SimCity

Djay_sl said:

Speaking of the friends list...has anyone figured out a way to get your Origin friends to show up on the in-game list, yet?

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It works intermittently.

This cloud based shit is working about as well as we expected. Personally it's just a matter of time until you either crash from the game and can't load back into your region or server, or your city becomes corrupted. And this is while using a minimal amount of features (Currently, navigating around your region causes city corruption so I don't do it).

All in all I'm pretty happy with the result and hope this path isn't easily repeated by other companies.

Thanks for the invite to the new region, hopefully it is there when I get home from work tonight.

meStevo, you must be incredibly lucky, because around 10 to 11pm PST last night (on US East 1) Agraza and I waited through two 20 min queues and gave up when the third one started, while Hachima was starting his fourth. Friend requests were showing up on Origin but not SimCity (making it so people couldn't send invites to regions if the friend was too new), regions were not loading, etc. You'd think this might be slightly expected after everyone gets off of work in the evening, but not at 2am EST. Looking at the server list at those times, all 4 US servers had 20 min queues, so you couldn't even hop over and play for awhile somewhere else.

Now, I was able to log on without a queue prior to that, but since the friend requests weren't going through the only thing we could try was restarting...which eventually put us into queues. They could have been doing maintenance without telling us perhaps, but their whole setup is not very user-friendly when shit isn't working the way it should.

Consider me rustled!

Flight_sl said:

They're offering refunds :

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/li...30019.page#top






Or are they :

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Fake refunds is pretty bad, but I can't imagine getting frustrated enough with the shitty server/game support and then go try to deal with EA support to get a refund, lol. One good thing about buying from Amazon is that they've usually been pretty good about giving out refunds. And part of me hopes that amazon doesn't get the shaft when they refund me but rather pass it onto EA.

Either way this game is going exactly like I and I think any reasonable person here expected. Asking for a refund because an online game's release sucks seems weird.

Show us an example of a region. Most regions with city blocks not connected via road are connected via water or something.

http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comm...ht_rail_works/

tldr: Don't build intersections for your street cars. build straights paths or snake it around like this:

Also buses seem to group together in ineffective packs:

It just seems like an example of an ambitious developer team trying to create a novel feature in a game and not being able to make it perfect. Personally I'd prefer if they made the traffic simulation more abstract like it is in previous simcity games, but I can appreciate the attempt to do something new. And frankly it's such a challenging problem that I'm not surprised it doesn't work well.

The most depressing thing about it is that working traffic is so unattractive for expansion/dlc sales and so challenging it's very possible it won't ever be fixed.