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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
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TheGreyHulk
Member
$500K - 1,000,000
Gotta love exporting TV's, processors for top dollar. Built my way up from coal, ore, oil. Evolved into metals & alloys and then in to processor and thrn tvs and computers and now evolving into a high tech cleaner city. if you want to build industry, you have to manage your resources exports, local use, and importing @ your depots and ports.
poppedcollar69
Member
Maybe that was one of the processes they turned off to reduce server load.
jamesinclair
Banned
Well obviously, just build a subway system, like most real cities who find themselves with the same problem.
Mother of god.....
Was this programmed in the 80s?
The local economy yes, but does the mayor build individual welding units and keep all the profits to subsidize the road system?
It blows my mind you cant turn off disasters. Hardcore fans would spend DAYS locked up tinkering with stuff to make the perfect city.
Whats the point if a meteor will destroy everything?
BigJonsson
Member
I think its time for a new city, I'm giving up on oil, it takes up too much space
panthapanda
Member
I made a new region with 16 slots (15 now because of me lol) just PM me for an invite or add my origin ID ArecP. I'm pretty active as I'll jump on after work and play for a few hours.
Added. TheVeilrae is my origin I.D
Still space? I would join.
Yeah, AFAIK there's still a LOT of space. I don't know how to invite people and I'm at work now (2 hours and a half to go), but I can try to invite you afterwards. Or just add me and see if you can somehow join our region.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
I believe this was done to discourage leaving the city running on pc overnight. Since many players would be tempted to do that to bring in a lot of money, you need large destructive events to keep bandwidth/server loads lower and maybe to preserve the local economies.
TheGreyHulk
Member
its taking forever for that damn arcology. I have nearly all the resources needed but the trucks take forever to fill that bitch up.
Ok I think I added you as a Friend.
Searching for your region would be impossible as there are no search functions.
Wait I think I have you, did you accept my friend request?
Anyway now joining.
EDIT:
I will make an industrial city as I have claimed an area full of oil.
I can't see the arcology either. But I assure you the space centre is there! All dat alloy.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
Speaking of alloy.
Im always running out of alloy for my processer chip plant.
Is it because my recycling plant doesn't have enough alloy to give?
Im always running out of alloy for my processer chip plant.
Is it because my recycling plant doesn't have enough alloy to give?
I believe there are three ways to get alloy:
1. Recycling.
2. Building a smelting factory and smelt coal
3. Open a trade depot and built an alloy depot. Then import it with global trading.
I really enjoy the game when it's working properly, but the longer I play the more I feel that the tiny city size will mean that it won't keep me occupied for long. Maybe once the server issues get resolved and region-wide interactions are more reliable it won't hurt as bad, but so far I'm fighting a constant battle to not say "fuck it," and go back to SimCity 4 after I've bulldozed half of my town to add one new landmark for the third time.
Metalmurphy
Member
dragonelite
Member
Aah man i keep getting rollbacks its annoying to loose 20 min of work.
Gaf invite me or i can invite you playing with myself in one zone is boring.
Origin:blackwaterEl1te
Aargh simcity should learn from git and take snapshots every 5~10 min and update the server maps with that data. Instead what seems like continues updates.
Gaf invite me or i can invite you playing with myself in one zone is boring.
Origin:blackwaterEl1te
Aargh simcity should learn from git and take snapshots every 5~10 min and update the server maps with that data. Instead what seems like continues updates.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
i tried 1 and 3.
my recycling plant is producing 24tons of alloy a day.
it seems like the processing factory is always running out of alloy.
i'll try to import alloy at my import depot, hopefully that fixes the problem.
I send you a friend request! Can you tell me the name of the region?
Multiplayer-regions with random people in-game are hard to get into and often don't communicate, so I'd love to join a GAF-region.
I'll send you a friend request if you don't mind.
E: Welp, EU West 4 is full right now, that sucks.
ShotSkydiver
Member
Hey, I'm looking to join someone's region or someone can hop on mine, I have regions in US West 2, East 4, Europe 2, and the Test server. Origin ID is ShotSkydiver.
ShinOkazaki
Member
I'm creating a new region on EU West 5 on the titan gorge layout, feel free to add me if interested, Origin's ID is Tutela
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I saved up 2 million and just bulldozed my entire gaf city. Time to start clean.
Apologies to anyone who may have been relying on me for some services. I gotta get on a plane now. Damn you always online!
Apologies to anyone who may have been relying on me for some services. I gotta get on a plane now. Damn you always online!
Fleeing the country after fleecing the electorate, eh?
