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On March 10 2013 04:25 SpikeStarcraft wrote:
what can i do if i used all the water on my map? my pumps are running dry..
I'm assuming that this is a single city problem, and not regional.
Claim a new city with plenty of water and export it to old.
If it is a regional problem, I haven't played around with the higher up trading buildings, but I am hoping that there is a way to import globally, I cant recall if you can send your water to the global market.
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I've read if you put a filtration pump besides a treatment plant you have infinite water supply.
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On March 10 2013 04:38 Soap wrote:
I've read if you put a filtration pump besides a treatment plant you have infinite water supply.
somehow not working.. and how do i clean up radiation?^^... ah my city is fucked! i was suddenly lacking skilled worker...dunno why. so i closed it and when i bulldozed it to use other energy sources it blew up.
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Going to compile the twitter responses from Lucy
SimCity @simcity
We got Head of Maxis Lucy Bradshaw here and she's taking over the @SimCity account for the next 45 minutes. Tweet ?'s to #asklucy.
Joe Lex @Slider6294
#asklucy How is this debacle something you didn't forecast? Can you explain the business rationale or justification for how this happened?
SimCity @simcity
Metrics/beta was fairly conservative and live ops stressed our game server DB’s in ways that we did not experience in Beta or Load Test.
Zach Goodman @ZachGoodman2
When do you expect between city transactions in multi-player will function correctly, such as sharing city hall upgrades? #asklucy
SimCity @simcity
This is frustrating as it is core to the connected experience. This weekend we hope to crush this issue with more servers and optimizations.
Jordan @JordanCharters
@simcity #asklucy If I purchase PC version now, will Mac version be included when it's released?
SimCity @simcity
SimCity @simcity
We're focused on the PC version right now, but we'll have more info on Mac in early April, so stay tuned.
Jeff Arnold @skankingfool
@simcity How could you not anticipate server load on launch when you all your ads said "50 most anticipated games lists of 2013"#asklucy
SimCity @simcity
Load experience in beta and load test is different than live. We've adapted and put out servers with changes, already seeing improvements.
Will Sorrells @Oniichanaino
@simcity When SimCity servers are taken down in a few years, will an offline mode patch be distributed? Perhaps before then? #asklucy
Retweeted by SimCity
We have no intention of offlining SimCity any time soon but we'll look into that as part of our earning back your trust efforts.
Ben Madsen @benmadsen
#asklucy At some point will there be the ability to migrate games and regions between servers?
SimCity @simcity
We're definitely looking into this as we know it would improve your experience.
Simified @Simify
@simcity Hi Lucy! :D I was just curious as to when players will have Cheetah Speed again? Thank you! #asklucy
SimCity @simcity
We're really working on responsive of our servers. and once we have that nailed, and stable, cheetah is coming back!
daniel chappell @dchappell16
@buzzspinner @simcity When is eu west 4 going to be back up? That's a start lol
SimCity @simcity
EU West 4 is actually up right now. Just tried it myself.
jeremey @jeremey86
Hey lucy! Will you be offering larger city maps in the future?? #asklucy
SimCity @simcity
Once we get stable, this is another one we're absolutely looking at. Our intention is to continue to support SimCity and surprise you.
+Boosh+ @booshtv
@simcity Any news / updates about real content patches? Many issues with Tourism #asklucy
SimCity @simcity
We put up a patch this morning that included some traffic fixes and other improvements. And we'll be making more. We'll check on Tourism.
Patrick Lazy @patricklazy
@simcity answer questions that are about refunds and offline mode #asklucy
SimCity @simcity
Origin doesn't offer refunds on digital download games. (http://bit.ly/10nbXyP ). I hope we keep your business by making service great.
SimCity @simcity
As I announced last night we're giving away a free game and are considering other ways to make it up to you.
Marduk @MartianSkyGrid
#asklucy can you be specific about which game is that that you are giving away? Can we choose?
Retweeted by SimCity
SimCity @simcity
You'll be getting more information on the March 18th. And you will have choices.
SoSimpull @SoSimpull
@simcity #asklucy @buzzspinner Does John Riccitiello CEO of EA actually play video games or have a past of playing??
Retweeted by SimCity
SimCity @simcity
@SoSimpull Yes he is a big gamer and he is playing @simcity right now and giving us feedback
Christopher Drew @Azbiker72
@simcity #asklucy So when are you going to give a real answer regarding offline modes?
Miles @MilesJ92
@simcity #asklucy would it not have been smarter to have been over prepared, and have too many servers, rather than what y'all did
RYANNNNNNNN @AAPL_Geek
#asklucy Anything you would like to say to die hard fans of the franchise who will not buy this game due to a tarnished image?
