[Megathread] SimCity 5

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I'm on the EU 6 server for MMOC2 I'm AntNix125 btw. I've chosen that.. horribly shaped land. God knows what I will do with it... CASINOS!

ive chosen a plot of land no way near anyone else xD edit: no i havnt, i thought i did :\

and ive been building for 5mins and i can already tell its going to suck. i go in with a great plan of how its going to look, then i remember that stuff costs money and i have to start cheap

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is there a way to rotate buildings when placing them? im trying to place a volleyball court, and it insists on going long ways taking up more room than it needs to.

[zaxlor]

I'm on the EU 6 server for MMOC2 I'm AntNix125 btw. I've chosen that.. horribly shaped land. God knows what I will do with it... CASINOS!

I'll be joining you in a sec!

Though, how'd you skip the tutorial? Do you have to complete it each time you go to a new server?

[Deleted]

I'll be joining you in a sec!

Though, how'd you skip the tutorial? Do you have to complete it each time you go to a new server?

no, you have to start the tutorial, but as soon as you're off the loading screen just click the options button in top right and exit to main menu to skip.

[Jofe]

Well was about to quit but things got better, the jam at the entrances is smaller now and I'm getting a more steady flow of money, have 100k people and some free space reserved for other buildings. Here's how it looks
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[Deleted]

Well was about to quit but things got better, the jam at the entrances is smaller now and I'm getting a more steady flow of money, have 100k people and some free space reserved for other buildings. Here's how it looks
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how do you stop the jam at the entrance? my main city on mmo-c1 region has a massive queue to get into my city and insane traffic around the entrance to the city. ive upgraded roads to max.

[Eagle1Fox2]

how do you stop the jam at the entrance? my main city on mmo-c1 region has a massive queue to get into my city and insane traffic around the entrance to the city. ive upgraded roads to max.

Is all that traffic commuters/tourists, freight, what? If it's trade a trade port connected to rail or water with whatever resource is going through will help. If it is commuters/tourists then you would just need a ferry or passenger train station which would also help.

EDIT: I also love how the traffic on the highway gets simulated with late exiting people and everything. Though sometimes people drive so strangely. I followed an ambulance that had a clinic behind it that it needed to get to, but instead of making a U-turn, it made a right turn, crossed a bridge, made a u turn and came back to make another right turn, and then finally made a U-turn to go the right way.

[Hexian]

Woot! 1million in profits with mining over a month period

[Deleted]

Woot! 1million in profits with mining over a month period

how? :P

ive got a coal mine, and a trade depot, how do i make money with it? ive just set the trade depot to export all coal, is that all i need to do?

[Deleted]

That's how people get absurd amounts of money!

Too bad my ore deposit is right in the middle of my plot, with high wealth residential areas on top of it . Gonna see if I can benefit from it, but I doubt the pollution is going to be manageable. I've got nothing else but the ore though, so I'm going to have to consider something else to keep a steady income aside from taxes.

[Maelle]

Had a good long session on the game today for the first time. Very east to get lost in the time you spend but my main gripes at the moment are:

Buggy recycling: seems to be an issue a few people are having where you place the depot and it says you have no rescources to collect and refuses to do anything... funny as my city is bitching about no recycling being picked up, and the neighbouring city (public game) is sending some vans which seem to be collecting a bit of it 120k building isn't cheap or small to be plopping about the map to see if it fixes the bug.

Similar to the recycling: have freight depot thing, picks up some freight of businesses, has LOADS of room and transport for more, and I have businesses go bust because "no-where to ship freight".

No obvious way to combat ground pollution... probably missing something but when the ground gets dirty, i can't see a way to make it ok again.

You can't take any stupid mistake back or move anything! Oh crap just plopped an expensive building in slightly the wrong place - either demolish it and lose all the money, or try and not let your mistake bug the crap out of you for an hour until you can afford to rebuild (yeah, it's going to annoy you :P )

Also some minor "routing bugs" like for some reason my highschool choked up my roads with wierdly angled buses blocking all lanes, and it was only after about 30 mins and demolishing stuff in the area i saw what the problem was, but it borked my traffic and services for a while. Had to demolish school and rebuild in a slightly different place. Bringing me back to cost of having to replace expensive services because of bugs :<

Stuff I liked:

Being able to look at what all the little people and services are up to at street level .
Water / electricity etc were easy to figure out and use, and self-distributing.
Runs very smoothly and looks lovely
Nice to be in public games and have other people doing works with you, and sharing services.
Overall very fun to play, and I feel like I have barely scratched the surface!