Metalmurphy
Member
I tried to do this, things I noticed, ground polution never goes away :/
It eventually turns to air pollution and dissipates. Just takes a while.
i_am_ben
running_here_and_there
I find this extraordinarily annoying as well.
Just seems like a bewildering design decision.
cripterion
Member
Welp, my city in GAF region on Antartica server is bankrupt. Reactivated the schools cause business and industries were complaining that there weren't skilled workers, then I had a recycling problem. Popped up 2 bonds to build a recycling center and it's already full, producing plastic.
I have a no plastic storage facility and can't put one at all cause I don't have any room at all to place it, always get overlapping even though it would seem it could fit.
So sitting at 45k people, most of them are satisfied, but I ain't raking any money and if I increase the taxes for anyone beyond 10%, they all complain... I should be able to tax the wealthy residents well beyond 15% with all the parks and services I've built in lol.
Most of all, I feel all my problems could have been remedied, if I took my time when I was already in the red, and buit other zones, but this tiny map really kills it for me. Especially considering that 20% of the map is water.
I have a no plastic storage facility and can't put one at all cause I don't have any room at all to place it, always get overlapping even though it would seem it could fit.
So sitting at 45k people, most of them are satisfied, but I ain't raking any money and if I increase the taxes for anyone beyond 10%, they all complain... I should be able to tax the wealthy residents well beyond 15% with all the parks and services I've built in lol.
Most of all, I feel all my problems could have been remedied, if I took my time when I was already in the red, and buit other zones, but this tiny map really kills it for me. Especially considering that 20% of the map is water.
Residents wont move out en-masse until around 15-20% tax.
I would put:
£ - 13 to 14%
££ - 11 to 13%
£££ - 9 to 10%
You wont gain any more residents in this tax structure. Another way is to put the £££ tax at 3%, to stimulate density growth, then put the tax back to 9% when you have the residents. Then do the same for ££.
Mark Ashworth
Neo Member
Just sent a request my ID is Red_Army_1999 hook a brother up I'm struggling to join a game also.
No shit sherlock. I said nothing about multiplayer.
Also, how do you know when those events were received? Did you actually look at the data the game sends/receives?
ItAintEasy
Member
For those of you looking for a nice region to join (I know this is a bit of a late response to some of you higher up on the page) Me and three other GAFers started a region last night and it is doing quite well. We are on NA East 4 and have plenty of room left if you would like to join.
My Origin ID is Banderk. I'll be on later today just send me a friend request.
My Origin ID is Banderk. I'll be on later today just send me a friend request.
Well looks like my city is coming along nicely. Playing by my lonesome though, I know post often enough but I'd love to join some you guys. Origin - Calmine.
One little nuisance I've had is that I increase taxes to get more money for the demand of commerical and yet as soon as a reduce it down back to normal they start complaing of high-taxes!
One little nuisance I've had is that I increase taxes to get more money for the demand of commerical and yet as soon as a reduce it down back to normal they start complaing of high-taxes!
sixthsense
Neo Member
So..the reddit region that I joined had been gone pretty much inactive. So if anyone in the same position as me want to start a new region or if there is a vacant place in existing region please add me. Origin - FatexFed . Thanks !
I'm interested if you still have room. ^ ^
Little Old Man
Member
Not really interested in the game, and I'm not sure if you guys can answer this since some features have been turned off, but.....
Is it possible to grief the towns of nearby players, by starting a town and filling it will polluting industry, thus ruining their experience? Or has the game been designed to stop this?
Is it possible to grief the towns of nearby players, by starting a town and filling it will polluting industry, thus ruining their experience? Or has the game been designed to stop this?
Yeah, plenty of room over here.
That's how I'm feeling about it too. I'm trying to find the love, but I'm just not feeling it yet.
For me, presentation had been a big factor in Simcity. The older game's cities existed on square plots too, but the scale of those plots allowed for more organic and realistic looking cities that could have interesting geological features, soft edges, big forests, lakes etc.
The small square cities with their abrupt transition from gleaming office blocks to flat grassland just looks strange to me.
Definitely going to give it more time to see if it grows on me though.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
So basically, the game needs the Network Addon Mod for the exact same reasons that Simcity 4 needs it, that being that the pathfinding sucks hardcore. Essentially, Maxis gave the new Simcity game the exact same (maybe even worse?) pathfinding that the previous ten year old Simcity game had? I would have thought they might had wanted to do a better job this time around...
Guess not.
Kind of defeats the whole purpose of the Glassbox engine though, doesn't it? And this time you can't use player made mods to fix the errors or laziness of Maxis either.