SimCity @simcity
@AAPL_Geek I sure hope that after we right this ship, you will give the game a try. It is really good, worthy of the brand!
Derek Donovan @derekdonovan
@simcity #asklucy I don't blame your team, you made a really good game, it was just EA's bad business practices that ruined the game.
Retweeted by SimCity
SimCity @simcity
@derekdonovan Hey, this is on Maxis. EA does not force design upon us. We own it, we are working 24/7 to fix it, and we are making progress
17PackersFan @17packersfan
@simcity #asklucy the game is wonderful, its just that its hard to get into it sometimes.
Retweeted by SimCity
Bioman @Bioman312
@simcity #asklucy Hey, no question here, just wanted to say that, if you guys can take control of your servers, you will have a sale from me
Jack @Jdude666
@simcity #asklucy So five minutes left and you answered what 5-6 questions? Will regional play be fixed soon?
Alfredo @Videogameget
@simcity #asklucy Will the removed features like achievements, return?
SimCity @simcity
yes, features like achieves etc, will come back as we get to stability, soon.
Curtis Paradis @CurtisParadis
@simcity #AskLucy also it would be great if the game could keep track of what servers I do have cities on, and present that info to users
SimCity @simcity
We are working on that right this minute. Hope to have a patch for it today, tonight latest
SimCity @simcity
Looks like we're wrapping up. Thanks for all your questions!
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On March 10 2013 05:11 Seiniyta wrote:Show nested quote +SimCity @simcity
We have no intention of offlining SimCity any time soon but we'll look into that as part of our earning back your trust efforts.
Er.. what? "We're not doing it but we'll look into doing it." That sentence makes no logical sense.
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Yeah. In region view other cities all say "0 simoleons 0 people, just claimed", even when they are massive 70k+ population cities that I have played for HOURS.
So the whole region play is broken then. Which is weird, why would it be broken for EU when it seems to work for US?
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On March 10 2013 05:15 Greentellon wrote:
Yeah. In region view other cities all say "0 simoleons 0 people, just claimed", even when they are massive 70k+ population cities that I have played for HOURS.
So the whole region play is broken then. Which is weird, why would it be broken for EU when it seems to work for US?
Because............EA?
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On March 09 2013 22:08 Hadley88 wrote:- Dragon Age 2 - Reckoning - Mass Effect 3 - Dead Space 3 - SimCity And that are only the biggest ones, only from EA!
None of those games are really bad game, i mean just like completely broken unplayable games.. and none of them did poorly in sales people for the most part felt it was a game that was appealing to some people not to everyone but to some people. Yes DA2 was drastically different that pissed half of the long time DA1 fans for change in mechanics, yes ME3 had cop out ending that people didn't like but the rest of the game people liked just fine improvement in game mechanics of ME2 etc were all welcomed. SC5 server problems and a few disagreements in how some mechanisms ingame should operate. Didn't play or pay much attention to dead space series or reckoning, but i know they sold well. Like i said it's very hard to find a AAA that is unplayable or unlikeable and thus flops.
On March 10 2013 00:17 Hadley88 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2013 22:59 Spyfire242 wrote:
Anybody actually wanna play this game? Any TL private regions? Why would anyone spend real money on this terrible piece of shit you can't even play? Seriously?!
So your point in this thread is to just bash the game why you even here?
On March 10 2013 02:22 YMCApylons wrote:Just play Simcity 4 - I've probably put 8 hours into it the past three days, I've got four inter-connected cities, three are "feeders" to the main city, with the main city tile having 280k+ sims, and 8 full-capacity rail lines feeding into the city core, which is a massive block of high-density commercial, mixed in with commercial cap-busters. WIth the NAM mod (which is new to me), traffic pathing is VERY good, although vanilla SC4 pathing is pretty decent too. It's pretty rewarding to plan out and build up your rail network, and see the city respond by putting down skyscrapers around your rail stations. Even after server problems are resolved for SC5, the engine is seriously flawed, and I doubt it can ever achieve the scale or complexity of SC4. By scale, I mean this: http://simcityforum.com/showthread.php?t=199&page=18&p=9058&viewfull=1#post9058This dude has a city that has a total population of 23 million, with a city core of 4 million. It has over ten airports and seaports. ![[image loading]](http://i610.photobucket.com/albums/tt186/mp01vic/SC4%20Stuff/MetroHamiltonCrop.jpg) I'm telling you, play Simcity 4 with NAM.
