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SimCity |OT| It's not the simulation or city that matter, it's <parameter: string>

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Chance Hale

Member
Alright, I've got to go to bed so sorry for the four people lined up for invites on Discovery Delta 2. If anyone already in can invite them I'd appreciate it, if not I'll be on sometime tomorrow. Have a free day for the most part hope this nonsense is resolved by then.
 
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ConfusingJazz

Member
Marty Chinn said:
Why didn't they have an open beta to stress their server rather than giving out codes to selected people. What was the point of stress testing their server if it didn't help the launch?
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What a clusterfuck. The corporate bureaucracy at EA, especially between Maxis and Origin must be amazing.
 
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Tenacious-V

Thinks his PR is better than yours.
Yup time to give up for the night. Hopefully my city was saved... I started 4 cities prior to the group in NA East 2, and none of them saved after the server booted me each time.
 
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Burgess_101

Member
Does anybody have a clue on the great works? I accidentally petition for one and got it so I thought why the hell not but I have no idea on how to send over workers.
 
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BigJonsson

Member
Well, I went bankrupt, how do I start over in the same land? I don't see where to abandon?


Found it, now I need an invite back to my gaf zone
 
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Smiley90

Stop shitting on my team. Start shitting on my finger.
So... it looks like you really can't reset a city. Damn. Oh well. Shut down all city services, now making 20k an hour until I feel happy with the money I hav and then gonna blow it all up and restart "manually".
 
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Marty Chinn

Member
Man you know what really grinds my gears? The server status being incorrect in the base client view. All night I thought my server was available only to find out it wasn't when you went to the server list.
 
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JWong

Banned
Smiley90 said:
So... it looks like you really can't reset a city. Damn. Oh well. Shut down all city services, now making 20k an hour until I feel happy with the money I hav and then gonna blow it all up and restart "manually".
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I think you can abandon cities in the region, but it might force you to do it to all of them if you have multiple.
 
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Unhandled Exception

Member
Kinda hope it didn't save my city anyway. In a really delicate balance of shutting off oil power (can't afford the import cost) and going completely green but because of a bug I couldn't place a solar panel where it said I could and it ended up completely ruining my plans.
 
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Fumoffu

Neo Member
9 hours later and still can't load a city or create a new one. Once all of Europe gets it, it's gonna be hellish for a while. I was so excited for this game, now I'm just drained.
 
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Cjdamon042

Member
Haha, love the new title. Sorry I haven't been around folks, been busy with work and Tomb Raider. Should be getting my copy tomorrow, but not that that means a lot with these problems. I will update the OT at some point...
 
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mavs

Member
I sure hope it doesn't save anything when you spectate in cities. Watched one dude's nuke plant melt down, placed some parks in another city which apparently turned all the sims into arsonists.

That was off the global leaderboard too, wouldn't even need to be friends with someone to grief them.
 
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munroe

Member
Posted by someone on facebook;

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Bravo Steam
 
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-razzy-

Neo Member
Oh GAF, help me! Accidentally pressed on the abandon button and now i cannot run my city! Is there any way to control the city again? /help
 
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Smiley90

Stop shitting on my team. Start shitting on my finger.
JWong said:
I think you can abandon cities in the region, but it might force you to do it to all of them if you have multiple.
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Yeah you can reset the whole region (well, just start a new region), but you can't reset a single city tile to its original.
 
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antonz

Member
Smiley90 said:
Yeah you can reset the whole region (well, just start a new region), but you can't reset a single city tile to its original.
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are you sure? I think if you go completely broke you can. I had an option after I got hit by zombies and godzilla in a row to reset city,raise taxes, shut off buildings. It basically froze the game and said make a choice to get back into making money.
 
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CzarTim

Member
I can get to the menu, but it keeps telling me the city won't load. Been about 20 hours since I last played, and I was so close to 300k pop too. :(
 
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Smiley90

Stop shitting on my team. Start shitting on my finger.
antonz said:
are you sure? I think if you go completely broke you can. I had an option after I got hit by zombies and godzilla in a row to reset city,raise taxes, shut off buildings. It basically froze the game and said make a choice to get back into making money.
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You can abandon it, but it won't reset :( But it's fine, I just blew it all up.
 
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autobzooty

Member
what do you do when you still have high demand for various things but your city is full and all the roads are at max density and you don't wanna play multiplayer?
 
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Nlroh

Member
Burgess_101 said:
Does anybody have a clue on the great works? I accidentally petition for one and got it so I thought why the hell not but I have no idea on how to send over workers.
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Click the great work/Arcology button on the left side of the UI and there should be something about the three requirements, each one has a button with a power symbol. Just click that button and you start sending resources. I'm pretty sure that's how I started sending metal, I hope you have alloy and tvs :/
 
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Burgess_101

Member
Nlroh said:
Click the great work/Arcology button on the left side of the UI and there should be something about the three requirements, each one has a button with a power symbol. Just click that button and you start sending resources. I'm pretty sure that's how I started sending metal, I hope you have alloy and tvs :/
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Yeah, I have metal to send I am just wondering whether it does it automatically or not? Do I have to stop exporting my metal in order for it to end up at the Arcology?
 
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Nlroh

Member
Burgess_101 said:
Yeah, I have metal to send I am just wondering whether it does it automatically or not? Do I have to stop exporting my metal in order for it to end up at the Arcology?
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When you click one of the power buttons in the great work site, you'll start sending that resource automatically. I stopped exporting my metal, but I'm not really sure if it affects it.
 
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Burgess_101

Member
Nlroh said:
When you click one of the power buttons in the great work site, you'll start sending that resource automatically. I stopped exporting my metal, but I'm not really sure if it affects it.
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Cheers, the number changes but its odd I think its the servers not working properly I think once they fix it all it should be okay. Thanks for the help.
 
stufte

stufte

Member
Sweeeet. Played for 2 hours in somones region, but apparently the servers decided NOT to keep track of all the work I did. Thanks.
 
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imjust1n

Banned
Complaining about you not able to get online is not going to fix the problem....If you are that mad return the game and dont bother with it.

Im pretty sure EA or Maxis or who ever is running the servers is trying to fix
the problem. The game came out yesterday, maybe they didnt think the
game was going to be this popular?

I enjoy the game very much and I hate seeing a game thats good get bashed
just because you're impatient people. Grow up.
 
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SLV

Member
Guys a question, anyone from you here from the Baltic states ? Is the release date in those countries in Origin the same as UK ? As it is the 7th, and for my friend the one bought in origin is still locked :/
 
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gamma

Member
imjust1n said:
Complaining about you not able to get online is not going to fix the problem....If you are that mad return the game and dont bother with it.

Im pretty sure EA or Maxis or who ever is running the servers is trying to fix
the problem. The game came out yesterday, maybe they didnt think the
game was going to be this popular?

I enjoy the game very much and I hate seeing a game thats good get bashed
just because you're impatient people. Grow up.
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lol gtfo
 
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Burgess_101

Member
imjust1n said:
Complaining about you not able to get online is not going to fix the problem....If you are that mad return the game and dont bother with it.

Im pretty sure EA or Maxis or who ever is running the servers is trying to fix
the problem. The game came out yesterday, maybe they didnt think the
game was going to be this popular?

I enjoy the game very much and I hate seeing a game thats good get bashed
just because you're impatient people. Grow up.
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I understand all the frustration and I haven't even had any error messages really. You pay £40 odd of your hard earned money you better expect it to be working as soon as and rightly so.
 
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