Sim City

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

EA should have done a much larger beta, even a full open beta for a weekend.


But oh well. The game still looks good though.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

Our friends at Origin have enabled early authentication for SimCity for customers in Europe. This will allow you to download the SimCity launcher in advance of release and will help get you into the game as quickly as possible once it unlocks in your region.

Not sure if it applies to us, but worth trying if you have a pre-order on Origin.

[EuphoricBliss]

I got my key today. Will be downloading tonight if it lets me.

Where did you pre order?

[Benji77]

Where did you pre order?

http://www.nzgameshop.com/pc-games/simcity-limited-edition-game-code-by-email-pc

[EuphoricBliss]

Ta m8.

Anyone know whether we're in for a midnight launch?

[BerG]

I'm interested.

How muchs internets does it use.

We dont get much, here in the mountains.

[EuphoricBliss]

https://help.ea.com/article/when-will-simcity-be-released

^ says it will be released at 00:01 local time if anyone else was curious

[Xsannz]

Not sure if it applies to us, but worth trying if you have a pre-order on Origin.

tried my origin again and NOPE

[Benji77]

Dam have to wait till the 8th

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

I'm interested.

How muchs internets does it use.

We dont get much, here in the mountains.

How much do you get?

[Xsannz]

Got my unlock code this morning....   Aaarg after i get to work....

Will have to load this evening...

[mycoolcar]

Have downloaded.

From origin part is about 260mb, then there is more via the maxis installer. It says required disc space is 12gb for the install, so maybe a 6gb download or something? Mine went pretty quick, but there is nothing in the maxis installer to tell you how much the dl is and how fast it is going.

Tried to get into a server, unable. Shits fucked. I wana build my city.

Maybe I should have tried to torrent this shit.

[Tiwaking!]

Hope is irrational

[Xsannz]

Yeah i was looking for a leaked torrent over the last few days just so i could have it preinstalled and ready for release.

Bur no luck.

Also Amazon just pulled it from their website for sale citing bad reviews meant they were not goi g to supply it til ea fixed launch issues.

[mycoolcar]

omg

omg

omg

omg


its working

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

omg

omg

omg

omg


its working

Draw your roads in the shape of a large penis.

[Growler]

So are you playing this to play online with other, ot just to play?

[Codex]

Can't wait to get home :3

[Arnifix]

These server issues are fucking balls.

[Retardobot]

Good ol' EA support:

[mycoolcar]

Got city to 250k people. All of a sudden streets got blocked with traffic and emergency services became unable to get through. Crime and fires everywhere.

This is despite buses and street cars everywhere, everyone seems to HAVE to drive their cars. Try to drive population down by raising taxes to 20% all across the board. Eventually works, fuckloads of abandoned buildings due to all the crime, fires & taxes. As people leave tax take (even at 20%) fails to cover outgoings, city goes into the red. Turn off a shitload of services to get black in black, down to 150k population but still cars blocking the shit out of the streets.

*sigh*

[Bell]

This is despite buses and street cars everywhere, everyone seems to HAVE to drive their cars.

Sounds pretty realistic.

[mycoolcar]

The maps are far too small, but I think most people already knew that.

If you want a high population in the city, you need wide roads to support it, which takes up more of the land, so there is less for buildings. Its sort of a win/loss situation. Your town/city can really only be one thing. It might be a school town with primary, secondary and University, or a mining town getting all the coal and ore out of the ground and trade it for huge profits, but the map isnt large enough to have both.

I am starting to think the ideal situation would be to have 4 towns in one region to yourself, with one or two being all residential, and the others being commercial and mineral extraction. Issue is getting the people to move between them seamlessly, as each unit of person seems to only want to exist in one town.

[Arnifix]

Hey guys, I hear if you preorder your game you get to play it on release day! Maybe y'all should have preordered, then EA would know how many slots they needed on the server!

EDIT: mycoolcar your avatar is creeping me out, you fucking gorilla cum fart.

[Tiwaking!]

Wow
http://www.gamingreality.com/2013/03/sim-city-becomes-worst-rated-amazon.html
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