Battlefield 4 - Part 1 - The Multiplayer/Battlelog

Trying my best to keep it scheduled to write every now and then, kinda hard when the Christmas spirit is biting my arse off. Aka - I'm celebrating Christmas alone with my GF this year, which means I need to prepare food and all that sorts of things for me and my lady! because: (insert joke about women should be in the kitchen here).

SO I'm a bit late out about Battlefield 4 and stuff, but I have been playing it! ...alot... HELL! ALL THE TIME!

Lost out in the real world.

Hello, hello, hello! It's been a while since I've written anything at all on this blog. Come to think about it, its atleast 2 months and I'm terribly sorry for it! (I am! Honest!)

The reason is simple; I got a job in a city, which means I had to pack up ALL my things -though it wasn't a lot- and get myself sorted into the working life in a city. Long story short; I feel I made a "bad" decision to down prioritize this blog. Especially since dreamhack and other events have been around the past months. And the releases of new gen consoles. (wow! I have really missed out haven't I?)

I have no trouble at all to jump back on that damn saddle and keep on writing! Now that there is new games up and running, I have more than enough resources to gather up something interesting for you all.

...if you forgive me for my laziness that is... well not lazy...waaait, yeah lazy. Doing Hard work and doing things that makes your whole head disliking the job you do, sure makes you exhausted at the end of the day. What I'm trying to say, every fibre in my body said this was "wrong".

So you can look forward to:

-Starbound
-Battlefield 4
- wolf among us
- maaaybe some Guild wars 2 info
- general gaming info

My sincerely apologies
- V

Terraria, The Last update!

...or is it? After a loong time being "dead", buried 6 feet under, the game saw daylight once again, with the newest update that arrived today (Oct 1st). To be honest, I thought the last patch was the "last patch" (they really said so!). but look! the patch arrived and the game started living again! YAAAY

NEWS: Dark Souls II Release date

You know the pain and agony you got from Dark Souls, the bloody bosses that pisses you off or even the certain minions. Are you prepared to let it happen again, with even more unforgiving enemies?

Top 10: Female Heroines!

First of all, trying to get a Top 10 POSITIVE female Heroines is not easy, when it comes to playable characters, you have so many to choose from, but only so few are actually "awesome". Having it all about how awesome a character are with the size of the bra as the reason is not really what I'd say is a valid argument. Therefore I tried my best here to find the "playable heroines" that is having a good influence on people. You'll be shocked.

Top 10: Male Heroes!

We all have certain Video Game heroes we can't "live without", but can we rank them in a justified way? Sure, some of the heroes are greater than others; some heroes have saved an entire galaxy, some heroes have just saved thousands of lives. A hero is one who truly fights for what's right and even in the darkest hour, keeps on fighting.

Monthly rant: Video games makes us violent.

Sigh... I just... I just... I don't even know where to even start! Different things gets blamed for a genocide/murder/fights. But games, really? Hell I will be honest and say that I highly doubt ANYTHING "creative" like movies, music, shows and games do really make a person violent. If it does, then there is something horribly wrong with that person.

Weekend fun: Tablet, Ipad and phone games.

The Weekend started 1 day ago and I planned this this week, all about gaming on tablets and phones. Why?  You're waiting for a train/bus/plane and got nothing to do. I've been there, you've been there, We've all been there!

So Grab your phone/tablet/Ipad/whatever and get ready to check out games you "need" on a rainy day, or when you're bored!

News: The end of the Microsoft-points era

Yup, you heard me. Don't fret though! Because they will be converting your Microsoft-points into cash! Well... not like your XBox will turn into an armed bandit tossing coins at you, but you get the point.

2 days ago, Microsoft announced that they will be removing the Microsoft-points, they are changing their currency from Microsoft-points to your currency. This process will take a while and will not be released worldwide in one go.

What happens to your points? Thankfully Microsoft announced that they will be converting it into your currency. They also said that the Microsoft-points reedem codes will still work, but redeeming money instead, they also said that there will be no expiration date on them aswell.

So this means you can still buy games with "points", but now they will be called: "money" like in the real world. Neat!

I'm on a bus!

KEEP ON GAMING!

NEWS: Tom Clancy's - The Division

WOOH! I've been drooling on this game since the first time they've "teased" us with the information and the amazing trailer they showed us on E3

But even better news:
Tom Clancy's - The Division is coming to PC, they have been paying attention to their "fans" and others alike. 

NEWS: DayZ standalone - no longer a release window.

