Owning The Streets of Simcity

Yada Yada Yada ..... details ?

Confirmation of no highways; has the US outlawed freeway construction or something?

^^ no highways maybe... but within that boring text is also confirming trams (or) street cars...

Simulation (not only for transport) seems awesome, but the graphics are aweful... Not much is going to change in the following months... the theme is definitely childish and cartoonish...

Do they not realize that the more blog posts they put out, the more we lose interest? I mean, the developers are doing a great job at what they are doing, but they are doing the wrong thing; bad direction.

well yeah, it doesn't change the fact about things we don't like having or not having. But we learned that there will be tram tracks that can be laid seperately and not only in avenue. Park n' Rides are cool to have, and that actually function as such. Sims using multiple network types to get to their destination is cool. And all the extra data will be pretty cool. Bittersweet I tell ya.

You are all hating at the blog posts , but by far this one is the most informative of them all. They told us there is going to be light rail , heavy rail , shuttle buses and more types of transportation.

It seems that since you don't like something you all just ignore all the other good facts only to attract more followers to your negative point of view.

Fine the city tiles are small , its a new and powerful engine , therefore its demanding , yes they know we want it to be bigger since we have powerful computers , god , after the game is launched they can even release a patch containing larger tiles.

uh oh, it's the opinion police. shhh... don't say what you think. unless of course it coinsides with what they think. although you may say a little something, something if you follow their limitation guide.

Definately an improvement on the information now. But now I am worried about subway. They made no mention of it. I don't know what they would be thinking if they don't add Subways.

And I still hope highways will be added at least in the way of DLC/an expansion.

ONLINE ONLY = I'M NOT BUYING IT

I become a bit more disappointed each time I read one of these blog entries. From what I have read, there will not be many transportation options. I do not want additional content in expansions. I maintain high hopes for the new Sim City, but I want a more complete game. From what I have seen so far, this is not it.

What an idiot. To the Simtropolians who live in areas with huge traffic jams: Houston, the Northeast, Los Angeles, Europe, etc.: do your cities cease to function when there are traffic jams?

Didn't think so.

I become a bit more disappointed each time I read one of these blog entries. From what I have read, there will not be many transportation options. I do not want additional content in expansions. I maintain high hopes for the new Sim City, but I want a more complete game. From what I have seen so far, this is not it.

I should add, my overall feeling is that I am much more excited for this game than disappointed. I want this to be a great game, but my excitement wanes when I am lead to believe that staples of transit gameplay, core pieces of Sim City that have been there from the start, are being left out.

OK, There are tons of people that i read saying "online only=im not buying" I bet everyone knows somebody that said that, so if your not going to buy please don't go saying "online=no buy for me" on every Sim city 5 forum.

Online only = I'm not buying

Why not? Once this game is released, the time for voice to be heard will be over. Who has the right to regulate how often and how strongly that voice will be heard?

Would EA/Maxis give in to a demand if it was weak? Personally, I find it much more annoying to see people complain repeatedly about what other people are saying and how often they say it.

Maybe I've missed it previously, but the last two paragraphs sounds like excellent news:

Players will be able to evaluate the performance of their systems by: 1. Checking how many people are waiting to be picked up. 2. How long they have to wait on average, 3. How many passengers are currently riding in vehicles, and 4. How many have been dropped off that day.

Each stop will also have similar information available, so it’s possible to really drill down on the data and make decisions on whether to add more vehicles or turn off infrequently used stops, for example.

In SC4 I would love to more closely manage my transit network, and as I understand the quote above, it seems this will be possible.

It doesn't help that most of the blogs are about "funny" shaped cities, or how the data layer looks. but it seems that below the somewhat displeasing cartoon graphics not only is there a lot of data, but we can control that data, more closely than in SC4.

People complained about poor simulation in SCS and CXL (relative to SC4), here we have what seems like a great simulation and not so great graphics.

In SC4 you could get to a stage where you could just leave the city to grow itself, in SC2013 it seems like you have more to do, so maybe the lower city size isn't so noticeable after all.

Please don't decide not to buy it, before the beta comes out and people start playing it.

"...more so than could ever drive in from the regional highway."

So yeah, like others have said, it looks like highways won't be in at least the game's initial release. Disappointing for sure, but one would have to expect an expansion pack following the launch.

More and more it appears that the concentration is on "city" rather than region. It seems that the initial release will have a lot of things missing that SC4 players are used to having. In fact, it looks like if you want this version as tall, you will also keep SC4 simply because the new version is some kind of throwback to SC3K with 3D and some improvements.

There still appears to be no relief on the size of the city tile, which means things like airports are rather out, and a major highway cutting through town will simiply take up the whole tile with one interchange. So, no highways.

With current PC gear, what is possible, is possible. I don't expect large SC4-like vistas with a 3D game because it would just, simiply eat the machine no matter how many cores it has. You will still have only one GPU unless some really fancy programming is done and the user is unconscionably wealthy.

This game is starting to look like it won't run well, if at all, on my current dual core box, and I am certaily not outputting multiple bucks to upgrade my otherwise perfectly adequate machine. As for people with laptops, you will need a cooler to run this to prevent overheat shutdowns.

If the simulation is actually run on the local PC, then things are going to be limited indeed. This is really a job for distributed processing.

What an idiot. To the Simtropolians who live in areas with huge traffic jams: Houston, the Northeast, Los Angeles, Europe, etc.: do your cities cease to function when there are traffic jams?

Didn't think so.

It's all relative of course... it will just take people a lot longer to get to their destinations if there are lots of cars on the road.

Going through L.A. at 4am is a very different experience than going through it at 4pm!

LivingInThePast, on , said:

What an idiot. To the Simtropolians who live in areas with huge traffic jams: Houston, the Northeast, Los Angeles, Europe, etc.: do your cities cease to function when there are traffic jams?

Didn't think so.

It's all relative of course... it will just take people a lot longer to get to their destinations if there are lots of cars on the road.

Going through L.A. at 4am is a very different experience than going through it at 4pm!

hahaha - sometimes. Sometimes 4AM looks just like 4PM!