Tardville update.

[little P]

Well, Tardville is spreading like like the clap in Amsterdam, so here a few pics and some news from Los Peeangeles and Land of Hope and Glory...

The first city was going well, after being bankrupted several times after some typical play from me (not knowing what the hell is going on), and the not inconsiderable events of a Tornado and a Frickin' Alien Invasion... things were starting to turn around. Alas, Los Peeangeles soon descended into a vice city full of pollution, crime, and some... other things.

On the plus side, it seems most of our criminals are now bored of Los Peeangeles and are travelling to Wappy's city on a major crime spree, so no worries there. (Right Wap? lol)

Anyway, here are a few pics - click to expand and see the details


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Spotted my Chinese cousin protesting outside my own damn Mansion!



Quit your whining...



Get your ass outta bed and into work gawdjammit!



Well if you're not going to go to work I'm certainly not going to throw a Bon Jovi concert for you all - CLOSED. Eat that bitches.



Nice low brow Casino pulling in the punters... and churning them out broke, pissed off and ready to cause some sheeeet...



I'm pretty sure it was about this point, I regretted placing my first roads shaped like a Penis.



Whaddya mean high taxes? You mean to say you don't like working on a turd polluted wasteland and being charged through the nose for it?



Whatever. We'll be better off without you... come back... please?!



Well at least the tourists are happy... It must be the thriving ecosystem and excellent civil services... Oh. Ok. It was a visit to one of the seedy motels. Hey, he's happy, that's what counts! Right?



Los Peeangeles... doomed from the start...

 

[little P]

So, heroically fleeing Los Peeangeles, Mayor P moves to pastures new, and Land Of Hope And Glory is born...




And discovers you can't escape the whining little bitches...



But hey at least LOHAG looks good.



Football pitch boys... not Soccer. FOOTBALL.



I love the smell of Napalm in the morning!!! Err... that's not good...



LOHAG lit up at night...



Neighbouring cities of Trollin' with Mr.Vu and Los Peeangeles in the background...



Oh noes! What to do?!



I know... Throw a PARTAAY!!



Fireworks solve everything.

 

[little P]

The concert goes late into the night...



Happy Sims on the way home



LOHAG is prospering, with Duke's Vageenaville in the background



Here endeth the update, hope you enjoyed it

If you fancy it, ignore the reports from people jumping on the "Simcity is buggy and un-playable" bandwagon, most of the people don't even have it.

I can report I haven't experienced a single bug or crash etc. it's actually really stable and no problems connecting to servers etc.

In fact, the only problem with my cities is the mayor running them :lol: Sorry citizens of Los Peeangeles and LOHAG, you'll just have to deal with it!

 

[mondo]

Nice!

You're lucky about the bugs, probably my first 10 cities have been lost to syncing problems, roll backs and some of them are just not accessible any more. I can't even abandon some of them either!

The current one on the Fragtard group seems OK but I've got some weird traffic thing going on. You guys have airports and stations but people still come by road, so I put in the bus stations but people don't use those either. I even knocked down half my city to restructure it to make it easier to get around but the problem I think is, you can't really mix massive heavy industry with tourism (gotta make the switch by the time the resources run dry), it blocks the roads so much that none of the deliveries can get though, even if they have dedicated roads and its make to go all by freight train.

I think I might restructure again and instead of putting the airport, station, big bus depot and stadium next to each other, I'll split them up but it will cost a fortune!!

Also, we need to make a thing. I can provide a shit ton of alloys for it.

 

[little P]

Nice!

You're lucky about the bugs, probably my first 10 cities have been lost to syncing problems, roll backs and some of them are just not accessible any more. I can't even abandon some of them either!

The current one on the Fragtard group seems OK but I've got some weird traffic thing going on. You guys have airports and stations but people still come by road, so I put in the bus stations but people don't use those either. I even knocked down half my city to restructure it to make it easier to get around but the problem I think is, you can't really mix massive heavy industry with tourism (gotta make the switch by the time the resources run dry), it blocks the roads so much that none of the deliveries can get though, even if they have dedicated roads and its make to go all by freight train.

