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Petition for SimCity 5

Target:
Electronic Arts, Will Wright
This petition is for fans of the SimCity franchise who would like Electronic Arts and franchise creator, Will Wright to begin development on a fifth installment in the SimCity series.

As well as being a great game, SimCity has acted as the catalyst to inspire many to venture into the fields of Urban Design, Civil Engineering, and Architecture. So in order keep momentum, it only seems necessary for a new chapter in the SimCity series be put into development.

Here a few feature's fans all over have suggested:
  • Improved Graphics
  • Ease of game play for those new to inexperienced to the franchise
    • - Adviser to help new gamers build dream city from scratch
      • - Can be toggled on/off
  • Online Capabilities
  • Improved Transportation Options
    • - Light Rail
    • - Bus Rapid Transit
    • - High Speed Rail
    • - Bridge-Tunnel Connections
    • - Canals
    • - Road/Rail Bridges
    • - Major roads and highways can be built underground
    • - Zoneable seaports/airports
    • - Bridges can be built at and angle
  • Subterranean Network
    • - Metro Stations, high density Commercial Office/Residential,  Parking Garages, & plazas connected via walkways
  • Zoning
    • - Universities
    • - Parks (National, Amusement)
    • - Mixed use areas (Residential/Commercial)
    • - Boroughs/Prefectures/Districts/Communities
      • - College towns
      • - Casino Districts
      • - Research Parks
      • - Gated Communities
      • - Downtown
  •  Civic Options
    • - More precise school districts
    • - Insurance in case of natural disaster
    • - Government Hierarchy
      • Nation>Region>Metro Area/County>City/Town
  • Nature
    • - Designated Climate Zones for Nation
      • - Seasons
        • - Weather
    • - Natural Disasters (ex. tropical storm/hurricane for coastal cities)
  • Compatibility with "The Sims 3"
This petition is for fans of the SimCity franchise who would like Electronic Arts and franchise creator, Will Wright to begin development on a fifth installment in the SimCity series.

As well as being a great game, SimCity has acted as the catalyst to inspire many to venture into the fields of Urban Design, Civil Engineering, and Architecture. So in order keep momentum, it only seems necessary for a new chapter in the SimCity series be put into development.

Here a few feature's fans all over have suggested:
  • Improved Graphics
  • Ease of game play for those new to inexperienced to the franchise
    • - Adviser to help new gamers build dream city from scratch
      • - Can be toggled on/off
  • Online Capabilities
  • Improved Transportation Options
    • - Light Rail
    • - Bus Rapid Transit
    • - High Speed Rail
    • - Bridge-Tunnel Connections
    • - Canals
    • - Road/Rail Bridges
    • - Major roads and highways can be built underground
    • - Zoneable seaports/airports
    • - Bridges can be built at and angle
  • Subterranean Network
    • - Metro Stations, high density Commercial Office/Residential,  Parking Garages, & plazas connected via walkways
  • Zoning
    • - Universities
    • - Parks (National, Amusement)
    • - Mixed use areas (Residential/Commercial)
    • - Boroughs/Prefectures/Districts/Communities
      • - College towns
      • - Casino Districts
      • - Research Parks
      • - Gated Communities
      • - Downtown
  •  Civic Options
    • - More precise school districts
    • - Insurance in case of natural disaster
    • - Government Hierarchy
      • Nation>Region>Metro Area/County>City/Town
  • Nature
    • - Designated Climate Zones for Nation
      • - Seasons
        • - Weather
    • - Natural Disasters (ex. tropical storm/hurricane for coastal cities)
  • Compatibility with "The Sims 3"
This petition is an effort of avid SimCity fans across the world to encourage Electronic Arts and the franchise creator, Will Wright, to release a true successor to SimCity 4. It is quite understandable if SimCity Societies was developed for those new to the franchise, but the game neglected to give veterans of the series any of the elements found in SimCity 4 and it's predecessors.

