Inge Jones

It *still* won't run on my latest PC. The cmd window pops up briefly saying something about "blah blah too fast" then it disappears.

Well thats what I was saying. Have the days long enough to see realistic journey times, but be daring enough to have each day represent several years of city development time. What will be unrealistically speeded up will be the rate at which buildings and roads are built, but I don't remember any city sim player ever complaining building or road making was unrealistically fast in their game! If by the end of each reasonable length day, 5 or 10 years worth of building has happened, then the game will still make the required progress, while still satisfying the people who want to see realistic journeys, and day/night cycles. No I don't believe the day will have to last a day in realtime in order to complete realistic journeys - the distances are always condensed in a game. Especially in Skylines where it is intended an airport and farm are only 4 tiles wide.

There were better ways they could have handled time flow so as to still have a rapid rate of years. For example, have one day per year - so a child is only at school for 14 days. A day/year could last 10 minutes or however long would not make the cars have to travel all jerkily! Could even be two years per day! Just means buildings go up in a couple of minutes, but thats ok isn't it? We could even have weekends, and they would take 2 or 4 years in the development progression. If seasons came in, you could have 7 days per season - meaning a season would last up to 14 years. But that's ok it would still *look* right in play. What I am saying is that just cos they want the years to pass fast doesn't mean the days have to flash past like a strobe. We can just use a different calendar.

I just don't understand why they persist in ignoring my very straightforward question about whether there will be any sort of daily cycle of school/office hours to emulate busier and quieter periods on the roads, or whether the traffic flow will be averaged out at all times due to the days being too short to simulate rush hours. One time I asked I was told it may not have been decided yet, but surely by now, several weeks later, and with the simulation blog written, it should have been.

I think he updated it recently because people were having problems. Have you got the latest version?

This is the best joke I have seen this year - must have been loads of work too! Thank you whoever did it, for the fun

Argh!!! I hate you!!

Yep, my husband and I wrote s3pe and it will open and save simcity5 packages. It doesn't have wrappers/serialisers for the packed files that are specific to SimCity however, as s3pe is primarily for The Sims 3

Put game on pause before bulldozing and relaying roads, otherwise the buildings start popping up again immediately and cause a visual distraction.

Just wanted to fill in a simplification posted earlier in this thread. Paradox are the publishers. The game was actually developed by a company of just 9 people called "Collossal Order", and two of the actual developers are daily participants in the Paradox forum for the game, which has impressed me greatly.

I think I may be a bit weird, but I found I couldn't play CitiesXL in spite of buying it, due to the little simmies in it having these grotesque heads. It just creeped me out so I had to stop. They could at least have made some attempt to get them into realistic proportions to go with the rest of the fairly realistic graphics.

Using city "Traders Ridge" in the Atoll 7-city region, I placed a police station on top of the plateau, with a high-density street running down from it in both directions joining with the 6-lane avenue that is already in place in that city. The slope was steep so part of the street down is on those stilts. When viewing the green police coverage, I can see that it is bright green until it gets to where the bridging span starts, then it is abruptly cut off. Vehicles are driving up and down that street to the avenue with no apparent problem. Is this a glassbox bug, graphical glitch, designed game feature, or what?

confirmed. It happens to our region also

I have come to the conclusion that due to glassbox mechanics, where *everything* runs along the roads, essential utilities all have to be on the widest road possible and as near to the trunk of your city as possible. I had been, like in real life, sticking them in far corners accessed by the small road I thought would be all that was needed for their essential workers to get to work on them. But of course the road also has to carry all the lumps of poop and gallons of water and volts of electric to feed the whole town.

We could do with a resource.cfg. Maybe EA will add one and mods folder as part of their intention to support modding better.

Oh thanks! That's useful. Are you the Gibbed that I know from MTS? (real name begins with R) ?

We don't yet have a way of adding small mod packages like we have for The Sims 3. I am sure that will come. For now, treat this as potentially unsafe and experimental, of course, like any mod at this stage of modding. Obviously, there is always the option to reinstall if it all goes horribly wrong. And your actual games are stored on EA servers, so it's doubtful you'd actually lose your cities by reinstalling.

Someone on my site has made a small utility that will unlock the debug UI without players having to do their own modding. You can get it from http://www.den.simlogical.com/denforum/index.php/topic,1842.html

If EA's attitude to Simcity modding is anything like that towards The Sims, then they positively encourage it. On The Sims 3 forums the maxoids often refer to mods and modding tools, saying stuff like "you should be able to find a 3rd party tool that will do such and such" Obviously the responsible modders draw the line at making content that will help players avoid paying for either the game or its paid addons.

I still don't see why kids can't use the normal buses to get to their schools, why they need special school buses.

I found it helpful to unzone any affected land and plant trees all over it. Eventually it clears. Some people swear by a water filter but I think the trees are far cheaper and just as effective.

Ah I see, thanks. I was looking for some button marked "send materials to arcology"

I don't actually know what to click to send something to my great work. Can someone give me a clue?

I just wanted to say that s3pe (the Sims 3 Modding tool) has been adapted slightly so it will open SimCity 2013 package format. Not that it actually understands the formats of the packed files themselves yet, but the API does allow custom plugins that could do so. You can get it at http://www.den.simlogical.com/denforum/index.php/topic,1808.0.html

Lol! Securom? I thought everyone learnt their lesson about that with The Sims 2