Redinit
Member
Redinit
Member
Mine is MixolydianAT, if anyone wants to play.
I just added you for if I decide to play this game again.
Just tried to log in this weekend and play my cities, traffic fills up instantly from the traffic caused by my Arcology. Guess I won't be playing for another 6 months when the next patch comes out, would be nice if they would just take the game off the market and refund my money.
paperfist
Diamond Member
Same here, my casinos went from loosing about $64k to making $54k in a 80k city. I haven't noticed any traffic increases, in fact it seems to have died down. I even just built a Expo center and ran a few events and no issues. Of course at the center of my city is train/bus/street cars and a park and ride all connected to the highest density street.
The big thing for me too is buildings, especially commercial go vacant non-stop. It was common for 1 or 2, but now 6-7 at a time is going dark.
Redinit
Member
I agree about the casinos making money and bringing in traffic. My commercial buildings go vacant a lot as well. But for some reason I have tons of fires now bringing down whole rows of industrial buildings down in the same exact spot
maevinj
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- Nov 20, 2004
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In case anybody is interested there's a new update coming out
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9437292.page#28136320
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9437292.page#28136320
tdawg
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- May 18, 2001
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Wyndru
Diamond Member
- Apr 9, 2009
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You mean your only fans? I doubt there have been too many sales for this game since release.And this:
If that's not a red flag that they still aren't sure how their servers will handle the load...
Once again, it sounds like they will take a minimal approach on this release. Hope it doesn't blow up in their faces again.
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Newbian
Lifer
- Aug 24, 2008
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SpatiallyAware
Lifer
- Sep 7, 2009
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Nintendesert
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- Mar 28, 2010
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maevinj
Senior member
- Nov 20, 2004
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Don't buy it. It's just a flashier facebook game. Might as well play cityville or whatever other "city" building games they have on Facebook.
I built a city that specializes in gambling but my crime rate is low and I barely have homes that are on fire in residential areas because almost all my sims are educated. I have University, high school and grade school and I made sure I have school bus stop in my residential areas, even in my downtown area that has condominiums.
And since my sims are educated they recycle their garbage. I bought a Recycling Depot and made sure I had enough recycling trucks to pick the recyclables from my residential areas. I made a huge profit out of it because it produces plastic and alloy that I exported in my Trade Depot.
As my city grows, I noticed that some of my casinos are losing money. Even if I tried to meet the demands of low, medium and high income. I had to temporarily close the casinos that are losing money until I figure out a away and left the ones that are doing well, open.
With that problem, I had to resort to a different source of income because the rest of my casino could lose some money anytime too. It's always good to have few source of income in your city.
Since my sims recycle and my city produces a lot of alloy and plastic from my recycling depot, I built a Processor Factory and made big profit because I did not have to import plastic and alloy. I set the factory so it accepts local deliveries only. I did not have to constantly meet its demands because it is not my only source of income but my Recycling Depot seems to deliver right away when the demand is high.
I also noticed the factories in my Industrial zone kept closing because it did not have workers but my city is already all zoned and I have 100k educated population. I couldn't figure it out for a while, but then I realized when I played sims 3, when my sims are 15 mins late ( in game time), they are considered to have missed work and if it happens 3 consecutive times, they get fired. Hence, losing workers from factories or work places.
One of the reason I figured why my Sims would get late to work is the traffic! I fixed my roads and made sure there is another route from residential area to industrial besides going the route passing my downtown areas where the heavy traffic is.
Another tip is, when you specializes in Gambling, tourist attractions like the Empire State Building, etc are profitable to have.
And since my sims are educated they recycle their garbage. I bought a Recycling Depot and made sure I had enough recycling trucks to pick the recyclables from my residential areas. I made a huge profit out of it because it produces plastic and alloy that I exported in my Trade Depot.
As my city grows, I noticed that some of my casinos are losing money. Even if I tried to meet the demands of low, medium and high income. I had to temporarily close the casinos that are losing money until I figure out a away and left the ones that are doing well, open.
With that problem, I had to resort to a different source of income because the rest of my casino could lose some money anytime too. It's always good to have few source of income in your city.
Since my sims recycle and my city produces a lot of alloy and plastic from my recycling depot, I built a Processor Factory and made big profit because I did not have to import plastic and alloy. I set the factory so it accepts local deliveries only. I did not have to constantly meet its demands because it is not my only source of income but my Recycling Depot seems to deliver right away when the demand is high.
I also noticed the factories in my Industrial zone kept closing because it did not have workers but my city is already all zoned and I have 100k educated population. I couldn't figure it out for a while, but then I realized when I played sims 3, when my sims are 15 mins late ( in game time), they are considered to have missed work and if it happens 3 consecutive times, they get fired. Hence, losing workers from factories or work places.
One of the reason I figured why my Sims would get late to work is the traffic! I fixed my roads and made sure there is another route from residential area to industrial besides going the route passing my downtown areas where the heavy traffic is.
Another tip is, when you specializes in Gambling, tourist attractions like the Empire State Building, etc are profitable to have.
tdawg
Platinum Member
- May 18, 2001
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Those that actually own/play the game, update 7 looks to bring a fun addition: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/12/simcity-update-7-0-adds-bridges-tunnels-traffic-tune-ups-and-t/
I'm looking forward to trying this out when it goes live
I'm looking forward to trying this out when it goes live
Yep it sure is!
Anyone still play this game? I do. So far got 230 hours of fun out of it. So well worth it.
Still waiting for larger maps though.
Chaptorial
Member
- Feb 7, 2010
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Played a couple of hours worth with update 7 and I can say I'm pleased with the fix they've made in regards to traffic and the behavior of service vehicles. When it comes to garbage collection the "conga line" of garbage trucks is no longer a problem as they each now appear to behave independently and will each concentrate on different blocks instead of all going down the same street at once.
Raising and lowering of streets works well too. I like the direction they're going and I've gotten my money's worth so far with the amount of hours played but I still can't shake the feeling that its been basically a paid beta. One thing is for sure, on max settings and zoomed up close the game really is nice to look at.
Raising and lowering of streets works well too. I like the direction they're going and I've gotten my money's worth so far with the amount of hours played but I still can't shake the feeling that its been basically a paid beta. One thing is for sure, on max settings and zoomed up close the game really is nice to look at.
SpatiallyAware
Lifer
- Sep 7, 2009
- 12,960
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- 0
Still no larger maps...... Not surprising. Too busy adding nissan leafs and other gimmicks to get kick backs.
Have they fixed the population issues? Have they fixed the commerce issues between cities within a region?
I cancelled the charge for the game and uninstalled origin. I wonder if they locked out my account like is rumoured.
SpatiallyAware
Lifer
- Sep 7, 2009
- 12,960
- 3
- 0
Yeah.... Of course... Because it is rampant with major bugs and problems which EA refuses to fix, they're too busy adding nissan leaf charging stations and other embedded ads to be able to create a playable game.
EA ruined this franchise.
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