You heard me, DayZ standalone had several times a fixed release date but saw later on that there was no chance they could bring it to the table. After many failures in making it into the Alpha, developer Dean Hall feels bad for it.

Newsflash! This just in: Diablo III - Reaper of Souls

ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod!
Blizzard started already the first official day of Gamescom to announce an expansion pack for Diablo 3. 
And the name of the expansion pack: Reaper of Souls
Introducing a new playable class: The Crusader

PayDay 2

All right! here's the deal: Go in, drill the door and get the loot. Simple as that! ...or so you think. What could go wrong in a heist with a mask? Well maybe an army of policemen trying their best to stop you from running away with the money!

Today I'll write about Payday 2, the "successor" of the first game;  Payday: The Heist.

The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot

This time I'll be talking about a game called The Mighty Quest For Epic Loot (or TMQFEL in short, try saying that 3 times in a row!) which is in closed beta and under development by Ubisoft.
So it's time to grab your Sword/crossbow/staff and get looting!

League of Legends

This had to come, I just knew it. MOBA is a popular genre in the gaming world and League of Legends is the most popular so far. I will not make this post about "how to play Blitzcrank like a pro" or something like that, but I will rather just... Tell you about this game and its... ugh... community.

Indiegame: Cube World!

Holy crap it's been a while since I've written anything on this blog, once again it's that sun and the beautiful weather we get here in the cold north on the planet Earth. So I haven't really gotten the time to sit down and try out new games and write about them.

Nevertheless! I finally got myself some time to sit down and actually try out a game I've been paying attention to (but also went under my radar for a while), it's called Cube World.
(And of course because of a friend who told me to get it, YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!)

Monthly Rant: Behavior in Games

We've all seen them, we've all tried to reason with them (at least I did because I thought people aren't complete full retard and would be able to kill themselves by doing something stupid, I was so wrong...) But no matter what, they will just keep on trolling, being a douche and just ruining every one's fun, where's the fun in that?

You have alot of different bastards; Hackers, giefers, forum trolls, douches, idiots who just want to have right no fucking what, ones who want the last word etc. the list goes on...

Going Deeper: Warframe

Allright, let's dive deeper into how warframe works, and today I figured i wanted to show more about how to fuse mods and "upgrading" your Warframe and/or Weapons. I will be making a small guide on how it works and how to save some "credits" on it too!

Today's Free To Play: Warframe!

All right! first things first, I haven't posted a lot these weeks, might be the utter feeling from the spring with the magic called "sunlight" and "heat". It has cursed me with the will of going outside to just look... at things! and relax!

Since it's raining and having a bad weather all over the place, I might just start "review" my new games!
I've been talking about Don't Starve, Neverwinter and XCOM: Enemy unknown, sooner or later I'll be talking about them and the pros n' cons for it!

But Today! WARFRAME!

A small break

Sigh... well it's been a while since i've written on this blog now, but i'm trying my best! Hell i've even tried out several new games!

I will try to write about them and my first impression of them as i go by, and maybe you'll get lucky with some in-game Screenshots! so we dont get any Bullshots (sell off screenshot that is completely bullshit, not even remotely close to the gameplay at all).


Don't Starve
A lovely made game with the aspect of something quite simple: Don't starve, Just like in Minecraft, you have to survive the envorvirement and make sure you have food, shelter and a way to defend yourself from the dark evil thinks lurking about.






Neverwinter
Yes it's a part of the Forgotten realms world, and it's one of the good ones out there of MMO, you can say whatever you want about DDO, but in my eyes, Neverwinter is way better.
The creators is the "Cryptic", which has done Star Trek online and other games for 'Perfect world''







XCOM: Enemy Unknown. 
Holy crap, i regret not getting this game when it came out, I played the first game in the 90's and had a blast, And i didnt even understand a thing i did! but thanks to my cusin, he taught me most of it when we played it! It's a Turn based Strategy games which involves researching, requiting soldiers and interrogate Aliens to save the world!


Sooo that's atleast some of the games I will be talking about later on, on how they actually gave me a good value of my money (wait... Neverwinter is free! oh well, you get my point!) and the joy i've had and having with the games.

Aaaaand i'm off!

Voice Acting, the Importance of telling a story. Today: Guild Wars 2

We all have that one guy/woman who is really enchanting us to live into the show, Movie and/or game, to make it so real it is possible, to feel we're just there. The feeling about how they tell the story, the voice they have for that certain character. It is all so enchanting to think that certain people can be like that it's... awesome! purely awesome!

