Multi-city Tips?

[Shpigford 0]

The new SimCity clearly relies heavily on making use of an entire region instead of just self-contained cities. In general, I like that idea and it certainly adds a new level of gameplay.

 

But I'm having trouble figuring out how to actually properly use multiple cities together.

 

So, would love some tips/tricks that you've tried for making use of multiple cities in a region to collectively grow your cities.

 

Whether that's separating out power or dividing up classes or residential or keeping industrial primarily in a single city, etc.

[Bibor_Kiraly 21]

 Me too, because my workers and shoppers aren't commuting. Could be the servers being down half the time (generous assesment).

[TinyWeeny 6]

The #1 tip:

 

Don't rely on multi-city play.

 

The servers are so fucked right now that it's not a good idea to rely on another city for water or power or sewage treatment. Your deals will drop out with no warning, leaving your city without needed resources.

 

And people don't seem to be commuting out of cities correctly. My city numbers will show a large number of people commuting in, but none of my other cities have commuters going out. I've been trying to make a city with a surplus of workers that can commute to my industrial based city, but they just go homeless instead of commuting. idk whats up with that.

 

 

Other than that: make sure to plop a recycle center and add on some alloy reclamation parts. Then create a trade depot and set it to export alloy. Even if you are -$2000 in the whole with your budget, you'll still make 50k-100k per month. And later you can make tvs and cpus with the alloy and make double the cash instead of directly exporting it. If you want, you can make a couple centers in one city and send your recycling trucks out to the other cities to maximize your cash-flow when playing that city, but you'll have to be careful about whether or not they are working correctly. I was never able to get my trash and recycle trucks to effectively collect from other cities.

 

 

Hopefully EA will fix whatever is so broken with their servers and then multi-city play will be more valuable. It's pretty sad that they made this game so reliant on multiple cities and then failed at making their servers reliable enough to do it.

[J-man85 0]

At this point region seems broken. I'm able to share workers, power, water and sewege (the server was doing fine!) but when a fire broke out in my city that relies on a fire truck from a neighboring city notrucks arrived and the fire spread. When I loaded the other city to see if I actually DID share a firetruck (which i did) and returned to my city with fire, the fire as GONE!

[Gulch 0]

The issue I'm having with multi-city play is I'll play on city A for a couple hours (real time), then start city B, after a couple hours, I go back to city A and it has lost a lot of my work that I've done... buildings, roads, schools, about an hours worth of work just.... gone.

[epyrion 1]

Its very weird for me. Some elements work and others don't. When I try to buy electricity from earlier city it does't work, but i can buy sewage treatment just fine.

 

I can get fire truck and police car coverage from my previous cities but not ambulances. Also, the gifting system is very glitchy.

 

When i try to gift simoleons from city A to City B. It subtracts the amount from city a's budget but it doesn't get added on to city b's budget no matter how long i wait (its been 1 day irl but it still hasn't come)

[jcaulfield8 0]

My city isn't sharing the departments that my neighboring city has put on their city hall. We figured out which city would upgrade at each turn but now we arent sharing that with each other.

Did i do something wrong or is this another freaking issue with this launch?

[mastorofpuppetz 199]

ANother thing that is messes up in the games current state.................