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Placeholder information on the in-game store to sell you DLC?
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
Serious, that was (still is?) so broken it's ridiculous. I've never been able to join a public game at all.
What? Where? I don't care how broken it is, I'll buy for 20. /EAnabler
Alright guys, got a question..
How do you all manage the garbage? I don't have much more space in my city and yet the garbage keeps pilling up and I need to add land to dump the garbage... and also the ground keeps getting dirty. Is there some way to prevent that, or there's just no way?
With such small spaces to build the towns, nothing feels natural. Having all the water stuff, the sewers and all the industrial area a couple blocks from a bunch of skyscrapers... :S
Oh well, either way, I hope they add bigger sizes sometime, because the current size is way too small
How do you all manage the garbage? I don't have much more space in my city and yet the garbage keeps pilling up and I need to add land to dump the garbage... and also the ground keeps getting dirty. Is there some way to prevent that, or there's just no way?
With such small spaces to build the towns, nothing feels natural. Having all the water stuff, the sewers and all the industrial area a couple blocks from a bunch of skyscrapers... :S
Oh well, either way, I hope they add bigger sizes sometime, because the current size is way too small
Dreamwriter
Member
You can get improved ultilities, which lets you add a garbage incinerator to your garbage dump, which removes garbage stored on the ground. Also a recycling center will get rid of some of the garbage (how much depends on how educated your townsfolk are). Or you can ship off your garbage to another town.
Alright guys, got a question..
How do you all manage the garbage? I don't have much more space in my city and yet the garbage keeps pilling up and I need to add land to dump the garbage... and also the ground keeps getting dirty. Is there some way to prevent that, or there's just no way?
With such small spaces to build the towns, nothing feels natural. Having all the water stuff, the sewers and all the industrial area a couple blocks from a bunch of skyscrapers... :S
Oh well, either way, I hope they add bigger sizes sometime, because the current size is way too small
You can add an incinerator and burn the garbage. I'm told you can bulldoze it too, but not sure how that works. Godzilla also eats it. As for pollution, a higher tech level will attract industry that doesn't pollute. Build a community college or university but make sure you have educated sims to work there first
I agree with your conplaints
BigJonsson
Member
bulldoze the dump and it turns into ground pollution, then build a new dump on top of it
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
You can bulldoze the garbage, it adds a big chunk of ground pollution though. To clean up the dirty/polluted ground you plant trees. They'll die off, but the ground will have improved a bit. Just keep doing it until it's all good again (may take a damn long time depending on how polluted it was).
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
Same here. I got a big town going on on another server, but it'd be nice to have two going on (plus, the one I have isn't going to grow all that much more sadly...)
OriginID: Mik2121x
Why do I feel so damn guilty enjoying the fuck out of this game?
The cities do feel extremely claustrophobic though. I'm REALLY hoping they add way bigger sizes. That said for 20 bucks I couldn't pass it up. I don't mind waiting for fixes at that price.
I also had one car that wouldn't fucking move. I have no idea what happened, but it just sat there backing up ALL of traffic. For a while I thought it was like some car accident backing up traffic, but it NEVER moved. I ended up just demolishing and rebuilding the road.
20 bucks? where?
Whops, always forget that part. NA West 4.
I'll be adding you both shortly. Just trying to wait this Formula One qualifying out.
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
Yeah, I'm just messing with a city on mute and have a stream in the bg. When qualy restarts I'll watch.
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
Yeah you need to be logged in the same server. I'll join it tomorrow, the server is full...
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Shima2k
It just takes time. Keep them happy, and their density meter fills. Also, have enough room in the zone (check out the back line of a zone you place next to a medium or high density road), and you need a medium or high density road to support the density.
Are you on NA West 4?
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Not at the moment but that is my origin name
Can't find you to invite you to the region unless you have been on?/are on?/have a city on? the server. Try just logging into the server, and hopefully I can invite you then
I'm getting annoyed by how my cities seem to peak very quickly and then all of a sudden become unprofitable.
I've tried perfectly planning everything and it still isn't good enough. The game keeps demanding more and more even though the entire square is filled with maximum land value.
I think I'm about done with this game.
I've tried perfectly planning everything and it still isn't good enough. The game keeps demanding more and more even though the entire square is filled with maximum land value.
I think I'm about done with this game.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Can't find you to invite you to the region unless you have been on?/are on?/have a city on? the server. Try just logging into the server, and hopefully I can invite you then
Its full
Its full
Bah. Everything was full except that server when I made the region last night. Fudgecicles.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Oh, by 1 pagers you mean the synopsis? I think we were talking about two different things then, heh.
Im all for DLC in this game as it will keep it alive longer. But there is no way i will pay that price. Insane!
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Oh dear... I din't see that at all
Dreamwriter
Member
I would think that's your problem right there - you don't want to have only super high land value, unless you have an interesting city that doesn't need workers, or are running a town where you import all your workers from other towns in the region. High land value means only rich people can afford to live there, and they aren't going to work at the mall or the oil refinery.
I haven't played this Simcity, but in past games you have to be careful not to upgrade too fast. Just because you can make high density, doesn't mean you should. Attract too many people at once and you get all of the problems that come with it (not enough water, not enough power, education under funded, not enough jobs, bad traffic). Take it slow.
Dreamwriter
Member
You wouldn't pay $15 for DLC that made SimCity a completely new game that is totally awesome and add more than 60 hours of gameplay? Since we have no idea what the DLC would be, it doesn't make sense to complain about the price. And BTW, many people already paid $20 for what amounts to DLC: the Digital Deluxe package that came with 3 city packs (which are DLC that normally costs $10 each) cost $20 extra.
