leavebeaver2me

I visit the USA frequently to shop but I'm from Canada. I'm wondering if the fine print from the promotion that state the offer is available for USA players only means that someone with a copy registered to another country other than USA might not be able to use the codes.

Yup, seems odd too if they had this promotion in the works before the decided to close down Playfish they would pair it with The Sims Social rather than Sim City Social, which is also being closed.

Why is EA bothering to to give out redeem codes for a game they're closing in two months...

So my city of about 122k is all pretty much High and Medium Wealth High Density Residential. Most of them are complaining that there's no shopping and the problem is all the commercial zones are hotels, I don't have the tourism city specialization but all these commercial zones for some reason have turned into hotels, and the hotels complain they don't have enough shoppers and eventually go bankrupt and close. I bulldoze them and another hotel pops up! Is there any way to end this cycle or am I stuck with a city full of abandoned hotels and no where to shop?

Yeah I accepted it as bug that all commercial zones will start to turn into a hotels once you place any tourist attraction, even down to the tiny square plots. You can try to bulldoze them and try to get a store, but most of the times it's another hotel that just gets abandoned.

Go around the radioactive area with the dezone tool and hold down ctrl to dezone blocks at a time.

Prolly has something to do with the leader boards being disabled at the moment.

Since the patch on Tuesday at least 3 my cities never load or rollback properly.

I'm not sure how trading can be a specialization on its own considering the fluctuations in prices don't vary day to day in game. I've always built the Trading HQ in addition to the Metals/Oil/Electronics HQs so you can build the Trade Depot with the Commerce Division and not worry about the Trading HQ after that. While you can specialize two neighboring cities in mining / smelting and electronics there's now way to directly setup an automated supply chain. I simply just set one city to import alloy/plastic and the other to export.

They won't optimally fit inside the default grid lines for streets so I usually place them on avenues which have deeper blocks behind them if you are following the grid lines.

It's just another option for you to choose when you upgrade your university and plop another building. I assume it raises C$, C$$, and C$$$ tax revenue. I chose it out of lack of any other variety left in my region.

Does anyone else hate the pre-built streets that come built around the events center and stadium? They are difficult to match up to my existing roads system leading to mismatched intersections and you can't zone or plop anything connected to them leading to unnecessary parallel roads. If the developers wanted to connect the parking lots to the front road, they should have just made more parking garages. For the sake of two small parking lots beside the Pro Stadium the streets that take up more than 5 times the space around the stadium it's really not worth it.

At least with the train station and dock you can delete portions of the road without deleting the station. The stadium you are stuck with the useless roads around 3 sides.

Nope.. trucks only use the highway connection.

So reconfigure even more of your city's layout just to fit these huge buildings? oO

Considering the small city sizes and worker education levels in Nuclear Power Plants randomly dropping to unsafe even when you have a high school and community college I think there should be some way to actively mediate polluted and places affected by minor radiation. I've had several plants placed in corners of the city randomly go to an unsafe worker education level and start to meltdown. Even when I have turned them off at the warning, it still has affected literally 10% - 15% of your whole map with levels of radiation.. How is our fault the game engine simplifies things so much that one person can be an insurance salesman one day and the next morning he goes to work running a nuclear reactor?

Looks like SimCoaster oO

I believe you can only trade 33% of your excess capacity to each neighbouring city.

The trucks you buy for the Trade Depot and Trade Port are all only trucks that transport stuff within your city. The trucks that transport stuff in and out of your city are bigger and red and aren't based inside your city. In my electronics city they came pretty often but when my other city was cash strapped and had full alloy and plastic sitting at the depot they didn't come until I placed the trade depot closer to the highway connection.

All "gifting" is done by regional highway. If you want to export/import materials between cities you need to unlock the Trade Port and buy the Rail connections.

Well they're Global Export Trucks but when you click on them they say "Came from the Region"

The Regional Trucks that buy the exports are likely stuck in traffic or can't get to the trade depot. Try placing it closer to the region connection.

There probably isn't enough materials for both factories. Why did you need to plop two factories though, why not just add another line to the first factory? Regardless of how many lines a factory has the input storage capacity stays the same. I assume you already have a trade depot setup to import the alloy, the import trucks might be getting stuck in traffic. If you can try putting down a trade port with rail connection near the factory to reduce delays and stock up on alloy.

I don't think it has anything to do with the Nuclear Power Plant. The game just doesn't rain enough to refill the water tables, I played a city for 10 yeas and it only rained once. I had a Alien Attack more often than it rained, fun sim game huh.

Well it happened.. I literally have no water left and I'm demolishing houses in the between the trade depot and one of last working water towers just so every last drop reaches the depot to keep it open. The two other cities still have spare water and nothing is coming from them.despite my city loosing over 40,000 people because of the drought. It's not like I located my city in the middle of the desert, there were trees around when I started. What's left in my city to do when I have a million simoleons but no water to spare and can't get help from neighbors. Ughhh it seems the sewage trick only works if you haven't drawn the watertable down already.. guess that makes sense unless you call it a sewage table.