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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
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Raven77
Member
The game designers would like to convince you there is. But its basically impossible at first. It seems to me like every city has to start somewhat similar in order to get the unlocks only obtained by reaching population milestones, then you can dump your residential / industrial / etc. entirely as long as you have supporting cities.
They should commute to another city in the region for work.
TheSpoiler
Member
Sorry buddy, this is a multiplayer only game.
rangersfan414
Member
I have 200k population and have no traffic in my city. If you click the road icon, nothing shows up yellow or red. And when I turn off my bus stations/depots, there is a lot of traffic.
It's all about how you design your roads and adjust to any traffic there might be in the beginning. People wanting to make left turns at busy intersections is usually what can back up several streets.
Dr.Palutena
Member
At first more or less no. Later on you can if there are other cities in the region to make up for it, but the current traffic/pathfinding AI makes it that it is unwise to have only one type of thing in your city .
rangersfan414
Member
When i created a new city and built just residential, the place was a ghost town during the day because everybody commuted to the first city i made, so it's definitely possible.
EDIT: And you said no industrial OR no commercial. That is definitely possible. I have no commercial in my town right now and there is no demand for it either. And I also only have one street zoned with industrial.
its not even a queue, just a 20 minute fuck you timer. no, it isn't new
Great looking City, Wes. I love checking out screenshots from people's City's. There should be a "Share your City" thread.
I've not started the game yet, going to crack on with it tonight, but that City space looks smaller than I was expecting. I'm going to be playing in a shared region with some friends so hopefully that will offset the limitations.
April last time I googled
Cjdamon042
Member
There's a city showcase section on the main OT post but I'm not getting any time to really work on it or go through the thread. But yeah, an actual thread would probably be better as I can't really shove in loads of pictures for everyone's city in one forum post as it would be horrible. May end up using that section for more of a featured cities thing instead.
krameriffic
Member
I find that a ratio of 95% residential to 5% commercial and industrial still leaves me with a ridiculous number of jobs that never seem to get filled. I don't quite understand it. The only time I even get remotely close to filling out all the jobs in my city (and there's barely any) is after I finished my Arcology and leveled it to 8.
I was just about to post how much better than server situation for SimCity has been for me, when this happened:
"Servers unavailable. See more info link for details."
When I hit the link, I am shown the list of servers and whether they are full or available. The server I had been using, North America East 2, is green, but I cannot connect to it at all! I knew EA was going to make things difficult; I never thought, however, that it would be this frustrating.
"Servers unavailable. See more info link for details."
When I hit the link, I am shown the list of servers and whether they are full or available. The server I had been using, North America East 2, is green, but I cannot connect to it at all! I knew EA was going to make things difficult; I never thought, however, that it would be this frustrating.
Yes. I have like 5 blocks of industries (maybe 10 high density industries?), everything else is commercial and residential
And there are like 15k+ unfilled jobs in my 180k pop city. And NOBODY commutes out.
Where the fuck is everybody working?
On a related note, I noticed that there's a SHITLOAD of people coming from "The Region" to my university.
storybook77
Member
They said on twitter that it would be taken down for upgrades.
rangersfan414
Member
I have a mini gaf region with a few cities (4 or 5 i think) , but there are still a lot of openings if you want in. An arcology should be built today at some point
EDIT: It's on NA East 3 btw.
PM me if you want to get a new neighbor.
I have like 1 other person who maybe boots it up once a week or two so getting the permits is totally impossible. I still don't even have Level 10 houses! Up to 28 blueprints or so..rangersfan414
Member
PM me if you want to get a new neighbor.
Where can you see the level of your houses?
ItAintEasy
Member
Well I just had a city fail hard to pollution and just not able to make a profit out of my casinos. Going to start a new region on NA East 4.
I'm going to make it public and the region name is Aqueous Adventure.
If you want me to just invite you, send a friend request to Banderk.
I swear one of these times I'll get a city over 130k and not have it start to fail all over the place.
I'm going to make it public and the region name is Aqueous Adventure.
If you want me to just invite you, send a friend request to Banderk.
I swear one of these times I'll get a city over 130k and not have it start to fail all over the place.
Was hard work but I'm finally getting my industrial city in order. Lots of exports with a trade port ready to open once I could add additions to trade HQ, and my small population base seems content and my services are operating slightly below capacity. Yup, things are finally turning aro-
!!!BREAKING NEWS!!! METEOR STRIKE IMMINENT!!!
....why ;_;
!!!BREAKING NEWS!!! METEOR STRIKE IMMINENT!!!
....why ;_;
I believe the base max is level 9 (660 people). You had to get 40 blueprints and a bunch of supplies to unlock level 10. I think they've now made level 11 available as well but I'm not to level 10 yet.
rangersfan414
Member
I'm still confused on this. I haven't seen blueprints in the game at all, so how do you get/find those?
