Simcity 5 under construction

"Damaeus" <no-mail DeleteThis @hotmail.invalid.net> wrote in message
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> In news:alt.games.simcity, "Skeatsan''co"
> <overthemoon DeleteThis @overthemoonagain.co.uk> posted on Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:31:57
> GMT:
>
> > "SimCity kind of worked itself into a corner," he said during E3. "It
had
> > gotten a little complicated for people who had never played SimCity. We
want
> > to take it back to its roots where somebody who had never heard of
SimCity
> > can pick it up and enjoy playing it without thinking it was really,
really
> > hard," he added."
>
> To me, making it easier to play would include having options to
autoreplace
> things like power plants and water pumps. They should also have an "auto
> budget" feature that would automatically raise the amount of funding for
> various facilities as the funds are needed instead of depending on me, the
> player, to constantly navigate to all my facilities to adjust the funding
> to fit the need. That chore becomes VERY tedious and nerve wracking and I
> hate it. I play Sim City to BUILD CITIES not micromanage financial
> affairs. If people want it that way, fine. It should really be an OPTION
> in the game. Option ON to have the game always give the facility the
> perfect setting to balance funding with need. Of course, when the
facility
> can no longer take more funding, THEN the workers can go on strike and
> we'll know that we need to build another facility of the same kind
> somewhere nearby.
>
> Damaeus

I would would think somebody might come and tell you. Hey boss the water
pressure is falling.

>It needs a lot of ram in the last version. My next
> computer is going to have at least a gig to run it.


I'm running on a gig of decent fast DDR RAM and the performance increase
over my old system (which had 256MB) is suprisingly small. In fact on my
completely fresh 3000+ Athlon XP with 1GB of RAM (and a Radeon 9800Pro, but
thats fairly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things) the game still grinds
along unconvincingly when a city on a full size map gets pretty big.
Lowering the settings considerably helps, but I've yet to see the game
running a huge packed city on any system smoothly with reasonably high
graphical settings.

Chris.




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