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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
- Thread starter Cjdamon042
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I think it takes a while to start up as the trucks have to get out there and pick stuff up.
I am wondering what I should be doing with all this plastic.
Burgess_101
Member
Is everyone sorted in TG 1? Just want to make sure no one is missing.
goldsoundz
Member
Export it or use it for making processors.
Can I make the processors somewhere else? The plastic is in my main city with a university and only a little bit of high tech industry, I started a industrial oil city that didn't seem to want to take jobs from the main one and education doesn't look to have come over either. I can't tell if it's the region stuff not working or if it's just bad. My City Hall upgrades don't appear in other cities either.
SRTtoZ
Member
When the game actually works, its easily my favorite SimCity game to date, but like I said, the servers are holding it back. NA EAST 1 is actually working right now so I have nothing bad to say at the moment. Hopefully the servers become super stable and we get our free games and everything turns around.
LyleLanley
Banned
I think you can just gift the plastic to your other city.
They have to be educated to use them though right?
Quoting from 2nd last post on the last page. Don't kill the junior! Experimenting with just going all high land value now and watching the population differences. You definitely get more, but hard to say what wealth workers they are.
LyleLanley
Banned
I'm pretty sure that's the case.
Well, if you want high density low value citizens, put down low value parks along with some commerce and they should grow without getting wealthier.
Felix Lighter
Member
There you go. If you find a solution, tell me, because I'm losing it too :lol. All my depots are constantly full and I can't exportSOMEONE in the region GAFtopia PLEASE build a Petrolium HQ... DEAR GOD PLEASE. I'd be eternally thankful. I need those trade port oil exports :'(
I took out a loan, bought what I needed to start using rails for trading. I had to focus on metal from my recycling to get enough daily trade profit so I could upgrade and trade petroleum (another $400,000) on rails. At that point I was able to unclog trading completely and saved my city. I'm good now and I was able to destroy my trading depots and reclaim that land.
I'm getting super high number of visitors compared to my population. My population is 144,000 and I'm getting like 350,000 visitors. I'm not sure what that's all about. I'm definitely not a tourist town.
Felix Lighter
Member
Got the traffic issues are such a problem for me.. my city was an export city (I exported metals and alloys) but the traffic killed my deliveries and I ended up having to abandon the city. I was mostly industrial and had TONS of commuters (around 50,000 at any given time, 300,000 + in a month). I had trains, tons of buses, streetcars, and a ferry.
Still, so many cars
Still, so many cars
Felix Lighter
Member
Do you have a trade depot that handles plastic/metal/alloys? You can export the materials from there or I believe you can use them in manufacturing.
SaberVulcan
Member
Hrm. So, I have an Oil city and it seems.. very difficult to sell the 160k worth of Oil in order to upgrade the Petroleum HQ. I really need to start making Fuel so I can make some real money, selling Oil isnt making me nearly enough.... but I cant do that until I sell 160k worth in a day. Ugh.
Having this problem with my plastic/alloy exports. I peak at about 110k a day and can't get above it.
It doesn't count towards your hourly income because it is not based per hour. Like others have said and the same thing is happening to me, you only get money for the export when the truck arrives at the trade depot, so if that truck happens to be stuck behind miles of traffic, it will take a while to actually receive that money.
I'm currently making massive changes to my city, so many problems, traffic is the main one. Fire trucks can't get to the fires in time, so they burn down, police can't capture criminals quick enough and same goes with the ambulances.
I had an earthquake smack bang in the middle and none of my emergency services could help due to the traffic!! So currently in the process of replacing most major roads with avenues, granted it means the destruction of any connected building, hopefully it will help in the long run.
Got another city in the region which is starting to provide most of the utility services for my main one and I've also learnt to not stick buildings such as the recycling centre on main road....
The biggest problem is you have to do it fast because your oil production drops over time
ambientmystic
Member
You mean an Intel HD 4000 right? Quite well, according to IGN. They had it running on the Surface Pro, which is essentially an i5 laptop processor combined with the HD 4000 at 720p and Low settings.
AliceInJam
Member
So I have been waiting for the servers and stuff to get fixed. Is the game in a state yet where I could feel good about buying it?? Been playing sim city 4 for a while today to get back in the swing if things!
SRTtoZ
Member
Most of the newer servers run fine. The problem was mostly with the starting servers that got overwhelmed (all of the #1 servers).
Been playing for the last 3 hours, not a single server problem (Europe West 3)
Check your air pollution map & get a hospital.
SaberVulcan
Member
It seems that there is still some features disabled though, such as Cheetah speed and sharing resources.
I found it was because the industrial was blowing all of it's pollution toward the city. I moved it all downwind and the problem went away.
The traffic changes, on the one city I played tonight, appear to be for the worse. Traffic is a lot more backed up than it was before, although the street layout hasn't changed at all. It used to have a kind of "flow" to it, but now it seems they all bunch up on a couple of central avenues.
They also changed something in graphics.. my GPU is running hotter than it was, and I'm down from 60fps to 50fps. But I can't see any visible difference. Ironically, I'm now getting better performance in Tomb Raider than I am SimCity.
In gameplay terms, I'm having a hard time building up my cities. I see a lot of folks with these metropolitan skylines, and I'm barely able to get a building or two above Medium density. I'm having a hell of a time finding a balance in jobs versus workers.. first they complain about unemployment, so I add more jobs, then they complain about "need workers", and a lot of my low-wealth areas stay at low density, despite me needing that space for apartment buildings. If I bulldoze them, will it automatically bump up to apartments, or is it best to let it happen naturally?
toddhunter
Member
There isn't a subscription purchase option available for sim city right?
To me this would make a lot more sense given how they implemented it.
To me this would make a lot more sense given how they implemented it.
Click on your population and look at details, it should give you a better idea than the advisor.
I usually do when either the road traffic gets semi-congested or I have enough money.
AliceInJam
Member
Yea, that kind of sucks. But as long as I can play the game I think it will be worth it. Thanks!
Sure it's disabled? I think I used it when I was playing 2 hours ago. I didn't check if there was a difference with the second speed level though.
I think a lot of the global market features simply aren't working. What I did notice is that sharing fire trucks or garbage trucks does seem to be functioning properly. I've seen neighboring fire trucks putting out fires on several occasions,
Server problems. It will sync eventually and the money will show up but it's not good to rely on another city for emergency services
DirtyManos
Member
Town hall stuff isn't working regionally, which means in one of my cities/region every city has basically the same city hall. This in turn really hampers any regional play. Won't work on another city in a public game til they fix that.
Yea. I have an i3570k in a small case just running integrated. If it can run OK on a surface I'm assuming it should be much better on a full processor
It seems I just lost my 200k+ pop city to "the cloud." First attempt to open/join, I see the city area and name. Second attempt is a blank loadscreen that loads perpetually until I'm forced to alt+f4 to close. I'm sure this will be the first of potentially several occurrences, but that's at least 8hr+ gone.
I was planning on using it as my ore/industrial city, but regional play is so utterly gimped/broken it probably wouldn't have turned out as planned. I guess it's not a total loss?
I was planning on using it as my ore/industrial city, but regional play is so utterly gimped/broken it probably wouldn't have turned out as planned. I guess it's not a total loss?
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
I've noticed that the pathing for my police is fucked up. They only patrol alone one road with the max number of cars so you're not alone with having issues with policing.