You'll be happy. You can choose to play by yourself or select friends or strangers, sandbox or leaderboard. All up to you. You can do a single city in a 3-city region, or control all 16 cities in a 16-city region yourself.
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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
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You'll be happy. You can choose to play by yourself or select friends or strangers, sandbox or leaderboard. All up to you. You can do a single city in a 3-city region, or control all 16 cities in a 16-city region yourself.
WHAT THE FUCK, when did you buy ? I am still waiting, has been 2 hours for me -_-
Burgess_101
Member
Oh.... limited ;_;
Burgess_101
Member
Vinsanity.
Member
So am I just pessimistic, or is EA going to milk the fuck out of this game with microtransactions down the line? I can just imagine it already. 
So am I just pessimistic, or is EA going to milk the fuck out of this game with microtransactions down the line? I can just imagine it already.
If its cosmetic crap, then I dont mind. If it ends up being stuff that I need t play, then they can GTFO.
SRTtoZ
Member
So am I just pessimistic, or is EA going to milk the fuck out of this game with micro-transactions down the line? I can just imagine it already.
Well lets be realists for a second. This is EA, we all know they love micro-transactions. Then look at series like the Sims, which has been milked with expansions and DLC forever. This will have its fair share but that doesn't mean you need to buy it. If there are things that will REALLY improve the game down the line, Ill buy them (better mass transit, city size etc), but if its just visual then ill pick and choose.
So am I just pessimistic, or is EA going to milk the fuck out of this game with microtransactions down the line? I can just imagine it already.
Yes. There is no doubt.
But it might still be a good game minus the extra content. Vanilla Sims 3 is still a great, content packed game, despite the heaps and heaps of microtransactions and expansions for it.
SRTtoZ
Member
I got the Digital deluxe for British, French and German city set
Brules Rules.
Burgess_101
Member
I got the Digital deluxe for British, French and German city set
I dont know if the scots would agree they are represented from what I have seen.
Dead Prince
Banned
do they even have a working mouse to play.
dskillzhtown
keep your strippers out of my American football
So am I just pessimistic, or is EA going to milk the fuck out of this game with microtransactions down the line? I can just imagine it already.
Maybe. But in Sims 3, the DLC didn't take away from the fun I had in the base game. I actually didn't buy my first piece of DLC until earlier this year. All of that stuff is optional, mostly cosmetic stuff.
Burgess_101
Member
I can't imagine anyone wanting a sim city to look like a city in Scotland
It's just little things like that that annoy me is all
Call it an English pack if it only contains English things.Buildings don't instantly get powered up, the power behaves very much like individual packets or people and needs to get there first...give it a minute?
It also means that they will keep supporting the game and we won't have a 10 year gulf like we had after SimCity 4.
MisterNugNug
Member
Has anyone who pre-ordered the LE version at Amazon; received their key yet?
Enjoy it, the first time you drop the landmark into a high wealth city is pretty rad.I got the Digital deluxe for British, French and German city set
Dead Prince
Banned
not yet.
Check your roads for some not being completed.
RedWaltz79
Neo Member
So am I just pessimistic, or is EA going to milk the fuck out of this game with microtransactions down the line? I can just imagine it already.
It can be good or bad...the good being that you are almost assured that there will be a crap ton of support for this game post launch... the bad being that it may not all be worththe price they ask for.
There are tons of things i would have loved to have had for Sims 3, but their store prices are crazy... i mean, iI see them selling a new town, with some premium ccontent for $40.00... the price of a new expansion
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
You didn't wait long enough
or
You have a gap in the roads
or
Your power plant is too far away from the buildings that don't have power.
There is just ONE road going to the power plant, but that shouldn't be a problem as I understand.
It fixed itself after a while, but from time to time i'll get a warning saying there's unpowered buildings.
I wonder if it the wind stops from time to time and that's what triggers it?
I'm not sure about wind,but solar has"peak" output so it sometimes drops, so I think it's possible for wind too. I sometimes got underpowered notes in the beta too and I think it's honestly still a bit buggy, but the simulation engine is deep, so it could be a lot of factors, incl distance to the plant, plant output, energy consumption of the buildings around it, time of day, etc
RedWaltz79
Neo Member
So is there a dlc store in game? If so, is there anything there right now? Are they going to use Sim points, like Sims 3?
angels.phillipe
Neo Member
SRTtoZ
Member
If you have it preordered through Origin then it will release at 12am EST or 9pm PST.
My power excess just went from 14 megawatts to 7 megawatts and then back to 14 megawatts.
So yes, I guess power output changes, even in Wind Powered cities. Gotta get that nuclear energy son.
Edit: I just noticed one of my turbines stopped generating energy (it stopped moving) even though there was wind in the region (if you mouse over a turbine it gives you wind information). Also, the turbines by the side of it are working without any issue.
After a couple seconds, it started back up. What?
timetokill
Banned
A broken image filter?
Wow, they really went the extra mile. Seems like it'd be hard to play that way though.
edit: damn it, it works now.
Looks fantastic though!
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Oh, unless you have the vertical turbines, if the wind changes directions, the power potential of your fixed facing windmills will change because of the change in magnitude of the wind vector perpendicular to your windmill.
easily possible there's some discrepancy between data and graphics engine, happens all the time.I'd trust the data over what it looks like
still some kinks I suppose.Also, every energy has its costs, nuclear radiation if you get unlucky through eg meteors or an earthquake, is pretty much impossible to remove and leaves a permanent hit to land value and citizen health
Actually, this makes a ton of sense
RedWaltz79
Neo Member
easily possible there's some discrepancy between data and graphics engine, happens all the time.I'd trust the data over what it looks like
Also, every energy has its costs, nuclear radiation if you get unlucky through eg meteors or an earthquake, is pretty much impossible to remove and leaves a permanent hit to land value and citizen health
Nuclear power + Homer Simpson = no more city.
I think i figured out my city problem.
My city has two ground levels, and my power plant is on the upper level. The lower level, while close, doesn't have a direct connection to the upper level. So the energy has to go all around the map on this particular terrain.
When there's a drop of wind, the power drops, and it takes way too long to get back to the lower part of the city (since there's only the long way around)
There's no way to make a shorter route for the energy: It's too steep of a drop for me to create a road in it.
I wonder how I will fix this.
My city has two ground levels, and my power plant is on the upper level. The lower level, while close, doesn't have a direct connection to the upper level. So the energy has to go all around the map on this particular terrain.
When there's a drop of wind, the power drops, and it takes way too long to get back to the lower part of the city (since there's only the long way around)
There's no way to make a shorter route for the energy: It's too steep of a drop for me to create a road in it.
I wonder how I will fix this.