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FromShouri
United States862 Posts
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nihlon
Sweden5581 Posts
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Valenius
United Kingdom1266 Posts
On March 06 2013 02:51 nihlon wrote: Yes it's always online. Supposedly it's because they run server side calculations but who knows how much of that is true. No idea about the origin part. All region wide calculations are done server side.. so pretty much any interactions between cities. | ||
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trainRiderJ
United States615 Posts
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AnomalySC2
United States2073 Posts
On March 06 2013 02:51 nihlon wrote: Yes it's always online. Supposedly it's because they run server side calculations but who knows how much of that is true. No idea about the origin part. It's to reduce piracy. I don't know why developers are afraid to tell people that. | ||
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farvacola
United States18843 Posts
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Hadley88
Germany267 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32098 Posts
On March 06 2013 02:08 Hadley88 wrote: SC is exactly that.... ![[image loading]](http://www.abload.de/img/yj8h0dj1fpjof.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://www.abload.de/img/scxlol8gjgy.jpg) what the fuck is with EA and not providing enough servers for any goddamn game under their umbrella?? This, BF series, NHL. Good lord. | ||
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Dagan159
United States203 Posts
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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semantics
10040 Posts
On March 06 2013 03:01 QuanticHawk wrote: what the fuck is with EA and not providing enough servers for any goddamn game under their umbrella?? This, BF series, NHL. Good lord. Change from 1 giant city to controlling multiple cities in a region, probably done to cut cost of cpu cycles running the simulation. And as for servers all game makers do it, they buy a conservative amount of server space then expand on launch day because it's cheaper then buying an exorbitant amount of server space and cutting back just to how agreements are probably structured. | ||
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AnomalySC2
United States2073 Posts
On March 06 2013 03:01 Hadley88 wrote: You only can build Mini-Cities that are like 1/4 the size they were in SimCity4. No doubt that will be increased shortly down the road for 10 bucks or something. | ||
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Hadley88
Germany267 Posts
THe City Size has something to do with the DRM. The DRM works because alot of the city is computed on the Servers and if the Cities are bigger, the Serverload would be even higher. The cities are that small, because they don't want to spend alot of cash on servers. There will be no bigger cities until they remove the online-only drm! | ||
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Hrrrrm
United States2081 Posts
Wish it was different but, what can ya do. Can only vote with your wallet in the end and hope others do the same. | ||
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GnarlyArbitrage
575 Posts
Sticking with SC4 and Simutrans. | ||
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MeatlessTaco
United States302 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32098 Posts
On March 06 2013 03:11 semantics wrote: Change from 1 giant city to controlling multiple cities in a region, probably done to cut cost of cpu cycles running the simulation. And as for servers all game makers do it, they buy a conservative amount of server space then expand on launch day because it's cheaper then buying an exorbitant amount of server space and cutting back just to how agreements are probably structured. this is veering into non-sc chat, but their servers at launch have been notoriously bad. lots of other major developers dont have those problems on launch. BF3, it was over a week before you could reliably join a game in one or two shots. I was fucking livid because I took off the day following launch ahah | ||
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Hadley88
Germany267 Posts
On March 06 2013 03:43 MeatlessTaco wrote: I might get SC4 on Steam for $20. I haven't played since SimCity 2000. Any suggestion on whad add-ons and mods to get for SC4 so I can just start playing? You can get SimCity4 for 2.50$. Don't waste your money o_0 | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On March 06 2013 03:43 MeatlessTaco wrote: I might get SC4 on Steam for $20. I haven't played since SimCity 2000. Any suggestion on whad add-ons and mods to get for SC4 so I can just start playing? Give it a wait for a sale. | ||
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GnarlyArbitrage
575 Posts
On March 06 2013 03:43 MeatlessTaco wrote: I might get SC4 on Steam for $20. I haven't played since SimCity 2000. Any suggestion on whad add-ons and mods to get for SC4 so I can just start playing? simtropolis.com NAM, at least. CAM and the mod that gets rid of the downtown hole gap. Terrain mod. | ||
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