storybook77
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Hmm, ok. I think someone tried to perform surgery on the traffic AI and nicked an artery with one of these updates.
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Hmm, ok. I think someone tried to perform surgery on the traffic AI and nicked an artery with one of these updates.
I got the same. I assumed it was something server side going wrong (what a surprise) because Maxis Man and Dr. Whatever pop up in quests to build their respective buildings.
The problem with curved roads is that buildings an the apex of the curve often complain about not being enough space to expand, whilst it looks nice in theory it's not the most efficient.
Every edition is the limited Edition, and they all have Maxis Man and Dr. Evil Thief.
The Deluxe Edition has three different types of buildings, like French buildings and other two.
Some regions got an special type of building decoration for free. Maybe India gets the England ones?
irony
For me, controlling density comes down to four factors:
- Roads
- Plot size
- Happiness
- Time
Roads is the simplest one. Plot size is related to roads.
Happiness and time is where I think a lot of people mess up. Lots of things affect happiness. Do the sims have a place to work? Are they healthy and safe from crime? Do they have access to education and a place to shop and yes, is there a park, relative to my level of wealth, nearby?
Lastly time. Density will increase over time naturally if sims have access to all the things stated above.
Increasing low wealth density is the hardest in my little experience. I'm sure everyone by now has plonked down a high wealth plaza or formal park and seen an uber wealthy skyscraper go up not too long after. For low wealth this action seems to take a lot lot longer. In some cases months.
My biggest advice would be not to make snap judgements. If a resident is saying "no access to shops" or somethign similiar when there's a shop for his wealth level clearly nearby then give it a day/month and check back and see if he's saying the same thing. Likewise, keep checking back to buildings you want to see increase in density and see if the arrows are going up or down.
cripterion
Member
lol in deficit, on the verge of bankrupcy. Only thing that's keeping me alive is the recycling money coming in (when the citizen do recycle), and a moronic giant monster pops into my city destroying my richest area (high residential tower $$$).
Guess I'll restart a city.
Guess I'll restart a city.
UltraMagnanimous
Member
Stormwatch
Member
That's my biggest annoyance with the game. All of my big cities have been destroyed by disasters. It really turns me off from making anything too extravagant. Nuclear meltdowns, monster attacks, zombies...these are NOT realistic disasters that occur in real cities.
This is ridiculous. My city is on NA west 2 and teh server is down. Almost every time I have a moment to play I have to make a new city because the server my old city was on is down.
BTW EA that icon that is supposed to tell you what server you have cities on is nonsense. I just selected Antarctica and Asia once, created no cities at all just selected them, now I have city icons next to them? Does that icon just mean you at one point picked that server? Great intuitive programming there.
Have I had long play sessions that went without a problem sure I have but if I can't get back into the cities I make whenever I want then wtf do I do if I have planned to play the game at that time? I am not starting another city I have already made 4.
This is such a frustrating game on so many levels. There is just no certainty that the city you made will be there. That seriously makes you not even want to be bothered.
BTW EA that icon that is supposed to tell you what server you have cities on is nonsense. I just selected Antarctica and Asia once, created no cities at all just selected them, now I have city icons next to them? Does that icon just mean you at one point picked that server? Great intuitive programming there.
Have I had long play sessions that went without a problem sure I have but if I can't get back into the cities I make whenever I want then wtf do I do if I have planned to play the game at that time? I am not starting another city I have already made 4.
This is such a frustrating game on so many levels. There is just no certainty that the city you made will be there. That seriously makes you not even want to be bothered.
Broder Salsa
Banned
SimCity needs a regional jubilee, proto-trustfund, or monster insurance. Some way for people to get some extra money thrown their way since there's so many disasters i hear.
My planning method is simple in execution yet convoluted in planning. At a basic level I look at my natural resources (I actually prefer cities with no ore, oil or coal but there weren't any left in my region), what routes I have in and out of the city, then roughly sketch out where my R/C/I zones will go.
I make snap judgements too. For instance, before this city I had never had a Trade HQ before so I had no idea on it's space or upgrade requirements. Now I know that I will plan space for it better in any future cities I build.
I think this is my fourth city. My first two didn't get far at all. My third suffered a nuclear meltdown by a giant lizard. With each one I've learnt lessons which have helped me plan later cities though.
I'll write up a longer post later with screenshots if theres enough interested people.
I realized last night that all the trouble they had since the launch has almost completly killed all the enthousiam I had for the game. I had a lot of hype all the way up until release but now I'm not even tempted to try it after the first 2 days of loosing hours of work that didn't save.
I'm sure I'll go back at some point but it was a serious buzz kill.
