SimCity 2013

http://www.destructoid.com/review-simcity-248039.phtml 4/10
The constant DRM is an annoyance, but the real issue here is the fact that everything is happening online. SimCity has always been a single-player game, and now it's a fully online experience. Nothing is saved locally and when I lose my save game due to online issues it makes me cranky. I was desperately trying to get time in playing this week, not just because I am reviewing it, but also because it seemed like fun. I love games like this. All the time I spent playing on Tuesday was erased because of server issues. After trying to connect for hours this morning, I was shocked to find that my most recent saves were gone, and over six hours of playtime was wiped away.

There is some promise for this to be a good game, but promise alone isn't enough. Even if they do manage to get their servers back online and functioning, I still know that if something goes wrong on their end I will lose all of my saved games. My cities are at the mercy of EA's servers and my Internet connection, and while there are some nice things to be found in SimCity, the need to always be online and feeling forced to play with other people ruins the experience.

I wanted to like this game, I really did. At first I started to enjoy it, but soon all I found was frustration. I can't recommend this game to anyone, and I don't want to play it anymore myself because I am afraid of seeing all my efforts lost due to server issues. It's a decent game if it worked right, but the online dependency, forced multiplayer, and DRM ruin it.
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Trying to buy james power seeing as he has tons to spare but for some reason it buys it for a little while and then just stops leaving my city without power, So frustrating since I don't really have space for power plants.
Anyone else have this problem where its not constant?
 
Crzwaco said:
Trying to buy james power seeing as he has tons to spare but for some reason it buys it for a little while and then just stops leaving my city without power, So frustrating since I don't really have space for power plants.
Anyone else have this problem where its not constant?
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I think James has to be in his city for that to work, if I understood Totalbiscuits first impressions correctly. Most of the trading and money making stuff only happens when you're in your city.
 
czc said:
I think James has to be in his city for that to work, if I understood Totalbiscuits first impressions correctly. Most of the trading and money making stuff only happens when you're in your city.
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That's the thing we where both online last night on ts and like he is like yeah I build this and this so I go to view his city and there is nothing few hours later his first buildings shows up. Just before we log out at 4am in the morning I go check his city again I can see all but one building that he just placed down before we logged.

But the buying elect on my part was still get power and suddenly no power anymore very frustrating.

Also just hit 50k people and I am like wtf balance the game. I have 2 police stations 3 clinics but the cost to run them are extremely high those those 3 clinics can treat 100+- people.

One thing is for sure this game is super fun with a friend.
james city = industrial pollution everywhere.
My city = people everywhere garbage everywhere haha.
 
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Crzwaco said:
One thing is for sure this game is super fun with a friend.
james city = industrial pollution everywhere.
My city = people everywhere garbage everywhere haha.
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I can only imagine! Wish I had the time...
Is it only you two playing in the region/or whatever it's called?
 
FriedPet said:
I can only imagine! Wish I had the time...
Is it only you two playing in the region/or whatever it's called?
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yeah atm the friends list is still messed up so we created a public zone where we could join with only 3 places yesterday some chinaman moved into the 3de slot and this morning its abandoned with major problems everywhere. So I claimed it just so if someone wants to join and start fresh there. We both still learning I have learned so much about a tourism city, because I did not build correctly I switched to educational.

Also still trying to figure out the game the tutorials are lacking in major parts.
 
Starting a tourism city is pretty hard. I tried it, then realised I'm sitting on gigantic oil deposits and switched to mining oil instead.

The game is awesome fun. Last night a giant red lizard rose out of the ground and stomped all over my industrial district before gorging itself on garbage in the garbage dump. Oh, and my neighbor's crackpot city is spilling all its criminals over into mine. :<

I feel sorry for anyone who is still so embittered they spend all their time posting piss and vitriol on forums while I'm having such a great time with this game.

On another note, does anyone know if I can claim and run multiple cities on different lots in the same region?
 
Graal said:
Crzwaco, which server are you guys on? I might just join you guys in your region.
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I hear most of the guys playing on Europe West 4 (which has just gone down for maintenance).

The game is awesome fun. Last night a giant red lizard rose out of the ground and stomped all over my industrial district before gorging itself on garbage in the garbage dump. Oh, and my neighbor's crackpot city is spilling all its criminals over into mine. :<

I feel sorry for anyone who is still so embittered they spend all their time posting piss and vitriol on forums while I'm having such a great time with this game.

On another note, does anyone know if I can claim and run multiple cities on different lots in the same region?
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Agree with you, and yes you can.
 
Game is charming and fun - when it works. Right now I can't get onto Europe West 4...

Do we have a list of all the MyGaming peeps playing SimCity? Currently my friends list is bare ;_;
 
I won't be online again until tomorrow night, but feel free to add me on Origin and we can look at getting a region going. Origin nick is ZoopZA.
 
Graal said:
Starting a tourism city is pretty hard. I tried it, then realised I'm sitting on gigantic oil deposits and switched to mining oil instead.

The game is awesome fun. Last night a giant red lizard rose out of the ground and stomped all over my industrial district before gorging itself on garbage in the garbage dump. Oh, and my neighbor's crackpot city is spilling all its criminals over into mine. :<

I feel sorry for anyone who is still so embittered they spend all their time posting piss and vitriol on forums while I'm having such a great time with this game.

On another note, does anyone know if I can claim and run multiple cities on different lots in the same region?
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Graal said:
Crzwaco, which server are you guys on? I might just join you guys in your region.
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You can gladly join me and james on west 4 we can abandon the one city and you can take it over and try to fix it.
Since you can't reset a plot the servers are going to be full of abandoned city's


James said:
Game is charming and fun - when it works. Right now I can't get onto Europe West 4...

Do we have a list of all the MyGaming peeps playing SimCity? Currently my friends list is bare ;_;
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I have not been ably to track the people that wants to play between all wyzak spam of how bad the game is. Friends list only works when you are on the same servers as your friends.
 
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