Sim City (5)

Krispwee · Mar 13, 2013

Got it last night and did the tutorial. Tonight I got home from work at 7 and I have had to force myself to stop playing it and go to bed. Only gripe for me so far is the cities need to be bigger, I have around 90k citizens but have no space to create more residential zones. How do I go about increasing the current capacity with larger buildings quicker? (I've never played a SimCity game before

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Laine_16v · Mar 13, 2013

This game is consuming every available moment of my life, and i still dont really know how to play it 'properly' lol

Nickson · Mar 13, 2013

Krispwee said:
Got it last night and did the tutorial. Tonight I got home from work at 7 and I have had to force myself to stop playing it and go to bed. Only gripe for me so far is the cities need to be bigger, I have around 90k citizens but have no space to create more residential zones. How do I go about increasing the current capacity with larger buildings quicker? (I've never played a SimCity game before )

I found this, but just let it run.

Ignore the demand for residential etc etc. Just leave it.

I would upgrade the roads as much as you possibly can though.

Houses will start turning into apartment buildings, then tower blocks etc etc. The density will increase and so will your population.

Managed to get a pop of over 200k with a lot of space left on the map!

Alex H · Mar 13, 2013

Taking me quite a bit of time to properly get into, sunk about 5 hours in today. Guess I played SC4 pretty much for the last 9 years so knew all the tricks and how to play the game.

tonksy26 · Mar 13, 2013

Struggling to get over 60k people in my full city now.

Also is there a big with the recycling plant. It soon got full but cnt find a way to empty it or sell it off or what ever. Any1 know what I'm missing or doing wrong ?

The whole protest about germs doesn't seem to go away at all.

Longy · Mar 13, 2013

tonksy26 said:
Struggling to get over 60k people in my full city now.

Also is there a big with the recycling plant. It soon got full but cnt find a way to empty it or sell it off or what ever. Any1 know what I'm missing or doing wrong ?

The whole protest about germs doesn't seem to go away at all.

Set up a Trade Depot

tonksy26 · Mar 13, 2013

Longy said:
Set up a Trade Depot

Without sounding stupid. How do I do that ?

Longy · Mar 14, 2013

Click "City Specialization" Button on the bottom left corner - then trading - then Trade Depot

Gareth · Mar 14, 2013

Here's a couple of mine, it was just over 200,000 but it's becoming a struggle to maintain.

Scott™ · Mar 14, 2013

I am being consumed by this game.

It is brilliant.

But in my opinion it restricts creativity massively simply because the city sizes are far too small. It pretty much encourages you to have square cities as you have to maximise space.

Sargara · Mar 14, 2013

What is up with the traffic system in this game? My city only has 70k population and its total gridlock 24/7 with cars queueing out of the zone day and night. I have a ferry, i have a maxed bus terminal, i have a maxed streetcar terminal going down the avenues. Nothing helps.
And now its making this worse as the firetrucks cant reach fires due to getting snarled up in traffic constantly.

And no i havent been a r****d with planning the road system. I have a sort of "+" design in the middle of the map with long uninterupted streetcar avenues.

Addicted · Mar 14, 2013

Wider roads?

Not sure, I really want this game, f**k you EA.

SilverSun · Mar 14, 2013

I really need this game.

I'm running Windows 7 via Parallels on a MBPR, can anyone confirm its going to run smoothly or should I just wait for the Mac version.

DanFreemanPhoto · Mar 14, 2013

I ran it via parallels at first. Didn't run very well.

Much smoother via bootcamp. No glitches at all, or crashes.

JustinS · Mar 14, 2013

Them screenshots look awesome!!!
The size of that city though and the borders you can build in looks rubbish!!

Part of Sim City 4 i used to love is having large areas so you could have industrial, residential and things like waste quite far apart!!

Cookie · Mar 14, 2013

Stadium or Expo centre = license to print money. One of my bigger cities has an expo centre.

iain187 · Mar 14, 2013

I finally got on the right server if I could get at invite when you have a chance ukaskew

Gareth · Mar 14, 2013

Cookie said:
Stadium or Expo centre = license to print money. One of my bigger cities has an expo centre.

My smaller 2nd city has just got an Expo, but it's right in the middle of the industrial area, lol.

Longy · Mar 14, 2013

It didn't take long did it

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/modder-proves-simcity-can-run-offline-indefinitely-20130314/

Cookie · Mar 14, 2013

Longy said:
It didn't take long did it

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/modder-proves-simcity-can-run-offline-indefinitely-20130314/

Completely ruined for me now

EA/Maxis need to sort it out so that everyone can do that.

