Patch 2.0 drops Monday

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

Details here

[bjl707 4]

Looks promising.  We wil see....

[CaribbeanSail 33]

Cant wait!  I put the game away for now, waiting for this patch, I think it will be a huge improvement.

[Xr3iracer 5]

Lets hope so!! I have so far stuck to mainly oil and mining cities just to avoid the stress and still play the game!

[gmart530 6]

Also interested to see, though I feel like there are some core elements still missing.  While traffic's been tweaked I still don't think it's properly working, I've had oil delivery trucks take the most round about way and ultimately cause my plant run out, various other issues with industrial "shipping freight", garbage seemingly be impossible to be completely picked up beyond 8,000 or so cans, education being sporadic despite having plenty of desks open (though maybe this is being fixed).

 

 

My biggest concern is actually the addition of street lights to medium density streets.  Traffic lights so far have been the number 1 enemy when it comes to traffic, now that basically all road densities will have them, I fear traffic will be slightly worse post-patch.

 

With hesitation I'm going to be trying it after monday, but my hopes aren't high.  I still think that the glassbox engine and the agent system is still a poor choice that ultimately encourages a carbon-copy style of city building.

[Urban Cartographer 601]

It would have been great for Patch 2.0 to include a 100% offline single player mode to appease those who want that option.  Unfortunately, it would not happen.

[JukEboX 26]

Horray no more fire truck clumping!

[TuPhat 27]

Cities not Processing: Mitigates some of the issues that were causing cities not to process. We are continuing to work on and improve this issue.

 

For me, this is the biggest issue.   I'm really hoping that somehow this fixes some of the cities I've been having problems with.   I built up an entire region with the purpose of creating a great work for tourism, then only have the two cities left over in the region specifically built for tourism/casinos crash out in one night leaving them both unplayable.   Grrrr

[perafilozof 143]

 

 

My biggest concern is actually the addition of street lights to medium density streets.  Traffic lights so far have been the number 1 enemy when it comes to traffic, now that basically all road densities will have them, I fear traffic will be slightly worse post-patch.

 

 

What? Are we reading different patch notes or something ?

[VanGioRobNelli 29]

How is this an "update"?  Sounds like a patch to me...

 

It still doesn't fix a major issue which CRIPPLES many cities... the traffic flow between region connections.  Who cares about all these fixes if the vehicles are at gridlock from one city to another?  

 

They should probably focus on the major issues rather than worrying about the university wings giving the proper bonus.  What a joke.  

 

Enjoy PATCH 2.0

[parenzo 4]

How is this an "update"?  Sounds like a patch to me...

 

It still doesn't fix a major issue which CRIPPLES many cities... the traffic flow between region connections.  Who cares about all these fixes if the vehicles are at gridlock from one city to another?  

 

They should probably focus on the major issues rather than worrying about the university wings giving the proper bonus.  What a joke.  

 

Enjoy PATCH 2.0

 

I have sorted this with "Highway" mod,just buil 1 or 2 more highway connection to your cities,note you cant buldoze it later

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

No actual new content...

[tnobles 38]

I have sorted this with "Highway" mod,just build 1 or 2 more highway connection to your cities,note you cant bulldoze it later

 

So, that really works. Rail & highways?

 

Wonder if it will still worl after the update?

[gmart530 6]

 

 

My biggest concern is actually the addition of street lights to medium density streets.  Traffic lights so far have been the number 1 enemy when it comes to traffic, now that basically all road densities will have them, I fear traffic will be slightly worse post-patch.

 

 

What? Are we reading different patch notes or something ?

 

 

It appears we are actually, the notes posted on the subreddit:  Traffic: Medium density roads now create traffic lights at intersections with other roads and avenues of equal or higher density.

 

This appears to be different from the official EA post.  Normally I'd ere on the side of the official EA post, but the subreddit is posted by Maxis official.  I could be wrong and am now scratching my head why the two posts are different.

 

edit:  source

[xdsxblazinxdsx 2]

Looking forward to this although a little dissappointed that no major update to traffic system. Between that and the random disasters (which I'm glad they are doing something about) those have been my two major issues. The random disasters were getting so bad that I was getting them every 10mins! I even stopped playing and went to sandbox mode because it was that bad. Lol. I still feel that this is a great game and believe it will only get better with time. Sad to see it get such a bad rap from from all the reviews. Just got my game informer yesterday and only received a 6.5 because of all the bugs.

[LGMizzell 15]

As to as new stuff - give me the ability to define one way turns please!

 

Plus, if/once basic stuff is fixed, I'd love some of the complexity put BACK that was taken out because they said was making the game less fun. I think most players are smarter than they give us credit for and for one, I WANT to be able to fine tweak things...

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

As to as new stuff - give me the ability to define one way turns please!

 

Plus, if/once basic stuff is fixed, I'd love some of the complexity put BACK that was taken out because they said was making the game less fun. I think most players are smarter than they give us credit for and for one, I WANT to be able to fine tweak things...

 

Over and underpasses would be nice, too. 

