simcity questions
Zazazu:
I do more of a regional play than a city play. Start up with some agriculture, low density industrial, commercial buffer, and residential. Add residential when it fills. When they start poo-pooing about jobs, add a low density industrial sister city. So on and so forth. Eventually you pull the industrial out of the residential city completely and start adding buses and subways for additional transportation options. I'm not so big on highways. I'll have one connection to each sister city by highway, but that's it.
MrMugg:
I had bought Civilization Chronciles not too long ago, because I never played any of the Civ games. So, I started with the original Civ, and got hooked instantly. Great fun. Civ 2 is a lot of fun also, and I love the "council" that you get advice from. I haven't played Civ 3 or 4 yet, but I have them and the expansions. Eventually, I'll get to it. I'm having fun with Civ 2 right now.
Mizz Rose Bud:
Quote from: roberte on 2009 February 18, 18:27:35
Having no knowledge of sim city I noticed that in videos on the simcity site there are sims present as part of the game, but I cannot find info as to if they are playable similarly to sims in the sims 2 or only act as active background figures.
According to the booklet that comes with SC4 you can import your TS1 sims to your SC4 hood. I have never tested it, but your sims should then report back to you about how their lives is going .....
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Zazazu on 2009 February 20, 01:02:54
I do more of a regional play than a city play. Start up with some agriculture, low density industrial, commercial buffer, and residential. Add residential when it fills. When they start poo-pooing about jobs, add a low density industrial sister city. So on and so forth. Eventually you pull the industrial out of the residential city completely and start adding buses and subways for additional transportation options. I'm not so big on highways. I'll have one connection to each sister city by highway, but that's it.
Regional play is a little glitchy. I discovered the amusing effect that if you have 3 regions that form a "ring", the sims will be perfectly happy to commute endlessly in a circle, paying mass transit fares to each city in an exponentially multiplying mass of duplicated ghosts in their attempt to go to work.
What happens:
City A has some 50000 residents leaving to city B, which advertises some jobs, so they go there. Upon loading city B, there are 50000 sims incoming from city A, looking for jobs. However, these jobs that city B was advertising are ACTUALLY being advertised by city C, and merely being passed mostly along by city B, which only actually has about 10000 domestic jobs. So those sims continue to ride the rails to city C, which also happens to border city A....which brings us to city C, where there might be some 10000 actual jobs, but the passed-along advertisement for jobs in city A...so now there are some 30000 sims travelling from city C to city A...where they came from in the first place!
On return to city A, you discover there are 30000 sims coming from city C. These sims essentially continue to ghost-multiply until there are hundreds of thousands of sims, until at some point this all collapses and resets itself, and the cycle begins anew. The Professional Commuter effect is also a massive cash generator for your city. Mass Transit profits easily compose some 60-80% of my income.
Zazazu:
Yup. Subways before avenues, every time. I hadn't gotten into the why, but had definitely noticed the effect. Also, some of the 'hood policies are completely useless. Carpooling incentive doesn't do enough to be worth the money, I recall.
I usually do a medium sized residential/commercial city with small cities forming a ring around it. Every other small city has a small residential district, low density, poor education/health to keep the business/industrial cities hopping. One or two of the cities in the ring is a power plant. I'll do one highway going around the ring, with a spoke into the residential. My design is very much like a wagon wheel.
What is your opinion of airports and seaports? I never have a good spot for an airport. Seaports seem like they create more pollution than they are worth.
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