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Gameplay Strategy Video #2: Multi-City Play (SimCity Coming March 5, 2013)

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Welcome back to Part Two of our SimCity Gameplay Strategy series featuring Lead Designer Stone Librande. Some time has gone by and Stone's Casino Empire is thriving. How should Stone customize his casino to pull in more tourists and make more Simoleons? By adding a celebrity stage, blackjack tables or more hotel rooms? Watch what happens when his city becomes so big he runs out of power! Casinos attract a lot of crime, but Stone can use the crime data layer to diagnose his crime problem and plop an impressive Police Precinct and Helipad upgrade to increase his coverage. When a disaster strikes, will Stone's neighbor Dan send fire trucks to Casino City to help rescue his Sims? With new multi-city play cities can work together to solve their problems. You can play with friends or control an entire region by yourself! Check out Part 1 for the basic steps of building a city, growing population and placing infrastructure.

AWESOME!

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AWESOME!

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Yeah, wonderful. Thanks for

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Yeah, wonderful. Thanks for sharing video!
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I think that can be a

Permalink Submitted by kevinmario395 on Feb 01, 2013

I think that can be a simulation for them to build a city. And it's almost same as the real world.
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Does anyone know when

Permalink Submitted by chrismcfc123 on Dec 29, 2012

Does anyone know when gameplay strategy 3 will come

never

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never

lol, I feel the same way.

Permalink Submitted by ComradeGoonie on Jan 05, 2013

lol, I feel the same way.

It's got to come out soon, I

Permalink Submitted by 12345MasterC on Jan 06, 2013

It's got to come out soon, I hope. But we will probably get one in the middle of January and February.

U right dude, I've heard that

Permalink Submitted by cukaasha on Jan 11, 2013

U right dude, I've heard that Vid 3 nd 4 will come, the 3rd vid will be about the "Great Works" in the region or something like that ;)

All the people are able to

Permalink Submitted by ReiBroze on Jan 19, 2013

All the people are able to choose what strategy he will use in playing certain games. You can use the strategy if it does not work with one another. Texas Hunting

But when will vidio 3 and 4

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But when will vidio 3 and 4 come out

i cant wait they have like

Permalink Submitted by romanks2 on Jan 23, 2013

i cant wait they have like nothing to feed your appetite for sim city 5 and i am STARVING for more its a pretty awsome game i just hope they show some more videos anything that is gameplay not how the glass box engine works like one of the creators making thier own city

SIM CITY
where you can screw your people, help them or turn against them

also i love how its not a timed based game for the buildings to build i hate those

one thing i thought of
on multiplayer you could have like a military to build an army and invade other people citys and bomb them as i see the engine can make
some pretty nice fire and smoke graphics

and i also hope that like planes crash and car get in accidents

i am a really realistic junky

thank you sim city

There are times when a

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There are times when a strategy you can use is so used by many other players. But you can also change an existing strategy into something new again. Beowulf Cluster

This Made My Day!! Can't Wait

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This Made My Day!! Can't Wait To Start Playing!!

At first I thought

Permalink Submitted by ThatCrazyYankee on Dec 11, 2012

At first I thought transferring from city to city would require load time or something. But seeing how seemless that was and in no time at all, I feel tres more comfortable about SimCity!

I thought so too, but it

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I thought so too, but it semms like its a quick transaction. :D

Veeeery nice! I cant wait!

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Veeeery nice! I cant wait!

How did Dan manage to build

Permalink Submitted by TheAzurespecter on Dec 11, 2012

How did Dan manage to build 20 skyscrapers in such a short time? without any surrounding residences, commercial, or industry? Come on guys, you have to see something seriously wrong with this. Make the cities border one another, easy solution.

You apparently don't get it.

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You apparently don't get it. The very reason they didn't put the cities next to each other was solely because they were very serious about what you saw being what was being simulated. It would take up too much of a computer's resources to simulate directly adjacent cities as well as your own. They were bound by hardware constraints and are trying to make the game available to as many people as possible.

