A Land Far Away

I was looking at buying the new Sim City. I know it's been having a Diablo 3-esque launch, but the idea of building connecting cities with your friends is appealing to me. Anyone wanna build a city?

What we know so far.

1) Train wreck of a launch.
2) It doesn't actually need to be online. The simulation itself is done entirely on your computer, not 'in the cloud'
3) The underlying simulation engine is fucking broken. Traffic is nonsensical (though scheduled to be fixed). Pathfinding for Sims and vehicles alike is broken almost beyond belief. City's peak in a matter of hours/days and then start to decline despite the player having done nothing wrong. Region wide resource sharing is spotty at best. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sim happiness is not really tied to anything you can affect (examples are Sims constantly complaining about crime even in virtually crime free cities)
4) City size is atrociously small compare to what Sim City players are used to.

The best description I have seen so far is that it is sim city for the ADD, social networking generation.

Swift wrote:1) Train wreck of a launch.

Mentioned.

Swift wrote:2) It doesn't actually need to be online. The simulation itself is done entirely on your computer, not 'in the cloud'

Well, since I am looking to play with people, it helps that playing online is available. Don't care that the simulations arent done in the "cloud".

Swift wrote:3) The underlying simulation engine is Ƥøا broken. Traffic is nonsensical (though scheduled to be fixed). Pathfinding for Sims and vehicles alike is broken almost beyond belief. City's peak in a matter of hours/days and then start to decline despite the player having done nothing wrong. Region wide resource sharing is spotty at best. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Sim happiness is not really tied to anything you can affect (examples are Sims constantly complaining about crime even in virtually crime free cities)

So, basically the same as any other MMO out there at launch

Swift wrote:4) City size is atrociously small compare to what Sim City players are used to.

Good thing I havn't played since Sim City on SNES then

Playing with people is debatable. The main advantage of playing with friends in the same region is resource sharing to unlock the 'great works'. Unfortunately as was stated, resource sharing is at best intermittent. Thanks to vehicle path finding being horrendous and traffic being nonsensical, getting your resource trucks to other cities in the region is difficult at best and impossible at worst.

It is firmly a game in the 'wait a few' months category. Virtually everything that actually matters to building and maintaining a good city is broken or defective in some way right now.

Don't they give you a free download of certain other titles in apology for how badly the launch went?

Actually yeah, see link, I guess it has a deadline of March 25th. Someone could I suppose dive in knowing it stinks and buy it "RIGHT NOW" and then register for the free stuff.

http://www.ea.com/news/for-our-patient- ... om-origin-

No.

Play ALFA.

Galadorn wrote:No.

Play ALFA.

Would love to. How?

I-KP wrote:

Galadorn wrote:No.

Play ALFA.

Would love to. How?

Lemme know if you find out.

Veilan wrote:

I-KP wrote:

Galadorn wrote:No.

Play ALFA.

Would love to. How?

Lemme know if you find out.

You'll need 23 'Pick'Up'Sticks', a yellow piano key, and 2 apple cores for starters.

Galadorn wrote:

Veilan wrote:

I-KP wrote:

Galadorn wrote:No.

Play ALFA.

Would love to. How?

Lemme know if you find out.

You'll need 23 'Pick'Up'Sticks', a yellow piano key, and 2 apple cores for starters.

Damn. That must be it then, I always thought it was the blue key .

Veilan wrote:

Galadorn wrote:

Veilan wrote:

I-KP wrote:

Galadorn wrote:No.

Play ALFA.

Would love to. How?

Lemme know if you find out.

You'll need 23 'Pick'Up'Sticks', a yellow piano key, and 2 apple cores for starters.

Damn. That must be it then, I always thought it was the blue key .

Njub!

I am disappointed with the lack of ability of this thread to become a vivid flame feet.
I expected more ALFA.

kid wrote:I am disappointed with the lack of ability of this thread to become a vivid flame feet.
I expected more ALFA.

Fuck you!

kid wrote:flame feet.

Damn iPhones

Well-known that iPhones have a foot fetish. That's why they think yours are so hot.