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jwinslow

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqUCmlbkkS0"]SimCity (2013) Gameplay Footage - YouTube[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uactovanJvQ"]SimCity - Casino City Gameplay - YouTube[/ame]

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I am a SimCity junkie; that looks amazing.

The only problem is, when I was reading about this recently it was a PC only software. No Mac or console options. I hope there is an option for me other than bootcamp.

Edit:
Nevermind, they say it's going to be released on Mac's too!

What platforms is SimCity available on?
SimCity will be available for PC and MAC.
 
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CentralMOBuck;2281890; said:
I think read somewhere recently that this game was going to require you to be online to play. It's not a big deal for me, but I can see where others could/would be angry. Also, [censored] you EA.

You still paying by the minute, there, Kip?
 
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CentralMOBuck;2281890; said:
I think I read somewhere recently that this game was going to require you to be online to play. It's not a big deal for me, but I can see where others could/would be angry. Also, [censored] you EA.

What is this "online" that you speak of?

This game looks pretty sweet. I assume some here will join regions?
 
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LovelandBuckeye;2281964; said:
What is this "online" that you speak of?

This game looks pretty sweet. I assume some here will join regions?
Maxis explains the use of SimCity always-online DRM
“GlassBox is the engine that drives the entire game—the buildings, the economics, trading, and also the overall simulation that can track data for up to 100,000 individual Sims inside each city. There is a massive amount of computing that goes into all of this, and GlassBox works by attributing portions of the computing to EA servers (the cloud) and some on the player’s local computer,” Bradshaw writes.

If I’m understanding that correctly, Bradshaw’s saying that offloading certain aspects of the simulation to SimCity servers is not only the way the game is designed, but a technical requirement. Bradshaw reflects this again in a later paragraph: “Trades between cities, simulation effects that cause change across the region like pollution or crime, as well as depletion of resources, are all processed on the servers and then data is sent back to your city on your PC. Every city in the region is updated every three minutes, which keeps the overall region in sync and makes your decisions in your city relevant to any changes that have taken place in the region.”
...cont'd
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Yet another example of developers treating their customers like idiots and just lieing to them. That explanation of offloading calculations to EA servers is complete bullshit. They said in the AMA that if you lost the connection while playing, you'd be able to play for a couple of minutes before being booted out of the game. Clearly, if EA's servers are performing calculations that are so vital to the efficient running of the simulation, then this couldn't be the case. You'd start seeing crazy behaviour as soon as you lost your connection.
Not only that, but the bandwidth required to keep calculations for individual sims synced up with the EA servers would be crazy, there's no way EA have servers that could handle all that stuff for so many players at the same time. It would be like trying to run servers for an MMO, where every single person playing has up to 100,000 characters playing simultaniously.
EDIT: As Fugitivelama has pointed out, what they probably meant was that the whole region idea is all processed server-side, rather than the sims themselves. This makes most of the above rant incorrect, but the issue of it being completely unneccesary online-only DRM still remains. I certainly think they've been exagerating things when they say GlassBox "attributes portions to EA servers". That makes it sound like your PC works out what needs to be calculated, and then sends a message to a cloud based server to calculate it. In reality, it's much more likely that it's just some server side code that does some stuff before that information gets anywhere near your PC. In other words, it's doing what every other dedicated server based multiplayer game has ever done, maybe with a little bit of extra processing, and they're just trying to word it in a way that makes it sound like the always-online requirement is a necessity. In reality, it's just that either they think always-online DRM is a good idea (SPOILER: it isn't), or they're really shitty designers.
 
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Reading through the comments, much of the outrage is DRM related and "what happens when EA shuts down the server..."

I am not going to pirate it, so I don't care there. I have reliable Internet, don't care there. SimCity iterations have a long shelf life so I'm not concerned here either.

What does concern me is relying in EA servers. Sorry, but NCAA still has terrible matchmaking abilities, uniforms cause games to not be able to be played, and I constantly have issues connecting to EA servers. This is destined to be a major issue.

Online play in this realm. This is more, me not fully understanding, but what happens if I'm not able to get online for four days, but other players in my region are on multiple times per day? The assumption is that the goal is for the region to thrive and not the individual cities per-se. I remember leaving my city running on the old SimCity and everything was great when I left, but it all went to hell after 15 minutes of the sim.
 
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Those videos look epic... been so long since I have played Sim City... it might 'force' me to get a new computer just so I can play it :biggrin:

Would be 'fun' to have a buckeye planet region and track progress in a thread here.
 
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