Provided EA takes our petition seriously, we the gamers ask that if made, the next adaptation of SimCity include the following features:

  • Improved Graphics
  • Ease of game play for those new to inexperienced to the franchise
    • - Adviser to help new gamers build dream city from scratch
      • - Can be toggled on/off
  • Online Capabilities
  • Improved Transportation Options
    • - Light Rail
    • - Bus Rapid Transit
    • - High Speed Rail
    • - Bridge-Tunnel Connections
    • - Canals
    • - Road/Rail Bridges
    • - Major roads and highways can be built underground
    • - Zoneable seaports/airports
    • - Bridges can be built at and angle
  • Subterranean Network
    • - Metro Stations, high density Commercial Office/Residential,  Parking Garages, & plazas connected via walkways
  • Zoning
    • - Universities
    • - Parks (National, Amusement)
    • - Mixed use areas (Residential/Commercial)
    • - Boroughs/Prefectures/Districts/Communities
      • - College towns
      • - Casino Districts
      • - Research Parks
      • - Gated Communities
      • - Downtown
  •  Civic Options
    • - More precise school districts
    • - Insurance in case of natural disaster
    • - Government Hierarchy
      • Nation>Region>Metro Area/County>City/Town
  • Nature
    • - Designated Climate Zones for Nation
      • - Seasons
        • - Weather
    • - Natural Disasters (ex. tropical storm/hurricane for coastal cities)
  • Compatibility with "The Sims 3"
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# 713:
4:03 pm PST, Nov 21, Shawn Hill, New Zealand
Sim city 4 is amazing, but it is starting to feel its age in features and apperance. if not a new sim city game, at least another expansion pack

more environmentally friendly buildings, more modern transport services and roads, everything just more realistic

# 712:
3:59 pm PST, Nov 21, Benjamin Piel, France
# 711:
1:01 pm PST, Nov 21, Gregory Fry, Pennsylvania
Sim City 4 is still my favorite PC game. I'm not into killing, I'm into creating.
# 710:
8:43 am PST, Nov 21, Kaled Saleh, California
# 709:
1:56 am PST, Nov 21, Vivien Le Grand, France
# 708:
1:50 pm PST, Nov 20, Rafael Duarte, Brazil
# 707:
12:53 pm PST, Nov 20, Lucas Marcolongo, Brazil
# 706:
9:43 am PST, Nov 20, Ville Volanen, Finland
I have played SimCity 4 for a long long time already, maybe 5 years... I still love it but I have kind of... "Overplayed" it already so I just need a new one with cool new stuff and more features, better graphics etc..

Definitely possibility to play multiplayer somehow... Also I would love to have improved car driving mode so I could for example drive on people's yards and parks and so on...

# 705:
8:52 am PST, Nov 20, Juuso Rusanen, Finland
I absolutely love SC4 and I'd definately buy the sequel.

I second #666. I'd like to see it being even more realistic and I feel it needs depth.

# 704:
6:35 am PST, Nov 20, Nermin Agic, Bosnia And Herzegovina
ski teren funkcional,zoo,
# 703:
4:54 am PST, Nov 20, Rik Van Zomeren, Netherlands
Because the SimCity series is great.

A game where you can make small village’s. Make bendy roads go a round a bendy river.

# 702:
5:30 pm PST, Nov 19, Marcos Vinícius De Sousa Ferreira, Brazil
Because the SimCity series has been great, and I like it!! I'm sorry for the bad english!!
# 701:
5:21 pm PST, Nov 19, Noel Garcia, Colorado
Love the game, love the cities, love the community. Pleeeeeeeease!
# 700:
3:07 pm PST, Nov 19, Lucas Kiefer, North Dakota
# 699:
11:49 pm PST, Nov 17, Allan Rudwick, Oregon
Bus stops that can be built without demolishing buildings. effectively just a post on the side of the road like in real life. same with subways, el trains
# 698:
9:04 pm PST, Nov 17, Alex Miller-Clendon, New Zealand
I loved playing Sim City 2000, Sim City 3000, Sim City Societies and Sim City 4 and would love to see what new features would be put into a Sim City 5 game.
# 697:
7:40 pm PST, Nov 17, Joseph Alexander, Texas
I have evry Sim City game, including SimCity Societies, I have played this game for years and it never gets old to me. I would love to see a new SC5 with more realistic features and updated graphics (so i can zoom in and see the city parts as if i was playing Sim City Societies).