SC4 is def not for everyone the amount of people that SC5 appeals to is probably more, SC4 is very tough to get into, SC5 is easier to get into hard to figure out some aspects of the game. And some things like traffic is poorly handled like it was in SC4 only made better though modding. SC4 is more about building one small part then balancing SC5 you don't necessarily need to do that or necessarily have to build a big city.
On March 10 2013 04:08 Knighthawkbro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2013 03:59 Greentellon wrote:On March 10 2013 03:49 Spyfire242 wrote:On March 10 2013 03:47 Greentellon wrote:On March 10 2013 03:43 Veldril wrote:On March 10 2013 03:07 Greentellon wrote:
Has anyone gotten the inter-city trading to work? I was under impression that peeps can go and work in other cities, shop in other cities, that I could trade water / electricity with other cities etc, but I can't seem to be able to do anything like that. I know I have to build city hall upgrades to "trade" police cars etc.
Am I doing something wrong, or are those features broken right now? Playing an area SOLO seems completely pointless if cities cant interact with each other. Yeah I managed to make the inter-city play works with my play last night. I manage to set up a city that would be utilities provider for my casino city. Also my sims would travel to work in another city too which cause me a traffic problem during morning and evening. What is required? I have 60MW free (tradable) in city #1 (which I own). Both cities have same highway going through them. Yet when I go to my city #2 (new city, I own this too), it says that city #1 has 0MW tradable / doesnt offer anything. There should be a setting on your power plant/s that you can check to let other cities in the region buy electricity from. Are we talking about Sim City 2013 here? I only see two checkboxes in my oil power plant: "accept local oil" and "accept global oil"? It sounds like there might be a bug on your region. First you need to have excess in whatever utility You have to be in region mode, loaded in the site that needs an utility an you can buy from there. Also if you are loaded in a city (region mode) with an some services to spare like Fire/Police/Ambulance you can send trucks and cars over to cities that might need it.
This is correct, it's a bug in region play the servers are reaching stability for solo play but still some region play aspects are broken for some people and not for others. Also as far sending resources to yourself works just fine when region play is working, gifting resources is very iffy when you try to give it to yourself, gifting money to yourself doesn't work like half the time and the money just disappears or metal etc.
On March 10 2013 04:48 SpikeStarcraft wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2013 04:38 Soap wrote:
I've read if you put a filtration pump besides a treatment plant you have infinite water supply. somehow not working.. and how do i clean up radiation?^^... ah my city is fucked! i was suddenly lacking skilled worker...dunno why. so i closed it and when i bulldozed it to use other energy sources it blew up.
I think it still works it just needs to be pathed on the same road.Only issue here is that your water icon turns yellow because they're mad they aren't pumping new water.
On March 10 2013 05:15 Greentellon wrote:
Yeah. In region view other cities all say "0 simoleons 0 people, just claimed", even when they are massive 70k+ population cities that I have played for HOURS.
So the whole region play is broken then. Which is weird, why would it be broken for EU when it seems to work for US? Management structure? Play testing using europe as test cases or US as test cases for possible updates etc, help diagnose problems? Whole host of other possibilities dealing?
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On March 10 2013 04:32 Knighthawkbro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2013 04:25 SpikeStarcraft wrote:
what can i do if i used all the water on my map? my pumps are running dry.. I'm assuming that this is a single city problem, and not regional. Claim a new city with plenty of water and export it to old. If it is a regional problem, I haven't played around with the higher up trading buildings, but I am hoping that there is a way to import globally, I cant recall if you can send your water to the global market.
the treatment plant puts the water back into the ground, so it should work to have a pump there.
Also, if you have water on your city map, it will refresh groundwater for pumps.
my city just crashed and burned from enternal gridlock, i log off and get a patch that optimizes traffic xD.
Its also good to know that they are really wokring on the traffix thing. I expect them to make even more changes.
Guess thats the benefit of DLC, they need people to be happy with the game after purchase.
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On March 10 2013 05:30 LaNague wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2013 04:32 Knighthawkbro wrote:On March 10 2013 04:25 SpikeStarcraft wrote:
what can i do if i used all the water on my map? my pumps are running dry.. I'm assuming that this is a single city problem, and not regional. Claim a new city with plenty of water and export it to old. If it is a regional problem, I haven't played around with the higher up trading buildings, but I am hoping that there is a way to import globally, I cant recall if you can send your water to the global market. the treatment plant puts the water back into the ground, so it should work to have a pump there. Also, if you have water on your city map, it will refresh groundwater for pumps. my city just crashed and burned from enternal gridlock, i log off and get a patch that optimizes traffic xD. Its also good to know that they are really wokring on the traffix thing. I expect them to make even more changes. Guess thats the benefit of DLC, they need people to be happy with the game after purchase.
