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[Sethos]

My EU game is unlocking in 6 minutes, get ready for another wave of players.

 

[EagleBurnn]

My EU game is unlocking in 6 minutes, get ready for another wave of players.

RIP EA servers.

 

[Mobius 1]

Fuck. Went to check on the neighbor city and the server kicked me out.

God damn it EA. Spoiling a perfectly good thing.

 

[Dead Prince]

I have the same issue too.

poor Maxis. can't catch a break.

EDIT: servers are up.

 

[fluffydelusions]

I don't think you understand what I'm saying?

1. The meltodwn was too sudden. By time I realized one was intimate, it was pretty much set in stone.

2. My education levels are all fine and I received no warnings as well.

3. If you want a "realistic" game, then expect highways to take years to build, long with any transit instead of instantly. When a disaster happens, it doesn't only just effect the spot it happened on. Everyone will leave your city and you're pretty much done, especially one like Godzilla. There's a fine line between realism and an enjoyable experience. The length of meltdown radiation bypasses this.

Godzilla? Pshhhh. Screw Zombies! I put the game into the background for a short period and went back on and I went from like 4k/hr into negative. My solar array was gone, airport, half my industries. A good bit of residential area and so much more from zombies devouring them =\.

 

[JambiBum]

Finally went away from checking for updates. Now it's on authenticating. Boo.

 

[goldsoundz]

My EU game is unlocking in 6 minutes, get ready for another wave of players.

Have fun staring at the launcher!

 

[RicardoNeftali]

RIP EA servers.

This will be another bloodbath. I feel like I'm in a Rambo movie. I'm one of many nameless victims. EA is Rambo.

 

[Dead Prince]

Finally went away from checking for updates. Now it's on authenticating. Boo.

it's alright. everyone will try to connect again and it'll go down.

LOL

http://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Server-Status/m-p/499790 dumb link


EDIT: i'm in. lets see how long it last lol.

 

[maniac-kun]

Unlocked... Its downloading something now...

 

[Nokterian]

Unlocked... Its downloading something now...

It is downloading the whole game..like 12 gigs. Since the only thing it downloaded before was the launcher. Jeej for no pre load!

 

[fluffydelusions]

poor Maxis. can't catch a break.

EDIT: servers are up.

Still "checking for updates" here =\

 

[maniac-kun]

It is downloading the whole game..like 12 gigs. Since the only thing it downloaded before was the launcher. Jeej for no pre load!

That explains why its only at 12% yet.

 

[drizzle]

Europa is unlocking it right now?

Hah, good luck to anyone trying to play anything before tomorrow.

I won't even load it up anymore today.

 

[Sethos]

"Processing Large Files ... Please Wait"

 

[RoKKeR]

"Processing Large Files ... Please Wait"

So it begins.

Spoiler

Again.

Still stuck at "Checking for updates".

 

[drizzle]

It is downloading the whole game..like 12 gigs. Since the only thing it downloaded before was the launcher. Jeej for no pre load!

I know it says it downloads 12 gigs and everything, but...

 

[HotHamWater]

"Processing Large Files ... Please Wait"

This is code for downloading. It's only like 2GB (or 4, I forget) but the install registers at 10GB.

 

[Nokterian]

Europa is unlocking it right now?

Hah, good luck to anyone trying to play anything before tomorrow.

I won't even load it up anymore today.

Whole 'merica are on EU servers right? This is gonna be fun.

 

[thelurkinghorror]

My disc is spinning... installing Sim City 32%!

Hey NA players, get out from my server!

 

[maniac-kun]

My disc is spinning... installing Sim City 32%!

Download at 21% damn 50 MBit line.

 

[Sethos]

Download at 21% damn 50 Mbit line.

I'm on a 150 Mbit and it's crawling ...

 

[thelurkinghorror]

I stop playing Sim City 4 just to install Sim City 2013!

Updating 57%...

Edit:
Ready to play... I hope so...

 

[FearMyWrench]

Good luck EU guys. You're gonna need it.

 

[Caesar III]

They are using the highly scalable Amazon Cloud already and it does not scale at all :/

Stuck on "connecting to update server" It's funny how I do not get as many bytes back as I'm sending to Amazon lol (sending: 300bytes, receiving: 6 bytes)

 

[maniac-kun]

Suddenly its finished lol.

 

[ecnal]

I'm just going to say, "Fuck Nuclear Power". It's outright broken right now.