I would like to see some updated graphics, and be able to get a better zoom-in feature view. I would also like to see texture and mod tools incorporated so that we could make our own towns and cities seem more real. a rural zoning feature would be nice to zone out the spacious rural areas like in Louisiana and Mississippi.

# 696:
6:46 pm PST, Nov 17, Steven Hassinger, Pennsylvania
I have always enjoyed, since the first incarnatino of Sim City, coutless hours of play....fidgeting and improving, the eye candy, the sense of humor.....the fact that you don't risk "dying" and ending the game around every corner....just wish the next version would be a logical continuation and improvement over the best of Sim City....not something that barely resembles the previous versions.

Other than a continually improving interface......the coolest thing to my way of thinking would be to be able to view the city from above - as in all other versions of sim city - but also the ability to rotate down to street level and walk around your city like you were really there.

# 695:
5:32 pm PST, Nov 17, Zac Mayfield, Australia
i would love to see anew sim city, one with pretty much the same stuff from sim city 4 and sim city 4 rush hour. i liked how you can make your own land and make your dream city, thats what sim city was meant to be. Sim city societies was not good enough i still play sim city 4, its just a better game all round.

make it like sim city 4, but with way more stuff, make it so you can make your dream city with no limits, and please have something were you can choose how much money you can have ;)

# 694:
5:54 am PST, Nov 17, Name not displayed, Spain
I loved SC4 and I am eager to play a new version employing all posibilities of current graphic cards.

Linux support.

# 693:
4:11 am PST, Nov 17, Patrick Oosterhuis, Netherlands
# 692:
7:22 pm PST, Nov 16, Nirad Gupta, California
Because technology- both computational and graphical power, has progressed far beyond what was available with SC4. Also, our world has changed- there are new problems we face and new ideas in city planning that should be incorporated into the game.

I'd like to see the ability to make a city that isn't so car-dependent. Bike lanes, pedestrian pathways, and a finer-grain management of the right-of-way would be nice. Graphically, it should be possible to make the game completely 3D now. And it would be nice if the game wasn't so confined to an orthogonal grid; many of the world's best cities are not.

# 691:
4:14 pm PST, Nov 16, Kevin Brooks, California
Sim City 4 is awsome but when a city is over 300,000 the game runs so slow that it takes the fun out of playing it.

Light rail, bridges over roads and streets, ect. the transportation for sim city 4 in basic and not real enough for a simulator

# 690:
2:02 pm PST, Nov 16, Jacob Brown, United Kingdom
# 689:
1:18 pm PST, Nov 16, Name not displayed, Canada
# 688:
1:03 pm PST, Nov 16, Patyk Weid, Canada
Sim City 4 is a great game and Sim City society not so much i want a game based on sim city 4 with new ideas and possibly a new graphic engine.

Ne graphics, 3D view of the city (ground view)

# 687:
5:58 am PST, Nov 16, ERISTON PAIXAO, Brazil
Because the main characteristics is to administrate a city, a true Sim City 5 is expected.

-Transportation improvements; -More compatibilty with the nation; -A concept of nation should be launched.

# 686:
5:22 pm PST, Nov 15, Justina Pine, Alabama
Me and my father (most of my family) love all the Sim Cities. We had high expecttations for SCS. and it didnt fill that void all of us SC lovers wanted. Cities XL.. is ok and a good game. But we SCfans just want that oriaginal Will Wright, SC feel.

Zones ONLY have buildings, and u can place (or zone i guess) areas for parking. Buissiness gets bigger and the zone expands. HighWays that arnt so expensive. Hard meium and easy levels changed to Newbie, seasoned, and vetran. Newbies can only build Low and some medium buildings, seasoned can have all meduim and low with some high and higher more complex demand, Vetrans have low, med, and High everything and get the full extent of demand (during the game say a newbie thinks they can do more, they can change the difficulty level so that they dont have to make a brand new city everytime.)

# 685:
3:22 pm PST, Nov 15, João Pedro Schriefer, Brazil
Why would you like to see a "SimCity 5" made?

What new features would you like to see in a new SimCity game?

