You gain one point of energy every 5 minutes and can then use it on whatever you think is most important. You can see nicely how the animation of that building stops then and you might want to upgrade the truck that picks up goods there then but you should keep a balance with the other bu ildings and trucks to keep production smooth.Īnother key element in the game is energy. Production just stops if the building runs out of it while you are not in the game.Įach producing building has a its own warehouse where it can store x items and it stops production when the warehouse is full until the truck comes again to pick up products. You can also plant trees for that.Īll houses produce litter, so you need a garbage truck that collects it from everywhere and brings it to the recycling center.īuildings that need raw material like the dairy run out of that after using up their pile and you need to restock it manually but you can do that for free. You need to build parks and fountains as well to keep the city's air clean. For this, you obviously need to buy a bus. Of course, you also need residents, so you also build residential buildings, a cinema to entertain them, a mall to buy stuff, a bus stop to get them from their houses to the cinema or the mall. Next comes a dairy and a bakery and you need trucks to drive milk and flour to the bakery. You start by byuing a farm, then a mill and you buy your first truck to drive from the farm to you set to drive from the farm to the mill.

In this garage, all trucks need a place, so you need to upgrade the garage step by step as your city grows. You get a city that starts with a garage in the center. Here are some first impressions and my understanding of the basics, I haven't read any guides on strategy yet, so I have probably done some things wrong but so what? I've started to play a bit with Virtual City Playground but not much yet. If an admin wants to delete it there, feel free to do so. I copy my post from the SimCity Build it thread here since I cannot move it. To me, this seems to be the closest alternative to AC I found so far.

Virtual city playground