You just have a credit on your card when you pay over. Basically like a gift card balance.I sent them an Email via the "Contact us" link regarding pricing issues and got it pretty quick..
Had I Known this was going to happen, I would not have paid my credit card in full... I am curious now what will happen when this goes through and I actually paid to much on my credit card...
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Just doing a private region and this is the one city I have. I have an arcology which should give me a ton of students. Is it? Nope even though its saying it is.
Mr. Luchador
Member
One day this game will be the game we hope it'll be. I hope.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Hahaha, holy shit, this is impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ytk1agmcXhU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ytk1agmcXhU
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
The tourism mechanic needs to be scrapped or reworked entirely. It's far too opaque of a system and has little benefit to your city when it's not overwhelming your road network with traffic. Something simple, like a tourism cap, and cap breaking mechanic would be fine. Combine sellable goods and souveniers; it's stupid for them to be separate. Get rid of hotels completely, or let me control when and where hotels are constructed.
I also don't see why they are wasting so much time on mass transit scripting. Focus on service vehicles only. The mass transit system would be infinitely more fun and effective if players built the routes themselves. It adds fun gameplay, and a directed approach would be much more useful than any kind of randomish, AI routine.
I also don't see why they are wasting so much time on mass transit scripting. Focus on service vehicles only. The mass transit system would be infinitely more fun and effective if players built the routes themselves. It adds fun gameplay, and a directed approach would be much more useful than any kind of randomish, AI routine.
Did the plane just clip through it? lol.
Dreamwriter
Member
I don't get it, what's wrong with the tourism mechanic? I made a city designed completely around tourism, works really well, I earn lots of money from it, my commercial zones make lots of money, my traffic isn't bad when tons of people are visiting since I planned for it and have lots of mass transit as well as road design that rushed tourists to where they want to go.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
First of all, it's prone to bugs, like when they don't properly leave, and their numbers cycle endlessly.
The mechanics of how it works is also unclear to many players in terms of how does one attract greater numbers of tourists of a specific wealth class, and why certain figures fluctuate as they do. There is a disconnect between what a player thinks he's trying to do, and what is actually happening in-game. Why one day a city can have 1000 tourists come in through the rail station, and then the next day, only 30.
There really is no way to differentiate a specific "tourist" zone. Your best option is to build your roads in a way that forcibly funnel the tourists to specific locations, due to the stupid AI pathfinding. As such, your commercial zones further away from the city can actually distract from your landmarks and casinos' profit. This is one of the reasons why so many people lose money when they try gambling specialization.
Having commercial zones have both "goods" and "souvenirs" for sale is dumb and redundant. It leads to the commercial zones sometimes telling you "we have no shoppers" and that the" tourists are great for business" simultaneously. Shoppers and tourists should both just purchase goods and not have it be more complicated. I see no reason that positively impacts gameplay why commercial zones should sell souvenirs.
They also turn into hotels quite randomly. Hotels near your landmarks and casinos is great, but hotels in your residential community area causes undue traffic, and the local shoppers lose a place to shop.
The way the game works right now, casinos, landmarks, and commercial zones cannibalize sales off of each other too much, when they should work together. One would assume that the casino and trade specializations work hand in hand along with commercial sales, when they actually don't. There should be a balancing game in place, and a system of attracting tourists and adequately meeting demand with systems that work synergystically to fulfill that need.
I guess it's mainly a casino problem, really.
It's not so bad with just landmarks and commercial, and that does have some synergy in the current game. However, once casinos are added into the picture, prepare for the casinos to eat heavy losses if you don't have enough tourists to satisfy all three adequately.
SuicideUZI
Member
I sent them an Email via the "Contact us" link regarding pricing issues and got it pretty quick..
Had I Known this was going to happen, I would not have paid my credit card in full... I am curious now what will happen when this goes through and I actually paid to much on my credit card...
darn, i tried that and they just emailed me back saying:
guess its just luck of the draw
So... this is a dumb question, but how on earth do I create overpasses? Do I have to be in sandbox mode?
Platinumstorm
Member
No because you would have figured it out eventually. Basically every system is broken.
PotatoeMasher
Member
The next patch is going to be the first simulation update, so hopefully we'll have a 1.0 quality game to play this weekend. It seems clear the thing was rushed out, but I can't even say I've had much time to play up until now.
mastershake
Member
all i want is firetrucks fixed. It's so annoying how they all respond to the same fire while the rest of the city burns down.
Forsaken82
Member
Well if it makes any difference, I didn't buy digitally from amazon... I bought a physical copy. Not sure if that made a difference.
What does this mean?
Xcell Miguel
Gold Member
Is the SimCity process still there ? If yes kill it, happened to a friend but not after an Origin update.
Nope, killed Origin just to be sure and then ran the SimCity.exe as administrator. SimCity appears for a bit in the list and then just vanishes. Been googling for answers but nobody seems to have a conclusive solution.
I may just have to settle for the good ol' uninstall-reinstall method.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-update-from-kip
Not any substantial info, but I appreciate the time taken to say something. I wish there was a time frame given.
Not any substantial info, but I appreciate the time taken to say something. I wish there was a time frame given.
TriniTrin
war of titties grampa
Mine was also a physical copy, maybe that is the only way they will price match.
storybook77
Member
I can understand why they don't give a time frame though, just in case their QA actually manages to find a bug this time.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I feel like they should just start up a side program where volunteers can help to test builds.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Upon observation of a test city in a region I made, every night bunches of shoppers leave the store, but instead of going home, they leave the city. No, they are not visitors.
Does not compute.
Does not compute.
