After 9 years in silence Sim City is finally back with a new Sim City 5 which is expected to be realesed in 2013
my hope is that they learned from the failure of SCS and will make an awsome online game featuring all the best from the originals
More info as well as the official trailer can be found here http://www.simcity.com/en_US
Societies was awful
Quote from: swiftus27 on April 11, 2012, 10:17:43 AM
Societies was awful
Yes not a true sim city game, although I did enjoy recreating my 1984-esque authoritarian regime.
Last one I played before that wa number three, so I'm expecting some big improvements and new options.
Wohoo!
I still play sim city 4. Love it like that with all the extra created stuff with it. I tried societies but that was a true waste of money. I really hope they pick up the old concept. It got so so so so much room to improve and create more options. More stuff to build, more options to micromanage. I wish i was that manager there ;)
Citiesxl is good fun too
I also still play sim city 4. Connecting big maps becomes an addiction!
As far as I have red, sim5 is about plonking down buildings and not zones. Hope this is not the case. Looks good though, albeit perhaps a bit sim'ish.
Quote from: knutm1980 on April 12, 2012, 11:21:06 PM
As far as I have red, sim5 is about plonking down buildings and not zones. Hope this is not the case. Looks good though, albeit perhaps a bit sim'ish.
It is more about the buildings.... there are many articles on IGN.com already with videos... For instance, a factory starts its day looking for employees... the employees show up and make goods .... goods are transported to commerce....
It is going to be much more about micromanaging the economy than it will be about building massive cities.
Quote from: swiftus27 on April 12, 2012, 11:43:50 PM
It is more about the buildings.... there are many articles on IGN.com already with videos... For instance, a factory starts its day looking for employees... the employees show up and make goods .... goods are transported to commerce....
It is going to be much more about micromanaging the economy than it will be about building massive cities.
Sounds like fun. Hopefully, the transportation part of the sim will be good.
it will also be a multi player game so you can build region with your friends etc. They are talking about how you decission you make will influence the other cities around you. For example if you a running a dirty pulluting undustrial city pulluting the water, the water pollution can get so bad that it will affect the neighboring city and the sims can get sick....
There should also be resource like coal and oil which is required for production/energy for the cities
Just a bit more than a month to go before the release! Who else is waiting?
Im prepaid for the version that includes the bonus crap... can't wait.
Quote from: [SC] - lilius on January 31, 2013, 02:59:47 PM
Just a bit more than a month to go before the release! Who else is waiting?
At that price.... not me ???
Quote from: alexgv1 on January 31, 2013, 11:36:54 PM
At that price.... not me ???
It costs 500 mexican pesos here. Its really not that much!
Funny as the other day I was thinking of firing up SC2k for some retro city building.... ahh... that classic BGM!
Sim City 5 Looks good. Might just pick it up myself.
Talentz
Quote from: [SC] - lilius on February 01, 2013, 01:26:11 AM
It costs 500 mexican pesos here. Its really not that much!
I hate how EA decided at some point it was okay to charge over £50 for a game (another example FIFA 13)....
It does look amazing but I'll wait until there is a sale.
(Save a spot for me in your region :) )
Quote from: alexgv1 on February 01, 2013, 12:04:15 PM
I hate how EA decided at some point it was okay to charge over £50 for a game (another example FIFA 13)....
It does look amazing but I'll wait until there is a sale.
(Save a spot for me in your region :) )
Im sure Ill have more than one region....
The problem with you fools is that you all will want to make the airport hub.
Quote from: swiftus27 on February 01, 2013, 12:25:02 PM
Im sure Ill have more than one region....
The problem with you fools is that you all will want to make the airport hub.
I was going to suggest making an AWS region in April when it comes out. But that has hit the nail exactly on the head as to why it wont work!
:laugh:
I promise Ill just do feeder traffic if anyone wants to join
My main complaints with SC4 are processing power and monotony. My PC was top of the line everything and it ran much slower than I had hoped. The monotony is in creating big cities. I was able to take the biggest plot of land and build a huge circle highway and zone everything high density in perfect city squares and get a huge population/bankroll too easily, even on hard. It sounds like SC5 will be a cross between SC4 and Capitalism 2...another game I'd love to see a sequel to.
For those in the US (not sure about elsewhere), but Amazon has (or had) preorders available for the standard 59, but offered a $20 gift card after it shipped, so that's what I jumped on (net price 39).
The problem that will be had with this game is that the initial price is just the entry fee, rather than the purchase of the game to play. I full expect for them to nickel and dime the gamers with expansion packs, services, whatver, just like they're doing with the Sims and Betafield 3.
Will SC 5 have more transportation options, like in cities xl?
Kind of, yes... but not 15 types of roads like in XL, though.
It looks like the SC5 torrent was released back in October...the SC5 videos say they are still working on the code and improvements up until the release date (yea right). What is the point of preordering? It look like you get the relatively useless expansion packs and the "$50 savings" is in the form of a $10 coupon code you can use 5x on other games from the same publishers. Since they aren't shipping the game and it is direct download, what's the point of giving them your money early? besides getting some cheesy superhero expansion pack with the "limited edition" set?
Here is a post from Amazon about the game and it's limitations FYI. I was excited about SC5 until I saw all of this:
Sim City has the following restrictions (features) that have all been stated by Maxis employees:
-You must connect to Origin to load or save your city (see next item).
-Games are saved to the cloud (EA Servers).
-Saved games once loaded must be saved so you can't change your mind and go back and reload the city.
-Other players Cities will influence yours even in 'single player' mode.
-No god mode terraforming. (This includes how much resources are available and where they are).
-No modding allowed at launch (if at all).
-No building density zoning.
-Buildings may spam along a single road.
-Dumbed down micro-management.
-Limited population (Max 200,000 agents, 1 agent can be coal, electricity, water, SimPerson, vehicle, and more, so do the maths!)
-The city tile size is only equivalent to a medium city in SC4.
-You only get European building sets if you buy the game as a digital download direct from origin.
You'd think requiring the online/cloud stuff is going to encourage piracy as people are going to want NOCD cracks and bypass DCM.
Cheers LemonButt, nail in the coffin for me. I am happy to be proved otherwise though.
I am still playing it. I look forward to it and I don't want any of you stealing my Simcity bliss from me. You all spread lies and filth and should be persecuted for it.
Quote from: swiftus27 on February 02, 2013, 10:34:00 PM
I am still playing it. I look forward to it and I don't want any of you stealing my Simcity bliss from me. You all spread lies and filth and should be persecuted for it.
You in the beta then?
No... Wasn't selected. Plus it lasted 1 hour for those who got in.
Quote from: swiftus27 on February 03, 2013, 12:28:18 AM
No... Wasn't selected. Plus it lasted 1 hour for those who got in.
Wasn't sure if you meant you were playing now or not. I got a code but didn't bother downloading the beta as I had already read it was only for an hour at a time and for a couple of days only.
The beta was rather lame. I got a code by doing the preorder from Amazon as mentioned above.
