SimCity Review Thread - the curse of reboots to strike again?
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Bending_Unit_22
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I don't build my city in sandbox mode. Except for the first SimCity when I was a kid, I don't think I've ever built a city in sandbox mode. Then again never had to.
That was supposed to be a joke about the curtailing of rights and the feeling of safety people gain from it.
I'm not purposefully ignorant, that's why I am asking questions! Can you save your city in sandbox mode?
You still cannot save. Its still all saved to the server so you have to sync there is no rollback.
no
Hari Seldon
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Well my mission with this game is clear. Troll the fuck out of every group of cities I can become a part of! I must insure that my city is the hive of scum and villainy and pollution!
Majima Everywhere System
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If that's really as big as the cities get, this game probably isn't good.
I also wanted nothing more than to unleash Bowser on my city. I like the idea of that screwing other people over, but having to build another city just demolish it seems no fun.
I also wanted nothing more than to unleash Bowser on my city. I like the idea of that screwing other people over, but having to build another city just demolish it seems no fun.
Why do u need to rollback? Delete what you messed up and build something new. It's not like anything is perminant
If you want to experiment you still cannot. Having money is good but it may take a while to get back to where you were.
Bending_Unit_22
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You're missing the concept of "my city". I don't want to wreck some potemkim village (heh, works better here than it should), I want to screw around with my city. I have a mega city on SC4 that I built and continue to tweak over the last 8 years for example. That is what I want to wreck, and oh are there troublesome neighborhoods I would love to see Bowser trample in it. Given many others refer to wrekcing their city for fun I imagine it is the same for them. Also, you're saying I should spend hours building a city anytime I get the urge to wreck something?
woosh. it is funny though.
Wait wait wait! So if I spend 5 hours building a city and before I goto bed I feel like unleashing all the disasters on it for lulz it essentially destroys my city where I can't restore it pre disasters? Oh dear Maxis 
Also, when not in sandbox mode you have no control over when a disaster will pop up and randomly destroy half your city? Oh dear Maxis
Also, when not in sandbox mode you have no control over when a disaster will pop up and randomly destroy half your city? Oh dear Maxis
Dead Prince
Banned
Wait wait wait! So if I spend 5 hours building a city and before I goto bed I feel like unleashing all the disasters on it for lulz it essentially destroys my city where I can't restore it pre disasters? Oh dear Maxis
Also, when not in sandbox mode you have no control over when a disaster will pop up and randomly destroy half your city? Oh dear Maxis
it's not like you can control natural disasters in real life except zombie outbreak we all know how to stop that.
The game is built to have multiple cities. I plan on having at least 3 going simultaneously. You need to so they can share resources and stuff. I don't see why you can't have a sandbox city you are doing at the same time with as much love and affection as your other cities
Bending_Unit_22
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Right, I'm going to put just as much love and effort into a city that is there just to be destroyed and which will require both hours construction to wreck and then hours of reconstruction before I can do it again. Given the city limit size if I played it I'd probably have all zones going at once but then that adds the problem that I wouldn't really care about any of the towns, unlike my mega core city in SC4.
I don't know, people need water, jobs, pay taxes, and die. Seems pretty realistic in some respects. But yeah I get your point and it's something that as always should be an option. At the very least the frequency should be an option, from the reviews it sounds like disasters happen a lot.
So you want to care about the city you are destroying but you don't want to build it?
Watch the "lets be the mayor" disaster city.
The city recovers pretty quickly. It's certainly not hours at the cheetah speed. Not when the land already has value.
Dreams-Visions
Member
so I should not go in expecting SimCity 2000? if that's what I want, should I just skip this entirely?
Dreamwriter
Member
What shows this? Which issues? What do you mean like a puzzle-like city sim? I haven't played Anno.
If you have a group of friends that are also buying it, then it's probably worth it.
If you are playing by yourself, then don't bother.
I would say that isn't true at all. It's very fun to manage multiple cities by yourself. Although I am very excited for my gaf-region
Yes. because no one could have fun doing multiple cities in a region by themselves. It's obviously impossible.
Raven77
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Does this look like SimCITY to you?
Uhhh. Ive seen many many videos showing cities much larger than that... not sure what the he'll this screen is.
Dreams-Visions
Member
seems to be some mixed opinions. I'll wait for further impressions.
helloresolven
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Kind of glad the Mac version isn't coming out at same time as PC now. More than happy to wait and see the reaction.
Bending_Unit_22
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I want to build my city, which I care about, and then destroy it or screw around with it (my mayor rating dropped? no water simbitchez, how you like that bone), reload and go about my game. I'm not going to care about or be interested in wrecking some potemkim village with a "destroy me" sign on its back.
Ugggh, rewrote that sentence, didn't mean the hours to go with rebuilding just the initial building.
Anyways, it's not like the destroy your city, or town as the case may be, problem isn't the only one with no save/reload. Several reviews have noted that mistakes can be extremely expensive since they can't be reversed, and that given the game design it's easier to do. That is actually the bigger issue for me since it ruins experimentation and is a simple drag to lose an hour because of a misplaced building in normal play.
Yippie ki-yay, glad I'm rocking a PC with a 3.58 MHz 65816 and 256 kB of RAM. It's got this.
Yes, I'm kidding.
Uh yeah, on my Super Nintendo.Does this look like SimCITY to you?
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
That's the max city size. The white dotted line are the boundries.
Depending on the perspective, cities look large or small.
I think you are exaggerating/simply making up how long it takes to recover from things. "Lose an hour?" I really don't think there is anything that takes an hour to recover from. It's really not that hardcore. Yes it's expensive if u drop down an airport and delete it 30 seconds later. But put into cheetah for a little bit and you're right back where you were
Dreamwriter
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Does this look like SimCITY to you?
Those grid blocks are 4 times the size that they should be if you're trying to compare against previous SimCity games.
notoriousKTR
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Notice the houses on the edge of the region. That region consist mostly of higher density zones, therefore giving the impression that the region is even tinier.
Regardless, the region is still tiny.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Also note that all the roads used are the largest and widest roads possible.
Bending_Unit_22
Member
I'm referring more to general build screwups, a couple reviews note it can take an hour to rebuild, but any time lost due to a simple mistake sucks (and yeah it does happen on SC4, I don't save as often as I should and that is annoying as well).
Anyhow, the it's not that hardcore part is also a problem, but as work has intervened I'll have to leave it there.
That is smaller city plot.
There is only one plot size. The first picture is just deceptive
Nothing, multiplayer is asynchronous
No one else can directly affect your city except for you. you can have friends in other regions but that is it. When you wake up your city is the same as when you went to bed
ok that's good!
so if my neighbor city pollution skyrockets when i start playing again i'll have all of a sudden a lot of pollution coming from it's side?
AbortedWalrusFetus
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I don't know if that's exactly true. They can harm you indirectly. If you imported your power/water/etc from them, and they decide to have fun and destroy their city or just decide to get rid of stuff it can negatively impact your city. One of the impressions posted explained how annoying that was.
I know less about that. But yeah, his/her pollution will affect you.
That's why you have to be strategic about it. Don't build your resort town downwind from his coal mining city
Sure, so don't game with jerks/people you don't know. Or play solo if you are worried about it.
It's a strategy game, you should play with people who want to do some strategy.