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Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem

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Re: Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem

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I don't think they're ruining it. Some people don't care about DRM / DLC with gaming (like myself). I just want the best possible gaming experience.

Yeah, until they shutdown the server shortly after the next Sim City is released, making your old game unless. EA has a habit of doing things like that.

That's a good point, but by then I probably won't still be playing the game.

Re: Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem

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It worked in that utopia called Somalia after all. :-)

The non-sharia controlled parts have been better off than they were with their previous government. Their air travel industry is even profitable, more than we can say. I'd say that's a lot more than you could ask for considering the exploitation of the region.

Kinda sucks if you do live a sharia controlled part then. Here in the UK there are groups who would love to annex of chunks of the country as sharia zones but thankfully the law prevents this.

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"What these government-haters" Hi. libertarian here. I don't hate government. Government is probably a necessary evil. I hate obnoxious, inefficient, bug-ridden, corrupt, expensive, government. I hate government that says one thing to get elected and then promptly does another. I hate government that ostensibly is an extension of the will of the people and then acts against their expressed wishes. But I'm not grumpy…

Hi. Anarchist here, I do hate government. Government in my opinion is an unnecessary tragedy that has befallen humanity and murdered close to 1 billion people. This is by far the most intelligent community I have come across in all my internet travels, and if there is any group of people who can think of a way for society to run peacefully, it is this community. Any problem we have as a society that people currently…

That was 'libertarian' with a small 'l'.

I'm not dogmatic: if anarchy can work, I'm all for it.

Re: Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem

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The simulation was a huge resource drain in SC4. So I can see how offloading it would be a speed up. That said, if it's such a drain on today's insanely powerful desktop computers, they must have an insane backing server infrastructure in place to support it. I've got 50W worth of processing power available for the sim engine (investing half of my CPUs; still far more power than I had for SC4), are they going to put…

I'm just curious, why are you using Watt as a unit here? Is that like, half the TDP of your CPU or something?

Something like that, yes. Watts seemed like the most universal unit to use. The point being that even if they're really efficient, they'd still be using 25W x the number of concurrent clients in power, which is just absurd especially since they're not charging monthly. They're not doing any kind of complicated simulation on the server side.

Re: Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem

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sadly, EA is ruining what looks like an otherwise very promising game with DRM and DLC

I don't think they're ruining it. Some people don't care about DRM / DLC with gaming (like myself). I just want the best possible gaming experience.

I usually play Sim City by finding the unlimited money cheat and getting a large amount of money before I start. I can then build whatever I want. I enjoy the city design part of the game, not the economic part.

I doubt that this way of playing will be possible in the new Sim City.

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