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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
- Thread starter Cjdamon042
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That's not what the promotional credit says:
Order "SimCity" and receive a $20 promotional credit toward the purchase of items shipped and sold by Amazon.com (certain exclusions apply, including but not limited to Kindle books, Gift Cards, and Amazon Appstore for Android apps)
Additionally, the betas had the difficulty purposely scaled down, so that people would have it easier to experiment with stuff.
That's one thing I noticed real quick playing some SC4 (is anyone else doing this?)
Anyway, I just picked up the game the other day, and even playing through a small-area city on Easy (I'm just playing for fun, after all, not challenge), it was really easy for the budget to get away from me, and suddenly things didn't pan out so well for ol' Newbsville.
I'm also wondering how well the cities will work with each other. Is it possible to make a high-income city like Las Vegas, pulling in all of its resources from the surrounding cities? Like having an entire city dedicated to generating insane amounts of power to sell to the rest of the region? And what about inter-city travel? Can I make a large residential city, and have them all drive to the next city over for work? Questions, questions, too many questions. Worst case, I can just try all this once I figure out how it all works next week.
Yes, and yes.
You can share:
Shoppers, Workers, Students
Utilities (Sewage, Garbage, Recycling, Water, Power, Fire, Ambulance, Police, anything really)
Benefits from HQ's (specializations, university, city hall)
Resources (through trading of both natural resources, as well as processed resources such as alloys)
Money
and... yeah pretty much anything.
macfoshizzle
Member
in the future dlc, i would love to see these additions:
bigger city!
subways, high speed rail
able to combine commercial and residential
asia pack
able to make districts - bring some personality to ur city
seaports/warfs - i want me sims to cruise the boardwalks and eat clam chowder
professional sport teams
what else?
bigger city!
subways, high speed rail
able to combine commercial and residential
asia pack
able to make districts - bring some personality to ur city
seaports/warfs - i want me sims to cruise the boardwalks and eat clam chowder
professional sport teams
what else?
ugh_the_boot
Banned
WOW! After seeing the screenshots for this my interest has piqued. The last sim/building game I played was Viva Pinata 1 & 2 and before that was the original Theme Park (PC). I used to love these sorts of games but I switched to console only gaming around the time graphics cards became a requirement for pc games. Anyways I recently made a new PC (when Diablo III came out) with the following specs:
Intel i5 3550 3.30ghz with GTX 560Ti 1gb GDDR5 graphics.
Any chance my pc will be able to run it like the screens from the OP? I love isometric perspective in games.....so much detail.
Intel i5 3550 3.30ghz with GTX 560Ti 1gb GDDR5 graphics.
Any chance my pc will be able to run it like the screens from the OP? I love isometric perspective in games.....so much detail.
Xander51
Member
With those specs the game should run fairly well.
Dead Prince
Banned
theme parks. and highways that will work without a hill.
ugh_the_boot
Banned
Cool thanks man. Damn another game for March lol....it's always the best month for games which is fine by me cuz my birthday is on the 14th so I usually get a couple as gifts.
There is a 20$ upgrade available on Origin.
Amazon had a code until Feb 28th that made it cheaper, not anymore.
Atm, your cheapest offer will probably be greenmangaming for 49.99
Thinking of picking this one up, however if I order it from Amazon (and get the $20 credit) I won't have it for 2 weeks.
GMG is showing me $7 cash back or $10 credit, neither of which is enticing.
Origin mentions a $20 credit, but I cannot bring up the page that lists which games are applicable - can anyone provide a link?
GMG is showing me $7 cash back or $10 credit, neither of which is enticing.
Origin mentions a $20 credit, but I cannot bring up the page that lists which games are applicable - can anyone provide a link?
It's SimCity, there's not really any way to 'fall behind'.
Since I don't plan on using it, here's a $20 off $30+ purchase for Origin. Here's the link of eligible games.
http://store.origin.com/SimCityCoupon
Last I checked, Dead Space 3 Digital copy worked with the code and it's currently on sale for $41.99 so you can grab it for $21.99 + tax.
Quote to reveal code.
I bought it last July and no key here.
Yeah GMG is actually pretty terrible with preorders and hands them out as soon as they get them rather than to those who preordered first. I'll still preorder from them but probably only after I know they have keys to give out rather than sitting on my hands waiting for them.
bar mitzvah
Neo Member
FYI - I just bought it and it sent me a key instantly.