# 684:
10:25 am PST, Nov 15, Pasquereau Nicolas, France
Attend avec impatience sim city 5
# 683:
10:02 am PST, Nov 15, Richard Lloyd, United Kingdom
# 682:
12:46 pm PST, Nov 14, Ikram Bapu, United Kingdom
It would be good

Increased AI intelligence, full 3d graphics, bigger maps, more transportation options etc.

# 681:
6:18 am PST, Nov 14, Name not displayed, Portugal
Because SimCity has a long history and it can not end now. is a game that deserves to be evolved and more and better than the previous.

I wanted SimCity 5 had events like Olympics, Carnival, World Cup, etc.. would change in the seasons, which mudessemos get up close and walk the streets as people. We could create several neighborhoods and put them together in one city as a metropolitan region.

# 680:
6:14 am PST, Nov 14, Name not displayed, Brazil
Real Sim City

all

# 679:
10:04 pm PST, Nov 13, Alistair Wilson, Australia
sim city 4 was wonderful, a sim city 5 (including stuff from 4) plus more would be even better - more is better!

new stuff for the game should be - as much as possible from reality

# 678:
10:44 am PST, Nov 13, Name not displayed, Texas
SimCity 4 was and still is a great game, but it is showing its age and is in desperate need for a TRUE sequel. Personally, I feel like I am being held back from creating more realistic cities due to insufficient tools.

I would like to see: More disasters (including those that could be set to trigger randomly), multicore and 64-bit support, a greater number of buildings pre-supplied with the game, weather and seasons, scenarios, more u-drive-it missions, more ordinances, improved government with city workers automatically responding to emergencies, better slope construction (no large foundations), and more transit options.

# 677:
10:41 am PST, Nov 13, Name not displayed, France
# 676:
3:29 am PST, Nov 13, Eugenia Marinou, United Kingdom
# 675:
2:11 am PST, Nov 13, Milan Rabiska, Czech Republic
I totally love the SimCity franchise except for the Societies sequel -- the Sim City 4 is one of the best games ever made!! Please make a new SimCity 5 based on SimCity 4 !!!
# 674:
4:29 pm PST, Nov 12, Paul Graham, Washington
I loved SimCity 4 (except it crashed and went slooow). I loved 3.

SimCity 4 with the 3-D of Societies.

# 673:
3:50 pm PST, Nov 12, Omar Zabaneh, Canada
Because I am a big fan of the SC series and can wait to see how far it will go!

more options and detail.

# 672:
3:11 pm PST, Nov 12, Name not displayed, South Dakota
# 671:
7:54 am PST, Nov 12, Rizky Ikhsani, Netherlands
Yes

loyal to SC4, not doing experimental stuffs like the failed SimCity Society, research oriented (true urban design), you still can drive your own cars in the city, more disaster, some arco building, etc

# 670:
6:37 am PST, Nov 12, Peter Steflic, Slovenia
because I love playing Sim City 4, which is the best game till now and i believe Sim City 5 would be even better.
# 669:
10:26 pm PST, Nov 11, Name not displayed, New York
I would like to see a simcity 5 game made because I have enjoyed all of the previous games, and even though city building might be complicated, i think a great sc5 would guide beginners too

Railroads that can run under cities in tunnels separate from the subways. For example In Manhattan, Amtrak and the LIRR, and freight, run deep under the middle of the city, even under the subway tunnels

# 668:
10:15 pm PST, Nov 11, Name not displayed, New York
Please Will Wright and Maxis, develop a state of the art simcity sequel. So many fans are waiting patiently.
# 667:
8:47 pm PST, Nov 11, Name not displayed, Brazil
concordo com tudo que está na petição

AMO tudo em Sim City!!!

# 666:
7:27 pm PST, Nov 11, Thomas Simmons, North Carolina
Sim City 4 was an amazing game, one that would be difficult to top. But with all the advances in computing technology since it was released I believe it can be done. Sim City Societies doesn't deserve to have the Sim City name in front of it. It was a joke, a terrible, terrible joke. I played it for 1 day, then threw it in the trash after nobody would take it from me free of charge. A real Sim City 5, building off of the greatness of Sim City 4 is needed now more than ever in this age of second rate city builders and tycoon style games. It seems like everyone is trying to cater to the casual gamers (if you can even call them gamers) these days, and there's not much left for those of us who truly appreciate depth and innovative game play. Please make Sim City 5 a reality, now is the time.

