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Mark down another one for crashing.. 1st gen iPhone crashed when i went to the menu. Good thing was it remembered exactly where I was when it loaded again. EDIT: Ok now it crashed again.... that's twice in the first 10 minutes of playing
Three crashes in 15 minutes (1st Gen 8GB). Here's hoping the patches come soon.
I rebooted and it hasnt crashing in 15 minutes, try that.
Here's a video I found on youtube, He gave a quick but good review of the game http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLBGPeVgX0w
I recommend hard rebooting. After installing, I held both the home button and the sleep/wake button for ten seconds. I then opened the app and played for an hour and it didn't crash.
Maybe if you just reboot by holding the sleep/wake button and sliding the slider to 'off' it doesn't prevent crashes.
Maybe if you just reboot by holding the sleep/wake button and sliding the slider to 'off' it doesn't prevent crashes.
Here is where I have a problem! Appvee.com while a good site are not doing the consumers justice. The game just came out this AM and they have a Full review!??
Im not buying this. Hell I could put out a review right now for 5 games as well but I feel I need to play them in order to give a real honest review...
Im not bashing them, but calling it a review when it's clearly based on a short time playing it seems iffy to me.
Im not buying this. Hell I could put out a review right now for 5 games as well but I feel I need to play them in order to give a real honest review...
Im not bashing them, but calling it a review when it's clearly based on a short time playing it seems iffy to me.
I've never played it either. I bought it even though I have no clue what I am doing
I got it going and started to build the city when it crashed. I started it back up and it saved all my progress so that's ok.
"If you made the mess, you clean it up" Nice quotes on the news ticker.
Just curious, why do you think they're lying? Nothing runs identically on every device...
Someone please help me!!
What's a good strategy for this game, how can i get my property value up? should i just build a couple small squares and not extend out untill the property value is very high?? Help, after 24 years, my town sucks.
What's a good strategy for this game, how can i get my property value up? should i just build a couple small squares and not extend out untill the property value is very high?? Help, after 24 years, my town sucks.
I just purchased this app a short time ago and had 30 minutes to try it out. I used to be a big fan of Sim City on the PC and have owned and played all the versions including 3000 (on which the iPhone version is based). My initial observations:
- In terms of graphics and UI, this is a very impressive port of the game. Looks just like the PC version.
- Load and game save times can be LONG. Once you are in a game, however, the responsiveness of the game is perfectly fine. Zooms are reasonably quick.
- I did have a crash right after I first launched a city. After a hard reset, no more crashes (yet).
- No hills or valleys in this version of SC3000. Everything is flat.
- You cannot customize your terrain when launching a new city. You can only adjust the % water and % trees sliders then let the sim auto-generate a map for you.
- There doesn't appear to be a way to rotate the map. You are stuck looking at it from one angle only (that's probably why there are no hills). A semi-transparency effect is used instead so you can see whats behind the buildings.
- You can't add small bodies of water.
- In-game animation (cars, smoke from smokestacks, etc.) looks slow and extremely sparse compared to the PC version.
- Unlike the PC version, when you place a road or structure, you get the chance to confirm or modify the placement area before you commit. Very nice touch.
- Eats the phones battery like crazy. This will have to be improved if were going to play for any reasonable amount of time away from a charger.
- Ill have to play it a lot longer to know how well the simulation aspects of the game work. There could be a lot of issues here that we haven't seen yet. Crossing fingers that's not the case.
Overall, I'm initially very impressed. I'm sure this is several updates away from perfection though.
- In terms of graphics and UI, this is a very impressive port of the game. Looks just like the PC version.
- Load and game save times can be LONG. Once you are in a game, however, the responsiveness of the game is perfectly fine. Zooms are reasonably quick.
- I did have a crash right after I first launched a city. After a hard reset, no more crashes (yet).
- No hills or valleys in this version of SC3000. Everything is flat.
- You cannot customize your terrain when launching a new city. You can only adjust the % water and % trees sliders then let the sim auto-generate a map for you.
- There doesn't appear to be a way to rotate the map. You are stuck looking at it from one angle only (that's probably why there are no hills). A semi-transparency effect is used instead so you can see whats behind the buildings.
- You can't add small bodies of water.