Casinos are dicks they just flood my traffic with never ending supply of yellow taxi's creating grid lock. I avoid some grid lock by mixing residential and commercial or residential and industrial(low income) it means things like 2000 sims all want to go to the same area creating traffic. But some things like casinos and public transportation sometimes still cause problems. Solving traffic isn't so clear up NAM for SC4 has what like 3 versions with billion test version which had some really broken things in them.
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The original SC4 pathing algorithm was flawed and complex but it can be tweaked with mods. SC5 tried to alleviate that issue with a shortest path algorithm but the code is way too primitive because that one short route will be doomed to traffic issues as your city progresses.
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Alright, that seems to be it for the twitter feed. New patch incoming today still it seems.
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On March 10 2013 05:14 Conti wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2013 05:11 Seiniyta wrote:SimCity @simcity
We have no intention of offlining SimCity any time soon but we'll look into that as part of our earning back your trust efforts. Er.. what? "We're not doing it but we'll look into doing it." That sentence makes no logical sense.
That means that they are obviously not planning on shuting sc5 servers down anytime soon (response to our fear that in a few years EA decides the game is done and shuts everything off), BUT (and this to me is huge news if true) they are looking into patch an off line mode (even if it is for ONLY when they believe the game is done and want to shut the servers and move on) as something to earn our trust back after this fiasco (lol make us happy to buy simcity 6 by then  ).
The first part could also be read as having a regular off line mode right about now but that would not go well with the question asked.
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On March 10 2013 06:04 KobraKay wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2013 05:14 Conti wrote:On March 10 2013 05:11 Seiniyta wrote:SimCity @simcity
We have no intention of offlining SimCity any time soon but we'll look into that as part of our earning back your trust efforts. Er.. what? "We're not doing it but we'll look into doing it." That sentence makes no logical sense. That means that they are obviously not planning on shuting sc5 servers down anytime soon (response to our fear that in a few years EA decides the game is done and shuts everything off), BUT (and this to me is huge news if true) they are looking into patch an off line mode (even if it is for ONLY when they believe the game is done and want to shut the servers and move on) as something to earn our trust back after this fiasco (lol make us happy to buy simcity 6 by then ). The first part could also be read as having a regular off line mode right about now but that would not go well with the question asked.
I know what it means, I was just pointing out that the sentence was very awkwardly worded and makes no semantic sense.
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On March 09 2013 21:10 mordk wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2013 20:23 NicolBolas wrote:On March 09 2013 16:18 Manit0u wrote:On March 09 2013 15:53 semantics wrote:On March 09 2013 14:11 rezoacken wrote:Reflects my thoughts on always-online DRM... It creates hassle for legit players for a few more sells (and that's very arguable). I remember a few years ago when the idea to fight piracy was to actually give legit consumers more stuff, like a good multiplayer, free DLCs etc. The worst thing is that after such a move to reduce piracy, buyers get to pay more than your average pc game (60-80$ ?). Sadly, EA will keep ruining franchises they own, sigh. That doesn't work pirates just crack those and then pirates get everything and more actually has gotten to the point where the pirate gets all forms of buy first DLC, really the only people it acutally hurt were people who bought from a reseller party ie like gamestop. The only proven established way to crush pirating is to put it up on servers, eventually people get though shady channels the stuff off the servers but then you just crush illegal servers though legal means. Actually, it would be best for everyone if all this DRM nonsense ceased entirely. Pirates are going to pirate games no matter what and all this DRM bullshit usually hurts the legit customers as it makes it harder for them to log-in/play/enjoy/whatever. It's been years since companies started this anti-piracy campaign and to no avail so far (SC2 was cracked even during the beta, go figure). Developers should just accept the fact that not everyone is going to obtain their product the way they'd like to and live with it. As far as I know, people who can afford games and like the product have no real qualms of buying it instead of pirating. Hell, when I started working, got my regular cash inflow etc. I made it my mission to legitimately buy every single game I ever pirated and liked. Obviously I wouldn't pay for games I pirated but which turned out to be garbage. So explain something to me: if you go into a restaurant and order a meal. They bring it out to you, you eat it, and you hate it. Do you get to get a refund? No. You ordered it, and you didn't care much for it. But the restaurant gets their money anyway.. Poor reasoning. In this case it's like getting charged full for half your dish size, particularly in the case of A:CM. The promise was not delivered. You can either refund my money or I will put your plate in your face, which is what people are doing to EA right now. If online doesn't work, they're not giving you the product they promised, their product is broken, it's like my dish had a rat inside of it. In Aliens case, it's like I ordered a marvelous pizza with my favorite ingredients and got half a cheese and ham sandwich instead.
