SimCity V: Coming March 5!
- Thread starter Joey D
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- Hammerhead Garage
I think the strength of the reduced city size lies in the way there is no need to focus on micro-management. I noticed it in SIM CITY 4: once my city got to a certain size, it ran into a wall because I had to dedicate all of my time to managing what already existed, rather than being able to develop something new.
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- Agremont
Managing the details is kind of the point to me.
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- Hammerhead Garage
Oh, I get that - I just found that in SIM CITY 4, your city got to the point where you didn't have time to expand your city because you spent all your energy maintaining what you already had.
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- MattyTheDog
Well, it is a beta, so the people playing won't have the game I guess.
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- Hammerhead Garage
And the entire point of beta testing is to find out about this sort of thing before the actual release.
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- MattyTheDog
There's going to be another closed beta in a few days, this time to test the fixes they've made to the servers.
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- Wardez
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So uh... yeah, this came out today.
I just bought it. People were complaining that they actually have to wait in a queue just to be able to play it during peak hours, for like an hour... a singleplayer game that's been turned into more of an MMO-city builder.
I won't ever be playing during peak hours 'cause I work in the evenings though, so I'm hoping I don't encounter any of the bad.
'cause while people are complaining about that, the gameplay itself is getting glowing reviews. Excited to get going
I just bought it. People were complaining that they actually have to wait in a queue just to be able to play it during peak hours, for like an hour... a singleplayer game that's been turned into more of an MMO-city builder.
I won't ever be playing during peak hours 'cause I work in the evenings though, so I'm hoping I don't encounter any of the bad.
'cause while people are complaining about that, the gameplay itself is getting glowing reviews. Excited to get going
bluemoon_19
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- bluemoon_19
Yeah apparently EA made up some crap about some of the game needs to be run on there servers. But it is just a cover up for the always on DRM
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- F1fan1
I used to have a tough time logging on to psn but found an easy way to get connected. I used to give up after twenty minutes of failed connection attempts after system startup. I found that I have a far higher possibility of connection if I start a game first then attempt to connect. It usually works the first time. Give it a try.
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- MP-Omnis
I got in and I pretty much have no idea what I'm doing. But I made a region called GTP League of Mayors in the region with 7 cities. Everyone put down your Origin names so I can add you to my friends list and invite you to the region.
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- MattyTheDog
Mine is mattythedog, however as the Mac version is still TBD, and I'm still unsure about the game, I won't be able to play for a while.
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- MP-Omnis
Basically, the reason I couldn't do anything was because their servers are rotten horse anus bad.
Now the launch client is stuck on "Waiting for Updates" or whatever. Oh well. At least I got all my floors vacuumed and carpets cleaned in the mean time.
Now the launch client is stuck on "Waiting for Updates" or whatever. Oh well. At least I got all my floors vacuumed and carpets cleaned in the mean time.
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The game isn't out in Central Euroland until 8 minutes from now, but I'd like to join you tomorrow, provided the server hasn't immolated itself by then. I'm ViosVigo on Origin 
Joey D
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Buggy? Yes, but I wouldn't say they ruined it. All modern games will eventually move to being online all the time and we all know DLC now is the in thing for every game company. It doesn't have quite the same character as SimCity 4, but the game does have quite a bit of potential and once people start modding the game they will fix any shortcomings...much like what happened with SimCity 4.
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- Hammerhead Garage
It's funny you should say that about SimCity 4. It shipped with a massive bug in the rotation of its tilesets that meant the buildings couldn't actually grow into their next phase once your population hit about 33,000. The game would interpret this as meaning the buildings were being abandoned, so you'd just get an outbreak of derelict houses and apartment buildings spreading across your city.
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I don't remember that one, but I don't think I ever got to the point of building a subway system.
McLaren
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That's fine, but it should not dictate how the entire game develops.
The inability to save to a HDD & other complained about issues seem to be the result of the silly decision that the game needs to be online. This game should have been shipped like every other SimCity instead of trying to be so heavily multiplayer focused.
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I was going to buy this game on release. Glad I didn't and I probably won't buy it. Good luck for you guys that are having issues. I hope it gets resolved soon.
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The game isn't out in Central Euroland until 8 minutes from now, but I'd like to join you tomorrow, provided the server hasn't immolated itself by then. I'm ViosVigo on Origin
Jesus, so that's what happened? The server went down half an hour ago and I just got booted from the game. I figured they want to force an update. Hopefully I can play something meaningful now. I made a neat city to get the feel for the game, but now I think that city is probably lost for good.
