Sim City 5

So the new Sim City game is released! I'm eager to hear you opinion and if you have this game or if you are planning to buy it. We all know that Sim City had some issues with the load on the servers (basically they didn't expect that this many players would buy the game). Now this issue is fixed at the moment but more issues and other things are discovered everyday.

For instance, they had told the story that every Sim in the city would have is own house, go to work etc and more advanced AI. Now someone has followed a Sim for couple of days and find out the following. The Sim always takes the shortest route to his or her work. That they are taking the shortest route is fine do you think, but is it? For example if you build a six-lane freeway around the city to convert traffic no-one is taking it because there is a one-way dirt road which is shorter. This will cause a traffic jam for sure and the traffic jam has more concequences than you think (ambulances can't move to a patient, fire department can't reach the building that is on fire, public transport is jammed, etc. etc.). So that's a bummer. And when the Sim goes the home (I'm talking about the same Sim) He will take the very first house that isn't occupied near his or her working place. More of these things are revealing by the day.

You don't notice these things on the first sight but when your city expands and you really have to think you start noticing these things. Still, with these flaws it's still fun to play. And the added function of being able to play with friends in one world. And you can start trade agreements, public transport agreements, facilities agreements (like water, electricity etc.) and there is much more.

Do you have the game? Are you going to get it? Let me hear your opinion!

[Someone's been reading Tweakers.net ]

'tis even worse than you describe though. A Sim does not even have it's own job. It will pathfind to the nearest job available! Just as it does with a house.

That brand-spanking new casino you built in the center of your city? Yeah, it'll go bankrupt very quickly. Why is this? Because the tourist-class Sims that you would want to visit the casino will enter the town from the outside, and then go to the closest relevant spot. If this happens to be a shopping mall, they will all go there instead. >_>

I really think it's just cheap ass programming. EA trying to cheese their way out of delivering a proper product, but still charge you top dollar for their wares.

Then there's the always-online DRM though Origin. Heavily advertised as being required because "the server takes a huge chunk of simulation calculations away from your PC and into the cloud, so your PC is able to run the game". Turns out to be complete bull as well. Server doesn't do anything except facilitating communication between the different cities, and the cloud storage for your saved files. It's just another way to bother the people actually paying to play the game.

Conclusion: Pirate it, so you're not bothered by DRM-gone-wrong and offline servers.

Did they actually expect that it would do calculations for you? Don't make me laugh.

i have sim city and i have been playing it with a few people, and it is great fun (when the servers work)

really worth the money

gingerjordan97 wrote:i have sim city and i have been playing it with a few people, and it is great fun (when the servers work)

really worth the money

pfft, casual gamer, how dare you enjoy it

Nixy23 wrote:[Someone's been reading Tweakers.net ]
I really think it's just cheap ass programming. EA trying to cheese their way out of delivering a proper product, but still charge you top dollar for their wares. Then there's the always-online DRM though Origin. Heavily advertised as being required because "the server takes a huge chunk of simulation calculations away from your PC and into the cloud, so your PC is able to run the game".

I feel kind of robbed hahaha, still a friend of mine told me there will be a patch with fixing some things like the job story.