OK, I wasn't talking about this game in particular. I was talking about someone's attitude that it was OK to use piracy as "try before you buy".
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On March 10 2013 06:08 Conti wrote:Show nested quote +On March 10 2013 06:04 KobraKay wrote:On March 10 2013 05:14 Conti wrote:On March 10 2013 05:11 Seiniyta wrote:SimCity @simcity
We have no intention of offlining SimCity any time soon but we'll look into that as part of our earning back your trust efforts. Er.. what? "We're not doing it but we'll look into doing it." That sentence makes no logical sense. That means that they are obviously not planning on shuting sc5 servers down anytime soon (response to our fear that in a few years EA decides the game is done and shuts everything off), BUT (and this to me is huge news if true) they are looking into patch an off line mode (even if it is for ONLY when they believe the game is done and want to shut the servers and move on) as something to earn our trust back after this fiasco (lol make us happy to buy simcity 6 by then ). The first part could also be read as having a regular off line mode right about now but that would not go well with the question asked. I know what it means, I was just pointing out that the sentence was very awkwardly worded and makes no semantic sense.
Oh...ok sorry then.
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I especially enjoy that they are giving everyone a free game. But they won't talk about it until March 18th. What else happens on March 18th? Oh yeah, that's the deadline to use the $20 off $30 or more code on Origin if you bought Digital Deluxe.
#MINDGAMES
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@Semantic:
SC4 is def not for everyone the amount of people that SC5 appeals to is probably more, SC4 is very tough to get into, SC5 is easier to get into hard to figure out some aspects of the game. And some things like traffic is poorly handled like it was in SC4 only made better though modding. SC4 is more about building one small part then balancing SC5 you don't necessarily need to do that or necessarily have to build a big city.
Vanilla SC4 pathfinding was decent, NAM made it better. The key problem in SC4 pathing was a question of scale...people wouldn't walk more than one block, and wouldn't take the train more, say, about 50 squares. That wasn't realistic. You could build up small city centers, but not full-scale cities. In vanilla SC4, you would end up with a "carpet" of about-the-same-density, because people would never travel far enough to create a true city center. NAM fixes that, so that people realistically travel miles to work, allowing you to build large concentrations, rather than just alternating zones of RCI. But if you want a city of 120k or so, it worked perfectly fine.
I'm not sure where you're getting "SC4 is more about building one small part than balancing". In SC4 it's vital to bounce back and forth between city blocks, and it's pretty much the key to success.
SC5 definitely looks easier, in a Nintendo-Wii-meets-Facebook kind of way. But anyone looking to re-create their SimCity 2000 childhood memories should get SC4. We've seen a lot of this recently. Civ5 is dumbed-down and terrible, so most Civ fans I know went back to Civ4:BTS.
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On March 10 2013 06:38 YMCApylons wrote:@Semantic: Show nested quote +SC4 is def not for everyone the amount of people that SC5 appeals to is probably more, SC4 is very tough to get into, SC5 is easier to get into hard to figure out some aspects of the game. And some things like traffic is poorly handled like it was in SC4 only made better though modding. SC4 is more about building one small part then balancing SC5 you don't necessarily need to do that or necessarily have to build a big city. Vanilla SC4 pathfinding was decent, NAM made it better. The key problem in SC4 pathing was a question of scale...people wouldn't walk more than one block, and wouldn't take the train more, say, about 50 squares. That wasn't realistic. You could build up small city centers, but not full-scale cities. In vanilla SC4, you would end up with a "carpet" of about-the-same-density, because people would never travel far enough to create a true city center. NAM fixes that, so that people realistically travel miles to work, allowing you to build large concentrations, rather than just alternating zones of RCI. But if you want a city of 120k or so, it worked perfectly fine. I'm not sure where you're getting "SC4 is more about building one small part than balancing". In SC4 it's vital to bounce back and forth between city blocks, and it's pretty much the key to success. SC5 definitely looks easier, in a Nintendo-Wii-meets-Facebook kind of way. But anyone looking to re-create their SimCity 2000 childhood memories should get SC4. We've seen a lot of this recently. Civ5 is dumbed-down and terrible, so most Civ fans I know went back to Civ4:BTS.
This nostalgia thing can really get into people's heads. Civ5 is recognized by nearly every major publication and thousands of people as being a really really really solid game. People confuse THEM liking an older game better, with the new game ACTUALLY being bad.
Also, I predict tons of people buying the game on March 17th for the free EA game and server crashes all over again.
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So are we going to be setting up a TL Region?
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