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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
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no you don't
TriniTrin
war of titties grampa
Very nice vid man, thanks! Ill try it out!
ugh, game itself is broken.
i've literally had one city 90% commercial, and the neighbours 90% residential, and the res city complains about no shopping.
GO NEXT DOOR YOU FUCKING CUNTS.
the sim is broken. plain and simple.
oh, both cities are medium to high wealth.
also, why just why do emergency services wait for traffic lights?
why are there no slip lanes for left/right turns?
why can't i change imperial to metric (not a game changer i know, but seriously, there's like 3 countries who still use imperial)
i've literally had one city 90% commercial, and the neighbours 90% residential, and the res city complains about no shopping.
GO NEXT DOOR YOU FUCKING CUNTS.
the sim is broken. plain and simple.
oh, both cities are medium to high wealth.
also, why just why do emergency services wait for traffic lights?
why are there no slip lanes for left/right turns?
why can't i change imperial to metric (not a game changer i know, but seriously, there's like 3 countries who still use imperial)
rangersfan414
Member
endresults
Member
This is the least hardcore game of the series by far. You'll do fine.
Though I suggest holding off for a month or so...
under the nature section of parks, click the right arrow
i'd also like to know if this is purely cosmetic or if the presence of trees contributes to land value
Parks > Nature > scroll all the way right
flashburn2012
Member
Hmm okay, I sent money to my other city, and I guess it was just a coincidence that it was taking forever to show up and did the exact second I dropped a town hall.
So all servers are actually hosted at AWS Ireland. Would have thought they would take advantage of the various data centers available (US East/West, Oregon, California, Brazil, Tokyo & Australia) rather than stick everything into one zone. Not only are you going to deal with higher latency, but if something were to take down EU-West-1 (as happened to US-East a few times) there goes the game. Though I guess on the plus side, this means regardless of how Maxis is storing game data (EBS, RDS, S3 etc) it's not only technically possible but actually damn easy to copy/move data across servers. Would have been a bigger challenge across different data centers. So again, the only reason this wouldn't be possible is because they choose to not do it.
Which actually brings up an interesting question: Why the hell did they setup different "servers"? They are all hosted in the same location so obviously it's not because of that. And these aren't actually physical boxes where it also would make sense. Instead, they've set up some 30 load balancers and called it a day. And it seems rather than actually take advantage of the infrastructure that AWS offers, they just set up new LBs. The idea behind Amazon's ELB is that you can scale on demand. You set some threshold (say 50% CPU or 10s latency or 1000 requests per minute or whatever), set a min/max number of instances and watch as AWS spins up new instances to handle your load. Oh and you pay only by the hour, so spinning up 100 decently specced boxes (say 16 GiB, 8 Cores) would cost them a whopping $50/h on demand (or $27 otherwise).
Which brings me back to the game saves: They keep acting as if they are dealing with localized systems (maintenance, can't access save data on other "servers"). However, there is really only two ways of where they are storing data. They've either completely bastardized the ELBs and are pretending they are servers (just set min/max scale to 1/1/). Including storing data "locally". Or they are storing the data somewhere else. In which case it shouldn't matter where you connect and you should be able to access your cities regardless of the "server".
Edit: They are actually running a few servers behind each ELB, so that's something.
Which actually brings up an interesting question: Why the hell did they setup different "servers"? They are all hosted in the same location so obviously it's not because of that. And these aren't actually physical boxes where it also would make sense. Instead, they've set up some 30 load balancers and called it a day. And it seems rather than actually take advantage of the infrastructure that AWS offers, they just set up new LBs. The idea behind Amazon's ELB is that you can scale on demand. You set some threshold (say 50% CPU or 10s latency or 1000 requests per minute or whatever), set a min/max number of instances and watch as AWS spins up new instances to handle your load. Oh and you pay only by the hour, so spinning up 100 decently specced boxes (say 16 GiB, 8 Cores) would cost them a whopping $50/h on demand (or $27 otherwise).
