paulytools

Looking to play a great game of SC5 but no one to really play with. Added both. Message me on Origin if you would. EDIT: I've sent a friend request to everyone in this forum discussion

So, I've played SimCity 5 for about 30 hours, and I've came across some very troublesome things (it may be because they were too lazy to tweak this) but it seems as the interaction and exchanging of resources from one city to another is very glitchy, especially when running one city at a time. (Soloing a region) Not only that, but it's kind of slow when you buy resources from another city. It takes about 5 minutes until it says you actually bought it. But what is really weird is the concept of how when you don't play a city, time will stop. You can make time go faster and slower in your certain city only which makes no sense. I'm really confused about how they get a game like this to work if a city is simulating faster while another one is at normal speed. Just doesn't make sense. I mean the city freezing while you aren't attending it would be necessary... but it really just doesn't make sense? So I guess it's possible for a city that was founded at the same time as another to be "older" than the other due to this... Quite flawed. At least I think this is how it is from my experiences with this. Any clarifications on this?

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So.. I've read most of these forum posts on this discussion. Here's my opinion on the subject: First of all, I believe it's easier for one to focus on one small point in a region, as it's easier to lay out great designs and layouts in the beginning. However, my only concern is when you need to expand out and you can't really expand 'up' anymore, you really can't do anything anymore. So basically the game is over. Of course you could make the great work, but what is the point in doing that when you can't really use the advantage if you can't expand? Make more cities... would rather manage one city as a whole. The most people I have crammed into one little plot like this was 200,000 people. I didn't even use the whole plot, as the other half was commercial and industrial. Wasn't fully developed as well either. Here's the point: There should be a way to 'buy' more land for your city for a great sum of money (around 100,000 simoleons) for somewhere around a 1km x 1km plot connected to your original (2km x 2km) plot. And in SimCity 5 it is a lot harder to consider one of these plots to be part of a 'city' because they are so separated from each other. Even if they were, it's a bit too much to keep on having to go back and forth if you were to solo a region by yourself. Not too fun for me. So then you would have to play with friends. But of course, there can be some flaws with that idea (buying more plots), but I don't feel like getting into it. And then again, there the computer perfomance issue comes in...

I do save intermittently while playing but you know, sometimes it's unexpected or I forget so it's rather annoying to do so. Anyways, no, I didn't do that.

Well, I see what you did but usually when I do that they just end up moving out all together because of the very low desirability. Oh, yes, so the patches did nothing as well. It's exactly the same. Sorry about the late reply, I've been playing SimCity 5 lately, and forgot about this mess. So yeah, I am pretty much hopeless. I have no Idea how you did that, because yeah, a lot of people I know who play SimCity 4 have the same problem (going no more under than 0). I still can't believe you had to try THAT HARD to get a 0% mayor rating. It should be easier to displease your Sims than to make them happy. I mean, I actually would rather play SimCity 5 because of how easy it is to play SimCity 4 because of this glitch. It's nothing new, it's actually always like this for me, I just decided to point that out now from when I first started this forum discussion :/ Also another thing, I can't even seem to play SimCity 4 without crashing and losing my work when the population of my cities are around 50,000. So it's unplayable for me at that stage too. But sometimes it doesn't do that. I don't know what's going on, I think I'll just play SimCity 5.

Sorry if it seemed as I was arguing, but thanks! And yea, I know... I want to really see if anyone had a fix for this... apparently not I guess. But either way, thanks for staying with me and understanding me I appreciate your dedication. I will report back here If I continue to have the same problem...