Herpes Reasons
Banned
is traffic coming from outside supposed to be this bad?
ps-still waiting for fugimax and MrCompletely to take their spots in VW3.
ps-still waiting for fugimax and MrCompletely to take their spots in VW3.
rangersfan414
Member
Trade depots sell once every couple hours, so you're probably still exporting the oil, but you're producing quicker than the depot can hold, so once the depot sells the oil, it immediately fills back up with another shipment.
Check your monthly transactions and make sure you're still making money of selling oil.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
The only thing that resolved this problem for me was bulldozing.
Yea. I've had it forever. I already checked that since I'm used to seeing it in there. It just isn't selling.
Not sure if my lack of education to this point is a problem.
rangersfan414
Member
Don't make an intersection right as they enter your city. You can still have that road turn, as long as it's not an intersection, that way the cars entering your city never stop. If you make the avenue long enough, they'll just end up turning off on different streets you have connected and traffic won't be a problem as long as the connected streets are high density streets.
like every other problem, it is probably traffic. trade depots are slow to begin with and the gobal marketplace trucks come from outside of the region so they get held up at the highway bottleneck
Oh man...that's hilarious!
StUnNeR H2K
Member
No clue if this is really what fixed the problem, but just flushed my DNS and all the sudden I could connect to NA West 2. It had be showing the server online, and @SimCity on Twitter confirmed an hour ago it was up and ready after an upgrade. So out of just random trying things flushed my DNS and boom it let me in...
I think those are crazy people talking about SimCity Societies.
Herpes Reasons
Banned
i tried that too mang,
it doesn't work for me.
they just keep coming and coming.
oh, those poor saps stuck in traffic.
plus a neighbor is trying to gift me something but the damn game keeps telling me the gift is "stalled due to traffic"
oh the humanity!
rangersfan414
Member
i tried that too mang,
it doesn't work for me.
they just keep coming and coming.
oh, those poor saps stuck in traffic.
plus a neighbor is trying to gift me something but the damn game keeps telling me the gift is "stalled due to traffic"
oh the humanity!
The only other thing I can think of is that you have a lot of your city communiting to another place to work or go to school and then there is a lot of traffic from them returning. Click on some cars individually and see where they are coming from and why.
Or maybe your city is just doomed to traffic and you should implement a toll on the highway to make a fortune
flashburn2012
Member
I tried this, but the bottom of the window gets cut off for me. 1920x1200, same as my Desktop resolution.
Or maybe your city is just doomed to traffic and you should implement a toll on the highway to make a fortune
Oh fuck that's right, SimCity 4 had tolls. Damn.
Edit: Oh wow, "login is closed at this time, please check back soon"
What the hell.
Last time EA decided to roll back my city, I was losing 18k an hour, which was crazy because I was actually turning stuff off.
I rolled back, everything was still the same, all the services were still in place, I was losing only 7k an hour.
Something was defiantly wrong with that city. So it's not always a bad thing.
I'm not gonna bother for awhile. Back to Path of Exile for me. I'll monitor the threads though for sure to see what's been patched.
I can't be making a town putting hours into it then on Wednesday when I get a chance to play the server is down for "upgrading" or worse not be able to retrieve the town. When things are sorted and I know for sure I can play when I want to I'll give it another go. What a major disappointment this game has been for me.
I can't be making a town putting hours into it then on Wednesday when I get a chance to play the server is down for "upgrading" or worse not be able to retrieve the town. When things are sorted and I know for sure I can play when I want to I'll give it another go. What a major disappointment this game has been for me.
Optimus Lime
(L3) + (R3) | Spartan rage activated
So, I bought this to play with my friends on Oceanic 2... but, it's 'Full', and has been for the last 24 hours. I can't queue or anything - I just have to play elsewhere.
Am I going to be able to join the server, or does 'full' mean that it already has reached a limit of registered players?
If so, that is fucking ridiculous.
Am I going to be able to join the server, or does 'full' mean that it already has reached a limit of registered players?
If so, that is fucking ridiculous.
I put my trade depot to stop accepting local delivery for a while. Restarted it and it sells constantly now. Finally income, couldn't come soon enough.
Cjdamon042
Member
Gotta love how the servers say available when they are in fact not available. Great job there.
i tried that too mang,
it doesn't work for me.
they just keep coming and coming.
oh, those poor saps stuck in traffic.
plus a neighbor is trying to gift me something but the damn game keeps telling me the gift is "stalled due to traffic"
oh the humanity!
It was probably my alloy gift since you needed some and I'm mr moneybags sitting on 12million and producing tons of tvs and computers haha.