Yes you can. Zoning is controlled via the road you put down - so a high density area needs a bigger road.
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The New 2013 SimCity [Merged]
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Yes you can. Zoning is controlled via the road you put down - so a high density area needs a bigger road.
That seems damn smart, always bugged me that after a while you would spend the a sizeable chunk of time just fixing old roads and expanding them out.
I got in a few hours of playtime on the beta they just did this past weekend... let me just say that the roads are a delight. You can easily plop down straight roads, curvy roads, perfect circle roads, square roads. As mentioned previously the size of the road will affect the zoning density. Oh, also you can click to upgrade your roads... no more demolishing and putting down larger roads (the only exception to this is if you are going from a road to an avenue -- still need to demolish and place for this).
Sounds good, looking forward to getting this onto my system, I've been playing Cities XL in the mean time (SC4 was always too buggy on the mac for me), it's not the same.
thanks for the advice! I decided to go ahead and buy the GTX 650 series card. Playing Crysis 2 on Extreme settings, looks great! Now to see what the SimCity can do with this card....gotta wait cuz the Beta is over and the real game isn't coming out for another 2 weeks.
This is killing me!!!
Since there is no word on when SC2013 will be available for Mac. And since my machine is not bootcamp compatible. Does anyone know of a way to get the last Simcity installed on a new Mac? My DVD-ROM is from the PowerPC era, so it isn't even recognized by OS X. Is there somewhere that offers a download? All this anticipation has really given me the SimCity bug and I need to scratch...
There is an intel patch, but it's pretty awful and not even remotely optimised, it crashes a ton too.
Just curious, how is your machine not bootcamp compatible? As far as I was aware all Macs are bootcamp compatible, unless you have a RAID 0 setup?
Not the 3TB fusion drive iMac. Not yet, at least.
I knew about that patch, and that it is not very good, but I can't even get OSX to let me install the PowerPC version. Oh well, I wait (not so patiently) for the new one.
Maybe this page will help: Ea.com. If your machine meets the requirements I assume it will run fine. It may even run it your machine does not quite meet the specs. My wife's 2010 Macbook plays Spore fine although it does not meet the official system requirements.
I've played the closed betas, seems like it'll be pretty fun. A few caveats I found:
-When going from the 1st Beta to the 2nd to 3rd, you had to do the tutorial every time. Kind of annoying as it was pretty much exactly the same every time.
-The first few betas were fine, although most items are not available (which sucked)
-The last beta (Wednesday, I want to say?), you got all the tools and choose which city in the region to build, but after a while, you couldn't edit any buildings or build new ones. Nothing would pop up. Very buggy. However, I was using an external cheat utility to get more money. Not sure if that's related or not.
I have a 2008 MBP w/ a Geforce 8600m card. It ran ok, but the graphics detail not that great. I don't have a 2012 MBP so I don't know how it compares. The integrated graphics shouldn't be too much worse than mine.
-When going from the 1st Beta to the 2nd to 3rd, you had to do the tutorial every time. Kind of annoying as it was pretty much exactly the same every time.
-The first few betas were fine, although most items are not available (which sucked)
-The last beta (Wednesday, I want to say?), you got all the tools and choose which city in the region to build, but after a while, you couldn't edit any buildings or build new ones. Nothing would pop up. Very buggy. However, I was using an external cheat utility to get more money. Not sure if that's related or not.
I have a 2008 MBP w/ a Geforce 8600m card. It ran ok, but the graphics detail not that great. I don't have a 2012 MBP so I don't know how it compares. The integrated graphics shouldn't be too much worse than mine.
Mid 2011 Macbook Air, any good?
Hi,
Can't wait for the 2013 Sim City to be released but I was wondering if my Mid 2011 Macbook Air would be able to handle it?
It has the following spec:
Processor: 1.7Ghz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384Mb
Hi,
Can't wait for the 2013 Sim City to be released but I was wondering if my Mid 2011 Macbook Air would be able to handle it?
It has the following spec:
Processor: 1.7Ghz Intel Core i5
Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 384Mb
The Minimum requirements to run the game on Mac is Snow Leopard, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel HD3000, and 4GB, so you should be able to run it just fine.
The only thing that upsets me is that you have to wait for the Mac version (and it's download only)
Hopefully the release will at least be close to the March 5th release for the Windows version.The only thing that upsets me is that you have to wait for the Mac version (and it's download only)
If you have Bootcamp, you can buy the PC version and then you will get access to the Mac version when it arrives.
Absolutely sure buying the PC version gives you the Mac version for free? If so, I probably will....
Looks like it's supposed to be released Tuesday for PC and they're still saying "Spring" for the Mac.
Why quote from August last year?!
It's being advertised on T.V. for the 5th March for PC. This has been known for a little while.
EA singapore facebook:
Electronic Arts (EA) Singapore Hi guys, please note that the Mac version will be sold separately.
What would run this game better?
MBP mid 2010, 2.53 core i5 8GB 330M/256
or
MBA mid 2011 1.8 core i7 4GB Intel 3000/384
I'm guessing the MBP.
I'd have to install bootcamp on either one. I don't think it'd run in a VM well.
MBP mid 2010, 2.53 core i5 8GB 330M/256
or
MBA mid 2011 1.8 core i7 4GB Intel 3000/384
I'm guessing the MBP.
I'd have to install bootcamp on either one. I don't think it'd run in a VM well.