Sound is really important to any aspect of the creative world, from music to games.
Let's give an example on good voice actors in games (since this is a blog about games, DUH!)

Listening to music while playing.

Now then, after we've all cooled off by the heat of the gamer girls post, let us start talking about our preferences when we're playing multiplayer or maybe even singleplayer. In game music or "our" own music?

I started listening to "my own music" when Quake 3 arena was around. erm...mostly because I just had a Metallica CD and a CD player next to it. After a while when computers and OS started to handle things better, I had MP3's on my computer and listened to it through Winamp (god bless that program, one of the best at it time, maybe it still is.) 

Gamer Girls

Aah yes, I knew this one was coming, yes, yes I did. whatever you say is wrong! 

Gamer girls is a rare specie found in the occasional events of Gaming or where the companies introduce new games. Or even on events where you dress up as your favorite protagonist or antagonist or just a.... plant.

Excited?

Lately I've been wondering: "Do we get too excited when it comes to new games? or do we have too much expectations from them?"
I mean, just look at Sim City, Far Cry 3, Dead Space 3, Crysis 3, Planetside 2 etc. I feel it was too much hype around it compared to how it actually is. I'm not saying "don't get your hopes up" but when you see all those in game trailers and how it's looking awesomely and everything, I've burned myself so many times on it.

Guild Wars 2: Super Adventure Box!

Holy mother of.... It's actually true! it's not an April fool prank!
If you read my "Easter! Guild Wars 2 News!" and the April fools' day, I've been talking shortly about the info I had on it. Well, Now I've tried it myself and here it is! 

SUPER ADVENTURE BOX

Easter! Guild Wars News!

It's Easter and it's a cold one too! I bet most of you readers have had a great week or just a weekend.

Nothing special has happened in my end, only that I've started on my legendary in guild Wars 2.

How is it going with the legendary project?

Good, I've started on the mystic clovers to hope I could get the tier 6 mats instead of clovers every now and then, but NO! I've tried 8 times and I've gotten 50 mystic clovers already. And the chance for mystic clovers are 1/3 ratio or 33% if that's better understanding.

In other words.... I got quite lucky on the magic clovers.

I just need 27 more clovers, but I'll be aiming for 30 more so i have a better chance of getting mats I need for the legendary. I'm using the 10 clover recipe instead of the 1 clover recipe

And I'm also close to finish of the Gift Of Battle, which requires 500 badges of honor. The only way to attain those are from WvW jumping puzzles or by defeating players.

Since I hate WvW because of the zerging all the time, I'm just doing jumping puzzles! Which then again makes it fast and....painful, mostly because of the people who can kill you before you reach the end, over and over again...

The tier 6 mats ain't going so well because of the amount i need, I need 250 of each tier 6 and by now I got around 26-46 of each item.

And now for something completely different:

Fire and frost

The latest news are of course the new update that gives us some new living story content, we will learn more about the molten alliance and the norn and charrs problems with them. We even have new weapon skins; fused weapons, you need a Fused Weapon Claim Ticket to buy a skin. Where to get them? In black lion chests, rarely. 

April fools' day

Yes, April 1st is coming to guild wars 2, if you change your date to April 1st and then log in to guild wars 2 you'll hear something special, 8-bit music of GW2! Yeah! Not only that but there is a machine in Rata sum that requires continue coins to use it, the machine is called "Super Adventure Box".

I've done some research on it and I've seen some skins that have 8-bit looks, is it from the "SAB"? Can we use it in the world of Tyria? or is it just for Super adventure box? 

We will know tomorrow!

Bugged event in cursed shore

The bugged Event in penitent camp in cursed shore was bugged for at least a week, thanks to the update it got fixed. What was really happening on the broken event was quite simple: the npc's who were trying to build the camp back up again just stopped building. They didn't do a thing, but the risen spawned again and again in a pattern so you could just stay there and gain xp and loot, no karma is possible on that event because it never ends.

But the amount of different loot you could gain and even the rare items makes this broken event a huge money making machine. After the time i spent on farming there ( at least 2 hours per day) I gained 340 heavy moldy sacks, around 190 per tier 5 item and 16-43 per tier 6 items and 40-42 rares which resulted in approximately 50-56 glob of ectoplasm and last but not least... 25 gold gained.

Now then, as i said this is now fixed, but maybe one day it will get bugged again and you should be ready to get in there and gain some loot!

