SimCity 5

[PurePlayinSerb]

Re: SimCity 5

A quick update. Slow, but steady progress. One thing I'm having a problem with is my casino, which used to make 12K-14K a day is now losing money. Suggestions?

attract tourists, and damn i had no idea they were that profitable, i been destroying my city over oil, when i can make the same profit with less overhead with a casino what was i thinking

[PurePlayinSerb]

Re: SimCity 5

I know absolutely nothing about PC specs so using that Systems Requirements Lab site, this is what I have:

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G620 @ 2.60GHz
RAM: 4.0 GB
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
Video card: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Sound card: Realtek High Definition Audio

Apparently the areas I don't check out on are the CPU and my video card (SimCity 5 needs at least 256mb of video RAM. I only have 64.)

http://www.gamespot.com/grand-theft-auto-iv/forum/command-line-options-46867982/

you may not have shader 3.0 support so this may be a waste but try going there, use the command line

-availablevidmem: Set amount of physical Video Memory(ex. –availablevidmem 0.9)

for instance you would do the -availablevidmem 4.0

that would take some of your ram memory, and multiply the number it uses of it by 4 of what is already being used for your video card, since your already using integrated its basically doing this already, just puts a cap on 64 mb which is pitifully low, what this will do is increase the cap

this will fix your problem on that, but like ive been saying you gotta find out what kinda shader support your graphics chip has

[sportsdude]

Re: SimCity 5

attract tourists, and damn i had no idea they were that profitable, i been destroying my city over oil, when i can make the same profit with less overhead with a casino what was i thinking

What are good ways to attract tourists?

[PurePlayinSerb]

Re: SimCity 5

What are good ways to attract tourists?

ive been focused on selling oil/fuel so i dunno, but i'd assume go to the tourism tab in city specialization and buy more of those buildings they should attract tourists, also have a mass transit system in place if you don't already

[JWR3232]

What are good ways to attract tourists?

Like Serb said get some of the tourism buildings, mass transit (airport probably brings the most) and I'm pretty sure having higher land values help as well. I was going to try this because my gambling house kept losing money. So I ended up demolishing it because I had no room (or enough $) to start plopping down Big ben and the Eiffel tower and all that good stuff.

[iLLosophy]

Re: SimCity 5

I created OSVille 2, also on NA East 4. My origin id is iLLosophy1. Let me know if you want to get in, and send me a friend request. Priority will be given to those who didn't get into the first region (will wait 48 hours before opening it to everyone)

[cjonesfan921]

Re: SimCity 5

The size of the cities definitely is a downer. I couldn't get good gaming in yesterday though.

Do the skyscrapers pop up through a good economy? I have some high density streets and still nothing.

[choadler]

Re: SimCity 5

The size of the cities definitely is a downer. I couldn't get good gaming in yesterday though.

Do the skyscrapers pop up through a good economy? I have some high density streets and still nothing.

I seem to be stuck at about 140k people as my max. I have about $2m right now as my consumer electronics industry makes me about $800k in profit. However, I just can't grow. I am thinking about saving about $10M and just blowing up my city design and starting over.

They need a bigger map for sure. You should be able to have some suburban sprawl in this game. Not everything should be highrises.

Anyone need a gift to get their city going again let me know.

Also, I have started researching the solar panel great works for our region

[Novicain13]

Yea that's exactly my problem I have no room to grow.

[JWR3232]

The size of the cities definitely is a downer. I couldn't get good gaming in yesterday though.

Do the skyscrapers pop up through a good economy? I have some high density streets and still nothing.

To get skyscrapers you need the roads to support it. Then if you left click on a building there's a happiness bar when that fills up to the next section they the building will reconstruct its self. So basically as long as you put down roads, and the people are happy (and there's room on the given area) it will advance its self. Just takes a little time and you will have skyscraper city in no time.

[cjonesfan921]

Re: SimCity 5

I seem to be stuck at about 140k people as my max. I have about $2m right now as my consumer electronics industry makes me about $800k in profit. However, I just can't grow. I am thinking about saving about $10M and just blowing up my city design and starting over.

They need a bigger map for sure. You should be able to have some suburban sprawl in this game. Not everything should be highrises.

Anyone need a gift to get their city going again let me know.

Also, I have started researching the solar panel great works for our region

I agree. I think the city sizes need to be doubled. I'm trying to balance having a nice suburban area as well as an urban one...however, just not enough room. The game is great though for what it is. I do wish these mofos would stop burning ish down, though!

[TheBleedingRed21]

Re: SimCity 5

I created OSVille 2, also on NA East 4. My origin id is iLLosophy1. Let me know if you want to get in, and send me a friend request. Priority will be given to those who didn't get into the first region (will wait 48 hours before opening it to everyone)

Gonna send you a request since I can no longer be in osville 1 due to EA preventing me from joining an area where limited edition was. Would love to join #2!

[iLLosophy]

Re: SimCity 5

Anybody know how to make a perfect half circle road? I can't do a full circle because it's near the coast and it's telling me i need to build bridges. Any the other tools aren't quite as perfect as I would like (unless i'm doing it wrong)

[TheBleedingRed21]

Re: SimCity 5

Try using the arc tool and I am not sure but hold shift to see if it creates perfect half circle like it does perfect square.

[mestevo]

im warning you now, that intersection closest to the free way is gonna get jammed in a hurry, and even back up free way traffic

Yeah, I saw that coming, my cities usually aren't set up quite like that but that was an early move that I'll probably redesign later.

Could really use ploppable interchanges.

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