[Megathread] SimCity 5

[Deleted]

There's a city on eu west 6 whose main export is criminals -_-

ahahaha, which city is this?

[Valeron]

haha, probably is mine. I made the Vu tower or whatever it is.

[Deleted]

by the way, in EU west6, my city has a lot of jobs going with low population, send your unemployed to me! (preferably skilled workers), i also have all the schools necassary to train your unskilled workers! just send me people! my work force sucks

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haha, probably is mine. I made the Vu tower or whatever it is.

how do you see what people are exporting anyway?

it cant be a city near me, my crime is very low.

[Jofe]

I have my jail full of criminals from washtub fields, It's a pain, every 10 seconds theres a msg X type of criminal from washtub fields is doing x on Doomsville. Had to place an extra jail because the default one was full and that one is getting full too. There's a factory that says "We keep losing workers. They're dying!" because every hour someone from there comes and murders them -_-¡

[Deleted]

I have my jail full of criminals from washtub fields, It's a pain, every 10 seconds theres a msg X type of criminal from washtub fields is doing x on Doomsville. Had to place an extra jail because the default one was full and that one is getting full too.

lol, on eu west 2 that kept happening to me! a city near me kept sending me criminals and arsonists!

[Valeron]

how do you see what people are exporting anyway?

it cant be a city near me, my crime is very low.

I'm not sure to be honest. All I know is that once I made the tower, and I had a henchmen go out then all of my crime skyrocketed. I have a ferry and train connected to my city so I'm assuming it easy for them to leave my city to go elsewhere.

But on the flip side, all of my industry is high tech as a consequence of the tower.

Edit: Ha, yeah washtub fields is my city. Sorry about all of the crime ;-p

[Deleted]

just a note, there is still quite a few unclaimed cities on Euwest6 mmo-c region.

[-aiko-]

Very sorry for taking so long to accept some friend requests. I wish SimCity would give you a popup notification or play a sound or something.

Anyways so EU West 6 is booming. Very active! Just about full, too. xD My city there is faring pretty well, I make about 150k a day on the expo events + my coal/metal shipments. I'm just shy of $1,000,000 and am considering adding something to the Great Works for the first time. Or I might claim another plot, gift myself tons of $$$$ and try to do a better job lol. My city is doing well profit-wise but everyone is pissed off. Residents want more places to shop, shops want more customers, and my industry wants more places to ship freight (I already have TWO expos with freight storage). It's a nasty cycle.

[Valeron]

wow nice, I thought I was doing fairly well at 10k per hour. I'm trying to work up to getting a refinery done. I have two oil fields going but I just need to upgrade my HQ so I can the refinery.

I had to put the Vu tower down, I wanted to see what it did. I put a gambling casino right next to it too, perhaps I can get an organized crime syndicate in my city.

[Deleted]

Very sorry for taking so long to accept some friend requests. I wish SimCity would give you a popup notification or play a sound or something.

Anyways so EU West 6 is booming. Very active! Just about full, too. xD My city there is faring pretty well, I make about 150k a day on the expo events + my coal/metal shipments. I'm just shy of $1,000,000 and am considering adding something to the Great Works for the first time. Or I might claim another plot, gift myself tons of $$$$ and try to do a better job lol. My city is doing well profit-wise but everyone is pissed off. Residents want more places to shop, shops want more customers, and my industry wants more places to ship freight (I already have TWO expos with freight storage). It's a nasty cycle.

you need to send some of your people to me! i have a low population, but a lot of jobs! ive got 2 train stations because the first one was overcrowded and i still cant get enough commuters! ive got a tonne of jobs to spare, and a lot of education to give. im going to have to start demolishing factories for houses soon
ive recently lowered my taxes to attract more to my city, it worked but my income is really low now. it ocasionally shoots up when i sell a batch of processors. and i cant move items out of trade depots quick enough, they keep getting full and shutting down becuase i cant shift the goods quick enough. i got 2 depots, with max trucks and it still doesnt move it quick enough

on the bright side, i only have one police station, one fire station and my safety is really good, nearly no crime and because of my education buildings, fires are rare! got 3 hospitals though, going to demolish them soon and build a big hosptal.

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wow nice, I thought I was doing fairly well at 10k per hour. I'm trying to work up to getting a refinery done. I have two oil fields going but I just need to upgrade my HQ so I can the refinery.

I had to put the Vu tower down, I wanted to see what it did. I put a gambling casino right next to it too, perhaps I can get an organized crime syndicate in my city.

well im glad our cities are not connected xD


and i was on about 12k income per hour which i thought was good :P but i just dropped my tax rates to get more people to come to my city, it worked but my income is like 3k now :\

[DieFichte]

Oh if you want to talk outside forum, just add me on origin (DFichte) and write me there, my skype is in my origin profile too

[-aiko-]

you need to send some of your people to me!

