I believe I read a tweet from one of the developers that stated it was designed to be easier early on and will get harder has the demands of your city mount. If that actually happens, we'll see. 32k population is pretty impressive in an hour.
Just did a city which reached 32,000 sims and it only started building apartment buildings within the last 10 minutes. Filled up the map. Had to have 6 wind turbines to keep the city powered and my sewage pump was strained, had to build a 2nd water tower and the garbage pickup was bad but I think I built it too late so they were mostly playing catchup even with 4 trucks.
I had over 500,000 simoleons with a hourly rate of +15K so while I thought Simcity 4 was a bit too hard to make money this one seems a bit too easy ... going from the demo alone.
Played another hour today and kept things small but worked on increasing land value in certain parts of town to make nice areas and keep low-income areas separate. So far, it's very much dictated by what level of park you place. If you want a higher-wealth residential area, put a $$$ park down.
One thing I found odd is that even though I had well-established my higher land value in a certain area of town, it didn't stop the trailers from moving in:
http://i.imgur.com/47HkN40.jpg
I'm guessing that's all that could fit in the zoned space that was left. I'm wondering if those trailers bring down the land value any and if it would be wise to clean up those smaller zones, or if they are hurting anything at all.
Wow, some of the graphics on those look worse than earlier iterations of Sim City.
All the pictures I've seen previously made it so that it's supposed to be much graphically better.
I'm just not seeing it here.
With all the other baggage this is bringing I'm going to have no problem forgetting about this cluster . . .
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Just did a city which reached 32,000 sims and it only started building apartment buildings within the last 10 minutes. Filled up the map. Had to have 6 wind turbines to keep the city powered and my sewage pump was strained, had to build a 2nd water tower and the garbage pickup was bad but I think I built it too late so they were mostly playing catchup even with 4 trucks.
I had over 500,000 simoleons with a hourly rate of +15K so while I thought Simcity 4 was a bit too hard to make money this one seems a bit too easy ... going from the demo alone.
Not touching it if they're not going to include subway systems. Sorry guys
I can't say my citizens were happy. They were always complaining about property values and taxes. I gouged on taxes even when I added the financial addon to the city hall that allowed taxation by economic status and not just land use status.
I had fun, game looked good ... I might actually pre order.
How does multi player work exactly?
yeah, that is our plan! Get a few of us to build
When is the game set to release?
As far as I know, you can have friends play the other plots in your region. All I've ever seen is the region that has 3 plots and an extra spot for a "great works", like airport, etc. I think the idea is that you work together to trade resources, since it will be impossible to be everything in one city. It's my guess that they knew early on that they would be simulating every sim and every car, and the size of the cities would be pretty small, so this was incorporated.
Sounds like it would be fun to get with a couple of like-minded people for 3-4 hours and just build, build, build.
While I enjoy the game, the size restriction is way too ridiculous. The fact I can easily build up the entire map in under an hour is simply silly. All that remains is merely to wait, watch the population grow, and maybe adjust a few utilities. Once other buildings like colleges etc. gets unlocked, I wouldn't even know where to put them. The map size needs to be bigger. The "sims" simulation, while cool, should not restrict the actual city building aspect of the game.