SimCity can be modded to play offline
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DeathDealer175
Hi everyone -- due to EA's ToS we cannot allow threads discussing hacking/modifying the game. Thanks for understanding.
http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9368164.page
Guess they dont like what has been done..
Speed Weed
That's how to stick it up EA!
Well done that modder. 🙂
nicugoalkeper
+1 I Agree !
BLEH!
Good thing this isn't the EA forums then 😀. Good work on that to the modder.
schmidtbag
I might actually get the game now knowing I won't have to depend on EA's servers. I'm not really interested in playing it online - I've never played SC4 online and I easily put 50+ hours into that game.
I get the impression that the new SimCity is dependent upon neighboring cities of other players, and in a virtual world that isn't a risk I'm willing to take. This isn't real life where people actually give a damn and (should) have qualifications to run a city, and while a game isn't serious if a neighbor screws you over, it's still frustrating.
Major Melchett
Just remember people, this isn't a true full offline mode - you still need to connect to the servers to save your game (as per what the article states).
So if you want to play this offline all the time (saves being made locally) you currently can't do that.
schmidtbag
Has the game been pirated yet? If so, many games are pirated by simulating a fake local server, in which case maybe you could actually save locally. *sigh* If I'm right, it's a shame that once again pirates get the better experience.
Ghosty
Game was pirated on day one. Just took a little longer for a EXE crack to appear.
freeZ
Sim City REQUIRING you to be online and play it... It was bad enough for D3.
Why do people even give them their money for that kind of BS? If people were man enough to vote with their wallets, they wouldn't be stepping all over us. Stop supporting these companies, let them starve until they start treating paying customers properly again.
Stukov
I voted with my wallet. I would have loved a new Sim City, just as I would have loved to play Battlefield 3, but EA practices (such as online DRM in SC and Origin on BF3) have prevented me from buying them. Same thing with Ubisoft and Blizzard. There are plenty of other games out there I can buy.
iancook221188
same as this there not getting my money to game i want but im not buying :wanker:
Sash
i don't care who believes me or not, but Ocean Quingley said in this twitter, there is a screencap somewhere in simcity reddit's page that modders where allowed to freely mod the game, according to Maxis's TOS, but not to EA's TOS!
tl:dr Maxis allows modders to mod simcity, but EA does not... EA wins, customers lose, as usual!
eclap
show us that tweet!
Major Melchett
@schmidtbag
No matey it hasn't been, the save system is server side only right now and until someone mods it or EA change their mind to make it local then using the offline mod/hack means no saving.
So don't worry, pirate/thieves haven't got a better experience (thankfully).
Sash
It's cool to see the fans digging through our source files, the creativity of our mod community has always been the lifeblood of Maxis.
@SlackeyedUSMC Maxis = EA. Ocean is on record as saying we are working on exposing parts of the game to modders. Scope as yet undetermined.
michael long
@vertexnormal
Lead Artist @ Maxis, Working on SimCity
@SimCityModding @moskow23 I say go for it, but it'll be a little while before we can provide any support.
Ocean Quigley
@oceanquigley
Creative director & Art director on the new SimCity. Art directed Spore, SimCity 4, SimCity 3000. Oil painter.
http://i.imgur.com/PsJhtn8.png
eclap
do you have a link to that reddit? or just a pic?
Denial
http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/?count=50&after=t3_1ad97f
To be fair the bannable thing is from a support team, who probably knows nothing.
Sash
http://www.ea.com/news/simcity-update-straight-answers-from-lucy
make a petition and ask Lucy Crapshaw to resign from Maxis please! she is the reason this simcity is broken, not EA, she is the crazy one who thinks that an MMO for a city builder is a good idea, obviously she has no clue what happened to Cities XL when it was online, well that was a small company but if that game made monte cristo go bankrupt, it will surely make EA lose tons of money, maybe they will resign Lucy and slap themselves on the face!
tsunami231
this is hope for the game if we can some how play off line with outthe stupid EA BS of "IT"needs to be "online"
mackintosh
Don't get so upset over it. Lucy is just another executive with what seems like a background in marketing and corporate bull speak. She has no clue what she's on about, is completely out of touch with the consumer base and will sooner run around circles than admit to a mistake (and that's being very generous given Simcity's failings). At this point, they've spouted so many lies that adding a few more can't really dig them any deeper of a hole they're already in.
I'm actually over my initial frustrations with Simcity and haven't touched it for a couple of days. Instead, I'm getting my entertainment from this massive PR disaster that is unfolding right before our eyes. They're basically doing everything wrong. It's hilarious.
