Sim City (5)

Addicted · Mar 24, 2013

Created a new city with a mate earlier, before I knew it it's 1am...

Tips/Bugs learned from previous cities:

* Only use streets
* Don't upgrade to the bigger police/fire/health stations (by selling the old ones) - they bug - I'm on 2 Clinics, 1 Fire station and 1 Police station, no issues at all.
* Fking parks everywhere to get High value
* About 80% Residential, 10% Commercial + 10% Industrial, then the rest on specialist buildings.
* Expo Center is a license to print money.

Oh btw I think SimplyGames have it for about £35!

iain187 · Mar 24, 2013

I always wondered if it's worth making a plot with little resources almost all residential so they commute to my other areas which seem to constantly demand workers

Bux · Mar 24, 2013

iain187 said:
I always wondered if it's worth making a plot with little resources almost all residential so they commute to my other areas which seem to constantly demand workers

I did that, I've got around 250k people living in my city and they commute to the other cities by train and bus. So make sure you've got a decent public transport setup

Addicted · Mar 24, 2013

My friend's city was about half the skyscrapers but had 40k pop, and very few Industrial places setup, so it still seemed to work for me :S

Very strange, but getting there, shame the layout is so damn ugly.

Krispwee · Mar 24, 2013

My main money making city

Then bulldozed the first city I made in the region to make it look cool

I do have an issue on the second of those cities with crime, I've put a few police stations in the crime hotspot areas and added more cars but I'm still having people leave because of crime. Anything else I can do?

Addicted · Mar 24, 2013

I hate Giant Lizards.

Aftermath:

I think considering where it started, I was very lucky in it avoiding all of my main buildings!

Wish I'd have made a Creative Region

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Addicted · Mar 24, 2013

Krispwee said:
I do have an issue on the second of those cities with crime, I've put a few police stations in the crime hotspot areas and added more cars but I'm still having people leave because of crime. Anything else I can do?

I've found the best thing you can do is not don't upgrade to a precinct and ensure you have a high wealth pop, I still have one police station with only 2 extra garages in an 86k pop city (the one above).

I've also done the same with Clinics & Fire station, I only have 2 Clinics & 1 Fire station (max trucks) - there seems to be bugs with the "better" variants of those.

Silent_Scone · Mar 25, 2013

So glad I didn't pre-order this.

Scott™ · Mar 25, 2013

I had a nuclear melt down last night ffs. I now need to wait an age for the radiation levels to drop lol!!

I'm in a region with someone off here. No idea who though.

Silent_Scone · Mar 25, 2013

Gareth · Mar 25, 2013

Scott™ · Mar 25, 2013

So I have radioactivity everywhere. How the fark do I clean it up?

Addicted · Mar 25, 2013

Silent_Scone said:

Tell me about it, I'm one of the suckers

Matt Cup · Mar 26, 2013

Probably a daft question, but will the Window's and OSX versions be cross compatible?

ukaskew · Mar 26, 2013

Matt Cup said:
Probably a daft question, but will the Window's and OSX versions be cross compatible?

Completely up to EA, they've been very vague in their official FAQ and basically said although possible, it's not certain.

Knowing them...? No.

Matt Cup · Mar 26, 2013

I hope they do, wouldn't mind being able to get on one of the CS servers.

I'd go PC but it's crap and my Mac is pretty much the best spec for the game so would be perfect for it.

Addicted · Mar 26, 2013

Dual boot? Any Mac can run windows..

And tbh I can't see any reason why they wouldn't be compatible, having to write new server code just to accommodate for slightly different languages would be absurd!

DanFreemanPhoto · Mar 26, 2013

This is EA remember!

Matt Cup · Mar 26, 2013

Addicted said:
Dual boot? Any Mac can run windows..

And tbh I can't see any reason why they wouldn't be compatible, having to write new server code just to accommodate for slightly different languages would be absurd!

Is that the Bootcamp malarky? I'm assuming then I'd have to shell out for a copy of windows and then the game, correct?

Addicted · Mar 26, 2013

DanFreemanPhoto said:
This is EA remember!

