Sfletcher

I've been playing SimCity (2013) for a few months on and off, but only recently did I make an effort to fill an entire region with just my cities. I'll admit I'm obsessed with SimCity 4, and would have liked Maxis and Electronic Arts to build on that, instead of what they actually did. With all that said I wanted to give SimCity (2013) a chance. After a few dozen hours of continuous play on one region I have some observations and questions to something things I might be missing. 1) Small regions. I know we have all complained about it, and Maxis now says they won't expand them, but I can't help but comment. The burden of having a small region could be eased some if Maxis would allow some form of terraforming to be added. I don't mind a hilly region, or mountains but I would like the ability to flatten parts out to be used. 2) Lots- It drives me nuts that I can't build tightly compact, grid lined streets like in SimCity 4. Again something I think has already been hashed and re-hashed, but it makes some cities look completely fake with all the wasted space. On the same token, I would love to be able to plop a building without the road, and build the roads around it. This would perhaps reduce the amount of dead space per city. 3)Fire Departments- Maybe I'm missing this. A small fire station has one fire truck, that's fine it was like that in SimCity 4. A large fire station comes with ONE fire truck? Really? I have to pay to add fire trucks. It's simply mind boggling that this is the case. I can understand the extra cost of the large fire station involves everything it comes with, but still rather unreasonable with just one fire station. 4)Police Departments- Same as above applies, a small number of police cars with one station. In most cities a fully staffed large police station should be able to handle a reasonable amount of crime in a city of 200K. The game makes this near impossible most of the time. 5)Schools- Education seems more logical, I can add modules to increase the amount of children educated. 6)Transportation- Subway sums it up in one word. I won't even get into traffic, that's simply an uncontrolled nightmare. Traffic in these cities make my mega cities in SimCity 4 look like a joy ride and I can't understand why sometimes. It drives me nuts, and worse of all effects the issue of industry. 7)Specialization- First issue I have is, cities don't own industries, unless you live in the PRC. To get supplies from my mine, to my trade port, then my smelting factory, or oil refinery is a pain in the ass First off I should be able to dig iron ore from the mine and send it right to the smelting plant, without going to a trade port. Second there should be a mechanism in the global market place which allows me to direct my goods from one city to another, instead of the open market. My region should be able to support itself. There is much more to this entire problem, it just remains to be seen. Budget/Taxes- It seems by the time any city reaches a 100K population you are running in the red. Only industry saves you, something that seems crazy, no reason why property taxes can't pay for a cities services. Just some thoughts, and questions

Ok Thank you Cyclone Boom, that was great. Here are the images. I have done the re-install as instructed. If I am to do a custom re-install I must be missing here to click for this type of map. But this is currently what is happening.

Ok, So I tried the suggestion, simply clicking on the reinstall. I did not use custom the installation. It worked briefly, but then right back to were I started. I would like to show pictures of this, I just honestly don't know how to get them in a post here.

Forgive me if this has occurred and been answered, but I looked on the forum and can't find an answer to it. Perhaps I'm just not using the right words in the search box, but here is my problem. When I load my region, "The Republic of Maxis", my newest city Rockingham is only showing in Satellite version. I click on my transportation map and this is the only city that does not change over. I have been working on this city for two days, I have not entered any other city in the region. Since loading the city up I have only added two major modds, the NAM31 and Simcity4 Launcher. Any idea's on this? Or a possible fix? So far I have loaded SimCity 4 without the launcher, the normal method. I have also logged out of the region, into another region and back again and still the same thing.

I have played SimCity 2013 on and off since its release. I'm not going to rehash that mess, but I think my complaints would stream along the same lines as most folks. I hate the small maps, the ton of dead space, the failure to all terraforming etc. This morning while my son was sleeping I had enough quite time to go back into SimCity 4. Updated my NAM, download a few buildings, strolled down the streets of some of my larger cities like Great Harbor or the old capital of the Republic of Maxis Kingswood and realized how much I still love SimCity 4. I'm pretty sure in ten years I will still be playing this game, as long as their is modding out there. I'm can't modd, I'm not a tech genius like that, but I love the work that people put up here its amazing and with this kind of content there is no way I could fall in love with SimCity 2013. EA has been a disappointment for a long time now, they really need to do a lot of work before I could write a glowing review of SimCity 2013. So my vote is SimCity 4, now, tomorrow, forever.