You might as well abandon a city that had a meltdown, the radiation never clears up. I let it go 5 Sim years, and it didn't change at all (except one speck of high radiation would come and go, it was like 4 pixels in size).

same problem.

6 hours and ~170K sims later and my city was ruined in less than 2 in-game hours.

the city is perma-fucked. everyone is sick, and it's completely impossible to treat all of them because it's too expensive to run all the necessary medical coverage.

i ended up lasting ~2.5 years after the meltdown and none of the ground pollution receded.

 

[Sethos]

Suddenly its finished lol.

Yeah, went from like 30% to done

 

[maniac-kun]

Iam in my private map trying to claim a city and i cant do it. Thats a fucking great start EA.

Now theres a message that the Server crashed.

 

[thelurkinghorror]

Iam in my private map trying to claim a city and i cant do it. Thats a fucking great start EA.

I'm stuck in another update, now trough the game's client.

 

[wetwired]

is there any video reviews out for this yet? I can't find shit

 

[RoKKeR]

I'm not going to say it's been worse than Error 37, but the launch has been abhorrent. I was able to play almost 12 hours yesterday without trouble (thankfully_, and damn did I have an absolute blast. Today, however, has been shit.

 

[medze]

My city rolled back but then I was able to play it some more. Built it up a lot then got some message about my city not syncing with the server or something which booted me to main menu where i had the choice to rollback my city or abandon it. Rolling back didn't work so rather than abandon, I made a new city in a different region. About 10 minutes later, the game crashed completely. Now for the past hour I cant even authenticate, just stuck at "Checking for updates" on the launcher. *sigh*

 

[cheesetom]

its like i'm reliving the diablo 3 launch.

except this time the dofus here is me.

 

[RS4-]

...wot.

I guess this saves me the trouble of trying to get my city to self destruct.

 

[Myshkin]

So, now that the game's out, how many scenarios did it ship with?

 

[Sethos]

So, now that the game's out, how many scenarios did it ship with?

One, it's a scenario about servers being down.

 

[trinest]

So, now that the game's out, how many scenarios did it ship with?

Theres about 8 regions if thats what you mean?

 

[RoKKeR]

Finally got done checking updates, but I'm now in a 15 minute wait for it to open up, or try again at least.

 

[flashburn2012]

...wot.

I guess this saves me the trouble of trying to get my city to self destruct.

Nice. I need that to happen to mine somehow.

 

[StUnNeR H2K]

On the bright side... at least they aren't treating this like an MMO with paid subscription services.

 

[trinest]

On the bright side... at least they aren't treating this like an MMO with paid subscription services.

Well there will be the DLC store thing at some point like The Sims one.

 

[RS4-]

Well then, I decide to go broke and what happens? I don't have a choice to start over, instead they replaced it with "start a new city (in another part of the region). And if I reclaim it, I'm back to being broke.

Wtf.

 

[StUnNeR H2K]

Well then, I decide to go broke and what happens? I don't have a choice to start over, instead they replaced it with "start a new city (in another part of the region).

I think ultimately you can start a new city in the region. If it prospers then send money to your bankrupt city or maybe buy resources from that city.

 

[flashburn2012]

Well then, I decide to go broke and what happens? I don't have a choice to start over, instead they replaced it with "start a new city (in another part of the region).

That's the same thing I tried. Yeah, there is no "abandon city" option when you go broke, just to start a new city. Fuck you EA.

 

[flashburn2012]

I think ultimately you can start a new city in the region. If it prospers then send money to your bankrupt city or maybe buy resources from that city.

Doesn't help if your city is irradiated (and it never goes away).

 

[RS4-]

That's the same thing I tried. Yeah, there is no "abandon city" option when you go broke, just to start a new city. Fuck you EA.

I think ultimately you can start a new city in the region. If it prospers then send money to your bankrupt city or maybe buy resources from that city.

what a waste, would've been cheaper for me just to bulldoze the whole fucking thing.

 

[RedWaltz79]

Theres about 8 regions if thats what you mean?

He means pre made situations that you are given and then told to achieve a specified goal, like in the old games.

 

[Freki]

You can "destroy" neighbouring cities by deploying parks??? WTF???
Just saw this on Giantbomb...

Could somebody confirm this please?

 

[Tmac]

On the bright side... at least they aren't treating this like an MMO with paid subscription services.

Which means that without a constant revenue from sales they'll very tempted to pull out the plug when game sales fades away.