[RacePace]

hmm... I have problem transferring metal/alloy from recycling centre to arcology...

make sure you have trade depots and set them on Use locally. And press the power button on Send metal/alloy for the archology

[Presto]

HOw's this game? I'm so tempted but all the bad reviews are kinda making me want to hold off on the game

Personally, I would wait. Maxis/EA are still working shit out. There's a lot of AI issues, too. It's like all that time in development was spent slacking. Not really official, but here's a post about the Traffic AI ("http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/Traffic-quot-AI-quot-This-is-why-services-and-traffic-are-broken/m-p/737060):
One of the biggest problems people are having with the game is the massive traffic-jams that seem to clog the entire system up. Now, this is responsible for the ineffective coverage of ANY traffic-based services (Fire, Police, Garbage, Medical, Education, Mass-Transit.) There are also a number of smaller complaints that may also be directly related to how Glassbox handles traffic.

"Workers aren't commuting."
"There aren't enough workers, even though I have plenty of population."
"Tourism is broken."
"Emergency services are slow/unresponsive/broken."

The agent system that is used for utilities (power, water, sewage) seems to be identical to the system that handles traffic.

The problem is that, just as power can sometimes take a ridiculously long time to fill the entire map (because the "power agents" just randomly move about with no sense) traffic and workers can do the same thing. Workers leave their homes as "people agents." These agents go to the nearest open job, not caring at all where they worked yesterday. They fill the job, and the next worker goes to the next building and fills that job, and so it goes until all the jobs are "filled." So, when you have all your "worker" sims leaving their houses for work in the morning, they all cluster together like some kind of "tourist pack" until they have all been sucked into "jobs." They don't seem to care if the job is Commercial or Industrial, only that it's a job.

"Scholars" are handled exactly the same way. As are school busses and mass-transit agents. This is why you see the "trains" of busses roaming through your city, and why entire sections of town may never see a school bus, despite having plenty of stops... Once all the busses are full, they return to school and stay there until school is done for the day.

Now, here is where it gets really good... In the evening, when work and school lets out, they all leave and proceed to the absolute closest "open" house. They don't "own" their houses. The "people" you see are actually just mindless agents (much like the utilities agents, as I said earlier) making the whole idea of "being able to follow a 'Sim' through their entire day" utterly POINTLESS!!"

The reason traffic problems cause so many other side-effects, is because EVERYTHING relies on those "people" who are stuck in herds trying to go to whatever closest "slot" they can fill. Casinos go bust because "tourists" are just "shopper agents" from out of town. You MUST put casinos RIGHT next to the entrance to your city if you want them to succeed. Placing street-car stops by the casinos can actually cause more harm than good! Why? Because the "shoppers" will board the streetcar stop (because it's the closest open slot) and be shuttled to a shopping district instead.

Sharing resources and services gets to be a joke, because all the vehicles ("agents") get bound up with the busses at the entrances to cities.

TL;DR: Fixing the way the game handles traffic and "sims" will fix 90% of the problems plaguing players!

[Presto]

The rage continues for Simcity. The main point being the always online requirement. Maxis has stated that the servers are needed for simulation calculations, which is complete and utter bullshit (http://kotaku.com/5990165/my-simcity-city-thrived-offline-for-19-minutes) as evidenced by uninterrupted simulation after a loss of network connection. Now there's corroboration of that fact from an anonymous Simcity developer on Rock Paper Shotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/12/simcity-server-not-necessary/):


In all the fuss and mess of the disastrous SimCity launch, one refrain has been repeated again and again. While legions may be begging for an offline mode, EA representatives have been abundantly clear that this simply isn’t possible. Maxis’ studio head, Lucy Bradshaw, has told both Polygon and Kotaku that they “offload a significant amount of the calculations to our servers”, and that it would take “a significant amount of engineering work from our team to rewrite the game” for single player.

A SimCity developer has got in touch with RPS to tell us that at least the first of these statements is not true. He claimed that the server is not handling calculations for non-social aspects of running the game, and that engineering a single-player mode would require minimal effort.


Our source, who we have verified worked directly on the project but obviously wishes to remain anonymous, has first-hand knowledge of how the game works. He has made it absolutely clear to us that this repeated claim of server-side calculations is at odds with the reality of the project he worked on. Our source explains:

“The servers are not handling any of the computation done to simulate the city you are playing. They are still acting as servers, doing some amount of computation to route messages of various types between both players and cities. As well, they’re doing cloud storage of save games, interfacing with Origin, and all of that. But for the game itself? No, they’re not doing anything. I have no idea why they’re claiming otherwise. It’s possible that Bradshaw misunderstood or was misinformed, but otherwise I’m clueless.”

People were already perplexed by EA’s explanation of the impossibility of offline play. Kotaku ran a series of tests today, seeing how the game could run without an internet connection, finding it was happy for around 20 minutes before it realised it wasn’t syncing to the servers. Something which would surely be impossible were the servers co-running the game itself. Markus “Notch” Persson just tweeted to his million followers that he managed to play offline too, despite EA’s claims. And now with the information from our source, it would seem the claims just don’t hold water.



