official SimCity (2013)

[JamTarty]

Managed to get a copy using the Indian Origin bagged a bargain there I'd say! I was going to wait for a price drop but I couldn't resist at ?18-19. Now to get to grips with playing this game I feel like a complete newbie.

[Dane]

I just took notice. I pre-ordered this game in Febuary. They only took out the money recently.

[DrakeN2k]

Anyone from the UK want to join me on the region called England , my screen name is master2k27

[Dane]

Are disasters disabled in sandbox? I maxed out the wind farm to get the tornado and nothing.

I mined over 100 tons a day or ore for the earthquake and nothing.

[SinsOfCube]

They are unlocked through challenges and it clearly states that you can't do challenges in sandbox mode. But if you unlock them in a non-sandbox game, you should be able to use them in sandbox aswell.

[HawkMan]

I believe sandbox mode has the ability to trigger disasters anyway. Check the electronic manual through the game menu

[Scazza]

Undecided whether to purchase the PC Version and run it through BootCamp or wait for the native Mac version to be released....Maybe if I do wait a lot of the issues will be fixed.

[mattmatik]

Bought the game from the Indian Origin store as well finally. Had no interest splashing out EUR70 on a game that I won't have time to play that much anyways.

Currently at processing a large file... :)

How long did it take to get the confirmation email? I submitted my payment, just waiting for code/download.

[JamTarty]

Some people are saying it takes 2-3 hours max for the email to come through but I got mine instantly hope you get yours soon. :)

[TruckWEB]

Well, was playing, could not load another city in the map "not available", so, I guess the server are still quite busy...

[HawkMan]

I find that whenever you are in the game and it's connected to the servers but you're unable to load the cities, restart the game and it works.

new patch now anyway.

[KoL Veteran]

How do you export resources to a Great Work?

[ShadowMajestic]

I find that whenever you are in the game and it's connected to the servers but you're unable to load the cities, restart the game and it works.

new patch now anyway.

Sometimes the servers are just full I notice. Havent had much disconnection issues, few times it lost connection to EA servers ingame, but a quick restart and I only lost only a few minutes. No big issue.

Seems that since yesterday EU West 1 is fine again :) So I don't have to mess about on EU East servers :)

I added you to friend list btw :) I've been playing a bit with randoms, but whenever I try to focus my city on heavy industries, tourism, shops or anything. One or 2 of my neighbors do exactly the same. So it defeats the point.

I'd love a proper chat though. Often messages are never sent, mostly it takes 5-20minutes before its sent. and every frigging region notice is in the chat bubble, making it useless to ask or tell stuff if people don't constantly check the chat.

EDIT: Btw not sure if people keep up with update info and MAXIS blog.

But this isn't EA's usual screwing it up. This is still MAXIS and it shows!

[fintechfooty]

I ACTUALLY GOT TO PLAY GUYS! Finally. What a great game. But can somebody explain to me how I can build nice towers as offices and corporation buildings. Right now I just have a bunch of residential, business, and industrial complexes, but the buildings look very small.

[KoL Veteran]

I ACTUALLY GOT TO PLAY GUYS! Finally. What a great game. But can somebody explain to me how I can build nice towers as offices and corporation buildings. Right now I just have a bunch of residential, business, and industrial complexes, but the buildings look very small.

High density street and parks. That's what I'm doing and this is how my city looks right now.

[HawkMan]

Sometimes the servers are just full I notice. Havent had much disconnection issues, few times it lost connection to EA servers ingame, but a quick restart and I only lost only a few minutes. No big issue.

Seems that since yesterday EU West 1 is fine again :) So I don't have to mess about on EU East servers :)

I added you to friend list btw :) I've been playing a bit with randoms, but whenever I try to focus my city on heavy industries, tourism, shops or anything. One or 2 of my neighbors do exactly the same. So it defeats the point.

