is it unplayable or is it just me?

[behedwin 3]

Hey

 

I just want to ask and confirm if i am right or not

 

Is the game full of bugs and pretty much unplayable when it comes to having sims moving between citys, transfeering services (police etc).

It seems that nothing of those things works for me.

 

Is it just me?

[Dirktator 2,320]

It's not just you. It seems sending stuff to another city "appears" to work, like gifting money, as it will actually be deducted from your balance. You can even see your armoured van travel to the other city. But the receiving city has never been able to receive these gifts in my experience so it's been a total waste of sending simoleons.

 

Additionally, path finding has been shown to be especially when it comes to traffic since agents will always take the shortest route, not taking into consideration road density or alternate routes.

 

Is it unplayable? No, it's playable, and if you can ignore these and other issues, then you might have some fun, but it's frustrating, especially when you run into the glass walls of your glass box.

[jpsurratt2005 4]

I've had the gifting feature work for me up until last night.  I still havent received the money...

[Xenocity 343]

I've had no trouble, playing the game.

 

It can take up to 30 mins for the money to arrive in the receiving city.

 

I just hate the issues with the fire trucks regularly going to the same damn fires or not being able to find the damn fires.

[Shardak 8]

Since I now have the 20 minute queue timer on my original server (NA East 1), I tried one of the new servers last night.

 

The game felt much more responsive in general, and I was able to finally see sims commuting between my 2 cities with some sense of logic.  I have 1000 open low wealth jobs in my industial/commercial city, and was able to get about 750 of those jobs filled by sims commuting in from my residential city (by driving and municipal buses).  This never worked on the NA East 1 server....the number of workers commuting in to city A never equaled the commuting out count on city B.

 

So I think reducing server load will go a long ways to helping region play.

[behedwin 3]

yes so many issues

 

1. fire trucks go to the same fire instead of spreading out in the city.....

2. sometimes it works to send money, sometimes not..........

3. sending police, firetrucks, ambulance etc. to other citys works from one end but the other end sometimes cant see that things have been sent.

4. buy water from one city that should cover your own needs, but still your city complains of no water.

5. i start one city, and get it to a big one... upgrade my departments to be able to build airports etc. sometimes that is shared to region, sometimes not...... frustrating.

 

i miss details on information about what is working and what is not.

how is it inteended to work...

 

anyone seen any bug fixes plans from maxis?

[behedwin 3]

update:

 

wow... after playing for 6 hours in a region.

my citys was not syncing.... like if i did a upgrade to build airports and trains in one

it is meant that all citys in that region should get the ability to do so....

 

but my citys never got that ability.

now after several hours later.

i suddenly got a storm of notifications about what i unlucked hours before.

[PushIt23 1]

It seems any type of region play or inter-city play is pretty borked. Gifting money, services etc. Even building a great works site is borked. I'm currently building the Solar farm for my region and it's not updating the stats on the amount of resources being donated to the site. Even switching from city to city, the numbers are borked. SIGH.

[mastorofpuppetz 199]

No the game right now is a disaster of epic proportions, a quick google search for simcity will grant lots of laughs.

[stringerbell 9]

agree OP.  even if you get past the point where the game literally is unplayable for many people (server issues), it remains hugely disappointing and basically broken.

 

If it wasn't for the fact that I spent money on this game, it would be hilarious to look at how much EA hyped up the Glassbox thing and simulating all the traffic so well compared to how it actually turned out in their finished product. Multiple lane roads don't function properly half the time because someone is trying to get into another lane that is already blocked up, so they stop halfway in their original lane still while they try to merge, blocking up the rest of that lane. Can't tell you how sick I am of seeing 2 or even 3-lane roads with one lane backed up all the way across the map, and nobody even in the other two lanes.

 

And as others have mentioned above, the poor pathfinding really screws with your emergency vehicles. Tired of watching four firetrucks stuck behind one another while the fifth truck puts out a fire at the front of the line.

[mastorofpuppetz 199]

agree OP.  even if you get past the point where the game literally is unplayable for many people (server issues), it remains hugely disappointing and basically broken.

 

If it wasn't for the fact that I spent money on this game, it would be hilarious to look at how much EA hyped up the Glassbox thing and simulating all the traffic so well compared to how it actually turned out in their finished product. Multiple lane roads don't function properly half the time because someone is trying to get into another lane that is already blocked up, so they stop halfway in their original lane still while they try to merge, blocking up the rest of that lane. Can't tell you how sick I am of seeing 2 or even 3-lane roads with one lane backed up all the way across the map, and nobody even in the other two lanes.

 

And as others have mentioned above, the poor pathfinding really screws with your emergency vehicles. Tired of watching four firetrucks stuck behind one another while the fifth truck puts out a fire at the front of the line.

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[MMOWarrior 3]

I'm sorry to say that it is not playable... I'm about to give up and come back in a month...

[Catchin22 299]

I've had no problem playing for days with little issues in my city. Here's what I've run into that was an issue:

 

1. Convoys of garbage trucks not spreading out like they should
2. A glitch in a school that would not allow me to add more buss garages, I had to destroy the school
3. Lack of "how to" Having to figure things out on my own, this game can be fairly complex to the new guy
4. Switching cities & being booted.

 

None of these things have made it unplayable, not even less joy to play either with the exception of being kicked while switching cities. Other than that, it's a blast.

[ZrC 3]

I think I have the best one so far...No matter how many garbage dumps I build, destroy and rebuild again the trucks will not leave to pick up the garbage. My city of 250k people pretty much died with the trash everywhere.