What do we think of Simcity 4?

[Odin]

What are some of the improved features of SC4???

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Odin
What are some of the improved features of SC4???

New, improved CTDs

[Datajack Franit]

What's the logic in water pipes crashing down every 2 months??? WTF!

[Adagio]

Water pipes crashing down? Never experienced this!!! Did you turn down the funding?

[Datajack Franit]

Hmm maybe that's the reason

But a "disaster" warning and a game stop every time it happens is really stupid

[Adagio]

If a part of town is left without water, it might fast get abondoned, so it's a good idea that it pauses the game (Think about it, if you had set the game speed to fastest, the houses will get abondoned before you even notice it...)

[Datajack Franit]

Again- all my trade deals just shut down all of sudden, leaving one city with 0 income as it cannot sell water, and another city quite-abandoned, as cannot buy damn water
Damn Simcity

[Adagio]

If you don't have enough money to keep the deal going for at least a year, the deal is canceled...

[Adagio]

Here's some information about the next patch (yet to be released... more things are still in the works, before they'll release it):

* Increased RCI Demand Max (allowing the largest structures to build easier) This is better known as the Stage 8 bug
* Fixed airport queries to report efficiency
* Fixed landfills to combine easier if drawn adjacent to each other. Still problematical if drawn between two landfills, so add them one at a time.
* Traffic optimizations in looking for destinations (no longer counts same entry as valid destination, speed improvements in searching)
* Neighbor deal fixes (escalating rates, canceling during suspension, canceling during obliteration)
* Fix for fires starting with missile silo while game was paused, also should help stop fires starting from other special effects while game is paused
* Fix for powerline occupant leaks which were causing corruption to saved games and possible crashes
* Tax fields in budget can now be entered directly in addition to using the spinners
* Enabled the commercial rewards: convention center & stock market to show up in commercial only cities
* Dispatch fixes for when graphics settings are altered between saves
* Fixed broken links to budget in multi-neighbor deal messages
* Fixed cost escalation to network tiles after drawing bridges/tunnels
* Changed view switching for underground so that it only goes there upon selecting the pipe tool (thus, reducing the amount of art swaps which are a bit slow)
* Fixes for automata (less getting stuck in intersections, better synching of lights, better stopping for trains)
* Auto zoom change toggle (helps reduce zoom changing in larger cities)
* Added support for crash report generator (if the user has such an applet present)
* Control-Alt-S does quick save (no thumbnail update so its quite a bit faster for those large cities)
* Control-Alt-Shift-X also brings up cheat panel as stated in the strategy guide
* Lowered 'hotspot' effect for fires, should result in less fires breaking out
* Lowered frequency of busses in large cities
* Fixed Life Expectancy bug that would cause values to drop to zero
* Fixed commuting bugs related to highways and double counting on subways
* Fixed twitching for left hand turning vehicles
* Fixed graph (jobs & population) with multiple occupants types to toggle each type or hover query
* Fixed art for the heavy truck (industrial prop) rendered with 8 bit alpha instead of 1 bit giving it a large blocky black background
* Fixed neighbor deal status on rail query
* Added garbage from neighbor deals to garbage graph
* Fixed Highway connections for neighboring cities
* Fix for airports and seaports initially showing up distressed
* Incorporated a check to determine if anti-alising should be enabled or not depending upon the hardware configuration
* Alphabetized region names in the UI
* Fix for bad lot texture on a high wealth residential buildings and a with wealth commercial building
* Fix for a connection-related Neighbor Deal bug with water
* Change neighbor deal to allow deals to continue for a short period of time even if the buying city runs out of money. This fixes the "neighbor deal cancelled to quickly" issue.
* Add a desirability threshold to prevent abandonment if lots have high desirability

[vovan]

It seems they are not going to revert the industrial "fix".

[Adagio]

I had hoped for the same thing

[Adagio]

If you're tired of the fact, there wasn't any map generator included, you might want to read this:

http://simcity.ea.com/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.261&threadID=c188c175291de5fe3b017bfa628bbf71&directoryID=261&startRow=1

This is a tool, that creates maps based on real US locations... don't know if it works though... I haven't tried it, and don't think I ever will... Just wanted to let you all know

[Grumbold]

I'm being slow again. Glad to see the age bug fix, but what is the industry "fix" you refer to?

[Adagio]

In the first patch, they changed Industry, so they needed road next to each building (Like Res/Com buildings)... pretty annoying I'd say...

[Nikolai]

I voted it to be okay. I like the game, but it is incredibly hard, and some of the feelig from the previous games has disappeared.

I have begun to finally get one of my cities to go in surplus, but it took some weeks, several searches on the net and a strategy guide to do so. I now get little surplus, but it's not so much that I can build much more infrastructure than now(and I really need it!). Anyhow, I begin to like the game more and more!