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Subways can be even better, since they leave the surface clean for other things.
Original Sim City didn't have subways, just railways with very sparse commuter trains. I tried the all-rail town, too. There was a persistent alert to "build more roads".
Unless you can build cycle tracks there's no point.
Hopefully there's a 'rush hour' style expansion that lets us simulate cities other than Los Angeles.
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Maybe it's not such a bad thing. Spreading around saved game files and using tools to mess with the games memory to cheat is something that has prevented a true Ranking system and online play in almost all games. These server-side requirements would mean that the $ is stored server side and it will be harder to cheat. It was pretty much either have always on connectivity or require punkbuster and disable many online…
How does "ranking" work for a sandbox game? The concept wakes no sense. Simcity doesn't have kill/death ratios or something. You can't have a global leaderboard, because there's no winning. It's not clear that "cheating" is even a problem. If you want to play online with your friends with unlimited money, go ahead! Why the hell not?
You can easily develop a way to rank how productive, profitable, clean, and happy cities in a game like SimCity are. If you weigh these factors and provide a number then you have a ranking. Maybe global leaderboard was a bad example but there are numerous other features that might require this kind of online only gameplay that we haven't experienced yet.
I say don't knock it until you try it. Not the beta, not the videos of others playing, the real game.
If the new strategy really kills the game then I'm sure someone will create a fake server patch or method of playing offline.
It seems to me that they blundered when it comes to marketing. If they had just called it SimCity Online and promoted it as an MMO, no one would get upset about the persistent connection requirement and no save/load functionality.
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Does this mean you also can't exchange cities? What sort of foolish design decision is that?
sadly, EA is ruining what looks like an otherwise very promising game with DRM and DLC
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I don't think that's an option when you have neighboring cities that are played by other people. I believe your city will impact theirs and vice-versa.
Wait, so what happens if I build lots of nuclear plants then let them all melt down? Does that affect neighboring cities that other people are actually playing?
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How does "ranking" work for a sandbox game? The concept wakes no sense. Simcity doesn't have kill/death ratios or something. You can't have a global leaderboard, because there's no winning. It's not clear that "cheating" is even a problem. If you want to play online with your friends with unlimited money, go ahead! Why the hell not?
Maybe they are trying to teach kids things like debt to income , budget management, loan basics, and concepts like "there is no redo in real life" rather than basing everything on a kill/death ratio. You can easily develop a way to rank how productive, profitable, clean, and happy cities in a game like SimCity are. If you weigh these factors and provide a number then you have a ranking. Maybe global leaderboard was a…
If every spoke is timed so it takes the same amount of time, you can minimize how long people have to wait. Make everybody get on at one end of the bus and exit at the other and hub stops can be short.
You'd have to walk to the nearest hub and from the one closest to your destination. But you need the exercise anyway.
And charge tolls for passenger cars that vary with demand, something that would work without recreating the roads.
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Maybe they are trying to teach kids things like debt to income , budget management, loan basics, and concepts like "there is no redo in real life" rather than basing everything on a kill/death ratio. You can easily develop a way to rank how productive, profitable, clean, and happy cities in a game like SimCity are. If you weigh these factors and provide a number then you have a ranking. Maybe global leaderboard was a…
That's completely the opposite of why games exist. If I didn't want a chance at forgiveness, I would just play real life.