Sim City

ShadowHearth

Lol at that "free DLC". I imagine it is free now, because of the **** storm. Imagine if Sim City would have been success. I would bet my balls on it, that it would have been a payed Dlc. So EA would be down in the history books as the first company, who sold you the actual AD of a product!!!! :pac:

Azza

As Rock Paper Shotgun pointed it out, it might be a future avenue for DLC. Advertises pay for it, so the gamer doesn't have too. I don't mind as long as the advertisement fits into the game world naturally.

Morpork

TSW2014 wrote: »

Are the issues on this resolved, I might purchase it soon.

No, not yet.
There is a big patch on the way, supposedly soon. But, judging by their traffic patch which in some aspects made things worse; I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this game to become fully functional as promised.

cherryghost

Azza wrote: »

As Rock Paper Shotgun pointed it out, it might be a future avenue for DLC. Advertises pay for it, so the gamer doesn't have too. I don't mind as long as the advertisement fits into the game world naturally.

Which it doesn't, the electric charge station doesn't require electricity to run :rolleyes:

Azza

Nothing to do with the advertisement though. An electric charge station to me doesn't seem to be out of place in a SimCity game nore does the advertisement that came with it. The fact that it doesn't use electicity sounds silly alright but thats more to do with a bad design decision than advertisements.

Slutmonkey57b

cherryghost wrote: »

Which it doesn't, the electric charge station doesn't require electricity to run :rolleyes:

Ha! That's brilliant. Quality shines through.

Morpork

I think it has solar panels on top of the station so it's self-sufficient.

Grumpypants

cherryghost wrote: »

Which it doesn't, the electric charge station doesn't require electricity to run :rolleyes:

It is "green" it has solar panels on the roof of the building to charge the cars.

zuroph

yup, covered in solar panels.

_Puma_

If we are being pedantic here, anywhere that uses solar panels as an electricity source is also connected to the mains. Surplus generated electricity is siphoned off to the grid, or in periods of low solar illumination, electricity is brought in off the grid. If solar panels were to be truly off the grid you would need massive capacitors (Batterys) and some way to regulate the current!

***I am only pulling the piss by the way!

ShadowHearth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHPOiOr94L8

Thinkingaboutit

If I can have a time playing with less processing errors. No processing errors is unrealistic. There will never be savegames, but please I hope EA/Maxis will reduce the number of processing errors. Later they could try get gifts working. I dislike the tiny city sizes. At least c. 150,000 seems to be possible per city, if it's flat.

Water seems weirdly scarce, which means I pump water from the one remaining area in my city with water. The water from this mine area - where I had mistakenly for a time had ten sewage outflow pipes in spite of already processing all my sewage in that plant - rates as deadly. Yet there's no massive problem. Before I tapped into that water, I had somehow fell into a deficit of water supply. It meant mines and smelters randomly stopped, and my city which ran a daily deficit was no longer making money on selling oil, alloy and steel. I now have a processor plant, but that's more paying for the expanded hospital, than adding to my money. That first city has 1 mil simoleons and c. 100,000 people, which is okay.

Does Nissan not worry that people will associate Sim City ahem super stability with the Leaf's reliability?

Dothehustle

i knew the game had problems but just login in and it made me do the tutorial and I was thinking that's weird .. Sure went go to play one of my 4 cities and there all gone... all ready to be claimed by anyone

yep i am a idiot went on to wrong sever

Cookie_Monster

Based on this thread I bought Anno 2070 instead of SC and despite not liking it too much for the first week I'm bordering on obsessed with it at the moment. Great game.

Turtwig

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

Based on this thread I bought Anno 2070 instead of SC and despite not liking it too much for the first week I'm bordering on obsessed with it at the moment. Great game.

Ditto. Takes a while to get into it, but it's totally worth it.

Branoic

Think I'll try the game again after leaving it for a couple of weeks. Looks like the region search / filter functions are still MIA though. Are there any regions boardsies are playing on with a free slot going? If someone could send me an invite that would be cool, Origin name same as here.

quarryman

Version 2.0 incoming...

humanji

What's the bets as part of this patch they fixed the "problem" of people being able to play offline?

Julez

JUST MAKE BIGGER MAPS, DAMN YOU!!!

nesf

quarryman wrote: »

Version 2.0 incoming...

Will to play... ...not returning.

Mc Love

Facing a problem, can I set up the using my portable hotspot on my phone, then disconnect the hotspot when the game is running, and when I want to save, just use the portable hotspot again.

Currently without Internet, or should I wait until the 2.0 update is applied?

VinLieger

Tempted to try the casinos again. Whatever about the gambling being broken not giving you the ability to build the casino completely was a joke, to get the perfect arrangement of rooms it always ended up looking half finished

Wonda-Boy

If anyone is starting a new region plz add me gets boring PLAYING WITH MYSELF!

Julez

Mc Love wrote: »

Facing a problem, can I set up the using my portable hotspot on my phone, then disconnect the hotspot when the game is running, and when I want to save, just use the portable hotspot again.

Currently without Internet, or should I wait until the 2.0 update is applied?

There hasn't been any official mention of an offline mode yet so 2.0 probably wont make a difference. I also think that disconnecting any reconnecting would work for you, apparently it checks every 20 mins to see if you are still connected or something like that.

Dothehustle

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

If anyone is starting a new region plz add me gets boring PLAYING WITH MYSELF!

I just set one up there add us if you want to join cause I have set it to private
username is zito7777 on origin

Overheal

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

gets boring PLAYING WITH MYSELF!

teehee

BenEadir

Guys,

My son is looking to buy Sim City for PC but I'd like to be sure our 2 year old PC will run the game before he invests.

We have UPC 50mb fiber broadband so that won't be a problem.

Our PC is a Dell i3 3.3GHz processor with 4GB RAM and Win 7 64 bit. The Video card is an AMD RADEON HD 6450 which gives a Gaming Graphics "Windows Experience" score of 6.2.

Will that suffice for a good Sim City experience?

I note that the SIM City help centre says the following:-

"Video:
Players will need at least a 512 MB video card featuring either an NVidia 7800 or better, an AMD chipset of at least an ATI Radeon HD 2x00 or better, or an Intel Series 4 integrated graphics or better.

***NOTE: All the above-mentioned must also have a minimum of 256MB of on-board RAM and Shader 3.0 or better support.
It is essential to the game’s performance and stability that the latest possible drivers for your video card are installed at all times. "

I can't reconcile whether our PC spec conforms with the video spec above.

Can someone help me with this??

Cheers,

Ben

KilOit

Forget about it, that card could barely run minecraft

BenEadir

KilOit wrote: »

Forget about it, that card could barely run minecraft

It actually runs Minecraft smooth as butter my son has been playing and modding Mincecraft for over a year with no glitches whatsoever. I just checked on this site which purports to confirm whether or not video cards are compatible with Simcity http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=3562&canMyGpuRunIt=SimCity and it indicates the AMD RADEON HD 6450 is indeed compatible

If I buy him the game and it doesn't run properly can the video card on a Dell Inspiron 620 MT BTS be upgraded and is it a simple DIY job of swapping out one card for another or not??

Ben

Reekwind

www.systemrequirementslab.com is usually the easiest way to check game requirements