All about profit with them though right, so surely they won't reinvent the wheel redoing the server code.

We've already seen half of it is in Javscript, so won't be any issue with compatibility unless they are truly that retarded (just ajax calls to web services essentially), all they need is an environment/tool to run the JS as req'd.

ukaskew · Mar 27, 2013

I don't see what server code has to do with it. If they're being shitty they will just block your Sim City PC purchase appearing in the Mac Origin client. I'm sure there are no technical reasons as they've already stated Mac owners will be on the same servers and able to play with PC users, but I wouldn't put it past them artificially blocking your PC purchase appearing on your Mac.

DanFreemanPhoto · Mar 27, 2013

Well sim city does appear in my mac origin, even though I bought it via windows and play it on that at the moment.

n9oll · Mar 28, 2013

Just tried to add most of you!

timuss · Mar 28, 2013

Question what is this game like for a novice like me, ive never played one before is it quite easy to pick up??? And has the games problems largely been fixed?

Addicted · Mar 28, 2013

timuss said:
Question what is this game like for a novice like me, ive never played one before is it quite easy to pick up??? And has the games problems largely been fixed?

It's much easier to pick up than Sim City 4, and there's still a fair few quite annoying bugs if I'm honest, but you can get around most of them!

timuss · Mar 28, 2013

Addicted said:
It's much easier to pick up than Sim City 4, and there's still a fair few quite annoying bugs if I'm honest, but you can get around most of them!

Cool might look into getting this fancy something a bit different.

Cookie · Mar 30, 2013

Playing this for the first time in weeks. Feels so tainted now

Alex H · Mar 31, 2013

Well I've played it and played it and personally I don't think it's a patch on SC4. I know it's a different game, ten years younger, new graphics etc, but it's just not satisfying or rewarding to play.

n9oll · Mar 31, 2013

Scott did you get kicked out of the region or was it just me?

Scott™ · Apr 1, 2013

I sure did. Set up a cliosport.net region now.

timuss · Apr 2, 2013

Just got this today its quite tricky to master at the moment how, do i find the clio sport region then???

Scott™ · Apr 2, 2013

timuss said:
Just got this today its quite tricky to master at the moment how, do i find the clio sport region then???

Search me scotty2088

Then you will find it

timuss · Apr 2, 2013

I was working on a city earlier and its not been saved how do you save them then??? The only way i can play is by creating my own game, ive tried lots of other servers but there is no land to claim, so im unable to join other peoples games?

n9oll · Apr 3, 2013

I think thats a problem with the servers because im the same! If you find scott and join his game though, you should be able to join us

Sargara · Apr 3, 2013

I still wish they would fix the god damn traffic. Im sick of buses/cars etc getting stuck that make my city burn down because fire trucks are stuck in the tail back. I have to keep quitting out and reloading so it resets the traffic.

Oh and they have added some free and in no-way subtle DLC to the game! Nissan Leafs...

Scott™ · Apr 3, 2013

Anyone else unable to get on ATM?

Scott™ · Apr 9, 2013

Bored of this already, creativity is massively restricted.

Cities are far to small and they all look the same.

Cookie · Apr 9, 2013

I can't even get on to half my cities. f**king EA.

Supposed to be a big 2.0 fix soon.

Gareth · Apr 9, 2013

Not played in ages, on Bioshock atm.

Cookie · Apr 11, 2013

Good news for Mac owners

To Our Fans,

SimCity will be coming to the Mac on June 11 as a digital release via Origin™. If you have purchased SimCity for PC, either as a physical or a digital copy, you will receive the Mac version as a free digital download on Origin on June 11.

Via Origin, SimCity is cross-platform compatible, so all players will be able to play together across the same servers. You will be able to play both versions with the same Origin account, allowing you to seamlessly continue cities, achievements and leaderboard progress across the PC and Mac.

If you have purchased SimCity for PC, the Mac version has already been added to your Origin account. On your “My Games” page, hover over SimCity and click the info button. You will then see SimCity on Mac in the “Add-ons & Bonuses” section. You will be able to download and play the Mac version on June 11.

Sincerely,
The Maxis Team

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