Doesn't low wealth just become high though? Or does scrapping it and rebuilding help it speed up?
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Doesn't low wealth just become high though? Or does scrapping it and rebuilding help it speed up?
One thing I don't understand is why the large 16 plot regions do not have road and/or highway connections linking every city to every other one. Right now you have four groups of 4, with maybe a rail connection linking one group to another via one city in each subset. Some of the smaller regions have every city connected. I wish there was a type of project separate from great works that would allow you to link those regions. Expensive highway expansions, more rail connections, whatever.
ConfusedCat
Banned
well you use parks near houses to get the land value to go up, but bulldozing can speed it up
flashburn2012
Member
There are three options, I think. Local, region, global.
Gaming Truth
Member
People do this in real life with better conditions:
Destination is on the left and the major road leads you that way. Dirt road takes you the same way, but forks to the right for a major detour first, so everyone goes left (except me!)
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
How in God's name do I get shoppers and workers and the like from other cities?
How do I get the train to work? I hooked it to the tracks that were already in my plot, but I kept getting an error about it being unconnected.
How do I get the train to work? I hooked it to the tracks that were already in my plot, but I kept getting an error about it being unconnected.
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
Civ V is fine as it is. Every Civ game sucks compared to the last one (V is way better than 4, btw).
ConfusedCat
Banned
community college is for mid tech, uni for high tech
so if you want high tech only, you can delete the com college
misterhektik
Banned
Have you connected a street to the parking lot of the train station?
I take it people are actually playing the game now? I haven't been able to load my city since Thursday, it's on Europe West 1 and thanks to the server structure, I have to play on that server because, well, my city is there.
A free copy of an old game (that I probably own already) doesn't quite cover this, I'd prefer playing the game I bought at this point.
A free copy of an old game (that I probably own already) doesn't quite cover this, I'd prefer playing the game I bought at this point.
Interesting, so what's the point of grade/high schools then? Do you have to have those so people can then graduate to a community college/university? Or do they serve some other purpose?
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
Game finally seems to be working for me. Are there any GAF European regions up at the moment with some free slots? If so I'd love to get an invite as it seems like my region search is borked and just presents regions with no slots without any filtering available. My Origin ID is BananaFlavoured.
Metalmurphy
Member
Now that everything seems to be working fine I'm gonna be checking all the GAF regions on their status and update them on the website.
I'll be PMing owners of cities that seem to be abandoned/unclaimed to see who has given up or just hasn't logged in yet. There will probably be some new slots open after this for people to join.
Also, is it just me or anyone in the region can invite other people and not just the creator?
I'll be PMing owners of cities that seem to be abandoned/unclaimed to see who has given up or just hasn't logged in yet. There will probably be some new slots open after this for people to join.
Also, is it just me or anyone in the region can invite other people and not just the creator?
Dead Prince
Banned
I have a small one with just me at the moment....
Stormwatch
Member
So I noticed that my city of 200k citizens is all low and medium wealth. But, high wealth commercial buildings keep getting built. How do I attract high wealth citizens? I've got schools, parks, fire, police, and no industrial at all.
storybook77
Member
FYI, I'm currently out of town. Might be able to log on at the hotel tonight. This is for anyone going to be part of Titan Gorge 2.
storybook77
Member
Do you have plazas and other high value parks near your residential?
Metalmurphy
Member
No worries, I'm not going to be kicking anyone out before knowing what's actually going on
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
This might sound dumb but how do I search regions based on names? Literally none of the options seem to do anything for me (filtering by maps or by regions with abandoned lots) and their are no text fields.
I'm noticing the more time I can spend playing this game the more I realize the simulation is really poor. How did so many reviewers get this so wrong? The AI pathing to the shortest route no matter what, the terrible firetruck deployment (sending them all to any fire while the rest of your city burns).
The only people who are being really successful as building incredibly unrealistic city models (one road cities, dirt roads for U-turns in the middle of a avenue, etc.).
Yeah, the server problems are huge, but the game underneath is not nearly as good as it seemed at first blush. They have some serious work to do.
