Problems with growth

[bluetooth 0]

In Cities XL you can try to develop all businesses and that is of course the most interesting way to grow you city. However you'll soon realize that "Pollution is killing everything" and how fun is that? This is the main problem with game play in Cities XL. Easy to solve if we could build structures/trees/parks that reduce pollution, but for some reason MC:s point of view is that we have to make the citizens happy enough to accept the pollution. Why, it only reduces the fun of playing?

The second problem with growth is that you can only develop one freight business and one (or possibly two) passenger businesses. If you try to develop two freight businesses you'll end up losing money because it's too expensive. The main reason for this is that the cost of freight is too expensive. Highway Road Link = 1000 per freight. For your first freight business you can build Expressway Road Links = 5 for one freight. This makes it impossible to develop a second business and without losing money.  If you are happy enough to build your city on a map where you can build a harbor I believe it's possible , the cost for one freight if you build a small harbor is 200 and if you build a big harbor it's 150. That could work, but then of course we're back we are back where I started, “Pollution in killing everything”.

 Another problem with freight businesses is that you can't build more than a small number of the "exceptional" buildings that increase production (MBA etc.). So it's not only more expensive to expand a second freight business but also the potential income is reduced. The result is a loss and how fun is it to develop a business when you know that your income will decrease in the end.

The result of this is that I end up building cities with one freight business and offices, offices, offices and perhaps a few high tech industries. I buy waste, fuel and manufacturing. That might be fun for a while but it would be more interesting to use all the potential of this game.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the maps and I don't want to develop all businesses on the same map but if I have oil and water on the same map I want to develop both without losing money.

[ssg jim 0]

does any one know how to build a port or harbor. i keep having problems

[fx2050 0]

just plop it down but you have to keep searching and rotating it to find a plot to sit it down, gets a pain sometimes