EasTard SimCity Region

[Kenadian]

I've created a new Region today called EasTard but this time it's on a European Server, Europe West 6 to be exact.

Incidentally you do not have to play the training mission when changing Servers, at least I didn't have to.

Just as I suspected, the European Servers seem much more reliable than the North American ones, at least this one is. I've played for well over 6 hours today on FeckingTon and didn't have one crash nor any sync issues or black screen to Main Menu. Maybe this will change with more of us on the map, too hard to say at this time?

I played mostly Llama speed and switched to slow speed now and then for major restructuring. Incidentally, I didn't go 20 minutes on our existing server without being booted back to the Main Menu.

I've picked the largest map possible with 16 available cities.

So far the only person invited at this time is mondo. I tried the ingame Search to find the rest of you but for some reason none of you show up. In fact, the only reason I could invite mondo is he was online at the time.

If you guys can manage to keep Origin online then I'll be able to invite you.

 

[little P]

Nice one, is the patch out yet?

 

[JohnnyK]

Patch is out, but it apparently broke more things than it fixed.

Duke, was mondo on the same server when you invited him?

EDIT: Switched to the server, see if you can invite me now.

 

[mondo]

I have a city on that server already which is probably why I could be invited. It appears Origin and Sim City don't really talk that well which is frankly retarded.

Until they sort this game out I can't be arsed to play it. All but once city I've ever made is broken.

 

[little P]

Blitz spirit Mondo!!

I'll give this another try at some point this week

 

[Kenadian]

Invites sent to Johnny and little P as requested.

As for the patch, I don't know that it fixed much? The bulldozer tool seems to be able to find abandoned buildings more now but it still can't find rubble hidden underneath or inside a new building.

Another thing I've noticed is performance ingame seems to be way down. I've not messed with my settings at all but the game really seems a lot laggier now than it did previously.

I also noticed something rather odd yesterday but don't know if it's a new bug or an existing bug? I placed some roads on uneven ground and they were not able to zone but they were previously until an intersection was added. I had to delete the road and then rebuild them which then enabled them to be zoned.

It happened in two areas however one was not attached on both sides to a roadway which may have contributed to the one not working (no idea how?) but the second one was definitely a bug. In fact the only place it would zone was overtop of the intersection, bizarre.

I also did crash to desktop once and have no idea why or how that happened?

...but the main thing is no disconnection or Server syncing issues over several hours now tested at all speeds. Of course this only works on the new Server, the existing one we've all built up with the never approving Great Works is still buggier than sh1t.

 

[Kenadian]

So has anyone experienced any issues on this Server yet? I've not crashed nor had any syncing issues whatsoever so far.

I have well over 10 hours on this Server logged so far and it's been running perfect on all speeds.

 

[mondo]

1st City - Out of sync a few times but works. However there is something in it that makes it crash the sim city client.

2nd City - Trains suddenly stopped going to my trade depot. The only way to sort it out was to completely delete all the railways and the trade depot, which full of computers and TV's. Tried to remove the railways first but nothing happened. Also traffic routing and buses/trams bunching up wasn't fixed.

Quite frankly this game, EA and Maxis can go fuck itself. It's a shallow pile of shite compared with 4, its filled with bugs and not fit for use. I don't think i'll ever boot it up again.

 

[little P]

Quite frankly this game, EA and Maxis can go fuck itself. It's a shallow pile of shite compared with 4, its filled with bugs and not fit for use. I don't think i'll ever boot it up again.

-Ign.com

Best review ever? :lol:

 

[Kenadian]

I don't know why you're having so many issues mondo? I have a lot of issues as well but they haven't been nearly as bad as before.

Do you only play on the highest speed?

 

[little P]

I don't know why you're having so many issues mondo? I have a lot of issues as well but they haven't been nearly as bad as before.

Do you only play on the highest speed?

Yeah it's been running fine for me, even on cheetah speed. But then I've had very few rollbacks/issues since I started playing so I think I'm one of the lucky ones...

Go Space Centre!!

 

[mondo]

I tend to play on different speeds, I always slow down for placing buildings and laying out roads etc. I wouldn't mind so much but the same bugs appear time and time again and I tend to get all the really common ones.

On my last city I got the smog bug, the broken trade depot, the bunched up/broken bus routing, buses stuck in other peoples cities bug, the traffic routing bug, roll back/sync bug and I found some new ones. I could place water pumps on top of roads.

