AVF Sim City Region - Sign Up Guys!

Someone being a few hours ahead is not going to affect the region. We will all put in different amounts of time anyway. Be nice to get it going and talk about the region I will be joining, will help pass the time before the game launches officially.

Will you wanna put 2 or 3 days into a city to then abandon it for AVF Region?
 
I won't finish until 3/4 :( I'm on a submarine all day... Yawn

A few questions then:

1) What is your Mothers Maiden Name
2) What school did you go to
3) What was the name of your first pet

That will do for now. :devil:
 
Personally I'm up for making the AVF Region today, like people say getting things rolling won't hurt. Anybody got a preference on which region?

Our choices are these 3:

Discovery Delta
Titan Gorge
Viridian Woods

I have a feeling people are going to end up squabbling over this so it might be easier to draw one out of a hat :p

My favourites are probably Discovery Delta followed by Viridian Woods. I think they are all fairly balanced.
 
I see 2 options really.

1) Set up now if people that aren't using a VPN don't mind being a bit behind on Friday.
2) Set up a smaller region for us who have VPN'd until Friday when the main AVF region is set up as per this thread, just so we can practise/mess about.

Updated thread for new additions :D

1) I'm all for you starting a pre-UK-release AVF Region - Why by all means, you guys can just keep going, and if there's space, you can just invite us/whoever else in! It won't really interfere with our games, as we will set up with whatever the we/region want/needs; Power, water, universities, drilling/mining, technology.

2) Unless you just want to start a small region, with the limited number of you involved. Which you can also play around with, just to get a few days 'hands-on' with the game. Then start from fresh with the AVF lads?

As I see it, I'll be heading offshore on release day. So I will be back around 15-17th of March. But.. I will hopefully get the GAME UK version through the door early on Friday - If not I'll get the Mrs to take a photo of the code(s) and email me it.

I'll will maybe be lucky enough to get a hold of the game on my laptop, depending on whether I get a decent Internet connection to download 12GB. I'm not sure when my flights are on Friday, but if it's a bit later in the day, I will be able to download at home and/or the airport and/or using Three :D

I won't have a lot of downtime on this upcoming job, but there will be some, as the job just doesn't rely on my company. So there will be hours here and there where I'm not needed and can sit back and relax.. Hopefully with SimCity! :)

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Personally I'm up for making the AVF Region today, like people say getting things rolling won't hurt. Anybody got a preference on which region?

Our choices are these 3:

Discovery Delta
Titan Gorge
Viridian Woods

I have a feeling people are going to end up squabbling over this so it might be easier to draw one out of a hat :p

My favourites are probably Discovery Delta followed by Viridian Woods. I think they are all fairly balanced.

What you have to remember is that more water = less land! :laugh: It might sound stupid, but you're very limited with space this time around. It's not like SC4 where the land sprawled for miles, and you could easily have two cities in one zone. Or stick a river down the middle and you still have enough room for two fully living, breathing cities.

I think that this iteration of SimCity is going to be less focussed on 'efficiency' and 'tuning', and more focused towards building a pretty city - http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/simcity-impressions-we-waited-ten-years-for-this/

Have a read of the ArsTechnica review. I think they're a bit too harsh, and one of the reviewers seems completely opposed to the game. But they do complain that space is lacking, first and foremost.
 
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Whoa delta looks like tough to build on but will have some epic bridges... Ill go for what ever I'm not fussed
 
Jambo it'll be a private region so hopefully we can save your spot :) I don't know if you can limit how many cities people can make or lock cities so they can't be built on without permission in a private region. But hopefully people will be patient :D If not maybe/hopefully you can get on to make the city and let it sit there until you can spend some quality time on it.

Delta is definitely the challenging one by the looks, but lots of beauty for tourism etc. Viridian Woods (ahem, Pokemon? lol!) looks easier and more balanced. The Gorge looks very set for mining etc.

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Just had a thought. The European Servers won't be up until Friday right? Does anybody mind if we are in an American server for the AVF Region? I'm not sure what implications it would have.
 
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I'd like to start at the same time but until my city has developed ill buy buying power.
 
Jambo it'll be a private region so hopefully we can save your spot :) I don't know if you can limit how many cities people can make or lock cities so they can't be built on without permission in a private region. But hopefully people will be patient :D If not maybe/hopefully you can get on to make the city and let it sit there until you can spend some quality time on it.

Thanks matey. That would be awesome. I'm sure that once you're invited into a region it's just a free-for-all on who takes what cities. I'm sure that people can 'Claim' cities, and just leave them dormant until they give them away though.

Delta is definitely the challenging one by the looks, but lots of beauty for tourism etc. Viridian Woods (ahem, Pokemon? lol!) looks easier and more balanced. The Gorge looks very set for mining etc.

