SimCity 7.0 patch introduces bridges and tunnels
SimCity's ready to fix your traffic problem! No, really! They mean it this time! Maybe bridges and tunnels will help?
Dealing with a city's traffic is never easy (just look at Los Angeles), but SimCity's traffic problem has been a major issue since the game's troubled launch. And no, a patch hasn't really helped matters all that much. Well, seventh time's the charm! EA is ready to deal with SimCity's traffic problem by introducing bridges and tunnels in the upcoming 7.0 patch.
A new video from EA (via Polygon) demonstrates a new height tool, which will allow builders to craft new routes above or underneath other roads. Roads raised high enough will create bridges, while lower ones will create trenches and tunnels. Hopefully, this will solve your city's traffic problem... until a natural disaster hits your bridges and you're stuck cleaning up the piles of rubble.
Update 7.0 is set to arrive later this month.
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SimCity's ready to fix your traffic problem! No, really! They mean it this time! Maybe bridges and tunnels will help?-
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Hmmm, this may bring me back to it. I'd basically given up on it after a dozen hours or so.
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What a disaster this whole thing was. Surely no one came out of this happy?
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So they haven't improved the path finding of the sims, they just keep inventing more ways for them to clog up the roads.
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Pretty much. They just put a Sponge Bob Band-Aid on top of an eviscerated aorta and called it "fixed."
A polished turd is still a turd.
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Wake me up when they increase the map size and make it offline.
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SC5 was quite possibly the biggest gaming disappointment of all time. Bigger than DNF.
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I wonder at what point in the development things went seriously wrong. They were talking about their agent system at GDC 2012, so that must have been in the planning all along.
My theory is that they built the game around the agent system, which sounds cool on paper, but it never really worked as well as they would have liked. I'm guessing sometime in the months leading up to the game they had to then scale back the size of the cities (and also the population, which the multiplied just to make the number displayed to the player bigger).
It seems like they started going down the wrong path from the start and were too far down it to really go back, so other things like city size, traffic, and R/C/I all suffered.-
yah the core design of the game is just flawed... it sounded awesome in theory but it just doesn't work.
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I still remember that early on video that Will Wright did talking about how everything was going to be procedurally determined based on your design and I was super excited. Then they stripped all that out and made it super lame. It could have been so amazing and they delivered something so lame.
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Daikatana?
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Exactly this. I didn't want to play SimNation, SimState, or SimCounty... I want to play SimCity. Sim, City.
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Because it isn't MIDI! >:(
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We've got bridges and tunnels...just missing the girls!
I don't think I've played more than two hours of this game, and I highly doubt I'll be going back to it. Dissapointing because I have always had a ton of fun with previous SC games -
Have they dropped the price to $10 yet?
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Waiting for Steam sale...
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yah the game had bridges but you couldn't build them where ever you wanted.
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I didn't hate the game nearly as much as your average person, I had a good solid 20h+ of fun with it. That said, I stopped because the area was too small, and as long as they don't patch that, I'm not interested in going back. SimCity should be about building cities, not villages with large buildings.
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As with all big cities, stop and go lights are extremely important. The timing and usage is monumental. Fix them first before doing shit like this (since we can't get actual traffic management tools, like highways). Nothing like having the entry way to a highway plugged by a stop and go light.
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