I can't even access one of my cities on this new region any more and the one I can access is going down the pan, the smog bug is killing everyone off and the trade depot means my income suddenly stopped. It seems like placing a new railway station screwed it all up, I deleted this and all the track, replaced it and still nothing. Its a retarded game. I went back and played some Sim City 4 and while it doeesn't look as good, the game itself is light years ahead of 5.

 

[little P]

I tend to play on different speeds, I always slow down for placing buildings and laying out roads etc. I wouldn't mind so much but the same bugs appear time and time again and I tend to get all the really common ones.

On my last city I got the smog bug, the broken trade depot, the bunched up/broken bus routing, buses stuck in other peoples cities bug, the traffic routing bug, roll back/sync bug and I found some new ones. I could place water pumps on top of roads.

I can't even access one of my cities on this new region any more and the one I can access is going down the pan, the smog bug is killing everyone off and the trade depot means my income suddenly stopped. It seems like placing a new railway station screwed it all up, I deleted this and all the track, replaced it and still nothing. Its a retarded game. I went back and played some Sim City 4 and while it doeesn't look as good, the game itself is light years ahead of 5.

I had this thing, is this a smog bug? I started a new city and all my sims were getting sick, checked the pollution maps and there in the air map was a lot of pollution blowing over the city. I just guessed I needed to plop some parks and trees. Plopped a ton of trees everywhere - hey presto over time the pollution faded and eventually disappeared. Are they sure all these things are bugs? I'm getting the impression the simcity community has got videogame hypochondria?

Any little thing that goes wrong is suddenly pronounced another reason it's a broken game

 

[mondo]

The smog one is where it builds up in a specific area and won't shift, it just increases. This can be over a low density are with parks coming out every inhabitants arse. All the ones I've had and listed in my post seem to be extremely common and Maxis said they'd specifically address in the next patch.

Now I don't mind reasonable bugs (remember I work in QA!) but Sim City has enough to just make me want to stop playing. I've never stopped playing a game due to bugs (not even Stalker!), this will be my first where the bugs are just so bad it seems fruitless it put in 10 hours building a city only to be stopped by a bug, and when I mean stopped I mean I cannot play it any more. I can deal with the occasional crash, bugged minor features but in Sim City I've had some many game ending bugs (by that I mean the city is basically dead or cannot be entered) that I just have no desire to invest time in it.

The joke of it is, in 2.0 Maxis said they'd fix many of the traffic and public transport routing problems, all they did do was add an extra bug where your public transport gets stuck in other cities. When I last checked, my last City had buses from yours and Dukes cities on an infinite loop in mine, stuck in a bus conga line between my buses!

 

[little P]

The smog one is where it builds up in a specific area and won't shift, it just increases. This can be over a low density are with parks coming out every inhabitants arse. All the ones I've had and listed in my post seem to be extremely common and Maxis said they'd specifically address in the next patch.

Now I don't mind reasonable bugs (remember I work in QA!) but Sim City has enough to just make me want to stop playing. I've never stopped playing a game due to bugs (not even Stalker!), this will be my first where the bugs are just so bad it seems fruitless it put in 10 hours building a city only to be stopped by a bug, and when I mean stopped I mean I cannot play it any more. I can deal with the occasional crash, bugged minor features but in Sim City I've had some many game ending bugs (by that I mean the city is basically dead or cannot be entered) that I just have no desire to invest time in it.

The joke of it is, in 2.0 Maxis said they'd fix many of the traffic and public transport routing problems, all they did do was add an extra bug where your public transport gets stuck in other cities. When I last checked, my last City had buses from yours and Dukes cities on an infinite loop in mine, stuck in a bus conga line between my buses!

Yeah I do get what you're saying, it sounds like you've been really unlucky, because I don't get any of those things...

But the bus thing?

That IS weird... because I don't even have buses! Streetcars only in my City... No bus stations at all!

 

[Kenadian]

Yeah I do get what you're saying, it sounds like you've been really unlucky, because I don't get any of those things...

But the bus thing?

That IS weird... because I don't even have buses! Streetcars only in my City... No bus stations at all!

Maybe he's referring to another town as the only buses I have are School Buses right now.

 

[Die Alone]

I decided to retire my Supreme Mayoral skills until atleast another big patch. I cant stand the bugs hampering my development. Probably after the game gets out of the Alpha stages and is more like a Beta build.

 

[mondo]

Maybe he's referring to another town as the only buses I have are School Buses right now.

I have buses from both your cities in mine. I guess they're probably school ones but I see them doing little circles.

 

[little P]

Don't know about you Duke, but it sounds like our damn bus drivers are drunk again... I'm gonna fire all their drunk asses

 

[mondo]

Launch a meteor strike against the bus station. That will learn them.