So what are the servers doing? Well, alongside the obvious, of being involved in allowing players to share the same maps for their cities, and processing imports and exports between them, they’re really there to check that players aren’t cheating or hacking. However, these checks aren’t in real-time – in fact, they might take a few minutes, so couldn’t be directly involved in your game.

“Because of the way Glassbox was designed, simulation data had to go through a different pathway. The game would regularly pass updates to the server, and then the server would stick those messages in a huge queue along with the messages from everyone else playing. The server pulls messages off the queue, farms them out to other servers to be processed and then those servers send you a package of updates back. The amount of time it could take for you to get a server update responding to something you’ve just done in the game could be as long as a few minutes. This is why they disabled Cheetah mode, by the way, to reduce by half the number of updates coming into the queue.”

Clearly an offline game that included a single-player simulation of the region system derived from multiplayer would be more challenging to develop, but our source assured us that it was far from impossible.

So how difficult would it be for EA to create a single-player game that simply did away with the multiplayer-derived aspects and just let us build? It seems that lies somewhere between “easy peasy” and Bradshaw’s claims of “significant engineering”. According to our source:

“It wouldn’t take very much engineering to give you a limited single-player game without all the nifty region stuff.”

EA’s claims about the necessity of online play – claims that more people are seeing for themselves not to be true, just by running the game with the internet cable yanked out – seem inexplicable.

We’d obviously be very interested to hear a proper explanation.

[gilly]

im plateaued at 50,000 ppl. how do u guys get sooo many ppl? I have a constant above 75% happiness

[trip]

increase your road density and land value

im constantly at 230k ppl and even after i bulldoze stuff it doesnt drop very much

putting game on hiatus until they fix the AI. ITS SO BAD..

why do all the busses (30 or so) go to pick up the same BUS STOP

[RacePace]

LOL it was fun but since some people starting earlier than me their crimes were spreading to my city LOL.

Realized your city was connected to my two, the city you're closest to has three casinos. You're gonna have a bad time lol. I'll send some police over to you

[Mr.HappySilp]

Realized your city was connected to my two, the city you're closest to has three casinos. You're gonna have a bad time lol. I'll send some police over to you

I might have to delete that city and start over -_-
Apparently there is a bug right now where alloy and ores aren't being sent out to tradie even though I got a trade dept and I am making alloy and minning ore and coal........
Also it seems recyleying center is having issue after last patch where they won't go collect anything and ally and metals that was recyle isn't being sent out for trade......

[CT10]

OK So i added pretty much everyone from the list onto my origin friends list... if you still don't see me (tc_terencec) and would like in, let me know

As far as the RS Region goes, we still have round 5 cities left to be claimed IIRC

Invite please :)

My origin name is humgachan123

[pherio]

running out of space in my city, do you still need your trade depot after having access to the trade port?

[RacePace]

I might have to delete that city and start over -_-
Apparently there is a bug right now where alloy and ores aren't being sent out to tradie even though I got a trade dept and I am making alloy and minning ore and coal........
Also it seems recyleying center is having issue after last patch where they won't go collect anything and ally and metals that was recyle isn't being sent out for trade......

Are you building lots for those resources at the trade depots?

[CP.AR]

Invite please :)

My origin name is humgachan123

diuuuu

you sure your name is right? searching in origin gives me nothing

[CP.AR]

I knew that the always online- server doing calculations thing was bullshit.

The moment that I was able to play the game while my roommate restarted the router I knew it was complete bullshit

[CT10]

diuuuu

you sure your name is right? searching in origin gives me nothing

check pm

[GotRice604]

amuro_ray, please add bbqpork88

[Taxmonkey]

Couldn't wait anymore, bought the game!

Invite me: Jubomonkey


Can't seem to find a game with empty spaces to join ....................

[Mr.HappySilp]

Are you building lots for those resources at the trade depots?

I do have a trade depot and expanded to allow alloy and ore to be store. Then I click the options to export it. It still gets full and cause my ore factory to shut down.......

[ziggyx]

I've setup a new region on NA West 4
Join the server at least once so I can see you as a player on that server and I'll invite you in.

This region should connect all the cities too, give that both sides of the shoreline has at least one ferry terminal in it.

NA West 4 is full :okay:

[Taxmonkey]

so ur all on NA west 4?

yup na west 4 is full ................

cant even connect to my old server now after trying to switch. damn it!

[ziggyx]

^ i thought you should be able to connect to that server if you've connected to it before?

[ForbiddenX]

Let me know if you guys want a vent server up. I don't mind renting a 20 slot one out!

[Taxmonkey]

^ i thought you should be able to connect to that server if you've connected to it before?

apparently my server went down. it's back up now i think.


I want to get on a server to play with you guys :(

[metal]

Kinda interesting how deeply some people are taking the analysis of this game already. Good stuff though, shows how much needs to be fixed already.