That will be all for now.
Keep on playing!

Guild Wars 2: My Character, my goals

All right, here we go. A post about my character and why I play that certain class and everything else.
Hopefully you've read my Introduction to Guild Wars 2, Leveling through "Questing" and Events and Leveling through crafting and maybe caught an eye on the norn characters in one of the pictures, well that's me and a friend. 

The Past: first Character

When Guild Wars 2 started I made a human female Mesmer, I fell in love with the class in the beta and I was leveling with friends and had a good time, until my first Dungeon run.
It was horrible and it was a slaughter, the combat mechanic was so different from any game I tried so I felt like a total noob running around there. Thankfully we had some patient random players with us that explained boss fights, traps and certain mobs (NPC enemies if you didn't already know that). Sooner or later I got the hang of handling my class and it was even more fun! 

Later on I started studying on how Mesmer actually works; What's the best stat, how should I use my skills and when to use them. Sooner or later it all fell into my fingertips but I still feel that the class was a glass cannon, too fragile but massive on damage.

After a while I started to get bored with my Mesmer and started leveling up a Thief, Guardian, Ranger and an Elementalist. Thief, Guardian and Ranger is now lvl 80 and I'm leveling my Elementalist but I still didn't find the "right" class for me. Once again I made a new character, watched every class closely and wondered what would fit me since I'm mostly a supportive/assisting/tanking/healing kind.

This game don't have the "specific" roles to the classes, by that I mean we don't have the typical "priest healer" or "Warrior Tank" type. In Guild Wars 2 even a warrior can be a healer and Engineer can be the "tanky" type. it's all about how you gear up and spend your traits.

Then one day, I made a new character with a friend and I figured I wanted to try out the Warrior class, in my eyes they seemed too simple, "wield some weapons and just mash your face on the keyboard = Win" But i was wrong, so horribly wrong it's not even funny. I had a blast running around with dual axes and my greatsword, butchering through any enemy in my path. For each level I gained, I felt new doors opened up for my Warrior and I had some challenges with certain events or Story Line, but I learned from my mistakes and improved my tactics.

And finally, my Warrior reached level 80, I could now finally craft and equip the armor with the orange text, Exotic. I started grabbing all my mats and craftet Helmet, shoulders, chest piece, gloves, legging and boots. Finally, my Warrior was prepared for the Ruins of Orr, no enemy should stop me from gaining better loot or karma!

....or so I Though. The first thing that happens to me in Cursed shore is that I get so horrible crushed by the horde of undead roaming the place while I'm just trying to make a living. They just send me to the grave, over and over again, I got frustrated and called for backup, I gather my friends and started to head from North of Cursed shore to the south.
We had a good time, but we felt that something was wrong, we couldn't quite do enough damage to finish of the undead fast enough or nuke the target when it was needed. 

Then I figured that the problem was me. Truth be told, after all those hours playing warrior and I thought I had the hang of it, I didn't. I might have used some of the right skills and utility skills, but i still missed on how certain skills worked and how it affected to the party.
So I started to research, reading and watching how others play their Warrior and get some information on how to improve myself.

Thanks to Dontain, A commentator(?) who plays Warrior with a Legendary (thanks to fans and friends) two-handed Sword "Twilight". He have so many videos about what type of build you want to go with your warrior and gear, the looks on certain weapons and gear, how to get the items and he even have videos on his progress with the Legendary. He has done so much for the subscribers with the videos about tips n' tricks, not only with the warrior class, but with the game itself! Do check him out!

The present: My Warrior

After all the research I've done I have now finally found my build and gear. The Dungeons goes smooth and fast, I'm still a glass cannon but not as one of my friends put it: "papercannon soaked in gasoline", hehe, I must say that made me giggle the first time I heard it. 

So then! Now that I've found my Gear, traits and playstyle I started to wonder: 

"what should I do now?"

I started spending gold on random things that I wanted but didn't need, sooner or later that wallet got empty. Even how many dungeons I did, the mats and gold always got spend one way or another. suddenly a friend of mine got awesome look on the character, and I got informed on the "Cultural Armors and Weapons" which is a look for the certain race. 

I had a goal to get all the tiers of the cultural armor and merge them into different stats, so they weren't only for looks. After a day I had Tier 1, and Tier 2 came close by in a week or two. but then it was the most expensive one, the grand price! Tier 3.