Realistically, people are going to screw up their initial cities as they learn the game anyway. I'm sure there will be some turnover and people wanting to start up new regions.
Can someone confirm deny for me, I haven't paid much attention....but I've heard...
- No modding at all, ever
- Always online
- No landscaping
- Limited tile/model set
- No custom maps
- No solo play, you have to think about what griefers around you are doing
- Very small towns
I'm asking because this is what I've heard but I wanted someone to confirm once and for all so I can either buy or miss.
Thanks!
- No modding at all, ever
- Always online
- No landscaping
- Limited tile/model set
- No custom maps
- No solo play, you have to think about what griefers around you are doing
- Very small towns
I'm asking because this is what I've heard but I wanted someone to confirm once and for all so I can either buy or miss.
Thanks!
lowhighkang_LHK
Member
I'm sure this has been asked a million times already, but is there a set date for the Mac release?
Edited into it!
Very much appreciated. Could you recommend this game one way or another? Is it still a blast? Or does it feel neutered?
I got to play in Beta 2, and it was a blast. I much prefer the different simulation and more personal feel of the city. But, to each their own.
It's definitely different than SimCity 4, but I'd say for the better. The new simulation engine is AMAZING, and, having played all 3 betas, I can say it was very challenging and fun to play around with the engine and see what it can do. The game also looks great. I'd say if you like SimCity and are open to creating multiple specialized, unique cities in a region and appreciate the game for a new, separate game, then go for it. If you want to play it like SimCity 4 and just make one massive city with everything and don't care about the engine/data-layers, you'll probably struggle.
I'd recommend it for sure, though. It's a lot deeper than previous games, despite at first looking like there's less content.
Just curious if you can plug it in Origin and start downloading? or is it 12am March 5th?
Thank you, again. The fact that modding will come sooner or later to me, says that whatever faults there are with the game in regard to small maps or limtied tile sets will be a thing of the past once the tools come out. I might have to try this out after all. It was basically the mod tools which were make or break for me.
See this post: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=48754479&postcount=1650
for developer-quotes on why the city size is limited. Also, I don't have it at hand, but they confirmed that bigger cities in the future are probably coming, as well as confirmed that the game was made to be moddable.
Seriously, fuck GMG. Wtf is this?
That was always my biggest issue with GMG. Whenever they actually loaded the keys into the system, they weren't sent out to people who pre-ordered until a certain time but anyone who purchased after always got their key immediately.
Yeah, I stopped buying prepurchases from GMG unless people have started to get their keys. This always happens, where they get the keys and anyone who buys from them will get their key right away while people who've preordered months earlier have to wait.
I wonder if I'd get my key instantly if I contacted their support. I pre-ordered in December
I wouldn't count on it, the one time I had to contact their support was during a game sale because they wouldn't take my paypal or credit card. I didn't hear back from them until 4 days after the sale had already ended.
Definitely avoid pre-orders, but sometimes they do have some decent sales plus a coupon to stack on top.
I can't say I'd go that far...
I think I could have had an even better deal a few days later.
BigJonsson
Member
I got my key from GMG the other day right after I paid for it.....already entered it in on Origin
I can't say I'd go that far...
I think I could have had an even better deal a few days later.
SimCity Limited Edition (NA) $39.00
Payment type:
Original Credit value: $0.00
Total $39.00
ha, same here.
Guillaume Pierre
‏@MaxisGuillaume
Less than 12 hours until @simcity goes live (in Asia)!!
This has been confirmed by maxis... I wonder what this means for VPN's.
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9329970.page
11pm Singapore = 7am PST.... 1 hour pre-load, so we'll probably get something similar. So potentially we're looking at people being able to unlock and play at 8am PST, if it works via Asian VPN? Anyone mind trying that out?
‏@MaxisGuillaume
Less than 12 hours until @simcity goes live (in Asia)!!
This has been confirmed by maxis... I wonder what this means for VPN's.
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9329970.page
11pm Singapore = 7am PST.... 1 hour pre-load, so we'll probably get something similar. So potentially we're looking at people being able to unlock and play at 8am PST, if it works via Asian VPN? Anyone mind trying that out?