Dr.Guru of Peru
played the long game
Yeah, I run out of space to build within a few hours for each city I've built. They're puny.
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Yeah, I run out of space to build within a few hours for each city I've built. They're puny.
Art Teitlebaum
Member
Because they wanted it to become a Farmville-like social cloud thingy with lots of in-game-purchases. More money for them. The nerdy single player isn't relevant for their strategies.
Are your grids big enough to support higher density? Bring up the density map, and check if there are someone with a huge green pillar, and when you click that house, if it says "not enough space to expand"
Prophet Steve
Member
Even the overview in the region view says it only is able sells 250 or so while I overproduce 500, and I assume that is the total. I get that it is shared with other players, but it does not sell all of my overproduced water by far.
Ore mining isn't sustainable anyway. If you played for like 3 hours, the ore will be gone.
And I have made a TV factory, Processor factory, Ore smelting, Ore mining city, so it can be done. You just didn't think it's possible.
asclepio_gtr
Member
After 5 or so minutes playing in my major city, the game crashes... "your city is not responding" - I'm not sure if that is the actual phrasing in english. Anyone got the same problem?
I think i stagnated with my first city. I have 100% employment, no space at all and 130-140k population. I have severe traffic problems, because i failed to make avenues and now try to fix it a little with buses, but my main problem is lack of space for additional residential zones.
Also selling ore by trade depot sux, its too slow, i'm filling 2 depots with just two mines all the time.
Good i wish to have more like two times more space and fucking zone have valleys too ;\
BTW even with only 130k population Simcity uses 40%,60%,60%,60% of my i5 2500k cores on fast speed.
Also selling ore by trade depot sux, its too slow, i'm filling 2 depots with just two mines all the time.
Good i wish to have more like two times more space and fucking zone have valleys too ;\
BTW even with only 130k population Simcity uses 40%,60%,60%,60% of my i5 2500k cores on fast speed.
The last few me and my friends started were within 5 - 30 minutes. But it may depend on what server you are on. I know one my boyfriend started took days for it to go through for some reason.
endresults
Member
You mean ~20,000.
More like 16k with 3-4k additional agents for other services, but yeah
Still, its expensive, when i started simcity and had like 500-1k sims, it barely used 15% of the whole cpu.--
I had no options for english version, its russian, hungary and polish edition, so i probably cant change language without some files switch and ini/registry modification. Fortunately, polish in this game isnt annoying, like in Crysis 3 for example.
fivehorizons
Member
Looking to start a new city. Anyone have open spots?
Shaundakahl
Member
Don't worry, I found the ambulance who is tirelessly working to save Sims region-wide.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G98AREOBTxA&feature=youtu.be
I'm dropping out due to city size. I pretty much have a decent road building strategy so I start a city, have my roads laid out in under an hour and then it's just sit and tweak, like I did the last few cities I built.
I don't even build grid cities, but you still run out of creative expression quite quickly. I just load up one of my cities, look at it and say to myself "what am I going to do now?" and close it.
I don't even build grid cities, but you still run out of creative expression quite quickly. I just load up one of my cities, look at it and say to myself "what am I going to do now?" and close it.
So if I want to play in my friends region, I can't even wait until the server has an open slot? There's no kind of queue?
like I just want to join my friend's server so I can fucking play on that region but now I won't be able to because I can't even wait to get in. There's something wrong with your service when you don't even have US servers for US players
like I just want to join my friend's server so I can fucking play on that region but now I won't be able to because I can't even wait to get in. There's something wrong with your service when you don't even have US servers for US players
Not sure what you're talking about. Right now (midnight Central, and you just posted 30 minutes ago) every US server is up and open to login.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
I will never get to play online, I guess. Almost every region is full. When i find an open lot in one, it always says reclaim instead of claim, and t won't let me get in because, of course, I can't reclaim what i never claimed in the first place. Also, all the servers are full. Nice.
It's been like this for 2 hours
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/server-status
Something's wrong with your internet or something, I've been playing on US West 4 for the past few hours. And I've logged out and back in a few times for dinner and to watch TV a bit.
That's the problem. I bought the game today, but I'm not allowed to play on my own server because of their botched launch. How long do I have to wait until I can play on my own continent's servers?
You know the servers are all located together anyway? There's no real difference if you want to play on another server.
MrGreencastle
Member
Except if I want to play with my friends. For that glorious online feature they've touted.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The giant lizard has been stuck, and has been walking into the side of a mountain in my city for the past hour.
The one true server!Yeah. I play on Antarctica
Even Godzilla has routing issues.
If Aliens descended upon neogaf to observe the human race - this is the only post I want them to see and it has to be without context.
(For some reason I'm pissing myself laughing here your post)
Ok, since my GAF-region on NA West 4 ended up being on a full server, I am starting a new GAF-region on Antarctica. I'll check in on those of you that wanted to join the NA West 4 server, but couldn't due to it being full. That still leaves a good amount of spots.
If you want to join, just let me know.
If you want to join, just let me know.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
frontieruk
Member
oh com'on that's an obvious feature, they want you to buy a lizard running machine to place right there to generate electricity for your city...
oh com'on that's an obvious feature, they want you to buy a lizard running machine to place right there to generate electricity for your city...
