Despite its disastrous start is anyone else playing the new Sim City?

n18991c

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11 years ago

Jun 4, 2013, 5:03:58 PM

HumanSpacer wrote:

You're a GENIUS!

You're welcome. Does that mean you're in? I'll add you if you like!

Always looking for more play buddies

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n18991c

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12 years ago

Apr 13, 2013, 3:28:25 PM

I'll try and invite you...

edit: ah I see you've already claimed a region, nice one!

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12 years ago

Apr 13, 2013, 3:34:56 PM

Thanks.

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n18991c

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11 years ago

May 31, 2013, 2:49:27 PM

For those of you who've in the meantime come round to simcity: all I can say is that the game really is good fun once you've gotten into it. And yes, obviously it stillr equires a lot of work, but it's nevertheless a good city simulation!

My main issue is that there is no reputation system and many people on a mpa will just abandon their region once they see it's not going optimal, so I think the solution is just playing with friends. Also, for some reason my map is open and I'm doing really well, but no one else is joining it...? Anyways, if you fancy joining an existing and functioning game to have an enjoyable experience then just give me a shout and I'll add and invite you

HumanSpacer

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HumanSpacer

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11 years ago

Jun 2, 2013, 5:48:42 PM

I've purchased the Digital Deluxe edition, and I rarely play it. So far, the tiny maps that we have don't allow us to play for a long time - after all, when your city reaches its maximum population, water starts to become extremely scarce, and over the areas of the map that still have some water there are a lots of buildings, and you can't simply demolish parts of your city to build water pumps.

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Jun 2, 2013, 11:43:08 PM

That's why you have a city focused on water export

Mansen

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Mansen

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11 years ago

Jun 3, 2013, 7:26:11 AM

Until they fix some of the basic issues (which I doubt they ever will), I've shelved the game (and EA) permanently.

- Cities much too small physically. Yet EA seems adamant on making more content to fill out what little space we have (Like the new county fair DLC)

- Industry doesn't really work properly. Finite resources turns all of your raw material cities into "Import what we used to pull out of the earth from somewhere in SimNation, like magic" cities.

- Trafic. Oh ye gods the trafic, even with the recent tweaks.

- Just isn't as fun as Simcity 4 when it comes down to it. The scale is just too small for me. I'd rather be building multi city, megapolis and stick with the 2D graphics and years of modding content.

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n18991c

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11 years ago

Jun 3, 2013, 3:53:24 PM

HumanSpacer wrote:
I've purchased the Digital Deluxe edition, and I rarely play it. So far, the tiny maps that we have don't allow us to play for a long time - after all, when your city reaches its maximum population, water starts to become extremely scarce, and over the areas of the map that still have some water there are a lots of buildings, and you can't simply demolish parts of your city to build water pumps.

The trick is to dump a sewage treatment plant right next to your water pumps. As long as the water works are equipped with only filtration punps, you'll have UNLIMITED WATER

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11 years ago

Jun 3, 2013, 6:27:41 PM

n18991c wrote:
The trick is to dump a sewage treatment plant right next to your water pumps. As long as the water works are equipped with only filtration punps, you'll have UNLIMITED WATER

You're a GENIUS!

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Jun 4, 2013, 1:55:32 AM

Pass, no thank you.

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12 years ago

Apr 13, 2013, 3:26:23 PM

I'm in; I think.

And it sux indeed that you need to be on the some server

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11 years ago

Jun 5, 2013, 7:54:40 AM

n18991c wrote:
The trick is to dump a sewage treatment plant right next to your water pumps. As long as the water works are equipped with only filtration punps, you'll have UNLIMITED WATER

I'm still not going to play it, but I think this is a nice bug

Mansen

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Mansen

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11 years ago

Jun 5, 2013, 11:32:10 AM

Sadly it isn't even considered a bug, but intended feature by the developers.

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11 years ago

Jun 5, 2013, 1:34:52 PM

Mansen wrote:
Sadly it isn't even considered a bug, but intended feature by the developers.

Basics for new Programmers: It isn't a bug, it is a feature!

But seems to be "gamebreaking" to me...