Dead Prince
Banned
sounds like smugglers.
I made an overpass by mistake once and thought it was neat. Right now I feel like we have to game the system to get any benefits out of SimCity. And sad to say but we'll likely get overpasses / pedestrian bridges as DLC.
It would be awesome to get elevated train tracks or elevated parks. The High Line (a park that was formerly an elevated rail track) in my city is so popular with tourists and locals.
NorrenRadd
Member
What's the best way to have high-density low-income housing? My $ citizens always seem to live in trailer trash areas.
Metalmurphy
Member
High density roads and space to grow.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Make them happy and don't ever put in any parks that are $$ or $$$. Don't put them too close to government buildings too, since those raise land value.
How to make them happy:
Give them jobs and give them shopping. Commercial zones can provide both. Zone for 3 high density residential apartments for every 2 high density commercial building and you approximately even out on jobs. Zone them next to each other so that they are more likely to walk to work and walk to shop.
With a 3:2 ratio, you won't have enough goods to sell, so you can make up for that by providing more commercial zones, or parks, or libraries, or a Dr. Vu Tower.
Also provide the necessary services, and educate them with a grade school or high school.
NorrenRadd
Member
I think it's well past the time that it is acceptable for SimCity to have problems. This is not an MMO, it's a single-player game with multiplayer aspects. That cheetah speed isn't back yet just shows that the server infrastructure is beyond what's reasonable teething problems for a game like this. They've tripled the server capacity and have yet to add a basic feature of the game back. They say QA, I say bullshit. If you couldn't QA this before launch, how can you QA this now?
There aren't just some annoying bugs here and there. It's not just houses that don't get water and electricity, there are bugs that ruin people's games. Now they're addressing it? It's been nearly a month since the game came out, and all we can see that they've done so far is hastily add 16 servers and updated the traffic system slightly. The first day problems came from a lack of server power, and/or bad network code and poor infrastructure. With them out of the way, there have been so many glaring issues, one of which has been tweaked. This is not good enough, EA, Maxis. Combined with the always online and the bullshit you've been feeding us, the whole thing is incomprehensible. And this update isn't even out. Fucking shame on you, Maxis for however it came down to this game being released in its current state.
There aren't just some annoying bugs here and there. It's not just houses that don't get water and electricity, there are bugs that ruin people's games. Now they're addressing it? It's been nearly a month since the game came out, and all we can see that they've done so far is hastily add 16 servers and updated the traffic system slightly. The first day problems came from a lack of server power, and/or bad network code and poor infrastructure. With them out of the way, there have been so many glaring issues, one of which has been tweaked. This is not good enough, EA, Maxis. Combined with the always online and the bullshit you've been feeding us, the whole thing is incomprehensible. And this update isn't even out. Fucking shame on you, Maxis for however it came down to this game being released in its current state.
mastershake
Member
praise jesus
Herpes Reasons
Banned
this game is unplayable still.
so many irritating bugs.
not touching it until they get their shit in order.
so many irritating bugs.
not touching it until they get their shit in order.
storybook77
Member
Hopefully that includes police cars too.....watching all of them report to one crime is comical.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
If you're going by high density, 3 residential apartments which are 4x4 squares, and 2 commercial buildings, which are 2x4 rectangles each, should give you an equivalent amount of jobs and workers to keep everyone satisfied job-wise. You just won't have enough goods to sell, but that's not thaaaat important.
You don't even need industry. It hardly has any bearing in this game to sim happiness or well being at all. You get slightly more tax money off of industry, and they provide more jobs, but that's about it. And they cause hella pollution...even the high tech...blech.
If you were to zone the 3 residential zones on one side of the map, and the 2 commercial zones on the other side of the map, you'd see all your workers and shoppers drive there. If, however, you mix the two zones and put the buildings next to each other, most of your sims will walk instead. This is good to alleviate traffic problems.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
To elaborate a little more, the RCI balance that was present in previous SimCity games is completely absent in SimCity 5. In other games, you cannot develop new zones if those zones have zero or negative demand.
In this game, demand bars mean all of jack shit and new stuff will pop up all the time. If they are not needed, they'll eventually get unhappy and abandon themselves, only to reappear when you demolish the abandoned building.
That means you don't need to make any industrial at all to boost commercial demand or to boost residential demand because there is no "demand". There is only workers and jobs. Interestingly enough, you can even play the game with only residential zones, too. C is not required either, but it makes things easier.
mastershake
Member
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
He probably means the recycling center bug.
If your recycling center fills up to max with materials, it will shut down and refuse to process anymore. You can get around this by turning off the individual modules and then turning them back on, or by demolishing the center and then rebuilding it.
At first I played a bunch. Have almost 30 hours with it, but just got too annoyed as my cities ran into the same problems after so long every time.
Be it trash pickup or just fire/police stupidity to traffic, it gets unbearable.
Switched to playing my free game of BF3 from them the whole time now.
Gaming Truth
Member
My cynical take:
If the SimCity release has the blood & sweat of several years of hard work, I'm not expecting much then in the few weeks since launch.
(Yes, I'm still bitter)
NorrenRadd
Member
Another question:
Optimal city grid size = ?
When I make my grid and try to build just on one side of the square, the corners end up spilling onto another side of the square. Am I doing this wrong?
Optimal city grid size = ?
When I make my grid and try to build just on one side of the square, the corners end up spilling onto another side of the square. Am I doing this wrong?
EagleBurnn
Banned
I knew I should have bought Tomb Raider.
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
I'm not sure what you mean.
Exactly. Or, why wasn't it in, in the first place?