Simcity

[Wiglaf]

My atrocious but effective layout:



Regional fire station w/ fire marshal:

[MichaeltheGreat]

darn I thought that last post would get caps and angry faces

The biggest OCD I see these days is young people walking around real cities with phone screens glued to their face, bumping into people and lamp-posts as they walks along. Some of them are probably playing sims. Think about that. Social media addiction has taken over for some. That's why they can't get their act together and have mortgages and the like, or any form of real life commitment. It interferes with their fantasy world.

The worst thing is they're so protected from real hazard that most of them somehow manage to breed, contributing to the devolution of the human species.

[onodera]

My atrocious but effective layout:

It doesn't look like a city at all.

[Wiglaf]

It doesn't look like a city at all.

TOO LATE IT'S ALREADY ON MY REFEIGERATOR

[Wiglaf]

They patched traffic yesterday too.

[Ninot]

They patched traffic yesterday too.

Thats the most unnecessary suspension bridge I've ever seen.

[Aeson]

I'm not angry, I'm concerned that you people are controlling of your loved ones.

Our loved ones are games.

[Alexander's Horse]

I wish I could control my loved ones like sims sometimes.... after some long heavy phone calls about various issues today...but it ended well

The best call was with my Dad (79), who is angry like Wiggy or just bat**** crazy some days, self medicating for his back pain, but tonight he was pretty lucid and happy so we had a real good talk, we're working together on some family stuff

Those conversations are precious once your parents/grand parents start to fade

I'm batting 500 and calling my second son (16), who specialises in attitude, hostility and pushing my buttons, in about 20 minutes...anytime he says something nice to me I treasure that and hope he makes it through those hard mid-teen years without getting on drugs or alcohol, or checking out entirely. I very nearly did lose it at that age. He is highly strung like me, so we don't get on, but at least I understand him and keep reaching out to him, wish me luck

[Ninot]

Wiglaf, Reg, I tried to add both of you on Origin however, Origin is not a very fantastic product, so I dont know if they were sent through really. Eitherway, my handle is still derektonin

[Wiglaf]

Be sure to pick a city connected closley to one of us by road or rail - a faraway one, we can't trade most things with

[Sava]

Our loved ones are games.

qft

[Sava]

"JonesWithaJ" if you want to add me

I'll try to add you guys. Origin blows.

[Guynemer]

Hmm.

Threre was a tweet a few after that one that said that they have no intention of offering offline, with the explanation of too much of the game calculations are on the servers. I can't find it now, because I don't use Twitter.

edit: this is it here: https://twitter.com/simcity/statuses/310487966311133184

[Sava]

They wanted a Facebook game without it being on Facebook... oh and pretty graphics

[snoopy369]

Lots of ways to deal with it. Regions could be simulated on the PC, after all... I'm sure that's how the eventual crack will work (virtual machine running on your PC). Really all the 'simulation of the region' is doing is fixing prices and such - so they could set it up so the region prices are changed according to a particular algorithm, and as you switched between cities the other city's details are remembered. None of this is super complicated, for a SP game...