Even with the 1 hour time limit, the tract of land given to you was too small, you couldn't touch other cities or common areas and virtually everything beyond the base functionality to put up a few houses was slapped with a "not in beta" label. If anything, it wasn't a beta, but more like a shareware version of the game (holler back, old school gaming). The servers even got hosed at one point and they had to do unscheduled maintenance for a good part of Saturday afternoon.
I decided not to cancel the preorder, but i certainly have shiftyeyes about it so far...
Some of the trailers I have seen look pretty good. I will definitely be buying the game. I hope I will not disappointed...
There are enough red flags for me that I'll wait until after it's released, see what reviews and proper gameplay vids have to say.
I don't really need more games to turn into gigantic timesinks. I'm looking at you EU3/Vicky2/CK2.
Quote from: Sanabas on February 07, 2013, 02:53:42 AM
There are enough red flags for me that I'll wait until after it's released, see what reviews and proper gameplay vids have to say.
I don't really need more games to turn into gigantic timesinks. I'm looking at you EU3/Vicky2/CK2.
LOL. But a game is a gigantic time sink, it means you are getting your money's worth :)
Steam keeps a tally of time spent on a game... I am not sure I am happy about that... I get depressed when I see how much time I sunk into some games...
EU3 is right up there for me as well... EU4 looks great. That will probably be the mother of all time sinks for me...
I have all my paradox stuff via gamers gate, so it's steam-free. No mind-boggling stats for me to look at about time played. Very good thing, too. Next CK expansion looks awesome. Earlier start date, and ability to play the Pagans. I do like being the target of crusades. In a previous game, the pope wasn't worried about Jerusalem, and instead launched a crusade for France. Then he turned up personally and got captured. :laugh:
Quote from: Sanabas on February 07, 2013, 05:05:01 AM
I have all my paradox stuff via gamers gate, so it's steam-free. No mind-boggling stats for me to look at about time played. Very good thing, too. Next CK expansion looks awesome. Earlier start date, and ability to play the Pagans. I do like being the target of crusades. In a previous game, the pope wasn't worried about Jerusalem, and instead launched a crusade for France. Then he turned up personally and got captured. :laugh:
I have all my early Paradox games through Gamers Gate, but at one point it was cheaper for me to get EU3 Complete (2nd copy) from Steam than getting the individual expansions / DLC... So I am a proud owner of 2 copies of EU3... And now I have a coupon for 3rd one (through the recent Paradox promotion).
Yeah, the coupon means I'm getting a 2nd copy. I have EU3 complete, but the free version of EU3 chronicles has 2 extra expansion packs. So I'll be playing that again, watch the yellow/blue/red tide expand, and this time try and repel it, instead of being part of it.
Game looks quite cool, especially the upgradeability of the buildings. I used to play SC2000 and 3000 when I was a kid but I don't have time to play nowadays :(
Been looking over the Sim City 5 twitter account again. That game looks so damn sexy I might just have to buy it anyway.
Quote from: alexgv1 on February 07, 2013, 11:36:32 PM
Been looking over the Sim City 5 twitter account again. That game looks so damn sexy I might just have to buy it anyway.
+1
Quote from: LemonButt on February 01, 2013, 02:49:00 PMIt sounds like SC5 will be a cross between SC4 and Capitalism 2...another game I'd love to see a sequel to.
There is a kind of sequel (more like an expansion)... CapitalismLab...
http://www.capitalismlab.com/
Sadly, I think SC5 will be closer to SimCitySocieties than SC4... Glassbox looks great, but there's many features that makes me remember Societies =S.. They turned more into micromanagement instead of going to macro city management.
Quote from: ezzeqiel on February 08, 2013, 07:03:33 AM
There is a kind of sequel (more like an expansion)... CapitalismLab...
http://www.capitalismlab.com/
Sadly, I think SC5 will be closer to SimCitySocieties than SC4... Glassbox looks great, but there's many features that makes me remember Societies =S.. They turned more into micromanagement instead of going to macro city management.
I think what they learned from Societies was at least what not to do again so Im not worried at all about that.
Societies was an absolute disaster. I have been trying to convince myself that it was good but it just didn't happen. I just created evil cities.
Quote from: ezzeqiel on February 08, 2013, 07:03:33 AM
There is a kind of sequel (more like an expansion)... CapitalismLab...
http://www.capitalismlab.com/
Sadly, I think SC5 will be closer to SimCitySocieties than SC4... Glassbox looks great, but there's many features that makes me remember Societies =S.. They turned more into micromanagement instead of going to macro city management.
I got the CapitalismLab last week. Nice to go back to one of my favorite games. The game could definitely use a refresh / new more dynamic economic model.
Re: Sim City 5 pre-order
What is the point of pre-ordering, if I am going to be getting a digital copy anyway?
Quote from: JumboShrimp on February 19, 2013, 09:02:05 PM
What is the point of pre-ordering, if I am going to be getting a digital copy anyway?
Giving EA a free loan? :P
Quote from: saftfrucht on February 19, 2013, 10:03:58 PM
Giving EA a free loan? :P
That's what I thought...
And additionally, I would have to figure out twice how to log in, to buy and then to download...
Quote from: JumboShrimp on February 20, 2013, 01:06:35 AM
That's what I thought...
And additionally, I would have to figure out twice how to log in, to buy and then to download...
Or just have an Origin client?
Quote from: swiftus27 on February 20, 2013, 11:43:17 AM
Or just have an Origin client?
= sell your soul to the Devil
Quote from: alexgv1 on February 20, 2013, 01:06:45 PM
= sell your soul to the Devil
As much as Origin sucks, it is required to play SC5.
Quote from: alexgv1 on February 20, 2013, 01:06:45 PM
= sell your soul to the Devil
I already sold my soul to Steam. You mean I have to do it all over again? :)
TUESDAY APPROACHES!
I will make a region named Sami on Tuesday. Who is going to join in? I am Swiftus or Swiftus27 in Origin. I need to start making you my friends there too.
I want to play D: But I'll be waiting for the mac version. I might have to hire someone to take care of my business because I will most likely not be easily teared away from the game :p
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 01, 2013, 02:58:29 PM
I will make a region named Sami on Tuesday. Who is going to join in? I am Swiftus or Swiftus27 in Origin. I need to start making you my friends there too.
I'm alexgv1 (funnily enough) on Origin. Add me up (goes to other AWEers as well). Same goes for Steam, I'm under the same name there.
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 01, 2013, 02:58:29 PM
TUESDAY APPROACHES!
I will make a region named Sami on Tuesday. Who is going to join in? I am Swiftus or Swiftus27 in Origin. I need to start making you my friends there too.
Wait, you are not skipping MT8 because of SimCity, are you :)
BTW, does it mean you can play cooperatively? Is that why you are collecting user names? How about playing competitively, between regions, trying to steal each others Sims?
Gve peace a chance. Yes the cities in a region work together.
