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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
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Thank you!
Cjdamon042
Member
MadD4mon has assembled this timeline of all the events that occurred following SimCity's release. I've added it to the main OT and it will be continually updated as more news comes in. Thanks MadD4mon for making this!
Worth reposting if anyone missed it at the end of the last page. Very good collection of everything that happened post-launch.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Yep. In one of the descriptions of it somewhere, it says something about housing your workers out of town so that you have more room for your electronics manufacturing.
So the U-turn part is why zoning on avenues sucks; but doesn't the same thing happen with streets? I've seen sims turn left onto a street from a building, but I don't think I've seen sims turn left from a street into a building.
Also, is it just me or is trying to plop a municipal airport really finicky? I can't find anywhere where I can plop one, even in flat terrain; I can't tell if it's the terrain or if I'm not placing next to a road correctly.
Dreamwriter
Member
So you are saying the game is bad because what you think is perfect, really isn't? I mean, you keep saying you built "the perfect city", and then are complaining that that city isn't acting like it is perfect...maybe, you know, it isn't the perfect city. And of course if you build everything while it is paused and then unpause it, it's going to take a while for anything to happen - the game isn't designed for that to work. Utilities won't open until they have workers, which takes time to hire. It's designed for you to build the city as time is running. Cities don't spring into being from nothing, fully formed.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
Nice, people were asking for it
Metalmurphy
Member
Got my first alien invasion in the GAF region.
Also, random shot:
Also, random shot:
Anyone seen this yet?
Alleged code snippet from SimCity for the disconnection timer
Alleged code snippet from SimCity for the disconnection timer
Code:
simcity.cConstants = {
kNoRepeatNetworkAlertSeconds : 15,
kNetDownForceQuitAfterMinutes : 20,
};Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
yes, and there was a thread about it
notoriousKTR
Member
Nice, the pastebin I created as over 6,000 views ^_^.
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
With how fast this train has been moving, it's understandable.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
So I have abandoned houses that says "Out of Money" and homeless people around them.
I have a lack of workers right now in all wealth level, so I don't get what's going on... these Sims can't be unemployed ! Any GAF please shed some light in this ? Thanks
I have a lack of workers right now in all wealth level, so I don't get what's going on... these Sims can't be unemployed ! Any GAF please shed some light in this ? Thanks
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
About the recycling bug:
https://twitter.com/MaxisGuillaume/status/313432164031160320
Hmm, "big patch".
https://twitter.com/MaxisGuillaume/status/313432164031160320
Hmm, "big patch".
Thank god, that bug drove me mad, my city has pollution all over now. And after solving that, regular trash doesn't seem to get picked up. I've already rebuilt my landfill, but still no trucks go around collecting garbage. The only regular garbage being collected is being done by one truck sent by another guy in the region (thank god for that), but in a city of 150k or something that's not really enough.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The bug occurs when your recyclable capacity is maxed out, so the other solution besides demolishing and rebuilding, is to make sure that your recycling centers never top off. As long as there is one center that isn't maxed out, you shouldn't encounter the bug.
As for your garbage trucks, you may have encountered the other bug where if you demolish a stretch of road that contains a service vehicle, that service vehicle has a chance of being permanently deleted. The only solution is to build more vehicles over the number of which you previously had.
Yeah, I googled the recycling bug which is how I managed to solve it. And that sucks, I'll wait for the patch on that one and ask someone in the region to send more garbage trucks given that I had maxed out garbage trucks before. I'll just pay them or something.
lastplayed
Member
Done with my second city. Part forest, part crop circle.
It looks like the Oslo opera house
Today sometime.
Its for all registered SimCity copies or launch/pre-order ones?
It wouldnt be such a problem most of the time if required buildings werent so big. 3 service buildings, 3 mayor buildings, 3 schools thats already ton of space 'wasted'.
But yeah, we need regions with bigger spaces, even if that comes up with population limit [600k or smth like that]
Yeah, the space wouldn't be nearly as bad if the service and specialization buildings weren't as massive as they are, especially after expansions have been added. Even if they weren't so big though, city sizes are still way too small.
Crazyorloco
Member
MadD4mon has assembled this timeline of all the events that occurred following SimCity's release. I've added it to the main OT and it will be continually updated as more news comes in. Thanks MadD4mon for making this!
Thanks for the timeline. Two weeks have passed and there has been so much news for this game. Shame about the 20 minute timeout for offline mode. That's no offline mode...
This is the exact thing I mentioned to my friends. The service buildings and buildings you place take up so much room that it makes an already small city size seem smaller.
Plus there needs to be better indication of how big expansions on these buildings are going to be other than trial and error and guesswork. Also terraformed a bit for these expansions.