Giant Lizard Treadmill - $9.95
Pros: Generates 1.21 Gigawatts, eats garbage
Con: Farts methane
(edit)I'd actually buy that for $2
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
oh com'on that's an obvious feature, they want you to buy a lizard running machine to place right there to generate electricity for your city...
Hehehe
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305
nice!!
I gotta say from the sounds of it there's a little less sim and a little less city in this iteration. What I don't care for in the approach is saying that adding personalization didn't make a meaningful difference. I hope they change this outlook going forward, making the Sims rationally inhabit their city would be the best. It would make a deeper connection, and I imagine the physics of the game would work better. As it is SimCity is fighting against it's own illogical constraints.
frontieruk
Member
you know I think I would, an add on to the dump, I'm sure some clever sod could come up with someway of harnessing the methane for energy use as well
I've tried doing everything perfectly and it still wasn't good enough for the game.
I ditched this:
And this:
And a few others because every city I made would fill right up yet demand even more resources and zoning which was impossible.
I knocked down an entire city while I had 1,500,000 Simoleons in an effort to do everything perfectly.
This was it. A mix of roads which theoretically splits traffic (yet could've been made better by matching the offset of the regional road), the spread of city services and everything pre-built and powered off before zoning began so nobody could complain about a damn thing.
I paused the game, zoned yellow on the outside and residential on the inside with some commercial evenly spread with it. I powered on every building and unpaused the game.
The 1.5 million was supposed to fully cover the build time of people moving in and the upkeep of city services. Instead everything was broken soon as I unpaused the action.
It took far too long for people to take the city service jobs and caused many abandoned buildings early on. Some went on fire and couldn't be put out because nobody worked at any of my TWO perfectly placed fire stations despite the 200k visitors that apparently popped in.
Eventually I purchased water, power and sewage from the region and people did end up taking all those government jobs but it didn't matter. For some reason most buildings halted at 0% build status and the rest of the people constantly complained about nonexistent crime. What pissed me off most of all was that my perfectly created rubbish collection refused to work:
It took a while, probably because it was unplayable for a long time, but I despise this game. A game from a series I once loved. I've had enough of the game's mechanics and I'm sick of trying to work around the horrible pathfinding of traffic, power and water. I'm not playing this anymore.
FUCK. THIS. GAME. http://youtu.be/Vzt1bTGA0kk
I ditched this:
And this:
And a few others because every city I made would fill right up yet demand even more resources and zoning which was impossible.
I knocked down an entire city while I had 1,500,000 Simoleons in an effort to do everything perfectly.
This was it. A mix of roads which theoretically splits traffic (yet could've been made better by matching the offset of the regional road), the spread of city services and everything pre-built and powered off before zoning began so nobody could complain about a damn thing.
I paused the game, zoned yellow on the outside and residential on the inside with some commercial evenly spread with it. I powered on every building and unpaused the game.
The 1.5 million was supposed to fully cover the build time of people moving in and the upkeep of city services. Instead everything was broken soon as I unpaused the action.
It took far too long for people to take the city service jobs and caused many abandoned buildings early on. Some went on fire and couldn't be put out because nobody worked at any of my TWO perfectly placed fire stations despite the 200k visitors that apparently popped in.
Eventually I purchased water, power and sewage from the region and people did end up taking all those government jobs but it didn't matter. For some reason most buildings halted at 0% build status and the rest of the people constantly complained about nonexistent crime. What pissed me off most of all was that my perfectly created rubbish collection refused to work:
It took a while, probably because it was unplayable for a long time, but I despise this game. A game from a series I once loved. I've had enough of the game's mechanics and I'm sick of trying to work around the horrible pathfinding of traffic, power and water. I'm not playing this anymore.
FUCK. THIS. GAME. http://youtu.be/Vzt1bTGA0kk
So, we've already seen a full Residential city being prosperous - well guess what, turns out you don't even need that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGofzHsPYVI
Here's a video of a 0 population city raking in millions thanks to an Arcology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGofzHsPYVI
Here's a video of a 0 population city raking in millions thanks to an Arcology.
QuicheFontaine
Member
There is a slight difference between the servers. Mainly that your saves aren't clouded between servers, and if the one you saved on is busy you'll have to wait until it's not busy before you can play that saved city.
That doesn't really seem very 'cloud'-like to me btw.
Isn't that the point of the arcology though?
I'm late to this thread, but could you elaborate? Does it hamper zone growth or something?
I am guessing it gets the traffic to stop to got to Work/Home etc. You want free flowing as much as possible.
Sure
This is the shortest route when it comes to an avenue. This'll lead to massive congestion.
Has anyone had any issues with emergency vehicles not appearing? As in, no matter how many more police car lots or fire trucks you build, none ever appear on the map.
Looking at my police station, the station says I have 10 cars all out on patrol, if I look at my police map which highlights where the police cars are, I have none in my city at all. I've checked the regional map to see if they're visiting any other city and they're not, they're just no where.
I've destroyed and rebuilt the station, still nothing. Crime always has the upper hand in my city as I can't get any police...
Looking at my police station, the station says I have 10 cars all out on patrol, if I look at my police map which highlights where the police cars are, I have none in my city at all. I've checked the regional map to see if they're visiting any other city and they're not, they're just no where.
I've destroyed and rebuilt the station, still nothing. Crime always has the upper hand in my city as I can't get any police...
Cjdamon042
Member
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Metalmurphy
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