Let's sum it up on the costs for all  cultural armors:

Tier 1 =     2 Gold 88 Silver

Tier 2 =     7 Gold 10 Silver

Tier 3 = 119 Gold

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Total   = 128 Gold 98 Silver

And you have to add the exotics i've made to make them useful in combat.            

Let me show you how they look:

DOLYAK (TIER 1 Norn)

To be honest, i got this gear already around level 50 and was running around looking awesome! This is my first cultural I transmuted into Berserker gear and spent a lot of time in it. Now it's my Magic Find armor, it's still Berserker stats but with Superior rune of the pirate in it.

EAGLE (TIER 2 Norn)

This is an armor I'm not that pleased with, sure it looks awesome and cool, but it lacks the "warrior" feeling to it. The armor it self looks more for a class like the guardian or something "holy" if you want. I've made this my "Tanky" armor, when i need more thoughness and health.

STAG (Tier 3 Norn)

Now this is my pride and honor! The Stag armor is the most expensive one since it's the top tier of the cultural armor but it looks so AWESOME! sure the colours might not match that great since i'm in the phase of finding the right "theme" if you want. It's matching my Greatsword and it's not too dark, or too orange.

It felt horribly satisfying to finally have all the Cultural Tiers on my Warrior, now i could take a break on the farming and grinding for the certain Items I wanted.

Once again, So I thought!
Now that I've gotten everything I wanted, I started searching for something else to get my hands on. I started a Collection of Axes, which will be completed sooner or later, but I wanted a challenge, something that takes time to do. 
ah yes.... I want a legendary to complete it all, you probably think I'll go for Twilight or Sunrise.

You're wrong, I'm aiming for this beauty!

Frosfang (Wikipedia picture!)

The deal about this axe is it's a frozen weapon with awesome graphical looks:

• The arm holding Frostfang is covered in ice.
• The user leaves icy footsteps.
• The "mouth" of the axe opens and closes and emits an icy breath.
• Some skills differ slightly, such as Life Blast (Necromancer skill) which has an icy effect.

So this ends this post about my goals in GW2, I will write more about my progress, and the ups and downs with the farming for it. 

UNTILL NEXT TIME!

The Startup of Sim City, Part 3: City Specialization

All right! welcome back to the Startup "blogpost" or whatever you want to call it, today/this weekend (or whatnot) It's all about City Specialization.
What is City Specialization?
Well my good sir/Ma'am! It's all about how you're going to contribute to the others in the region with workforce, work, tourism, plastic, TVs, processors etc. the list goes on.

Let's get it started!

CITY SPECIALIZATION

City Specialization is all about money, where and how!

You have 5 different specializations to choose from, This depends on your city Site, you can't make a coal city if you have no coal to mine! get it?

"HEY! You're forgetting 1! n00b!", yes and no, i'm not counting the Trading Specialization since you need to earn Money to actually make something good out of it. Sure you could import all kinds of resources to make a different one that sells for more, but to do so you need the money for it.

Mining

Want to be an industrial City with all those awesome chimneys popping up all around the City site? Then this is the one for you!

Mining is the most efficient and easiest way to earn Money in this game.  
You can mine Coal for your Coal plant or making Alloy. Raw ore to sell or to make Metal and earn even more money from it.

Drilling

How are y'all? ...right, drilling is all about Oil and making Plastic and fuel that is om nom nom Money!

Fuel is hard cash for the ones who wants to sell it, but it takes time to make.

It's also needed for the Great Works sooner or later. Don't forget you can fuel up your city with the oil power plant!

Trading

Now this is a MUST for any city that wants to Mine, drill or make Electronics in their city, Without it you're nothing, NOTHING I TELL YOU!

The Trading Specialization goes hand in hand with Drilling, mining and Electronics because of the selling and buying you can do with it.

Electronics

Now then! remember the thing i said about Mining? I LIED! Electronics have the far highest profit by far when you get the hang of it.
You can make processors and TVs, bear in mind that this requires plastic, metal and alloy to do so. 
which is a pain at times if you cant get it all.

Culture
Culture is all about tourism and making your city the most attractive.

You can host events  so Sims from around the region would like to visit your beautiful city and spend their simoleons (Sims currency) in your shops! Beware the traffic!


Gambling
"18, Hit me, 20, Hit me, 21.... hit me.... 32, A DAMN IT I LOST! how much do I get for my kidney?"

Gambling goes almost hand in hand with Culture, it's tourism and it's money! ...and criminals... and... arsonists and... murderers. oh well still earning some money!

