Sim City To Make A Return?

[babyskyline]

I know what i will be using all my spare time on next weekend!!!!

[Leroy Peterson]

pretty excited. I bought Cities XL 2012 to scratch the itch, and it is a good game.............. wonderfully complex, but just doesnt work the way you want it to. the overall management is kinda broken so it gets crazy difficult juggling everything even when you have unlimited money.

[ClutchBurndout-:(]

dont buy it, not yet anyway.

had it for an hour, cant even play, EA has f**ked the servers, buy it in a week or 2.

[Leroy Peterson]

yeah ive been reading the responses on metacritic. the peoples are not happy. It has stopped me from buying it anyway. I'm sure someone has figured out how to priate the game anyway. and hopefully someone will make a mod to stop the need for online connection and online saving (the dumbest thing ive ever heard for a non-MMORPG)

[babyskyline]

I'm glad i checked in here before grabbing a copy.

Such a shame for this great series.....

[ClutchBurndout-:(]

servers are playable, after 20 min ques, but still, it isnt that great, sim city 4 is still beter....

[Leroy Peterson]

tried playing Sim City 4 on PC last year (win7). so broken, gave up. Will have to live with Cities XL 12 for the moment

[Frosty]

mildly excited for this....should be good

[Anfanee]

When you get over the small ish size of the builds. The game is great. I can't stop playing it. I was pissed about the servers at first but they are getting better.

[ClutchBurndout-:(]

servers are better, lot sizes are so small, and i cant figure out why my city wants more residential even though literally half the map is residential...

[Damit]

[flyingfridge]

nice

in all seriousness though, servers have been all good for a few days now. great game

[Leroy Peterson]

i digged a bit deeper and the whingy kind of players (theres always a select few with every game, and always a platoon with AAA titles) have come up with some good points:

Firstly, the traffic jam chaos, lack of business for certain jobs/shops and buses/schools issues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDeSRdHvefw\

Apparently the other sim cities didnt have this issue. and that an easy fix would have been to reserve houses/jobs for people as they leave the house. to prevent people just following them and going to a full house/job.

Secondly, some people are claiming the population of your game (not in sandbox) is limited to 300k. At 280k or so, everyone runs into a disaster. Lizard, zombie apocalypse, meteor shower etc. When you rebuild and recover, happens again. rinse repeat. a bit disappointing.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/Traffic-quot-AI-quot-This-is-why-services-and-traffic-are-broken/td-p/737060

[ianjb]

Bought it last night. Playing sandbox till i get the hang of it.

Like it so far. Has some better and some worse features over 4.

[Anfanee]

i digged a bit deeper and the whingy kind of players (theres always a select few with every game, and always a platoon with AAA titles) have come up with some good points:

Firstly, the traffic jam chaos, lack of business for certain jobs/shops and buses/schools issues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDeSRdHvefw\

Apparently the other sim cities didnt have this issue. and that an easy fix would have been to reserve houses/jobs for people as they leave the house. to prevent people just following them and going to a full house/job.

Secondly, some people are claiming the population of your game (not in sandbox) is limited to 300k. At 280k or so, everyone runs into a disaster. Lizard, zombie apocalypse, meteor shower etc. When you rebuild and recover, happens again. rinse repeat. a bit disappointing.

http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/Traffic-quot-AI-quot-This-is-why-services-and-traffic-are-broken/td-p/737060

Got a mate with a city of 320k still going. I call BS on that disaster.

[Frosty]

i agree! EA falcons are sh*t