You own a region (well you actually will own many). You can build the cities yourself or allow friends to come in and build. Cities share a lot of stuff... Resources from one can fuel the economy of another. Resources are finite and will run out eventually.
I really hope this is gonna be a good game.. I miss building my "empire" ;D
This isn't on Steam??
(seems to be ridiculously expensive, €60.. no thanks for now)
Quote from: sami on March 01, 2013, 03:50:37 PM
I really hope this is gonna be a good game.. I miss building my "empire" ;D
This isn't on Steam??
Apparently not. Or not yet...
Quote from: sami on March 01, 2013, 03:50:37 PM
I really hope this is gonna be a good game.. I miss building my "empire" ;D
This isn't on Steam??
(seems to be ridiculously expensive, €60.. no thanks for now)
Origin only, requires connection and that price may include extras.
Nope, 60€ is the normal price for EA games in Europe now. No idea why EA charges 10€ extra but it seems to work.
The price for the special edition is even more expensive.
It's a general trend for companies at least in Germany to just take the USD price tag and switch the currency sign.
Yea well, 60€ (= ~$80 for yankees) for a single pc game is just too much even for me. :P
€30-€35 I could accept... Well, gotta wait for discounts.
Quote from: sami on March 01, 2013, 05:30:03 PM
Yea well, 60€ (= ~$80 for yankees) for a single pc game is just too much even for me. :P
€30-€35 I could accept... Well, gotta wait for discounts.
Sami, we all know how many creds you're making. You know you want it
If you don't rush to buy stuff on the first day, you can get it much cheaper later. I got kind of an interesting game called "Fallen Enchantress" for something like $15 on Steam...
I haven't really played it much, maybe an hour, but it looks interesting...
http://www.elementalgame.com/fallen-enchantress
Well it's a pretty strenuous task to ignore such a game after having let all the marketing run through your brain, and that's a marketing professional talking :P
Anyway, will the game have a global economy or will it have continental divisions such as WoW does?
Quote from: sami on March 01, 2013, 05:30:03 PM
Yea well, 60€ (= ~$80 for yankees) for a single pc game is just too much even for me. :P
€30-€35 I could accept... Well, gotta wait for discounts.
+1 don't buy EA games at full price in protest. Btw it's £35 on amazon UK which is acceptable to me tho
Quote from: alexgv1 on March 01, 2013, 10:29:19 PM
Btw it's £35 on amazon UK which is acceptable to me tho
Sold!
I like Simcity 4 and CitiesXL...
As for Simcity5... I have ordered it and will play it but as mentioned before it looks a bit too simmish...I have full confidence in Maxis for making a good sequel to Simcity4, it's EA I doubt. They don't care about a 'small group of die hard city builder fans', they care about selling games. Biggest mistake was Societies but I fear they made the same error with SimCity 5. Too much pointless details...
We'll see though...
Cities XL was so full of holes and bugs that I am ashamed that I bought it twice. Now they re-released 2012, changed the name to Platinum and added only a handful of buildings. Monte Cristo died in 2010 and Focus Interactive isn't patching the sim. SUX!
Quote from: alexgv1 on March 01, 2013, 10:29:19 PM
+1 don't buy EA games at full price in protest. Btw it's £35 on amazon UK which is acceptable to me tho
This is so ridiculous. I just checked, if I buy it at amazon.uk and have it sent to Germany I pay 50€, if I buy it at amazon.de I pay 60. Makes me kind of mad.
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 02, 2013, 01:50:12 PM
This is so ridiculous. I just checked, if I buy it at amazon.uk and have it sent to Germany I pay 50€, if I buy it at amazon.de I pay 60. Makes me kind of mad.
Storm the Reichstag?
(Delivery from amazon.co.uk was free btw, for me at least - so €40, not 50)
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 02, 2013, 01:50:12 PM
This is so ridiculous. I just checked, if I buy it at amazon.uk and have it sent to Germany I pay 50€, if I buy it at amazon.de I pay 60. Makes me kind of mad.
probably because the Germans make Amazon pay taxes, unlike the Brits who are terrified that if they upset Amazon by demanding they do pay taxes, they will go away and britland will lose all that tax revenue... um... yeah, something like that...
Quote from: sami on March 02, 2013, 02:21:31 PM
(Delivery from amazon.co.uk was free btw, for me at least - so €40, not 50)
You all will still need Origin accounts to run it. We have to make a region and post it here. I'd love to run it if it is possible.
I am Swiftus27 in Origin as well. Not too many people know that movie and I am sure even fewer wear my hockey number.
Quote from: sami on March 02, 2013, 02:21:31 PM
(Delivery from amazon.co.uk was free btw, for me at least - so €40, not 50)
Another proof of how Germans are being shafted.
Quote from: brique on March 02, 2013, 03:01:23 PM
probably because the Germans make Amazon pay taxes, unlike the Brits who are terrified that if they upset Amazon by demanding they do pay taxes, they will go away and britland will lose all that tax revenue... um... yeah, something like that...
Nope, this is purely due to EAs pricing policy. What makes the story even more ridiculous is the fact that the UK has a higher VAT rate than Germany.
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 02, 2013, 04:07:55 PM
Another proof of how Germans are being shafted.
Someone has to pay for all the nations Germany keeps bailing out.
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 02, 2013, 04:07:55 PM
Another proof of how Germans are being shafted.
Nope, this is purely due to EAs pricing policy. What makes the story even more ridiculous is the fact that the UK has a higher VAT rate than Germany.
Apparently, Amazon avoids paying UK VAT too, seems all sales get channelled through a Luxembourg-based server, so, magically, nothing is actually sold in the UK, even though its physically warehoused, sorted, and despatched within the UK. The idea is, all that is just 'fulfillment' of an order made and paid for in Luxembourg so therefore only liable to Lux taxes... go figure...
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 02, 2013, 04:07:55 PM
Another proof of how Germans are being shafted.
Nope, this is purely due to EAs pricing policy. What makes the story even more ridiculous is the fact that the UK has a higher VAT rate than Germany.
How about buying a digital copy online, pay with credit card, paying US dollar price?
I guess they can stop you when you specify your address....
BTW, I have a US address credit card for my sister who lives in Europe, and she makes her purchases on stuff that's internationally restricted on that card. Her main reason for getting it was some kind of scheme how Apple was screwing European customers (on price and availability of certain content).
Or just compensate by illegally downloading other games from EA? Like Sims or NFS or whatever? (Not that I'm doing that of course ;) )
But I think a region for AWS would be nice. Shame Maxis decided to make the airports a set size. I liked it that in the early Simcity you could zone your airport and have the airport half the map size :D
Quote from: Dasha on March 03, 2013, 09:45:57 AM
Or just compensate by illegally downloading other games from EA? Like Sims or NFS or whatever? (Not that I'm doing that of course ;) )
But I think a region for AWS would be nice. Shame Maxis decided to make the airports a set size. I liked it that in the early Simcity you could zone your airport and have the airport half the map size :D
Game requires a connection to Origin so downloading will be difficult.
