Take on the SimCity Societies Nightmare Challenge

One of the most common gripes on the SimCity Societies forums is that the game is just not challenging enough… until now. To rise to the challenge leveled by gamers EA is introducing three new Strategic Modes of play in the next update; Basic, Hardcore and Nightmare. Make it as hard as you like, wreaking destruction down on your city and its hapless Sims, to rebuild to face the next test of your mayoral skills.

Each of the Strategic Modes provides a progressively more rigorous test of your mayoral skills. Unlike Creative play, Strategic play offers no free ride with respect to your treasury, and city planning. Careful attention must be paid to your budget, and all construction decisions must be shrewdly considered. You will also need to manage your Sims’ happiness with a more watchful eye.

With great challenges come great rewards, Strategic play offers new trophies for success within each new mode. If you master Basic Strategic Mode, you can then advance to Hardcore. If you manage to overcome Hardcore, then you can try your hand at Nightmare.

This update also includes four new UI treatments for Authoritarian, Capitalist, Cyberpunk and Industrial cities, improved support for mods that use custom building textures, optimizations and crash fixes.

Update #2 should be available later today or tomorrow. Look for it to post on the SimCity Societies Mod Home.

via SimCity Societies Community