This is the stuff that annoys me.

[Catchin22 299]

I mean really? How does this stuff go out the door?

[Districtopia 23]

I mean really? How does this stuff go out the door?

 

 

One word: laziness.

[duxie 0]

2 words:

Electronic Arts

[Catchin22 299]

That's not a glitch either, it's not a one time occurrence... that's how those roads are joined... You're right, laziness.

[duxie 0]

I doubt very much that it's down to laziness. I think it's EA forcing Maxis to stick to the spring release slot as this game wasn't really ready to be launched till summer imo. Not enough testing and too many things need changing that are fairly easy to get picked up in the first place.

[Sunfighter 186]

Its not lazyness, its just the game was pushed out well before it should of been. I was saying that before the game was released when all these glitch photos were being posted, when people were insisting it would be fixed in a day one patch. I was like...yea maybe it will get fixed on day one patch..(they ran into MUCH bigger problems LOL), but the fact these existed as the game was gold and during those marketing demos (sorry they were not betas, they just were not) showed to me that the game never entered the "polish" state before the CDs were stamped.

[GenXisT 127]

I doubt very much that it's down to laziness. I think it's EA forcing Maxis to stick to the spring release slot as this game wasn't really ready to be launched till summer imo. Not enough testing and too many things need changing that are fairly easy to get picked up in the first place.

 

This may be true, but Spring is 3 months long (and it hasn't even started yet).  They could've easily waited till June (or later, summer as you said) and fixed so much stuff. 

None of us would've complained.

They could've done an extended BETA test (like 2 weeks or even a month, no time limitations), which would've shown all the current "release" errors, graphics, traffic etc... and then fixed it prior to the release in June (spring).

[Dewm 177]

I doubt very much that it's down to laziness. I think it's EA forcing Maxis to stick to the spring release slot as this game wasn't really ready to be launched till summer imo. Not enough testing and too many things need changing that are fairly easy to get picked up in the first place.

 

On some things I would accept the answer that EA forced Maxis to this early release date, (The horrible path finding being one of them)

 

But something like this, would take a artist and a "half" decent programmer about 20 minutes to fix. (if that)

 

So laziness is the answer. Which is a shame, Maxis USED to be a good company.

[AIX 270]

The graphical glitch set aside, this is how I recall roads transitioning in CitiesXL. I have *NEVER* seen a transition between two different road widths like this in real life. *NEVER*.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

I mean really? How does this stuff go out the door?

 

That is one graphic feature that irks me; those intersections between street-to-avenues. Plus tight street or avenue corners are all trapezium-like intersections to. I do miss those tight corners of SC4...

[Catchin22 299]

It's bad enough the transition looks freaking retarded, but look at the right hand lanes on the streets going into the grass of the avenue! WTF!

[morriswalters 16]

The roads are almost exactly like CXL.  I suspect they bought them from the same vendor.  I doubt they wrote them themselves.  The terrain looks close also. Same kind of graphical glitches, the same look on tunnels.  I would check but I'm locked out of the game because the servers down.

[blaqsk8 45]

I'm kinda glad I waited to purchase. It looked like the game we wanted. I'm still hoping these issues can be fixed, but my BIGGEST issue is the lack of transportation options. NAM has been out for more than a few years now, one would think that the SimCity team would know what the current trends are. They keep leaving comments like "we'll pass it on to the dev team for consideration"...don't they know that we have been giving suggestions for over a DECADE on fan site such as here and SC4 Devotion?? I mean, it's not hard to see what we want by what we create...am I just crazy??

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

WOW! That's not a bug??? They actually said, "Yeah! that looks good". Hard to believe. They were not finished with this yet....at all. If they thought they were knowing this...............

[Catchin22 299]

During the Beta there were obvious issues like this. Remember the road intersections that put the grass walkways right across the road? I thought to myself HOW on earth could they have not noticed that themselves? It makes you wonder how much they even played the game with such obvious issues.

Then you have the parks.



They don't look great to begin with and they don't even fill in the gap between the roads.



Somebody doesn't know how a crankshaft works!



Dirt roads don't intersect right, always left with a partial road for a 4 way.

 

And speaking of roads, how about an option for regular BLACK TOP roads?! I either have to from dirt:

 

To this...

 

I just want a black top road without telephone poles every 20ft or lamp posts littering it up.

[City Planner 121]

I mean really? How does this stuff go out the door?

I'm sorry but what is it that I'm looking at that is a problem?

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

I mean really? How does this stuff go out the door?

I'm sorry but what is it that I'm looking at that is a problem?

This is sarcasm right? Or is this question serious?

[TinyWeeny 6]

 

I mean really? How does this stuff go out the door?

I'm sorry but what is it that I'm looking at that is a problem?

This is sarcasm right? Or is this question serious?

 

 

There's no doubt about it: we're still in a beta test.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

During the Beta there were obvious issues like this. Remember the road intersections that put the grass walkways right across the road? I thought to myself HOW on earth could they have not noticed that themselves? It makes you wonder how much they even played the game with such obvious issues.

Then you have the parks.

They don't look great to begin with and they don't even fill in the gap between the roads.

Dirt roads don't intersect right, always left with a partial road for a 4 way.

 

Two things which do annoy me about the game, especially the lack of intersection between dirt roads and streets and avenues.