They already said the largest plots will be only as big as a medium map in SC4. And the limits are enforced (IIRC in SC4 you could go beyond the city limits and keep building somehow? been a while).
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I don't know about changing the city size in 4, but I do know that you could get a massive plot of land to have multiple cities, and the game sort of evolves into making multiple specialized cities iteratively.
Ex:
1. Make a balanced city, save it.
2. Remove all the residential areas out of the city, save it.
3. Plot 8 copies of that no-residential city around a new city.
4. Play that city and only have residential cities.
5. Once that city is maxed out, repeat the process by putting 8 of it (Or multiple layers) around a city and only do commercial/industrial in it.
Last time I played SimCity4 this is what I did and I ended up getting a city with 1.6 million people in it.
Ex:
1. Make a balanced city, save it.
2. Remove all the residential areas out of the city, save it.
3. Plot 8 copies of that no-residential city around a new city.
4. Play that city and only have residential cities.
5. Once that city is maxed out, repeat the process by putting 8 of it (Or multiple layers) around a city and only do commercial/industrial in it.
Last time I played SimCity4 this is what I did and I ended up getting a city with 1.6 million people in it.
So, EA have been shutting down online services for a lot of games lately, including ones that aren't that old, and even sims 2 which is still extremely popular. Yet they expect us to have faith in their online-only design... Yeah, no.
Screens look nice. They do have that very clean/sterile feel someone was mentioning before though.
Graphics are mind blowing. I like the clean look because although it doesn't look like real life, it looks like the dream toy city you would think of a child. Like a dolls house but for a town, with little toy cars going about their business etc. Looks great.
My only concern with this game is that it's boring like the previous sim city games. Once you figure things out, it was little more than slapping down the 3 areas and putting service industries in between. Then you sit back and watch it grow and grow and grow and eventually fill the whole map. I would much prefer there to be some extra depth and some ups and downs and challenges. Stuff like recessions and the riots can really spice things up but in previous simcity games they were nothing more than a minor irritation that you waited to blow over and then rebuilt your few houses. I would rather all that stuff be more significant, somehow.
My only concern with this game is that it's boring like the previous sim city games. Once you figure things out, it was little more than slapping down the 3 areas and putting service industries in between. Then you sit back and watch it grow and grow and grow and eventually fill the whole map. I would much prefer there to be some extra depth and some ups and downs and challenges. Stuff like recessions and the riots can really spice things up but in previous simcity games they were nothing more than a minor irritation that you waited to blow over and then rebuilt your few houses. I would rather all that stuff be more significant, somehow.
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They're really trying to amp up the multi-player interdependence aspect.
Can other cities in the same region do anything when their master isn't there but I am at mine, or is it just on pause but providing me with positive and negative modifiers based on its attributes? If he let it pause while a fire raged, and I build a fire station, will my guys go put it out? Is it like the fucking twilight zone where my firemen go in, immediately become paused, and NEVER RETURN? That would be awesome.
I'm curious where the line is on those issues.
Can other cities in the same region do anything when their master isn't there but I am at mine, or is it just on pause but providing me with positive and negative modifiers based on its attributes? If he let it pause while a fire raged, and I build a fire station, will my guys go put it out? Is it like the fucking twilight zone where my firemen go in, immediately become paused, and NEVER RETURN? That would be awesome.
I'm curious where the line is on those issues.