It's not pathfinding, it's GlassBox : SimCity (http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a6rj0/its_not_pathfinding_its_glassbox/)

[Jmac]

Personally, I would wait. Maxis/EA are still working shit out. There's a lot of AI issues, too. It's like all that time in development was spent slacking. Not really official, but here's a post about the Traffic AI ("http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/Traffic-quot-AI-quot-This-is-why-services-and-traffic-are-broken/m-p/737060): I doubt it was spent slacking. It was likely just used in typical EA fashion, namely:
1) Spending time integrating new gimmicks
2) Ignoring issues with core gameplay
3) EA's infamous "release knowing the game is faulty and patch and patch and patch and patch and patch and ... until the game is either mostly fixed or no longer profitable" technique.

[Taxmonkey]

anyone want to play right now?

[MikeyStyle]

http://v.cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/cad-20130313-3c2d0.png

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

Kinda interesting how deeply some people are taking the analysis of this game already. Good stuff though, shows how much needs to be fixed already.

It's not pathfinding, it's GlassBox : SimCity (http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a6rj0/its_not_pathfinding_its_glassbox/)

because of this... all my fucking traffic is fucked.

especially once regional bus station is put in. since you cannot control the amount of buses u "volunteer"... EVERY bus from every region always fucking comes in.

they just go around half the city and leave the other half of the city waiting.

i follow so many cars... and shit htey just keep driving in circles.

SAME AS STREETCARS!! wtf.. they just go back and forth a few stations.

[Mr.HappySilp]

because of this... all my fucking traffic is fucked.

especially once regional bus station is put in. since you cannot control the amount of buses u "volunteer"... EVERY bus from every region always fucking comes in.

they just go around half the city and leave the other half of the city waiting.

i follow so many cars... and shit htey just keep driving in circles.

SAME AS STREETCARS!! wtf.. they just go back and forth a few stations.

Same thing happen with my trains lol. Also the Sims are so picky! There is only 7 crimes comitted per day and they want more police -_-.
I still don't get how tourist works. My casino was making 12k a day and down to 700 in a day-_- nothing have change........

[bobola]

watch.. few months later..

DLCs for larger city blocks
DLCs for smarter AI

[Not really racist!]

http://youtu.be/qV6PrEjaH8Q?t=11m42s



start at 11:42

embeddinig phucked up

[impactX]

Same thing happen with my trains lol. Also the Sims are so picky! There is only 7 crimes comitted per day and they want more police -_-.
I still don't get how tourist works. My casino was making 12k a day and down to 700 in a day-_- nothing have change........

May be the tourists are the same agents as the residents and went to work. :) lol the AI is quite stupid...

[CT10]

Anyone else experiencing this? Basically my ferries and train stations are built but it keeps saying that it has no power. I have more than enough power in my city and they're both connected to roads/tracks

[impactX]

Hmm try shutting it down and powering it up again.

[willystyle]

LOL, I am definitely not buying this game anytime soon. Just reading articles from other sites points out that this game is so buggy that it shouldn't have been released. The AI is severely flawed where it's not functioning the way it's suppose to be; such as, the movement of traffic, and people, which snowballs and contributes to a host of other problems in the city.

I'm gonna give the new Cities XL Platinum a try.

[CT10]

Hmm try shutting it down and powering it up again.

Tried it and still no luck, anyone else experiencing this?
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[Jmac]

LOL, I am definitely not buying this game anytime soon. Just reading articles from other sites points out that this game is so buggy that it shouldn't have been released. The AI is severely flawed where it's not functioning the way it's suppose to be; such as, the movement of traffic, and people, which snowballs and contributes to a host of other problems in the city.

I'm gonna give the new Cities XL Platinum a try. SimCity 4 > Cities XL ... Although Tropico 4 is better than both of them.

I'll still get SimCity 5, although the online requirement (which I wasn't aware of before) is a real turn off.

[mos_skeeto]

Boo lost my best city due to EA's wonky servers.

I found on flat/non-water layouts the most efficient way is to stretch the entrance avenue straight top to bottom... use the street grid one way and use the avenue grid the other. You end up with a 5 street/3 avenue ratio.

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[FerrariEnzo]

I just installed Simcity 4 again coz I wont be getting this game anytime soon..

Whats the best layout for zones? I was testing.. the high dense zones dont build up if its bigger then 1x3?? i.e. 1 high dense res 1x3 can build up but at 1x4 it wont.. is this a bug?

This is my layout Im using... the one in the top middle and bottom middle are facing north/south, while the sides are facing left/right..


RRR|RRR|RRR
RRR|RRR|RRR
RRR|RRR|RRR
RRR|park|RRR
RRR|RRR|RRR
RRR|RRR|RRR
RRR|RRR|RRR

[trip]

game is not even near ready for launch with all these glitches and shitty AI

[willystyle]

^ Don't forget your bus stop on every 6-8 squares.

