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I totaly screwed my city my streets are all screwed up so my traffic is always backed up. ( though its getting under control now.)
and a built a tower of zu and kept dumping hench men into my town. i was having 200+ criminals a day in my city of 30k. One time i zoomed into my main street, and all i heard was nonstop gunshot. People were leaving my city because "too much death" i had to trash my play grounds and parks because they were full of bad people. and then i got hit with a meteor. which impacted main street.
 
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sethmo said:
I have a few hours into my first city and have found that my road construction has limited me with traffic. It isn't terrible as I built some avenues to go around the city, but I am also running out of room and I only have 37,xxx people! Hopefully other maps/locations are bigger.
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You start to go vertical around the 50-70k mark, and then it goes higher and higher (into proper skyscrapers eventually!). I went from 40k to 102k in a few hours this morning, I'm really enjoying it so far. Not looking forward to doing some re-construction though to trade my high density streets for high density avenues w/street cars : /

Any tips on moving from streets to aves, or is it just a case of pause/bulldoze/build?
 
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I am having a hard time figuring out how to sell my resources, such as power, water, etc, to neighboring cities. Is excess automatically for sell to other cities? What happens if you need to consume more of your own resources? Do the other cities that are buying from you get cut?

I also saw how you could volunteer services such as garbage trucks. The panel made it look like you would get paid for this, but that doesn't exactly sound like volunteering. Do you get paid for this or not?
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The other cities have the option to buy any excess from you. I set it to buy power from someone else and it pulls it from the region whenever needed. Somehow I'm generally powering everyone in the region it seems.

You get paid $100 per truckload for garbage. Not sure on recycling, but I'm making mad cash sending recycling trucks to my neighbors, taking their stuff and selling the plastic/metal/ore. It was over 48,000 per 10 tons of Ore last night and was making six figures daily just from that.
 
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lol. I am stuck on 260k citizens. All my streets are High density streets. I think this game is made to be played with others. Because you will run out of resources and you absolutely need other cities to be viable IMHO since you need them to have tourist and trade. That or you cant spend a lot of time building up many different cities from scratch.
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Playing in a two or three city region would be optimal, I would think. That would allow you to have cities with specializations since it's about impossible to have a 'one-size-fits-all' city. It's intentional but I think adds some flavor to the game.

SimCity->SimTown->SimRegion

Hmm ....
 
Can somebody explain how resources work? Are they really finite so you could run out of water or is it renewable?
 
fdiaz78 said:
Can somebody explain how resources work? Are they really finite so you could run out of water or is it renewable?
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Once in a while you get rain which replenishes the water. If you put your pump near a river/sea, it seems to stay replenished better.

All other resources are gone when they're gone. I put one coal mine near where my supply was just to use it for power. It's almost done though.

As far as renewable resources, you can use the recycling center to make plastic, ore, and metal out of nothing. You can sell it in a trade depot or store it there for intracity consumption if you build something like the processor factory. I generally just sell what I get to make a quick buck.
 
fdiaz78 said:
Can somebody explain how resources work? Are they really finite so you could run out of water or is it renewable?
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You can run out of water unless you are next to a body of water. One trick if you are landlocked is to put your pumping station right next to your sewage treatment plant. Use a filter on your pumping station and now you have as much water as you need.
 
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I recommend holding off. The game is great but the idiots didn't prepare for this kind of mayhem. I've been disconnected for about 30 minutes now after playing for 2 straight hours. The launcher screen isn't even showing any servers available.
 
FMX said:
I recommend holding off. The game is great but the idiots didn't prepare for this kind of mayhem. I've been disconnected for about 30 minutes now after playing for 2 straight hours. The launcher screen isn't even showing any servers available.
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I would hate to be the fall guy/girl of this right now. I can imagine the person hasn't slept in days.
 
Been sitting in the live chat queue for about an hour now. It got down to a 5 minute wait, and then suddenly went back up to a 15 minute wait.

I can't believe it is this hard to get your money back for something purchased less than 24 hours ago.
 
Katalysis said:
Been sitting in the live chat queue for about an hour now. It got down to a 5 minute wait, and then suddenly went back up to a 15 minute wait.

I can't believe it is this hard to get your money back for something purchased less than 24 hours ago.
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you didnt think it would be easy did you?

i hope enough of you return it so i can play without issues tonight. when the servers finally came up it was 11:35 and I work early.
 
It just makes me wonder who is in charge of server administration for these companies. When they sit down and estimate how many users will be on day 1, they need to take that number and DOUBLE it, and make sure you have enough to handle that kind of load.

It boggles my mind that shit like this continues to happen over and over and over. They can't say they didn't expect the load when they have been hyping the shit out of this game with betas and advertisements for months.
 
This is the second major EA release (the first being Crysis 3 (also Syndicate)) that I didn't even know had come out. I literally just looked up the page on GB and went, oh - that came out yesterday. Origin is doing a serious disservice to these games.
 
It's bad enough that many people live without high speed internet, but its flat out pathetic to release an online only game and not have the resources to support it.
 
Got a refund. In EA's defense, after sitting to meet someone on the live chat, they did not fight me on it. I literally said I wanted a refund for Sim City and they gave it to me. Too bad the best experience I had with Sim City was the ease of getting my money back.
 
The ONLY reason I am not buying it for a bit is because of the server/DRM issues. Great game judging from the beta (which also had connection issues), but if you can't play it, it really doesn't matter.

I'm curious as to if the pirates have gotten around the mandatory online DRM 'feature'? I do wonder if all the DRM was really worth it to EA? They seem to have pissed off a LOT of people. Still a ton of sales, which is all they care about. Sales > satisfied customers.

