SimCity 5 - Page 52

On March 13 2013 02:41 jinorazi wrote:
what do i do with radiation?

i plopped nuclear power, it meltdown. i plopped another one, then it went meltdown.

i have radiation circles at two opposing circles, ~40% land inhabitable.

On March 13 2013 04:58 ZasZ. wrote:
What is the best way to get high density zones? I feel like I have a pretty good coverage of parks, because sims can't get enough of that shit, so I have a decent distribution of low->high wealth, but all my shit gets stuck on medium density. Is it just a matter of time before it goes to high density? I run into the problem where my income gradually decreases as I provide more services to my needy sims, and they respond very unfavorably to tax hikes in order to compensate. I get to the point where my density isn't increasing, but now I don't make enough money to really do anything about it (especially without Cheetah Speed).

Any advice? I may be covering too much land too quickly, is there a benefit to zoning less and gradually expanding your city to fill the space? I also try to upgrade the density of my roads as soon as I can, both for ease of traffic and to help with my zoning density.

Put your water treatment plant and water pump plant right next to each other, the treatment plant dumps the clean treated water back into the water table right there so you never run out.

Put your water treatment plant and water pump plant right next to each other, the treatment plant dumps the clean treated water back into the water table right there so you never run out.

On March 13 2013 06:33 Marradron wrote:
Another trick you can use. Is your garbage heap full ? Just delete it and rebuild and all garbage is gone.

On March 13 2013 04:58 ZasZ. wrote:
What is the best way to get high density zones? I feel like I have a pretty good coverage of parks, because sims can't get enough of that shit, so I have a decent distribution of low->high wealth, but all my shit gets stuck on medium density. Is it just a matter of time before it goes to high density? I run into the problem where my income gradually decreases as I provide more services to my needy sims, and they respond very unfavorably to tax hikes in order to compensate. I get to the point where my density isn't increasing, but now I don't make enough money to really do anything about it (especially without Cheetah Speed).

Any advice? I may be covering too much land too quickly, is there a benefit to zoning less and gradually expanding your city to fill the space? I also try to upgrade the density of my roads as soon as I can, both for ease of traffic and to help with my zoning density.

On March 13 2013 06:58 LaNague wrote:
who was the maxis employee in this forum?

I have a big bug where my buildings do not spawn shoppers, i tried EA support, EA knowledge base, EA forums, reddit, twitter, noone helps me.

On March 13 2013 07:10 RoyGBiv_13 wrote:
Still haven't bought the game. The price is too high for such a buggy game design. That being said, problems like this are the main reason why I am avoiding this release:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/Traffic-quot-AI-quot-This-is-why-services-and-traffic-are-broken/m-p/737060#U737060

It seems like the game has a fundamental design by committee flaw :/

On March 13 2013 07:05 jinorazi wrote:


what do you mean?
if you have $$$ commercial, u need $$$ residents, same with $ and $$. check your land value and build residents/commercial in the corresponding areas or add/remove parks to upgrade/downgrade land value to match what you need.

On March 13 2013 07:17 LaNague wrote:





ok, ill explain it in detail, maybe someone can help me:


I have a very well running city with absolutely no traffic problems.
I have a reidental $$$ area that works fine-
I have a residental $ area where half the buildings never spawn shopping people.
I have another high density $$ area where all buildings do not spawn shopping people.
The $$ area has like 3 $ houses in them that spawn shoppers fine.

I have shops of the according wealth right next to my houses.
All buildings spawn workers and those workers find jobs just fine, i followed them.
I watched the game in population filter for over 2 hours now, the affected buildings just do not spawn shoppers.
I closed all nearby parks to see if it makes a difference.
I closed libraries.
i closed mass transit stations.

i deleted the buildings. Once they rebuild they will spawn shoppers ONCE, which will shop happily, return to home and never leave again.


Im not a noob at this game, i studied its inner workings, but i need real help with this.

On March 13 2013 07:15 jinorazi wrote:


i was holding off too with all the criticism but i couldnt hold off any longer, after all i've been waiting on this since forever.

it really isn't as bad as people put it, its got a lot of flaws but the game is still enjoyable

On March 13 2013 07:34 jinorazi wrote:


i havnt noticed such thing in detail, maybe its happening to me too, i'll check it out tonight. (i'm noob myself)
same problem on new cities?

i had "need more shopper" problem for awhile, not knowing what to do (cus i'm a noob) then i fixed it by distributing land value, now my cities have a lot of high density $$$ and $$ residential and commercials.

On March 13 2013 07:37 aksfjh wrote:

Indeed. I think it's better put together than the original SimCity 4. People seemed extremely butthurt over not being able to play the game a lot the first couple of nights after release, and others used it as a soapbox to preach about the "evils of DRM." In reality, it's a LOT of fun for most people. Of all the complaints, city size seems to be the most legitimate, but it's not bad. You can control a bunch of cities, and the size restriction per city makes it challenging in a good way.