[trip]

this game is fucking stupid.
1.5 mill blew by in a flash

no alloys were being shipped in. cant make processors. recycling doesnt produce enough.

i blew up half my fucking city because of this glitch

in the end i got 9k crates of processors sitting in my depot and it fucking DOESNT EXPORT

city goes bankrupt. i open a 300k bond. BANKRUPT again.. my traffic was FINE

cant even abandon and delete city

will not play game again until shit is fixed. i would refund if i could

[mos_skeeto]

If you ever get into financial trouble just clear out a buncha flat land and lay industrial with the cheapo roads. Let it sit for 10 minutes and you should recover 100,000

[RacePace]

this game is fucking stupid.
1.5 mill blew by in a flash

no alloys were being shipped in. cant make processors. recycling doesnt produce enough.

i blew up half my fucking city because of this glitch

in the end i got 9k crates of processors sitting in my depot and it fucking DOESNT EXPORT

city goes bankrupt. i open a 300k bond. BANKRUPT again.. my traffic was FINE

cant even abandon and delete city

will not play game again until shit is fixed. i would refund if i could

Hmm....I've never had a problem with import/export. Are you tracking your delivery vans?

[Jmac]

If you ever get into financial trouble just clear out a buncha flat land and lay industrial with the cheapo roads. Let it sit for 10 minutes and you should recover 100,000 There's something inherently wrong with this "fix."

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

this game is fucking stupid.
1.5 mill blew by in a flash

no alloys were being shipped in. cant make processors. recycling doesnt produce enough.

i blew up half my fucking city because of this glitch

in the end i got 9k crates of processors sitting in my depot and it fucking DOESNT EXPORT

city goes bankrupt. i open a 300k bond. BANKRUPT again.. my traffic was FINE

cant even abandon and delete city

will not play game again until shit is fixed. i would refund if i could

my recyling city got crippled. so ... i ditched it for now.. till they fix that bug lol

[Taxmonkey]

Hmmm.. shouldn't emergency responding vehicles have priority on the road? o.o

[trip]

Hmmm.. shouldn't emergency responding vehicles have priority on the road? o.o

you would think so but no...

i had a police chasing a criminal stuck behind an abulance getting to a fire behind 9 busses all going to the same bus stop and the fire truck was wayyy in the back.


criminal got away. ambulance never made it on site. fire burned down 2 high density homes and a medium.

but the good news? the 9 busses all went to the same bus stop to pick up the passengers.

[Taxmonkey]

the avg wait time for my buses right now is like an hour LOL

[RacePace]

Blog Article (http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-update-8)

[CT10]

Can't even login right now... fuck EA

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

lol wanted to play rs but west 4 is off right now.

one sector in my region is fucked. a friends nuclear plant blew up.
2 places to claimed, and built, and bulldozed, ran outta money, but u cant transfer them money, so now they're fucked cuz they cant build HAHA...

[Taxmonkey]

I'm really in desperate need of players in my region :( I'm on NA west 3 if anyone wants to join... Add Jubomonkey on Origin.

I'm at 100k population with a gambling / tourist city.

[Presto]

Simcity is being thoroughly examined, and there has been a recent discovery of a debug mode, and there's some tools released for enabling offline play and other options:

Hackers open up offline play, modding tools for SimCity | Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/hackers-open-up-offline-play-modding-tools-for-simcity/)

EA and Maxis' claim that it would take "significant engineering work" to make a workable offline version of SimCity took another hit today. Hackers have released modding tools that disable the game's periodic server checks without breaking the simulation. The tools also unlock other features not in the final game.

reddit is abuzz with news and guides for installing the SimCityPak, a downloadable package of files that lets players edit many elements of the UI and underlying game logic. The tools aren't incredibly user-friendly for the time being, but those with some Javascript experience and patience to learn can do things like disable the online connectivity requirement, fix the "fudged" population display, and even affect how the basic simulation works in some ways.

Hackers are still poring through the code to see what kinds of new features and gameplay can be unlocked (including, potentially, the holy grail of increased city size limits), but one of the most exciting discoveries so far has been a way to easily uncover the developers' debug mode. This mode allows for many features that players have been asking for in the consumer version of the game, including the ability to build highways through city limits and in the regional "dead space" between cities. These changes will apparently stay valid in the wider region after the city is synced to EA's central servers, though other users' cities will not see edits made to the regional landscape.

The debug menus also include references to terraforming tools, such as coastline and waterway building, which are currently disabled even in a hacked commercial copy of the game. Options for editing airplane flight paths, creating new docking points for ships, and creating new city and "great works" sites are also alluded to.

Ars was able to download and install a package file enabling this mode in less than a minute. For those who don't want to go through the hacking hassle, this YouTube video quickly shows how the debug mode works in practice. Another video shows a player using edited package files to bulldoze and cause disasters in other players' cities in the region (though the poster claims this was done without server syncing, to prevent any permanent harm from being done).

Last year, SimCity Creative and Art Director Ocean Quigley said the game was being "built to be moddable" at a GDC panel. He reaffirmed that stance in a tweet just last month, indicating modded package files would be allowed (but maybe not directly supported) once the game was released. Given the potential for menace on public servers being quickly unlocked by players, however, this stance may not last.

It's been rather incredible watching the gaming community's reaction to SimCity's launch over the last week and a half, and it's impressive to see that community taking action to try to fix the myriad disappointments in the game as it was released. We can't wait to see what other interesting modifications to the game the community will be able to uncover in the coming weeks and months

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

anyone know how to get around this bug....

basically what happens is.. the land appears to be clear, and u try to plop a building or extension of a building down.. but u cant.

but it says you CAN... just when u try to plop it down nothing happens.

when i zoom in i see the problem... there's little doodas left over from whatever building or park i bulldozed.. like a bbq table or a fence.. but it cant be bulldozed again.. it just sits there... and i cant put anything over it or edit it. anything i build over it.. like a road... and demolish it again.. doesnt get rid of it.. its soooo fucking annoying.

