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Cinge
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Are there houses near ground pollution, is the wind blowing pollution from industrial over residential areas? Is your garbage dump keeping up? Can the ambulances get to people without sitting in traffic forever?Do you have a filtration pump on your water station?
Helldiver
Bronze Knight of the Realm
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For those that wanted to see pics; my current city on West 2, noob.
This region only has three claimable spots. The dude running the game took the one by the beach and the other player took the other good spot. Decided to try my hand on a challenging location that wasn't flat. I forgot the name of this region. Anyhow, the third player didn't get past the bootstrapping phase, she just had some industries a few low wealth urban areas and such. The guy running the region was working his way up until he logged off. A little bit later I guess the power went out at his city because I stopped receiving power at a critical moment (had taken out a bunch of loans, was renovating a major area).
Heads up if you play online with pugs as that happens all the time. New players especially don't anticipate rapid growth draining their utilities. So someone like me on a spot with no water (even with water wells the aquifers still dry up), I ended up getting screwed big time.
If it wasn't for some mad patroleum wells I set up, I'd have gone bankrupt. Anyhow, I think you can see how the main road goes, it's one giant loop. Cost me 250K to repair it when I found out it had a bunch of bottlenecks. Morning rush hour can get a bit backed up, but nothing bad. I haven't figured out how to stay in the positive while running trade industries. Oh and I killed all the buses and bus stations which seemed to have flushed away the big traffic problems.
Right now I'm relying on processors for bucko cash. Sucks I blew like 450k on the big stadium and ended up taking a bath in it (I think it took me at least a year to recover from that).
@Selix If you're doing it from scratch assuming no one is helping you; You want Department of Education, Utilities, and Finance. You want a college as soon as you can get it. Soon as you have a college most if not all of your industries will start going hi-tech. By this time start plotting down Mid-wealth parks all over your urban farms to make them go middle class. Keep several low-class urban farms. The college will educate your sims so your Processor plant (and nuclear plant) are more efficient. I just never plop down a nuclear plant without a univercity on my map. A department of science will help gather a bit more money from all the hi-tech industries that'll suddenly spawn. You could also go finance if you think you'll make more from your commercial sector.
A Department of Utilities helps a lot since you want a water well instead of water towerw, and if possible (after you got the college going) a nuclear power plant. Hi tech industries use a lot of power and water, but your Nuclear plant uses even more water. It's easier if you have a beach/river next to you since it won't dry up. [Edit] To prevent your water facility from drying up, install a filtration tank. Wish I would have known that, lol!
Finance is for the big loan that seems to me better than the 50K or lesser loans (you should be making enough to pay three principals if need be). Also the ability to tax individual wealth classes. This helps since sometimes you want to quickly build up some money so you'll raise taxes on the rich/mid what ever for a few days.
You want a recycling center. Once you build it, max it out (two alloy and two plastic processors) and 16 trucks. Once you do this, reduce your garbage trucks down to about 4 (you want the recyling trucks to pick up most of the garbage). You'll still need a few normal garbage trucks for the regular garbage, but since by this time your sims are educated they don't litter as much. Plop an incenerator at your normal garbage facility if you ended up piling up.
You will want a dedicated trade depot with a just Processor bins. You can share some bins with cargo to keep things cheap early on, but later it's better to have a dedicated trade depot just for processors. The recycling plant will automatically feed your processing plant, make sure you max out the cargo trucks at the recyling place. At the processor plant I just use 2 or 3 since it's kind of slow. The dedicated processor trade depot doens't really need many trucks, 1 is just fine. You can't set how many semi-trucks come to pick up a processor shipment, so no use wasting money on local delivery trucks. At least from what I've seen.
You'll get 67k per load of 1000. I tend to get about 230k per day, but I'm sure folks on here can get a lot more. The operation takes up a lot of space and is expensive to set up, but once you do the game becomes easy mode. hehe
I haven't delved into Electronics yet although I have it unlocked on all my maps. Sadly I usually have no space by the time I get to that point and I like to keep my cities pretty rather than be an Imperial manufactorum.
This region only has three claimable spots. The dude running the game took the one by the beach and the other player took the other good spot. Decided to try my hand on a challenging location that wasn't flat. I forgot the name of this region. Anyhow, the third player didn't get past the bootstrapping phase, she just had some industries a few low wealth urban areas and such. The guy running the region was working his way up until he logged off. A little bit later I guess the power went out at his city because I stopped receiving power at a critical moment (had taken out a bunch of loans, was renovating a major area).
Heads up if you play online with pugs as that happens all the time. New players especially don't anticipate rapid growth draining their utilities. So someone like me on a spot with no water (even with water wells the aquifers still dry up), I ended up getting screwed big time.
