Connectivity: Rollback n Notes

[XisBlue 3]

Issue 01:

 

So I'm enjoying my first Sim City city and all of a sudden, I'm hit with an error that drops the game and tells me I need to "rollback" or "abandon" my city. Gasp!

 

In case this happens to anyone else, you may need to click "rollback" and then exit and restart SC. I kept clicking rollback with no luck, but upon restarting SC I could resume. 

 

Looks like the rollback was about 15 min of real world time. Could of been worse. Now I just need to figure out what I was doing since I was in the process of destroying and rebuilding a lot of stuff. 

 

Anyone else getting hit with these? I'm just curious how bad they are (figure it will only get better as things improve).

 

Issue 02:

 

After the above issue, I noticed that I was on a East Europe server despite being in the West USA. I wondered if this was a source of my connection problems so I switched servers.

 

And GASP! My city was gone! 

 

Maybe everyone else knows this, but I didn't. Looks like your city save is stored on the individual server and not the complete cloud cluster. This presents future issues, but for now it seems ok. I hope they give us a move city save option or complete a true cloud cluster.

 

I want to shift to a server in my area of the world, so guess I need to start over. Kind of sucks, but not a big deal at this point since I've made so many mistakes.

 

As a side note, I wish I could get the AI to control cities in my region when I'm playing a single player game.