SimCity

once you are in windowed mode, try changing your resolution in game. It will make the window smaller... if that is what you are trying to do.

Kickstarter for SimCity clone already up and running

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...city-of-your-d

Anyone else having problems with shared resources within a region last night? Me and a couple friends were playing and while everything worked fine initially, later at night shared resources just absolutely stopped updating. We had one town that had the power plants with like a 450MW surplus, and no one could but more than an extra 100 or so(which was an amount available early on, before a bunch of add-ons were made). I also sent 200K to a friends town so he could build a university there since I was out of room, and the money never arrived, just *poof* gone. We played for 2 more hours after that point and the money never arrived, and I didn't get it back either.

Reading some other forums/sites, some people are theorizing that Maxis turned off resource sharing to reduce server load at some point last night. That's un-fucking-acceptable if true.

Anyone else have issues like that lst night?

So last night everything finally clicked for me in the game...

Couple days ago I built my first city and filled the entire play space. Ended up with like 112k population of mostly low wealth.

In my 2nd city I decided to work on all of the mechanics on a much smaller scale. I figure if I can get everything going well in a small space, I can probably scale it up.

The new city took up less than 1/3 of the play space. Just a strip down the right side of the map. Once it was initially zoned and populated I think I was around 1.5k or so. Since then I haven't added anything extra and that same amount of land has increased to over 20k population. I have 1 police station with 1 car upgrade, 1 clinic, and 1 fire station with no upgrades handling the entire population. I've seen almost no crime or fires.

Still tons of places to improve. I sort of wanna smash 70% of it and start it over with much better zoning/road placement.

i tried resource sharing last night and it never worked either.

Is there an optimum park placement? If you do normal road spacing, putting a park in at the rear limits high-rises due to space problems. I've just been scattering low, med, and high $ parks throughout my residential areas, but have no idea how many I actually need or ideal placement.

All I did was place parks with the land value map data on. You can see how it impacts the land ( $$ or $$$ ) and bulldzone it and replace it somewhere else. In-fact I spend a shit ton of time looking at that graph. If you want high-rises then you need to place parks in a way that doesn't limit high rise spacing. Its probably better to put 2 parks next to each other ( taking up the space where 1 high-rises would be ) instead of 2 spread parks taking up the space 2 high-rises would be.

This morning at breakfast I was designing a road/zone/park placement that wouldn't prevent high rises and be more optimal about park placement and limit intersections, on paper. I'll try it out and see how it goes.

@intropy, what is the benefit of your curving the avenues at the corners instead of having a corner with no intersections? Does that corner somehow count as an intersection?

9AM PST :



Weekend is going to be a shit storm.

Well this is some bullshit , stuck on loading my other city in my region and seeing the above screenshot makes me want to wait it out. Been 10 minutes now.....sigh.

I gave up trying to start a sandbox region to mess around with this morning on NA East 1 and NA East 2 after about an hour and a half.

Tuco bro accept my friends request. Falstaff13

I tried single road last night and it worked well until I decided to add a stadium, which then broke the flow because every car decided to use it as a turn around. That really shouldn't happen when there isnt an event happening, flow restored after I deleted it. So certain buildings will have to be left to the absolute end of the line. Still a lot screwy bugs to deal with.
P.S played on cheetah speed in sandbox mode, they re-enabled it? or does not affect sandbox?

so...when the servers shit out, can you not export? I'm sitting on huge piles of ore and coal and i can't seem to unlock the damn metal HQ.