I'm sure I'll go back at some point but it was a serious buzz kill.
With the stupid Service Path finding AI, I'm thinking that everything that needs deliveries (stock market, factories, mining plants) on a single stretch of avenue, removed from the biggest pat of the city.
That way, all the trucks can be idiots by themselves on this stretch of avenue. Hmmm.
That way, all the trucks can be idiots by themselves on this stretch of avenue. Hmmm.
There is no point at all. The excitement of building a great city is just destroyed when it vanishes when you get in. In previous simcities I started over plenty of times but it was on my terms and at a point when I felt like it was time to. Even my Wife is just losing the will to continue and she would play Simcity 4 for days. She was even really digging this new one and when her first city was wiped it was ok she was cool with it even the second city. But now she is off today and can't even get on the server where her city is and the other server she had a city on wiped it. I just don't even know anymore.
Here's another shot which is perhaps easier to show the different zones I have for this particular city.
Split the city roughly into thirds from top to bottom. Generally speaking:
- The left third is my medium wealthy and high wealthy residential zones (most wealthy at the top).
- The middle is predominantly my low wealth residential zone.
- The rightmost third is industrial.
Split the city roughly into thirds from top to bottom. Generally speaking:
- The left third is my medium wealthy and high wealthy residential zones (most wealthy at the top).
- The middle is predominantly my low wealth residential zone.
- The rightmost third is industrial.
StUnNeR H2K
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Test server info @ https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-test-server
Don't see how this is any different from the current servers...
To bad they didn't do a full blown pre-release beta for any & all that pre-ordered that was not time-limited/specific.
Don't see how this is any different from the current servers...
To bad they didn't do a full blown pre-release beta for any & all that pre-ordered that was not time-limited/specific.
majortom1981
Member
My problem is not the service trucks. Its the inter city metro buses and the small cars. The cars like to go around in circles which cause everybody behind them to stop causing a major traffic jam.
The problem is this holds up and deliveries that sell to the outside of your city.
StUnNeR H2K
Member
BackwardsSuggestions
Member
Right, so I have a nice city with about 70k people, happy with it but the factories need more workers. The city has a University and everything like that so could I simply make a new city with just the essentials and 90% residential and get them to go to work in my other city? Or does it not work like that?
MaximusNeo701
Member
But sim traffic will slow down your firetrucks, garbage, trade trucks, etc. If you have a traffic jam those will wait behind it. But yes I mentioned that same issue with trash trucks and basically all mass transit units. I would go as far to say that every single pathing algorithm in that game is busted. From utilities, to sims cars, to services nothing really works the best way when you get a full city.
It doesn't help that there is 1 entrance to the city that bottlenecks traffic, some people that did dev beta said it was actually an ave with an intersection before it was that highway with a junction and that made the agents ever slower.
I love the game to death but these glaringly bad issues make me wonder why beta games where capped at 1 hour long and if they ever got a city to a 500k pop and played it to see what would happen.
I just let Maxis man do that. He's the best fire fighter. It's like pay2win dlc.
I play but I've been on the verge of quitting for the past month, haha. That game has it's own issues. I kind of want to get level 11 houses and finish off the island mayan temple quest. I really want to quit it, but I don't know why I don't.
Mine went crazy last night. Fires broke out everywhere and i suddenly got about 200 crimes a day. My population dropped to about 200,000. When i logged back on today it said there was a problem processing my city and it rolled it back. It actually went back to right before things went mental and worked out fine. Makes me wonder if some stuff really is happening server side.
Anyway, up to 330,000 population now
Anyway, up to 330,000 population now
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
That's what the world gets for fucking reducing my funding in XCOM (Yes, I hold grudges in between games
)I'm just gonna plant some trees and hope for the best. Besides, I'm gonna try for a larger low wealth base this time, so fuck 'em. They can deal with it.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
So.....I just came back to my game...my city is still standing. I guess it didn't save, lol
Ok, so I had two bus Depots, the municipal one and the regular one.
I closed down the regular one, but it doesn't seem that the regular buses go away?
What the hell?
Wait, there's two different bus depots? How do I plop down the other one?
edit: Also, does anyone here experience weird population migrations away from their city? I lost a huge chunk for no apparent reason and they all came rushing back after I built a lot of high-wealth buildings which were, apparently, not in demand.
SnakeswithLasers
Member
Wait, you really can't disable disasters? =|
Marty Chinn
Member
Is the server queue thing new? I don't recall encountering it before when trying to connect to a full server. It also sucks that there STILL are server issues almost a week later. I tried to load up my game to play at lunch only to find I'm in a queue that won't check back for 20 minutes? WTF?