Airports aren't actually built in your cities. They are built in the region. Cities come together and get resources to spend on it. Regions have room for 'great works' like the airport or other large scale items.
I think you can build an own municipal airport in your city that looks quite unrealistic and then a more realistic international airport as one of those 'great works', where you can also build one of those cool Arcologies I used to flood my map with in SC2000.
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 02, 2013, 03:02:13 PM
You all will still need Origin accounts to run it. We have to make a region and post it here. I'd love to run it if it is possible.
Yea, does not really matter as I saved 20 bucks ;)
May get it a few days later though as they gotta mail it...
you all will need to hit me up with friend requests on Origin... Swiftus27
Ordered it through Russia... Should take a day or two to get from Russia to England if the Royal Mail isn't being completely incompetent..
Have fun with the kyrillic :D
24 hours to go! I will name the region I make for us Airwaysim. There will ne 10 to 14 unique cities. It will require me to invite/allow you in the region to build. I will post screenshots.
I just ordered SimCity Digital Deluxe Edition for NOK 599,- and got a NOK 179,- discount on the next purchase. Norway is always expensive.. let's hope the game is worth it. Is release date tomorrow?
Quote from: Monica on March 04, 2013, 03:32:50 PM
I just ordered SimCity Digital Deluxe Edition for NOK 599,- and got a NOK 179,- discount on the next purchase. Norway is always expensive.. let's hope the game is worth it. Is release date tomorrow?
If that was on Origin, be warned. At least in the UK, the small print said that the discount was only valid until March 31st.
Still again I gotta wonder, why buy it for €80 (nok 599) when you can get it for €40 :P
Anyways, I need to install Origin game client software too?
You must have an origin account running folks....must must must must....
You can't play sandbox or offline or you won't be able to save your cities. EA is the ones doing this.
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 04, 2013, 10:18:48 AM
Have fun with the kyrillic :D
Well I am Russian so that shouldn't be a problem but I think the game is just in English. Just 20 Euro's cheaper where I bought it. They don't deliver in the UK though so my friend will send it to me :)
Dasha, can you find me a cheaper way to go to the Sochi Olympics
Swiftus, stop hitting F5 on the SimCity ordering page. :)
It seems that there is no precise UTC time of this Sim City thing... Sami could teach them a lesson...
March 5 is here and nothing... I was expecting midnight, either Eastern or Pacific...
Ok, I confess, I just hit F5 on
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/buy
page... Still pre-order...
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 04, 2013, 07:19:05 PM
Dasha, can you find me a cheaper way to go to the Sochi Olympics
From where? And cheaper than what? :) Hotel, camping, hostel? Plane, car, train?
Quote from: JumboShrimp on March 05, 2013, 02:22:33 AM
Swiftus, stop hitting F5 on the SimCity ordering page. :)
Habits of a life time die hard, especially ones from AWS ;D
Haters... So I woke up at 1:30am and I was able to start the download thru Origin. It is 521am here now and I'm gonna go play if I can.
UPDATE: I am downloading the now-expected first day patch
Up to 45% on "Processing Large File"
first shot at a city took me 2 hours to cover the whole map... a little bit disappointed on some of the features.
Gee, guys, don't you have to work? It's the middle of the week :o
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 05, 2013, 10:55:19 AM
Gee, guys, don't you have to work? It's the middle of the week :o
Took the day off. bite me....
anyone want in???? can't believe none of you have sent me friend requests yet.
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 05, 2013, 11:35:14 AM
can't believe none of you have sent me friend requests yet.
Did you get my friend request on Origin?
I pre-ordered the disc copy, so I will not get it until March 7. :(
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 05, 2013, 11:35:14 AM
Took the day off. bite me....
anyone want in???? can't believe none of you have sent me friend requests yet.
i have sent you a request few hours ago :)
Quote from: Aoitsuki on March 05, 2013, 10:52:19 AM
first shot at a city took me 2 hours to cover the whole map... a little bit disappointed on some of the features.
Is it the same size as the one in the beta I saw on youtube? And now way to 'expand'?
all pending requests accepted.
note I was able ot add you in origin but not in sim city... odd
Okay, I was able to join with Peluguin in server US West 1. We are about to start a region.
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 05, 2013, 11:35:14 AM
Took the day off. bite me....
anyone want in???? can't believe none of you have sent me friend requests yet.
Friend request sent. I won't have my copy of SC5 until UPS arrives today, and I'm flying out to MMUN in the morning through Monday....
We're learning the ropes... just had my first crash to desktop, though
Quote from: JumboShrimp on March 05, 2013, 08:39:09 AM
Ok, I confess, I just hit F5 on
http://www.simcity.com/en_US/buy
page... Still pre-order...
Now it says: "Buy Now".
Ok, later tonight...
careful, if you use an F5 spammer anywhere near here you'll get banished forever.
Quote from: Lurkmat on March 05, 2013, 11:51:40 AM
I pre-ordered the disc copy, so I will not get it until March 7. :(
Same with me. Hopefully I don't get called out to work tomorrow.. If i'm home i'll be keen to join a game. Hey swiftus27, how big was the file/patch you had to download?
Guys just work at home :D I got my own business and I always 'work' at home. Ideal for AWS new game starts and other things like this :P
The game is 12gb
What systems do you run it on? I am on the road a lot and was wondering if it would run on my rather oldish 2008 MacBook (2gigs ram and 2ghz c2duo with nvidia 9400M) via Boot Camp.
I run a 3 monitor Alienware with quad i7s... I am not the guy to ask.
Here is how it looks... sorry for the pic size...
yes, actual screen shot of one of my cities... The game is truly beautiful and I am late for work
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 06, 2013, 11:18:00 AM
What systems do you run it on? I am on the road a lot and was wondering if it would run on my rather oldish 2008 MacBook (2gigs ram and 2ghz c2duo with nvidia 9400M) via Boot Camp.
Might work ok. My system is also quad core I7 desktop, but it does not seem to break a sweat running SC5.
Is it just me or are the individual cities a little smallish? I ran my first city last night as a learning experience. I guess the first mistake people will make is in type of roads / spacing / not knowing that some structures can expand (leaving enough space around them).
And no Subway? That's a disappointment. Is anybody running the railroad on the ground to the center of the city? That seems like a lot of wasted space. Are they going to sell that as an Expansion / DLC?
Also, no raising / lowering ground as far as I can tell...
Another annoying thing was that certain buildings that can be upgraded, it seemed that at some point I had a functionality to bulldoze individual upgrade. Then later on, the bulldozer seemed to be grayed out. Is that a but or am I missing something?
So I got mixed feelings over here.
I found my copy of the game in the mailbox today, which made me as happy as a kid in a toy store :laugh:. When I try to install the game Origin says "This game has not yet been released. You can not install it until the official release date. Why don't you go f**k yourself while we laugh at your misery." That last part could be read in between the lines. Need to wait another eight hours before I can start installing my game. :'(
I read somewhere about the release dates. I think Europe is on the 7th...