Prophet Steve
Member
So, I am playing in a region and produce about 700 liter more than I need to use. And want sell that to my friend, who needs it. Why does my city only sells only 254 liters? Does region sharing not even work properly? Am I doing something wrong? He has a shortage of 150 liters still or so, but my city does not want to sell more.
Stage two: dump a highly overpriced store to buy stuff that was in the last 4 games at inflated prices.
Dreamwriter
Member
I've heard that in some cases, if you change the language of Origin, then redownload SimCity, it will download the language you have Origin using. I also read about one person who talked to EA support and they offered to change the language version attached to his Origin account (but that only works if you bought the game through Origin, not a retail copy).
It's because you have to build around a broken shortest-path algorithm instead of making an optimal city. My current city has this infrastructure:
Three avenues spanning the length of the map. Long high density roads crossing them, where my houses are. If I'd redo it, I'd probably have four avenues.
No zones can ever be put on an avenue - it will make traffic go all the way up to the next intersection, then all the way back, to cross the street. And the shortest path doesn't take that into account.
Place zones like this:
Code:
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|| |||| = avenue
- = road
v and ^ = zones
Then you have a band of industrial at the top or bottom, and mix commercial with residential (and remember to have a freight depot, so deliveries to commercial will magically pop into the commercial buildings).
That way, the commute is likely to happen along the avenues. You'll likely see some congested roads, but it's a very well functioning layout while still being basic.
Xcell Miguel
Gold Member
To make videos for Gamersyde, I had to switch the game to English as Origin installed it in French.
If you don't mind redownloading the whole 2GB files, just change de language of Origin, uninstall and reinstall SimCity.
But if you don't want to redownload everything, here is how I did it :
So I switched Origin language to English, copied the game folder to somewhere else, then uninstalled the game.
Then I copied back the game folder to its original place, then I chose to install it again.
I got some errors, and after reading the Origin log files, I fount out that some files where conflicting, so I had to delete these :
- \SimCity\SimCity\EAWebkit.dll
- \SimCity\SimCity\version_app.txt
I think that was the only files I had to delete, retry to download the game if you get errors, if it's still showing errors, open the log file (C:/ProgramData/Origin/Logs/Client_Log.html) and try to see at the end which file is causing problems.
If you can't find it, just delete some more files in the SimCity\SimCity folder, and retry, the SimCity\SimCityData folder is mostly filed with the game launcher.
If you get ??? everywhere in the launcher, close it and copy \SimCity\SimCityData\Locale\en-us to \SimCity\SimCity\Locale\en-us (or in the other way, I don't remembler).
That's a bit tricky, but as I didn't have time to redownload the whole 2GB files, I had to find a way by myself to change language twice (yeah after that I switched back to french...).
Agreed. I pretty much make my cities the same way. I don't zone along the avenues and try to keep the avenue as clean as possible. Here's one of my work in progress lower wealth cities:
That fixed it. Not even the game's fault. Thank you!
I will have to try this. I made all my roadways avenues. Will have to make a change slowly after sections rebuild.
Haven't played in a few days as I'm building an all new computer, but my most recent city had been pretty successful. Only recently did traffic seem to get outrageous at times.
Haven't played in a few days as I'm building an all new computer, but my most recent city had been pretty successful. Only recently did traffic seem to get outrageous at times.
I have 0 industry in my current city. Just utilities and residential/commercial.
Just have to start slow and slowly build up for what your infrastructure can support.
clean up trash and destroy abandoned buildings. That's what one of the popups told me would fix the problem anyway
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
You can't send all of our excess to a single player. It is automatically evenly divided between cities.
Tenacious-V
Thinks his PR is better than yours.
Yeah, I don't think I'll ever get to join the region. NA West 4 has been full every time I check.
Dead Prince
Banned
nooo. zombie outbreak.
Oh man, I had an earthquake in my current city a few days ago, it demolished quite a bit of residential homes and I had hobos all over the place for a crap load of in-game time. I still have some, but it only shows 1-2 icons for them as opposed to like 25. Not sure how many each icon represents, but it's not 1:1
I really really need more space ):
The cities are too damn small. I understand they want us to specialize and all that crap, but I WANT to put my high tech industries with my Ore mining so I have sustainable income.
BUT NO.
Game keeps telling me I have not enough workers; I also don't have enough students to make my university available.
I want to zone more residential, but the MAP IS FULL. (all this was done building in grids...don't even let me begin with the curved roads ->SPACE?!!?)
I don't mind the MP regions and stuff, but I really don't want to play MP all the time. Thing is my other city on a public server, I keep sending resources to the Great Works that we constructed, but IT NEVER UPDATES.
Seriously WTF is the point then if the region stuff is broken?!
Arghhhhh Sorry I just need to vent this anger somewhere.
Why couldn't maxis just update Simcity 4 for the new generation. GAWD DAMNIT.
The cities are too damn small. I understand they want us to specialize and all that crap, but I WANT to put my high tech industries with my Ore mining so I have sustainable income.
BUT NO.
Game keeps telling me I have not enough workers; I also don't have enough students to make my university available.
I want to zone more residential, but the MAP IS FULL. (all this was done building in grids...don't even let me begin with the curved roads ->SPACE?!!?)
I don't mind the MP regions and stuff, but I really don't want to play MP all the time. Thing is my other city on a public server, I keep sending resources to the Great Works that we constructed, but IT NEVER UPDATES.
Seriously WTF is the point then if the region stuff is broken?!
Arghhhhh Sorry I just need to vent this anger somewhere.
Why couldn't maxis just update Simcity 4 for the new generation. GAWD DAMNIT.