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Hi! My questions are: 1) Are there ambient sounds when you zoom into the city.. i.e. Children's laughter in the parks, indistinct chatter from the sims as they walk around the city, ambulance/ police sirens as they zip to the place of emergency? One of the main problem with Cities XL is that it appears dead as there is little to no ambient sounds. If there are no ambient sounds on launch, are there plans to add them to the game post launch. 2) I think it was mentioned during the recent PDXCON stream that sims will continue to leave in the same house and work at the same job unless the workplace is replaced by something else. Can I ask then, if say a citizen's education level increases in his/her lifetime and thus would be eligible to get a higher paying job, would the simulation after a period of time, chnage the job of the citizen? 3) what are the factors that the simulation would take into consideration in deciding what mode of transport a particular sim will take? Thanks.

I just started using fusion power plant in one of my city. Hope it doesn't explode like nuclear if tech suddenly drops.

Hi, um what does your mod do? Is it a replacement of traffic lights or tweaking the values of the traffic light?

Unfortunately no. There is no way to manually rotate a building in this version of Simcity unlike in the previous version. I asked about it during beta and it seems that the reason is because there appears to be only one entrance/exit for building and thus that's why ithe entrance needs to be oriented always to a road.

To be frank, I dunno why there is a need to play on cheetah speed. With the old Simcity, I only played on medium speed and in this new version, that is also the same speed I have been playing. Maybe some of you like to grow your city as fast as possible but I find that the medium speed is good enough that I can see the growth of my city and still enjoy the sights and sounds. I have to say that if anything needs to be done about the speed is that llama speed is really a tad too slow. If they could increase it a wee bit, that would be just right. To me, I would have preferred that they fix the numerous bugs that have been reported such as how u cannot connect a ferry depot in one of the city no matter where the depot is placed. Or how unreliable sharing of resources across the region is. To each his own I suppose.

I'll try it and see if it works. Thanks.

Hi, all! I dunno if anyone had this issue but I had a working train station that was having 500-600 riders near to my casino. Suddenly the ridership drops to zero. I have not changed any of the roads surrounding the train station. Any help?

I just saw a reply from Facebook for EA Singapore in response to a user's question on when we can download the new Simcity. The reply was 11pm on 4th March. https://www.facebook.com/EA.Singapore

I just got home from work and I believe from checking through google that either est or pst it's past midnight and I logged in to my origin account and the game tile is still greyed out. So I guess no predownload today.

I don't think u can download through origin on 1st March. Why? Because it's already 1st March in my country and the release date for my country is 5th March (same as North America) and as of midnight there is no indication that I can download it. The game tile in origin is still greyed. Also, looking at the official EA Facebook page, some other person asked the official people and the reply is that the download is only available on 5th March local time. I'll check again tonight after work and if I am able to download it, I let u all know,

This is actually a very good question... Never thong of it until you brought it up. Can one "restart a city"? Like in sc4, where u restart the city and everything goes back to its pristine stage and u start off again with the starting simileons? If so, I would imagine that services like water, power and other shareable services would be impacted for the remaing cities. For example, city A currently gets power from city B. if city B mayor abandons the city and say I as the new mayor decided to take over the city but decided to restart the city as I don't like the direction the previous mayor went. Thus, power will no longer be supplied to city A. Even if I decide to build a power plant, I may decide that I don't want to share/ sell the service. I hope someone from Maxis can see this and say whether restarting a city is possible?

Actually, when the issue still exist even if I put the park next to road. Fr example, some parks are say 3x1. For some reason despite the fact that I left a space big enough that the narrower side of the park can fit in, the game refuses to let me place it but defaults to the wider side. I dunno why. I try to rotate the park but could not find any key or mouse clicks that would allow me to rotate.

Hi! I was in the closed beta over the weekend and I noted that parks and plobbables cannot be rotated. This can be rather inconvenient when one is trying to squeeze the park into a space as by default the park is orientated in a certain direction even though if it can be rotated, it could have fit in nicely into the space. I do understand that parks and plobbables need road access so unless they have built the parks in such a way that there is only one exit/entrance on on sie of the park I don't understand why rotation of parks and plobbables cannot be done. Can u help me ask the developers about this issue? Thanks.

Part of the issue is that the ability to rotate parks and ploppables seems to not be available in this Simcity. I don't know why. When I was trying the beta, I try to find a way to rotate the parks so it can fit in the space I left especially for parks but for some reason it would only allow me to place in a certain orientation. Yes, I place it next to a road so unless there is only one entrance/exit for the park I don't see why the ability to rotate parks and ploppables is not available. Maxis? Any comments?

Login to Origin and click on "redeem product code". Then enter the beta key with the dashes and submit. That's it.