If you understand then why are you telling me ways to reduce the mayor rating when the mayor rating is bugged for me? D: I am getting a little bit frustrated trying to explain things because it sounds like you don't know what my problem is. So, here's an example of a city that everyone loves according to my Sims: - Extremely high air pollution in the residental district (because of dirty industry) - No recreational facilities - Highly congested - No health services, safety services, educational services, or any civic services - No landmarks - High taxes on current living citizens - Extremely high water pollution in the residential district (from agriculture and dirty industry) - The casino, prison, army base, rocket testing base, Dr. Vu's area 51 and toxic waste dump all placed in a city - High crime rates all over the city - Not enough energy (blackouts everywhere) - Not attending to disasters (fire, for the most part) - Making Sims jobless - Excessive garbage in the city - Abandoned buildings - Commute times are long That's as much as I could think of to describe my city, a wasteland, you could say. But my Sims love me. The reason why I am concerned about this is that it makes me not wanting to play because of how this is. Very unrealistic if this is how SimCity is, I mean you can just get all your profits from all the buildings and just go without a care in the world! My SimCity has always been like this, so I don't know if this is right or wrong. If it is right, SimCity is pretty annoying to play if you can't even get a realistic view from your citizens. It seemed like it isn't meant that way because of how the advisors are always screaming at me about stuff in some cities I have. They are very picky, but my Sims are not. I think that is a problem. Just like in a real city, if they had all that stuff I listed, I think I would go crazy, and not to still love my mayor. I was just hoping if you guys would have a bug fix to this, or some sort of solution to sort things out, because I would like a realistic game! I tried to get the patch as well, but I couldn't seem to find 1.1.640.0 patch so I guess I will have to wait for someone to help ... Either way, I still need the newest patch if anyone could help me with getting it because first of all, I don't know where to get it and second of all I don't know how to install it.

Thanks, but why is everyone not understanding what my problem is?! I am not TRYING to get negative mayor rating... I am trying to fix a problem WITH the mayor rating... :L Because I am pretty sure the mayor rating goes down when you do the following: - Be evil - Heavily pollute cities - Cause power outages - Cause sanitation problems - Fail missions - Build no service buildings for the people (education, safety, health, etc.) - Basically do nothing to help the city Now for the third time, I have TESTED with this and the mayor rating would never go down. Even in current cities I have had, I built the supposedly BAD buildings in my city and nothing happens. Is there something else I need to clarify here?!? And believe me, I have built probably over 1,000 cities so I am pretty sure what I am talking about. But yeah, I own a hard copy of SimCity 4 Deluxe which has the old patch so I will go and install the newest patch of SimCity if that is the problem. I hope that the patches fixed this because this mayor rating thing makes building cities too easy. It literally takes 1% effort to build a city with positive mayor rating for me. :/ Hopefully you guys can understand better of what my problem is! :c

Solutions?? I'm not sure I understand the problem. Why do you want to get a negative mayor rating? Over the years of me playing this game, I've done all of this in my cities and it's always been positive. I've never gotten negative mayor rating in ANY of my cities whether they were good or bad. Probably should have worded this a bit differently... No bad things I put in my city or things I do (pollution, crime, congestion, etc.) will cause negative mayor rating. And yes, Nonny Moose, I have a version that is WAY behind. I never knew they released patches! XD I have version 1.1.610.0. My friend also has SimCity 4 Deluxe version 1.1.641.0 and he claims to have to same exact problem, after I had a talk to him about this, but he has it on steam, if that matters.

For some odd reason, every city I build, will always have a positive mayor rating. Not necessarily being 100% as well. In fact, I have never gotten 100% mayor rating! Usually it is around 60% at its lowest and 80% at it's highest. Now I did a test to see if it was even possible to get the mayor rating down, as it seemed very rigged after a while.I found it IMPOSSIBLE. No matter what I did in attempt to make my Sims be mad, they always loved me. I TRIED to make Sims unhappy in every single way possible, however it was still positive! Another thing I noticed is that mayor rating will seem to go down, but after a little amount of time, it goes right back up to where it was in the first place! I am not using ANY mods on my version of SimCity and have never installed any. I have SimCity 4 Deluxe so I have the Rush Hour Pack included with it. I've tried looking for mod patches to fix this, but I couldn't find anything, so here I am. Any solutions?