I think I might restructure again and instead of putting the airport, station, big bus depot and stadium next to each other, I'll split them up but it will cost a fortune!!

Also, we need to make a thing. I can provide a shit ton of alloys for it.

Wow ok sounds like I've been fortunate, but then again I've only been playing since the big 2.0 update so maybe that's the reason? Dunno.

The traffic is definitely something that needs a close eye kept on it eh, I was getting a lot of factories being abandoned because the trucks were getting stuck, a bit of reworking of the road network and some rezoning later and all was well.

I've been thinking about the "thing" (lol). I've researched the Solar Array, so we could have an excellent source of power there, lord knows Tardville could do with reducing it's pollution levels, or we have the International Airport available? I'm leaning towards the Airport, as it gives the factories somewhere to go with the freight, but a cheap clean source of energy is appealing too? Hmm. What do you think?

I know Duke and Dark were already considering building an Arcology so I think they have that covered...

I had a tour of your city Mondo, it looks awesome

 

[Kenadian]

Great updates little P :lol:

I'm really regretting my decision to live close to dark as he keeps on sending me criminals. He's sent me 2 or 3 arsonists and there are always criminals coming to my city as well. I have something like 20 crimes/day and 13 fires/day and I just can't do anything about them.

I'm not sure what the population is anymore but it got as high as 240,000 people at one point before I raised taxes to insane limits and did some major restructuring along the waterfront and southern end of the city. Now my pop has dropped but I think it's still around 210 - 215,000 :icon_eek:

...absolutely everyone is sick btw and I have no idea what to do about it?

I also can't get fire or police anywhere because of traffic and it's so bad it's rendered the streetcars completely useless.

I'm going to do some major rezoning and split up the Commercial and Residential Zones a lot more evenly so people can shop anywhere in the City rather than just in that one huge area. Hopefully it helps distribute traffic a bit better.

BTW, has Die Alone managed to get in yet? If not, can one of you please send him an invite if you see him on as I've not been able to catch him online as of yet.

 

[Die Alone]

Well I have now joined Tardville and now I present to the world, Balls Deep City.




I have started building a solar array in my great works and boy was that expensive probably 10+ million total with the cost of supplies. I was also going to mention and celebrate that we had reached 1 million population in the region until little p got on today and somehow lost 60,000 people, lol.



Also is there any way to remove the gui overlay for screen shots and video? Beside just cropping after.

 

[Kenadian]

Great work DA and nice to have you as a Mayor in Tardville!

For those of you who don't have an Avatar Setup in Origin, can you please set one up? The reason is that your Avatar shows up on the lower left corner ingame so it's much easier to navigate to your City.

 

[little P]

Nice DA! Mondo and I were considering a Solar Array but I'll focus on the Airport now for a great work...

lol @ at the 1million, I like how I get blamed for the 60k Genocide. Ok maybe it was me, but it was worth it. The mass offering to the Sim Gods has blessed my third city - 1itt1eP 3rd time lucky with much wealth and prosperity! :icon_twisted:

As for the traffic Duke, only things I've found out is don't have anything near the entrance to your city. I plopped a trade depot there and the traffic was backed up the highway off screen... :icon_eek:

As for the fires, and criminals, other than plopping Precincts and Large Stations and upgrading them, you must get the traffic flow sorted. It makes a HUGE difference to the efficiency of your emergency services I've found.

Or you could tell Dark to pull his finger out his ass and sort out his crime rate :lol:

For this 3rd city I'm focusing on building up a major trading hub, it's much harder than the other two cities, I'm currently running at -2,5k but the money from trading is more than making up for it

 

[JohnnyK]

Well thanks assholes, now I had to buy SimCity. Hope you are happy.

 

[Die Alone]

Ok solar array is done but keeps shutting down because low work force. I went afk for a few and came back to massive fires and the loss of 40k population due to lack of everything because power got disrupted, LOL. I guess I should not have destroyed my oil power plant after turning on the solar array.

Also if mond0g or dark's besticles city(which only 2 currently connected cities to mine). Would like to send me alot of garbage trucks(like make me a dedicated dump in your city)? I will in-return send you millions of dollars and or emergency services help?