When it hits $30, servers are stable and I can actually play the game when I want to (internet connection or not), then I will buy it. It used to be a day 1 purchase when I first heard about it, saw some videos.
 
Probably, like Diablo 3, this will likely never be cracked because of the server-side dependence on more than just having a connection. I believe pretty much all of the save data is stored on the server, and you can't really control the saves at all.
 
MavericK96 said:
Probably, like Diablo 3, this will likely never be cracked because of the server-side dependence on more than just having a connection. I believe pretty much all of the save data is stored on the server, and you can't really control the saves at all.
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yeah they must be, cause when my city doesn't get synced it rolls back
 
I still can't believe they didn't include an offline game mode or some way to allow to save locally and then sync it to their servers once the connection is back online...
 
TheMadHatterXxX said:
I still can't believe they didn't include an offline game mode or some way to allow to save locally and then sync it to their servers once the connection is back online...
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Yea. The online stuff really isn't a positive thing, as much as EA tries to spin it.

If I want to play on a laptop on the road, or a tablet (Surface) somewhere, I can't. If I want to play at work during lunch, I can't (servers are blocked). If my internet at home goes out (like last week and right now), I can't play. So, I cannot play the game I paid for. It's NOT an online game with single player. If I could play offline for a bit and have it sync to online servers when back online, I could do it. At least I could PLAY the game. But, as it stands, there are times when I would like to, but I just can't play. With no internet connection, SimCity would be the game of choice that I'd go for.

The biggest flaw for them is the deal breaker. Small game flaws I can overlook, as they can be fixed. BIG ones, like not being able to play, I can't overlook. :(

Those people that can play, post some screenshots of your cities. Still fun to look at instead of just bitching that I can't play! :)
 
TheMadHatterXxX said:
I still can't believe they didn't include an offline game mode or some way to allow to save locally and then sync it to their servers once the connection is back online...
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Because they are losing soooo much money to TEH DREADED PIRATES!!!111 :rolleyes:

No, EA, you are losing money because of your insulting business practices.
 
Can't claim a new city.

Sandbox mode is fucked.

Patience is wearing thin.

I might have to go be a fucking adult today.
 
valve1138 said:
Can't claim a new city.

Sandbox mode is fucked.

Patience is wearing thin.

I might have to go be a fucking adult today.
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I was playing fine yesterday using my laptop at work. The minute I got home and started playing, shit went down hill from there.
 
valve1138 said:
Can't claim a new city.

Sandbox mode is fucked.

Patience is wearing thin.

I might have to go be a fucking adult today.
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Get a refund

Laugh at EA's meltdowns

Save hundreds on not buying SimCity DLC (they're going to whore it out like they did the sims).

Win
 
Take a warm meat loaf poo into a brown paper bag (slight holes in it preferably), stick into FedEx box or UPS box depending on preference, ship to EA HQ. Attach succinct yet understandable note stating: Happy Fuck You.

Ship, then sit back and track package to destination.
 
Been playing just fine. I hate the DRM. Absolutely HATE. But the joy of co-op cities with 2 of my friends and my wife wipes my grumpiness away.
 
Wow, just listening to the giant bomb guys and they are confirming all my fears about this game:

  • Too small cities
  • Obvious and easy neighbor trolling
  • Terrible performance even with tiny cities

I've said it before, but this is just sad for the franchise. Too few games are made in the model of Simcity, and this one isn't really helping the situation.
 
I like it so far, and i rather like that you cant build a huge city. though i wouldn't mind having a little bigger city.

the one thing that i think needs to brought fixed is city to city traffic. my friend built a huge amount of residential zoning and he didn't have enough jobs so they all came to work at my city. which already had a traffic problem. this caused a traffic pile up on the highway reaching half way back to his city.

The only way i could reduce traffic was by cutting my link to the highway while i worked on my roads
 
MavericK96 said:
It just makes me wonder who is in charge of server administration for these companies. When they sit down and estimate how many users will be on day 1, they need to take that number and DOUBLE it, and make sure you have enough to handle that kind of load.

It boggles my mind that shit like this continues to happen over and over and over. They can't say they didn't expect the load when they have been hyping the shit out of this game with betas and advertisements for months.
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Are we brothers? I said the same exactly conversation word for word last night to my buddy who was pissed and had the game. I am still waiting for mine in the mail.

But yea they know the preorder amount might as well double it.

And they can contract other companies if their servers can not handle the concurrent connections. Fuck most companies use vendors in the interim.
 
EA says the constant connection is "required" for their social features, however, I see it that they forced the constant connection as DRM then had to find features to support the connection.

Leader boards
Cloud computing
Cloud saves

I don't need nor want any of that.

A solution looking for a problem, if you will.
 
Even without the DRM nonsense, this game has some issues.
- crippling traffic in large cities
- sims refuse to use public transportation
- massive water shortages, regardless of strategy (filtration + sewage plant)
- inexplicable tourism shit (have successful casinos, open another, then all of them hemmorage money. LOL WAT?)

Bugs man, bugs.
 
Tyrsis said:
Even without the DRM nonsense, this game has some issues.
- crippling traffic in large cities
- sims refuse to use public transportation
- massive water shortages, regardless of strategy (filtration + sewage plant)
- inexplicable tourism shit (have successful casinos, open another, then all of them hemmorage money. LOL WAT?)

Bugs man, bugs.
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You mean it's not like that in real life? THEY LIED TO ME. :mad:
 
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