SIM City 5 - Actual Strategy Discussion

[lupi]

didn't really get a thrill out of the driving missions, and because my general dislike of regions I still somewhat prefer 3 to 4.

 

[MrSquished]

i also have a private region that needs some good players. America East 4 is the server. Falafelist is my in game name if you want an invite.

 

[dagamer34]

i also have a private region that needs some good players. America East 4 is the server. Falafelist is my in game name if you want an invite.

Invite sent.

 

[dagamer34]

Patch 1.7 is out with supposedly some traffic updates: https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-patch-notes

 

[KentState]

Curious to see if my traffic is better.

 

[Cappuccino]

Got this game today, hope it's worth the purchase.

 

[pcslookout]

Got this game today, hope it's worth the purchase.

It is.

 

[blurredvision]

Curious to see if my traffic is better.

The patch notes state that emergency vehicles will use empty lanes but I haven't seen this happen yet. This is only based on being in-game for about 10 minutes after updating, however.

 

[pcslookout]

Got my free game!

 

[pcslookout]

I like the way this person did their roads.

 

[BrightCandle]

Where did that road layout come from/got anything more? The key to understanding what has been done I feel lies outside the pictures given, because its kind of important to know how the res zones are attached to the central road.

 

[ArchAngel777]

I'd really like to get this game, but I didn't like how complicated Sim City 4 became. I remember doing everything right in that game, but someone was always whining. By the time I met everyone's needs half of my city was utility/park/entertainment, etc... Then of course, I could not afford it. But the worst part is, I didn't get any skyscapers, ever. Despite the super high properly values I created. But now I read about a bug you guys posted here in this thread and it all makes sense. I wish I knew about it...

Anyhow, if this goes on sale, I'll problably pick it up.

 

[lupi]

that looks like crap.

 

[pwoz]

So it seems that sims do not progress through the grades in education. You can have full education/attendance with only a university. You can save some money on additional schools by deleting them after you have a university.

The only thing I am not sure about is if the passive benefits of kids in schools (lower crime, etc) are tied to the elementary/high school building itself, or just how much of your population is educated.

 

[MrSquished]

a few of you added me as friends. i've sent a couple of invites to TWL Political Geniuses when i am logged onto America East 4 and see your names on there.

 

[KentState]

Where did that road layout come from/got anything more? The key to understanding what has been done I feel lies outside the pictures given, because its kind of important to know how the res zones are attached to the central road.

It's a low population for needing anything more than T-intersections with high density roads. Would really like to see the advantage it has at 400k compared to my poorly designed city.

 

[bonkers325]

So it seems that sims do not progress through the grades in education. You can have full education/attendance with only a university. You can save some money on additional schools by deleting them after you have a university.

The only thing I am not sure about is if the passive benefits of kids in schools (lower crime, etc) are tied to the elementary/high school building itself, or just how much of your population is educated.

you need schools for coverage and the actual capacity to educate your sims. i bulldozed all of my schools last night and woke up to an uneducated city. half of my population was gone and i was bleeding $30k per hour.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

you need schools for coverage and the actual capacity to educate your sims. i bulldozed all of my schools last night and woke up to an uneducated city. half of my population was gone and i was bleeding $30k per hour.

Dang... So you loaded up your save from the night before... oh.... nm

 

[blurredvision]

I'm a slow player and just on my second city. At around 90k with my first one but started a second in a larger region with my brother and finally just hit 100k last night. I'm struggling to find an identity at the moment. I'm doing fine, over $700k in the bank and average probably $8k/hour (fluctuates wildly). However, I'm educating most of my sims because I don't want to deal with the crime, but this is hurting my industrial business, as they have no workers. I have quite a bit of low-income industrial for the sole fact that I picked an oil plot and figured they kinda of went hand-in-hand.

What would you guys recommend as a new direction? I still want to drill oil and still have a large portion of my plot empty so I don't have to bulldoze building when I want to build more oil pumps.

 

[blurredvision]

Dang... So you loaded up your save from the night before... oh.... nm

Get out of here with that crap.

 

[pwoz]

you need schools for coverage and the actual capacity to educate your sims. i bulldozed all of my schools last night and woke up to an uneducated city. half of my population was gone and i was bleeding $30k per hour.

Yes, you do need enough room to educate everyone, but university's provide full coverage since sims can use mass transit to get to them.

That being said, running overnight it's also entirely possible you had zombies or something else eat/destroy your population. My cities are running fine with only a university.

 

[bonkers325]

Yes, you do need enough room to educate everyone, but university's provide full coverage since sims can use mass transit to get to them.

That being said, running overnight it's also entirely possible you had zombies or something else eat/destroy your population. My cities are running fine with only a university.

that's possible. my city is in a bad shape though because this was my first city and i did a whole bunch of things wrong. i woke up with half of my city on fire and huge traffic problems because my fire trucks were stuck at some point in the night.

i have 2.5 mil banked so i think i'll just bulldoze all my non-essential structures and just re-pave with streetcar avenues.

 

[redrider4life4]

I'm a slow player and just on my second city. At around 90k with my first one but started a second in a larger region with my brother and finally just hit 100k last night. I'm struggling to find an identity at the moment. I'm doing fine, over $700k in the bank and average probably $8k/hour (fluctuates wildly). However, I'm educating most of my sims because I don't want to deal with the crime, but this is hurting my industrial business, as they have no workers. I have quite a bit of low-income industrial for the sole fact that I picked an oil plot and figured they kinda of went hand-in-hand.

What would you guys recommend as a new direction? I still want to drill oil and still have a large portion of my plot empty so I don't have to bulldoze building when I want to build more oil pumps.

To be honest, I kept my city around 100k population while drilling oil, I used my oil to level up my trade/electronics trading to make tvs. Once you are making TVs it is gg, I have only 3 tv factories, make 3 million per day (100m in the bank right now).

If you want to keep your current city, you need to build a college somewhat close to your industrial buildlings and they will upgrade their tech level and then no longer need low wealth workers.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

Have they fixed the region issues? IE can you have an oil city, ore city, then send those resources over to a tv city?

 

[silverpig]

Man, I want to play this but:

1. Need an OSX version
2. Will wait until city size is larger
3. Will wait until subways and trains make it in