[Megathread] SimCity 5

[rhorle]

It feels like you just need bigger areas to make a perfect city >.< Once you set up your specilization you barely have room for other things >.<

That is sort of the point. And it is what regional play is for. If every city can do everything, or almost everything, then the concept of the region falls apart. Some of the smaller regions could likely still do fine with larger city maps. A casino and tourist city can bring in a lot of cash but it relies more on the region then other specializations. Without plenty of sims in your region there won't be that many tourists.

For example I started a public region and am financing my city off of coal,ore, and oil exports. My city would have failed without that steady income coming in and I can even operate in the red for a while. The problem my Casino city is running into is the lack of workers and the lack of Sims to gamble. Oh I can get sims to the casinos but anything other then the gambling hall isn't making a profit.

What I really need is to have a few other cities in the region to supply me with tourists and workers. I have plenty of jobs to be filled. It would also allow me to cut back on my residential space opening up room for airports, landmarks and other tourist things to draw them in. I could also greatly expand my commercial districts. But my region hasn't seen any one join it so I'm struggling to specialize.

With one city you can do everything fairly well, but you will never excel without the help and support multiple cities can provide. For example if you had a balanced city, a Casino city, and a Trade/Mineral city in one region each one could thrive. Mine/ore provides the money, balanced provides workers and city services, and casino provides tourists and services (as well as money when you can get enough people.)

[Jofe]

Someone educated my sims and now I have industry that need workers that I don't have >_<

[Deleted]

so hows the mmo-c region doing?

ill be on in a bit to build my awesome city.

[Valeron]

any room left in the mmo-c region?

[Deleted]

Urgh, I keep trying to make touristy sorts of place... Not working so well.
Well, guess Ill have to take my inspiration from Dubai... OIL!

any room left in the mmo-c region?

Can't even get on the server Can't seem to catch it when its not full.

[Deleted]

all the cities ive tried to build so far have had the same basic grid layout, for the city in mmo-c region im going to try and make it more interesting with circles! it will be less practical i guess though, at least it will be pretty.

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any room left in the mmo-c region?

not sure, im in server queue D:

when i looked this morning there was like 4 unclaimed plots.

[Kinferatu]

all the cities ive tried to build so far have had the same basic grid layout, for the city in mmo-c region im going to try and make it more interesting with circles! it will be less practical i guess though, at least it will be pretty.

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not sure, im in server queue D:

when i looked this morning there was like 4 unclaimed plots.

Heading onto Sim City now, maybe there's room on the MMO-C region, but it'll be hard for me to get on EU West 2. (I'm a EU West 3'er) :P

Also if you want to add me, i'm Fawen on Origin.

EDIT: Can't even select EU West 2. It's Full

[Deleted]

all the cities ive tried to build so far have had the same basic grid layout, for the city in mmo-c region im going to try and make it more interesting with circles! it will be less practical i guess though, at least it will be pretty.

beauty at the efficiency expense? why not in the end?

[DieFichte]

Somehow low wealth sims don't care if i pollute the crap out of their neighbourhood
Max density/happiness sims while directly in the windpath of 2 maxed out coal power plants, surounded by 2 ore mines and 3 smelting plants...atleast they had great shoping and parks!

[Ave07]

Is there room in that MMO-C region? If so what region and who should I ask for an invite? I want to play with some people when my friend isn't on.

[-aiko-]

There's 3 more plots left on the MMO-C region. You can add sillysilly3 to join (you can join the region from my profile in game)

[Kinferatu]

There's 3 more plots left on the MMO-C region. You can add sillysilly3 to join (you can join the region from my profile in game)

I would like to join but the servers too full to join.

[Deleted]

My city was not functioning properly, the game threw me back to the main menu. All I could do was force a rollback to 2 hours previously. FML.

[-aiko-]

Yeah I'm too scared to try to go into my cities. I was seeing server issues and didn't want to see all my work gone

Sorry for everyone that can't get in. It was a low pop server when we started ><

[NotValidAnymore]

Made a region with some friends. The game is pretty fun so far.

Though, I managed to get hit by both a meteor fall and an UFO in less than 30 minutes, which kinda sucks, but at least I had the Fire Station when the meteors came.

[Kinferatu]

Yeah I'm too scared to try to go into my cities. I was seeing server issues and didn't want to see all my work gone

Sorry for everyone that can't get in. It was a low pop server when we started ><

Maybe make another MMO-C Region on a lower pop server, like EU West 5 or 6. ?

[Deleted]

goosievill! get your citizens under control! all im seeing in my update thing at the top recently is about criminals coming from goosievill, and even an arsonist that burned down 2 homes! get your shit together goosie!

[-aiko-]

We're 2 plots away from capping guys. Keep it up! Our region is amazing!

I feel guilty for claiming 2 plots. I'll abandon one if we get full and still have people wanting to join. I'll also look into setting up a new region on one of the new servers once we're full.

[Samoflange]

goosievill! get your citizens under control! all im seeing in my update thing at the top recently is about criminals coming from goosievill, and even an arsonist that burned down 2 homes! get your shit together goosie!

Lol. I have a lot of police in my city though, I don't know why criminals keep popping up.

[Nerraw]

I actually haven't had any disasters in my city in this region yet. The other one I have has been hit by 2x tornado, a meteor shower, Godzilla, and alien abduction.