Quote from: JumboShrimp on March 06, 2013, 02:14:01 PM
Might work ok. My system is also quad core I7 desktop, but it does not seem to break a sweat running SC5.
Is it just me or are the individual cities a little smallish? I ran my first city last night as a learning experience. I guess the first mistake people will make is in type of roads / spacing / not knowing that some structures can expand (leaving enough space around them).
And no Subway? That's a disappointment. Is anybody running the railroad on the ground to the center of the city? That seems like a lot of wasted space. Are they going to sell that as an Expansion / DLC?
Also, no raising / lowering ground as far as I can tell...
Another annoying thing was that certain buildings that can be upgraded, it seemed that at some point I had a functionality to bulldoze individual upgrade. Then later on, the bulldozer seemed to be grayed out. Is that a but or am I missing something?
Can you really not make the city bigger than that??? That is a bit... strange at best.
Quote from: Dasha on March 06, 2013, 03:14:08 PM
Can you really not make the city bigger than that??? That is a bit... strange at best.
You have a region, which you can call Metropolitan Area, and within that, you can have several "cities". But the individual city size seems to be fixed...
And one city can support another. I have a residential only suburb supporting my city
Hmm alright well I will see tomorrow..
Quote from: JumboShrimp on March 03, 2013, 12:21:30 AM
How about buying a digital copy online, pay with credit card, paying US dollar price?
Is there any way to do that from outside the US? When I klick 'Buy now" on the US-SimCity page, it displays the prices in € automatically D:
played with swiftus a little bit, few things I notice
you cannot build a do it all city.... city is way too small. You also need to be efficient on space. Proper zone planning is crucial.
You can pretty much build a city in 3 hours, if you don't really care to make it pretty or high density. However if you want to build a wonder(SC5 call it great work) you pretty much need to have 2-3 city link together knowing everyone's supplying as each map have limited resource.
Another huge help is build a utility city, utility building are expensive and cost an arm and a leg to maintain, but you can 'lend service' to your partner to offset the expense. In fact almost all resource in game can be shared.
Since it is a free server, chat can be delay for up to a minute, and often times I can see swiftus going online and offline.
We are currently in USA west server due to East being completely hammered with a login queue of up to 30 minutes.
instead of multiple power plants, you just add modules to your existing ones... Hospitals are actually massive purchases while Clinics are relatively cheap.
The game is currently unloadable to me... sux,
this game is currently being slammed over the server issues.... way to go, EA.
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 06, 2013, 10:28:38 PM
this game is currently being slammed over the server issues.... way to go, EA.
Last night, it tried to connect me to European Servers...
The US East servers were hopeless - I think it said "full". US West servers showed as "busy", but I managed to connect to US West 1 on the 2nd attempt...
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 06, 2013, 10:22:26 PM
instead of multiple power plants, you just add modules to your existing ones... Hospitals are actually massive purchases while Clinics are relatively cheap.
University takes a ton of space too... I think 1 University per region, after other cities were developed might be all that's needed. Community College is fairly space efficient...
holy crap this is a failure of epic proportions... cities cant be loaded... Its an absolute mess. Way to go EA.
I would be more surprised if their servers had worked...
Hopefully not so popular stuff next week anymore when Royal Mail gets my dvd here.. :P
I just sent EA-Germany's CEO a nice mail. Will be interesting to see how he reacts. I really can't believe they keep making advertising posts on their Facebook when they should now use it to communicate closely with the customer. Every further ad there is a slap in the face of the customers.
I had the game this morning... managed to play the tutorial.. took me twice because it disconnected halfway and been trying to get logged in since then :)
You'd think that EA is big enough to have some experience with this..
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 07, 2013, 03:09:59 PM
I just sent EA-Germany's CEO a nice mail. Will be interesting to see how he reacts. I really can't believe they keep making advertising posts on their Facebook when they should now use it to communicate closely with the customer. Every further ad there is a slap in the face of the customers.
Reminds me of Leonardo DeCaprio in Titanic, saying (as he is drowning):
"I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all this."
The nerve of EA!!!
Yes... This.... I pulled the trigger.
Haha those are emotional shares mate :P Never a good thing..
So if any of you needs/wants a mate to play in a region with.. my username is Zavaya feel free to add me to friends..
Quote from: Dasha on March 08, 2013, 08:57:02 AM
Haha those are emotional shares mate :P Never a good thing..
So if any of you needs/wants a mate to play in a region with.. my username is Zavaya feel free to add me to friends..
I have a region on Europe West 2 (only one thats seems to work at the moment), Strange Land, feel free to join. Username: alt2Ego
On Yahoo home page:
http://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/simcity-launch-complete-disaster-201105322.html
Someone explain to me why Europe has 7 servers and 4 for NA
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 08, 2013, 11:45:00 AM
Someone explain to me why Europe has 7 servers and 4 for NA
More players in Europe?
It's a disgrace that they can't get their act together. Now how can they justify a premium price for the game. Having enough servers is such a simple thing.
I have opened a Region on Europe West 4, did not notice any problems there yet. My Origin-Nick is saftfrucht23, feel free to contact me and join into my game or let me invite you.
On a sidenote, I have high residential demand but at the same time people leaving because they have no jobs - is that even logical?
There are three types of people... poor, middle class, and rich. You're not going to get the rich people to clean garbage and similarly can't get the poor to be able to keep high tech factories operational. Monitor your residential demand.
Hm... I am specializing in Electronics, just built the Processor Factory and already have a lot of Tech 3 Factories. I guess I have to improve land value to get the poor out and more rich in? But then, they are already complaining about high rents. I should take a closer look to the stats maybe.
lower taxes and builds tons of $$$ parks.
I am seriously having issues keeping high tech factories fully staffed despite having 2x libraries, a community college, a university, 2x grade school and a high school....
Lowering taxes sucks, I need cash to build the recycling facility :p
that thing actually makes you a lot of money... just make sure you have room in your supply depot.
Guys stop it LOL.
When I hear the game is working I want it so bad, then when I hear it sucking it makes me glad I didn't buy it :laugh:
It's like a girlfriend or a wife.. or a boyfriend...
When it's not doing as you say you hate it but once she listens.... she's brilliant :D
Resisted making below the belt comment involving girlfriend and sucking... :-[
Quote from: alexgv1 on March 08, 2013, 02:45:03 PM
Guys stop it LOL.
When I hear the game is working I want it so bad, then when I hear it sucking it makes me glad I didn't buy it :laugh:
It actually does work now. I was shocked too.
playing on west 1 and 2 now.... depend which server is actually working!
And gone again. City deleted with the crash. Thanks. I forgot that, totally unexpected for EA, the weekend is beginning.
When everything calms down a bit... we should try to get together in a region on a server.. not sure if Swiftus still has that area he mentioned earlier...
We need to get on one server for that one
Ye hence the 'once things calm down'. I can't even login to available servers so no point trying to get together yet. Hope they'll get an offline version soon. This is just sheer arogance by EA... they've just given millions of players the finger.
