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jinorazi
Profile Joined October 2004
Korea (South)4948 Posts
April 01 2013 17:19 GMT
#1461
what do you guys do when there is not much left to do?

if i bulldoze majority of my town, do i restart the density? i want to re do my city layout to bring 0 traffic area to trades. i tested it and it worked out well. i had traffic that wont almost move yet trade routes were completely open.
age: 84 | location: california | sex: 잘함
NIIINO
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Slovakia1320 Posts
April 01 2013 18:54 GMT
#1462
Would you be so nice and explain this game for me ? I did play old Simcity but i was 8 and had no idea what Im doing but if i understand this game correctly its all about getting all the tech, have the largest city while having happy people. Basically get your city to the point where there is nothing more to do ? If so, my question is why dont just use build of some pro and just finish the game ?
Simcity looks great and I can tell from streams that people are having fun but I just dont get it.
jinorazi
Profile Joined October 2004
Korea (South)4948 Posts
April 01 2013 20:44 GMT
#1463
On April 02 2013 03:54 NIIINO wrote:
Would you be so nice and explain this game for me ? I did play old Simcity but i was 8 and had no idea what Im doing but if i understand this game correctly its all about getting all the tech, have the largest city while having happy people. Basically get your city to the point where there is nothing more to do ? If so, my question is why dont just use build of some pro and just finish the game ?
Simcity looks great and I can tell from streams that people are having fun but I just dont get it.


the goal is to reach end game with export profits or tourism profits. export is easy but i'm having difficulty with gambling city and its trial and error until it works. trying out different things with different city: recycling highly educated, rich, less populated city or polluted oil drilling high density city, etc, etc. etc.
age: 84 | location: california | sex: 잘함
Al Bundy
Profile Joined April 2010
7257 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-01 20:50:13
April 01 2013 20:48 GMT
#1464
Well, Niiino, as you may know, sandbox games allow the player to make up their own fun. With the Sim city games, you are able to build the city of your dreams. I haven't played Sim City 5 yet, so I don't really know how deep the game is, all I know is that it looks like there are a couple "features" that limit the sandbox aspect of the game; such as the lack of Terraforming as well as the inability to edit regions (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Despite that, you don't necessarily have to build the biggest most efficient city possible. You are free to build any kind of town you want really, I guess it's up to the player's imagination. I mean, from what I've seen, the enhanced road tool as well as the building diverstiy and the beautiful graphics allow for the creation of some pretty wonderful landscapes.
o choro é livre
Orcasgt24
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada3238 Posts
April 01 2013 20:56 GMT
#1465
Are the TL Regions private? I cannt find them since search is disabled for now. Can Orcasgt22 get an invite?
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Tdelamay
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada548 Posts
April 01 2013 21:11 GMT
#1466
Alright, so I built a very nice city that was booming in population. It was growing over the 100k pop. Everything was going fine when I left it. There was no issues with fires, waste or traffic. When I came back and the rest of the region was built up with other cities, my streets became clogged!

My waste trucks were stuck, my firetruck were stuck, everything was stuck! The city became derelic in a matter of minutes because of the traffic. My income went from 20k/hour to -3k/hour. I removed 90% of my industry and commercial zoning and left it running for a while. The pop went up to 300k and my income to 6k/hour, but there was still monster jams of people going nowhere in particular.

It got me pissed. I bulldozed the whole city and rebuilt everything on a single wiggly line. If I can't control traffic, I might at least have fun with this silly game.
This road isn't leading anywhere...
jinorazi
Profile Joined October 2004
Korea (South)4948 Posts
April 01 2013 22:19 GMT
#1467
On April 02 2013 06:11 Tdelamay wrote:
Alright, so I built a very nice city that was booming in population. It was growing over the 100k pop. Everything was going fine when I left it. There was no issues with fires, waste or traffic. When I came back and the rest of the region was built up with other cities, my streets became clogged!