Perhaps this will be fixed in a mod, or expansion. Going from plain vanilla SimCity 4 to the NAM was a huge improvement. The one other glaring disappointment, and maybe I'm just missing this and don't know how to do it yet is with zoning and buildings. In much of my SimCity 4 cities I have a grind system with zones and buildings going right flush against a 90 degree intersection, I can't do that here because of the modules. And I don't really know how to rotate like in SimCity 4. It's only a minor frustration, but still makes the design harder. When I zone out of a city I feel like I have to much open grass in what I want to be a concrete jungle. I was also vaguely disappointed in the transport system, but not as glaring. No subway, and yes I'm sure this was talked about somewhere else, the limited selection of ferries, and airport design, made me feel more like I was playing Tropico 4 than SimCity. I guess we will wait and see if these are fixed through mods or an expansion.

I was watching the flow of traffic in my city today and noticed a few things I don't understand. I watched my street cars for about five minutes on one section of road, and I noticed a two car trolley came through, and then was followed a moment later by a section. Now this particular city has nine cars, so what I don't understand was why I had two sets of cars following each other, instead of one on each side moving in the opposite direction? So after the trolleys I started to watch my high school busses, and the same thing occurred. I had two high school buses following each other, not going in different directs (yes I have bus stops in both directions from the schools). So now I started to watch the shuttle buses. Once again the same thing, in some cases I had two or three shuttle buses one after another following each other? I over laid the transportation maps, looking at where passengers were waiting, in two cases I noticed multiple shuttle buses moving in the general direction of stations with a lot of waiting passengers, but in the case of the other 10 shuttle buses, they were in districts of the city that did not have heavy passenger ridership yet they were still following each other. Any ideas?

I have played the SimCity series for 20 years, since the first game back in 1989. I have watched it develop from simple tiles to the beauty of SimCity 4. I will admit I have never played Sim Societies, I simply avoided it when I read the reviews of others. So when SimCity 2013 was announced I was excited but skeptical, most likely the same feelings many people had. Excited because the game was back in the hands of Maxis, but worried that Electronic Arts in its drive for a buck would screw this thing up. I love SimCity 4, I have played it since the day it came out in 2003, I don't know how to design buildings like many of you do in the exchange, but I have downloaded hundreds of them over the years, purchased the CD's from Simtropolis, and have for more then 4 years on and off worked on what I call my master piece Republic of Maxis. Up until last week I was still working on one of my cities, and I still plan to play SimCity 4 like always, and download new additions, as the game to me is still a masterpiece regardless of all its minor problems and faults. I work in the finance industry, and have a twelve month old son, so getting time to play this game over the last week, along with Electronic Arts failure to properly provide servers has been tough, but after some doing I got onto Oceanic 2 last evening and started to build New Plymouth. I think I have managed to put in a total of perhaps 3 hours of play and the game is breath taking. The graphics, the buildings are simply amazing, being able to follow a Sim from home to work to the store and not see him disappear was nice to say the least. I was critical of the map size at first, but now having understood the upgrades in the roads it seems to be just fine, my little city has more than 100,000 sims living in it. Having the modules has also been nice, I have two large elementary schools, and one high school, instead of eight elementary schools and 3 high schools. Three firehouses, and one police station protect my city, instead of half a dozen, and only one hospital and two clinics and my people are largely healthy. While this seemed like a plus what I didn't much like was water and sewer. Those damn drain pipes fill up quick, and you need a city of 75,000 people they allow for a pump station and a sewer treatment plant, so this made it harder for me, something I was not use to in SimCity 4. Other surprise, which I find a challenge is having to go back and forth into the data overlay maps for planning, I had to make sure I didn't cover my oil fields, (I did accidentally cover the coal fields). Overall I would say I'm now impressed, at first I was disguised, and fully prepared to go back to SimCity 4 for good, but now I can say having played a while I will enjoy this game, I think its got a lot of room to run. I hope and I do not know this answer, but I hope Maxis will allow MODS, as it has made SimCity 4 all the better. So just a few thoughts from a SimCity veteran. I' curious to hear what others think. I have read some of the forums here, and on EA's on site.

