Linojo

So planting trees helps with air pollution and germs aswell?

The garbage collection is working out fine so far, though admittedly none of the city's that are Using it are over 10k population yet. The biggest city I have in the region is 40k at petrol ridge which is an electronic city and is what I use to gift money about. So at cinder I have 16 garbage trucks lol. The annoying thing is though you often see all 16 of them driving around cinder in a big line but since I'm never really on that city I can live with it. I only built it up enough so all the utilities had workers. I tried the tourist city at soirée and it sucked so I bulldozed the whole lot. It's going to be kinda circular like that guys above and I had an idea of putting police fire and ambulance stations quite far away on the outskirts of the map and connecting them to the city with long low dense roads. In theory this should allow them to skip the traffic on the main avenues and just use their own 'service roads' which will be connected at strategic points of the city's streets for access. With the roads being so long I'm hoping sims won't use them because the main avenues would provide a shorter route to where ever they want to go. Not sure how it would work though yet, il probably mess it up somehow, I'm so bad at pre planning haha.

I'm on the same region, I'm playing grand haven as a high/med wealth residential city, the next one along will be similar but concentrated around education and the next one down I'm going to do tourist city. Because I'm doing 3 high/medium wealth city's I'm building up cinder as a utility's city to avoid pollution in the other 3. I have at the moment 2 sewage plants, 2 power plants etc etc and a crap load of garbage trucks. I just sell power, water, treatment and volunteer vehicles to the other 3 city's. works quite well.

I'd have thought being able to plop a theme park would have been a good addition, specially for a tourism city. Has there been any talk or rumours of a theme park DLC?

Well that's what I'm trying to work out.....

My game is basically unplayable and I don't know if its my computer or because of the servers, I just want it to run smoothly like everyone else's seems to! The daft thing is I can easily get into servers, I'm on eu servers. My pc spec is 2.50ghz, 6mb ram intel core2 quad. Graphics card is an intel one. Computer is only a couple years old.

Ok finally got to start 'playing' the game last night at 2.30am after a 2.5 hour install time. But the damn thing is completely unplayable. If I want to plop something I have to sit there for 5 minutes clicking the mouse before it actually goes down. Changing the camera around is a nightmare really laggy and slow and sitting watching it is like watching one of those old webcams where everything stops for half a second every second lol. Even the intro is jerky and at the main menu the background picture is covered in white dots as if its snowing or something. I have no idea if its an issue with my computer or the servers? I easily got into a server (EU server) just could barely play because of the lag. My pc is 2.50ghz intel core2 quad, 6mb ram and an intel chipset something or other video card. Anyone have any ideas?? Thanks.