Sim City

[kenypowa]

Is there is a guide? The tutorial sucks. For example, how do I take out a loan? I can't seem to find a guide on the internet either....

Go to the budget window, under the 2nd Monthly Expenses you will see two options: Ordinance Expenses & Loan Expenses. Select View, a new window will come out and you can take out loans from there.


The game is not hard once the city hits a certain size. The money keeps pouring in and now I have well over $1 million in balance.

Here are some of my stats:
Monthly income: $5495
Monthly expenses $2853
Commercial tax 0%. Residential and Industrial tax 10%.
Population around 300k.

This is an awesome game and I can't stop playing it.

 

[Mr. Giver '94]

I highly recommend it!!!

Hours of addicting fun, and if things get out of hand, I like to plague the city with disasters and start over...LOL

 

[Mr. Giver '94]

Go to the budget window, under the 2nd Monthly Expenses you will see two options: Ordinance Expenses & Loan Expenses. Select View, a new window will come out and you can take out loans from there.


The game is not hard once the city hits a certain size. The money keeps pouring in and now I have well over $1 million in balance.

Here are some of my stats:
Monthly income: $5495
Monthly expenses $2853
Commercial tax 0%. Residential and Industrial tax 10%.
Population around 300k.

This is an awesome game and I can't stop playing it.

I can't get past 60,000 people before things go down the tubes... PLEASE SHARE YOUR SECRETS!!!!

How do you have everything zoned??

 

[akm3]

Have we seen hard evidence that it crashes more or less frequently for folks with 1G iPhone vs 3G iPhonve vs 1G iPod Touch vs 2G iPod Touch?

I know they all use slightly different processors, etc.

 

[happydude]

i'm excited, this will be the first app i'll actually pay for (yeah, i'm a tight wad . . . ). loved sim city as a kid, and am looking forward to playing it now!!

 

[kenypowa]

I can't get past 60,000 people before things go down the tubes... PLEASE SHARE YOUR SECRETS!!!!

How do you have everything zoned??

Basically I put all industrial zones, airport, landfills, power plant, recycling plants, schools and hospitals (the placement of these two doesn't matter, unlike the police stations) on one side, and commercial + residential and other "desirable" buildings on the other.

As the pictures showed, it's a tale of two cities. One side looks like a refugee camp and the other looks like midtown Manhattan.

 

[dranakin]

How did you build the bridges? I keep trying to drag road bridges, but nothing is working.

 

[TimothyB]

How did you build the bridges? I keep trying to drag road bridges, but nothing is working.

It's as simple as dragging across. If it's red, then either there's not enough room due to an existing road or building, or possibly the angle of the land

If you start a new map, just draw a road across the river and it should work somewhere. With your existing map, trying clearing the areas around where you want to build a bridge.

 

[synagence]

No idea how i did it but i finally cracked it .... i've gone from a failing city with 10,000 loans to a $100k surplus and almost 200k citizens

 

[Praetorian®]

Guys, is your Pumping Station in this game working? Mine is not. I've played all SimCity games for PC so I got some experience how to build waterpipe network but when I click on the Pumping Station, it says 'Usage: 0'. Any ideas?

 

[synagence]

Possible you're not on a source of fresh-water .... sometimes i find they don't work ... unfortunately its kinda hit and miss

 

[jayenh]

same thing with the water. some things just aren't working right it seems. to quote form the strategy thread;

now i have a question. the water pumps, water treatment and the other one. i can't get these to work like in the PC version. i think the treatment plant does help water polution, but i was sure the other one (i forget its name) when put near the coast or river could give you a greater water supply than a pump or tower. it isn't doing this for me. and the water pumps aren't doing anything either. all i can use are water towers...? anyone else getting this?

I'm also having a problem with the stadium. i built one successfully for one City. Started a new one and can no longer get to it. If you get the sims demanding one and go to the parks etc, menu and flick between the first and last structures (community ballpark and small park) you'll see that the stadium is there, it just right past it really quick. flicking back and forth shows it if you're looking for it. it's not a stadium like in sim city 2000 where you could pick the sport played in it (i think that was 2000?). instead its just a big baseball stadium.

 

[BayouBengal]

Possible you're not on a source of fresh-water .... sometimes i find they don't work ... unfortunately its kinda hit and miss

Damn, how could I forget that. The pumps needs to be next to fresh water to function right. The more water tiles that border it the better. It's been a while since I played Sim City 3000.

 

[khanriazaoif]

Poor Transportation!!!!!!??????!!!!!!!!

I have the same issue, happens around 2,000-5000 people within 15 minutes of me starting a new city. my sims are always complaining,

"CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE, ZONES ABANDONING DUE TO POOR TRANSPORTATION. I have no clue what I am doing wrong. I have started about 10 cities, and they always seem to complain and then my population seems to stand still, going up and down but hovering.

***I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO POST A SCREENSHOT***

 

[Beric]

I have the same issue, happens around 2,000-5000 people within 15 minutes of me starting a new city. my sims are always complaining,

"CAN'T GET THERE FROM HERE, ZONES ABANDONING DUE TO POOR TRANSPORTATION. I have no clue what I am doing wrong. I have started about 10 cities, and they always seem to complain and then my population seems to stand still, going up and down but hovering.

***I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO POST A SCREENSHOT***

Your industrial and commercial zones are simply too far away from your residential zones.

 

[macfan881]

I just bought this game for christmas with my itunes card wow Great game i spent about n hour already into it its very addicting took a while to get use to the controls but i got them hamerd down this is by far one of my fav apps i have downloaded and my fav game i cant wait to see ea's other games coming out.

 

[wakka092]

This game is awesome. Two problems though:

1) Mass transit isn't working. Just like everyone elses', and the 'poor transportation' message appears on the ticker every minute.