Hence why I sold 50 shares of their stock today.
so far so good today.... Been making a gambling city... I will say that you really need the region's help...
Can someone start a Private Region today? I will join in and build a 'ville.
Well if it's okay I will start a new private region for AWS around 5-6 p.m. UTC+1.
The most important thing is for us to decide on a server. Thoughts?
They seem to be fairly stable today so I don't mind. Got you on Origin friends I believe so just invite me once you made it :)
Okay, I created a region called AirwaySim on US West 4. You need to login on that server for me to invite you, as I can't see you otherwise.
Add me at origin (saftfrucht23) and hit me up when you are on US West 4.
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 09, 2013, 04:44:41 PM
Okay, I created a region called AirwaySim on US West 4. You need to login on that server for me to invite you, as I can't see you otherwise.
Add me at origin (saftfrucht23) and hit me up when you are on US West 4.
You are offline and not in my friends list ???
Let's see if I can join you guys next week.. Just tell the server and region we're focusing on, if there's "the one".
Also, did you see that EA will give a free game to everyone because of the server issues. Expect email on 18th.
Yes I read that... I hope they give the Digital Deluxe out for free :)
We got a server now.. just joined Sapfruit :D
^^^ been asking him to invite me to the region but he cant get the message due to being entranced into his huge city.
Well, I have just acquired and can report no server issues atm. I'm freshmore1, so add me to the region as well. Will send out some friend requests also.
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 10, 2013, 12:50:20 AM
^^^ been asking him to invite me to the region but he cant get the message due to being entranced into his huge city.
Sent you an invite...
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 10, 2013, 12:50:20 AM
^^^ been asking him to invite me to the region but he cant get the message due to being entranced into his huge city.
Sorray :D The Messaging in Origin doesn't seem to work too well, I checked it quite often actually.
Set up another city last night - industrial / mining city. What I have learned from that? It is good to notice the wind direction at the beginning :)
I wish there was a faster speed setting for the game...
Quote from: JumboShrimp on March 11, 2013, 12:23:00 AM
Set up another city last night - industrial / mining city. What I have learned from that? It is good to notice the wind direction at the beginning :)
I wish there was a faster speed setting for the game...
Apparently the 3rd speed option has been disabled alongside with a lot of other features until less people actually play the game... errm I mean, until they put more servers online :P
Guys is any of you playing the British, German and French city set? Is it worth it? Thinking of getting it but not sure if I should...
I finally decided to purchase and wait for the slow download here in mexico. We will see how it goes.
Quote from: Dasha on March 11, 2013, 07:04:48 PM
Guys is any of you playing the British, German and French city set? Is it worth it? Thinking of getting it but not sure if I should...
I did get it. But as far as I can tell, you don't get to play any of the actual cities of those countries, instead, all I saw were some structures particular to that country. Some kind of police station, high speed train station and something else. Am I missing anything?
There are more in the attraction portion of the city specialization page.
So not really worth it then?
I don't think so.
I have a huge problem with my Tech-City, I built a Nuclear Power station and hence have incredible need of water, but wherever I build a fully stocked pumping station the water supply diminishes in no time and now I have no water reserves left in my city. What to do?°_°
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 12, 2013, 09:35:20 AM
I don't think so.
I have a huge problem with my Tech-City, I built a Nuclear Power station and hence have incredible need of water, but wherever I build a fully stocked pumping station the water supply diminishes in no time and now I have no water reserves left in my city. What to do?°_°
Demolish the nuclear plant and get my power? I got a nuclear power plant as well :) Should be enough to power us both. Also I got alloy if you need...
Got the same problem with water though.. them nuclear power plants are thirsty.
Okay, I solved the riddle. Clean water is running out, but I have a never ending supply of dirty water from the Sewage Facility. If the Water Pumping Station is built next to the Sewage Facility, it will recycle that dirty water. You just need to make sure to use these expensive filter pumps.
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 12, 2013, 11:28:32 AM
Okay, I solved the riddle. Clean water is running out, but I have a never ending supply of dirty water from the Sewage Facility. If the Water Pumping Station is built next to the Sewage Facility, it will recycle that dirty water. You just need to make sure to use these expensive filter pumps.
I don't have space for that sewage thing. I'm sending it all to you I guess :D
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 12, 2013, 11:28:32 AM
Okay, I solved the riddle. Clean water is running out, but I have a never ending supply of dirty water from the Sewage Facility. If the Water Pumping Station is built next to the Sewage Facility, it will recycle that dirty water. You just need to make sure to use these expensive filter pumps.
That is good to know, because I'm running low on water myself. Thanks, saftfrucht!!
I have a weird other bug, which I already reported to Origin.... one of my factories dropped ~2 times it's height into the ground LOL (see Screenshot).
(https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg109.imageshack.us%2Fimg109%2F1790%2Fspark20130311214731.png&hash=c21ca19c0501337e5d571ba7b20d220d95fe4136)
Either a bug or due to the Coal mine 2 buildings away ;D
And apparently I don't get rid of my congestion problem which is also visible in the screenshot. Even with the 6-lane motorway it doesn't help :/
cheers,
[SC] Jona L.
Quote from: Dasha on March 12, 2013, 11:38:43 AM
I don't have space for that sewage thing. I'm sending it all to you I guess :D
I freed up a lot of space yesterday to make space for the Municipal Airport... no idea if it was worth it.
@Jona I got a similar glitch in my city, just the other way around. The building is on some kind of ultra steep hill :P
I have now built 3 fully upgraded Processor Factories to finally get the Electronics HQ-upgrade, but instead of Exporting the stuff the stocks just fill up. Occasionally I see a set being sold for 64.000, but my stocks are overflowing again immediately.
This sucks.
Quote from: [SC] Jona L. on March 12, 2013, 12:13:49 PM
I have a weird other bug, which I already reported to Origin.... one of my factories dropped ~2 times it's height into the ground LOL (see Screenshot).
(https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg109.imageshack.us%2Fimg109%2F1790%2Fspark20130311214731.png&hash=c21ca19c0501337e5d571ba7b20d220d95fe4136)
Maybe it is an Iranian nuclear weapons facility...
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 12, 2013, 05:01:32 PM
I have now built 3 fully upgraded Processor Factories to finally get the Electronics HQ-upgrade, but instead of Exporting the stuff the stocks just fill up. Occasionally I see a set being sold for 64.000, but my stocks are overflowing again immediately.
This sucks.
Have that with my coal and ore. They keep stacking in the trade port. Dunno why.
Quote from: Dasha on March 12, 2013, 06:42:23 PM
Have that with my coal and ore. They keep stacking in the trade port. Dunno why.
Did you select "export" rather than local use?
How stupid do you think we are :D
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 12, 2013, 06:50:45 PM
How stupid do you think we are :D
I guess if you already figured out to how to build a trade port, you are bound to discover this feature.
