Bring back X-presso

One of the things I miss most about the game changes is the withdrawal of X-presso.
barrels in the sea now give vitamin-x, as do several event rewards. Of no use whatsoever to those of use that have put our emergency services into storage.

 

Not to mention that MM doesn't cut production times in half, only allows instant completion. It doesn't work the same as x-presso did, and has made some of the already very difficult events near impossible to finish (Biker rally for example). Have said many times we need our x-presso back!

 

A nice variation would be if they allowed us to select the amount of MM's we wish to spend. Let us say to complete a run of lumber instantly would cost 100 MM's, give us the option to pay 50 MM's and complete the task in half the time. This would give us the same effect as X-Presso and would free us up from having to sit at the terminal for hours waiting for the timer to count down to do so. All numbers are used for discussion purposes only not actual data.

 

Anything that actually reduces the completion time instead of outright finishing would be helpful. In order to complete a biker rally, even with full tilt top Level production, I have to make sure I'm on the spot for every production run. If I miss more than a couple, there are not enough event hours to compensate; in the past, x-presso would solve that. The new MM system is too "all or nothing" for my liking. One expresso times the number of facilities involved in production is a whole lot cheaper than the same number of facilities times enough MM to complete a run instantly....much less delivering to the event center outright. I, for one, feel BP/RC really dropped the ball taking x-presso out of the game. Heck, I was getting ready to BUY MM with $$$ CASH to stock up my x-presso when they did that. Guess they lost some revenue there, huh?

 

Yeah! Bring X-Presso back!

 

With Event's you can partially complete the level requirements with what you have in your warehouse and use MM for the balance if you want to speed things along - and have the MM's available. The same setup for completing everything else would be great... plus the software mechanism is already in place... ?

 

This gets my vote 2. Especially needed to cut long rent-timers. (Yes, i know that we have also Resid. improvements 4 that !) Take the Haunted Villa 4 example. Basic timer 8 hours. Im not in mastery class with it yet, but ive cut the timer with RI to about 6h 50mins. So i can collect 3 rents while im awake (when i wake up, after x time and b4 going to bed) and have some spare time. But if i go over 2 much the middle collect 4 some reason (watching tv, doing other things), only 2 rents will be collected that day, so x-presso or instant rent (like the instant finish of productions) would help to get 3 collections / day.

And the amount of MM decreases on the instant finish as the time does, but maybe not as wished = when u have half of the production time left, u need to pay only half MM.

MisterN68

 

@MisterN68 I'd rather have the Haunted Manor and other past rewards.

I don't think MM has become a suitable replacement, but I rarely used x-presso. Pretty much only for tiles.