I was thinking about this the other day while watching the news with those terrible pictures of Haiti. Is there a way to update the disasters in Simcity 4? Meaning could we add new ones? I use to love the Hurricanes from Simcity 2000, or Floods. Or to make the Earthquake stronger, I mean when you do that now, it lives a line of damage through a city, but never outside the fault line, which in the real world would not happen. Maybe someone did a post on this before, I was just wondering.

KRBE ....here is an example : Stock Index Futures are contracts to buy or sell the value of a specific stock index in the future at a specified price. So if you bought a Dow Jones Futures contract at 13,000 (the market level) you are leveraging $130,000 of the Dow Jones Index. Between around 5pm Eastern Standard Time and 9:30AM EST the next day we use futures as the active indicator of the markets, even though they are traded all day long. We use them as an indication of where the market will go that day. They are effected by a huge number of things, from government reports, the corporate earning estimates to how the Asia and European markets did during the night. So for example, back in January, Jan 21, 2008 the day after the Asian Markets had a sharp decline, the Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures were down around 476 before market opened. We loosely..and I want to Stress the word LOOSELY...use this as an indicaton that the market would have dropped around 800 points. Lucky for us the Federal Reserve Bank acted with the first emergency cut in 30 years that morning. When we see futures sharply down, or up, its a good indication of where the market would go for the day. The problem we have found, for say the last 4 months, is the futures could be up 200 points at 9:29 AM just before the market opens, and we could actually end up down for the day at 4:01pm. It has been a number of years, really not since the last major US recession back after the crash of 1987, since we have seen the wild swings in the market on any given day. Over the past two weeks the DJIA has had swings between the high and low for the day of over 300 points on average, which is not normal. Right now its 11:45pm EST and the DJIA Futures for tomorrow March 20, are down 9 points, so essentially the market would open flat, but that is subject to change in the next 10 or so hours, and also because all of the European Futures are sharply up, and the Asian markets which have open, the NIKKEI is already over 300 points.

I work in the Investment Banking/ Brokerage Industry. I feel bad for peers who have lost their jobs, im lucky I work for a large privately held company sitting on a mountian of cold hard cash. I want to point our a few minor adjustments, because in basic principal I agree with most of the stuff above. First the $2 dollars a share or $236 million is not a done deal yet. It still needs share holder approval, and since 59% of Bear Stearns is owned by 5 groups it is very possible that a shareholders vote could fail. Second and more importantly is the Federal Reserve Bank's role. We can all speculate on what might have happen if this sale was not announced a mere 45 minutes before the Asia Markets open Monday morning, but the evidence points to a huge drop in all those markets. When im not relaxing playing Simcity4 I live and breathe the stock market, since I have to give people advice, and by all honest accounts, the DOW JONES would have feel around 500 to 600 points on the opening bell. (Evidence of this is the Dow Futures were down 270 just before the bell. Each future is worth roughly 2 points on the DJIA) Had that happen you would have started to ticket off the institutional curbs in effect since the crash of 1987, and it would have most likely lead to sell off. Its not unrealistic to think that a 600 to 1000 point drop was possible, all over one company. The reason wouldn't really have been the collapse of Bear Stearns it would have been everyone worrying about two questions... WHOS NEXT? and WHOS HIDING STUFF UNDER THE RUG STILL? Well those two questions are going to take another year to figure out. Truth is this is not over yet, not by a long shot. Even today, market went up 420 points, best single day in 5 years...problem is many US banks, and European Banks (Societe and UBS) still have a lot of junk to get out. I explained it to a friend in a simple way, the market is sick ..really sick ...up until now it was dropping 200 or 300 points, basicly getting ride of waste, now the market simple needs to throw up..and I mean really throw up...it needs to drop 400 to 600 points in a single day and the banks need to come clean, other wise this will simply drag on.. and pull the rest of the world with it....

Will this have the same issue as GLR? I would love to use GLR...but I seem to have a problem with the crashing.. I have read all the comments and fixes...but never seems to work right...so will it have the same issues?