If it wasn't for some mad patroleum wells I set up, I'd have gone bankrupt. Anyhow, I think you can see how the main road goes, it's one giant loop. Cost me 250K to repair it when I found out it had a bunch of bottlenecks. Morning rush hour can get a bit backed up, but nothing bad. I haven't figured out how to stay in the positive while running trade industries. Oh and I killed all the buses and bus stations which seemed to have flushed away the big traffic problems.
Right now I'm relying on processors for bucko cash. Sucks I blew like 450k on the big stadium and ended up taking a bath in it (I think it took me at least a year to recover from that).
@Selix If you're doing it from scratch assuming no one is helping you; You want Department of Education, Utilities, and Finance. You want a college as soon as you can get it. Soon as you have a college most if not all of your industries will start going hi-tech. By this time start plotting down Mid-wealth parks all over your urban farms to make them go middle class. Keep several low-class urban farms. The college will educate your sims so your Processor plant (and nuclear plant) are more efficient. I just never plop down a nuclear plant without a univercity on my map. A department of science will help gather a bit more money from all the hi-tech industries that'll suddenly spawn. You could also go finance if you think you'll make more from your commercial sector.
A Department of Utilities helps a lot since you want a water well instead of water towerw, and if possible (after you got the college going) a nuclear power plant. Hi tech industries use a lot of power and water, but your Nuclear plant uses even more water. It's easier if you have a beach/river next to you since it won't dry up. [Edit] To prevent your water facility from drying up, install a filtration tank. Wish I would have known that, lol!
Finance is for the big loan that seems to me better than the 50K or lesser loans (you should be making enough to pay three principals if need be). Also the ability to tax individual wealth classes. This helps since sometimes you want to quickly build up some money so you'll raise taxes on the rich/mid what ever for a few days.
You want a recycling center. Once you build it, max it out (two alloy and two plastic processors) and 16 trucks. Once you do this, reduce your garbage trucks down to about 4 (you want the recyling trucks to pick up most of the garbage). You'll still need a few normal garbage trucks for the regular garbage, but since by this time your sims are educated they don't litter as much. Plop an incenerator at your normal garbage facility if you ended up piling up.
You will want a dedicated trade depot with a just Processor bins. You can share some bins with cargo to keep things cheap early on, but later it's better to have a dedicated trade depot just for processors. The recycling plant will automatically feed your processing plant, make sure you max out the cargo trucks at the recyling place. At the processor plant I just use 2 or 3 since it's kind of slow. The dedicated processor trade depot doens't really need many trucks, 1 is just fine. You can't set how many semi-trucks come to pick up a processor shipment, so no use wasting money on local delivery trucks. At least from what I've seen.
You'll get 67k per load of 1000. I tend to get about 230k per day, but I'm sure folks on here can get a lot more. The operation takes up a lot of space and is expensive to set up, but once you do the game becomes easy mode. hehe
I haven't delved into Electronics yet although I have it unlocked on all my maps. Sadly I usually have no space by the time I get to that point and I like to keep my cities pretty rather than be an Imperial manufactorum.
Cinge
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Helldiver, put the water pump station right next to the water treatment plant, put a filtration pump on it and it will last forever. The water treatment plant pumps "clean" water back into the ground and then the pump takes it right back out. Put both right on a high water area.
Helldiver
Bronze Knight of the Realm
- 228
- 3
/faceplam
well now I know... I feel stupid. The entire time I thought that thing was the same as a normal one but filtered dirty water instead...
Finally I can remove all those ugly emergency water towers throughout my cities.
Yeah i run into this a lot as well. Just need clinics in your major areas of wealth and also education helps on that , also garbage/sewage need to be taken care of. But sometimes it just likes to not work it seems. But it all boils down to good traffic flow , making sure your ambulances get to the people in time and treat them. So a lot factors in , i keep trying to make a perfect city and i always have something starting to fuck up. Annoying really...dunno if its me or the system bugging out.
Leadsalad
Cis-XYite-Nationalist
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So some slightly more investigative people are figuring out that there's a sim issue when it comes to population/density/workershttp://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9347991.pageseems like it's what happens to me as well. Endless residential requests and as your pop grows and your businesses grow, you begin to fail to fill jobs that you previously had no issue filling when in low density.
Is there anyway to zoom super far out? Was going to upload a picture but it seems I may have to take multiple.
Djay
Trakanon Raider
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- 393
Probably need to throw down some high-value parks to raise land value in residential.
Helldiver
Bronze Knight of the Realm
- 228
- 3
crap, I just went through that ordeal, lost about 500k, ended up heavily in debt and had to spend another 200k fixing my city back up again after removing it. I think in total I lost about 700-800k when I add in the avenue restructures and all the buildings I cleared for both the mass transit, the crapy streetcars and everything else. Only to lose 37-50k per event. Glad I tried it though.
