Jons511

I start an avenue the shortest distance possible, then draw a road in a straight line from there. Then go back and delete the small avenue portion and redo with a road.

Yeah I saw the tech line. I guess what I'm asking is why sometimes do my industries stay at such a low level even though tech level wise they are in the green. They sometimes never upgrade.

I read this as: "Hi, we realize that Sim City is still broken, and don't want to have a repeat of the PC launch."

If they really cared about what they think, they would listen to the users in the forums.

What I've noticed is that parks and shops have a max capacity. You can have all the shops and parks you want next to a residential building, but if they're filled with people from other areas you are out of luck. One trick I have done is to eliminate all industry in my cities. The commercial buildings not only handle the jobs, but they also fulfill the shopping needs. Since freight seems to magically appear from the region no matter what, there is no need for industry anyways. I also started zoning cities with 10 residential plots to 4 commercial plots throughout my city. Seems to help the balance, as I haven't had this problem since.

I'd say it has more to do with your layout. If you're gonna be a tourist city with expo centers, etc. put them near your entrance so tourists come in go to the event, then get out. Also, put a park and ride on the right hand side of your city entrance. This way people arrive, then take the bus after parking there.

My Edgewater Bay region has every city with at least 100k and two that have 400k. I use only streetcar avenues with no 4 way intersections (I think I have one city that has two by layout necessity), and a fully funded bus and streetcar systems in every city. I have very little traffic other than the city entrances. Place streetcar and bus stops so that the whole map is green, but don't put too many stops. Use bus stops on one side of street only. This should help mitigate traffic.

Which great works, in your opinion, provides the best benefit to a region as a whole since the patches? Do arcologies still screw up traffic? Are international airports and space center benefits still barely noticeable? Does the solar plant still catch on fire every fifteen minutes?

I wound up building the solar farm in my solo Edgewater Bay map. I am happy to say that after hours of playing it hasn't caught fire once yet.

Embellishment should be a crime

Yes, I have seen them. I haven't had a zombie attack in quite some time though. This game needs a "go to disaster" button like SC4 to help pinpoint these. Even when a tornado or earthquake strikes, I still frantically scroll the map for the 2 seconds it takes to find it. Probably the only benefit of smaller maps lol.

So what would you guys recommend? Solar plant?

Speaking of embellishment, I've never seen it get as high as 20,000/mo. Only a well trained police force can get a grip on embezzlement.

I hear a lot of people asking how long does it take to gift cash to another city. You can actually see it for yourself! After you offer a city a gift, keep the gift screen open from the giving city. Eventually you will see a truck with a tag over it, and when you click on it it says "simoleon delivery truck". Then watch your truck as it makes its way to your town hall and then to the other city. Do not exit your gifting city until it has picked up the money and left your city completely. Open the gifting city and click on the government tab. Then after a few min you will see the truck drive in and drop off the funds at the town hall. You can't receive the simoleons as far as I know unless you have a town hall. If you build it after the delivery has been made, it will take about 5 min of real time for the delivery truck to reappear in your city.

It depends on the traffic. Next time you gift, watch it via the method I mentioned.

Here's a new one to me: Playing tonight in an RCI city, when I suddenly had a massive unemployment crisis. I was confused as to how this could be because I kept a good eye on the balance in the population screen. Then I moused over a commercial area and found that it was actually populated with residential houses! My map was 2/3 industrial and commercial to help with the balance but I'm actuality the game was building residential in my commercial areas. I took the dezone tool and removed the commercial only to find residential underneath it!!! This was all over my city!!! WTF! Just another chapter in the neverending saga of my favorite game: "what's wrong with sim city today"

Yeah, i get the phantom zoning from road building, but It still shouldn't zone OVER another already placed zone. Plus this happened a few months in (game time) and in the oldest part of my city where no roads have been built since the beginning. So that theory doesn't really apply.

Is anyone else having an issue today where delivery trucks don't seem to be delivering to the trade ports from the factories? It's annoying!

Yeah but it's importing and exporing trucks too. I'm not getting any goods imported at all. My trade depot has been full of oil all day, set to export. Trade screen shows 2 trucks/day yet none never arrive.