I actually ran into an odd situation placing a recycling center. I didn't want the included plastics module so I bulldozed that. But in doing so apparently the space became too small to add another module in it's place so the whole thing became worthless.
I guess you are supposed to be sharing those across cities, it's just the system is broke. I tried to make a city that was buying all its power but when I capped out the power station the upgrade didn't register and half my city didn't have power.
Well after 27 hours, I'm not really sure where the long term game is with SimCity.
So far I've been building cities, watching them grow and trying to get them profitable. And that's it. Move on. I've just "finished" my current City. I've done just about everything I set out to achieve with it, filled all the space and the City is in the green hour to hour. There isn't any particular specialisation I want or have the space to do with it, and other than watching the density of my existing zones grow, there's no other expansion I need to be doing. So what now? What's the long term hook exactly to stick with this City?
This feels like a bit of a problem to me. At 27 hours played for £19 I'm pretty happy I bought the game, and I could stop playing right now and be satisfied with my time investment, but I don't really want to stop playing yet. I'm enjoying the game enough, warts and all, that I don't just want to drop it. And at the same time, I don't just want to get trapped in this cycle where I build a City, max out the plot space, keep it profitable, move on.
So far I've been building cities, watching them grow and trying to get them profitable. And that's it. Move on. I've just "finished" my current City. I've done just about everything I set out to achieve with it, filled all the space and the City is in the green hour to hour. There isn't any particular specialisation I want or have the space to do with it, and other than watching the density of my existing zones grow, there's no other expansion I need to be doing. So what now? What's the long term hook exactly to stick with this City?
This feels like a bit of a problem to me. At 27 hours played for £19 I'm pretty happy I bought the game, and I could stop playing right now and be satisfied with my time investment, but I don't really want to stop playing yet. I'm enjoying the game enough, warts and all, that I don't just want to drop it. And at the same time, I don't just want to get trapped in this cycle where I build a City, max out the plot space, keep it profitable, move on.
Digital-Hero
Member
A little city I've been working on.
Platinumstorm
Member
It is a legitimate list.
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9378384.page
It's in between decent and horrible. For me it's a pretty good selection because I don't own DS3 and that's still pretty fresh.
If you're below age the choices are horrible - I can't believe Sims isn't included somewhere in the list. Some of the choices are kind of insulting - Plants vs Zombies in particular - amazing game but it was given out for free at Halloween, and generally costs less than $5. Battlefield 3 is sold frequently at $10-12, and this version could have easily included premium. MOH is a flop and they will struggle to give that away for free.
The text accompanying the free list is pretty insulting because it still fails to acknowledge that things are completely broken with the game. I don't care at all about the server issues, but the fact that the game is entirely broken is ridiculous.
Actually, it's more like "We see you understand our game is unfinished, and that the only system that works in our game is residential housing [if you don't mind that no one lives at the same house two days in a row (which doesn't' really bug me)]. We see you, and both game and professional journalists are having fun exploring all of the broken systems within our game.
The last sentence just kills me "Thanks for building something very special with us, together".
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9378384.page
It's in between decent and horrible. For me it's a pretty good selection because I don't own DS3 and that's still pretty fresh.
If you're below age the choices are horrible - I can't believe Sims isn't included somewhere in the list. Some of the choices are kind of insulting - Plants vs Zombies in particular - amazing game but it was given out for free at Halloween, and generally costs less than $5. Battlefield 3 is sold frequently at $10-12, and this version could have easily included premium. MOH is a flop and they will struggle to give that away for free.
The text accompanying the free list is pretty insulting because it still fails to acknowledge that things are completely broken with the game. I don't care at all about the server issues, but the fact that the game is entirely broken is ridiculous.
Actually, it's more like "We see you understand our game is unfinished, and that the only system that works in our game is residential housing [if you don't mind that no one lives at the same house two days in a row (which doesn't' really bug me)]. We see you, and both game and professional journalists are having fun exploring all of the broken systems within our game.
The last sentence just kills me "Thanks for building something very special with us, together".
Dead Prince
Banned
my oil plant / electricity reactor blew up the other day. now the area is radioactive. i've been fluctuating with -1K to 8K / hr lol.
keeps saying i don't have enough skilled workers when i decided to demo the commercial area. built more residentials and put up another school. i don't know what more they want.
keeps saying i don't have enough skilled workers when i decided to demo the commercial area. built more residentials and put up another school. i don't know what more they want.
I think that there is great potential in leaderboards and region global competition, but thats not working currently ;\
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SimCity 4 Deluxe for free? i'm all over it
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