Sim City V

[Nehkara]

SimCity is currently #1 (Physical) and #3 (Download) in terms of sales on AmazonGames.

[Nehkara]

The issue with roads clipping under terrain (looks like dirt goes over the road) will be fixed in a patch according to Ocean.

[mykalberta]

Anyone have any familiarity with Origin? If I have Origin installed and logged in will the game autodownload and install whenever its released?

Or do I have to do something manually to install it?

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

Anyone have any familiarity with Origin? If I have Origin installed and logged in will the game autodownload and install whenever its released?

Or do I have to do something manually to install it?

Unfortunately it will not autodownload, AFAIK. At or after 10:01 PM you will have to go in to Origin and click on the game and then click "Download".

[cDnStealth]

Originally Posted by mykalberta

Anyone have any familiarity with Origin? If I have Origin installed and logged in will the game autodownload and install whenever its released?

Or do I have to do something manually to install it?

Edit 2: Okay as far as I know, Origin should automatically download the game as long as the client is open. It does this for BF3. The lack of a pre-load is a wierd decision considering you could do this with both Battlefield and Crysis.

[Nehkara]

nm

[REDVAN]

So I'll probably need a new video card for this game... any suggestions?

Price limit: 250ish.

[Brannigans Law]

Getting excited again over the game after adjusting my expections. This wont be a megapolis building game like Cities XL and it wont be Sc2k, it's a much smaller much more detailed game. Hopefully bugs will be smoothed and maps enlarged but I'll give it an honest chance as its own game tonight/tomorrow

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Brannigans Law

Getting excited again over the game after adjusting my expections. This wont be a megapolis building game like Cities XL and it wont be Sc2k, it's a much smaller much more detailed game. Hopefully bugs will be smoothed and maps enlarged but I'll give it an honest chance as its own game tonight/tomorrow

I'm glad you'll be in game!

We should create a region some time.

[Nehkara]

While I am sure there was a reason, I am a little concerned about the lack of a pre-load.

First day or two will probably be pretty rocky.

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

So I'll probably need a new video card for this game... any suggestions?

Price limit: 250ish.

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX39701

If that is a bit too much, then this:

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX39884

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

Absolutely, but not only that... you could buy power from someone else or, unless you are broke and have used all of your bonds, you could just build your own power generation.

Yeah..I kinda conflated two ideas I had at the time into one post - one, that he isn't interested in emergent behavior at the micro layer rather than statistical behaviour at the macro layer, and number 2, he seems unwilling to deal with dynamic situations - it's almost like he'd rather have a cityscape paint program at some levels.

[mdubz]

Anyone know the release date for us lowly Mac users?

[worth]

Not yet confirmed for Mac. Spring 2013 is the only indication so far from Maxis.

[Brannigans Law]

I think for folks like that who want to build giant cities without worrying too much about ultra details are likely going to enjoy Cities XL more. In cities XL it`s literally just plopping things down in proper balance with zero regard for much else. You can certainly make some draw dropping beautiful cities but they don`t feel "alive"

I can`t wait to have to adjust for things like property values, location, etcs

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Brannigans Law

Getting excited again over the game after adjusting my expections. This wont be a megapolis building game like Cities XL and it wont be Sc2k, it's a much smaller much more detailed game. Hopefully bugs will be smoothed and maps enlarged but I'll give it an honest chance as its own game tonight/tomorrow

ya i'm coming to terms with what the game will be (plus aside from Anno 2070 i have nothing else to play right now). the thing that kept me from cancelling was mainly the CP region, i really want to see how cities work together first hand. i make no guarantee how active i'll be in it though, just have to wait and see how the game grabs me

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Brannigans Law

I think for folks like that who want to build giant cities without worrying too much about ultra details are likely going to enjoy Cities XL more. In cities XL it`s literally just plopping things down in proper balance with zero regard for much else. You can certainly make some draw dropping beautiful cities but they don`t feel "alive"

I can`t wait to have to adjust for things like property values, location, etcs

Have fun in the woods!

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

Have fun in the woods!

Region 2 is best region!

(seriously though, how cool would it be to have a 30+ city super region)

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Region 2 is best region!

(seriously though, how cool would it be to have a 30+ city super region)

Back in December there was a murmur from Maxis that they were considering 32 x 32 km regions. I would imagine it would also have additional cities.

I would expect we will see these things in the future.

[Brannigans Law]

Any ETA on when you'll have the game worth?