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n18991c

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11 years ago

Jun 5, 2013, 5:05:38 PM

Tredecim wrote:
Basics for new Programmers: It isn't a bug, it is a feature!

But seems to be "gamebreaking" to me...

Gamebreaking? If not for that feature you wouldn't be able to have your city survive. Also, there's no rain in the game, so it's only fair.

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11 years ago

Jun 5, 2013, 6:33:44 PM

n18991c wrote:
Gamebreaking? If not for that feature you wouldn't be able to have your city survive. Also, there's no rain in the game, so it's only fair.

Indeed. In late games, without water your city will collapse over itself just like it happened to me. My best city so far is a city I created in the sandbox mode, because I wanted to create the best city I could. Also, do you want to add me on Origin, so we can play together? If so, my username is BrazilianSpacer.

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n18991c

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11 years ago

Jun 5, 2013, 7:01:58 PM

HumanSpacer wrote:
Indeed. In late games, without water your city will collapse over itself just like it happened to me. My best city so far is a city I created in the sandbox mode, because I wanted to create the best city I could. Also, do you want to add me on Origin, so we can play together? If so, my username is BrazilianSpacer.

Gladly, I would appreciate some company, because few people seem to be playing it (no surprise after such a disastrous start, sadly)

btw I'm on Oceania 1 server, username T67G

HumanSpacer

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HumanSpacer

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11 years ago

Jun 5, 2013, 8:03:05 PM

n18991c wrote:
Gladly, I would appreciate some company, because few people seem to be playing it (no surprise after such a disastrous start, sadly)

btw I'm on Oceania 1 server, username T67G

Ok. And by the way, why are your usernames nothing more than meaningless numbers and letters? Is it a code? Illuminati? lol

Edit: Just added you, but I can't play now.

Mansen

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11 years ago

Jun 5, 2013, 8:21:29 PM

n18991c wrote:
Gamebreaking? If not for that feature you wouldn't be able to have your city survive. Also, there's no rain in the game, so it's only fair.

'

There IS rain in the game - Or so I keep reading on the forums. They are supposed to renew the water layer slightly.

Gamebreaking? More like retarded - Instead of pumping the filtrated water back into the underground, it should be sent directly into your piping so that you wouldn't need a water plant next door. This is how water filtration worked in all previous games (and reality)

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Jun 7, 2013, 8:15:11 AM

n18991c wrote:
Also, there's no rain in the game, so it's only fair.

Just...why? City without rain is just confusing

But I see, they seem to adapt it later.

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12 years ago

Apr 10, 2013, 6:49:26 AM

stasik28 wrote:
Did you know modders using the editing tools given by EA have actually gotten offline mode and more features than the released product?

Yeah, but this doesn't make me want to play the game...

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12 years ago

Apr 7, 2013, 10:51:40 AM

I bought it; but stopped playing.

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n18991c

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12 years ago

Apr 7, 2013, 10:55:24 AM

aww, adder, too bad

Did you buy it really early or just recently? They've made some progress in the meantime with servers etc...

Mansen

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Mansen

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12 years ago

Apr 7, 2013, 2:16:00 PM

I played with it for a few days, took a break and then played a few more with some friends.

I've completely stopped playing by now though - until we get bigger cities, there isn't really anything for me left to do. I've had all of the themed cities - big ones, square ones, silly ones and so on. Honestly - I wish I hadn't bought it at all. As nice as most of the new features are, it just doesn't measure up to Simcity 4 (with community mods and interaction.

Just look at these quick comparisons and tell me it isn't unfair.

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n18991c

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12 years ago

Apr 7, 2013, 2:24:43 PM

I absolutely agree, whilst I really enjoy the new sim city it is really annoying that the city dimensions are so tiny. Particularly in the late game one then suddenly has difficulty paying for all the expensive and cool things because there just isn't enough living space for sims and thus not enough tax income... I hope they do something about that soon though.

You should start playing again though! I just created a new region but I'm not even sure the whole invite to game function etc is even working yet. I tried to join other games but they were always full, so now I created my own but no one else has joined that yet. Questions over questions...

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Apr 7, 2013, 3:36:21 PM

n18991c wrote:
aww, adder, too bad Did you buy it really early or just recently? They've made some progress in the meantime with servers etc...