2) My population got up to 134k, and I began to get messages about buildings not getting water (a message like 'decent plumbing too much to ask for?') and the population went down to about 100k. There was plenty of water, and even after adding another pump next to the river, the population stayed around 100k..

 

[LostLogik]

One tip for traffic problems I've picked up is to ensure your roads don't have "four way" intersections. So stagger your connections and have "T" junctions at the most. ie you don't want to build a standard box grid system or at least not with the roads. Seems to help the flow.

 

[Capla]

I can't seem to build a stadium, it says my sims want it and so I go to the "Rewards/Gift" category, and there is no stadium there...? Whyyy

Anyone else have this problem?

I have the same problem.. they keep demanding a stadium, but I have no idea on how to build it; the update didn't fix it.



Sidenote; I've played it for a while now, my city has 280,000 inhabitants but amazingly enough: not a single crash.

 

[honkimon]

I have the same problem.. they keep demanding a stadium, but I have no idea on how to build it; the update didn't fix it.



Sidenote; I've played it for a while now, my city has 280,000 inhabitants but amazingly enough: not a single crash.

I can vouch for this as well, although like someone else said, it should be in parks, not gifts. This is broken along with public tranportation. I have a dense city yet neither rail or bus stops report any passengers. I have played sim city since it first came out on the pc, so I think I know what Im doing. I cant believe these issues dont come up from any google searches aside from here at mac rumors. Is anyone playing this game? Can we expect an update to address these problems? Who do I need to contact to express my concerns.

On the bright side, I have not had this game crash on me on a ipod touch 16gb 1g (jailbroken). Although, Sim City can chew through some battery like nothing else. Game has a lot of potential, just sucks that when I get up to $200k population and I cant build them a stadium.

 

[Avizzv92]

Your lucky you got that high population, I can barely get too 30k Sims without the Transportation Bug forces my Sims to flee the city .

I have seen this issues discussed multiple times in other forums and it's a widely known bug. When we will get an update, it's anyone's guess. EA seems to be unpredictable.

As for who you can contact and express your concerns, you can probably email them. Good luck getting a real response

 

[jettrue]

Same problem with the transportation issue too.

I had my residential and commercial literally right next to each other. The industrial was kinda far away, maybe about 30 tiles, but I put a road and a train track and station.

I also can't get the sims to use the dump, what's up with that?

I'm new to sim, so I can't say I know what I'm doing. It took me a while to get the water going. It seems like you have to wait a while? I built the zones and roads, added the coal station, added the water tower, I even gave the water tower electricity and the coal station water, and I waited and waited and waited. Only fast forwarding seemed to start the water flowing. Am i just not waiting long enough?

I'm sad I bought this. And the iPhone is way too small for this game. Dragging roads/power lines is a PITA. Can't see crap. I'm close to saying I hate this game.

Is there a good sim game for the mac? LOL

 

[=Shadow=]

Jettrue:

Your note on Transportation:
Keep in mind that Industry is the number 1 job supplier for your sims. They usually provide many more jobs than your commercial zones do, and so keeping your industry 30 tiles away most certainly doesn't aid with getting your sims to work on time. I will take a wild guess that you had only one or two roads going to and from your residential to industrial. If this is so, this could also pose as a problem, as this would mean all traffic would be limited to this one road, slowing down traffic tremendously. Put your industry a bit closer to home, and you may have more success. Remember that a little pollution in a small city is not a big problem, and it's best not to overexpand too early into the game.

Your note on dumps:
This is likely because they either:
1. Your sims aren't generating enough garbage for any visual clues to take any effect. This is common to newer cities.
2. You haven't got any road connections. This is essential if you want to get garbage to your land fills.

Your note on water towers:
I am not entirely sure what your problem was. Did you just plop a water tower and your city got no water? If this is the case, build some pipes throughout your city that connect in some way to your water tower. This will get the water where it needs to go. Keep an eye on your water's usage level/capacity. If it reaches its maximum capacity, it's time to build a new tower.

To answer your final question, are there any good Sim City games for mac, the answer is YES. The latest Sim City for mac that has been released is Sim City 4 Deluxe. Unfortunately, the latest Sim City game, Sim City Societies, has yet to be released for Mac. This isn't too much of problem though, since Sim City Societies is utter garbage, and really doesn't play like Sim City always has. (No zoning? Plopping each building individually? Forget about it!)

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
>Shadow<

 

[AlBDamned]

I have the same problem.. they keep demanding a stadium, but I have no idea on how to build it; the update didn't fix it. [/i]

There's a few methods for delivering these sorts of gifts, I can't remember the specific route on this one, but when you see the green ticker say "sims demand stadium" you must click on that, you should be taken to the screen about the guy who had travelled back to your city and thought it would be great if they had their own stadium. There should be an option on his screen to "build stadium". If so, click that, and it should be in the gifts section afterwards (it costs $75k).

If not, go to Advisors, then "petitioners" and there should be an ordinace that says, "sims want a stadium".

If neither of those options work then you really have got a bad bug!

Sidenote; I've played it for a while now, my city has 280,000 inhabitants but amazingly enough: not a single crash.

That's lucky! I got up to 280,000 with $4,000,000 in the bank, and then it started crashing and is unplayable now unless I start a new city.

The SimCity games never did scale all that well, but I guess the size of the city, size of the file, number of animations etc. just becomes too much for the app/iPhone combo.

 

[AlBDamned]

Your lucky you got that high population, I can barely get too 30k Sims without the Transportation Bug forces my Sims to flee the city .

It is a bug but you can totally work through it. Just lay down more stations, more bus stops etc. Bad transport won't stop your city from growing.