According to the region view I'm only sending people to you. All the guys around us need to set up some mass transit! I spent $500,000 on the Empire State Building and I still have poor tourist attendance in my city...the damn building is also losing me money every day in fact lol.

[Deleted]

I just set up a new region on Europe West 6. Invite sillysilly3 and join via profile! The name of the region is MMOC2 (yes I'm not very clever with names)

Hey, I sent you an invite under name EirianLyn. Though, I have suspicions that there will be no plots to claim by the time i get back to computer in like 12 hours. Run in to this thread way too late :<

[GennGreymane]

how realistic is the economics in the game?

does your city have to be resource independent? or will u be better off importing, but exporting expensive things made from the materials.

from what i notice in most games. Saudi Arabia would be better than south korea based on most engines. in terms of economics. in real life the opposite is true.

[-aiko-]

Hey, I sent you an invite under name EirianLyn. Though, I have suspicions that there will be no plots to claim by the time i get back to computer in like 12 hours. Run in to this thread way too late :<

That was weird, I didn't get the invite in Origin and it only now appeared in-game. Accepted! We still have room I believe in EU West 6.

how realistic is the economics in the game?

does your city have to be resource independent? or will u be better off importing, but exporting expensive things made from the materials.

It's pretty realistic. Global trading is almost a game in and of itself. The plot of land you choose determines what resource you can or can't create. For example, in my current city it's impossible for me to drill for oil because there isn't any. There are processing facilities you can create for producing advanced electronics that use a lot of materials. It's almost impossible for you to be able to get all the resources on your own, so you have to trade. It gets pretty deep I think. I'm way over my head and I only have a processor factory. :S

[GennGreymane]

ah ok good, because im really thinkin of gettin the game (for the love of god skyrim is killin me as is) and i know similar games would put resource exporters well above manufacturing for some reason.

[-aiko-]

I'm about ready to call it a night I think. Here's my city!

[Jofe]

you need to send some of your people to me! i have a low population, but a lot of jobs! ive got 2 train stations because the first one was overcrowded and i still cant get enough commuters! ive got a tonne of jobs to spare, and a lot of education to give. im going to have to start demolishing factories for houses soon
ive recently lowered my taxes to attract more to my city, it worked but my income is really low now. it ocasionally shoots up when i sell a batch of processors. and i cant move items out of trade depots quick enough, they keep getting full and shutting down becuase i cant shift the goods quick enough. i got 2 depots, with max trucks and it still doesnt move it quick enough

on the bright side, i only have one police station, one fire station and my safety is really good, nearly no crime and because of my education buildings, fires are rare! got 3 hospitals though, going to demolish them soon and build a big hosptal.

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well im glad our cities are not connected xD


and i was on about 12k income per hour which i thought was good :P but i just dropped my tax rates to get more people to come to my city, it worked but my income is like 3k now :\

You can guess who's still getting all his crime -_-, gotta admit that is less than before though.
Anyway got a msg error but I was clicking on something so I clicked on okay by accident before having a chance to read it. Looks like it was a rollback but was for like 10 secs before the msg, anyone else got something like that?

[-aiko-]

ah ok good, because im really thinkin of gettin the game (for the love of god skyrim is killin me as is) and i know similar games would put resource exporters well above manufacturing for some reason.

I think you'll like it. You really need to do both importing/exporting to be effective. In regards to my processor plant, to produce processors I need: alloy, metal, plastic. You can get most of these materials by processing recycled goods from the populace, but to process all three you'd need to invest a LOT into plants. So I decided to focus on producing metal and alloy, while importing plastic to make processors. I sell/export the leftover metals/alloys to other cities.

Once you start getting into natural resources it gets even more fun. I'm about to set up a smelting plant so I can import and smelt raw ores for more valuable metals.

---------- Post added 2013-03-10 at 06:03 AM ----------

Looks like it was a rollback but was for like 10 secs before the msg, anyone else got something like that?

I keep getting a message that "something was added to my region" and to press okay to update my game. So I do that and it reloads my city and I typically lose a minute or so of progress. Not too bad but annoying.

[Forsedar]

Ugh, my city is in shambles! Hit 150,000 and everything was going fine but I have no idea what happened! One thing after another... I'm losing money, people are rushing to leave my city. Skyscrapers are closing down. Its a mess. It was just a test run for a few things and living without a nuclear power plant really sucks.