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Nice to see they made a thread for all the people who just want to complain about Origin and server issues, it was killing all interesting discussion about the actual game dead

[Jofe]

how do you stop the jam at the entrance? my main city on mmo-c1 region has a massive queue to get into my city and insane traffic around the entrance to the city. ive upgraded roads to max.

Well it was weird for me, I just checked the way traffic was entering and cut an intersection that was causing the whole jam (most cars would turn into a street)and it just got a lot better with some time. At peak hours theres still a jam, but it isn't close to how bad it was.

[Horace]

Though sometimes people drive so strangely. I followed an ambulance that had a clinic behind it that it needed to get to, but instead of making a U-turn, it made a right turn, crossed a bridge, made a u turn and came back to make another right turn, and then finally made a U-turn to go the right way.

Tell me about it, I've spent the past 20 minutes laughing at a firetruck that's apparently gone into an endless loop, it just keeps going around the same block, as if it's waiting for a fire to happen in that specific area.

There are some rather glaring bugs, but other than that, the game is amazing!

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Only just noticed, the people protesting at my city hall have been protesting that the rent is too high for several days on end. I have no idea what to do about that :s

[Deleted]

Tell me about it, I've spent the past 20 minutes laughing at a firetruck that's apparently gone into an endless loop, it just keeps going around the same block, as if it's waiting for a fire to happen in that specific area.

There are some rather glaring bugs, but other than that, the game is amazing!

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Only just noticed, the people protesting at my city hall have been protesting that the rent is too high for several days on end. I have no idea what to do about that :s

speaking of fire trucks, something funny yet annoying just happened in my city. there were 3 buildings on fire, and no fire trucks to be seen anywhere, finally a truck shows up at one of the buildings, and all the other 5 or so fire trucks were stuck behind it, and had to wait for that truck to put out the fire before they could move to the next fire. that was really annoying!

[Maelle]

Only just noticed, the people protesting at my city hall have been protesting that the rent is too high for several days on end. I have no idea what to do about that :s

I just ignored them, and still had a high approval rating xD

[Deleted]

if you take a screenshot, does it save it anywhere? :z i just had the giant lizard attack me, spawned right in the middle of my city and demolished a dozen factories and about 10houses!

[Samoflange]

if you take a screenshot, does it save it anywhere? :z i just had the giant lizard attack me, spawned right in the middle of my city and demolished a dozen factories and about 10houses!

Yeah in your User\My Documents\Sim City\Pictures folder.

[Uko]

So Im not sure where to go for this but I'm trying to expand into a second city but i cant gift my second city any money because it just gets munched and disapears or buy electricity/water from my main city. Is that just because of the servers getting pounded or would I have to buy it from someone other then myself.

[Deleted]

Viva La Troll City needs a new mayor... :shifty eyes:

[Jofe]

Tell me about it, I've spent the past 20 minutes laughing at a firetruck that's apparently gone into an endless loop, it just keeps going around the same block, as if it's waiting for a fire to happen in that specific area.

There are some rather glaring bugs, but other than that, the game is amazing!

Just happened to me, there were 3 buildings on fire next to each other and like 5 trucks arrived, when they finished they started moving on a stretch of road doing loops, if was pretty funny because of the game speed.

Forgot to mention that I'm moving, hit the point of idk what to do again. I'm currently 12k on the red, the trade keeps me up but sometimes that window appear telling me that I'm bankrupt.

[DieFichte]

Woot! 1million in profits with mining over a month period

I'm at 3 million now, alloy baby! (but my city goes downhill rapidly, f'ing water shortage in my zone )

guess i stripmine the place, max my moneyz and then stomp the city, and rebuild it without heavy mining industry.
Half of the place I can acutally build without hills in the way is covered by my mines -.-