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[Herpes Reasons]

Saw this over @ Reddit, a patch coming this Tues?

Here are two cities I'm working on this week... The bugs drive me crazy but one thing that I do enjoy about this game is the city planning.

Apr 08, 2013 Michael Donahoe, community manager
We've got news for you one, dear mayors. The novelty of one big novelty, you're going to SimCity - update labeled 2.0! This update, which will be published soon (more on April 9 at 18:00), to include several critical fixes for which you have asked us most, and also some other improvements. For an idea of ​​providing you with a complete overview of upcoming changes:

Tourism: Repairs unexplained fluctuations tourists - passenger numbers of tourists are now collected in a better way.
Casinos: Casinos adjusted so that it is more profitable gambling - to activate this enhancement is needed to demolish the old casino and replace them with new ones.
More casinos: Number of modules Sci-fi casino casino and neat rose to six.
Game in the region: bankrupt city may receive financial assistance from the city.
Education: Addressed an issue with buses that are stuck in secondary schools; existing schools are already corrected themselves.
Education: Fixed a bug where school buses picking up students in neighboring towns as well as the absence of bus stops.
Education: Better student population census.
Education: Fixed a bug where the children after leaving the school bus stop teleported to the nearest walking route instead to go to school.
Education: The University building extensions now a player gets the correct bonus.
Recycling: Recycling center cleared errors due to which ceased to operate; recycling services now also serve other cities.
Air pollution: Fixed a problem that caused the contamination occurred suddenly without any apparent cause; fixed the problem for which it is manifested regional air pollution double penalty.
The mayor's villa: The Mayor will now go to work with their catching cars. Helicopter will fly or ride in a limo and sports cars, if the built-ins.
Fire Services: Fire cars are now getting to fires faster.
Water: Water pump now pumping water from rivers with a much larger area, so that better use of water resources.
Trade: Fixed ports that stopped working for no reason.
Public transport: Tram first stops to come with a higher frequency of movement of passengers.
Public transport: Cities with population and public transport region now transmit the correct number of employees and customers.
Public transport: Circular vehicle now will not attempt to load other Sims, but leaves the garage.
Public transport: Buses neighbors do not often visit the surrounding cities and will focus more on serving passengers "home".
Processing center: Fix problems that caused that some cities do not process correctly.
Data maps: Maps are now displayed in a standard color, even if the player uses any of image filters (except for color blind mode).
HUD: The user interface now supports mode for colorblind correct color settings.
Tuning: Pure City resident now support "state failure".
Budget: Fixed bugs in monthly transactions that permit circumvention of the system.

The above changes certainly do not represent a complete list of new version 2.0. Expect further details on the day of the release, that is next week on Tuesday. Meanwhile, although the 2.0 update does not fix the loss of the gaming process and the "rollback", but very hard to solve these problems we work.
Because it is the first major update so we would like to warn you in advance that all game servers will be updated at the time of 2.0 to two hours off. Issuing updates for such a large number of players is not a simple task, so it's a necessary step. Neither was it easy to choose the right time for the release, according to statistics gaming servers but we worked out that at least players just damage the outage at 18:00. We believe that, given the list of repairs you will understand that you two hours waiting worthwhile.
For now, try the Cheetah speed by going back to the game again!
Thanks for your patience, mayors!

fuck yes. come to daddy you sexy sexy update you.

 

[timetokill]

We believe that, given the list of repairs you will understand that you two hours waiting worthwhile.

Was this thing run through Google Translate or something?

 

[Monado Blade]

Saw this thread bumped and thought the new patch was released. Seems not huh

 

[r1chard]

Meanwhile, although the 2.0 update does not fix the loss of the gaming process and the "rollback"

Ugh. A 2.0 release that doesn't address the bugs that cause cities to lose progress or just vanish. Awesome.

 

[jamesinclair]

Was this thing run through Google Translate or something?

Yeah what the hell is up with the English?

EA needs a few months to work on that too?

 

[r1chard]

Yeah what the hell is up with the English?

EA needs a few months to work on that too?

Er, it was auto-translated. From Czech. Quite why it was only announced in Czech is another question...

 

[Rentahamster]

Education: The University building extensions now a player gets the correct bonus.

lol? Da fuck was that?

Good to see that it'll be out soon. I was gonna write up a review/suggestion list, but it might be better to wait until the patch hits since a lot of the things I take issue with might get fixed.

Hopefully.

