[brurdefdoro]

I hope you enjoy it; I gave it a try, and it just couldn't keep my interest. Not sure why.

[Kayakeenemeds]

Some of those street corners you have there make me suspect you might never have driven a motor vehicle ...

[ftqwhbvxlcfop]

Argh so much traffic. I'm going to have to bulldoze half the city to build new roads. I see now why the even blocks is preferable for making roads one-way to combat congestion.

Mass transit and pedestrianisation FTW.

[Dweplyododo]

If only we had a forum for games on this gaming site.

[JesikaFclq]

3 people and 16 spambots read it.

[zCLadw3R]

If we would have a subforum dedicated to the needs of necrophile redheads with diabetes, even that would have more traffic than the Civ 5 forums.

[casinobonusfrees]

**** mass transit. Suburbs are the way to go. If it ain't a road hierarchy system, cul-de-sacs and all, it ain't ****.

The problem you're having is that you didn't have wide enough arterial roads in the first place, probably.

Suburbs with efficient mass transit

[Donadoni1809]

Argh so much traffic. I'm going to have to bulldoze half the city to build new roads. I see now why the even blocks is preferable for making roads one-way to combat congestion.

Try a parking lot!

[ceagsoosy]

I have Cities XL 2011; based on the screenshot this new version is pretty darn similar, I'd say. It's fun for a while, but not excellent. I come back to it every now and then, but it's no SimCity 4.

[Jesslovers]

Doesn't seem like much to me, but XL has a lot of unlocks before you get to the good part...if there really is one.

[elossenen]

If there's no ghetto then it's not a real sim.

[mincarlie.frymyer]

I remember building tons of arcologies in SimCity 2000 (after terraforming the entire map with glitchy spaceports), letting them fill up, and then raising tax rates to 100% with no funding for anything. Some % of the population would get stuck and couldn't leave, but still would generate revenue. Massive surpluses would accumulate as I left the game on overnight. Then I build my utopia over the demolished corpses of my slums. SimEconomics

[puzobok]

I used a cheat on Sim4 and let it run for 18 hours. It was something to behold seeing them huge skyscrapers where open land use to be.

[Trotoleterm]

I love city builder games and I really tried to like it, but couldn't. There's only two areas where this game is better than unmodded SimCity 4: People use highways and public transportation (there's a mod to fix that) and you can use curved roads (considering the age of SimCity 4, that one is forgivable)

The most annoying part of Cities XL games is that EVERYTHING is locked from the beginning. You have to have (pulling numbers out of a hat) like 25,000 people before you can build bus-stations, 20,000 people before you can build highways, 50,000 people before you can build train-stations, 10,000 people before you can build a basketball court, 40,000 people before you can build a recycling center, etc
This makes city-planning hell and very unrealistic. Come on, I work in a small town that has less than 500 people, but it still has a highway, a train-station, a recycling center and probably many other things that requires a certain population