What difficulty level do you play at?

[PatternRec 1]

I've almost exclusively played at the hardest difficulty level and recently tried a city at the medium level. It seemed fun at first, but then it got boring. I've got a city on a large map with about 20k population, all low density. Nothing else in the region.

Now when I zone new residential, even when high wealth isn't in demand, a bunch of high wealth eventually replaces the low wealth, then ends up with no jobs, then get occupied by low or medium wealth. 

I'm wondering if this is because of the difficulty level. I cut my teeth on the hardest level and I think maybe the simulation is creating housing it doesn't need too easily. I'll probably go back to the higher difficulty for my next city.

I was wondering what difficulty level most others play at.

[PatternRec 1]

I've almost exclusively played at the hardest difficulty level and recently tried a city at the medium level. It seemed fun at first, but then it got boring. I've got a city on a large map with about 20k population, all low density. Nothing else in the region.

Now when I zone new residential, even when high wealth isn't in demand, a bunch of high wealth eventually replaces the low wealth, then ends up with no jobs, then get occupied by low or medium wealth. 

I'm wondering if this is because of the difficulty level. I cut my teeth on the hardest level and I think maybe the simulation is creating housing it doesn't need too easily. I'll probably go back to the higher difficulty for my next city.

I was wondering what difficulty level most others play at.

[PatternRec 1]

I've almost exclusively played at the hardest difficulty level and recently tried a city at the medium level. It seemed fun at first, but then it got boring. I've got a city on a large map with about 20k population, all low density. Nothing else in the region.

Now when I zone new residential, even when high wealth isn't in demand, a bunch of high wealth eventually replaces the low wealth, then ends up with no jobs, then get occupied by low or medium wealth. 

I'm wondering if this is because of the difficulty level. I cut my teeth on the hardest level and I think maybe the simulation is creating housing it doesn't need too easily. I'll probably go back to the higher difficulty for my next city.

I was wondering what difficulty level most others play at.

[skimberdu 1]

i think you already know why your High wealth Res dilapidate, or leave because they have no jobs... but i suggest a faster mass transit(e.g. monorail,etc), or bring the jobs near the Residents w/o jobs... for me the difficulty doesn't matter ...as long as the sims get what they want they'll shut their mouth.....

[skimberdu 1]

i think you already know why your High wealth Res dilapidate, or leave because they have no jobs... but i suggest a faster mass transit(e.g. monorail,etc), or bring the jobs near the Residents w/o jobs... for me the difficulty doesn't matter ...as long as the sims get what they want they'll shut their mouth.....

[skimberdu 1]

i think you already know why your High wealth Res dilapidate, or leave because they have no jobs... but i suggest a faster mass transit(e.g. monorail,etc), or bring the jobs near the Residents w/o jobs... for me the difficulty doesn't matter ...as long as the sims get what they want they'll shut their mouth.....

[skimberdu 1]

i think you already know why your High wealth Res dilapidate, or leave because they have no jobs... but i suggest a faster mass transit(e.g. monorail,etc), or bring the jobs near the Residents w/o jobs... for me the difficulty doesn't matter ...as long as the sims get what they want they'll shut their mouth.....

[urmomology72 0]

I think he means that the sims move in, and have no jobs, because he lacks CO$$$ CS$$$ and I-HT. I usually play on easy, because as far as a city builder, I'm still at pre-k levels. I commonly see the residential demand go up, commercial and industrial go down, and at the same time there are no work zots over my sims houses. I think it is mostly due to the fact that the growth rate is set higher, and you need to really work to keep your commercial growing as well as your industry at the same time. 

[joshriddle 29]

Easy. I get less abandonment and it is easier to make it more realistic

[Yonk 2]

I would consider myself a vetern SimCity player (played SC2000 back in 1998 on the PS1, SC3000 from 2000-2008, and SC4 for the last two years) with over 11 years' experience, but I've always played on easy, because I've never really questioned what changes between the difficulty levels due to playing on hard, besides the obvious starting-with-less-cash. Having so much demand for high-wealth residential, even when there is no high-wealth jobs to support them is a part of the game regardless of difficulty, so I always tax them to death (over 14% in some cities!) to keep them out until I'm ready. They also sully my cookie-cutter suburbs, but that's a different topic altogther.

Once, I accidentally clicked on medium difficulty, but it was the smallest-size city tile, so I had filled with farms and a few houses in the space of five minutes, not long enough at all to tell what was different.

- Yonk

[punkrockgoth1988 1]

I am still learning the game so I usually play on Easy. One of the hardest things I find is to balance services with income. Trying to keep the city air clean by using clean energy is one of the hardest things besides getting my city residents to use Mass Transit. Of course, I just started a city where all residents working in the Industrial sector are forced to use subway because there is no other way there. I have a habit of playing on maps with water dividing the residential and the commercial from the industrial since that seems to be the only way to keep the commercial and residential sectors from getting super polluted early on in the game.

[tkuelker 2]

I usually play with the game paused. I plop buildings a lot.

[joshriddle 29]

Originally posted by: tkuelker@gmail.com

I usually play with the game paused. I plop buildings a lot.quote>

That isn't good, cause with it paused that means that you don't make income but continue to spend.

Also, isn't that a bit irrelevant to the original subject?

[SpongeLikeCannon 0]

I've recently started playing on Hard and am enjoying it much more. It's much more rewarding when the 'harder to get' buildings appear and satisfying sims actually takes some thought and effort. I am noticing desirability effects properly for the first time, on easy it didn't matter that much how many parks you used but on hard they are essential. Harder is just more fun

[PatternRec 1]

I've started a new region and gone back to playing on the hardest level. I find it more challenging, and the challenge keeps from over-indulging in civics. I've got a full install of the NAM, and have just installed for the first time the Real Highway Mod. I'm gonna have to practice some of the tools on a throw-away map since I've not used it before but it looks great.

[catty-cb 4,397]

Easy, but I'm on the RTMT team so usually playing to test something