’ve been withholding an astounding amount of curses from how frustrated I am at this app.

I’ve played this game for a long time. Perhaps a couple years (on and off). What turned me off the most was the grid system in the municipal and religious buildings. It’s unrealistic for citizens to have temples/fire stations/ watch towers etc, in almost every block. This is an easy fix, as a comment from over a year ago suggested, give a transportation timer, meaning, the radius of protection is due to how long it takes to get to the destination. Expand the citizen mood to include long waited times, that way we can begin to mess with the layouts of our cities. They all look too similar.

Eventually move towards making the game 3D. And fix the loopholes that allow players to monopolize the game. If you take this game seriously then work on it, if not, take it off the store, at this point it’s just here to make money off those who’ve never played it.