How do I stop the AI from spaming houses in my city? They just spam spam spam, its so iritating and I can't demolish their houses for my business! Thanks for any input

2 Ways

The expensive:
Build 1,5 houses per farm, before you build a new farm.

The less expansive:
Build parks/gardens on every available space within the city wall. Remove the park when you want to build the house.

Hein

Arson should be more of a viable option. As it stands, Arson is not worth much. It does not make the AI or you to PAY money to rebuild, it just takes a few days and magically they are rebuilt.

Plus, I find the house are not half priced with patch 1.2.2 after being burned down. So Arson is still a waste of time.

Arson should burn it down to absolutely nothing but clear land to build on.

Arson does not always work, most of the time you spend 1,000,000 and the guy gets caught.

Thanks all! What I did was turn the game down to very slow and spam a lot of wells which was cheap and then when I wanna build a house, I just delete the well, but the AI is still quick to build a house in the place where I wanna build my house so I bought over the house which was like 1 million plus ! Its crazy.....

(11-11-2010 05:14 AM)slpc04 Wrote:  Thanks all! What I did was turn the game down to very slow and spam a lot of wells which was cheap and then when I wanna build a house, I just delete the well, but the AI is still quick to build a house in the place where I wanna build my house so I bought over the house which was like 1 million plus ! Its crazy.....

Well, now (post 1.3) we can set the game speed to zero So, set the game speed to zero, build your parks and the AI won't be able to out-build you.

I like the idea of building cheap parks to control what the AI does, but is this something you can do early on?

It would seem to cause a problem if you expand the wall.

What happens if the Council wants to build a University and there are no spaces?

What about building 1.5 houses until you reach the number of houses for your target population, then switching to parks? On that note, what is a typical population target for game where you want to become alderman and do all the alderman stuff?

(06-06-2012 01:31 AM)WharfRat Wrote:  I like the idea of building cheap parks to control what the AI does, but is this something you can do early on?

if you have got enough money...yes

(06-06-2012 01:31 AM)WharfRat Wrote:  It would seem to cause a problem if you expand the wall.

then you will have to build parks or dwells through the new space...

(06-06-2012 01:31 AM)WharfRat Wrote:  What happens if the Council wants to build a University and there are no spaces?

i dont know exactly...probably the wait until there is space

(06-06-2012 01:31 AM)WharfRat Wrote:  On that note, what is a typical population target for game where you want to become alderman and do all the alderman stuff?

as early as possible! i want the total control!

Lebe jeden Tag, als wäre es Dein Letzter! / Live each day as it would be your last!

You can space the parks out enough to stop the AI building.
I keep a an eye on the wall building so the second it is built I build parks as the AI will not wait long.
If the Council wants to build then either make sure you have built enough houses etc so that the AI does need to build them or become Mayor and do it yourself.

It's easier to keep house occupancy level lower than 56 procents. First of all that prevent competitors from making new house and eventually you will have tenants in those newly build houses so they should at least reach self-repayment or even profitable level.

By placing parks you also stop the AI building industry and farms - especially if you have fully upgraded the walls.

Farms - no, industry - maybe. I have seen couple of times how AI placed building such as beer brewery and smelters outside walls if there was no space inside.
PS. It's very hard to upgrade walls in the way you like if you are not mayor of that city...

(11-11-2010 05:07 AM)Pi-Xerxes Wrote:  Arson should be more of a viable option. As it stands, Arson is not worth much. It does not make the AI or you to PAY money to rebuild, it just takes a few days and magically they are rebuilt.

Plus, I find the house are not half priced with patch 1.2.2 after being burned down. So Arson is still a waste of time.

Arson should burn it down to absolutely nothing but clear land to build on.

Arson does not always work, most of the time you spend 1,000,000 and the guy gets caught.

Imagine how annoyed you would get if the AI successfully burns down a huge number of your businesses and you have to painstakingly place them all again. You have bought the land to build on so now it's yours. The rebuilding should cost money and building materials (which maybe it already does, does somebody know?), but it shouldn't clear the land.

Hello everyone.
What I do is to pause the game when I build a counting house in a new city, and then place parks on all availible spaces inside the existing wall. This gives me control to all of the property so I can build housing. I build all my businesses outside the wall as far away from the city as it will let me.
This is working great and after 2 years of play I am making tons of money on the house rentals.
Now I have a question.
One city, Oslo, has built a new wall and when I went back to place my parks, there are No streets inside the wall. How do I determine where to put the parks? It will let me blanket the land with parks but there are still no streets and houses will need the streets. When I tried placing houses in these areas streets were made but I'm not ready to place 40 + houses and if I don't grab the land asap the AI will start building his tackey crap on the land.
What do you all do?
Thank you