10 New Screenshots

[Crissa 1]

I'm hoping they'll solve the repetitive building plop problem... To meet goals, you have to plop many of the same building, and because the city eventually changes towards one tile set or another, it will gain another repetition problem again.

I'm also worried about the scale; it looks as though it'll have a Populous: The Beginning type scale, and that's just tiny and silly. I want something big without me having to micro-manage every building - I hope there will be campus plops and randomized plops like we have in SC4.

-Crissa

[panthersimcity4 162]

See, maybe they ARE listening to us.... maybe.

[ManagerJosh 0]

Originally posted by: Crissa I'm hoping they'll solve the repetitive building plop problem... To meet goals, you have to plop many of the same building, and because the city eventually changes towards one tile set or another, it will gain another repetition problem again.

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If that's observation is based off screenshots, I think one will be in for a quite an awakening when the game ships.

[SpeakingBadger 0]

All these screenshots lead me to a couple of questions that I don't know if anyone knows... 

First, with the transportation, I've heard there are only dirt roads and normal streets, but in the pictures, there are normal roads that look like cobblestone and some other kind of surface other than blacktop and there is even one with pictures that show an Avenue....  Did anyone else see that??

http://uoem.com/gallery/files/1/screenshot_16_big.jpg

Second, do we know if the game will still have any public transit systems... or can our Sims only travel by car....???

I'm excited on one hand, because it is new and some pictures look cool while others look, sort of cartoony... but graphics aside, some aspects of the game look like a real step up that will attract so many new players... good for Maxis and ultimately good for the consumer, because then they will keep improving the game, since they will have a stronger market for it.

 But I'm disappointed that they haven't kept, if they don't, some of the really basic and fun aspects of the game.... such as watching your city grow or change before your eyes... monitoring traffic patterns in order to design more efficient transportation networks... balancing public transit with regular roads, etc... 

I can however do without some of the tedious micromanagement task aspects though, so that is really good that some of them seem to have been removed or automated... but to have the choice would be nice...  plus, I'd like to see changes that happen in the game... not like in Sims 2... but real changes to the landscape, buildings that age or change with the needs of the game...  I do like being able to place pre-built buildings, but I think there should be a marriage of the two, to diversify the fun in the game..... I'm disappointed with the Regions going away... that was the problem in the early SimCity Games, pre SC4... there was no way to outsource certain tasks to your neighbors...  outsourcing is reality...  we don't have cities in a bottle!!  Dealing in the larger world will have to be added at some point or the game is destined for failure......

What I'm most concerned with is what is the overall concept or challenge of the game... can you lose??  Or piss your sims off enough to get kicked out as mayor......or have some of your systems fail so bad that everyone leaves...or is it just new age and goes on and on in pointless eternal bliss... forever and ever....???

I guess time will tell, I just hope I know before I put any money down on the game....

Justin

AKA SpeakingBadger

[Gorgogn_the_sim_killer 1]

I totally agree, this game lacks alot of things and offers few (one step forward three steps back). This game isn't even finished, and its almost relase time, and kinowing EA management they'll just say " *****, the customers... Phhht we just want their pay checks so we can build a golden statue infront of our Building made of silver"! If they don't care about me, then I don't care about them... plain and simple.

[beatle 24]

I must admit the graphics look really good.. but I am worried about building repitition and having the ability to build a giant and diverse city.. Hopefully we can mod the heck outta this game!

[KingTitan 6]

SIM CITY SOCIETIES........CITIES UNLIMITED.....and here we are posting on SIMTROPOLIS.........it get's all toooooooooo confusing.......

For me...I LOVE simcity......and quite frankly....I don't care what SIMULATION GAME or CITY that suceeds SIMCITY and/or SIMTROPOLIS...I will forever remain faithful to simtropolis.com

Think about the friendships that have formed, and all those downloads. LOL

[kdpflush 0]

they seem all half bad because none of them have any diagonal streets...honestly, how can they even call it a sim, no city doesn't have diagonal streets!