- In-game animation (cars, smoke from smokestacks, etc.) looks slow and extremely sparse compared to the PC version.
- Unlike the PC version, when you place a road or structure, you get the chance to confirm or modify the placement area before you commit. Very nice touch.
- Eats the phones battery like crazy. This will have to be improved if were going to play for any reasonable amount of time away from a charger.
- Ill have to play it a lot longer to know how well the simulation aspects of the game work. There could be a lot of issues here that we haven't seen yet. Crossing fingers that's not the case.
Overall, I'm initially very impressed. I'm sure this is several updates away from perfection though.
I'm in Japan, and I only have access to the Japanese version (all of it's in Japanese). Is the game easily playable if I don't understand what's written, or are there reports that need to be understood. I've been looking forward to this game for a while, and now I'm worried that I won't be able to play it.
You can use this to log into US store. And you can view Hulu.com too.
http://www.hotspotshield.com/
Just posted my review up here: http://www.the-iblog.com/2008/12/17/sim-city-for-iphone-a-city-in-your-pocket/
Basically, I love it. No crashing here, at least not yet.
Basically, I love it. No crashing here, at least not yet.
Of course it'll eat the battery. Any game that is this processor intense will. I don't see how they could improve battery life without removing much of the game or really scaling down the graphics.
love it so far. hasnt crashed once, about 3 hours worth of gameplay. does eat through a full battery in about 1 hour though..... maybe 1.5 hours top...
the lack of any instructions for games gets frustrating though....
how do i build a stadium?
offered business deal and i need to allocate space for them to build a recycling plant or something like that..... how do i do this?
the lack of any instructions for games gets frustrating though....
how do i build a stadium?
offered business deal and i need to allocate space for them to build a recycling plant or something like that..... how do i do this?
I bought this game a couple hours ago and I love it!
This was cut from the game, most likely to reduce the file size.
solving the crash issue...
okay, if you have crashing issue on Sim City, it's either the following that's causing it....
A: Jailbroken 2.1 or 2.2 firmware
B: still has not upgraded to 2.2
If you have jailbroken 2.1 firmware, and you have a updated to latest firmware of OS X, you are out of luck, since iTunes no longer will recognize your iPhone (if you already have 2.2 and jailbroken, and had the latest OS X update, then you will need to remove the jailbreak in order to solve the software crashing issue)
if you have not upgraded to latest version of OSX, or have not jailbroken your iPhone, then update to 2.2 firmware. That should fix the issue.
okay, if you have crashing issue on Sim City, it's either the following that's causing it....
A: Jailbroken 2.1 or 2.2 firmware
B: still has not upgraded to 2.2
If you have jailbroken 2.1 firmware, and you have a updated to latest firmware of OS X, you are out of luck, since iTunes no longer will recognize your iPhone (if you already have 2.2 and jailbroken, and had the latest OS X update, then you will need to remove the jailbreak in order to solve the software crashing issue)
if you have not upgraded to latest version of OSX, or have not jailbroken your iPhone, then update to 2.2 firmware. That should fix the issue.
what? i though only DFU mode is affected and as posted by iphone dev its not becuz of os X updates. I updated and i'm on 2.2 jb itunes is having no porblem recognizing my phone...
ok i was going to give the game a quick run before i start study. low and behold i played it straight for 2 hrs.
Pretty good game, crashes when not in safe mode but your states is save when its crashed. There is a few problems i Can't figure out though...
How do you get across the damn body of water? the only way i c is by rail, using the seaport tool just give me a few square on light green area by the water with no structures on it.
My citizen is always complaining abt not being able to get to a zone but I don't see any area that indicateds its unreachable (unless this iphone version doesn't show it like the PC version does)
anyways great game, way better than the urban tycoon one....
off to studying now
Pretty good game, crashes when not in safe mode but your states is save when its crashed. There is a few problems i Can't figure out though...
How do you get across the damn body of water? the only way i c is by rail, using the seaport tool just give me a few square on light green area by the water with no structures on it.
My citizen is always complaining abt not being able to get to a zone but I don't see any area that indicateds its unreachable (unless this iphone version doesn't show it like the PC version does)
anyways great game, way better than the urban tycoon one....
off to studying now