Agreed, metacritic is worse lol, 700 negative reviews, and counting.
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Agreed, metacritic is worse lol, 700 negative reviews, and counting.
Same here. I have industry, power, garbage, sewage, etc. in one city and residential and commercial only in another. It's been tricky to get them to commute, but so far so good.
Still trying to get the middle area to sprout some high rise stuff...
So what's the trick? Can your industrial city have 0 residential? Does the city have to be right beside it? You don't need any in town residents to operate the local train/bus station? I have open jobs and unemployed, of all wealth and they just don't go. I'm stumped =|
Edit: When I post, it's mostly because of servers...
Now a 20 minute queue...
The one in the picture is 30k? Not bad, thought it was less.
Hope the commuting works out for you, Fear and Me were having issues with it yesterdayForsaken82
Member
Who said you had to buy it?
RadicalRad
Member
Awesome, I have yet to be able to play the game I spent $65 bucks on... this server queue nonsense is absolutely ridiculous. I am never going to buy another game on Origin again. Some of us work overtime, and don't have time to wait 30-60 min. to get into a game every night.
I realize I keep reading this thread because I really want to get the game. I like the graphics and have been waiting for a new simcity game. I have the cities XL games. Now I just keep reading but have not pulled the trigger. I am having flashbacks to when I wanted a PS3 I just couldn't find a good reason to get it.
Server is probably out of sync and one city isn't recognising the developments of the other. I had that issue when I had opened the Education department in one city and I couldn't build a Uni in the other.
Simply put: The game is a fucking mess.
For me my industrial city has a small residential part. It was the first city I started. It has massive oil supplies which I started to build up. Used some of that money than to quickly build my residential city and than went back and forth between the two adding on to each. I used tourism to also help give a boost to my residential city. It has taken quite a bit of time.
I have been lucky enough to play the game quite a bit compared to everyone else. Got a lot of time in Monday night and yesterday, as well with mid-morning and afternoon today. Kind of funny I would say I went from liking the game to then disliking it after making my first city. Felt like I had been restricted by the city size. But I started with a new region and making cities which would work together, been loving it now. I honestly cant wait for expansions to roads, city size and any other DLC.
I like how late you are and the fact that I've been playing for the last 40 minutes.
I did zone some Res. to fill up the jobs for the power station.(150 people)
My cities are adjacent.
Some graphs say that people are commuting from the residential city to the industrial one. Another graph tells me no one is commuting out of my city. There are ~2,500 people going through the train station and bus depot at the industry city to work there. I get messages at the top of the screen saying people are commuting between the cities, but industry still screams for more workers.
Its a great game with a few glaring problems when it actually works. Its Wednesday now so the server issues are only going to get worse once the weekend hits. Not looking forward to that.
BeekleMatter
Member
I feel like the queue system is... well... uhhh
Why would it make me wait 20mins just to ATTEMPT to join again... I can just exit out and relaunch to do that... smh guys I just wanna play. If Arma 3 wasn't so good I'd be pissed.
Why would it make me wait 20mins just to ATTEMPT to join again... I can just exit out and relaunch to do that... smh guys I just wanna play. If Arma 3 wasn't so good I'd be pissed.
flashburn2012
Member
Seriously, I like how it's an arbitrary 30 minute countdown.
I really cannot believe I'm sitting in a queue to play a fucking Sim City game.
Herpes Reasons
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ndawgdrake
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Yes, it actually doesn't mean anything. It doesn't even automatically put you back in the queue at the end of the countdown. It's useless!
Yesterday I quit the timer at 20mins, reconnected (via select server in the bottom left) and got in right way :lol. I'll try that again if I don't connect after it runs down. seems completely arbitrary.
CronosBlade
Member
From what I've heard, it's not a queue, it's just the time til it tries to reconnect again. Which would explain why some people who close it and restart connect right after being in the "queue".
Pretty much.
ndawgdrake
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You also can't check server status of the other servers without removing yourself from the "queue".
ROFL
FastRedPonyCar
Banned
2 hours and 37 minute wait for me right now to connect to Europe East 2 server which I believe has all my stuff on it from last night.
:/
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Definity
Member
Aaaand I just skipped the queue anyway and connected. In the game now!
Same here but when it finally gets into the game it pops up a message saying servers are not available.
Same reason it's "processing large file", not downloading.
:lol same
oh well. I should be doing other stuff anyway I suppose, but meeeeeh EA servers
Definity
Member
No. That would make too much sense.
How could they not think of such a simple feature?
ndawgdrake
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Looking for a couple more people to play tonight on NA West when the servers stop going full retard. PM me if interested.
Mengy
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Same here. I have industry, power, garbage, sewage, etc. in one city and residential and commercial only in another. It's been tricky to get them to commute, but so far so good.
Still trying to get the middle area to sprout some high rise stuff...
Awesome looking city! Man, if this game just had the city sizes of Simcity 4 I would be in heaven, imagine the possibilities of making a large city like that. Looks fantastic.
That's not his fault, LOL!
I got a full refund of Medal of Honor: Shitfighter from GMG. You just need to email them, they're very cool about it.
Lots of bulldozing. Early on I experiment with what I want it to look like with dirt road since its so cheap.
flashburn2012
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Server down?
Dead Prince
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everytime the launcher connects and i click play. it goes to the game menu and say it can't connect to server. does it auto connect here or do i have to restart?
Got back into the game and, you do indeed need some -local residents- for basic operations. Once I put those back into my Industrial town, the commuters exploded (not sure if it is server issues now or not, doubtful). Thanks!
How does it work, they contact EA to disable your game on Origin!?
Incredibly cool layout. Did you start them simultaneously?Same here. I have industry, power, garbage, sewage, etc. in one city and residential and commercial only in another. It's been tricky to get them to commute, but so far so good.
Still trying to get the middle area to sprout some high rise stuff...
Great idea prototyping with dirt since upgrading is so easy. Thanks for the suggestion!
Also remember to build more than just one bus terminal and park n ride. They are critical for commuting.
Ah, didn't think about that! Great, thanks for the heads up. I've abandoned my current city, and sent a shit ton of funds to a new one where I'm going to try a dual/city setup.
flashburn2012
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Figured while servers are down, pictures of my city on the brink of ruin/about to be reset. In the background some other cities!
How is it going to reset? Just because the servers went down?