Today, being my only free day all week, I decided to play some sim city. Of course as you know from my earlier post my trade port is selling items far less than what they are supposed to. This became game breaking as I was constantly having to shut down all services to my city to restore funds creating mass havoc. Normally, I play thru the game glitches, but today I was super frustrated because its my only day all week to play, and after all, I did pay for the damn thing... So I decided to go on to EA's Answer HQ. Unfortunately for some stupid reason, after asking my question on there, I was banned from returning. Now I'm fuming, so I stumble around EA's misleading help center until I find how to chat with a representative. I have attached that convo below. Now I am super frutrated lol!!! In her defense, she must deal with this all the time, but notice how many times she points me to Answer HQ even after I tell her that doesnt work for me. Convo: Daisy: Thanks for contacting EA Customer Experience, my name is Daisy Lou. How may I assist you today? you: Hi, I have a problem with my trade ports selling thousands of units of processors for $4 and $10 instead of the approximately $74,000 it says they are worth. you: I tried answer HQ and posted my question, but when I logged back on to look for answers it says I have been banned from the site. Daisy: Hi. Again this is Daisy. May I have your name please. you: My name is Jon Daisy: Sorry for the wait Jon. Correct me if i'm wrong your concern is that you've been Banned on answershq? you: Well thats one of them, but mostly its that sim city's trade ports arent exporting corrrectly and its a game breaking thing. I cant play the game because of it. Daisy: Jon you want to make sure that you will be getting $74,000 when selling units of processors on your trade ports. Correct? you: Yeah, its selling thousands of them for $4 or $10 Daisy: Let me see what I can do about it Jon. Please give me couple of minutes. you: Thank you Daisy: Jon thank your for patiently waiting. I'm really sorry for the long wait. I have checked and exhausted my resources trying to check resolution for your problem with trade depot. Try to check google and answerhq for you, apparently, no concrete resolution for this. you: Ok well I tried answer HQ but when I returned it said I was banned from the site. you: Doesnt seem like much of an EA help center if you cant point me in the right direction. Daisy: your issue is already beyond the level of my department since it is already an ingame problems. EA is the publisher of SimCity and we get it from the developer of SimCity (Maxis). you: Ok, thanks I guess. How can I get this resolved then? you: Can I speak to someone at Maxis, since its a subsidiary of EA? you: Do they have a help line? Daisy: Due to this I will be escalating your case to our Specialist Team to perform further investigation and to provide you with a resolution. This team is available Monday through Saturday between the hours of 10AM-10PM EST. Please call us at 1-866-543-5435. Please select option and do not forget to enter your case number 08959362 and our Specialists will continue from where we left off. you: ok thank you Daisy: Another solution for this is also going to our forum at AnswerHQ. There might be other player having the same issue as yours. Going to the forums allows us to give feedback to EA so we can update our Developer on things needs to be done on the game to make it more enjoyable to play. you: Yes, I tried answer HQ, as I have mentioned several times. However for some reason, it says this: Answer HQ : You are not allowed to access this site . .. . . .. We're sorry, but you have been banned from using this site. Return to my original page Daisy: Again I'm sorry about that. I really suggest for you to call our Specialist Team to give maximum support that we could give for loyal customer like you. you: Ok I guess Daisy: Please understand that my hands our tied on these type of issue. But no worries about this, I'll make sure that I will submit ticket to the forum about your issue. Maybe other player will give better answer for us. you: I'm calling them now, thanks.

I disagree... If I have oil on my map I build two wells, that is sufficient enough to grow my petroleum hq and start making plastic to eventually make electronics. If I have coal/ore, once again two mines, either one of each, or a combination of the two, are sufficient enough. I never build more than two mines of any resource type to build HQs and trade HQs, I also never build more than two maxed out refineries (for plastic), or maxed out alloy plants. Then I demolish the regular mines when I start making money on my way to an electronics empire.

Yes, it seems to reappear if you right click the mouse.

Ok, so awhile ago I posted about how occasionally my trade ports would sell goods for far less than they should. The problem went away for awhile, but has since come back. Demolishinbg and rebuilding does not seem to work at all as the problem returns immediately. At one point my trade port sold 7000 processors for $4 simoleons!!! The kicker is, I went to EA's answer HQ and asked them about this. When I returned to the site, it told me I am banned from accessing the site. I tried to attach more screen caps but the max file size was 600k the other day but its down to 200k today lol Thanks,

Apparently I'm not the only one who had this issue, as its all over the EA forum today.Nobody has any answers though.

I am having this same problem, started an hour or so ago.