Addicted · Mar 14, 2013

It's not finished yet though, you can play offline forever, but no ability to save at the moment.

For all you Developers out there, the code is in JAVASCRIPT - yes, Javascript LOL.

And if you understand any math at all, look at this: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1a9t0e/simcity_modder_removes_always_online_forced/c8vf343

Basically proving that Population Numbers in cities are completely fabricated! (or fudged as the function suggests)

Aluco · Mar 14, 2013

As soon as there's a pirate version available where you can save and play offline I'm getting it. I wonder if you could just change the code to save online to a personal server instead of ea's. That could bypass the authentication crap stopping people pirating it.

ukaskew · Mar 14, 2013

Scott™ said:
I am being consumed by this game.

It is brilliant.

But in my opinion it restricts creativity massively simply because the city sizes are far too small. It pretty much encourages you to have square cities as you have to maximise space.

Your city has saved mine a few times today, I was pretty much bankrupt when my sewage system clogged up, so I bought some capacity from you (and power and water briefly!)

Scott™ · Mar 14, 2013

ukaskew said:
Your city has saved mine a few times today, I was pretty much bankrupt when my sewage system clogged up, so I bought some capacity from you (and power and water briefly!)

Yea I've been taking water from you all day haha. It is pretty cool. Your city is doing well mate. Pretty big.

Gorms · Mar 14, 2013

Can i get an invite to the server please guys.

Gorms1981

Scott™ · Mar 14, 2013

I keep getting factories close saying not enough places to ship. What am I doing wrong?

Gorms · Mar 14, 2013

Scott™ said:
I keep getting factories close saying not enough places to ship. What am I doing wrong?

I had a similar thing but this was fixed when i added other transport options airport, shipping port etc..

Gareth · Mar 14, 2013

Can I get an invite to the CS region also ( garethcamp ), if I need to do anything just let me know

Alex H · Mar 14, 2013

I'm originfriends with you now Chris, could I also get an invite to the CS region if there's a spot? rednax86 on origin. Cheers

ukaskew · Mar 14, 2013

Anyone who wants a spot needs to access Euro West 5 and at the very least open and close the tutorial. I can't ping an invite into the region over until you've done that. I will be on tomorrow afternoon so I will catch up with the recent requests then.

As there doesn't appear to be loads of us you are welcome to 2 city plots each.

Scott™ · Mar 14, 2013

Haha oops

Gareth · Mar 14, 2013

ukaskew said:
Anyone who wants a spot needs to access Euro West 5 and at the very least open and close the tutorial. I can't ping an invite into the region over until you've done that. I will be on tomorrow afternoon so I will catch up with the recent requests then.

As there doesn't appear to be loads of us you are welcome to 2 city plots each.

I've sent a request and logged onto Europe West 5, cheers.

Scott™ · Mar 14, 2013

craig2206 · Mar 14, 2013

ukaskew said:
Anyone who wants a spot needs to access Euro West 5 and at the very least open and close the tutorial. I can't ping an invite into the region over until you've done that. I will be on tomorrow afternoon so I will catch up with the recent requests then.

As there doesn't appear to be loads of us you are welcome to 2 city plots each.

I have accessed Europe West 5 and opened and closed the tutorial. Please send an invite, my origin user name is craigyash. Thanks.

Adam · Mar 14, 2013

Can you get a bigger City playing in Sandbox mode?

Bux · Mar 14, 2013

Can I get an invite to the region guys? TBuxton

Trying to actually load the game up at the moment but keeps disconnecting saying it cannot connect to the servers

Alex H · Mar 14, 2013

I'm mid-game at the moment and it keeps flashing servers down at me.

Gorms · Mar 14, 2013

i really need an invite too, i have planned my best city yet!

Gorms1981

ukaskew · Mar 14, 2013

Servers were constantly disconnecting for me tonight (despite appearing to be fine), I managed to invite a couple of people. In my experience it's best to stop playing when the server disconnects, I've lost at least an hours worth of building on more than one occasion when that happens.

If you're not already, send me an Origin friend request (ukaskew37), that will speed things up a bit.

Gorms - I invited you about 2hrs ago, it can be a bit slow/broken though so I will check again tomorrow.

Alex H · Mar 14, 2013

If anyone in the region needs Ore or Coal, I'm mining loads

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