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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>
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Definity
Member
Don't even try.
In my two tests of a casino city, I succeeded more when growing slowly into it. Plopping one of the larger casinos will start to take tourists away from any other casinos you have in place so it's best to have a good tourism base before moving to your 2nd or 3rd casino. I managed to succeed in this by making sure I had plenty of commercial at each value tier using parks to boost the land value as needed.
I started with the first gambling den and added a second when the first was regularly maxed out. For the first den, I went with the add-ons that focused on boosting low wealth tourist attraction and low wealth tourist cap (comedy club was one of them). For the second, I focused on the medium wealth ones (lounge and blackjack parlour).
I didn't add a Sci-Fi until both of those were regularly capped, and even then not until I had a railway, bud terminal, and municipal airport setup bringing in more tourists.
I plopped an Expo center down and also noticed that it would steal tourists from my casinos when an event was running.
So the general strategy is to boost tourism attraction to your city with commercial zoning (and later landmarks) before expanding fast with more casinos.
That's a lot of words. Hope it makes sense?
Gaming Truth
Member
When Origin says 9 hours played, 6 of them have been attempting to play the game. I added 2 today, to try in earnest to play/enjoy the game before I decide to call Amazon back.
goldsoundz
Member
Just got in to NA East 2 with no problems and created three new cities. It's basically unplayable (the way I want to play it) without cross-city interaction turned on and still no cheetah speed.
Trying for 2 hours now to get in
alright, more studying for me it is!
It take perseverance, but you will get in at some point. Just don't ever quit/exit once you are in!
BigJonsson
Member
I guess I'll play later, I can't get on to the servers with my cities right now =/
We need to set up Gaf regions on every server lol
We need to set up Gaf regions on every server lol
goldsoundz
Member
What server are you on?
BigJonsson
Member
If you can set it up and I can get on the server I'll join
There's a Reflection Atoll GAF server up and it has some spots left. It's on Eu East 3 and the region is called "GAF's Island". It's public so you can just search for it.
It was full when I checked earlier.
I'm on NA West 2. Add me on Origin: frolique.
I'll start it up, if there are no issues with connecting.
Mr. Luchador
Member
US GAF fore told of this great log in issue, but we didn't listen. WE DIDN'T LISTEN!
BigJonsson
Member
Me and somebody else (don't remember their GAF name, oops) are having the exact same problem: We can join the server but we can't go to our cities: It just says the city was unable to load at this time and that I should try later.
I wonder if that's a region thing, because we're both on the same GAF region.
My city was pretty cool too, I kinda feel bad for the people in my region that I can't get back in and keep evolving it.
I wonder if I'll ever get the city back. Maybe I should try to Abandon it, get an invite to the region and try to re-take it again?
I wonder if that's a region thing, because we're both on the same GAF region.
My city was pretty cool too, I kinda feel bad for the people in my region that I can't get back in and keep evolving it.
I wonder if I'll ever get the city back. Maybe I should try to Abandon it, get an invite to the region and try to re-take it again?
goldsoundz
Member
Sent friend request. I'll claim a spot.
Gary Whitta
Member
Gaming Truth
Member
You know what would make this all acceptable?
Add an offline sandbox mode. Right now, the servers are F'd and clearly, will be for weeks. Pull out the unit test code, stick it in, and at least let us play in a single city-region offline. Let us do something other than continually fail to log in, log in and find out you can't get your city off the server, or get all the way in and not have your city save (rollback) because the server disconnected somewhere along the way.
Add an offline sandbox mode. Right now, the servers are F'd and clearly, will be for weeks. Pull out the unit test code, stick it in, and at least let us play in a single city-region offline. Let us do something other than continually fail to log in, log in and find out you can't get your city off the server, or get all the way in and not have your city save (rollback) because the server disconnected somewhere along the way.
"Oh god please stop selling this game to new people we can't handle the amount of people we have now, let alone even more"
This sends a very strong message about EA.
The time it would take to implement that is way longer than this downtime will be.
ArbiterMajor
Member
Can I join?
Yup. Still 4 spots left.
