App Profile: Sim Empire

Lorene N.

Rating: 3/5

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.

Omnomnomasaurus

Rating: 2/5

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.

6ac437AC

Rating: 1/5

I’ve tried 3 different games, just learning the best setup, and understanding how to balance the population, products, level of populations and supply, and find it stimulating and interesting until the balance is achieved. I still think renewable supply, like woodland, should be farmable. I actually find manipulating the market to price goods down in order to make the goods more obtainable to other players, once my city is balanced. One major problem is that some slime bucket has decided to spend their time conquering the tree properties and hiking the prices so that wood is not affordable. It's a game people, with plenty of challenges, not a monopoly for one spoiler with delusions of godhood, so i ask the game builders to fix this problem. Monopolies in the real world are chargeable as crimes. I would be happy if the game creator put in a trap that simply stopped a gamester from having more than one wood lot, or better yet, simply ad a component that allows players to build tree lots like they do grain fields, as an update that will end that monopoly nonsense. We are all limited by population, that limits food, wood and other supplies. Let’s deal with the “Tree Monopoly” guy and get back to playing the game! (I miss Sim City, but this one is an acceptable sub…so far, except for the Wood Guy. Please, fix this!)