Video : Maxis / EA Says "Simcity Impossible To Play Offline" Modder Proves Otherwise!

So you might have heard about Maxis and EA regurgitating the "No Single Player" line when it comes to Simcity. For Example Maxis dev's stated the following:

“With the way that the game works, we offload a significant amount of the calculations to our servers so that the computations are off the local PCs and are moved into the cloud. It wouldn’t be possible to make the game offline without a significant amount of engineering work by our team.”

"Significant amount of engineering" my ass.  Case in point, an anonymous maxis insider source claimed it was fairly easy for Maxis/EA to make Simcity offline and that the server stuff wasn't needed.  Of course the community isn't believing any of this mis-information, if not out right lies, from a company who in the past has been less then honorable in dealing with their customers and employees.  Nor should the community accept the "company line" that's being spewed forth, especially when Maxis/EA spout off how the DRM is there for "our" benefit.  BAH!

So just to show how idiotic Maxis/EA's position really is, a resourceful modder and reddit user by the name of UKAzzer posted a video showing that offline is indeed possible and with minimal effort:

Here is the full scoop from UKAzzer's youtube channel:

So with a little bit of package editing within SimCity, and a little playing about in the code, it's possible to enable debug mode. I linked the activation to the "Help Center" button in the main menu for ease. Most debug features are disabled without having an actual developer's build (they have terraforming tools etc. available in the full developer build!), but a few things do still work - including editing the main highways.
Not only that - but you can edit the highways ANYWHERE - even outside of your city boundary... and even if you quit the game and log back in later, it's all saved safely on the server.
This shows that highway editing will be easily possible, AND that editing outside of the artificially small city boundaries should be very viable too.
Other things I have modded out with a quick change: Unlimited time to remain disconnected (won't get booted at 20 minutes, can now be disconnected "forever"). Population count now shows REAL figure, not the "artificially inflated" figure. My large cities have a population of about 15k now, not 100k :P

 If you want additional news regarding this issue and other bugs/exploits for Simcity, check out UKAzzer's youtube channel! Or you can check back here for more news on the subject.  I'm sure this won't be the last we've heard of this issue.

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Video : MisAdventures In SimCity! S01E02

While everyone else was busying looking at wait queue's to get into the game to play yesterday and today or are completely locked out I was able to load up the game and give a little tour of some of the newest features as well as a tour of my smallish town.  If you like the videos please head over to my youtube channel and rate and subscribe! (sorry this was at 2 am when i got in so I yawn a bit here and there, and a few times when I'm zoomed in all you can hear is the sirens, will try to compensate for future videos)

(ALSO IF YOU  ARE GOING TO MONITIZE YOUR VIDEOS TURN OFF THE IN GAME MUSIC!!! YOUTUBE IS FRICK'N SAYING THERE IS A COPYRIGHT DISPUTE ON ALL THE VIDEOS, INCORRECTLY!  ITS "IN GAME" MUSIC! BASTARDS.) 

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Video : Mis-Adventures In Simcity (5)! Season 1 Episode 1 "The Dawning"

So I my friends and myself pre-ordered the new Simcity game as soon as it was humanly possibly after seeing gorgeous videos of some of the pre-released developer videos.  Each time they released a new video we all salivated over how awesome the game was going to look and just imagined how cool the game would be to play.

Then we got into the closed beta, and while fun, they were somewhat disappointing and frustrating.  You had a limited set of items you could use and you could only play for one hour!  Every city I created just got going and was extremely interesting at the one hour mark, and then the game would end.  I wanted to punch several babies and kittens after a couple of hours of that again and again.

However, today is the official release date as of 9:00 pm PST of the Simcity game! YAY! Despite the reddit hate postings here from everyone who didn't get the ability to download the game as soon as it hit midnight around the globe, or who purchased through Amazon. My friends and I merely waited and around 10:00 pm PST were awarded with a now ready to download icon in the origin client.

So below is my first play  through, if you like what you see please rate and subscribe as that encourages me to make even more Mis-Adventure videos!

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Video : SimCity Multiplayer Looks Like It Might Be Fun, In A Competition Sort Of Way.

Over at Joystiq they have a video up of some of the multiplayer activities for the new SimCity game.

Overall I was hoping there might be more to multiplayer in the new SimCity than just competing against other players/friends, but that might be the case unless they reveal more about multiplayer the closer we get to the release date of March 5th.  Check out the video below to see how you can play in other regions then allow friends to take over that region and continue building that city.  There is mention of shared goals but that is slated for a future video...



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Video : Two New SimCity Videos Are Gorgeous and Entertaining!

Two new videos are up on the SimCity youtube channel that give teasers to how the new SimCity will function and how disasters may occur!  The videos are both beautiful and I can't wait to get my hands on the game, hoping to get into the beta! Yeah, I already preordered! WOOT!  Take a look at the vids below and see if you don't as well!  2013 Can't get here fast enough! hehe.

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VIDEO: SIMCITY COMING IN 2013! Is it 2013 yet!?!!

Something that took me completely by surprise, and has me giggling like a little school girl, is the announcement at the GDC, (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco this week, of SimCity 5! Hehehehehe!  


Its been a long time coming since they made a true SimCity game.  While SimCity Societies was branded with "SimCity" it was essentially a failure and left you wanting more, something I detailed here.


SimCity 5 looks like a back to the basics game, and with today's processing power it's going to be absolutely gorgeous!  According to the press, the graphics will certainly be upgraded and I guess it'll have a "green" theme to it, which will be interesting.  


Hopefully this time around they will include true multiplayer and allow you to broker deals with your friends playing in real time.  I've been disappointed in past games where they just allow you to download "snapshots" of other peoples cities but nothing that actually allows you to interact with your friends directly.  If they could somehow combine SimCity with Civilization that would be ideal for multiplayer SimCity.  


Alright, enough talk.  Check out the trailer!  





Maxis shut up and just take my money!  The only downside to all this news is that SimCity is going to be released in 2013!!?!  What! I've gotta wait how long?! 


Is it 2013 yet?  


How about now?!  


Now?


I'm totally jones'n now for some SimCity action.  Bah!,  I think I've got Simcity 4 on this computer someplace!  


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