SimCity™

[fastitocalon]

So, this is has turned into a giant cluster****. I really wanted this game to be good but as more and more information comes out it shows the amount of game breaking issues the current form of the game has. This has been sent right into the sub $20 bin for me.

[Kamakazie]

This is a pretty great/funny read:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...mart-after-all

I didn't realize how rudimentary the AI and pathfinding was. I'd argue that maybe it was to reduce server load for simulation calculations but that's been debunked already.

This explains some things. Now that I've got a city above 150,000 residents I'm starting to see some weird bugs relating to the flow of water and sewage, so I guess this also explains why I'm seeing some problems relating to job fulfillment.

[Timman_24]

Wow, not only did they flub the launch, but its a broken game anyway. Too bad there's not more people making city sims, they are a lot of fun.

[Timman_24]

Found some interesting piece of source code that was supposedly leaked regarding the population:

simcity.GetFudgedPopulation = function (a) {
 a = "undefined" !== typeof a ? a : simcity.gGlobalUIHandler.mLastPopulation;
 if (500 >= a) 
return a;
 if (40845 < a)
 return Math.floor(8.25 * a);
 a = Math.pow(a - 500, 1.2) + 500; 
return Math.floor(a)
 };

What this code shows is that the game simulates a population that is roughly 1/8 of what it shows on-screen. This means the game most likely uses only one "true" sim to represent 8 "in-game" sims, which could cause a lot of the pathfinding and dumb ai that happens at large populations. Problems include tons of policemen showing up at a single crime scene. This could be due to the fact that for every one "true" police officer that the game's ai sends to the crime scene, eight police officers actually show up. I'm sure we will hear more as time goes by because it seems the programmers for this game are starting to leak a bunch of info.

Also, Fox News ran another story about the massive gameplay issues regardless of the server problems.

[richardginn]

Two Short Videos showing more reasons shy I will not get this game.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...v=g418BSF6XBQ#!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=WH-CdkSqDSs

[James]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013...not-necessary/

Sounds like a single player option could be possible if EA and Maxis was truthful.

I was just coming to see if this had been posted. If this is true, I'm more irked than I was at EA for this whole debacle.

[Kamakazie]

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/139891/si...o-play-offline

Sigh.

[taggart6]

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/139891/si...o-play-offline

Sigh.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:breath:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Timman_24]

Oh man. So that population code was legit. Terraforming too? Looks like they had to axe a lot of great stuff to make it a gimped multiplayer game.

[richardginn]

http://www.bluesnews.com/s/139891/si...o-play-offline

Sigh.

EA is going to have a whole mess load of explaining to after that video.

[richardginn]

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/ar...mcity-update-8

Yes folks they are working on traffic issues.

[Kamakazie]

Yay. It's almost like we paid for a beta product.

[taggart6]

Yay. It's almost like we paid for a beta product.

Yeah pretty much.

[Timman_24]

This reinforces why I do not preorder anything.

[Area51]

Glad I only paid $27 for this through that Origin India store deal before they pulled the plug on it.