My waste trucks were stuck, my firetruck were stuck, everything was stuck! The city became derelic in a matter of minutes because of the traffic. My income went from 20k/hour to -3k/hour. I removed 90% of my industry and commercial zoning and left it running for a while. The pop went up to 300k and my income to 6k/hour, but there was still monster jams of people going nowhere in particular.

It got me pissed. I bulldozed the whole city and rebuilt everything on a single wiggly line. If I can't control traffic, I might at least have fun with this silly game.


the traffic does suck. only thing i can do is isolate the trade/mfg from everything else. city can go to shit (from traffic) but at least i can rake in money from exports.
age: 84 | location: california | sex: 잘함
Tdelamay
Profile Joined October 2009
Canada548 Posts
April 02 2013 00:24 GMT
#1468
On April 02 2013 07:19 jinorazi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 02 2013 06:11 Tdelamay wrote:
Alright, so I built a very nice city that was booming in population. It was growing over the 100k pop. Everything was going fine when I left it. There was no issues with fires, waste or traffic. When I came back and the rest of the region was built up with other cities, my streets became clogged!

My waste trucks were stuck, my firetruck were stuck, everything was stuck! The city became derelic in a matter of minutes because of the traffic. My income went from 20k/hour to -3k/hour. I removed 90% of my industry and commercial zoning and left it running for a while. The pop went up to 300k and my income to 6k/hour, but there was still monster jams of people going nowhere in particular.

It got me pissed. I bulldozed the whole city and rebuilt everything on a single wiggly line. If I can't control traffic, I might at least have fun with this silly game.


the traffic does suck. only thing i can do is isolate the trade/mfg from everything else. city can go to shit (from traffic) but at least i can rake in money from exports.


Trade is fun and all, but I'm trying to make a city without trade. I also discovered another bug, after I bulldozed my city earlier, the services like garbage, recycling, fire, police and hospital no longer dispatch vehicles. So my city is essentially without services despite having all the right buildings.
This road isn't leading anywhere...
woody60707
Profile Joined November 2010
United States1863 Posts
April 02 2013 01:07 GMT
#1469
Traffic management is a big part of the game that they really don't help on you much on. And there is a visitor bug that can kill traffic in your city unless you are VERY PROACTIVE about it. I post a youtube video on traffic, and there are better one out there.
noD
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
2230 Posts
April 02 2013 03:03 GMT
#1470
So a city I invested around 1mi to do mineration and stuff was simply deleted because server couldn't sync ...
just great ....
Jockmcplop
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom9675 Posts
April 02 2013 03:25 GMT
#1471
I'm still waiting for all of the apparently infuriating bugs to be removed from this game so i can buy it.
RIP Meatloaf <3
jinorazi
Profile Joined October 2004
Korea (South)4948 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-02 05:37:48
April 02 2013 04:09 GMT
#1472
@#$%

i bulldozed everything, did all my road layout(took awhile), was filling in zones then screen goes black and intro plays. click resume and everything is back to way it was T.T

must be a bug. i got 50k workers commuting in but only 3k jobs.
age: 84 | location: california | sex: 잘함
noD
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
2230 Posts
April 02 2013 12:53 GMT
#1473
I sent resources between my cities 3 days ago
Still havent received anything -.-
Abraxas514
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada475 Posts
April 02 2013 15:14 GMT
#1474
On April 02 2013 09:24 Tdelamay wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 02 2013 07:19 jinorazi wrote:
On April 02 2013 06:11 Tdelamay wrote:
Alright, so I built a very nice city that was booming in population. It was growing over the 100k pop. Everything was going fine when I left it. There was no issues with fires, waste or traffic. When I came back and the rest of the region was built up with other cities, my streets became clogged!

My waste trucks were stuck, my firetruck were stuck, everything was stuck! The city became derelic in a matter of minutes because of the traffic. My income went from 20k/hour to -3k/hour. I removed 90% of my industry and commercial zoning and left it running for a while. The pop went up to 300k and my income to 6k/hour, but there was still monster jams of people going nowhere in particular.

