Final tweak requests

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

If there is a final patch (likely, if/when they shut down the servers), what tweak(s) would you like to see in it?  I'm not talking about major changes we shouldn't expect now (larger cities, for instance), but something which would be nice and should be an easy programming job for them.

 

I'd like to see the Large Fire station hazmat garage not require the university upgrade.  It's always been annoying that building high density Industry is available right out of the starting gate, but you need to build a space-hogging college and an upgrade to get the hazmat truck.

 

The removal of "distance from main building" restrictions would be nice, so we could put say the casino HQ addon buildings across town.

[zacnlinc 4]

I would like for the game to be fixed so that we don't lose students that go off to other cities for education and never return! Kinda boring to have to keep demolishing residences that are no longer educated as the students have flown from the nest!

[rmjohnson144 42]

I would like for the game to be fixed so that we don't lose students that go off to other cities for education and never return! Kinda boring to have to keep demolishing residences that are no longer educated as the students have flown from the nest!

 

That will never get fixed.  It is part of the regional bug and is a glassbox engine issue that requires a total rewrite.  If you want to keep students in your city don't build regional mass-transit.

 

Both regular buses and high school bus will send then into the region.  Remove them both and you should be on on education for at least 90% education (4.5 hats)

 

Since there hasn't been any real game mechanics fixes in almost two years.  The only thing I can see being done in the next patch is shutting down the servers completely in whole or part.

 

They've already shut down the main Maxis studio and fired pretty much the whole crew, except a lucky few.

 

It would be nice to just fix all of the basic non-mechanics issues.  typos, freeway fix for the great works, balancing, warning meters to proper warning signals, etc.  Just the stupid things that are easy to fix and require no code rewriting or searching.