ShadeSigma

I've managed to manipulate traffic a bit more. By not upgrading everything. And I tried better city specializations. A low down industrial city I made has no schools. Instead I made another city supply them with school buses. So the educated in my low city will eventually move away for better opportunities in the educated city. What I like about this one is that they have parks and recs for R$ sims. So if you set those down, it won't influence R$$ or R$$$. The game doesn't have the flaws but definitely has its perks. I feel that if the cities were allowed to be bigger, the game would actually be difficult. Lol Thanks for the resource info. Now I can plan ahead. I'm starting over because my cities got stagnant. One thing I can say is once you start exporting resources and goods, like later in your mature city, you start making a lot of money.

After nearly two years since the game been out, I decided to try it out. I got it from *unknown sources*. I will say that I am intrigued. The game isn't that bad I just wished the cities were bigger (like everyone does). I still have to get the raw resources thing down packed. I didn't know that it would take thousands of raw resources to make the International Airport. And it is hard to figure out what you want to specialize a city as. And do the resources ever run out? Like oil, coal and ore? There's some things about the game I don't get yet. And is it necessary to just eventually upgrade every street and avenue?

Alright I'll try all this out. I am somewhat familiar with OpenGL. I'll see how this goes. I've been going through a Simcity withdrawal. Lol

One day I realized that the trees in my game lacked shadowing. So I'm like, what the hell? I go to the graphics menu to fix the rendering options: I put everything on high and I switched the rendering to hardware. Restarted the game, and the trees look perfect, but I start zoning houses and the lots look like the construction workers never got done. But when I switch it back, the lots are fine. I have windows 7. I'm thinking maybe there's something in the AMD Vision Engine Control Center. I don't know. Help would be appreciated much. Because I'm stumped.

I still haven't even bought the game but I observed a friend of mine from YouTube playing it. Dude lost 2 great regions in the mix.He even lost his city due to a random disaster. The servers I heard were improved, but they still totaled that game. And $60? Wow. They were fishing hard with that game.

Okay, okay I'm gonna play more like a turtle now instead of a hare. I am trying to make the new region called, Sigmatron. It'll take a while because my aim is to have a booming population also. But I am trying to balance cities out. I am going to have a city that's ghetto but maybe have a richer city next to it. Since I have had this game I have always played on hare speed. I only go turtle once I "feel" that I have stabilized my city. Do you guys think playing on turtle will also calm down lot vacancies? I have trashed a lot of cities in the past. But maybe I should try tortoise speed this time. I'm going to keep everyone updated. But what is ironic is that when I played Simcity Societies and Destinations, I play on a slow speed.

No. I wish I would've taken a picture. I've done nothing with them. This is the first few years of the game. I'd have like 3 or 4 R$$ houses at the most. R$$ can work at DI as well as R$. I would set down an elementary school. When these R$$ places get the No Job zot, it is like a domino effect. About half of my population claims to have no jobs but I would have the right amount of DI and CoS in the area. This is all in the beginning of the game. I did nothing with R$$. With my sims claiming to have no jobs this early into the game, growing a city isn't even possible--especially with the middle class struggling. I tested this out in many ways. But it is just impossible to not be able to stable a 500 sim population. I even put all the jobs next to eachother and the sims still couldn't find a job. I created my own custom region with this too. I'm trying to create Sigmatron. So I have the NAM 30 in the game. I wanna use the NAM 31 again but I'm afraid this same result will happen again. I'm going to keep an eye on this.

Well most of you guys are experienced sim players. I haven't played that long. But my quest shall be to make the perfect city! I always wondered what speed to play it on. When I did the tutorial a while back, they kinda encouraged fastest speed. But it is a sight to see when you have it on slow and you see the buildings erect. Maybe slow speed is best after all. I think making a perfect city will take time.

It just seemed weird to me. I was started a whole new region; my first city. I connected my roads to the neighbors. But I don't think that should have mattered. Because I'd have a 500 sim population with a huge area of InD and CoS but the commute time would be long for R$$ sims. Then some of the R$ sims would chip in with the zots. That just doesn't seem like a normal issue. I switched back to NAM 30 and so far no red alerts. I've already noticed a few wrong things with NAM 31. It needs more work. I remember laying down a grand rail line, the graphics were glitched with neon RGB colors.

No problem. Everything is cool so far. I think it was the NAM 31. I went to NAM 30 and it's fine.

This game had so much potential. It's sad. I like SC4 but they had a chance to make us put that game on the shelves. But now, Simcity 2013 will be on the shelves at the stores. Can't believe they charged $60 too. Civilization V didn't even cost that much. Will they ever come out with a better version than SC4?

I can't pin-point this for sure. But a weird thing has been happening. I don't know if it is the new NAM I installed or something, but in the very beginning of my game, I could zone as many InD jobs and Com jobs as possible and my R$$ residents would have the no job zot and start depleting. The R$ residents are fine (but in some odd cases will have some) but it is mostly the R$$ residents. Has anyone else had trouble like this? Could it be the new NAM? Because when I had the old NAM this would never occur. And also I don't have many mods on my game. Please help if you can. I'm trying to start a big region.

I remember that post but I think in that post they were trying a US server and not a European one.

Whatever dude. You got a reason to go personal? 5 posts and you make your conclusions based on profile photos... says more about your own level of retardness. Where were the Moderators when this happened? Dude came outta nowhere on Nique. never mind... I already saw the first post. You'd better hope they didn't or your gonna be on the naughty list and receive a lump of coal...

Whatever dude. You got a reason to go personal? 5 posts and you make your conclusions based on profile photos... says more about your own level of retardness. Where were the Moderators when this happened? Dude came outta nowhere on Nique.