I'd love a proper chat though. Often messages are never sent, mostly it takes 5-20minutes before its sent. and every frigging region notice is in the chat bubble, making it useless to ask or tell stuff if people don't constantly check the chat.

EDIT: Btw not sure if people keep up with update info and MAXIS blog.

But this isn't EA's usual screwing it up. This is still MAXIS and it shows!

I actually started playing slow this time on the New Windonia region. so I got a much more planned layout now. or rather, planned in that I'm doing a primarily mining based town to start with (good cash flow).

of course with only one loan to startup, took a while for me to get a police station. resultign in some bad crime stats and crime wave :)

but it did make me notice they have some cool stuff for crimes, tagging on buildings and even buildings with blow out walls with appear to either have modeled interior or awesome parallax mapping :)

Though I must say... they have some HUGE taggers in this city :)

I ACTUALLY GOT TO PLAY GUYS! Finally. What a great game. But can somebody explain to me how I can build nice towers as offices and corporation buildings. Right now I just have a bunch of residential, business, and industrial complexes, but the buildings look very small.

Remember you can't do it like the old Sim City games. separate residential from factories with commercial and nice structured systems. in order to keep low wealth homes for the factory workers, it's best to keep them close to the factories and don't do anything to increase the land value.

[spaceelf]

https://help.ea.com/...ity-patch-notes

patch 1.4 is up

[RiverCampher]

Hmm I have a feeling the multiplayer lost a lot of functionality. Since they had to cater it to the casual gamer, if you've got a fast PC you can't take advantage of 'bigger cities'. The landmass is very limiting after a while, especially when you get demands for public buildings which seem to take up huge areas.

It's quite annoying on some counts, the game encourages you to leave it open, even if you're not actively playing it to collect cash. I have a feeling people are just leaving it all day to collect lots of money and due to the amount of db calculations server side, it's cattling their infrastructure.

EA should've been aware of this issue as they could see the amount of pre-orders, and thus you should calculate from the beta how each player is utilizing a server (roughly, as the beta cities get wiped out, the full game will be played much longer than a 'trial'). I've not been able to connect to my city at all this evening, which is a little disappointing when it's a private game.

Good things about the game appear to be it's complexity, although some help would be nice in understanding how to take your city to the next level (I've wiped out areas for better education and healthcare which is expensive and cuts downs on the amount of residential/industrial areas so from 15k a month to 9.5k). The graphics are pretty good when you zoom in to see the operations of the city.

Without the server issues the game would be pretty good. Hopefully they resolve them quickly.

[HawkMan]

oops., forgot I had to accept the friend reqs in origin, can't do that in the friends interface in the game... oh well, going to bed and my game lost connection with server, leading it on pause for the night :) or until it times out ...

[matt4pack]

What do you have to do to get all the trash picked up? I've maxed out one facility and tried adding a second which just seemed to override the first as the total pickup went way down. Is this a bug?

I have ground pollution and sick sims protesting about the health in my city but can't figure out how to fix it if I can't pick up all the trash.

[.Markus]

Been playing straight for 4 hours now, don't know what happened there but the game really sucks you in...

Have had no connection issues at all though, surprisingly enough!

[mattmatik]

Some people are saying it takes 2-3 hours max for the email to come through but I got mine instantly hope you get yours soon. :)

Yes sir, just got the email and the game is in my library. Hopefully I can get to playing this evening but for $27 not too worried about it now.

[mattmatik]

Anyone having issues launching the game? Whenever I click on 'Play' it just goes right to my desktop but I can hear the game music and its showing 'SimCity*32.exe' in my Task Manager. Was able to get in only once to do the tutorial, since then no dice.

[spaceelf]

What do you have to do to get all the trash picked up? I've maxed out one facility and tried adding a second which just seemed to override the first as the total pickup went way down. Is this a bug?

I have ground pollution and sick sims protesting about the health in my city but can't figure out how to fix it if I can't pick up all the trash.

At some point you have to start burning it.

[PGHammer]

At some point you have to start burning it.

Either burning or recycling.