SimCity (time well spent compared to Civ?)

[Adagio]

On the picture above the snow picture, you can clearly see there's two different roads (or take a look at this article's pictures...here you can also see that highways can be built both over the ground and on the ground... also the highways are different sizes, on those picture, the highways are 3 lanes, while on an ign.com video they have 2 lanes highways...)

On ign.com they also have a video were they upgrade the street to road

Btw, when building/upgrading a road/street you should be able to see workers do the job... Though I haven't seen this in any video yet, since the quality of those videos are is too low...

[Grumbold]

Well spotted. There seem to be several different pavement styles too. I did some rummaging around and found references to each housing tile now being 1x3 so each house will be attached to the road and come with a back yard or other feature until an area is ready to convert into a big tower block.

[Adagio]

Just a side note:

As Maxis said they cancelled SimVille, they said the reason was: "It wasn't as fun as our standards require" (or something like that), but it seems like the real reason was, all the good parts of SimVille was put into SimCity 4...

[MattyBoy]

Looks like I've uncovered a few SimCity fans here.
SC4 does sound great.

ADG: Those chalked bodies are a great way to show crime, although I couldn't really see that in the picture you linked to. The chalk marks put you on edge when you come across them in RL, though. Anybody else ever come across that?

Solver: Only one way to see whether I need a victory condition to motivate me. I suspect that I do.

[Grumbold]

SC games normally come with a handful of scenarios which have clear victory conditions and these dats the net is bound to spawn more. You normally need to have a pretty good grip on the sandbox mode before you stand a chance at the missions though. I tend to set myself my own victory conditions, like having the biggest expanse of working seaport, airport with the most runways or largest population I can manage using only 1 tile wide residential districts.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by MattyBoy
ADG: Those chalked bodies are a great way to show crime, although I couldn't really see that in the picture you linked to. The chalk marks put you on edge when you come across them in RL, though. Anybody else ever come across that?

I have never seen such IRL, only seen such in movies...

[Adagio]

News flash:

There's been an update on the official site

[MattyBoy]

Not wishing it upon you, ADG.

[ixnay]

I am definitely looking forwards to this now.

[Adagio]

Originally posted by MattyBoy
Not wishing it upon you, ADG.

[Adagio]

Has anyone noticed this picture:

This picture shows how the road/street interacts, looks really great... and it also looks more realalistic, compared to the old road style...

[FlameFlash]

/me drools.

[Space05us]

I think ADG works for maxis

[FlameFlash]

ADG, are you holding out on us?

[Adagio]

Originally posted by Space05us
I think ADG works for maxis

Damn, how did you find out