[CP.AR]

I am sad to say that I have completely lost interest in this game despite me being a HUGE simcity fan...

the bugs and the unwelcome changes are just too much. I tried to love it, I really tried... but at the end of the day I just keep clicking back into my gigantic Simcity 4 region rather than login to origin and play the new game.

I'm sorry Maxis, and fuck you EA... but I have to say this is probably the last Simcity I will ever buy (and EA, the last game I will ever buy with your name slapped on it)

[vapour_lock]

Not sure what happened but i logged in last night and all my saved towns disappeared. I did accidently click the Simcity Recovery icon but that shouldnt wipe my towns should it? geez..:(

[gilly]

anyone know how to get around this bug....

basically what happens is.. the land appears to be clear, and u try to plop a building or extension of a building down.. but u cant.

but it says you CAN... just when u try to plop it down nothing happens.



sort of same problem. I tried putting down an airport and theres definitely enough space but it won't let me. I have enough money and unlocked it too.

[Jmac]

I am sad to say that I have completely lost interest in this game despite me being a HUGE simcity fan...

the bugs and the unwelcome changes are just too much. I tried to love it, I really tried... but at the end of the day I just keep clicking back into my gigantic Simcity 4 region rather than login to origin and play the new game.

I'm sorry Maxis, and fuck you EA... but I have to say this is probably the last Simcity I will ever buy (and EA, the last game I will ever buy with your name slapped on it)
Like I said over a year ago ...
I love the SimCity games ... but EA will find a way to completely fuck it up as they always do ...

[metal]

Ditto for me. I don't think I'll be launching this game up again for awhile until they fix everything (if it ever happens).

[.Renn.Sport]

For some reason, one of my city's recycling depot just won't produce anything... its packed with recyclable material, yet they aren't producing any plastic or alloy!!! All my other city have no problem burning up all recyclable material daily.

[Razgriz]

For some reason, one of my city's recycling depot just won't produce anything... its packed with recyclable material, yet they aren't producing any plastic or alloy!!! All my other city have no problem burning up all recyclable material daily.

Exact same thing happened to me, my ground got polluted because the recycling depot stopped working.

For me I built another (so I had two in total) and it magically jump started the one that didn't work, then I just destroyed one. Dumb yes, but hey i hope it works for ya.

[SB7]

http://i.imgur.com/yViFigZ.png

[.Renn.Sport]

Exact same thing happened to me, my ground got polluted because the recycling depot stopped working.

For me I built another (so I had two in total) and it magically jump started the one that didn't work, then I just destroyed one. Dumb yes, but hey i hope it works for ya.

I've been checking back and forward between my utility town, one with all power, water, sewage, garbage and another city, an educated and high wealth city. which has two of its own recycling center. There are 35-40 workers working in my high wealth city's recycling centre. But there are only 10 working in my utility town.

I'm guessing the recycling center requires educated and medium wealth workers. which my utility town lacks.

So maybe thats why my recycling center are using recyclables at only 0.7ton a day oppose to burning through 70-90 tons a day in my high wealth city. I was actually making quite a bit of money selling plastic and alloy from my recyclables!

They seriously need to allow us to expand the recycling center to accept more recyclables!

[ForbiddenX]

Here's the list of free games that EA is giving out for those who get the game before March 25.

http://www.ea.com/news/for-our-patient-and-amazing-mayors---a-free-pc-download-from-origin-?sourceid=Origin_AFF_LS315&c=TnL5HPStwNw&LSsiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-HIey0Rr_Lh7WnR3ffBah7Q

Here is the list of games that you will be able to choose from once you are able to redeem. It’s a great list of games across the whole EA portfolio, so pick one and add it to your Origin library on us!

Battlefield 3 (Standard Edition)
Bejeweled 3
Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition)
Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition)
Medal of Honor Warfighter (Standard Edition)
Need For Speed Most Wanted (Standard Edition)
Plants vs. Zombies
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition

[jackmeister]

SimCity 4? lol

[impactX]

^ lol.

[VTECACCORD]

Returned this game back to Amazon, trying Simcity 4 for my quick fix.

[bloodmack]

Here's the list of free games that EA is giving out for those who get the game before March 25.

For Our Patient and Amazing Mayors - A Free PC Download From Origin - EA News (http://www.ea.com/news/for-our-patient-and-amazing-mayors---a-free-pc-download-from-origin-?sourceid=Origin_AFF_LS315&c=TnL5HPStwNw&LSsiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-HIey0Rr_Lh7WnR3ffBah7Q)

only game worth it in that list is bf3, all the others are already available for "free" if you really want it, lol.

[mos_skeeto]

Just a heads up that BF3 is the regular edition and doesn't include the DLCs with extra maps and weapons.

[Mr.HappySilp]

only game worth it in that list is bf3, all the others are already available for "free" if you really want it, lol.

I might go for Dead Space 3 (Standard Edition) or Mass Effect 3 (Standard Edition) since I already have BF3... LOL what's with PvZ that's like with 99 cents went it is on sale on steam @@

[bloodmack]

Just a heads up that BF3 is the regular edition and doesn't include the DLCs with extra maps and weapons.

buy premium and its like you bought the game for half price :P

[knight604]

YES i think they fixed the traffic problems!!

I have only been turning on my sims to check the updates.

https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-patch-notes

[FRStan]

YES i think they fixed the traffic problems!!

I have only been turning on my sims to check the updates.

https://help.ea.com/article/simcity-patch-notes

Definite noticed traffic problem fixed.
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[CT10]

So my city was in a state in which I was making massive amounts of money via trade. I left it for 3.5 hours to play FIFA, came back, and saw that my city was broke, all the buildings were in 'rubble' form (apparently looks like a massive fire happened), and most of my sims left the city. FML, $10 mil cash, 200,000 citizens all gone in 3.5 hours lol

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

lol you cannot LEAVE YOUR CITY UNATTENDED.

that is retarded. disasters will happen. shit will happen that REQUIRES your attention.

to leave it unattended is a huge gamble.

[mos_skeeto]

I used to do that in old SC all the time cept with saves it doesn't really matter. You just roll back. Can't do that with cloud saves.

[CT10]

lol yeah pretty stupid of me haha
but then that's how i manage to build up $10m cash...I think i learned my lesson now lol

[Graeme S]

I saw this comic, lol'd, and then thought of this thread:
http://v.cdn.cad-comic.com/comics/cad-20130320-c775d.png

[Taxmonkey]

buy premium and its like you bought the game for half price :P

origin sale right now, premium for $25. get bf3 and buy premium all for $25!!

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

yeah what a plan

give everyone free BF3, and then put the pack on sale.

pull in money.

everyone has to buy it that got BF3 for free. LOL. including myself. fuck!

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

http://i.imgur.com/pSwjA1G.jpg

2 bugged recycling depots... if those were running properly i think i'd save myself at least 250-500g a day.

i built the arcology myself after realsing i had all the resources i needed.
as soon as that was complete... time got bugged... i cant see the time or date and i cannot fast forward any more.

lol. i gave 15million bucks to each of my region mates as well.

[Sniperslayer]

any RS regions yet? playing mostly by myself lately

[mos_skeeto]

I have it but I'm waiting out for some bugs to be fixed before I go back. I rage-quitted the other day when no fire trucks patrol the city so everything just burns.

[Sniperslayer]

how do you get successfull mining going? i had both an oil drilling operation and coal mining opp fully expanded all storage, drills, etc and the head offices but i never even got close to mining enough to get to the next level with refineries etc

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

how do you get successfull mining going? i had both an oil drilling operation and coal mining opp fully expanded all storage, drills, etc and the head offices but i never even got close to mining enough to get to the next level with refineries etc

is mining like trading?

do you level up based on "mined" per day or "traded" per day?

for trading i figured out an easy way... just at all your supply/trade depots... make them fill up by clicking "use locally" (cuz there's no use locally, it will just stock pile)

once it is completely full and your rigs are full as well, change it to export.

then you will have A LOT of export and make millions. and you'll level up.

that's for trading anyway. i duno about mining.

[Sniperslayer]

Ahh yea I think it works the same, as the mining head office your level up is based profits per day I believe so I think that may work

Otherwise I was thinking that you could build two seperate mining operations on the same reserves or if u had two
Seperate reserves I guess
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[Presto]

EA just gave you Simcity customers another "FUCK YOU"

It's less than 3 weeks since release (less than 2 since it was half playable), and they're already discounting it $20:

Amazon.com: SimCity - Limited Edition: Pc: Video Games@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61HNXnj1c9L.@@AMEPARAM@@61HNXnj1c9L


I'm not going to buy it. Maybe, when all the bugs are worked out, and they offer it for 80% off.

[AVS_Racing]

do you guys have the online deluxe edition or regular copy. the deluxe is $80 bux while ^^is $40. is the deluxe worth it?

[knight604]

Hope to see update 2.0 soon..

[Sniperslayer]

Lol bad things happen when you leave a city alone on rabbit speed for 3 hours
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[.Renn.Sport]

I just build a 600k population city with zero traffic problem, all trash and recycle picked up, zero crime (but there are 10k criminals in the town not committing crime!) zero germs and sickness, zero pollution.

It was all R$ and the whole city is educated using high school only and 5 full green hats. I'm noticing that all my residents will commute via public transport.
There are only a slight amount of traffic at 6am and 6pm where the workers leave town for work and the other half coming back home.

On another city I built with around 80k R$$$ population. People just stop going to school and become uneducated, when I have fully active high schools that are over capacity and school bus coverage thru out town. Also which no traffic problem. The stats are showing that i have around 5 million visitors a day, which seems very weird for a city with only 80k pop!

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

1 million pop city:

Megabumtopia One - Imgur (http://imgur.com/a/gW7F9)

[knight604]

Patch 2.0 comes out next tuesday!

Re: Patch 2.0 details released on the ea czech page!!! - Answer HQ (http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/Patch-2-0-details-released-on-the-ea-czech-page/m-p/998430#M66506)

[Raid3n]

just bought the game, you can add me to the list of names, and would love to join the RS region.

origin name is White13BFC

[Graeme S]

Aaaaaand to continue in the trend of EA making itself disliked:

I Heart Chaos — EA releases DLC for SimCity. The bad news is you have to buy Crest toothpaste to get it. Fuck you, EA (http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/48249960469/ea-releases-dlc-for-simcity-the-bad-news-is-you-have)

As if EA couldn’t come off as anymore loathsome, they recently released the first DLC for the new SimCity, making it only available if you get a download code from buying Crest or Oral-B products. You, EA… you can choke on a giant bowl of dicks. Also, that promo image is all fucked up, because SimCity isn’t for PS3 or Xbox. So double fuck you.
The SimCity Attractions Set delivers five tourist attractions, including the Giant Garden Gnome, Dolly the Dinosaur, Llarry the Llama, MaxisMan Statue, and the World’s Largest Ball of Twine. If “SimCity Social” is more your speed, you’ll be happy to know that the digital items are compatible with that game as well. Just keep in mind that EA has announced they’re shutting down the Facebook title as of June 14th.

[knight604]

I lied it didnt come out..

[knight604]

http://i.imgur.com/y29F5at.jpg

[Lomac]

Aaaaaand to continue in the trend of EA making itself disliked:

I Heart Chaos — EA releases DLC for SimCity. The bad news is you have to buy Crest toothpaste to get it. Fuck you, EA (http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/48249960469/ea-releases-dlc-for-simcity-the-bad-news-is-you-have)

Aaaaand...

SimCity's first free DLC is a logo-plastered Nissan Leaf charging station | News | PC Gamer (http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/04/02/simcity-dlc-nissan-leaf/)

http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2013/04/SimCity-Nissan-Leaf.gif

[Jmac]

I don't really have too big of an issue with free DLC, even if it's included in a product partnership deal. They likely had contracts in place for a while with specified timelines of when those DLC products would be made available.

That said, EA shouldn't have made those deals considering their product was a disaster at launch and, apparently, is still a mess.

[Ulic Qel-Droma]

still waiting for 2.0.

i downloaded the nissan thing a while ago but i couldnt find it in game... what is it under?

[.Renn.Sport]

I wonder if EA is gonna continue to fix SimCity after patch 2.0....

[hotshot1]

Well here are the patch notes: EA Forums (http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9453150.page)

[.Renn.Sport]

2.0 doesn't fix anything! my residents still refuse to go to school and my tourist jump from 1.5 million to 3.5 million a day!

traffic got even worst, people stop recycling. Only thing that went better was that trash is actually picked up

[knight604]

trash city..

[Lomac]

Man, the EA forums are just full of hate for the new patch. :lol

[Mr.HappySilp]

stop playinjg like 2 weeks into launch. Never again will I buy a game made by EA.

[Gt-R R34]

this game still no good?!? I am dying to playing it hopefully with fixes... After reading all the reviews
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[Hondaracer]

I dunno I've played about 20 hours into it and haven't run into that many issues still very playable
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[knight604]

New update today, 3.0.

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9492563.page

[knight604]

So they fixed traffic... if anyone is still interested in playing this..

[Mr.HappySilp]

I have it installed just haven't played it. Maybe when I am really really bored. Even then PoE is sitll a better choice and is free!

[Hondaracer]

I've been playing for a few hours last few days

Pisses me off that if you have a meltdown there's no way to recover the area lost, also there are still glitches I've been having with power/water
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[knight604]

My water is fine and my power.

Just build the sewage next to water plant for unlimited water.

You have to have educated people to sustain the nuclear power plant.

[kingdrew]

I'm actually playing again. A lot of fun for me right now. Haven't touched it since before 2.0.

[mos_skeeto]

Is it playable without the DLC?

[knight604]

What dlc?

[willystyle]

I think he means DRM

[mos_skeeto]

I stopped playing since the second week. Being EA I assumed that there would be a bunch of purchase only items for the game. Guess not...

[knight604]

You get a free dlc with this patch, 7.0.

Basically you get to build churches and it increases your happiness and land value i believe.

[Jmac]

So they fixed traffic... if anyone is still interested in playing this.. Good to know. I might pick it up if I see it cheap somewhere. I'm really, really opposed to giving EA money, though. They're already going to get $60 out of me for NHL 14, which I'm only getting to play with my friends.

Actually, it's pretty funny, because if it weren't for EA's complete lack of support for fixing NHL 13, SimCity would've been a day one purchase for me. As a result of their lack of support for NHL 13, I decided not to purchase any other EA games for the rest of the year. Man, am I glad I dodged the bullet on SimCity because the launch was a complete trainwreck from what I read.

[willystyle]

Are there in-game purchases yet in Simcity? I dont like the idea of spending money to get new features.

[FerrariEnzo]

stop playinjg like 2 weeks into launch. Never again will I buy a game made by EA.
BF4 coming out :troll:


Origins Canada is selling it for $69.99 while the US counterpart, $49.99... thats some BS!!
BB/FS/Amazon $59.99

I might have to do that proxy thing like I did when I bought BF3 through Origins India.. haha

[kingdrew]

Are there in-game purchases yet in Simcity? I dont like the idea of spending money to get new features.

Not anything that you NEED to get. There's 2 right now, airships (public transportation) and amusement parks.

[FerrariEnzo]

im glad I was able to stop myself from buying this game..tried it at my friends place.. I didnt really enjoyed it.. graphics looks nice.. but I really hate the boarders and how it limits the size you can build.... road system still is a PITA.. how you lay out buildings is weird.. maybe I didnt spend enough time playing it..

[knight604]

There are Mods to this game by the way where you can build outside the borders .

You really have to understand how this game AI works in order to have a good traffic system going on .

simcity - What is a good road layout when starting up a city? - Arqade (http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/110424/what-is-a-good-road-layout-when-starting-up-a-city)

[Hondaracer]

Any link to these mods for bigger cities?
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[knight604]

SimCity (2013) Modding - Open Discussion - Simtropolis Forums (http://community.simtropolis.com/forum/94-simcity-2013-modding-open-discussion/)

[knight604]

The game is 15 bucks at walmart for anyone that wants it..

SimCity Limited Edition PC, PS4, Xbox One & Exclusives | Walmart Canada Online Shopping (http://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/simcity-limited-edition-pc/10144901?utm_source=Linkshare&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_content=10&utm_campaign=CAqD7bLWUPI&siteID=CAqD7bLWUPI-kzKrmxwyS400zDgIAiiftA&wmlspartner=CAqD7bLWUPI)

[willystyle]

^Dammit, sold out now.

[knight604]

Can probably price match at FS/BB?

[!MiKrofT]

You can't price match something that's out of stock. Surrey and new west stores should still have some stock. I'm just too lazy to drive out there.

[knight604]

There you go , price match surrey or new west = win.

[willystyle]

There you go , price match surrey or new west = win.
Too far for me

[knight604]

hmmm

[!MiKrofT]

So yeah.. I price matched at Staples for $15 just now. lol.

[knight604]

herp derp told you fools

[!MiKrofT]

Yeah I dunno why I said that since my previous post was contradictory.

[willystyle]

So yeah.. I price matched at Staples for $15 just now. lol.
How? In-person or over the phone?

[!MiKrofT]

In person. I printed the website and went into the store. They checked the in store stock online and gave me the price match no questions asked.

[willystyle]

Went to Staples on Lougheed. Sold out. :(

[!MiKrofT]

Went to Staples on Lougheed. Sold out. :(
Doesn't have to be Staples. Anywhere that does price match such as Futureshop and BestBuy too. I checked online for in store stock before going :P

[willystyle]

Yeah I just realized that, I reserved one at Best Buy earlier. I'm gonna pick that up later.

[Lomac]

Is it worth buying if you're stuck with a slow internet connection?

[janno]

Got on at staples on broadway, however, i only have a mac... how the heck to i add this to my origin account so i can download it??

[Hondaracer]

Is it worth buying if you're stuck with a slow internet connection?

Once I updated I'm playing offline so shouldn't be a problem.
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[Hondaracer]

Never mind lomac thought this was the GTA thread lol
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[Lomac]

lol dammit!

[willystyle]

How do you play offline? I got my $15 Simcity :)

[MikeyStyle]

SimCity Cities of Tomorrow: Official Launch Trailer

[Presto]

Offline mode is here!


A year after troublesome launch, 'SimCity' finally gets an offline mode | The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/18/5521838/simcity-offline-mode-released-update-10)
When SimCity came out last March, critics were thrilled with the beloved series' first game in nearly a decade. But no one could praise publisher EA's handling of the launch, which was chronically plagued with server issues that left players stuck with a game they couldn't play. Now, after an entire year, developer Maxis is giving SimCity players what they've been asking for: a way to play the game offline.

Update 10, available today, brings a single player mode to the game. Instead of the always-online multiplayer experience that the title launched with, players will be able to nurture their own cities without worrying about neighbors damaging their metropolis — or troublesome servers meddling with their gameplay.

According to the release notes, you'll still need Origin to use single player. You'll just have to flip the software into offline mode. In addition, it's worth noting that online and single player cities have to be separate — you won't be able to bring your current city offline.

[knight604]

SHOCKING.

[!MiKrofT]

Wow. Maybe I should reinstall mine. Haven't played with it in ages.

[LightKeeper]

I bought this last year and I barely even played 30 mins of it. They wanted people to stop pirating the game so they made it mandatory to go online which is a fail strategy when their server goes offline so often. I still play sim city 3 sometimes because of that.
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[Jmac]

How is offline mode for anyone who plays it?

[MikeyStyle]

no difference really.. just seems slightly faster and less laggy as it's all done on your computer instead of their servers

[FerrariEnzo]

anyone still playing?

Anyone have good residential layout? small/med/large blocks? or just make a strip the length of the map???