How did Dan manage to build

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It's called magic...

Permalink Submitted by BlackDragonAJ89 on Dec 11, 2012

It's called magic...

More precisely, it's called debugging and rigged mode. It's why the cities have tiny populations yet huge buildings because they want to show off everything without having to grow things themselves like the players would. It's something that game companies have done since who knows when, and it's really not a fair way to judge the game, since the devs are going to use exploits to make everything work for them and the promotion that the players will never get access to without serious programing skills (similar to the Valve rocket launcher in TF2).

Personally, I actually liked what was shown because it shows me that cities in the region actually work together this time as opposed to just sitting there waiting on me to do everything (I mean if a fire breaks out in the city, I don't want to constantly have to tell the fire crews to go out and put it out, likewise, if a massive forest fire breaks out in the region, I don't want to have to go into each individual city and tell anyone who I'm working with to tell their crews to go put it out... It's too much micro management of the wrong variety).

Well the real reason that Dan

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Well the real reason that Dan can have so many skyscrapers is that there is a cut scene between when he says let's look back to my city and when he is in his city, so Dan must of had time to build his city.

Correct and you guys might of

Permalink Submitted by YashagoroV2 on Dec 15, 2012

Correct and you guys might of not noticed but that cut scene was a time lapse which is when they take something which takes a long period of time to watch and make it go faster then it really did

Correct and you guys might of

Permalink Submitted by YashagoroV2 on Dec 15, 2012

Correct and you guys might of not noticed but that cut scene was a time lapse which is when they take something which takes a long period of time to watch and make it go faster then it really did

Correct and you guys might of

Permalink Submitted by YashagoroV2 on Dec 15, 2012

Correct and you guys might of not noticed but that cut scene was a time lapse which is when they take something which takes a long period of time to watch and make it go faster then it really did

Correct and you guys might of

Permalink Submitted by YashagoroV2 on Dec 15, 2012

Correct and you guys might of not noticed but that cut scene was a time lapse which is when they take something which takes a long period of time to watch and make it go faster then it really did

An the map in which his city

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An the map in which his city is built in is completely different than the first video as well as the city layout

An the map in which his city

Permalink Submitted by mayornelson on Dec 18, 2012

An the map in which his city is built in is completely different than the first video as well as the city layout

And the map in which his city

Permalink Submitted by mayornelson on Dec 18, 2012

And the map in which his city is built in is completely different than the first video as well as the city layout

Time can work at different

Permalink Submitted by SimScientist on Dec 13, 2012

Time can work at different speeds from city to city. So Dan could build skyscrapers in a short period of time, plus density works on a stage of using roads, thus the ability to make more high class buildings.

The population with in the

Permalink Submitted by SimScientist on Dec 13, 2012

The population with in the city is really low; unless the city is really unpopular it should at least have 40,000 people living there. But with evidence the crime system, that in my opinion is advanced data wise, could show that no one chooses to live there.

Awesome, can't wait!

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Awesome, can't wait!

Awesome!!!!!

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Awesome!!!!!

Thanks for the new video, I

Permalink Submitted by pschlik on Dec 11, 2012

Thanks for the new video, I see the interface is changed, and there are some new effects, also city size looks even bigger now!

Thanks for the new video, I

Permalink Submitted by pschlik on Dec 11, 2012

Thanks for the new video, I see the interface is changed, and there are some new effects, also city size looks even bigger now!

Region play looks a lot

Permalink Submitted by BlackDragonAJ89 on Dec 11, 2012

Region play looks a lot better than I was expecting, especially since I can now focus on specializing cities rather than having them all be the "super city" who does everything.

Grew up playing the first

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Grew up playing the first Simcity, then Simcity 2000 with SimChopper, this just brings me back to my childhood and I cant wait to play this game!