Gaming Truth
Member
It shouldn't be though. Way way back in development, individual developers had to unit test their code locally because a server system didn't exist. That's all I'm asking for. A city without region features (already disabled), achievements (already disabled), and local saving (that ... assumes the code base is still around).
EA/Maxis can still authenticate us in the splash screen, but in the game's main menu, there should be a local Sandbox button.
ArbiterMajor
Member
FR sent.
I'll send you a message tonight assuming I can get in. I'm guessing Friday night is going to be crashorama.
cant crash if u cant get in
Good point. Glass will be half full tonight.
Phil Phish is going crazy on Twitter thinking about SimCity and how this is horrible for Maxis.
However, servers going down on a release of an always online gaming experience is nothing to be surprised at: it was actually expected.
What I think sucks the most, and it's not getting the total attention it deserves, is that this is happening in a game that was mostly known and loved for their single player experience.
The fact that there's no option for a single player game of ANY KIND is the real bummer here: The online experience is great (when it works), it's a clever gameplay mode and it's a real evolution of the series. Except they completely scrapped any kind of singleplayer experience. And since the servers can't cope with the massive beating, there's literally no gameplay experience the user can experience - and it's all because of this great vision of cities cooperating between them, which is a great vision and an amazing thing when it works.
Too bad it fucked up everything else about the game, giving the players no choice on the matter.
However, servers going down on a release of an always online gaming experience is nothing to be surprised at: it was actually expected.
What I think sucks the most, and it's not getting the total attention it deserves, is that this is happening in a game that was mostly known and loved for their single player experience.
The fact that there's no option for a single player game of ANY KIND is the real bummer here: The online experience is great (when it works), it's a clever gameplay mode and it's a real evolution of the series. Except they completely scrapped any kind of singleplayer experience. And since the servers can't cope with the massive beating, there's literally no gameplay experience the user can experience - and it's all because of this great vision of cities cooperating between them, which is a great vision and an amazing thing when it works.
Too bad it fucked up everything else about the game, giving the players no choice on the matter.
BigJonsson
Member
Have to take a break for now
Lack of cheetah speed really makes the start of a new city really sloooooow
Lack of cheetah speed really makes the start of a new city really sloooooow
racketpunch
Member
I would like to join as well. Origin name is racketpunch if there are open spots left.
Clockwork5
Member
Love the title of the thread.
Wont touch this game. Staying with SC4... traffic jams and all.
Wont touch this game. Staying with SC4... traffic jams and all.
Dead Prince
Banned
But does the Origin client work? ;P
Pfft, in a couple weeks no one will remember this. Right? Right?
Oh god this. Don't even bother with region view or visiting other cities.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Sadly, the tutorial MAKES YOU visit another city. :\
It's spreadiiiiing: http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/08/simcity-launch-issues/#continued
VE3TRO
Formerly Gizmowned
Good idea never thought of that. Thanks
I'd like to join in if there's still a spot.
If the location of the server does not really affect gameplay, why do they have to label them as they do?
Once all the issues are fixed, couldn't they number them so people don't feel like they are missing out or are having a worse gameplay experience if they're playing on a server that's not on their continent?
Once all the issues are fixed, couldn't they number them so people don't feel like they are missing out or are having a worse gameplay experience if they're playing on a server that's not on their continent?
storybook77
Member
I assume because the casual fan would just choose a server that was named for their region.
macdaddyjoshua
Neo Member
To me, the most mind-boggling question is how does a company with EA's resources not learn from its own (and others') past mistakes regarding online launches not having enough servers?? Why don't they have a *huge* number of servers ready to go at launch, more than their most liberal estimates, and then *scale back* when they get a better idea of the actual demand, instead of trying to hastily *scale up* while the whole community is raining fire on their heads?
To my regionmates - I'm sorry. I was able to play a bit today, but the server issues and evident lack of depth with this game have done it - months of anticipation wasted, and my love of the franchise weakened. I'm on hold right now to request a refund.
I hope you guys can manage to have fun in TG3 soon!
I hope you guys can manage to have fun in TG3 soon!