It got me pissed. I bulldozed the whole city and rebuilt everything on a single wiggly line. If I can't control traffic, I might at least have fun with this silly game.


the traffic does suck. only thing i can do is isolate the trade/mfg from everything else. city can go to shit (from traffic) but at least i can rake in money from exports.


Trade is fun and all, but I'm trying to make a city without trade. I also discovered another bug, after I bulldozed my city earlier, the services like garbage, recycling, fire, police and hospital no longer dispatch vehicles. So my city is essentially without services despite having all the right buildings.


This, along with the infinite visitor, and trade problems, should be fixed in 2.0, along with cheetah speed, sometime this week.

I hope.
Fear is the mind killer
revy
Profile Joined September 2009
United States1524 Posts
April 02 2013 16:25 GMT
#1475
On April 02 2013 21:53 noD wrote:
I sent resources between my cities 3 days ago
Still havent received anything -.-


They'll make it eventually.

My story so far:

Been playing a region with my wife. I made a pretty river city first (no trade), was the first city so I wasn't terribly smart about things. Ended up with most of my sims commuting to one of her cities for education, my sims became very smart, so I plop down a nuke plant and things work great. I leave that city and go off and found a disgusting dirty industrial alloy+metal city that rakes in money. I played it for a long while, made a ton of money, sent some $ gifts to my wife's cities. Decided to go back to my original city.

Load up my original city and all of a sudden my people couldn't go to school in the region anymore (I think my wife played the city where they were all going and the schools got filled up). I wasn't really paying attention -- well that was until my nuke plant blew up, right in the heart of my river city (river cities don't have that much room since maps are small and rivers are big!). So the city began collapsing in on itself and losing tons of money, so I loaded up my rich city.

Set my rich city to make a ton of money, sent about $1.5M in gifts to my original city (after you send the gift you have to wait in that city for ~5 minutes until you see the "gift sent to such and such" pop up on the top of the screen). Then loaded up my original city.

I played the city for a good while waiting for the gifts, but they never came. My bank account hit zero, and I had to turn off some services (don't need healthcare for nuclear fallout, right?). Flipped back over to the rich trade city.

Sat in the rich trade city and saved up another $1.6M in gifts, sent them along to my poor nuclear wasteland.

Went back to the wasteland city. Crime was horrific, everyone was commuting everywhere else which jammed up the entrance to the city, everyone was sick and dying. Interestingly I still had a fair number of tourists (Is Chernobyl really a tourist trap?). Finally the $1.6M gift arrives (mind you this was the second gift arriving before the first!), which gives me enough working capital to start restructuring.

I've played intermittently and one of the last times I was playing my nuclear wasteland all of a sudden the $1.5M gift showed up. With $3M in the bank I have enough to stabilize the city while I wait for the fallout to dissipate. It's been interesting to see the effects of this on the region. Because the city ran without police for so long, there were so many criminals roving about that the region has had terrible crime problems

Aside from the bugs (of which there have been plenty) it's been kind of interesting to play a region and see the interaction between cities. I would say that I can see some promise in Sim City 5, if they would get rid of the bugs and the more frustrating limitations (city size! regional traffic!).
skyR
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada13817 Posts
April 02 2013 16:30 GMT
#1476
What they need to do is change the highway exit ramp to two lanes -.-
jinorazi
Profile Joined October 2004
Korea (South)4948 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-02 17:47:31
April 02 2013 17:46 GMT
#1477
alright, i think i realized that i do not need industrial if i'm specializing because i have 3x jobs than my population can dish out.

i was trying to have all RCI to make everyone happy, limiting flow of people going from city to city but i'll be removing all my industrial as it seems i dont need them. plus my people wont stay educated....my community college is getting 47 students and my university is closed because i didnt place a dept. of ed. after restart.

after bulldozing and rebuliding, i had a huge traffic problem (50,000 commuters for no reason from restart) but after fixing the layout a bit, the traffic flow is pristine.

huge thing that helped is medium density road and high density avenue intersection does not have traffic light and does not hold down traffic.

