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SimCity offline mode is FINALLY coming
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hellmonkey
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If you ever go back and play sc4, laying pipe is really easy as long as youre not going under mountains or very deep rivers. Just run one long pipe across the top of your city. Then, every 6 squares, put pipe running down. It would take all of 3 minutes on the largest size. Just extend the down pipes as needed while you develop and the city grows.
Subways on the other hand... That takes planning. What I usually end up doing is making avenue round-abouts. Given how the lay on the grid, theres 4 left open squares around the round about. I use those spaces for public transit stops, buses, subway, ect.
Wolf Akela
Member
Yeah, I thought yay finally gonna buy the game, then the thread reminded me of many other problems. I'll prolly just replay SC4 but with NAM this time.
No, they definitely knew what they were talking about. They just wanted you to buy their game.
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I don't want to have to mod it.
Jim is the best always to the point <3
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Screw that game! Disappointment of the year 2013. The game single-handedly ruined the Simcity franchise. It was a glorified web game. Made purely to take advantage of long time fans and designed around micro transactions.
Offline mode will not make me play it. The city sizes are abysmal. The AI is horrible. In the end it was just a shiny turd.
Offline mode will not make me play it. The city sizes are abysmal. The AI is horrible. In the end it was just a shiny turd.
I have no interest in this game because of the city size. It's sim town not sim city. They need to just let this game die and work on a proper sequel to the last good Sim City game.
Dis guy.
Bud knows what's up.
No.
CrunchyFrog
Member
dat ether
Narpas Sword0
Member
He couldn't just say he was wrong instead of sarcastically commenting on retweets?
Jawmuncher
Member
So it's finally happening. The thing that should have been in from Day 1.
Now I can cross my fingers for SWTOR offline......Yeah it's a stretch but I didn't even think this would happen.
Now I can cross my fingers for SWTOR offline......Yeah it's a stretch but I didn't even think this would happen.
Narpas Sword0
Member
That answers my question lol. Double down!
Well I do think that online-requirements and capabilities are probably a bit more difficult to understand than the fire rate by a gun, but I do see your point. And trust me, what little I know of Gies, I understand he's not reputable, but even disreputable people should be allowed to say what they say without immediate write off. I was just trying to be fair, even if I was wrong to defend him in this case. My bad for not knowing the context with which that was said.
Additionally, I don't know if you caught my apology from a while back, but I was also wrong for my accusation of your 'PC gaming' credentials and I'm sorry for that. I felt really bad for that.
Just in case people somehow think this news makes the game worth playing.
Say no more. That is just....
What is the f'in point?
edit: this is sad, there was a time, when I was going to buy a separate large monitor just to run SC on an old Mac all day. I loved the game that much.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Its still a moot point since the game could run for about 20 mins after a connection was lost before the player was booted out. It was clear back then that the claims about server-side computing were bullshit.
He probably is thinking hard right now about how to best spin this so he still can claim to have been right. He'll probably accuse EA/Maxis of making a huge mistake by giving in to players' demands and finally allowing offline functionality. Or he'll claim it's a completely different game now. Or he'll claim that with "complex server-side calculations" all he meant was cloud saves all along. Something like that.
The mental capacity of somebody taking the effort to tweet a video game journalist over something so meaningless is already under serious question.
Wiktor
Member
They should have really just used this tech to make new Sim Town instead of SimCity.
And people wonder why GAF gives him so much shit. Give the man a chance to admit he was wrong and he doubles down on his own stupidity.
Every time.
Narpas Sword0
Member
tweeting is a very high-effort activity, yes
petran79
Banned
I even recall them saying "Online mode is not possible and game will be mod friendly" during game's production
Saying "I was wrong" does not seem to be in his dna. He will do anything before admitting his mistakes, that includes completely and utterly embarrassing himself on the internet.
It's only done in an attempt to gain attention. The actual tweeting is taking it a strange step beyond just thinking about it and moving on with your life.
Narpas Sword0
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tweeting for the lulz: a strange and serious business
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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What effort? Twitter's whole purpose is to give people a stage to make a quick quip about stuff.
It's not so wierd and strange when it's actually clever and creative, but antagonistic tweets sent out at strangers is definitely not normal behavior.
I don't think it's a lot of effort to call Arthur Gies a fucking idiot. Like every person in here quoting the infamous tweet is basically doing that and they're not straining. I think we're simply having a good time.
Why do you hate fun?
Clarkus Darkus
Member
Ahhh offline gaming, Still fighting the fight and rightly so, Diablo 3 on console with local play co-op is a truly fun experience so maybe Diablo should be next for PC gamers.
Holy shit that is amazing.
Prophet Steve
Member
Of course not admitting any fault. I would not expect anything else. It probably is because they now had many months to work on it.
For a guy so obviously pro-online, you'd think he'd have a better understanding of how the internet works. It'll rip liars apart as shamelessly and publicly as possible.