I was wondering how big will populations get like in simcity 2013 the max was like 250,000 will the max be 50 million if not I hope population are huge though
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I think the standard limit was said to be 1 million to ensure the game run smoothly.
I say standard because it's expected that this value can be modded up.
I say standard because it's expected that this value can be modded up.
Our scope for launch is to have the simulation working fault free up to 1 million citizens. Keep in mind they all have jobs, homes, education levels, names etc. so it's not just a number but a simulated person.
I'm relatively sure this is unlockable just like the city size limit, but then the simulation might start struggling at times.
I'm relatively sure this is unlockable just like the city size limit, but then the simulation might start struggling at times.
Which means that there will be people without jobs or home. No education levels and weird names? Than that's more realistic.
Haha, no, not really. Just that the simulation becomes too heavy to calculate properly past a certain level, risking things like performance drops or not perfect calculations of routes, tasks, wants or whatever. I'm not a programmer so I'm just guessing here but I reckon that is what is setting our limit.
Again, this is only simulating drunkness.
Sounds a very good virtual representation of Madrid.
If the simulator can only handle 1,000,000 people. You should only have a few decent skyscrapers of 50 To 60 storeys to make it look realistic. The metropolis look would look fake.
cd concept, I think the number of skyscrapers would be dependant on how you nurture your district. I can think of one city (mine) that had a good number of skyscrapers back when it had 800,000 people - would have had more too if it hadn't sprawled every which way. A rich city can have a lot of skyscrapers.
If you don't mind me asking TotalyMoo, would a city of 1,000,000 take up the majority of the map? Half the map?
If you don't mind me asking TotalyMoo, would a city of 1,000,000 take up the majority of the map? Half the map?
So have my hopes and dreams of having a sprawling metropolis with 30 million people with densely populated metro and large suburbs have those dreams been crushed?
Nice, such large city will require a lot of ram or more cpu based? i got a quad core cpu but not an immense ammount of ram, didnt bother to expand yet, but this might be a good reason to do so.
Okay I need to stop responding and just ask the developers, it's very possible I'm just speaking pure bullshit here and their reasoning is completely different.
*dodges any further responsibility for this confusion that I did totally not cause at all*
*dodges any further responsibility for this confusion that I did totally not cause at all*
Mariina & Karoliina are currently out traveling for work, so they're not available for a few days. Will get back to you asap.
A couple of Citybuilders spring to mind when I think of population limits, like Tropico, for which it was infuriatingly tiny and my beloved Caesar 3 which had a respectable but still limiting sprite limit. I understand why these limits were there, but anything built by man should be made so that their limiters can be removed.
CPU and RAM do two different jobs. It's quite feasible that adding more people would require significantly more of both (and/or GPU capacity).
I always made it my goal to supersede the Shanghai and Tokyo's population in simcity 4.