In my first attempt, I had a recycling facility full of recycled stuff for quite some time before I discovereded the trade port.
ooooooooooooooooooooops
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 12, 2013, 12:22:35 PM
@Jona I got a similar glitch in my city, just the other way around. The building is on some kind of ultra steep hill :P
Well funny thing is the exact same building has been on flat ground before... not even due to construction of a new building. Weird!
wife leaves town for a few days starting tomorrow... I am gonna have some city building fun
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 13, 2013, 12:59:32 AM
wife leaves town for a few days starting tomorrow... I am gonna have some city building fun
You are tempting me to load this thing on the work 30", 2560x1600 monitor PC.
What was the server again for our region? Got the game yesterday
US West 4
If you add me (Zavaya) or give the rest here your username we can invite you to the region...
Quote from: JumboShrimp on March 12, 2013, 06:57:33 PM
I guess if you already figured out to how to build a trade port, you are bound to discover this feature.
In my first attempt, I had a recycling facility full of recycled stuff for quite some time before I discovereded the trade port.
I figured out what it was, I had severe traffic issues where the motorway met my city roads, I built a Y-crossing there and now its not a problem anymore. The processors in stock went 1-2-3 and now I have the Electronics HQ at stage 2.
Does anybody know if you can clean ground pollution? I demolished that sewage dump pipe but the area keeps being polluted and seems to still be expanding...
plop a filtration plant on it and use filters and not pumps as the upgrade.
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 13, 2013, 11:03:45 PM
plop a filtration plant on it and use filters and not pumps as the upgrade.
So that eventually removes the ground pollution? Interesting....
Okay that requires some interesting planning as I plopped my nuclear plant on it :D
Okay well WTF. Right in the middle of playing (everything working normally and connected to servers etc):
"Your city is not processing properly" ... etc. Only option to QUIT back to main menu. Then I have an option to rollback to a previous "save" or "abandon" city. And dumdidum, everything I have done in last 40 minutes has disappeared.
p*** off EA. >:(
Yup, the fact that the game has no free saving is REALLY bad.
Quote from: JumboShrimp on March 14, 2013, 12:02:05 AM
So that eventually removes the ground pollution? Interesting....
I imagine ground pollution as dirty water on the water overlay.
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 14, 2013, 03:27:16 PM
I imagine ground pollution as dirty water on the water overlay.
So you actually cleaned it up? In my 2 attempts, I placed the pump at the cleanest place...
Anyway, I decided to give up on SimCity for a few weeks, until they get their act together...
I love what this had to offer I hate ea for royally screwing it. Here's hoping they get their act together
My Internet connection is unstable at best - joys of living in regional Australia - so not only does it take me decades to get onto the game it then takes a century to load my city and when the net cuts out 20 minutes later bam I'm back at square one even though it drops for one or two seconds at a time . I really like the multiplayer / global economy thing and was looking forwards to it. But sim city always has been and always will be predominately single player. And not being able to play when I want to play how I want to play a single player game really really p***es me off.
I'm not a fan of this region layout either . Nobody wants to see a small group of skyscrapers surrounded by empty land - anyone with me on this ? I believe each city should be 1/4 of a region without this 'empty' space in between cities. Heck even if the city map was the same size just have them adjacent. The empty space hurts because its always in places it shouldn't be. How can I build a megalopolis now?
I've been waiting a good 7 years for maxis to re-invigorate sim city and despite all the hype this is a joke! /sad
I really love-hate this game. It's tremendous fun until you reach a state of the city that the AI is just too dumb to cope with.
I have a million taxis driving around a block back and forth to reach the airport. They jam the streets so tourists are unable to reach my venues and thus I have lost a lot of income from them.
That's the problem - it's designed as a glorified sim town - I don't think theAI was ever designed for the endgame it's really intelligent early though but as soon as you get all built up it gets confused - reminds me of Chris Sawyers locomotion - where once you got really big planes would start flying in circles!
I read today they were tweaking the AI so the probability for the cars to chose an alternate route increases with the congestion level of the fastest route they are currently all trying to take. That should help with a lot actually, but extreme congestion points such as the motorway exit will not be solved by that, and neither will my problem with the airport as all the taxis want to go there and they can't chose any other way but the more direct once they are in a certain proximity.
I understand your point on the region thing and I'm a massive support of regions - what I'm not a fan of is this preset motorway and the empty space between the tiny 'cities' I want to be able to make my city and have it grow out into suburbia like reality not a bunch of skyscrapers surrounded by open plains. I feel we should have more control over where we want the airport and what size it is etc - I'm all for a region that is blank and divided into a grid form!
Why would houses be built but no one move in? I have many tier 3 building a that are for sale(not vacant) and no one is moving in. I can't figure it out.
Maybe because my neighboring city has 500000000 $$$-Houses :D
I'm not talking income level 3... These are tier 3 income level 1 buildings that were occupied as tier 1 and 2 but no one moves in. They have power and water
I have moving vans that drive into my city, go about a block and turn around... They take a right, drive another block and another u turn. Then they turn left on the original street and do the first u turn again... Over and over
Yup, the AI is completely f***ed. Fire trucks do the same.
Did any of you recieve that long awaited email saying we could have a free game?? Should be sent at the 18th?
I downloaded dead space 3 earlier. I got the message when I logged out of the game this morning.
I just got that email apparently it unlocks for me on the 23rd what games are on offer ?
I got nothing yet :)
Origin, who I bought my game thru, just let me download DS3 and I have it on my screen now.
DS3 Worth it?
Now that EA's CEO stepped down is it safe to buy SC5 yet or should I wait until after the class action lawsuits happen?
I'm still not convinced about the game to be honest. Yes it's a good game but there's things that just totally backfired... Only you can decide if you find it worth the money :)
I hate specializing in one field... your city HAS to run a loss to make anything productive..... while you will make money selling alloy, oil, plastic etc....
the game is a massive time sink
SOUND FAMILIAR?????????
I really hate it too. To be honest the region should be the planning field for the city, with the ability to zone x areas for friends to use. You should be able to make suburbs or townships within a city that can specialise whilst having an overall city income.
This is the general sound of almost everybody so maybe Maxis and EA will listen to 'us'. At least we've gotten a free game in return so I'm not really complaining too much :D
Quote from: Dasha on March 21, 2013, 09:51:03 AM
This is the general sound of almost everybody so maybe Maxis and EA will listen to 'us'. At least we've gotten a free game in return so I'm not really complaining too much :D
Yea, to make up for a botched SC5 release you can't play offline, they are giving away the 10-year old SC4 that you can. The whole debacle has been amusing :)
I'm really undecided what free game to choose. Poor choices, no surprise of EA.
BF3, nah. NFS, too arcade.. etc. Might just go with the SC4 even though it's worth nothing :P
To be honest guys with the game, more pics or GTFO :o
Don't get SC4 it's only £10 anyways for the deluxe version. Although worth every penny, and it actually works.
Quote from: sami on March 21, 2013, 01:13:46 PM
I'm really undecided what free game to choose. Poor choices, no surprise of EA.
