[souljah]

I am cruxDoc on origin, add me up! I want to build lots of cities (as soon as it is available in Aus)

[iM SundeR]

We need a table of origin ID's or something like that! Will be playing all night & tomorrow so add me up

iMSundeR in origin!

[Poruchiik]

Australian SimCity is now live from Origin, I hope that there isn't going to be many problems like what the Americans are experiencing at the moment. I've been watching these http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2...events/1902153. It's the Let's All Be Mayor event that Maxis did a week before the game was released it's really informative and also really damn hilarious BUT each video is 4 hours long...

This game seems extremely complex, will be awesome to learn something before HotS comes out. My Origin tag is Poruchiik feel free to add me!

See you guys in game!

[UHF]

I'd advise caution before purchasing this (if you haven't already) - let it simmer a few days. See link below...

http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Limite...owViewpoints=1
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/simcity/user-reviews

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

thanks for sharing, agree with most of the complaints

[Cyanide]

You Tube

You Tube

helpful tips and tricks!

Quick Comments

	nirvAnA:	TY!
	Poruchiik:	Dude's voice is so funny!

[iM SundeR]

All these complaints about small city size.. the concept is you manage an entire region your self with each cities (up to 17 is the max for a region?) being a specialist city..

I get that it's fun to complain but come on the system works pretty good..

[souljah]

Nirv and Sunder why you no accept friend requests on Origin =(

[Roz]

so expensive =.="

[souljah]

So buggy... origin says I have played it for 3 hours, of which 99.9% was spent hoping that I could connect and 0.1% was in the tutorial before it disconnected me

[Lokth]

still havent played it, giving up after 4 hrs, sc2 time

[Poruchiik]

This is pretty much the only time you can play this game. But holy shit is it good.

Word to the wise... don't max out your population before getting the proper infrastructure. >.<

[|Erasmus|]

Originally Posted by souljah

So buggy... origin says I have played it for 3 hours, of which 99.9% was spent hoping that I could connect and 0.1% was in the tutorial before it disconnected me

I'll raise you with mine saying 20+ hours for playing the intro level and 15 minutes after that before work and me leaving the client all day hoping it wouldn't log me out (which it did, and I couldn't get back on all night )

EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=0FsrzqJNQF8

[Cyanide]

So after playing close to about 10 cities... There are quite a few things that are just hard to understand.

Population : Workers : Available Jobs

I've gotten my population to 150,000 before, but the workers are well below 30,000. And the amount of jobs available is crazy high.

The numbers never match up. I'd like to see if anyone is able to get the number of unfilled jobs to 0.

I eventually dezone most of my city and reduced the population to 80k, but not much of a difference.

Traffic

Sims are just stupid, they need to be smarter about traffic routes. Streetcars > buses. Seriously, buses are a scam.
And congestion is so bad, that getting above 100k population is a little bit tricky to manage. Intersections causes jams, and you'd think more roads lead to better traffic, but it's quite the opposite because of said intersections.

Income

My most successful city by far, was raking in 9k/hr. With a population of over 120k. Congestion was terrible. Crime was high and fires were raging all over (due to congestion not allowing police and firemen to reach their destinations).

Fast forward to all my coal/ore/recycling plants working at full capacity, and deciding to save 1.5m while afk. I decided to dezone everything and selectively bulldoze many unhappy buildings. This improved traffic tremendously (less people), crime was reduced to almost nothing and fires as well...

Result? About -13k to -15k/hr income, with Trading keeping me in the black (barely).

Water

You WILL run out of water. Rain is suppose to replenish the water supply in the area, but I hardly see it rain, and even if it does, it's probably only 3 seconds of rain in cheetah speed.

Solution: Have your Sewage Treatment Plant next to your Water Pump running with Filtered Pumps. Infinite poop water for your city. Newater for the win.

Finally, let's not forget the overstressed servers that take forever to send your money/ambulances/fire trucks and what have you to your friend's region.

/endrant

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

great tips thanks!!!!

[Lokth]

15 minutes to go only to get dc'd again

Im guessing all other servers are down so people are playing oceanic ><

Loktharia needs me, they have awful health problems (and zombies) there.

[Cyanide]

i raged quit immediately after my 19min queue ended only to be greeted with another 19min queue, lol...

[nirvAnA]

Now I know what they meant by the game being "limited edition".

Ability to login to come soon as downloadable content $$$

[nirvAnA]

1. Oh okay, looks like I just have to wait 20 mins!



2. Yay, just 1 more second!



3.





The worse game client in the world just got a little worse. Not even a confirmed slot, you're just queuing for a chance to get a error message LOL

Quick Comments

iM SundeR:

change server once u get a queue, don't hit play, switch back to oceanic. works for me every time

[Lokth]

The first paid DLC is the ability to play the game!

Got the exact same thing, que que que que, reque, que que que and network error

[iM SundeR]

Buses are not a scam. There are threads on reddit about people getting 99% public transport usage with a lot of bus stops. The guy who wrote the code has given feedback as well. You can also achieve much higher income than that, although I haven't yet.

The AI is bad however, but that's getting fixed.

[Cyanide]

more tips and tricks

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9345736.page

my favourite has got to be this...


Q: Is there an alternative way to get fast cash besides a loan?

A: Yes. Raise your taxes to 20% for two ticks, then lower them back to 9 or whatever you previously had. This will give you almost the same amount of money as a bond, for free! We find ourselves doing this every now and again with absolutely no detriment to our citizens. Not one abandonment or mention of these secret tax hikes anywhere.