Airports are a nightmare to do alone if you haven't prepared. Sucks that none of the people in my region log in anymore. Think I'll just start over somewhere else now that I know more about the game, won't make the same mistakes. I started with tons of oil, but sadly didn't get enough money to start the the thing until way later, by now my wells are almost dry (about 6k barrels per day). I got like 30K of 250K barrels to go
Education is sucking up a lot of my funds. Stripped the college of all the dormatories and just left the two departments I'm taking bonuses from. I shut down the baseball stadium and soccer field at the high school and cut down on the number of school buses. Still education is bleeding me dry. I don't even have a primary open. I know I make about 250k per day but it still feels bad to see the -6-7K trickle each hour, it's like I'm being fined.
Selix
Lord Nagafen Raider
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- 4
This may be facepalm worthy but what/where are these things? "Water well, water filtration on pumps, water treatment" I have found water towers and sewage treatment plants and when I click on them there are upgrade options for the sewage treatment plant but I have never seen an upgrade option for water towers. When I add a department of utilities I still don't see a water pump, water cleaning or upgrade options for water towers etc.
Here you go Zehn. Did this last week. I think you can actually set different names for each game, but can't remember if that is in the same place :
https://help.ea.com/uk/article/change-your-origin-id
Few random asides from the player guide:
High wealth tourists from the region will only travel to and from your city by plane and around your city by limo/taxi/walking.
Medium wealth to/from city by boat/train and around city by walk/bus/taxi.
Low wealth to/from by bus/car and around city by walk/bus/taxi.
So if you want high spending tourists (gamblers/events/great works etc) you need an airport.
Trucks (from mines etc) can be dispatched to specific points in the city (fucked if I can figure out how - possible this function didn't make release and that's why the system is fucking up ?). By default trucks go to the closest sink (factory/power plant etc)
Criminals can 'level up'.
Sickness can be caused by random events, garbage/recycling not being collected and pollution. Educated sims are less likely to get ill or start fires and will recycle more (up to 100% recyling).
Residential buildings near schools increase in education level over time. A lack of schools causes decrease. The education level determines the tech level of industrial buildings. New citizens enter the box with an education level that matches their residential building.
Unhappy Sims abandon their houses. Homeless people will take up residency in parks. This stops/reduces the number of people benefiting from parks. Homeless people in the city makes high wealth people very unhappy.
Most signs you can place in front of buildings give no practical benefit, but signs in front of casinos attract more people and increase capacity.
For Mining etc you need a (Metals) HQ to compete on leaderboards (arff).
https://help.ea.com/uk/article/change-your-origin-id
Few random asides from the player guide:
High wealth tourists from the region will only travel to and from your city by plane and around your city by limo/taxi/walking.
Medium wealth to/from city by boat/train and around city by walk/bus/taxi.
Low wealth to/from by bus/car and around city by walk/bus/taxi.
So if you want high spending tourists (gamblers/events/great works etc) you need an airport.
Trucks (from mines etc) can be dispatched to specific points in the city (fucked if I can figure out how - possible this function didn't make release and that's why the system is fucking up ?). By default trucks go to the closest sink (factory/power plant etc)
Criminals can 'level up'.
Sickness can be caused by random events, garbage/recycling not being collected and pollution. Educated sims are less likely to get ill or start fires and will recycle more (up to 100% recyling).
Residential buildings near schools increase in education level over time. A lack of schools causes decrease. The education level determines the tech level of industrial buildings. New citizens enter the box with an education level that matches their residential building.
Unhappy Sims abandon their houses. Homeless people will take up residency in parks. This stops/reduces the number of people benefiting from parks. Homeless people in the city makes high wealth people very unhappy.
Most signs you can place in front of buildings give no practical benefit, but signs in front of casinos attract more people and increase capacity.
For Mining etc you need a (Metals) HQ to compete on leaderboards (arff).
Falstaff
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
- 8,559
- 3,570
Based purely on anecdotal evidence and reading this thread, I think anything that has to deal with tourism is broken right now
Joeboo
Molten Core Raider
- 8,157
- 140
Are games actually saving yet? Played the first night, and nothing saved when I logged on the next day. Couldn't log on the 2nd night, and then started over the third night, played for like 8 hours, and once again my city/region was gone the next day(all private games with private invites sent to two other friends)
Haven't touched the game since. Anyone else still seeing these problems? Not a big fan of wasting hours if my shit isn't going to be there the next day.
Haven't touched the game since. Anyone else still seeing these problems? Not a big fan of wasting hours if my shit isn't going to be there the next day.
Its been 100% playable all weekend in terms of playing cities still feels like all the region stuff is bugged to hell. Has anyone noticed that during peak traffic hours if you click on cars half of them say just passing through which seems like its fucking traffic even more.