 

[Rentahamster]

In regards to the education thing...could it be a miswording of the description?

The tooltips say that each University extension provides a "regional" benefit, but in the latest blog post about University tips, it says the effects are "citywide".

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-university-tips

 

[Kabouter]

In regards to the education thing...could it be a miswording of the description?

The tooltips say that each University extension provides a "regional" benefit, but in the latest blog post about University tips, it says the effects are "citywide".

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-university-tips

I noticed that too. Tbh, my next city with a university is sure to have the business department and the medical one if it expands enough for that. They seem pretty boss if the benefit is indeed city- rather than regionwide.

 

[KKRT00]

"but very hard to solve these problems we work."

Yoda would be proud

 

[Rentahamster]

So I recorded more strange shit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulDddtETzE&feature=youtu.be


Following this pedestrian shopper, there are a couple things astray.

1. Why is she "leaving the city" instead of going home? She's not considered a "visitor" according to the data layer.

2. Why did she, along with all the rest of those pedestrians, disappear into the fire station?

This is the only city in the region.

 

[Kabouter]

So I recorded more strange shit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VulDddtETzE&feature=youtu.be


Following this pedestrian shopper, there are a couple things astray.

1. Why is she "leaving the city" instead of going home? She's not considered a "visitor" according to the data layer.

2. Why did she, along with all the rest of those pedestrians, disappear into the fire station?

This is the only city in the region.

Does the fire station house ghostbusters?

 

[Rentahamster]

Here is more video of the sims leaving the city via the water tower. WTF is going on?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE2x7Vs_kVY&feature=youtu.be

Does the fire station house ghostbusters?

Heh.

 

[Kabouter]

So is this like a way for them to fix the traffic problems of the single-entrance/exit roads? Have people leave via municipal buildings? The fuck?

 

[1cmanny1]

Why do my industries say they don't have anywhere to ship freight, even though they have trade depots empty nearby?

Also, why are my industries saying they can't find workers, when I have an army of people in the neighbouring town?

 

[Mazdarati]

Here are two cities I'm working on this week... The bugs drive me crazy but one thing that I do enjoy about this game is the city planning.

Very cool pics. Really like the bridge.

Still very puzzling how so many of these"bugs" were not known/fixed until after the game's release.

 

[Rentahamster]

So is this like a way for them to fix the traffic problems of the single-entrance/exit roads? Have people leave via municipal buildings? The fuck?

Seriously. Actually my more pressing concern is why the hell are residents of my own city leaving instead of going back to a residence within the city itself? I wonder if this could be one of the causes of having random residential buildings being unhappy for no clear reason. If the sims are "leaving the city" instead of going home, then they are not bringing the happiness tokens back to those buildings.

Why do my industries say they don't have anywhere to ship freight, even though they have trade depots empty nearby?

Also, why are my industries saying they can't find workers, when I have an army of people in the neighbouring town?

The tooltips sometimes have lag. If you observe them via the data layer, and they truly don't have any problems shipping freight, and if their overall happiness is good, they'll eventually show the that they love shipping freight. I think there's some kind of lag. Or...like..if the industry is unhappy because of a lack of workers or something, it'll tell you that it's a freight problem instead for some reason. Similar to when a building is on fire, but then gets abandonded due to "too much crime".

Commuting doesn't work very well in this game. Your best bet is to make sure that your own city is able to supply enough workers. Use the detailed tab on the population panel to see how many unfilled jobs you have, or unemployed sims you have and then balance accordingly. For me, I usually just say fuck it and only balance the low wealth sims.

Check these pages for resource info:

http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1aco3t/about_rci_ratios_freight_and_other_values_in_game/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...VJwU21DeDVhbnBVdHc&f=true&noheader=true&gid=1

 

[Jintor]

What the fuck

 

[Rentahamster]

So I'm observing this thing a little more closely. I have a high density apartment next to a high density commercial building.

A horde of shoppers leaves the apartment and goes to the store next door. Like they should. I wait, and then the horde of shoppers leaves the store, and they all have the "feeling happy leaving city" description. Instead of walking back to the residential building? Okaaaayyyy...

Then they proceed to all walk into the NISSAN LEAF™ charging station down the street and vanish.


Sense. It makes goddamn none.

 

[Kinky John]

SimCity ‏@simcity 4m
Good news, Mac Mayors – #SimCity for Mac is releasing June 11 and owning one version will get you both. More here:http://bit.ly/153E2Rb

.

