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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
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bigdaddygamebot
Member
It seems like you can't make a self-sufficient city. At some point you're going to have to rely on another city or cities to cover all of your needs.
Anyone in deep so far with the game...can they confirm or deny this?
Anyone in deep so far with the game...can they confirm or deny this?
Not "all" your needs, but at some point you'll have to start sharing responsibilities with other cities to keep growing, yes. That's what the game was made for, pretty much
How so? We've already found out that water re-enters the ground via the sewage treatment plant, so that solves the lack of water issue, power can always be generated by solar or wind if you run out of natural resources and you don't want to import from the global market
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EagleBurnn
Banned
Is there any way of getting rid of sewage? Like using the incinerators for trash? It just keeps piling up...
Sewage treatment plants. It has an upside: It dumps fresh water back on the ground, and you can pump that for your city.
Sewage treatment plant.
bigdaddygamebot
Member
Not "all" your needs, but at some point you'll have to start sharing responsibilities with other cities to keep growing, yes. That's what the game was made for, pretty much
Yeah...and for me...that was the fun of the past games. Trying to get things..."perfect" and then losing my mind as things spiral out of control.
I do believe I'll wait for a significant price drop...like...significant.
EagleBurnn
Banned
I have one. All it does is store from what I can tell. Am I using it wrong?
ClovingWestbrook
Banned
Hey Metal, please remove my name from the region map. I ended up cancelling my preorder. Thanks
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
It dumps the water into the ground. Put a pump next to the treatment plant.
Basically the water cycle is:
Pump water from ground, sims use water and turn it into shit, shit gets pumped to treatment plant, treatment plant cleans the shit and turns it into clean water, then puts it back into the water table below it.
I'll take his place, if no one else is in line.
There's two types of Sewage Treatment plants. One just dumps everything into the ground, the other one treats it.
You MIGHT need a services attachment to your Main Hall for that though, I'm not sure.
Yes and no. You can make a self-sufficient city but it would be a smallish one. One that you would constantly build upward rather than outward.
I look at the game like each region is a city and each city is a neighborhood. Then it makes more sense. Not every neighborhood in a city is self-contained, but a whole city is.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
oh look, a bitch move by you.
You need the utilities department for the one which processes the sewage.
It's the Department of Utilities module. Be careful with Sewage treatment plants though, they can still pollute the ground.
flashburn2012
Member
Anyone? Before I completely screw my city over. I'm keeping it hobbling along, but it just doesn't make sense to continue as it stands.
It always seem to do that when it gets to yellow. You can probably wait a bit to upgrade I think, just take it as a warning that it's getting close.
If you do take his place you may want to talk to fluffy about possibly trading spots if he is still having trouble restarting his abandoned plot. Not sure if he has worked that out yet.
fluffydelusions
Member
I tried doing exactly this. I bankrupt my city and it gives you the option to start a new city BUT it doesn't seem to work.
It brings you to region view but only seems to let you select unclaimed cities. I'm not sure what to do at this point.flashburn2012
Member
I tried doing exactly this. I bankrupt my city and it gives you the option to start a new city BUT it doesn't seem to work.
Well... Fuck. Can you try it again since the patch? Maybe they fixed it?
Maybe it's because all the sewage needs to get to the plant through ONE road? E.g. The tube that leads to the plant itself isn't big enough. And also because the plant is at the corner of the map, buildings at more distance to it can't drain as well. Utilities are always best placed in the middle of a city.
Can you try make it so that there's another road with access to the plan, so not all sewage is forced through one road?
Similar to the power-issue you had earlier, where an extra road to reduce distance helped, only here it's distance and access.
Hmm I saved up 2 million cash and bulldozed my entire gaf city so I could rebuild it, And now it won't load at all. GG Maxis, GG.
I did something similiar. Bulldozed everything. Spent an hour rebuilding, found a game breaking bug and quit.
When I loaded back up 15 minutes later, my pre-bulldozed city was back.
samus4ever
Banned
game is just stuck on the checking for updates screen even though i already updated.
storybook77
Member
Me too. Afraid I'm going to have to reinstall. Ugh.
MrCompletely
Member
It's coming in faster than your sewage treatment plant can process it.
It says you need more outflow pipes... can you build any more outflow pipes?
I tried doing exactly this. I bankrupt my city and it gives you the option to start a new city BUT it doesn't seem to work.
Same boat here. I'm hoping the actions today fixed the problem so I can play with my GAFriends tonight. Otherwise there's just a city plot with no development whatsoever and a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of debt.
fluffydelusions
Member
same
thecouncil
Banned
This is correct. My city is growing fairly well. But there's only so much room and my plot of land wasn't very rich in water. I also had a tough time taking care of all my sewage. So I claimed a nearby region and sent it some cash to grow quickly and get some water pumps and sewage plants up and running. Now my city gets both services for a fee, and it works really well. Takes some stress off you so you can focus on building up again.
I actually really like the system because now I can take care of multiple smaller cities that are interdependent rather than one mega city.
fluffydelusions
Member
Lol with patch I can not even login currently...just sitting at "checking for updates" gg EA
I sure as hell hope I don't keep the debt I racked up on my first city.
I don't think you keep it.I sure as hell hope I don't keep the debt I racked up on my first city.
I'll try it out when...I can log in. I'll assume you keep the money, the region is reset. Or else you just have to go through the hassle of gifting money back and forth between regions
I wouldn't think so. Maybe you can send it to another city in the region and then back again once you make your new city?
You need to be bankrupt to abandon a city, so by definition you won't have any money left to keep anyway? The way around this would be to make a 2nd city, gift all the money there, let your first city go bankrupt, abandon&restart in, then send yourself the money back from the 2nd city and abandon that one.
I think you're getting regions and cities mixed up... You can't gift money between regions, only between cities.
fluffydelusions
Member
I'm currently "checking for updates" when I launch the game so yeah who knows what's going on at EA
fluffydelusions
Member
So the game runs on surface pro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPtTyNIzFKo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPtTyNIzFKo
majortom1981
Member
If you get stuck at the checking for updates run simcityrecovery.exe. it will do the downloading updates and processing large files again but it will let you into the game. I only show Europe west 1 and Europe east 1 up
Nevermind all the servers showed up with the north American ones showing busy
Nevermind all the servers showed up with the north American ones showing busy
Got the Shakes
Member
Possible reason for some people having server issues? http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/NOTIFICATION-Applying-Server-patch-to-Oceanic-1-NA-East-1-and-NA/td-p/628648
I can't check the video right now to see if that's what's happening, but the game also runs on my iPhone. With Splashtop, of course.
Servers went down without any notice. Just quit, because nobody can log in at the moment (stuck on "checking for update")
Servers can't handle when the entire US gets home and starts playing. I know this is unacceptable, but I would stay away from the game around this time of the day for a couple days.
flashburn2012
Member
So "abandoning" a city doesn't really work. It just lets you select another plot in the region. However, I did click the "delete" option in the main menu for my city. I'll see if that actually did it. I did give Zona about $2 million though before I bailed.
thelurkinghorror
Member
35 minutes and Europe can finally play (almost... we hope...).
Anyone for a region?
Anyone for a region?