We need a separate thread to discuss this excellent game. This is what Simcity5 should have been. Screw EA. Bought the game today and have already spend 3 hours screwing around.

Game works pretty well on my Mac Mini with Intel HD4000 integrated graphics.

[Edited on March 14, 2015 at 6:16 PM. Reason : .]

3/14/2015 6:09:16 PM

What tutorials have otherd used to start out?

3/14/2015 8:18:10 PM

Tutorial? wtf just play the game

3/14/2015 10:29:03 PM

Seriously, if you've ever played sim city you instantly know how to play this. And it's extremely fun.

3/14/2015 10:32:04 PM

Yea it was rather easy to figure out. Not sure what difficulties you are having with playing this game.

BTW I fucking love this thing. Probably the best Sim game since SC2000. I liked 3000 & 4 but the pinnacle was 2000 to me. This shit might top it.

3/15/2015 8:15:44 AM

i never said it was difficult, but there are plenty of differences from SimCity in regards to optimizing your city that I wouldn't have known without reading some tutorials

3/15/2015 1:09:51 PM

Looks like I'll need to take a break from SC5 to check this out!

3/15/2015 3:34:02 PM

I want to try to make ITB Raleigh, but I need water. Where should I put a river in downtown Raleigh?

3/15/2015 4:26:46 PM

401?

3/15/2015 9:24:04 PM

Jesus, EA, this is what we all wanted in 2013.

3/15/2015 9:25:47 PM

what does it take to run this game? I have an Alienware m11x from like 2010-11?

it runs WoW on high/ultra pretty well. I had to go pretty low in the settings to run Sim City. How does this compare?

3/16/2015 11:22:27 AM

runs fine on low settings for me, but if I bump to medium it gets jerky while zooming or rotating

i7-4500U, 8GB RAM, integrated graphics

3/16/2015 11:49:10 AM

I think it's mainly in the video card. I have a Lynnfield 2.8 GHz i7 and run this game in ultra with absolutely no lagging at all. That said I have like 16GB of RAM and an R9 280 video card, but it runs this shit like a boss. I can even switch out of it back into Windows and it never even hiccups.

3/16/2015 4:07:51 PM

This games needs even larger sky scrapers. Feels like the biggest you can build is Raleigh downtown

3/17/2015 12:21:06 AM

Is there an editor that lets me design custom buildings/plots?

3/17/2015 7:57:04 AM

doesn't the asset manager do this?

3/17/2015 12:39:02 PM

isometric camera mod:
http://imgur.com/a/wOsqJ

i like this for when i'm working on the layout, it gets rid of some of my camera movement annoyances

3/17/2015 4:07:55 PM

I have a fuckin' i5 s557M

1.7Ghz Ultra low power mobile with onboard Intel HD3000 and 4GB of RAM

It's playable on low settings. Not the smoothest thing, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's playable.

So...if you're doing better than that, you can at least play it.

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"Is there an editor that lets me design custom buildings/plots?"

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"doesn't the asset manager do this?"

If he wants to create taller buildings, for example, he'd have to design them in 3rd party modeling software first. So, the asset manager is pretty worthless when it comes to actually designing custom buildings.

[Edited on March 18, 2015 at 12:10 AM. Reason : ]

3/18/2015 12:04:14 AM

^Thnx, that was my concern.

3/18/2015 8:32:54 AM

Getting this game was a bad life decision.

3/22/2015 9:40:11 AM

I too am really enjoying this game, lots of fun. I haven't even began to really understand the policies or any of the other "advanced" features. I'm just enjoying my little cities for right now.

3/22/2015 10:44:03 AM

I think I'm missing something with districts. I click on the icon to do a particular district type, but I can't seem to apply it to anything.

3/22/2015 6:13:22 PM

Use the blank tool to first draw/define a district then assign roles using the other by clicking them and then your defined district. It's hard to see but it puts an icon under your district name.

3/22/2015 6:29:22 PM

Make sure to check out the map overlay for resources. Those districts need to be on/around the specific resource that is uses. This was not clear at all to me but I finally figured it out.

3/22/2015 8:45:54 PM

I'm worshiping this game right now. Wonderful. I was a bit wrong about zones in the beginning, but I've figured it out now. Commercial zones seem to be very noisy in the game. Offices seem to produce no noise what-so-ever. So, it seems the best pattern is to spread commercial zones around the city, preferably packed up against highways or other busy roads, circle them with offices which seem both immune to noise as well as not producing any noise of their own, then finally fill in the rest with residential.

3/30/2015 12:55:08 PM