Sim City

[Ctuchik]

Can you play it without servers if in the future EA disconnects the service?

You will, there's already people working on server emulator hacks for this game.

The servers aren't actually needed. Try it yourself, start the game and load into a city, pull your internet cable out and watch the game happily putter on for quite a while until it tries to sync up to the cloud save.

Good read here for conspiracy theorists, and i don't really see anything there that makes me disbelieve him/her...

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/12/simcity-server-not-necessary/

 

[caLLous]

They must need all those servers to computate the genius AI needed to line the cars up in the *exact* correct order in which their houses are.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

You will, there's already people working on server emulator hacks for this game.

The servers aren't actually needed. Try it yourself, start the game and load into a city, pull your internet cable out and watch the game happily putter on for quite a while until it tries to sync up to the cloud save.

Good read here for conspiracy theorists, and i don't really see anything there that makes me disbelieve him/her...

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/12/simcity-server-not-necessary/

2 hour repost. Record?

 

[Ctuchik]

I try.

 

[Billargh]

I'm pretty sure you hold the record of less than 30 minutes Wazz, we'll never forget.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Proofs!

 

[old.Tohtori]

You will, there's already people working on server emulator hacks for this game.

Yeah read about them trying to pull some wool etc, shame i don't use hacks etc. Well, just have to wait until EA caves(heh) and removes the online must.

 

[Ctuchik]

Yeah read about them trying to pull some wool etc, shame i don't use hacks etc. Well, just have to wait until EA caves(heh) and removes the online must.

I seriously doubt that EA will admit a mistake like this after going through all the trouble insisting that the servers are a must have. So with that in mind i don't see the problem using a server emulator.

 

[Raven]

ofc they won't. They think their customers are stupid...for some reason.

 

[Xandax]

You will, there's already people working on server emulator hacks for this game.
<snip>

If something like that comes out and works, it might actually get me to buy the game.
As it is now, I have no interest in it.

 

[old.Tohtori]

I seriously doubt that EA will admit a mistake like this after going through all the trouble insisting that the servers are a must have. So with that in mind i don't see the problem using a server emulator.

Yeap, not likely at all knowing past EA policies. Might change their tune since one of the guys who (supposedly proven) worked on it said that servers aren't needed.

I'm not that big of a fan of simcity that it's a must have, so i'm not really bothered, but if they change their mind they'll get a lot more sales out of it.

That's what always makes me wonder.; why not?

Easy to say that it's 'cause they're morons etc, but i've learned that there's always a reason, just never ran into one that would explain this.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

ofc they won't. They think their customers are stupid...for some reason.

Quite possible they thought The Sims crowd would be buying this more than the old Sim City crowd....

 

[caLLous]

ofc they won't. They think their customers are stupid...for some reason.

They don't see them as "customers", they see them as "fans".

 

[Embattle]

Have to say the traffic system via one main road connection is very annoying, my second city ran in to early issues with Ada's busses utterly flooding the main part of my city thus causing police, fire and trade issues to the point where the only solution was to remove the bus stops so they wouldn't come

 

[Gwadien]

I think the firm Wazz works for is making their own sim city sorta thing...

 

[Aada]

Have to say the traffic system via one main road connection is very annoying, my second city ran in to early issues with Ada's busses utterly flooding the main part of my city thus causing police, fire and trade issues to the point where the only solution was to remove the bus stops so they wouldn't come

LOL i over did it on the buses?

 

[Wazzerphuk]

I think the firm Wazz works for is making their own sim city sorta thing...

You're very stupid at times.

As said previously in the thread, I really wanted this game but held off to see what it was like. Every new thing I read on it reveals something new about how inherently broken the whole design is. It's shameful, depressing and astonishing.

 

[Gwadien]

You're very stupid at times.

As said previously in the thread, I really wanted this game but held off to see what it was like. Every new thing I read on it reveals something new about how inherently broken the whole design is. It's shameful, depressing and astonishing.

I was joking, chill out bud

 

[Embattle]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...problems-as-complaints-grow-about-pathfinding

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Is that a joke? Two of my links reposted in the same day by different people?

 

[Raven]

shameful, depressing and astonishing.

EA's new tagline right there.

 

[Gwadien]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...problems-as-complaints-grow-about-pathfinding

 

[Shagrat]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...problems-as-complaints-grow-about-pathfinding

oh good read, haven't seen that posted yet.

 

[Shagrat]

I love the way everyone just piles into the nearest house at the end of the day. nice pre release testing there guys.

jesus...

 

[old.Tohtori]

oh good read, haven't seen that posted yet.

Seen this related one yet? http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...problems-as-complaints-grow-about-pathfinding

 

[Gwadien]

Seen this related one yet? http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...problems-as-complaints-grow-about-pathfinding

This one is better http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...problems-as-complaints-grow-about-pathfinding

 

[Billargh]

Proofs!

Cba

 

[Wazzerphuk]

http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/com...t_highways_outside_of_city_boundaries/c8vcuvd

Hmmm....

 

[Ormorof]

so... i think ill wait a year or so before even bothering to think about buying this

 

[caLLous]

Modder proves SimCity can run offline indefinitely

Nothing new but zomg it makes EA look stupid and blatantly dishonest (although I'm sure they won't lose sleep over the latter) when they said how much the game depended on the servers for offloading calculations etc.