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When reaching further into the game and you get access to High Density Residential Zones. Is it better to remove low density and place high density in it´s place or create new areas for high density. I guess it depens on what i want with my town...

Hm, yes as soon access to offices have been unlocked... it could be possible to just get rid of all old industry and replace with offices (if you have enough educated ppl). Then you get rid of all air polution from the industrial area.

How do i increase the land value in the industrial sector of my city? I feels wrong to place parks... is it services like police, hospital and firedepartment? Or other things that should go in the industrial section as "services" to increas their land value?

How does the bigger firestations, hospital and policestations work? Do they just have more cars, faster response time, bigger coverage or do they do something else... When you place your first big station, do you remove small or keep the coverage of the small and make it better with a big?

When i pre-ordered sim city i had for quite some time looked at different trailers and screenshots of the coming game. I had quite high expectations and really wanted it to be good. Dont misunderstand me, the game is quite good and i have played it allot and still do. But it is quite far from what i hoped it to be.... I recently looked at a review of the game "citys in motion 2". This video gave me a feeling of "wow, this is how i wanted sim city to be or look like". Not a raw direct copy, sim city got curved roads, great look etc. But the video show a city after 4 minutes that is like how i want to build in sim city. A large city with a city core, rural areas with work and less density. Now it seems in sim city, all i do is building a city core and then the map is full. I have no room to both have a city core and industrial sections and rural areas. The region is not making my city look like a place that is connected... it is more a big country with city cores in :S here is the video

i said that i did not compare the games i know that they are not the same but the video made me think of sim city and i liked the feeling i got from the video.

i really miss the ability to be creative and build with different styles...

Hey Thinking about testing this idea for a city. http://prntscr.com/wke3e The idea is that i dont want any intersections.... Maybe i add some to fill gaps when the city grows. But the concept is to have traffic never stop and pretty much just keep going in a straight line all the time. Ill do this with curved roads. Downside is that firetrucks etc might need to travel a long way to be able to reach parts of the map/city. On the picture above the wind is blowing up so industry would be at the top, at the entrance to the city. Then mix residential and commercial in the spiral to the center. Schools, police etc. Will be placed somewhere in the middle of the spiral. So it got equal long to the outer edge and to the inner. Reason i want to try it, is because of the traffic AI. The traffic takes the shortes route always and that makes traffic jam up intersections no matter what road type you use. But if the sims can keep speed up all the time it should be ok. Only thing that worries me is that the end of the spiral will be a massive jam/stop. That the cars cant do a u-turn fast enough. Other option is something like this. http://prntscr.com/wkfnm This have two major intersections. The sims have 4 ways faster go to the areas on the right and left side. Fire, police, school etc would be in the middle at the long road straight down. Thoughts?

Hey I installed todays patch. Started one of my citys that was at 70k ppl. After a while i was above 100k ppl. Here is a video of my traffic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wV2msLBSsA&feature=youtu.be Any tips of what i can do to improve it? I have traincarts, i have boat, i have busses all upgraded to max I have a quite good layout afaik? anyone?

arent those roads for university the same as for garbage building or wind park where you expand with a road....

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-update-8 Some good news to read about Fixing the traffic issues for example.

I did not think this was possible.

It works to do it, but it is not a feature. Really sad that it is not an option to build roundabouts, bridges and dig tunnels etc. Just that we can terraform is sad

gaaah, feels so silly. I mean, you have 200mil simloans. No matter if you have people in your city or not. How to actually use that kind of money. Does not feel very balanced. And ofc, crazy that you can run the city by removing all people from it. Just have commuters i take it, that come and work and leave.

Another update and test with a new long road design. This one worked better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPxnpAdru00&feature=youtu.be Was done in snadbox mode and quick play.

yes, and a huge problem is that cars cant turn around. So a fire truck starting from one side of the road need to drive to the end of the road and turn around and then go back. A similar design, but with sections where cars can turn around would help.

okey, i have done some testing. Here is a video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vpeVxVI-WI&feature=youtu.be 1. I noticed quite fast that power, sewage and water had problems traveling the length of the road. Power was not reaching the other end of the road and so on. 2. My garbage trucks where useless since they traveled in a pack slowly picking up one house at a time. They did not spread out in the city and that mean that garbage was piling up. But i had no traffic issues really. All cars where buzzing around at top speed. Only when firetrucks or othe trucks stoped for some reason, some cars could build up behind them.

i am thinking about to try to build with no intersections.... or rather as few as possible..... Long long roads that use the curved and free draw options to pretty much never intersect with another road. since allot off traffic is when sims go from home to work and other way around. the homes could be placed along a long road and end in an industry area. then sims would never really have to go to an intersection where traffic builds up.

Hey I stumbled into a problem i cant figure out. Why are my customers unhappy. I got 1k unhappy customers I cant see why when i look under happiness it just says "ppl dies" or "everything is good" my health care is good.... i have good education and so hospital is almost empty

Still, i think the focus and effort is put in wrong. It is more likely that we will se fixes and patches to bugs and features in the game. When i bought the game, atleast i had the knowledge that the game would require me to be online. So it is your own responsibility what you do with your money and what you buy. If you are not happy with your invested money, maybe think harder next time.

I dont know if i am super lucky but i did not feel i had to do much to quite fast get 1mil simloans and then suddenly i had 10mil simloans. It was not that hard, but sure it took some time.... but afterall sim city is a simulator so things should take time. lots and lots of money. i cant buy that much with the money and now starting a new city is super easy, i just send over 1mil to a new city and fast expand it to whatever i want/need. is it to easy to generate money? i cant even see the need of the bonds tbh.

haha funny how all are upset over the offline and online bit of the game just stop whining and focus the feedback to maxis and ea about the game instead.

I think the community puts in way to much effort in complaining about online and offline mode of the game. I think the community could do more good by rage and complain more about obvious bugs. Issues with region play, traffic AI and other things that effect the real gameplay. The game was hyped and EA fucked up on the servers at launch, but the storm will calm down and the servers will start working more stable in a week or so im sure. I rather hope EA is really working on good patches and also extensions to buy. Because i like sim city and i want this version of the game to be fun and good. It have so much potential if we just would get the tools to terraform our own regions, change city sizes and have a better working AI so the designing of the citys could be more creative and less focused on optimal road networking.

i am not really bothered with the speed..... more bothered about not being able to form the landscape and dig tunnels and create bridges more freely create on and off ramps onto avenues instead of intersections all the time and ofc the area size one city is locked into is annoying. id like the ability to buy more land to expand my city or atleast connect areas directly so the citys look like they are one big city. ability to have more entry points for traffic new AI for traffic have sims choose the big roads first.... so i can have a beltway around areas.

Hey Id like some help to explain what i am missing here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGit0InqMbQ&feature=youtu.be I have big issues with crime I have traffic jams I have lots of sick ppl The wind is blowing down (seen from the video) My industry is at the buttom I have customers that is not happy, i cant find a reason why... except crime and health issues But i dont know why i got so much crime and health issues... I keep expanding my health care but it feels so early. Anything els i am missing?