Richard Alpagot's blog.: SimCity

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Thursday, 9 May 2013

My 10 Miliion plus Simoleon‎ SimCity

Not massively hard when you get the balance of the game leaning in your favour. It's a tricky one though and I don't feel like I have it properly yet in terms of a well run city. Check the recent transactions in the below pictures and you'll see what I mean. I also have a radiation issue due to a er....upgrading the nuclear power plant by demolishing the old...

I currently run the city on a loss while the processors and TV's I manufacture offset my costs.. I needed the TV's for Arcology at first but once I had enough they were all exported for profit.

Arcologies take a fair bit of power and water from your surrounding cities as well. As I'm keeping it going with one, it requires a fairly beefy power output!

Thursday, 14 March 2013

Bets SimCity News since launch

Check out the YouTube link in the article below:

Now my sims won't have spend 5 hours waiting on the highway to get into my cities...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-14-simcity-modded-so-it-can-be-played-offline-indefinitely

SimCity Update 7

Details from EA of what they've been up to and patch 1.5 seeing to some of those trade transaction issues.

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-update-7

Saturday, 9 March 2013

SimCity 2013 - Impressions

I've been waiting for this game for ages! Even happy to look past all the faults (of which there are a fair few). I've put in 15+ hours and enjoyed all of it. I am however starting to see where the regional limitations are. It's a great idea in theory, having regional cities provide to each other but I can see how this matrix of interconnected cities could soon get out of hand.

Sadly this is what I think they have 'fixed' in order to keep the service going. Kinda of annoying when you gear one city up to provide the others with water supply (It had a river so the water table wouldn't keep going dry) or when your mega police / fire station doesn't send units its volunteered to the neighbouring cities. Still as a single city game it does work well with a constant challenge. I keep wanted to go back for more so it's still got that old SimCity feel!

Here are some pics: