Cancelled my preorder so can't see it myself but is ceetah speed , trading etc still disabled? I know they are still part of the ui but do they work?
SimCity buy or no buy?
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Cancelled my preorder so can't see it myself but is ceetah speed , trading etc still disabled? I know they are still part of the ui but do they work?
Soldato
It's enjoyable when it's working!
There are still a lot of issues which I think need to be fixed before I would even consider recommending it to anyone.
Hold off for now until they release a few more patches and hopefully implement some of the communities suggestions to improve a few aspects of the game.
Plus the longer you hold off the more the price will come down.
Keep checking the Sim City thread to see what people are saying and also check the SimCity subreddit for daily news/rants and info from the developer (they post reply's to threads often)
There are still a lot of issues which I think need to be fixed before I would even consider recommending it to anyone.
Hold off for now until they release a few more patches and hopefully implement some of the communities suggestions to improve a few aspects of the game.
Plus the longer you hold off the more the price will come down.
Keep checking the Sim City thread to see what people are saying and also check the SimCity subreddit for daily news/rants and info from the developer (they post reply's to threads often)
I have been playing it since Friday with hardly any issues.... the last few days no issues!
Stelly
Because it relies on the EA servers to process part of the "herd calculations"...
pitty EA didnt think to stop the game from carrying on as normal for upto 20minutes before it decides it wont be able to reconnect to the server LOL......
Haven't had a single issue with it to be honest either, and was playing from the day after launch. Never had to wait once to get into a server, and I also don't get all these people saying they can't build a city past 100k people? I'm not particularly good at the game and on my first go my city reached 260k without difficultly, and I'm still going strong building up my oil empire, researching clean oil generators for my power plant etc.
Only issues I've had are that the zones are too small, and that water seems to run out too fast.
Definitely don't regret the purchase, although at £36 it's a bit steep.
Only issues I've had are that the zones are too small, and that water seems to run out too fast.
Definitely don't regret the purchase, although at £36 it's a bit steep.
Soldato
Put a water treatment plant right next to your pumping station. The treatment plant refills the ground water
And also always use the filtered pumps if you can.
From what i've read it's been proven that there is no offloading of processing to the servers, it's all done locally.
EA may claim that, but in fact you can unplug your internet connection once playing and it won't realise that there is no connection for a while surely proves that it merely "checks in" every now and again with the servers and boots you out when it can't?
That was also confirmed by an anonymous developer, that there was no reason, in his opinion, that they shouldn't be able to easily make an offline version without all the extra features that being connected brings.
I've not played it, but have been watching closely as i bought it for the missus in the hope of getting more gaming time myself.
Associate
Don't reward a company for treating all of it's customers like criminals, and not allowing them to play a game that could work great offline without having them constantly monitoring you are not a pirate.
It's the Ubisoft debacle all over again.
The more we put up with this rubbish the more it'll filter in to every game.
Soldato
From what i've read it's been proven that there is no offloading of processing to the servers, it's all done locally.
EA may claim that, but in fact you can unplug your internet connection once playing and it won't realise that there is no connection for a while surely proves that it merely "checks in" every now and again with the servers and boots you out when it can't?
That was also confirmed by an anonymous developer, that there was no reason, in his opinion, that they shouldn't be able to easily make an offline version without all the extra features that being connected brings.
I've not played it, but have been watching closely as i bought it for the missus in the hope of getting more gaming time myself.
During beta I was trying to find silly ways of avoiding the online component and 1hr limit, the first thing I did was simply block all data to/from the SC process, while a popup about connection did appear the game still ran, population grew, money came in and I could still click. I left it for 4 hours before I gave up, it kept going but some popup boxes and alerts about my city prevented me from using the interface.
its worth it if it means pirates cant get the game for free.
Associate
lol, there's already torrents of this game so they are getting it free.... only difference is that they also get offline mode.
People who have bought a game shouldn't have to put up with draconian DRM, those are the people who suffer, not the pirates.
This happened with Ubisoft and caused a massive backlash, why should EA get different treatment ?
Associate
It's really not if it negatively effects your paying customers, and gets your companies reputation so much flak.
I'd also bet there will still be a pirated version crop up before too long, as it's been disputed that any calculations are done server side at all.
Edit: apparently there already are.
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Would people say that Sim City 4 is a better game? forget the graphics, which the better GAME?
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It has a few issues that need ironing out and yes the server issue was a joke over release weekend but its a good game, im hoping for some changes in the near future - ie city size and resources being eaten away to quickly but yea.... good game and I have no regrets in buying it.
It’s not perfect but I’ve been enjoying it, and had very few server issues, it really has improved a lot after the first day. The main issues for me are:
-Its over priced, no reason for this to be more expensive than other releases, though as its EA I can’t see the prices dropping quickly.
-Zones really are too small. Okay you have to accept that you can’t have everything in each city and need to specialise, but they still need to be bigger, especially if you end up with water covering part of your zone.
- No ability to easily restart your city. This may not seem like a big deal, but what happens is when people fail they just give up on their city and head off to play a new game, which just ruins the whole multiplayer aspect.
- Bugs - There are clearly quite a few things that need ironing out. Mainly little things but its annoying when your recycling facility just stops working for no reason, little things like that.
- EA are evil
-Its over priced, no reason for this to be more expensive than other releases, though as its EA I can’t see the prices dropping quickly.
-Zones really are too small. Okay you have to accept that you can’t have everything in each city and need to specialise, but they still need to be bigger, especially if you end up with water covering part of your zone.
- No ability to easily restart your city. This may not seem like a big deal, but what happens is when people fail they just give up on their city and head off to play a new game, which just ruins the whole multiplayer aspect.
- Bugs - There are clearly quite a few things that need ironing out. Mainly little things but its annoying when your recycling facility just stops working for no reason, little things like that.
- EA are evil
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I'm personally not buying the game for the following reasons;
1) The server / waiting issue
2) The terrible traffic / pathfinding AI
3) Apparently the game can be played for roughly 20 minutes offline before breaking. EA have lied about on-line being integral for the game to work.
1) The server / waiting issue
2) The terrible traffic / pathfinding AI
3) Apparently the game can be played for roughly 20 minutes offline before breaking. EA have lied about on-line being integral for the game to work.