SimCity (2013)

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matt4pack

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As much as I'd like to get a city beyond 200k people, considering how crappy the traffic management system is, my city would never get unclogged. I don't care what traffic patterns I do or what mass transit I use, by the time I get to 100k, the streets are clogged.

The traffic simulation has flaws but I got my city up to 250,000 with no traffic problems. Did you upgrade all your roads to high density?

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Hurmoth

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The traffic simulation has flaws but I got my city up to 250,000 with no traffic problems. Did you upgrade all your roads to high density?

My streets are at the highest level possible, I'm even using streetcars, busses, trains, and boats and my streets are still clogged.

I'm not the only one either, there's even an entire article dedicated to the horrible traffic/pathfinding algorithm in the game: http://bgr.com/2013/...analysis-372284

22 pages of issues at EA's site: http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/Traffic-quot-AI-quot-This-is-why-services-and-traffic-are-broken/td-p/737060?ClickID=dthrkonwtnynbyssrhs0rst20tncnhrrwyxk

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Teebor

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If this has already been posted, my apologies, but I just found this on the EA's forum: someone made an entire city out of 100% residential absolutely amazing:

Wouldn't that suggest something's wrong with the RCI balancing?

Isn't the point that your sims can leave and work in other cities though? So this should in fact be possible if he is surrounded by well built cities that have a surplus of jobs.

His roads out of town must be pretty busy though, but if he has designed his roads well I guess that is manageable

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Hurmoth

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Isn't the point that your sims can leave and work in other cities though? So this should in fact be possible if he is surrounded by well built cities that have a surplus of jobs.

His roads out of town must be pretty busy though, but if he has designed his roads well I guess that is manageable

If you watch the entire video, he doesn't have any other cities in his region, so while you're correct, that isn't what's happening, at least not from his experience.
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HawkMan

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I was reading through the thread and someone mentioned the idea of a Neowin Region. Has this idea caught on? It sounds great to me :)

I have a New Windonia region for on my username HawkMan79. So far everyone has just been making their own regions here though :)

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Teebor

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If you watch the entire video, he doesn't have any other cities in his region, so while you're correct, that isn't what's happening, at least not from his experience.

Videos are blocked at work so I loaded it up on my mobile and you were right (I actually came back to edit my original post but saw your reply)

Yeah, game is broken is the upshot really :(

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Hurmoth

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Videos are blocked at work so I loaded it up on my mobile and you were right (I actually came back to edit my original post but saw your reply)

Yeah, game is broken is the upshot really :(

I don't mean to bash the game, I understand that they built this game from the ground up and there's going to be issues, but some of these things really alter the gameplay in major ways.
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Teebor

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I don't mean to bash the game, I understand that they built this game from the ground up and there's going to be issues, but some of these things really alter the gameplay in major ways.

I saw someone mention that the low taxes and expensive parks (I think it was parks) make the sims happy which lets this work.

However if this does work its an awesome way to supply a workforce to a second city with something like mining to make a big income potentially)

I've also read that someone has worked out how to push population to 600k, that I would like to see :)

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HawkMan

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So as a warning to you guys, DO NOT abandon a city in your region(s).

I just abandoned a second city I tried to start to ship water to my mining town in New Windonia, and when I clicked yes to abandon the city, it abandoned and deleted the whole region.

just for fun I figured I'd check the live chat with EA if they could help. so far she seems clueless, and I'm not sure she knows what game SimCity is and how it works, since she started by telling me to clear my browser cache and restart the game.... as if that would magically restore the region on their servers (it didn't)... then she told me to call their help line...

yeah, I'm not calling their american support to restore a fricken Sim City region....

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HawkMan

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kinda sucks since had a well working mining city with 2 million in the back and fully self sufficient with nuclear power and I just added a commerce section to the mining HQ so I could do eports by train instead of my 4 or 5 trade posts, for ore, coal, metal and aluminum or whatever.

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