[SAGGG 47]

 

As to as new stuff - give me the ability to define one way turns please!

 

Plus, if/once basic stuff is fixed, I'd love some of the complexity put BACK that was taken out because they said was making the game less fun. I think most players are smarter than they give us credit for and for one, I WANT to be able to fine tweak things...

 

Over and underpasses would be nice, too. 

 

As well as bigger city tile sizes. I hoped against hope for them, but I shouldn't have been surprised...

[galacticwarrior 9]

Hmm....seems good,though it would be better with they fixed the underlying problems rather than touching the surface.

[Districtopia 23]

 

 

As to as new stuff - give me the ability to define one way turns please!

 

Plus, if/once basic stuff is fixed, I'd love some of the complexity put BACK that was taken out because they said was making the game less fun. I think most players are smarter than they give us credit for and for one, I WANT to be able to fine tweak things...

 

Over and underpasses would be nice, too. 

 

As well as bigger city tile sizes. I hoped against hope for them, but I shouldn't have been surprised...

 

 

Don't mean to beat a dead horse but the map size really is the biggest issue for me. Even with all the other bugs and shortfalls in this game I've still had fun playing it... for about 45 minutes until I have a map completely filled out. If I knew for sure they weren't going to expand map sizes in a future update/patch I'd stop playing. At this point I'm still holding out hope, though.....

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

Of course... everyone - including the folks who have been holding off playing - is going to log in at the same time once the servers pop back up.  We may have another server capacity problem.  EA says it's fixed, but this will probably be a big test.

[kalemik 1]

I uninstalled this game and are trying to sell it used, i am sad that i wasted my money on it, usually i try game demo and then buy it if i like it but i couldn't find a downloadable demo.. I was not able to try it first. the adds that i seen only proved nice graphics and interface, but when i played i found that the interface had way less things in the info and way less actual real simulation. SimCity is what i bought, PlayCity is what it should've been called. i finished approximately 4 cities in a day, was about to do the whole reigon in less than a week but when i go back and forth from my cities to do the fire dept, and police dept and utilitiy sharing my cities are getting all bugged and say something like " your city is no longer able to calculate, needing to rollback"  i click rollback, play for 10 minutes, and then it needs rolled back again.

 

if the bugs get fixed the game is still about 10 or more times less indepth simulation than simcity 4...

 

if anyone knows how i can get my 60 bucks back from EA or maxis please fill me in, i don't really plan on playing this game anymore unless they at least fix a few of the evident things wrong with the whole game, not the bugs. you know what they are. i shouldn't have to repeat.  size, teraforming of some sort... like we can blast moiuntains, bulldoze in real life,, 

 

make it a SIMCITY like Simulation ? lol instead of ROTFLMAO-CITY

 

i am going to try to play my 20 some odd unplayable cities that keep telling me to rollback 5-10 minutes into the game after this patch just for a joke, then try to get my money back, i don't want a free game, i have all of the games they can offer. i just want my 60 bucks of hard earned cash back.

 

this game should've been free. everything else that i buy and is broken i get a refund.

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

I uninstalled this game and are trying to sell it used

 

It's online, requires a serial number.  You'd have to sell your origin account, too.

[Wiorev 1]

I will be happy as long as I can log in to my city that "cannot be processed at this time"...  Sitting on a couple billion simoleans and I currently have no access to it.

[LivingInThePast 364]

Mayors will now drive their fancy cars to work. Mayors will take their helicopter, limo, or sports car if the modules are present. 

 

"Modules are present?" Upcoming DLC, perhaps? 

[perafilozof 143]

 

Mayors will now drive their fancy cars to work. Mayors will take their helicopter, limo, or sports car if the modules are present. 

 

"Modules are present?" Upcoming DLC, perhaps? 

 

 

They are already there. Have you ever made a majors mansion ?

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

 

 

Mayors will now drive their fancy cars to work. Mayors will take their helicopter, limo, or sports car if the modules are present. 

 

"Modules are present?" Upcoming DLC, perhaps? 

 

 

They are already there. Have you ever made a majors mansion ?

 

 

I actually only recently noticed all the addons.  I always hit "upgrade", but hadn't noticed the addons button for it.  By that point in the game I was usually getting frustrated by city size, etc, fighting crime, sorting out traffic and sewage.

[Larsz 7]

Getting all of Mayor Mansion upgrades was one of the first personal goals I had. I figured that it would be a pretty popular goal for players. Not so?

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

Getting all of Mayor Mansion upgrades was one of the first personal goals I had. I figured that it would be a pretty popular goal for players. Not so?

 

The house itself kind of gets lost in the skyscrapers.

[uebs 11]

I wonder who makes decisions at maxis

 

1 PM pacific time is the optimal time to apply an update...

 

oh okay there...

 

4 hours later, It's now 8pm Eastern, after a long day people go home eat dinner, and want to play SC and can't...

 

thank you Maxis, thank you for your small maps, thank you for your always on requirements and your 1PM updates...

 

What's wrong with a 1am Update or a 2am update...

 

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