Mastaflex

The roads to divide large areas for decorations don't need to be connected to other "real" roads. So you shouldn't have to destroy any building. Sometimes even adding a little bit of road(random straight line) in the middle of a large empty area is just enought to be able to fill in the rest then simply destroy the road and fill what remains.

Originally posted by: FatalCheese But I'm calling foul on the part of the FAQ that states there will be no more fixes for the game. I still paid $50 for this game. It's 4 months old. There are some major bugs in it, unrelated to the PO. Reputable game companies don't drop support for a game when they decide they're making a new one. I'm sure alot of poeple are happy that the next version will not be subscription based - but don't let that euphoria absolve them of thier responsibilty to the investment we've already made.quote>

Originally posted by: ACEH People the PO is history now - look at the newly created post.quote> Exactly, the post is newer than our responses.

I don't play the PO but I agree with mrdazza if someone pays for two accounts they should not be penalized, its not that they have any special privileges it's just that they have 2 legit accounts to play with... restrictions would make it 1-1/2 account for the price of two? Besides how do you enforce this there is no possible way of knowing if two accounts are shared by the same person.

Originally posted by: His Divine Hand No. They should have just dropped single player all together and only focused on the mmo part if that is what they were trying to do. After all, does World of Warcraft let you play a single player game? Do any of the big name mmo's have a single player? Monte Cristo should have just gone all out mmo if that was their strategy. Let the players unwilling to do an mmo go cry in a corner.quote> *facepalm*.... WoW =/= Cities XL... subscription fees aren't a genre(I can't believe people still use the WoW example). The thing with solo is that devs aren't supposed to waste time on it and I don't think they do, so there. Charge extra for extra content who cares but it's obvious now and it was obvious then that subscription fees for a city building game would never go very far. Maybe it will go far, maybe it won't but they are losing big time money now from people figuring out you have to subscribe to play the full game. And Monte Cristo should have gone all out solo if it cared about gaming more then salaries.

I hope it comes out soon and for the SP also, because I was really looking forward to this when I first baught the game, even more then buses.

Maybe you have too many and there is not enought HT demand? Just a thought.

That's a nice city and I love the look of it. But if you look closely you will notice that the bend in the roads aren't always perfect and means each bend was done manually(the second pic gives a clearer view of this), so it wasn't just clicking on a circular road icon and plopping them, he had to plan out pretty much everything sort of like the above posts mention.

Originally posted by: Stef42 Originally posted by: Mastaflex Busses = PO only? that is not something I wanted to read. Question for those who may know: If I buy a 1 month subscription only, will I be able to add busses to my solo cities and when the 1 month sub gets cancelled will I get to keep playing my solo city with busses. If all it takes is 6$ to get busses in my solo city, I will do it.quote> I'm sorry to say but that is not possible.. PO users can't use the buses in their SP city's either... quote> Thanks for the reply. Although I am disappointed that buses aren't available to solo players the fact that even PO subs can't build buses in solo cities gives me hope that they will eventually release buses to solo cities, subscribed or not. I will just have to wait until then.

Busses = PO only? that is not something I wanted to read. Question for those who may know: If I buy a 1 month subscription only, will I be able to add busses to my solo cities and when the 1 month sub gets cancelled will I get to keep playing my solo city with busses. If all it takes is 6$ to get busses in my solo city, I will do it.

Originally posted by: Tuesday Excellent screenshot, Mastaflex. What approx population had you reached by that point? And how many citizens do you have now?quote> In the screenshot I have just abit over 1 million population. I now have 1.8 million and the highrises have almost doubled in the downtown core, also because of this I had to demolish the expressway leading from the airport to the city and replace it with a highway for better traffic flow; you can't see it but the road that runs along the airport goes to my main industrial and manufacturing area, making a lot of traffic both ways and can put a hamper on passenger services if too clogged up.

Originally posted by: Tuesday So, when I eventually get round to playing this... If I start off my city, building from the very centre of the map and outwards I'll encounter problems with passengers? Are everyone's cities heavily built up round the edge of the maps?quote> When you get the opportunity to build a large airport, all roads in your city get a huge boost to passenger services. My city here has a very dense CBD, but all roads within are green for passengers(thanks to the airport). Freight is almost null except for the fringe areas around the core but then again offices don't require freight. This is also a old pic of my city and I have developed the CBD even more now and had to build a second airport on the other side of the city for more access.

