# Simcity 5 Doper region organizing thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 3, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942 "2013-03-03T21:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 21
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/401 "2013-03-21T20:48:09Z")
I’ll see what I can donate to the airport. Do you need… [checks trade depot]… _metal_? > [@iDavidW](#): > > Also: Does anybody have a ferry dock? I built one and people are getting on the boat(s) but I don’t know if they’re actually going anywhere… 😛 The misleadingly named city of Rat Portage is sadly landlocked. Actually only half misleading; we have plenty of rats. But we have a thriving tourist trade through our passenger train station.\* \*There’s no way to improve a train station is there? I’m always getting complaints that there aren’t enough trains but there’s not much I can do about that. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/402 "2013-03-21T23:27:39Z")
Incidentally, I picked up Dead Space 3 as my free game. I have little interest in racing games (Need for Speed) nor have any desire to play an on-the-rails [modern military shooter](http://youtu.be/JOHyD49DaeA) (Battlefield, Medal of Honor) and the other options were even less appealing, except maybe for Simcity 4. Dead Space 3 is a shoot-alien-zombies-in-spaceship game. Lots of dark corridors and jump scares. It’s a third person shooter, with the sense of claustrophobia heightened by having the camera focused more tightly than normal on the protagonist. You can pick stuff up and craft your own guns if you want. It’s actually pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/403 "2013-03-21T23:39:54Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > \*There’s no way to improve a train station is there? I’m always getting complaints that there aren’t enough trains but there’s not much I can do about that. I think you just need to build another train station. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/404 "2013-03-22T01:09:16Z")
Shippings of alloy and metal have slowly started making their way to the airport. They’d get there faster but my entire city is stuck in gridlock. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/405 "2013-03-22T01:51:33Z")
Apparently I can’t see what’s going on at another Great Work site; I can only see what’s happening in my own cluster. You guys in Cluster B will have to report on your own progress. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/406 "2013-03-22T02:41:03Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > Apparently I can’t see what’s going on at another Great Work site; I can only see what’s happening in my own cluster. You guys in Cluster B will have to report on your own progress. It’s going. Slowly, but it’s going. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/407 "2013-03-22T03:25:56Z")
I finally managed to upgrade the Electronics HQ and plop the Consumer Electronics Division. Once my oil field runs dry, I’ll convert the area to make TVs and start sending them to the Arcology. **Johnny** , I sent you some more simoleons. Should be enough to rebuild your recycling center. Let me know if you need more. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/408 "2013-03-22T03:53:57Z")
If anyone can increase their water supply so I can buy it, that’d be greatly appreciated. I have tons of simoleons, but no water. ---
**Author:** ![iDavidW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ac91a4/32.png) [@iDavidW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iDavidW)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/409 "2013-03-22T04:37:02Z")
I just moved my water pumps for the second time, but I’ll see what I can do… I’ve got Crude Oil and Alloy shipping to the Intl. Airport and I’ve taken care of the huge traffic problem I didn’t even realize I had O\_O I’m still working on converting Monet Plateau to electronics as my Oil is beginning to dry up… I’ll report back tomorrow when I get online again… ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/410 "2013-03-22T05:54:41Z")
I’ve started importing oil so I can send it towards the airport. We’re at ~50% metal, 10% oil, and 75% alloy. It’d be quicker but my city is like that episode of Doctor Who where people get stuck in traffic for years. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/411 "2013-03-22T13:26:36Z")
The airport is in Phase 2, so we’re making progress. I’ve been sending all the metal I recycle but my recycling plant spends more than half the time idle because the trucks aren’t delivering material to it. When I checked my population before logging out last night Rat Portage had about 150k residents and **240k** tourists. Gah! No wonder the streets are gridlocked! I’m thinking about plopping a couple more tourist attractions or a casino to make sure I’m taking their money while they’re here. My city nearly spiraled into disaster last night. I had 27 fires in one day, and because of the traffic my trucks could not get to most of them. Those building had to be 'dozed. But because of the traffic, contructions crews couldn’t get to the sites so they weren’t being rebuilt right away. My income dropped to -8,000 simoleans an hour at one point with taxes already at 12%, and I was only two hours from going bankrupt. I turned off the grade school and the high school and the library and some timely coal deliveries kept me solvent. Finally the fires slowed down and things got rebuilt and my finances are in better shape now; I was able to open the schools and lower taxes again. I’ll be shutting down my original water station soon since the ground has all but dried up under it, and it looks like my coal supply is dwindling, so I really need to decide what to do with my economy next. Oh, and I did end up plopping another train station, right between my first one and my rail port. The tracks coming into my city are now almost as busy as the highway. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/412 "2013-03-22T13:28:46Z")
I really can’t figure out what’s attracting all those tourists. I have very little shopping and only one medium level attraction. But I’m starting to seriously think about a tourism/gambling future now. I wonder when the casinos will be fixed… ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/413 "2013-03-22T15:32:54Z")
**Skammer** , can you get back in to Riverside? We could use some help building the arcology. You can make TVs now, too, since I plopped the consumer electronics division. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/414 "2013-03-22T17:11:54Z")
I could not get back into Riverside when I tried on Wednesday night. I can check again tonight. I wish I could, that city was doing pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/415 "2013-03-22T17:45:31Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > If anyone can increase their water supply so I can buy it, that’d be greatly appreciated. I have tons of simoleons, but no water. Hint on water supply: put your sewage treat plant next to your water pump. The treated sewage gets transformed into underground water. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/416 "2013-03-22T17:49:23Z")
I wanted to mention that I’m sold on trash incineration. It’s not worse pollution than industry in general. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/417 "2013-03-22T18:25:36Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Hint on water supply: put your sewage treat plant next to your water pump. The treated sewage gets transformed into underground water. :smack: That explains why I have so much damn water near my treatment plant. I assumed that the water would be polluted. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/418 "2013-03-22T19:25:53Z")
I think I might go for NFS for my free game. I kinda like racing games (I play a lot of Mario Kart :)) and this one seems to have gotten a lot of good reviews when it came out. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/419 "2013-03-22T19:34:17Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > I wanted to mention that I’m sold on trash incineration. It’s not worse pollution than industry in general. Plus you get to unlock the Big Lizard disaster ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942/420 "2013-03-23T02:51:06Z")
Rat Portage was just attacked by a giant lizard which destroyed many residential and commercial buildings as well as the hospital, fire station, library, grade school, _large_ fire station, and city hall. That’s gonna hurt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simcity-5-doper-region-organizing-thread/651942.md?page=22)