Does anyone know how you get all the natural disasters enabled?
I been itching to destroy one of my cities.
I been itching to destroy one of my cities.
I get the little popup in game that says Simcity 5 servers are disconnected or whatever but I don't get kicked out of the game and keep playing.
Then a few minutes later it says connection restored!
Does anyone know how you get all the natural disasters enabled?
I been itching to destroy one of my cities.
"The SimCity servers are down. We cannot complete your request at this time. Please try again later."
Why are so many people saying "yay for DRM failing"?
Its an ONLINE GAME!! Its not single player. You build a city, which influences the region, and participates in the global (server) economy. The whole game is run on the servers. You just run a thin client on your machine.
This is not a DRM issue. Its an online game having too few servers issue. I don't see people whining that WoW or similar games have DRM.
I'd wager to say that if people wishing to play solo were allowed to do so completely offline, there would likely be no server issues whatsoever for the subfraction of players who wanted to play alongside others.
While true, it would require redesigning the whole game. When you play, the game engine is running on the servers, not your local machine.
And while I understand their reasoning behind this, its the main reason cities are so small, and why there is no true single player mode.
No it is a different error.
Simcity servers are down. Attempting to reconnect.
It is within the game while I am playing!
pcslookout said:Smoothest gaming release ever!
Most likely the game sends a "2+2" query and gets a "4" back from EA.
Most likely the game sends a "2+2" query and gets a "4" back from EA.
What!?? B-b-but I thought the game didn't have any problems at all and people were just making stuff up? I thought it was the "smoothest release ever" ??
Derp.
It is the smoothest game release ever. Better than during steam sales. The game downloaded for me in 2 hours or less.
I got in before the rush.
This is all true.
Right now while in the game even though the error "Simcity servers are down. Attempting to reconnect," is on I still can play the game fine.
Making lots of money and a lot of stuff going on.
Issues like this and Diablo III make me wonder how these companies determine their server demand. In a lot of cases, you can't really build your infrastructure for the initial demand as you'll just end up with underutilized servers within a week or two. This might push for implementing a hybrid permanent server + short-term cloud-based server solution. That way, you can easily pull down servers when the demand dies and it won't be as costly as attempting to reappropriate the hardware.
Although, it would certainly be much easier if EA didn't require their servers to perform the simulation processing.
That's my guess. Apparently, EA refused to issue refund requests even after stating that they would, but Amazon was allowing it. However, Amazon will usually pull items if there's an issue with the product or the description of the product. I mostly see the latter.
While true, it would require redesigning the whole game. When you play, the game engine is running on the servers, not your local machine.
And while I understand their reasoning behind this, its the main reason cities are so small, and why there is no true single player mode.
Lol, just means that a hacked copy will be out sooner if it isn't already. Anyone that thinks that processing is actually done by EA is a fool.
Perhaps if they had a more extensive public beta they could better prepare for this. But their beta was imo completely odd. Only allowed people to play for a couple days one hour at a time. They are getting what they deserve on this debacle.