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Sim City 5

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There is some serious issues with Sim City that were there in both the beta tests I participated in. Their servers keep thinking you haven't done the tutorial even when you've played it 5 times already. The game just crashes a lot and sometimes very important assets including menus and buttons don't even load.

Then there is the broken DRM and overloaded servers that showed up for launch day which is a whole different set of problems.

I like Sim City but this is just frustrating. In fact I asked them for a refund and guess what they said... nope. I guess I'm just contributing to the problem by buying any game made by EA...
 
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I went ahead and bought the game last night. Haven't had problems playing it. I don't mind the always on DRM as I haven't had many bad experiences with it, at least not yet. I get that EA is maintaining multiple servers to spread the load, but I don't like that saved games are handled 100% serverside. I inadvertantly started playing on the European server because they were the emptiest last night, but when I switched to the US servers this morning I realized that the stuff I did last night was saved on the europe server.

As someone who thought the servers were primarily there for DRM/multiplayer, I didn't realize so many game functions were tied directly with the game servers (ala Diablo 3). Just throwing it out there.

The game itself is pretty fun. I share the opinion of many that the areas are way to small, but my guess is that will be increased with DLC down the road along with all the other stuff they purposefully withheld to sell later (no subways??). I can't imagine why something as core as subways would be omitted unless they specificaly singled it out for expansion.
 
Haven't had much chance to play yesterday but did experience some issues with my city - it booted me out while I was working on my gambling city and I couldn't get back in for the rest of the night- that was really annoying
 
I feel like this is giving EA a reason to stop making games not named Battlefield, Madden, NCAA, Tiger Woods, etc.

It's upsetting because they have the rights to a lot of great game series, but I'm afraid of them making another iteration (for example Dungeon Keeper) because I think they will screw it up.
 
Maximilian said:
Heres the city i built:

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Wow, this game looks like crap! It's 2013 EA, step up your game dammit!

Oh, and the map size is too damn small.

😉
 
Maximilian said:
Heres the city i built:

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Ah-ha, I see you are trying to pass off some inferior old "game" as a modern entertainment product. Does that thing auto-tweet flickrtubes on your facespace? Can you buy DLC season passes and be endlessly entertained by purchasing cow armor for your neighbors with microtransactions? I THINK NOT!
 
Maximilian said:
Heres the city i built:

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Someone should try to do a scale comparison between this and SimCity 2013 to see how much smaller the new maps are in comparison to this one. I'm actually thinking its not that much smaller, maybe 80% the size?
 
lozina said:
Someone should try to do a scale comparison between this and SimCity 2013 to see how much smaller the new maps are in comparison to this one. I'm actually thinking its not that much smaller, maybe 80% the size?
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a valid comparison would be to simcity 4
 
I can't see the screenie at work, but if it's using in game screenshot abilities, then yeah it's probably horrid. They decided to cap the screen size (from what I can tell) to 1280x720 and compress the fuggggg out of it. I run it on all high at 1920x1080, and the screenie looks like fecal matter was smeared on the lens and then put in the dryer. Ridiculous. >_<
 
No chance in hell I will buy this game.
I will only play games with local single player mode.
My internet connection is flaky and it would really piss me off if I lost progress or couldn't connect when I wanted to.
 
PowerYoga said:
Haha, are those all hydroelectric dams? 😀

and yes, shoot down the helicopter, cause a fire. 😀
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Yup, gives ~58k MW of power and makes it look like a giant fortress :biggrin:

DrunkenSano said:
Ugh, the graphics of that screenshot is terrible.
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Yeah im zoomed right out in that pic.

Marginal improvement by zooming in a bit more. Going further in than that though just results in bigger more blocky buildings.

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Wow, that top image of SC 2013... that is the max size of a city now? I heard the cities were small, but that seems ridiculously small.
 
Yeah someone created and posted that on the EA forums in response to their claims that the map sizes in 2013 were equivalant to SC4's medium sized maps.
 
SpatiallyAware said:
Got home yesterday and finished 'processing files' I mean downloading the game.

Played the tutorial, and started my own city.

It does feel a little bit like a watered down 'sim city'. Almost consolized or something, but honestly I have only really scratched the surface so it's a bit early to judge.

After 3 hours I exited the game to test my save.. And my city is gone. I go to the resume game it says there are none... Only create new or join game. I tried to browse and 'find' the region (since you can't search..) with no luck.

I went to start a new city and got disconnected. Closed the game, reopened, and got the 20 minutes timer, so I just went to bed.



I am fairly impressed with the game itself, but this internet always up requirement is a 'valid' huge headache. I will never buy another game that requires this.
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Trust me, the simulation is awesome. It's definetely much easier to get started with but the micromanagement is much deeper and better.

Also, does anyone here know how long it takes for ground pollution from sewage pumps to dissipate? Is there anyway to speed up the cleaning process?
 
Maximilian said:
Saw this on reddit yesterday

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That's just sad.

I would've loved to see cities even larger than the "Large" sized plots in SC4.


That, plus always-on DRM BS = none of my $$$ for EA.


*shakes fist at Maxis, and at their EA overlords*
 
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After reading the IGN blog about this, I'm glad I didn't early adopt. Will await to see if this stuff get resolves or if EA abandons it.
 
I really does seem like it's an EA issue. The Maxis guys on Reddit have said that they've done all that they can (fix in game bugs, the crash issues) but server stability is out of their hands and up to EA/Origin.

Cool ingame shot:

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Dominato3r said:
Trust me, the simulation is awesome. It's definetely much easier to get started with but the micromanagement is much deeper and better.

Also, does anyone here know how long it takes for ground pollution from sewage pumps to dissipate? Is there anyway to speed up the cleaning process?
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Plop a treatment plant on top of the area or stop industry in the area.

Also, if you have issues with the water table running out, have a filtered pumping plant and a treatment plant near each other. The sewage will get filtered and sent back to the city.
 
Maximilian said:
Yup, gives ~58k MW of power and makes it look like a giant fortress :biggrin:
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I think I would prefer the waterfalls and just build another fusion plant.

Is that version, simcity 2000 I believe, the version where if you got enough of those monster buildings they all say screw you and fly into space?
 
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