BF3, nah. NFS, too arcade.. etc. Might just go with the SC4 even though it's worth nothing :P
I pegged you for a Bejeweled kind of guy, Sami.
Quote from: sami on March 21, 2013, 01:13:46 PM
I'm really undecided what free game to choose. Poor choices, no surprise of EA.
BF3, nah. NFS, too arcade.. etc. Might just go with the SC4 even though it's worth nothing :P
Agreed. I went for Mass Effect 3 given its the only semi worthwhile one there.
DS3 is a joke. And I already own SC4
You're all a bit unthankful imo...
They didn't HAVE to give out free games.
They didn't have to. But they owed it to all of us that put up with this joke of a launch.
Un-f....ing-believable.
Played some 5 days ago the last time, everything OK. Just now - open SC, open city, and the first thing it says "your city is not processing correctly, click to quit". And it's been "rolling back" for the last 15 minutes now.
Second or third time this has happened already and haven't played that long.
I havent had any issues at all with the gameservers. The recycling center always gets stuck at full and I hate it!
If the recycling is full, have you built the trade depot?
As it goes so that recycling collects the trash, makes metals of it, and trade depot sells the stuff then.
I have issues all the time with the game servers because I have slow, yet stable internet. It just never wants to connect, and always freezes up whilst it loads on menus and whatnot.
Quote from: ReedME on March 25, 2013, 12:27:49 PM
They didn't have to. But they owed it to all of us that put up with this joke of a launch.
So by your logic, everytime your flight is delayed by even 5 minutes (which is a joke for most people) they should give you a free ticket to anywhere you want? I'm afraid it doesn't really work like that in the world my friend :)
Quote from: Dasha on March 26, 2013, 09:44:46 AM
So by your logic, everytime your flight is delayed by even 5 minutes (which is a joke for most people) they should give you a free ticket to anywhere you want? I'm afraid it doesn't really work like that in the world my friend :)
No I'm saying that EA despite taking a huge amount of pre-orders and having had experienced with such a launch should have learnt from their mistake, and made sure they had the capacity to cope with the people connecting.
A flight being delayed due to circumstances out of the control of the airline is a completely different situation. If the flight was delayed by a significant amount of time due to the airlines own negligence then that'd be a different story.
Fact is, EA took a very strong single player game, and made it a requirement for you to be online at all times in order to use it. Then sold it to people saying they could play it on March 05. 80% of those people were not able to even get into the game for a good week later. This is significantly worse than a 10 minute delay to a flight. Especially considering it could have been avoided and about 50% of the players that are forced to use the servers bandwidth have 0 interest in actually playing multiplayer.
Quote from: ReedME on March 26, 2013, 10:38:37 AM
No I'm saying that EA despite taking a huge amount of pre-orders and having had experienced with such a launch should have learnt from their mistake, and made sure they had the capacity to cope with the people connecting.
A flight being delayed due to circumstances out of the control of the airline is a completely different situation. If the flight was delayed by a significant amount of time due to the airlines own negligence then that'd be a different story.
Fact is, EA took a very strong single player game, and made it a requirement for you to be online at all times in order to use it. Then sold it to people saying they could play it on March 05. 80% of those people were not able to even get into the game for a good week later. This is significantly worse than a 10 minute delay to a flight. Especially considering it could have been avoided and about 50% of the players that are forced to use the servers bandwidth have 0 interest in actually playing multiplayer.
Most flights are delayed because of the airline's incompetence. A plane malfunction is considered out of their control but it really isn't.
I agree that EA games cocked up the launch and they showed incredible incompetence by doing so but to say they 'owed it' to all of us is a bit steep. Also by then complaining about the choice of games they offer for free is just a bit... ungrateful.
Quote from: sami on March 25, 2013, 01:34:11 PM
If the recycling is full, have you built the trade depot?
As it goes so that recycling collects the trash, makes metals of it, and trade depot sells the stuff then.
Yes I was exporting it but then the plant just quit running :'(
Still not a single server error here. I have connected to one in Oceania.
the names of the servers do not imply where the server is... hence "Antarctica"
Quote from: [SC] - lilius on March 28, 2013, 03:49:14 AM
Yes I was exporting it but then the plant just quit running :'(
I've had similar. I had a fully upgraded plant and it just quit producing at some point. I had do demolish and rebuild it, after which it worked fine until a hurricane destroyed my nuke and made the map unplayable D:
Quote from: swiftus27 on March 28, 2013, 11:08:47 AM
the names of the servers do not imply where the server is... hence "Antarctica"
In the "EA server world" this one was in Oceania. ;)
Quote from: saftfrucht on March 28, 2013, 11:09:00 AM
I've had similar. I had a fully upgraded plant and it just quit producing at some point. I had do demolish and rebuild it, after which it worked fine until a hurricane destroyed my nuke and made the map unplayable D:
It costs almost 200k to put it all back up running as before. :-\
The whole map got full of radiation?
Quote from: [SC] - lilius on March 28, 2013, 03:34:42 PM
The whole map got full of radiation?
A quarter, the nuke stood in a corner. But a quarter of the map unusable = entire map unusable with these tiny maps.
Just have a grade school... they make nukes blow up too when you have apes at the controls.
Is anyone starting any regions I can join? I have some time to play tonight
(what server?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ytk1agmcXhU#!
Seems a bit excessive doesn't it? :P
my god this heap of crap is buggy... grr... >:(
What's now?
So does this game work yet or does it still suck, guys?
Quote from: alexgv1 on June 15, 2013, 06:22:26 PM
So does this game work yet or does it still suck, guys?
it works fine.
Quote from: swiftus27 on June 15, 2013, 09:08:19 PM
it works fine.
That's good. So is the gameplay all fun and the bugs ironed out now? I saw it was still quite expensive on Origin the other day.
I started this thread a few years back when I first heard of Sim City 5 being developed - I was excited but as the result shows it was a poor effort from EA.
The good news is that there is now a brand new city builder on the market recently launched - Cities Skyline - The reviews are amazing and the game is tons of fun.
Check it out if you are a city builder fan
Quote from: Hassel on March 23, 2015, 07:34:48 PM
I started this thread a few years back when I first heard of Sim City 5 being developed - I was excited but as the result shows it was a poor effort from EA.
The good news is that there is now a brand new city builder on the market recently launched - Cities Skyline - The reviews are amazing and the game is tons of fun.
Check it out if you are a city builder fan
Yes, it is quite good!
Sim City 5 was so bad. It was the final straw for EA as far as I care.
I will not purchase, or give another cent to EA, ever. So far I've lived up to it.
Anyone bought Cities Skyline? Thoughts?
Skylines is great, just get it 8)
Made in Finland, like AirwaySim ;)
oh yes, here's another made-in-Finland game, work in progress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IZ_TEzg7M awesome. ;D
Cities Skyline is great...watch out for that traffic though
PS - get it via Steam so that you can access mods etc