 

[elektrixx]

Double the trouble.

Well, hopefully not by then.

 

[HT UK]

Any thoughts on Cities in Motion 2 fellow SimCity players? I know it's more focused on transportation, but I'm considering picking it up as I'm done with SimCity now.

 

[rrs]

Sim City for $32 from Gamefly with promo codes.

 

[Mengy]

Sim City for $32 from Gamefly with promo codes.

Still not low enough for me to suffer along with the rest of you, lol. Honestly at this point I'm not sure I'd pay $20 for it yet. The lackluster effort to fix the game up has me concerned about the future of Simcity 2013. I really thought they would have fixed more of the problems by now.

 

[rrs]

Still not low enough for me to suffer along with the rest of you, lol. Honestly at this point I'm not sure I'd pay $20 for it yet. The lackluster effort to fix the game up has me concerned about the future of Simcity 2013. I really thought they would have fixed more of the problems by now.

I'm not touching ever

 

[Mazdarati]

Sim City for $32 from Gamefly with promo codes.

Thanks for sharing this, but the amount isn't the issue. Even though Mengy says $20 wouldn't be low enough; at this point the issue is the message that purchase sends.

 

[spirity]

Still not low enough for me to suffer along with the rest of you, lol. Honestly at this point I'm not sure I'd pay $20 for it yet. The lackluster effort to fix the game up has me concerned about the future of Simcity 2013. I really thought they would have fixed more of the problems by now.

This will be arguable, depending on who you speak to, but imo Diablo 3 still hasn't reached parity with its peers. And its been around for nearly a year now. I know D3 and SimCity are two very different games, but both games launched too early, were missing features, had disastrous launches due to server instability, queues, glacial development pace, came with always online and had the financial backing of huge companies. There really are a lot of similarities between the two games, despite the difference in genres.

I'm half expecting a fixed up definite edition of SimCity to hit the consoles.

 

[exmachina64]

Does the fire station house ghostbusters?

Explains everything.

Now EA just needs to get over its embarrassment and start releasing all the SimCity DLC it's hiding because of the launch problems.

Purchase SimCity: Supernatural and unlock a data map showing paranormal activity in your city and region. Pre-order to receive the GhostBusters fire station DLC at no extra cost!

I'm half expecting a fixed up definite edition of SimCity to hit the consoles.

PS4 and Durango, I would hope. It would be severely hindered by developing 360 and PS3 versions.

 

[Mengy]

This will be arguable, depending on who you speak to, but imo Diablo 3 still hasn't reached parity with its peers. And its been around for nearly a year now. I know D3 and SimCity are two very different games, but both games launched too early, were missing features, had disastrous launches due to server instability, queues, glacial development pace, came with always online and had the financial backing of huge companies. There really are a lot of similarities between the two games, despite the difference in genres.

Yeah, I'd agree with this. I bought D3 at launch and although I enjoyed it, I was also pretty let down by it. It is much better today than it was at launch, but D3 still has a very long way to go before it comes anywhere near it's predecessor's greatness. That said, I still play it now and then, although I quickly bore of it. IMHO it's Blizzards's worst game in over a decade, easily.

In many ways I think Diablo III is why I listened to my gut with Simcity and decided to wait until after launch to decide if I would buy it or not, and I'm glad I did wait. Both games have reminded me of the lesson I learned with Master of Orion III so many years ago: always wait until after release to buy a game, and always read reviews and opinions first.

 

[Nibiru]

I expect this game will never get better. They will make tweaks here and there but if they couldn't iron out many of these problems during the development of the game then there is no way we will get it in a patch. It is fundamentally bad in so many areas how do you they even begin to fix it.

This 2.0 patch was supposed to be major and I'm sorry but it doesn't look even the slightest bit "major," and because this patch took so long and is being perceived by them as being substantial we will not be seeing a follow up patch for months.

 

[Open Source]

Unless cities can be at least 16 times bigger (4x in each direction), I'm not touching the game again no matter how many other additions and fixes they make.

If ye mighty can't look on my works and despair, then it's not worth my time.

 

[storybook77]

I expect this game will never get better. They will make tweaks here and there but if they couldn't iron out many of these problems during the development of the game then there is no way we will get it in a patch. It is fundamentally bad in so many areas how do you they even begin to fix it.