There needs to be a wider variety in building variance. Yes I know that's a big task, but it is a CITY BUILDER after all, and cities have lots and lots of different buildings. About 2000 different "growing" buildings would be adequate I think. There should also be a variety of designs for the "plopable" buildings such as schools, police stations, and fire stations (which each city seems to need so many of anyway). The last thing that should be improved is the street system. And for those of us who like to plan ahead for future populations and traffic... We should be able to control how far away from the streets larger buildings are allowed to "grow" so that when we need to enlarge a busy street we can just pave the front yard instead of having to bulldoze the entire skyscraper.

# 665:
1:55 pm PST, Nov 11, Izaak Apis, California
so that an old but great games seiries won't end!

id have to say... every mod ever made on simcity and others, like bridges with highways and trains, with light rails, the optio to design and make a bridge and buildings... all that neat stuff!

# 664:
2:26 pm PST, Nov 10, Adriaan Rems, Belgium
Simcity 4 was very, very satisfying and I think EA should consider making a new version with up-to-date graphical features.

Simcity 4 Deluxe pretty well had all the features you need. Maybe a Sims 3-style camera and more variety in traffic/buildings ? There should also be weather.

# 663:
11:17 am PST, Nov 10, Chris Mcallan, United Kingdom
SC4 was incredible game however I feel I have played that game over and over and have experienced everything there is on it. I would love a more complex city building game made by Maxis as Monte Cristo does not compare.

Freedom to build curved roads and buildings that can easily be attached to the curves without the need for wasted space. More political choices which would affect cities, ie green technologies. affective mass transport systems.

# 662:
10:05 pm PST, Nov 9, Ahsan Haider, Australia
GO SIMCITY

I wanna see better, wider roads like rhw, bettter mass transit and cooler everything

# 661:
2:57 pm PST, Nov 9, Konradas Gervinas, Lithuania
Wanna see Sim city 5 ! :) with Game MISSIONS. goals, weather: rain, snow, traffic jams...

Game should be with MISSIONS. goals, weather: rain, snow, traffic jams...

# 659:
8:53 am PST, Nov 9, Mrt Gary, France
# 658:
10:10 am PST, Nov 8, Hugo Guimaraes, Brazil
# 657:
4:08 am PST, Nov 8, Palisson Matthieu, France
Sim city 5 !!!!! PLEASE !
# 656:
10:15 pm PST, Nov 6, Rory Kelly, California
Curved roads! Cal-De-Sacs, taller buildings, bigger region sizes.
# 655:
1:00 pm PST, Nov 6, Corbin Crnkovic, Canada
# 654:
6:46 am PST, Nov 6, Name not displayed, Netherlands
I have been a fan of Sim City since the sim city 2000 series. I was 12 when I first played it and I still love the game. And indeed has inspired me to become an architect.

As realistic as possible and indeed I wanna go green!

# 653:
5:17 am PST, Nov 6, Wellington Rezende, Brazil
# 652:
4:59 am PST, Nov 6, Andrew Briggs, United Kingdom
I would definatley like to see sim city 5 made as i would like to see the suggested improvements made into the game already without downloading BATS to the game, the intergration of these improvments would make the game more realistic and therfore in my opion more rewarding and worthwhile to play and create a well run city. Ive always thought it would be a great idea for pupils at schools of colleges or even uni's to use this game as a tool for city planning, i have seen online many "real" city plans which can be played on, it could be used to teach in some way.

The new features i would like to see included are the facilites such as; schools, hospitals and police etc should be able to move the radius or catchment area to a customisable shape, but keeping with the same area/volume. For example my village school is based on a main road but on the other side of that road is a field, i propose that you would be able to move the radius away from "the field" to where it would be needed. Anyway thats just my opinion. Thanks

# 651:
10:00 pm PST, Nov 5, Patt Mcgroin, Canada
Why would you like to see a "SimCity 5" made?

What new features would you like to see in a new SimCity game?

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