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[mappam]

I have not played enough (yet  ) to SEE some of the aspects of this game - so I was wondering what YOU have noted:

Say you build a small village - it has enough housing and work and venues to make everyone happy. Say you now go to do a load of laundry - leaving the game running but not adding to it or changing it - will the population grow? I noted that Sims can die - changing the population - babies born? WHAT CAN CHANGE if the game just runs along without YOU changing it?

Do your Sims care if you have more decorations? Say you build a cottage and then add a garden right next to this cottage - does it effect the cottage or just the overall happiness of the WHOLE town?

If it is the WHOLE town then you could place (in theory) 25 fountains/statue etc in a far-away corner of your map to add the creativity/productivity etc you need to bring that to green???

Will the city PROGRESS if you mix and match your type? Or do you need to stick with only one type (Fun City, Romantic etc) to see changes?

Please feel free to add to this and/or add things you have noted - it will be interesting to see what WE have found!!

[City Builder]

You brought up the subject of death and birth and I've seen plenty of the floating baby bottles above some of my homes but it makes me wonder if this is an unfinished feature of some sort.  I mean really I don't need to know that there has been a baby born in one of the houses, now if there were a purpose for it, a reason for it, something I could do with that, then I would understand having it.

Anyway...  I think the only thing that changes in the game if you don't interact with it will be the population, it might fluctuate a bit.  The buildings and city don't evolve so theres not much going on down there.

That is one of the shortcomings of the game, I can place a filty coal power plant over in the corner of the map and it doesn't affect my city, the same goes for fountains and other decorations.  I will often have my "pile" over in the corner somewhere filling up with stuff to raise the score.  The game should have limited each item to a certain radius and if it wasn't within xx feet of town then it shouldn't count but it didn't.  I find this to be one of the largest shortcomings of the game.

The city will always change to a theme once you have enough of that theme in the city, but if you somehow manage to balance it out so that no individual theme is in the majority then I think it will stay the default city.

I've also "found" the oddities of how a row house will hold 2 sims, but a brownstone will also hold like 2 sims (should hold 8 or 10 IMO), or how an apartment might only hold 4 people, it makes no sence to me.  A large condo complex imo should be holding 25 or 50 people not 4 or 6.  That's just something that I've "found".

[crowebird]

lol the radius thing takes us back to civcity :P

but I do miss the leveling up cities, which for that reason I do miss zoning, but I do like being able to build this type of building here too, which gives you a more direct say in what is going on.

As far as babies go, it does affect families, becuase that means they had a child, children can visit child safe venues and raise the families happiness, so if dad has a busy job and can't visit the venus, well his son does it for him, which keeps him going to work to bring in a profit for my city.

[zorba]

CB.  .  . 

As for the number of Sims in the houses, if you look in the houses files, you'll find two numbers related to this: one is labeled: max  population and the second: fake population.   For the Band house, these numbers are: 4 and 35. 

The Prima Guide says that the first number is for Workers (the 4) and the second is for Unlock population (35).   It probably means that for each Band house that you add, you're adding 35 sims to your total population.  .  at least, that's how i understand it. 

It seems to make sens to me because those numbers are quite high for the Condo Complex (6-120) and the D-Lux Sleep Tubes (5-1200).  
The numbers of workers are quite low in the houses.  .  .  but they are also low in the working places.  .  and changing them would mean also to change them in the workplaces and probably some venues also.  .  .  .  .  . 

and there are 507 building files.  .  .  .  .  .  


UPDATE;

I've made a little test on this with the Block of flats ( 6-120); I've started a city with one block of flats and 2 banks (to have some jobs) and i watched what was happening:  soon i saw 6 sims (animations) going out to work. . . and soon. . . my total population was 120.

So: the first number (6) is the number of animations that you'll see and the second (120) is the population added by the building.

Hoping this make sens. . .

[mappam]

Thanks zorba - that does make sense!

I also wondered about the population and the 2 different numbers.

I did Not get the Prima Guide - sounds like I would benefit from this purchase 

[zorba]

I've found the Guide quite useful.  It gives a lot of information about the basic structure of the game, how the game works, etc.  and it helped me a lot to understand all the underlying subtleties of the game, and there is lot of it.

It also list the best buildings to use (and the worst) for each type of city, meaning those contributing the most to the evolution of the city.

If you can't get it ( i couldn't get a paper version here in Montreal Canada . . had to download it) and have a question, don't hesitate to ask.  I'll do my best to find the  answer.