SimCity (DRM discussion = ban)

This is deliberate, they speak simlish

 

If there is still a spot in the OCAU region, can I get an invite. Origin ID: Strik3r_aus

 

So anyone... how do you increase land value without building 1:1 parks:residential

Also commercial/residential should you separate them or mix and match each block?

Why do you think they are all located in dublin? I can't see any good reason to come to that conclusion from that file, all it has is lots of DNS entries, who knows where they are physically located?

Give it a go, what do you have to lose?

 

Ok, you have to create little "blocks", which are easy to do as the game gives you guide lines when placing roads. So make a small 4x4 grid, or 4x6, 2x8, etc with low density roads to begin with, then gradually as your city grows just go with medium, then high density roads.

If there is demand for low wealth, in that suburb place houses with one or two of the ($) "parks", the first option. For medium, place the ($$) parks and for high wealth, the ($$$) parks. By parks I mean any of those value things, doesn't literally have to be a park. You absolutely do not need 1:1 parks, that is a massive waste of money. Just try to stick them semi-central so they cover a decent amount of residential/commercial.

That is how you differentiate suburbs into different wealth and yes, that does include commercial too. The "parks" effect commercial just like residential. The general rule seems to be that for each 3 or 4 blocks of residential, you want 1 block of commercial. A 4x4 "block" is enough for a skyscraper to pop up eventually. So yes, you do want to mix and match them, with your commercial zones being on busy roads.
Think about it this way. When you live somewhere, you ideally want some shops in your local suburb, not too far away which is why most suburbs have a shopping centre or some small shop section.
Keep your industrial zone away from your residents and ideally upwind so the pollution gets carried away.

As your city and demand grows, just upgrade your streets and watch the skyscrapers pop up. The rich people seem to love them


I've found the size of the maps limiting, just like everyone else. However, it's teaching me to be more efficient but also to SLOW DOWN. Seriously, a city that grows too fast becomes unmanagable. My 3rd city is a hell of a lot better than the first two as I've built more efficiently.

ps. Being on a map with low water sucks giant balls. Prepare to hate life if everything starts to shut down due to lack of water.

 

Could i get an invite to the Oceanic 2 server OCAU region?
Origin ID: MajorGaz

 

Resolve the DNS... They're all Amazon eu-west servers. (Well, all the ones I checked were, and I checked one labelled from each region)

 

There is a region with 16 plots of land. But its really 4 groups of 4.

I think 7 is the biggest connected region.

People are supposedly getting banned for doing this.



$44AUD for the Digital Deluxe OR $26AUD for the Limited Edition.

 

Don't really need invites unless it's a private region, you just have to friend people, be on teh same server and you can see what they are doing in the citylog



My best city uses a circular design, with townhall, in the centre, and services on the next inner circular ring and the main avenue off the highway splitting down the centre, and I have over 50k population, traffic flow is very good, with tourist coming in. Mixed resident and commercial zones on the outter rings, industry, water and gabage on the edge of the city where the wind blows
Park and rides at all major resident junctions and at the city entrance and exit.
Have had no major fire or crime issues, unlike some of my other grid like cities.

My largest city has over 160k, with room to grow.

You need to have junctions for the cars to U turn, I've noticed

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edit v1.4 is out - Use Aussies are closer to Antarctica

Update to the “Select a Server” dialog in the game launcher. This will now indicate which servers you have active cities on

Fix for an issue where selection shard did not display when the previously selected server is down

We've fixed a problem where some players were getting stuck when switching shards in the server select menu

We've opened 1 new server: Antarctica

 

Learned a lot about getting things working last night.

Had a 60k city, so moved on to start a new one. Caused me so much head-scratching. I've had two major problems:
Industrial complaining they don't have any low-income workers.
For quite a while I had a town hovering just below 5k citizens, and then I added parks to bring up the land value. The result though was that whole now everything was high-wealth, but has low education, so they won't go work there either.
The further problem with that though was that my population cratered - all the way to about 2,000. I couldn't get it much above this even with a full map. The problem turned out to be very simple but less than obvious - you can't get jack density with low density roads. Upgrading to high capacity roads made everything upgrade to skyscrapers almost instantly - so in the space of four months went from about 2k to 20k.

I'm still stuck with the problem of whiny Industrial not being able to find employees though.

 

I cant find a solution to this either.
No matter how big my popluation is, and how small my industrial and commerical sector is i ALWAYS have a worker shortage in some of my cities.

My first city was a ore mining one.
Second was oil.
Third was a Tourist (casino) one.

The tourist town was so much easier to build and maintain. Only had Commercial so didnt really have a worker shortage. Had no industrial so less complaining.

My only issue now is getting in enough tourists to go to my casino's
Doesnt help that godzilla came through and destroyed my Sydney Opera house and another one of my tourist attractions. 200k down the drain.....ugh.

 

I had the same issue, its because all your sims are now educated and dont want to work the shit jobs.

You need to get some crappy housing with low density roads so that they dont move into the $$$.

 

Screencaps of my most efficient circular city
Town hall in the centre, servcies next - no major traffic issues. Good coverage
Pakr and ride at city entrance, exit, and major resident intersections

 

Apparently a trick with this is to use your sewerage treatment plants and water filtering plants opposite each other - apparently it give unlimited water (haven't had the funds to try it yet - I have an area running out of water as well )

 

It works

Also putting the water plant next to a large body of water like a river is infinite as well

 

looks like canberra.

 

I've made a region in Antarctica if anyone wants in.

sifMoo is my origin ID.

 

I'm guessing that the French/German/English building packs are not worth it?

 

My first city has sewage spilled all over the place - so much of it that all my water is being pumped dirty now. Can this ever be cleaned up, or is it a case of once it's in the ground, that's it? If I can't clean it up, I feel this entire map will just become one big map of sewerage

 

Maybe Maxis will release DLC superheroes to clean up your shit?

 

Ground pollution will clean up if you throw trees over it.