This 2.0 patch was supposed to be major and I'm sorry but it doesn't look even the slightest bit "major," and because this patch took so long and is being perceived by them as being substantial we will not be seeing a follow up patch for months.

That was not an official patch notes release rather it was translated from a Czech post of some sort. I'd wait for Maxis' official patch notes before making these kinds of declarations.

 

[Mengy]

I expect this game will never get better. They will make tweaks here and there but if they couldn't iron out many of these problems during the development of the game then there is no way we will get it in a patch. It is fundamentally bad in so many areas how do you they even begin to fix it.

This 2.0 patch was supposed to be major and I'm sorry but it doesn't look even the slightest bit "major," and because this patch took so long and is being perceived by them as being substantial we will not be seeing a follow up patch for months.

Well, the possible silver lining is that the Czech translation or leak or whatever wasn't complete. The patch notes are so under whelming that I'm almost sure the actual list of fixes is longer and more satisfying. Especially the traffic situation. The patch HAS to address the traffic to some degree. I mean that's like one of the most important parts of the sim that is broken, they surely couldn't ignore that for this patch.

 

[dark_chris]

Sim City for $32 from Gamefly with promo codes.

Goddamnit, Im tempted.
I really wanna play this game but from the BS that this game has from being online always, I dont want to send a message to EA.
I may bite when it goes to $20

 

[Twinduct]

So stopped playing like two/ three weeks ago ... other than cheetah speed and the charge station .... anything fixed yet?

 

[Rentahamster]

So stopped playing like two/ three weeks ago ... other than cheetah speed and the charge station .... anything fixed yet?

Not really.

 

[Rentahamster]

New DLC incoming? Tourist attractions.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.427077650721612.1073741829.387728741323170&type=1

 

[RayStorm]

Any thoughts on Cities in Motion 2 fellow SimCity players? I know it's more focused on transportation, but I'm considering picking it up as I'm done with SimCity now.

It's a very fun game. It's more tedious than it needs to be in some aspects. I don't think you can actually go bankrupt in CiM2. But aside from that it presents a believable simulation that works as you feel it should. And given the similarities it's quite a bit different from CiM1. If you like either part you will like the other too and you can still play both without necessarily getting more of the same.

And considering the price CiM2 should be an auto buy for anyone even remotely interested in these kind of games.

 

[Acorn]

New DLC incoming? Tourist attractions.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.427077650721612.1073741829.387728741323170&type=1

Is this one sponsored by Spyro & Barneys lovechild?

 

[exmachina64]

New DLC incoming? Tourist attractions.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.427077650721612.1073741829.387728741323170&type=1

We know from that Origin store leak that hot air balloon DLC is incoming.

It's a very fun game. It's more tedious than it needs to be in some aspects. I don't think you can actually go bankrupt in CiM2. But aside from that it presents a believable simulation that works as you feel it should. And given the similarities it's quite a bit different from CiM1. If you like either part you will like the other too and you can still play both without necessarily getting more of the same.

And considering the price CiM2 should be an auto buy for anyone even remotely interested in these kind of games.

I purchased CiM2 on Saturday and tried putting a couple of hours into it. I gave up because I couldn't get the buses to run at all after I established their lines, but I'll come back to it when I have some more time.

 

[Phreaker]

New DLC incoming? Tourist attractions.

Thanks, but I'm not buying shit. I feel I got raped out of $80, dumbest money I've spent gaming I think.

 

[Kabouter]

I purchased CiM2 on Saturday and tried putting a couple of hours into it. I gave up because I couldn't get the buses to run at all after I established their lines, but I'll come back to it when I have some more time.

Bus line:
- Build depot
- Build stops
- Create new route, add stops to route, route must begin and end at a depot
- Buy buses at starting depot

Line should start running then, though you might want to fiddle with the time table a bit to get the line working the way you want.

 

[Moral Panic]

Why dos the first post read like a press release? The stuff under the glassbox section is a complete fabrication right?

GlassBox simulates real city behavior: Cars exhibit authentic traffic patterns, water actually travels down pipes, and fire spreads in realistic radiuses. What you see,
is what we Sim. Your decisions affect the future of the city and the Sims living in it

 

[exmachina64]

Bus line:
- Build depot
- Build stops
- Create new route, add stops to route, route must begin and end at a depot
- Buy buses at starting depot

Line should start running then, though you might want to fiddle with the time table a bit to get the line working the way you want.

Already done, went through that in the tutorial, of course.

