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For the people talking about populations, are you sure it wasnt simply a matter of your city folks moving from low wealth to medium to high?
When you start putting down the parks and such to generate high wealth areas your possibly doing so and losing accommodation numbers on those plots.

I've built low-medium wealth cities which have had large numbers, and high wealth cities which have had far fewer, some of which have had about 50% people in the city as visitors/tourists (however its labelled in the game), so i think its down to the fact that buildings can fit more lower wealth people into a building than higher wealth. They're still high density buildings, but rich people want larger living spaces. I think thats almost certainly the primary reason why city populations start to tail off in an unrecoverable manner.

I've not touched it since about 2 weeks after release, and im tempted to have another look, or at least have a go on the sandbox mode with unlimited funds and just make something interesting which i never got around to doing last time.
 
Hi guys,

I have purposely waited to buy this as i have read a lot of the reviews when it first came out and they wasn't great, im now looking at getting over the weekend and i was wondering if it had improved and was now worth it?

Goobz
 
Update 7 is a massive improvement.

My early city that gridlocked, fell apart then burned down with 200k+ population now works very nicely. Managed to recover it from near bankrupcy and get the population up to 320k+ in a couple of hours or so.
 
Just picked this up... is their a recommended server to play on for the UK. Or just pick any European one?
 
Guys

Felt like a game of this the other night, haven't played it in a while, when I went to load after joining a server, all I got was a low res screen with a plane and a heli occasionally flying through..

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks
 
Tried playing this again with the 'new' 7 patch. Bridges and tunnels seem relatively useful, but still don't help with city exit congestion.

I have 1 plot (just 1!) that I like playing on and building my showcase city. Trouble is it's knackered by that 1 lane exit slipway and traffic refuses to exit to the 'region' and it all goes right resulting in utter gridlock once populations head towards 200k. I is sad. :(

Maybe Maxis will pump out better designed regions soon, as the last two were uninspired. Though first they will have to clear up the Mac mess, of course. :D
 
I didn't start playing until update 7, it's been fine so far.

The regions do seem a bit limited. I got the British city set in the sale - all you get is Big Ben clock tower and double decker buses? I assumed it'd give the option of all the city with a British theme.

It seems pretty impossible to get anywhere in the game with just one city unless you tightly pack blocks with high density streets. And a few things don't seem to make much sense, like building houses near a cliff top or by the sea adds nothing to the land value.
 
Performance of the OS X version is terrible on my MacBook Pro. Runs very nicely in Windows at 1680x1050, medium detail. Mac version is like a slideshow at anything above Low settings (where it looks terrible) and there's a strange scrolling/interface lag problem. Horribly disappointing given the limited range of hardware/software they needed to test it with.
 
thedude23 said:
Wish they would scrap the multiple cities thing and just let us have one big ass city,I can see what they were trying to do but it just doesn't work.
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Yeah. You don't have enough space to build all the things you need in one city, and if you'd prefer a low rise city you just can't get enough people in to raise the money to do anything. I think they just want everyone to play online and trade with other cities, but from what I can see most existing games have one player or just abandoned cities.
 
Yep I agree, I can also see what they were trying to do but I don't think its really worked, and they could at least give a separate option to let you have one big ass city if you want. And as far as playing with others goes, that's all very well until a few people get bored (or screw up their city) and leave.
 
Is anyone else getting Origin crashing whilst playing this ? I cannot get more than 10 mins into a game before Origin crashes and a message tells me Origin must be running and Sim City will now close.

I have no idea why but Origin is just randomly crashing for no reason and quiting.

Any ideas ?
 
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