CosmicSpeed talks TurtleSpeed

[CosmicSpeed 28]

This weekend I decided to experiment. With Turtle Speed.

 

I created a 3-city region to keep it simple with a main objective of ONLY playing in Turtle Speed. Secondary objective, minimal pollution. 

 

The creators give you a pretty good region to start with; one city has all the resources while the other two just have good water and wind supply. I start with one of these and call it TurtleSpeed (to remind me f my goal). I build away in Clearwater, trying to micromanage everything I can. Progress started slow, EXTREMELY slow. And I found myself taking out loan after loan. Once I got my first town hall upgrade, my first module was a Dept. of Finance to open up the larger loan amounts. My first plop was a library and RCI JUST enough to meet the demands. That means I had a mere 10  industrial buildings to start with. From here on out it is just Commercial and Residential to see if I can flourish with minimal pollution from industry. So far so good, right? Well.....right. I have only minimal traffic issues and as of August of Year 1, I have almost 20K population, Wind Power, 1x Clinic, 2x Fire Small, 1x Police, Dept of Tourism and Finance, Grade School, Community College, Expo Center.

 

But I couldn't neglect my other cities. My plot of land of Norwich Heights with the resources has become JUST an OIL town for now with a Dept of Utilities (Sewage Central), Trash Collection for region, 1x Clinic and a trade depot for a booming industrial section with some residential and commercial. It is having some issues with making a profit, having to turn off parks and other sources but it is finally catching up to par with my main city of Clearwater.

 

My third town only has a few houses. Because of Turtle Speed, you really end up spending a lot of time with individual cities and it is hard to even manage 3 at this speed right now.

 

Discoveries of Turtle Speed:

-There is some sort of correlation of actual time spent playing the game and the amount of time it takes structures to be built in your city. I only have a few small (low/mid class ) high rises but they were built in my city in due time, all in turtle speed, sometime I feel within a "hour" of sim-play.

 

-It takes TIME, I was nervous about my first Expo event as I had No Dept. of Tourism or transportation system or other drives for tourists, but I managed to make 15K off the Motocross event.

 

-It is a lot of fun. I managed to power my 2 cities off of a mere 3 wind turbines for a long time. Once I added population and the Expo Center, power and sewage production/consumption went up drastically and I had to plop more.

 

-I am just drawing roads, no grid format here for the most part and traffic has been alright. I have been keeping how I want avenues to look in the city when i design the layout and so far so good. I hope to get some images up soon.

 

Any other people have some experiences with turtle speed?

 

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If only I had the time....

[CosmicSpeed 28]

It was a rainy weekend so not much to do here.

 

I really am nit sure JUST turtle speed has any true benefits. It does allow you to slow yourself down and micromanage but there is not too big of a point in running a whole simulation at that speed. You just wish things would happen faster and you end up spending money/taking out loans. I will still maintain the region but I am having fun experimenting with sole R, C an I cities.

[VanGioRobNelli 29]

I don't think it gives any benefit...  I find that it hinders me and I am A LOT better at budgeting $ when I play on 2x or 3x speed.  I typically play on 2x unless I am just trying to rake in profit (during a period of no RCI expansion), then I will play on 3x speed.  

 

IMHO, turtle speed is TOO slow.  Maybe it is just my nature but I really feel like I have nothing to do when I play on turtle.  

 

I will say this... turtle speed is GOOD for OIL cities.  I tend to burn through most of my oil before I am truly ready to re-specialize.  

[OlySpec 1]

I run turtle speed for about 60% of my gameplay.  I pause when I build large sections or at the very beginning when planning roads, etc.  I bump up the speed when I want to see how traffic flows, need to get a shipment to global market for some $$$ influx, etc, but that is about it.

 

I love the ability to manage at a micro level for a while and then speed it up and manage at the macro for a bit to watch my changes take place.

 

I have over 170hrs of game play and have never built a great works yet.  Still enjoying just the small accomplishments and waiting to be able to play in a co-op region of like minded players.