SimCity
- Thread starter Araxen
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Picked it up, had been wanting to get it since release day but held off after seeing the reviews from you all and the lovely story on BBC.
Tuco
I got Tuco'd!
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Yeah it's fine but still buggy. If you want a smooth experience I'd wait until next week, but it's completely playable now. I actually haven't heard of someone being unable to connect yet today, and it's primetime.
Started on one of the fresh EU servers , number 7 i think it was. So far so good , just wish cheetah was enabled,,,maybe later today they will patch that back in.
Nice. That's really similar to what I've been attempting to pull off in sandbox, but I can't get it quite right (traffic being my biggest issue, but other shit like my OCD over the symmetry makes me fuck up, too). How's your traffic in this city?
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Holy fuck this game looks like a piece of shit. SimShitty amirite? Pretty sad what's happened to this franchise.My current city, I really love it.
Be careful if you neglect upgrading an area of residential just almost went bankrupt when i dropped some parks and lost 40k people because of construction
Falstaff
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yeah that happened to me too once.
another thing to be careful about... don't throw down the Willis Tower because it looks cool. It costs like 4k an hour and if you have traffic issues coming into your city then no tourists will show up and the effect is totally negated. That's my experience so far at least.
another thing to be careful about... don't throw down the Willis Tower because it looks cool. It costs like 4k an hour and if you have traffic issues coming into your city then no tourists will show up and the effect is totally negated. That's my experience so far at least.
Springbok
Karen
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You have to really plan out having a "downtown area". I have a Willis Tower and Empire State Building next to each other and both bring in 20k plus. Football stadium though beats em both. Left my city alone while at the gym earlier (seriously, no cheetah speed sucks) and came back at -1.5k per hour... but 6million dollars. When I left I had just over 1.5. Can't get my pop over 150k, but I'm making money hand over fist.
Cad
scientia potentia est
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I have one at 30k people making 7k/hr, seems pretty steady. I got it up to like 4 million bucks, then when I expanded the traffic exploded and the city is basically crashing... going to just build 2 cities in my region instead and see how that goes.
Vandyn
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Is that as big as a city gets because that looks pretty small. Looks like a subdivision, not a city.
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I really can't get over how absolutely terrible this game looks in these shots. Looks like it was made in 2003. Enjoy having a "city" as big as a god damn airport tuco. Must be pretty awesome to have such a vibrant nation of tiny villages separated by vast swaths of unusable space.
Quineloe
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Muligan
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I don't get the negativity... sure, I was mad about no pre-download and the server instability. I was ready for it though, EA teamed up with the realistic state of online gaming management just allowed me to shrug it off (not sure if you guys seen the article regarding MMO'ers talking about the SimCity release).
Anyway, the game looks pretty good. The screenshots don't do it justice. There's a lot of decision making involved in the game. Meaning it's not all about making squares and putting down whatever you want. To be "successful" you have to take into consideration long term planning. You have to consider how much everything will impact your hourly/monthly budget, if you play with friends divide up services, and be map/mineral aware to make the most of your specialization and industry.
The amazon pundits are ridiculous, i'm sick of everyone complaining about DRM. It's absolutely ignorant, I get it but you can't complain IF YOU BUY THE GAME. Boycott it or whatever.
Overall, the game is fun with friends, I do not like that water is finite and space is limited more so than I would like but, it's actually a great sequel. It's not a complete miss and they could easily fix the actual problems of the game itself and I think they will.
On an other note, the school I teach at participates in the "Future City" competition and will be taking part in SimCityEDU next year and integrating SimCity into our business program as a business simulation along with thousands of other schools this coming year.
Anyway, the game looks pretty good. The screenshots don't do it justice. There's a lot of decision making involved in the game. Meaning it's not all about making squares and putting down whatever you want. To be "successful" you have to take into consideration long term planning. You have to consider how much everything will impact your hourly/monthly budget, if you play with friends divide up services, and be map/mineral aware to make the most of your specialization and industry.
The amazon pundits are ridiculous, i'm sick of everyone complaining about DRM. It's absolutely ignorant, I get it but you can't complain IF YOU BUY THE GAME. Boycott it or whatever.
Overall, the game is fun with friends, I do not like that water is finite and space is limited more so than I would like but, it's actually a great sequel. It's not a complete miss and they could easily fix the actual problems of the game itself and I think they will.
On an other note, the school I teach at participates in the "Future City" competition and will be taking part in SimCityEDU next year and integrating SimCity into our business program as a business simulation along with thousands of other schools this coming year.