Coal City!

All right! we're back to Triton valley, where I started my city couple of days ago in my earlier posts. As you can see, I've just made some industrial area and wanting to plop a Coal mine around that area.

By clicking on the City specialization in the bottom left corner and choosing Mining, I can now look where I have my coal on the map. The darkest spot is where there is the most coal. My mine will mine the total of 358.8 tons, but adding more mine shafts, it will increase the total and the daily gathering.

 Here I'm adding mine shafts so we can mine more coal for our city, as you can see by the cyan dot we need to "click" it on the mine to actually add an extra mineshaft, this goes for the raw ore mine too.

Trading

 We need a trade Depot to sell our coal, and maybe import some raw ore later on to smelt it into metal or alloy and earning more money. so I've popped this Trade depot close to the Mine so the trucks don't need to spend so long time on the road. But as you can see, I don't have a storage area for the coal!



Let's add some coal Storage lot on this Depot so I can store our coal! I'll just put down some trucks as well, so they can go out and sell the coal on the global market.






Here you can choose to:

Use Locally, Import and export.

Using it locally will make the selected resource stay in your city and used in the factories who needs it.


Importing means that you will buy the resource for a price and keep it in your city. they will buy until the Storage is full or when you turn it off.

By exporting you will sell the selected resources to the Global market, which I want to do right now. Something you need to pay attention to when it comes to Trading is when you get your trade port (the biggest storage house if you want) that there is a certain timer on the trading when it comes to trading by train. Sure nothing scary could happen, but you know, it's nice to be aware of things!

And this is part 3 of Startup of Sim City!
Next time we will go over Density and how to actually make more Sims move in as the Site is pretty small from the other Sim City Series!
Thanks for reading and don't forget to share!

The Startup of Sim City, Part 2

Allright! Part 2! YEAH!
Let's do this! I've been playing this game more and more and get lost almost everytime because of the "worker shortage" or whatnot. So let's just go for the startup of a city!

STARTING UP A CITY

All right, first of all we need to connect the city to the main road so we can get people to move in and get to work here. let's start by taking the low density street, so we don't waste all our money on the road.

There we go! now we've made our self places to put up the zones, as you can see I've already done that. The green zones are residential and the blue ones are commercial, yellow are industrial, but I haven't put up any yet because I want them further away from the neighbourhood since it's lowering the land value

CITY NEEDS

Now our City wants the basic needs as Water, Sewage pump and power. This is an easy thing to do as I'll just show you where to put the water as it is a graphical picture on where you got the most water.

As you can see the darkest overlay is where you have the most water and will bring the water tower max water.

HAPPINESS

We finally got our Town Hall and as we can see the happiness on our Sims goes up as we plopped the building down, In this building you can get upgrades for better water/sewage pump and alike.





LAND VALUE

Now this is one of the important thing to look after, you got alot of graphical map to look for, but the Land Value is in my opinion the most important one to look after since it increases the income for residental and commercial areas.

 As you can see on this graphical map, the only place with land value is where the faint blue circle is. And if you look at the window to the top right, it gives us the information on what kind of colours gives certain buildings and happiness. Let's try to improve a neighbourhood and maybe there will be more "high valued" citizens in our city.

How to do so? well just plop a Park down and keep on connecting them by clicking on the edit button in the Simple Walkway Window. Notice the Simdollar Icons right next to the park name, there is three of them and they will give you a high value aera where people can "upgrade" themselves to be high value Citizens or shops.





You have a wide Variety on what kind of parks you want, Some times they fit right in but at times you actually need to think before you're playing them down. 
The shame is: it's a grid building and you can't freely build the park as you want. Which then again is going to force you to spend more time on making the parks look beautiful in your city rather than if you had the free build mode in my opinion. 

Now then! after plopping down 2-3 connections to the park, you can see the land value has increased drasticly, but bear in mind, the expensive parks also have expensive upkeep, so make sure you can pay for it.

There we go! As you can see, there is already high valued resident and some of the commercial areas are upgrading aswell.

Be Aware that you need certain valued residences in your city to employ the different Industrial and commercial buildings.





And this concludes today's "intro" on starting up a City in Sim City, To be honest, the City zone is faaar to small, and they are even talking about adding an expansion pack for improving the zie. GG EA, GG!
Sigh... oh well even how much i hate this game I also love it at the same time. 


I'll come back to the part Where you Specialize your city into a Gambling, Mining, Oil or Tourism City!