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SimCity Patch Introduces More Bugs
Oy ... You know that massive SimCity patch that was supposed to fix everything? It went about as well as you can expect. Fans have taken to Reddit and official forums to decry the mess, which has left some cities literally overflowing with waste.
Human excrement is at the bottom (sorry) of one common issue encountered since yesterday's patch. A concerned Redditor reported a "sewage OVERLOAD" in a town with a relatively tiny population of 4,000 that saw their outflow pipe "MAXED". Another player beginning a new town with a similarly-sized bevy of civvies found their terminally incontinent Sims had already put 55 in the clinic.
Not all of the bugs are so ripe for comedy. Some SimCity players have found themselves stuck on loading screens when attempting to resume cities created before the patch - though they've had no problems in creating new ones. Others lucky enough to access their saves have discovered that buildings wouldn’t complete construction, instead becoming perpetual building sites.
Meanwhile, while players are celebrating the end of traffic issues caused by "clumping" fire trucks and endlessly looping transit vehicles, more dramatic pile-ups are occurring as the result of new problems. One poor mayor saw their streets turned gold yesterday with hundreds of bright yellow and totally inexplicable taxi cabs
EA compensates SimCity Launch Failure with a Free Game - 03/19/2013 09:33 AM
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SimCity can be modded to play offline - 03/15/2013 08:40 AM
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SimCity - Beta #2 Begins On Feb 11th - 02/11/2013 09:23 AM
So if you missed the opportunity to give the beta of the upcoming release of SimCity a spin, you are getting another shot at the chance for the one hour gameplay. As before, you will need an EA acco...
SimCity - Beta Begins On January 25th - 01/19/2013 11:04 AM
Woohoo ! Electronic Arts today announced that the SimCity beta will run from January 25 – January 28. Those who previously signed up are already in consideration for access to the beta, l...
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#4583819 Posted on: 04/25/2013 05:54 AM
Some of the bugs can be fixed by the player, like rezoning areas to solve the perpetual construction site issue; but the big bug is being on a 16 city map and having one crucial city unusable because it won't load even after ten minutes of watching the stupid messages about reticulating splines and Llamas.
Other bugs were not really fixed to any satisfactory level, like the traffic problems and emergency vehicles not getting road priority or even doing something basic, like overtaking - all whilst sims are either dieing, burning alive or being mugged/killed.
Still fun to play, but these problems make that fact worse.
Some of the bugs can be fixed by the player, like rezoning areas to solve the perpetual construction site issue; but the big bug is being on a 16 city map and having one crucial city unusable because it won't load even after ten minutes of watching the stupid messages about reticulating splines and Llamas.
Other bugs were not really fixed to any satisfactory level, like the traffic problems and emergency vehicles not getting road priority or even doing something basic, like overtaking - all whilst sims are either dieing, burning alive or being mugged/killed.
Still fun to play, but these problems make that fact worse.
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#4583823 Posted on: 04/25/2013 06:00 AM
Oy ...Â*You know that massive SimCity patch that was supposed to fix everything? It went about as well as you can expect.Â*Fans have taken to Reddit and official forums to decry the mess, which has le...
SimCity Patch Introduces More Bugs
simcity, is being maimed by ea now.
Oy ...Â*You know that massive SimCity patch that was supposed to fix everything? It went about as well as you can expect.Â*Fans have taken to Reddit and official forums to decry the mess, which has le...
SimCity Patch Introduces More Bugs
simcity, is being maimed by ea now.
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#4583824 Posted on: 04/25/2013 06:04 AM
Oh it must be a server side issue. After all, a lot is being calculated in the cloud.
Oh it must be a server side issue. After all, a lot is being calculated in the cloud.
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#4583829 Posted on: 04/25/2013 06:16 AM
Huh?
Isn't Sim City only using the server for saving games and checking licenses?
I mean, there was an article on it being perfectly playable offline after modifying the executable to spoof the connection.
Oh it must be a server side issue. After all, a lot is being calculated in the cloud.
Huh?
Isn't Sim City only using the server for saving games and checking licenses?
I mean, there was an article on it being perfectly playable offline after modifying the executable to spoof the connection.
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Well, well...talk about one sh!tty patch.