 

[little P]

For those of you who don't have an Avatar Setup in Origin, can you please set one up? The reason is that your Avatar shows up on the lower left corner ingame so it's much easier to navigate to your City.

It's a known bug mate, for some reason it's random when it updates your profile pic ingame. Although strangely, it shows my avatar in my little limo when I visit cities etc. Weird. But it is kinda cool watching a little Ron Burgundy cruising down the highway :lol:

 

[little P]

Well thanks assholes, now I had to buy SimCity. Hope you are happy.

.....

 

[Kenadian]

Just because Johnny has the game doesn't mean we should consider letting him into Tardville.

We should have at least some standards lol.

 

[Die Alone]

Man what an adventure the last couple of hours have been. While trying to recoop my population loss from the solar array disaster. I experimented with 0% taxes because my income from electronics sales is so high I could get away with it and still not bankrupt. Though it requires a large nest egg to sustain the large up and down cash fluctuations. I lost sight of this and decided to do some major renovations to add an airport. Wasnt watching and blew most of my 4 million nest egg. Then bam out of money and only rescued it by taking taxes up to 20% for awhile the whole way loosing what headway I made with the zero tax. Moral of the story zero tax is not worth it, it made little difference to population but did spur quick raising approval ratings.

 

[Kenadian]

lol, I had the opposite issue in that I raised taxes to compensate for "Essential Services" bleeding me dry and then forgot to lower them. I was making good coin but couldn't understand how I lost 30,000 pop in the course of 20 minutes.

BTW, does anyone know how to fix ground pollution? My city is sh1t br0wn pretty much everywhere so people are sick and dying at shocking rates.

Since there's enough of us, someone want to create a Sim City Channel directly after the Minecraft Channel in Teamspeak?

 

[mondo]

Ok solar array is done but keeps shutting down because low work force. I went afk for a few and came back to massive fires and the loss of 40k population due to lack of everything because power got disrupted, LOL. I guess I should not have destroyed my oil power plant after turning on the solar array.

Also if mond0g or dark's besticles city(which only 2 currently connected cities to mine). Would like to send me alot of garbage trucks(like make me a dedicated dump in your city)? I will in-return send you millions of dollars and or emergency services help?

Bestical is my city! Sadly I don't have enough space to make a bigger dump, land is kind at a premium if you look at the land shape I have.

I also have a traffic problem as it is, I can't seem to ship out enough oil to counter my 30k per hour loss. In theory I should be able too easily because the oil sells, its getting the oil to where it needs to go. I had the same problem with my other city, I could produce alloys to the tunes of millions but even with 2 rail freight stations and 3 normal ones traffic caused the problem.

I would suggest that maybe we setup another city which provides water, sewage and a dump and then maybe a mega recyling plant for alloys, plastics and metals for more 'things'. Also an international airport might help but placing it would be a hard decision.

What actually might be best is to look at a different map type and start a new set of cities so we're better able to help each other out. The current one requires that we all have trains, planes and boats to interconnect.

 

[little P]

Bestical is my city! Sadly I don't have enough space to make a bigger dump, land is kind at a premium if you look at the land shape I have.

I also have a traffic problem as it is, I can't seem to ship out enough oil to counter my 30k per hour loss. In theory I should be able too easily because the oil sells, its getting the oil to where it needs to go. I had the same problem with my other city, I could produce alloys to the tunes of millions but even with 2 rail freight stations and 3 normal ones traffic caused the problem.

I would suggest that maybe we setup another city which provides water, sewage and a dump and then maybe a mega recyling plant for alloys, plastics and metals for more 'things'. Also an international airport might help but placing it would be a hard decision.

What actually might be best is to look at a different map type and start a new set of cities so we're better able to help each other out. The current one requires that we all have trains, planes and boats to interconnect.

I'm up for starting again with more interconnection between cities...

 

[Kenadian]

Let's make that Sunday's project

What time is everyone going to be on?

I'll be online most of the day so I'll just idle in TS.

 

[little P]

Let's make that Sunday's project

What time is everyone going to be on?

I'll be online most of the day so I'll just idle in TS.

Probably about 7-8pm GMT 'till late sir