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Just had a thought. The European Servers won't be up until Friday right? Does anybody mind if we are in an American server for the AVF Region? I'm not sure what implications it would have.

It just means we will be using the American economy/region, as opposed to the European. I wonder whose economy will be more successful.

Will more people mean that commodities will sell for less to the 'Market', e.g. oil, gas, coal, etc.?

I think there will be less people on the European servers than USA E.G. There will be more full US servers, than Euro. So the European market will be smaller and fluctuate slightly more? It might mean that you're better off selling to the market. Whereas, the US Market will be saturated with everything.

It all remains to be seen!

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Just had a thought. The European Servers won't be up until Friday right? Does anybody mind if we are in an American server for the AVF Region? I'm not sure what implications it would have.

The only issue would be that you can't transfer your city if you select another city, no big deal though if folk know we're on the US server from what I can see.
 
I'd like to start at the same time but until my city has developed ill buy buying power.

I don't understand the desire to start at the same time, it is not a race or competition (yet, sure there will be a challenge for that). I am not against starting at the same time, I just don't know why it is necessary. :rolleyes:
 
I was playing in the EU servers last night and they seemed quite busy
 
I was playing in the EU servers last night and they seemed quite busy
Ah so they are online? May as well use that then. Will be less busy anyway.

Jambo - If I can't 'save' a slot or if you can't get online I'll have a chat with you about which city you want and I'll take it then leave it when you can play.
 
Yea mate they are online
 
I don't understand the desire to start at the same time, it is not a race or competition (yet, sure there will be a challenge for that). I am not against starting at the same time, I just don't know why it is necessary. :rolleyes:

I don't mind, because like I said I'll depend on other people for power, it would just be nice to start a region together at the same time.
 
Ah so they are online? May as well use that then. Will be less busy anyway.

Jambo - If I can't 'save' a slot or if you can't get online I'll have a chat with you about which city you want and I'll take it then leave it when you can play.

Cheers Jonesy!

I said before I'm willing to fight the uphill battle that is known as an educational/tech city.

I'll probably run it on Wind and Solar power until I need to buy from the region, then develop the resources necessary to expand on wind and solar - So we can reduce air pollution from coal/oil power.

I fancy those big-fancy wind thingies and the concentrated solar array. I think that would be cool if I could be a major contributor to the region, in terms of power and tech! :D

I could plant down a fair few of those wind/solar arrays and feed power to other people, who are looking at having a casino city, etc.

I do fancy having a, purely, commodity city at some point too though - Casinos and criminals everywhere!

Btw, is there in-game chat [and I mean text]? I never noticed it in the Beta.
 
I have set up an 'AVFORUMS' region on the 'EU West' server which is set as private.

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Invite sent to Stument.

Any others just add me to Origin or i'll invite as SimCity notifies of whose running the game :smashin:
 
I don't know how reliable Origin's friend request system is.. It says, "Request Sent" - I invited everyone in the first post - but after a few secs, or I refresh the page then it says, "Invite" again!!

I don't want to spam people by re-requesting their Fwiendship!
 
I don't know how reliable Origin's friend request system is.. It says, "Request Sent" - I invited everyone in the first post - but after a few secs, or I refresh the page then it says, "Invite" again!!

I don't want to spam people by re-requesting their Fwiendship!

Yeah seems flaky mate, i'll keep trying to send invites out again today, did it the other day but nothing :confused:
 
Yeah seems flaky mate, i'll keep trying to send invites out again today, did it the other day but nothing :confused:

I opened my friends list..

*FWIENDS! :thumbsup:*

*F...Fwiends...? :(*
 
For whoever is playing keep us updated on your first few hours experience. Will make me feel a little better while at work :p

@ Crucial which region did you go for? :D
 
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I have set up an 'AVFORUMS' region on the 'EU West' server which is set as private.

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Invite sent to Stument.

Any others just add me to Origin or i'll invite as SimCity notifies of whose running the game :smashin:

Save me a nice spot next to the sea please :smashin:
 
Save me a nice spot next to the sea please :smashin:

She sells sea shells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells.
 
I opened my friends list..

*FWIENDS! :thumbsup:*

*F...Fwiends...? :(*

Weird mate, sent it twice now? PIMPEDUPNINJA is my name, nothing?

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For whoever is playing keep us updated on your first few hours experience. Will make me feel a little better while at work :p

@ Crucial which region did you go for? :D

Seems harder than the Demo, which is to be expected I guess.

I went for Titan Gorge mate and founded Nugget Plateau Titan Gorge - Sim City Wiki Guide - IGN

Save me a nice spot next to the sea please :smashin:

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