To answer the OP question right now all that is released is the small stadium, I hope when they finish the big stadium that they will release it to solo players and not charge for it. I also never build those ugly paintball or go-kart leisure buildings and instead only build the basketball court, bowlingalley and the public swimming pools, the cultural leisure buildings I find are well done and look good except for that rotating restaurant tower, I just refuse to include that thing in my skylines.

Good post, you covered a lot of the problems I have with the game and I just want to expand on these thoughts; here is my two cents. Originally posted by: ACEH 1. First of all - the public and leisure services. Well, come on MC, the things aren't working this way in real life! In the game you can cover a 500 000 city with one school and one hospital. You should GREATLY reduce the range of public and leisure services and their price of course. It's just unrealistic. Agree with me that for example 100 000 people need at least 10 basketball courts and several hospitals. quote> Very true and I think they are trying to fix this. 2. The micromanagement - one hospital now costs 5000 per month no matter it serves 5 or 50 000 people. We should have the option to reduce its budget according to how many people it serves. Even more - if for some reason we decide that we don't need hospital any more, we must demolish it. Why we can't just reduce its budget? It's ridiculous. PLEASE change this absurd in upcoming patch, I'm sure you can do this! quote> This is soooo crucial for a city building game, they need to forget micromanagement for a minute and realise that these kind of services are made have their funding increased or decreased on the fly, it's how a city operates its various regions. Fixed prices make it bland and lame, I am trying to be nice about it but I feel MC specifically made it like this to not copy SC4. 3. The price of the resources that Omnicorp sells is crazy - I've heard from Mathew that this should be fix in the next patch. Give us, the Solo mode players chance to build prosperous cities.quote> I have no problem with this at all, I can build succesful cities in solo but if they want to lower it then that is fine with me. 4. The height of the bridges - hey, did you ever see a real bridge, MC. They don't look like those in the game. The bridges from the game are incredibly high.quote> Very true also, maybe needs a look at. 5. Include some roundabouts - they will include some variety in the road networks and can reduce traffic on intersections.quote> Also a very realistic suggestion and would be nice to see. 6. There are different building styles in the game - European, American and so on - thats great but can we have the option to choose what style exactly to be build - some cities look very unrealistic with all of the styles mixed together.quote> I am comfortable with the way cities look right now but being able to chose which style dominates is a very good suggestion. 7. Parks and pollution - in certain stage of the game the advisors says "Pollution is killing everything" no matter that my industries are very far from the resident zones and I have near 100 parks in the city. You should increase the parks ability to reduce pollution. One little note - now a parks with different sizes creates same area of effect around them - that's unrealistic too.quote> I am a bit on the fence on this one. While it's annoying to see this message constantly even when all I build is light industry and manufacturing, I believe they made it this way to add variety in cities so that they don't always have everything single thing. 8. Create some kind of on and off-ramps for connecting smaller roads to expressway - now we need to make an intersections with the Expressway which makes no sense - the expressway should be express. In this row of thoughts - why should the smallest roads have traffic lights at intersections. That is cosmetic but very annoying.quote> Roads can use some work, there are several bugs with highways and expressways where it will say the connection is not possible when it actually is... Also the more options they can give to roads the better. 9. The upcoming mass transit - buses - why should they cost so much - the people are paying to use them. In most of the cities the municipality makes profit of them and we should pay to have buses. Why? Just reduce the price.quote> Buses should be available at a low cost that is a given. 10. A very useful feature from the beta is missing - the lines which shows the traffic when you click on specific road - where did they gone?quote> No comment. Because this post became very long, I stop here and I hope some of the developers to answer some of the questions. I'm sure many of you guys playing the game agree with me. So MC, please answer!quote> I hope MC does listen, I like the game when I should love it and it's not because I am picky or have too many expectations it's just the common sense stuff that either needs to be looked at and in some cases fixed asap.

Originally posted by: mtzadogg are you telling me that bus and mass transit will not be available in solo mode. If that is the case then i am completely angered from this idea. the more i hear how much better the game gets for planet offer subscribers the worse the game becomes for solo mode players. this is an outrage and seriously another game will come out anmd topple this company into the dirt. they will burn in hell for this. quote> The thing is for me and many others it seems the single player game is great, I had fun making my cities and they came out extremely realistic. But the lack of mass transit cut short the amount of hours I would have played my cities and the nasty rumor of them giving it to PO subscribers only infuriates those who have baught the game with the intention of playing solo and any future customers who would do the same thing. They have what should be a great money grabbing scheme with the GEMs but they took it too far with mass transit either because it wasn't finalized before the game launched or they thought it wasn't a big deal.