Which brings me back to the game saves: They keep acting as if they are dealing with localized systems (maintenance, can't access save data on other "servers"). However, there is really only two ways of where they are storing data. They've either completely bastardized the ELBs and are pretending they are servers (just set min/max scale to 1/1/). Including storing data "locally". Or they are storing the data somewhere else. In which case it shouldn't matter where you connect and you should be able to access your cities regardless of the "server".
Edit: They are actually running a few servers behind each ELB, so that's something.
parks and public utilities, education etc.
what i want to know is, how do i get shoppers.
my sims in the residential town always complain about no shopping, because i set it up with the express intention of them going next door to shop at the mostly-commercial town.
yet they still complain. so i bulldoze them.
makes me feel better.
dragonelite
Member
HappyHunting
Neo Member
Looking for a region, can't for the life of me find anyone... anyone have space ? My id is NicolaiSavard
rangersfan414
Member
rangersfan414
Member
I'm creating one right now because of that same problem, so I'll send you an invite and you can join if you're interested
Yeah. id Killer_KoalaI'm creating one right now because of that same problem, so I'll send you an invite and you can join if you're interested
The amount of workers and shoppers compared to actual population is actually.. incredibly low. So it may actually be that not enough shoppers are in fact being provided. When you are in each city click on the population button, then details, and watch to see how many are commuting out and in. You may also have to flip between cities multiple times if you are playing alone and wait a bit for it to begin to take effect.
Sadly this game will be a ghost town in a month. Cities are way too small to hold the playerbase together for long.
He is having the opposite problem... they're complaining about not enough shops. The answer is probably that the shops you have are the wrong wealth level
RaySpencer
Member
Does sending alloy to the Arcology just take forever like money gifts? Ive got a recycling plant, and my Trade Depots arent selling my alloy, but the 0/1000 isnt going up!
swirlyglasses
Member
Yep. Also, I think even if they increase the city size, it won't draw many long term players back, because the gameplay doesn't feel very deep to me. Its too simple and too restricted.
EvilDick34
Banned
Is it fair to not even call this a SIM game? It just seems so shallow in that department.
Its as much of it not more of a simulation than the previous games, its just simulating different things with a different focus
ndawgdrake
Member
Nearly a week after launch and I'm still having launch login issues
Dreamwriter
Member
Shallow and not a sim game just because you don't put down pipes, traffic lines, or subways?
rangersfan414
Member
Sent u a FR
Raven77
Member
Couldn't agree more.
The small city size will kill it for most people. I agree and like the idea of having to use my land better, but they took it way too far.
I think it will also be hurt by how easy/simple it is. I was never good at SimCity but I have no issue building a successful city and unlocking everything
They definitely need to make the game a little bit more challenging. As sangreal said, I was horrible at making good towns in SC4 and every time I was able to gain profit it felt great.. now it's kinda hard to mess it up. Only my first town was a mess, but after the second one I've been able to be on the black all the time.
Also they need to make larger terrains. Sure, making specialized towns is fun too, but I wanna spend a couple months working on just one massive town...
Also they need to make larger terrains. Sure, making specialized towns is fun too, but I wanna spend a couple months working on just one massive town...
he's right, i don't have enough shoppers
does anyone have a ballpark on the ratio of res to commercial, given both are the same wealth levels?
exmachina64
Banned
Thanks, this was a big help.
my bad. i mean from the perspective of the commercial city, they are complaining about no shoppers, while the residential city complains about no shops... when they are right next door in the region
It was working for my region last night on NA East 3, though I can't seem to claim another city. Me and a friend were sharing utilities and stuff like that.
It's a known issue it can take a while for it to update and give you access. I waited for about half an hour to an hour earlier for it to update that my friend had placed a department of utilities in another city.
Add me (Mik2121x) and search for the game I'm at on Europe West 4. We are 5 people now and I believe there's still a couple slots available in the region