Districtopia

I have been trying to setup a "industrial city" that sends garbage trucks out to other cities and accepts sewage imports but for some reason it shows I am making $0 off of the garbage deals... anyone else having this problem?

So I was thinking earlier that fudged population may not be the worst thing ever. One of the more annoying aspects of SC4, IMO, was the wild swings in RCI demand you would experience after demolishing a large residential or commercial building. Whether you were bulldozing a building that had fallen in wealth and was an eyesore or you were making way for a new highway, whenever I would bulldoze one of these buildings everything else around it would deteriorate, sometimes momentarily, sometimes permanently. Regardless, my RCI indicators would plummet (or skyrocket, depending on what I bulldozed) and I found it incredibly annoying. I don't notice this in SC 2013 when I have to bulldoze a building. Thoughts?

Never said I liked it better. I was just making an observation.

Really? One of the most annoying things for me in SC4 was that buildings would go from $$$ to $$ and double in population, then when I bulldozed the building commercial demand would suddenly plummet. One thing I *don't* like about SC2013 is that I can't see what a building's population is....

This will probably be the last thing they enable. They cannot do it all at once because they don't want to overwhelm the servers and bring them down again.

Not really, most of the game is still being run on individual users PCs, the only thing the server handles is the regional calculations which given the way the game works aren't even a quarter of the calculations needed to run one single city... A dedicated server on a home PC could handle this, it could also easily be made offline as well, but Maxis didn't want to. Ahh, Got it. Thanks for the explanation. Wasn't quite sure how that worked...

Hope I don't expose myself as too ignorant by asking this but doesn't the fact that a lot of the game is run through the cloud make it easier for PCs to run? I remember when SC4 came out I could barely run it on my brand new Vaio. SC4 also had problems running on the new laptop I bought in 2009. It was so big my computer would often overheat when running it. I'm not saying I am pro-DRM/always online but if it's reducing the load on our computers at least we have that. /looking on the bright side

Feel like 4/10 is a bit harsh. This game is no SC4. It's not a pile of garbage either. I'd give it a 6/10. ...but then again I'm not the one getting paid to write reviews.

Thanks for posting these! This new SC has a larger learning curve than the rest IMO so I'm not sure why they elected to have such a basic/useless tutorial included with the game.

It has some issues but it's not garbage. I am disappointed the city plots aren't as large as SC4 and the terraforming is gone. I'm disappointed there aren't more transportation options. I'm disappointed in the space between buildings and I'm disappointed in the way zones advance from low/medium/high. I don't like the fake population or the fact that you can get skyscrapers with a population of 15,000. But I just think back to the problems I had in SC4 and most of those got fixed with the patches, modding or with the expansion pack. I'm optimistic this game gets better in time. They got the server situation resolved faster than I ever thought they would. SN: I'm by no means a huge gamer so the hatred for EA escapes me. Maybe it's deserved, maybe it's not. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. They were behind SC4 too, though.......

:rofl: Fact.

Just a guess but I'm guessing the servers are probably least busy during the day and most busy during the evenings or at night. Besides, people all over the globe are playing this game so it was bound to inconvenience someone, somewhere.

One word: laziness.

LOL.. Reminds me of DC traffic.

Dyyyyying at the person talking to themselves in the first few comments of that blog post. :rofl:

Wasn't SC4 kind of like this at first? Except maybe the reverse? I remember only placing elementary schools and a university in my cities and my education level was always at or near 100%. When I got Rush Hour that changed and I had to get highschools. Anyone else remember this or am I just crazy? Regardless, if it's true that you can bulldoze your schools as you progress to the next highest level that's really disappointing.

I've had this problem too and kept adding water and power plants until it bankrupted me, but to no avail. The buildings KEPT saying they had no water or power.

I've finally been able to get in and play with some consistency today. I have a city that is doing quite well, I cannot find any glaring issues, yet I have a mob outside of city hall protesting. I cannot figure out how to find out what they are there for. Any tips?

Had to finally abandon this region. Couldn't figure out what the constant protest were outside of City Hall and I bankrupted myself trying to make improvements too fast. Got up to around 30,000 citizens and the Sims kept demanding more and more water pumps and sewage plants. Had like 15 water pumps for just 30k sims and around 7 or 8 sewage plants.

Yeah that is getting to be a problem with mine too. Can't figure out how to solve it.

Alright so above city hall it says "working..."

I'm working on a city now that keeps getting commercial abandonment because of "high crime" but I'm not seeing much (usually not ANY) crime on my map. I have tried hovering over city hall but nothing comes up.....

Looks awesome!! Nice job.

As far as I can tell everyone is happy. Maybe I'm overlooking something? Is anyone else having the same problem??

Off topic but I just have to say I love that you're a hockey fan! Not so much in love with the fact that your Habs have beaten my Canes twice this year, though.... :lost: