Simcity

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How come there's a fire right across the street from a fire station and there are no other fires in the city and the fire station is not bothering to respond to the fire?

[Wiglaf]

That is a bug I think caused by the fact that fires send out a fire alarm agent that spawns out of the range of the fire station and then keeps going elsewhere.

[Wiglaf]

Pripyat's pimped out precinct:

[Wiglaf]

NEEDS MORE TILT SHIFT

[Sava]

Sava, if you would turn off your community colleges and universities for like two days that would help a ton; I could build a med school.

Okay. Vulvaville has em. Will do.

[Sava]

How come there's a fire right across the street from a fire station and there are no other fires in the city and the fire station is not bothering to respond to the fire?

In Vaj Town AMERICA, there is one fire truck that never leaves the station.

[Wiglaf]

People like Guynemer have to pick: Are the city sizes small because of the sever doing all the work, or are the servers doing essentially nothing? If it's the latter, as you claim now and as appears to be true, then it makes no sense to blame DRM for the city plot sizes. More likely Glassbox or a fundamental design decision to focus on quality/quantity is responsible.

I have a reasonably fast computer, but on high I do get stutters from time to time.

[Guynemer]

I truly think it does all go back to the DRM. I think all the multiplayer "features" were added due to the always-online DRM requirement, necessitating the lack of features that many wanted/expected (larger cities, contiguous cities, save games), as such features could "unbalance" leaderboards and whatnot.

[Sava]

My settings are maxed and FPS is consistently above 50. It dropped when recording a vid, but that's to be expected. The game doesn't seem resource hungry. Certain settings on Crysis and Arma 2 can make my computer hurt.

[Wiglaf]

It's possible their engine doesn't scale well to bigger cities?

[Sava]

This is happening to me now after the newest update.

[Wiglaf]

http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/simcity-update-6-streetcars

[Sava]

I have no street cars.

[Wiglaf]

Maybe it's time to rectify that.

[regexcellent]

Pripyat University's main hall looks strikingly similar to the UVA rotunda



Now featuring a med school, a law school, and three dormitories.

(sava, you can re-enable your university if it's disabled now)