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[Sensei]

I know sometimes it can show low or no desire on the RCI bars when in fact they desire a specific density level out of the three. So a high desire for dense residential while having low desire for low and medium density residential will make it seem like they don't desire residential at all.

Taxes as dennislp3 said also, generally around the 7-9% level I've found.

Mind I'm using the deluxe edition where taxes default to 9%. There've been some tax hikes but nothing people seem upset about.

[da_nang]

Meanwhile, I seem to be unable to get rid of my dirty industry sans bulldozing no matter how much I tax them to hell and back.

[Vel]

Only about 10% of the population are workers when it should be more like 30%-40%. The game certainly seems to think so since having a medium-small industrial district provides about 35,000 jobs. But since 100,000 people provide only 10,000 workers, the industries constantly fail have to hire enough people, and the 90,000 people who are relying on 10,000 people for their income constantly have no money to shop. Ergo, commercial buildings constantly fail to meet their sales needs, and don't purchase freight from the industry, thus compounding industry's problems even more.

Your numbers must be off. I have a city of 3600 and 1025 total jobs currently filled with 176 unfilled.

The effect comes into play when you get to higher population numbers. At low populations the percentage of workers:non-workers is /significantly/ higher. But that just seems to point to it even more as being a bug that you only have about 10% of the population at workers once you start getting to about 50,000+ population. If you keep checking the ratio of population:workers, you'll see over time the ratio changes.

[draconisokami8504]

Here's something a little interesting:

http://www.ea.com/news/a-simcity-update-and-something-for-your-trouble

I originally found the article on USA Today, but then found it on something a little more promising I guess you could say. We'll have to wait though.

[10ebbor10]

I like their understatements.

But this SimCity is made to be played online, and if you can’t get a stable connection, you’re NOT having a good experience

But anyway, giving away a free game is nice, I suppose. You can even get if you buy and register your game within 9 days.

[Micro102]

Which tells me that it's going to be abandonware.

[hemmingjay]

Which tells me that it's going to be abandonware.

Is this posted in the wrong thread? I can't seem to make sense of it given the context of the conversation.

[Vel]

Which tells me that it's going to be abandonware.

Is this posted in the wrong thread? I can't seem to make sense of it given the context of the conversation.

I think some people just like the idea of people who bought the game being 'punished' for the 'crime' of buying something from EA. Seems like a pretty silly sentiment to me. Apparently if we enjoy the game in any way and don't do a chargeback, we're culpable in 'encouraging' EA and deserve to have bad things happen to us.

[10ebbor10]

But anyway, giving away a free game is nice, I suppose. You can even get if you buy and register your game within 9 days.

Which tells me that it's going to be abandonware.

Just some EA scepticism.

[lordcooper]

I'm pretty sure the unspecified free game thing is intended to drive further sales.  Why else have an arbitrary date in the future as a cutoff point.

"Oh sweet, I get a free game if I buy it now."

[Brons]

It's probably going to be a 3 year old always online DRM game with servers about to be shut down.

[miauw62]

It's probably going to be a 3 year old always online DRM game with servers about to be shut down.

That probably is from a studio that was respected and made good games but that EA bought out and huskified?

[PTTG??]

Dang, Sim City 2000 doesn't work on windows 7... even once you manually install it, it crashes when you try to save. Oh well. Time to try 3000.

[miauw62]

Hm. I'm thinking to mayby buy a Sim City. Wich one should I buy?

[Greenbane]

Dang, Sim City 2000 doesn't work on windows 7... even once you manually install it, it crashes when you try to save. Oh well. Time to try 3000.

Any avid old-school gamer should know by now that there's a miraculous thing called DOSBox!

And the problem with 3000 is that its low resolution makes it look blurry (and possibly stretched as well) on modern widescreen LCD displays.

Hm. I'm thinking to mayby buy a Sim City. Wich one should I buy?

SimCity 4 (and the expansion), if you're looking for the most advanced incarnation.