Not very long ago (2 weeks or so).

I played quite a lot of simcity 3000, and enjoyed it to a great extend, but the 2013 version doesn't compare to it.

The new version has nice graphics though.

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Tredecim

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12 years ago

Apr 7, 2013, 5:23:15 PM

Haven't got, will not get it in the future - sorry, but I hate this "be always online", etc DRM stuff.

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Apr 7, 2013, 6:59:12 PM

Honestly I'm waiting for a crack for it. I hate Origins and so don't completely trust it's worth it (according to the thread, maybe not

) but I enjoyed 4 so I'll get it a try (without the DRM

)

They're going to release DLC (idiots, just saying) for bigger cities sizes, probably for more city slots later as well.

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Apr 9, 2013, 3:28:45 PM

Anything with super-strict DRM is something I'm not going to buy. It's why I buy most of my PC games on Steam (once you buy it, download it and confirm you have it, you can play it in offline mode).

THIS is why people pirate games, guys. Because you instigate ridiculous DRM that people can easily bypass and distribute illegally.

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Apr 9, 2013, 10:41:13 PM

Did you know modders using the editing tools given by EA have actually gotten offline mode and more features than the released product?

n18991c

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n18991c

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12 years ago

Apr 7, 2013, 10:41:47 AM

Hi all,

I decided to purchase the new sim city despite its disastrous start (and somehow still shocking state of affairs) simply because I love sim city and wanted to play it so badly that I couldn't hold back... Besides, it can only be years now until they've sorted out those minor millions of bugs and it becomes an awesome and playable game

I was wondering now if any of you others have been brave enough to give it a shot?

If so, we should found ES fan "colonies" in sim city, at least that would be my suggestion, haha

p.s. Although I enjoy playing it, I believe sim city to be a lesson for all of us that bigger companies don't necessarily produce better games and that, although many things in sim city have been implemented surprisingly well and with astounding detail, I don't feel more love there than in ES, so once again my heart goes out to you Amplitude, many many thanks for a game which is great fun and getting better still by the minute!

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n18991c

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12 years ago

Apr 10, 2013, 6:06:29 PM

IMO all the game needs is bigger maps, a save function and better server connectivity etc - plus of course all the bug fixes etc which have been promised anyway - and then everything would be fine.

The game is already fun, despite all the problems and the DRM madness, but it would be nice to have a few more people playing - no one seems to want to settle in my region

Btw can one play with people logged into servers in different regions? shouldn't be a problem right?

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Apr 10, 2013, 6:14:32 PM

No. Always on = pass.

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n18991c

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12 years ago

Apr 10, 2013, 6:42:08 PM

Nasarog wrote:
No. Always on = pass.

Come again? I didn't quite get that.

My query wasn't about the DRM but rather about friends being able to play together despite being logged onto different servers...

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Apr 12, 2013, 8:49:37 PM

I am playing. I even bought a first-day store sell. Despite EA screwing everything up I still find this game enjoyable. And Maxis need to understand that SimCity is a simulation game, not an MMO.

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Apr 12, 2013, 8:53:31 PM

n18991c wrote:
Come again? I didn't quite get that.

My query wasn't about the DRM but rather about friends being able to play together despite being logged onto different servers...

I'm saying that because I need to be connected online to play, I passed up on the game. If they ever remove that feature, I'll buy a copy. I do play pirated games.

This is the first Simcity I haven't bought. I still have a copy of each oof my previous simcity games, all the way back to the original.

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n18991c

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12 years ago

Apr 13, 2013, 11:06:26 AM

Just started playing a bit again and am slightly annoyed that the whole join region things still doesn't work properly. If you want to join an existing game then they're always full, but if you create your own, as I have done now, then no one joins it...

Still, if any of you fancy joining then either add me as a friend (my name is "T67G") or search for game map called "Orbis Terrarum".

Would love to have some fellow ES guys around to play with

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12 years ago

Apr 13, 2013, 3:19:41 PM

what server are you on?

edit: got it, Oceania 1

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n18991c

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12 years ago

Apr 13, 2013, 3:23:14 PM

I hate the fact that you apparently have to be on the same server to play... what a silly method. It's like "play global... but only on the same servers...."