Once all of that is done, the buses literally don't run in my game. I just sit there and watch the traffic situation worsen. At this point, I've chalked it up to a bug.

 

[RayStorm]

Already done, went through that in the tutorial, of course.

Once all of that is done, the buses literally don't run in my game. I just sit there and watch the traffic situation worsen. At this point, I've chalked it up to a bug.

Never had that happen. How long (in game hours) did you let it run, after you setup your line? (I assume you did not close the line by clicking on the green/red dot that's on the line windows top right). Are other vehicles working for you? Are you really certain that the depot is the first and last stop?

 

[elektrixx]

I don't know if its 2.0, but I'm getting an update on Oceanic 1.

 

[storybook77]

I don't know if its 2.0, but I'm getting an update on Oceanic 1.

Nope, just confirmed that it is a prep update from a Maxis employee.

Kind of like MS does with the 360 when getting ready for the next dash update.

 

[PotatoeMasher]

Why dos the first post read like a press release? The stuff under the glassbox section is a complete fabrication right?

That's not really false other than the routing algorithm for traffic sucking at launch (and similarly affecting the quality of things like water and power that also travel along the same routes to distribute resources).

The simulation right now may suck, but they're still simulating a real city. Previous releases have never been under a microscope like this, so we judge the rushed 1.0 against SimCity 4 Deluxe plus ten years of mods. I suspect we're going to know a lot better with the 2.0 release whether to have optimism about GlassBox going forward.

 

[Rentahamster]

Pretty neat guide to do sunken roads.

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9388028.page

It's pretty ridiculous the amount of hoops we have to go through to "terraform" in this game.

 

[Xcell Miguel]

Currently in Development :

Updates currently on our Public Test Server:

• Join Region Filter: Results will only show regions with available slots.
• Leaderboards: Leaderboards restored.

Updates currently in our Development Test environment:

What’s New

• Mayors Mansion: Mayor will now drive his fancy cars to work. Mayor will take his helicopter, limo, or sports car if the modules are present.
• Data maps: Now show in their normal color when a color filter is enabled (unless in a colorblind mode)
• HUD: Now color-corrects when in a colorblind mode.

Fixes and Updates
• Cities not Processing/rollbacks: Fix to mitigate the chance of future occurrences of cities not processing and rollbacks.
• Leaderboards: Restoring leaderboards to all servers.
• Invitations: Invitations to join a region should be sent and received more quickly.
• Region Filters: Now sorts regions with available cities to the top
• Tourism: Fixes for unexplained fluctuation of tourists. Tourists more smartly counted on transit.
• Casinos: Casinos tuned so that Gambling will be a more profitable specialty. Players can bulldoze and replace existing casinos to see effects of tuning.
• More Casinos: Raised module limit on Sci-Fi and Sleek Casinos to 6 modules.
• Region Play: Cash gifts can now be received in a bankrupt city.
• Education: Fixed school buses getting stuck at the high school. Existing Schools will fix themselves.
• Education: Fixed school buses picking up students at neighboring cities that didn’t have school bus stops.
• Education: Fix to more accurately track regional student population.
• Education: Fix where kids leaving the school bus stop would teleport to the nearest pedestrian path instead of walking directly into the school.
• Education: University wings now give the proper bonus.
• Recycling: Fix for the Recycling Center where it would sometimes stop working, recycling services will visit other cities.
• Air pollution: Fixed issue where air pollution would appear to come from nowhere. Fix issues where your regional air pollution would be reflected back into your box for a double penalty.
• Fire Service: Fire Trucks don’t clump, dispatch to fires more efficiently.
• Water: Water pumps are now capable of pumping water from rivers at a larger radius so they can take better advantage of the water table in a city.
• Disasters: Cooldown for random disasters: Some players were getting hit too frequently with random disasters, this introduces a cooldown where no random disasters will occur.
• Trade: Fix for trade ports that suddenly stop shipping.
• Transit: Street Cars and Buses go to high volume stops first.
• Transit: A city with residents and public transit will now provide the accurate amount of workers and shoppers to its neighbors.
• Transit: A transit vehicle stuck in a pick-up or drop off loop will now go back to a garage instead of trying to pick up more people.
• Transit: Neighbors buses will now come in lower numbers into the city and do a better job at picking up local passengers first.
• Tuning: Residential-only cities have failure state.
• Budgets: Fixed bug with monthly transactions being used to get around systems pushing back.