Also, if you disconnect from the internet after you start playing you can play (with no issues) until the next ALWAYS ONLINE DRM check. Wouldn't this indicate the whole glassbox thing is a bunch of horse shit?
The only people who are being really successful as building incredibly unrealistic city models (one road cities, dirt roads for U-turns in the middle of a avenue, etc.).
Yeah, the server problems are huge, but the game underneath is not nearly as good as it seemed at first blush. They have some serious work to do.
Also, if you disconnect from the internet after you start playing you can play (with no issues) until the next ALWAYS ONLINE DRM check. Wouldn't this indicate the whole glassbox thing is a bunch of horse shit?
Metalmurphy
Member
Quit to main menu to skip it. Your saves are saved in each separate server.
ambientmystic
Member
That right there is the ticket. It hints to the strong possibility that there is a switch that can be turned on/off, either wise you'd get an instant dc and be forced exit back to the main menu if it were completely server side.
Just like what happens in Diablo 3, the moment your internet hiccups your character'd be non responsive.
At least when the game works, it's quite a joy to play.
fluffydelusions
Member
ugh this game. My friends list isn't loading. regions won't load to join game, switching servers just times out...
I will, whats you Origin ID, Im also on NA West 2
hasn't it been talked about/confirmed that regional effects/trading/stuff is all done on the server and local city stuff is done locally on the client?
krameriffic
Member
I've seen surprisingly few people complaining about this. It's been happening to me in my friend's region. Nobody can import and export anything to each other, we don't benefit from each other's department upgrades on the city hall, and I'm not sure that we could all contribute to a great work either.
fluffydelusions
Member
Is there an NA server people are playing on here with open spots? I cannot get into Europe region I started on at all
Don't actually know, if anyone wants to join add me as an Origin friend: Covfan and ill invite you to my region.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Thanks for doing that. He came to me on the same night and i was really tied up in like 3 things at once including some personal stuff. I'm glad he got in so sorry for not inviting. A combination of me being busy and lousy server issues prevented that process from going smoothly.
Lactose_Intolerant
Member
The way traffic works (or doesn't) seems to be the biggest gameplay problem with the game.
Yeah, it's definitely happening in my regions. I've got three cities in the starting area (Cape Trinity or whatever it's called), and when I started the third one, I'm all "Hey, I'll just buy power from this other city that has all the excess". I got it set up in the region view, and it said it was sending power over, but the number stayed at 0, and none of my buildings ever got a lick of power. It ended up really hurting me starting off, because the residents were out of power for so damned long until I finally built a local power plant way later than I should have.
Emerson
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UncivilDKizzle
goldsoundz
Member
Yeah, just went down the tourism specialization path and the traffic in my city has become an absolute nightmare. The events I run at arenas are still super profitable, but not as profitable as they could be because not all tourists are able to make it to the arena before the event ends. Have like 8 buses, streetcars, and a ferry station.
You've got avenues? My first city was almost all avenues and I had now traffic issues. Now, it's all high density streets and I'm too scared to upgrade to avenues. I'd have to destroy a shit ton if stuff.
fluffydelusions
Member
StUnNeR H2K
Member
So are the recycling center's bugged? My city was depending on recycling Alloy's & Plastic to manufacture processors. All the sudden my recycling center is full of materials, but not producing anything... everything is turned on.
This has basically made me have to run my city into the ground since I was depending on the processor sales to cover the hourly loss.
This has basically made me have to run my city into the ground since I was depending on the processor sales to cover the hourly loss.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
As an avid player of both SC5 and Diablo III, I lol'd
goldsoundz
Member
I have several high density and streetcar avenues running through the city and high density streets in between them. Like you, I don't want to start bulldozing streets to upgrade to avenues because I don't want to lose my plopped buildings.
Green Yoshi
Member
Fake, but funny:
Mr. Luchador
Member
The disappointing thing is, once you do get to play, it's actually a pretty fun game.
Dead Prince
Banned
they were right. no one wants to leave the game.
StUnNeR H2K
Member
Answering my own question, but....
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9337653.page
It appears I'm not the only one seeing this. It's a game breaking bug if you depend on recycled materials to supply your city. Seems destroying a rebuilding fixes it... temporarily?