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I really want to love this game. I do. But when I played, I didn't even see the benefit of glassbox. It is supposedly amazing but the traffic coming from my neighboring region entered my city and immediately moved to a side street that ran parallel to my main avenue. It caused a traffic nightmare and made no sense. The citizens wouldn't take the supposedly faster option. So if we are trading city size for simulation complexity shouldn't it be darn near perfect? I know everyone says "region play is exciting, it is like a series of connected cities". But what made SimCity 4 fun for me was creating a city with character. I had a ton of room to experiment with a downtown district. I could survey the land for a new freeway to connect the suburbs to my rising downtown. I could put in a shopping district. The city contoured around large areas of varying terrain. (from what I have seen so far SimCity 5 doesn't have the diversity in terrain within the cities themselves). I had intricately designed neighborhoods that look nothing like the ones I have on the other side of town. I love evolving my city to have areas with character. And they all make up one huge living organism that I can see and play with all at once. The map size in the new simcity is so small that I don't get that. And forget being able to design a huge transportation network, that was done for me before I even started. The cities in different regions felt exactly like what they are, separate cities. I didn't find them to connect all that well. The new simcity has some great features. I love their version of expanding schools, hospitals, police, and fire. It is so much more fun than plopping generic schools. I also love that the city hall serves a purpose. These things are fantastic. But come secondary to me personally. After a while the newness of plopping an addition to the school and building an expansion on the city hall wears off. Watching the coal move in the factory gets boring in my 6th city. And filling my cities boarders in a day is old hat. I am looking forward to spend more time with the game when it is is released but I really feel like those of us that are frustrated about the change in gameplay are being forced to accept that "it's better this way" by Maxis and other players. I get it, it isn't for everyone. There are different play styles and unfortunately mine is not present in the new game.

I want this so BAD!! Anyone know if they post the new code immediately after the old one runs out?

I found the post that I was referring to earlier Whiteshark. Earlier on you said As far as the commute is concerned. I have the max commute time set all the way up to 400+ minutes How did you edit the commute time?

Whiteshark, this region is great! I love the way you design your city in a true to life fashion instead of having a city composed of nothing but skyscrapers. It is great! I had one question for you though. I think I remember that you mentioned you had a mod for your freeways to increase the speeds so that sims were more inclined to use it. I would love this mod because in my current city they refuse to use the freeway to move around until they get near the very edge of my city after traveling on avenues or roads. Very frustrating as it causes abandonment due to commute.