as for not getting students, i think it has to do with "not enough teachers". do i build $ or $$$ zones for teachers/professors?
there is high demand for $$$ residential
age: 84 | location: california | sex: 잘함
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
April 02 2013 17:47 GMT
#1478
On April 03 2013 02:46 jinorazi wrote:
alright, i think i realized that i do not need industrial if i'm specializing because i have 3x jobs than my population can dish out.

i was trying to have all RCI to make everyone happy, limiting flow of people going from city to city but i'll be removing all my industrial as it seems i dont need them. plus my people wont stay educated....my community college is getting 47 students and my university is closed because i didnt place a dept. of ed. after restart.

after bulldozing and rebuliding, i had a huge traffic problem (50,000 commuters for no reason from restart) but after fixing the layout a bit, the traffic flow is pristine.

huge thing that helped, medium density road and high density avenue intersection does not have traffic light and does not hold down traffic.

as for not getting students, i think it has to do with "not enough teachers". do i build $ or $$$ zones for teachers/professors?
there is high demand for $$$ residential

RCI is crap, i click at the population to see the unsold goods, unemployment and unfulfilled jobs

Which is better because you can also tell if jobs are low medium or high wealth etc.
jinorazi
Profile Joined October 2004
Korea (South)4948 Posts
April 02 2013 17:53 GMT
#1479
On April 03 2013 02:47 semantics wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 03 2013 02:46 jinorazi wrote:
alright, i think i realized that i do not need industrial if i'm specializing because i have 3x jobs than my population can dish out.

i was trying to have all RCI to make everyone happy, limiting flow of people going from city to city but i'll be removing all my industrial as it seems i dont need them. plus my people wont stay educated....my community college is getting 47 students and my university is closed because i didnt place a dept. of ed. after restart.

after bulldozing and rebuliding, i had a huge traffic problem (50,000 commuters for no reason from restart) but after fixing the layout a bit, the traffic flow is pristine.

huge thing that helped, medium density road and high density avenue intersection does not have traffic light and does not hold down traffic.

as for not getting students, i think it has to do with "not enough teachers". do i build $ or $$$ zones for teachers/professors?
there is high demand for $$$ residential

RCI is crap, i click at the population to see the unsold goods, unemployment and unfulfilled jobs

Which is better because you can also tell if jobs are low medium or high wealth etc.


yeah, i started looking into the population tab more, thats when i realized i dont need industrial because i just have too much jobs. if i try to turn $$ to $$$ to fill in $$$ jobs, $$ workers go down a lot, same story for $. so i think i need to bulldoze all my work commercial/industry and place them as needed.
age: 84 | location: california | sex: 잘함
Orcasgt24
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada3238 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-02 22:39:14
April 02 2013 21:51 GMT
#1480
So I decided to try and make a pretty little riverside town that would be highly educated and high wealth. The land had shitty wind so I took advantage of the coal deposit (had Oil too but in bad spots), and made a coal mine and coal power plant to use untill I could afford and safely use the nuke plant. Everything is friggin expencive so i exported coal and built a casino to help fund my town. Ploped a school, maxed it out, ploped a high school, maxed it out, ploped a community collage, had to add an extention wing! I coulda built the university right away but didn't have anywhere to put it. Made a location for it. Ploped it.

I reallly wanna get an upgrade for it. The school of science would be nice (I wanna research the nuke plant upgrades). But the layout of my town basiclly has me totally handicapped for growth (stuck at 39k). I guess these kinds of cities need the aracology or other cities in the region). I think I am going to start a new city and get a recycling center asap.

I would like to make a city in a region with other players but because EA turned off the filters finding open spots in regions is damn impossible. If any TLers would like to invite me to their region (Orcasgt22 on origin) that would be cool. Or I could make a private one and invite you guys


Oh they released a new item to DL from origin. Its a Nissan Leaf charging station. Its free to DL and provides happiness to the entire city. 5k to build and can make 5 of them. No power, sewage,water or pollution is generated by it. Adding it acctually reduces air pollution from cars because Sims will be driving the Leafs instead. Up keep is 100 and its absolutly worth it to plop 5 of these in your city at various locations.
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