New Expansion Pack in November - Cities of Tomorrow

[simcopops 37]

This is just turning into a comedy. So super skyscrapers for people who own a car from the 1940's to travel to their chosen form of public transport the balloon to get to work which happens to be flipping burgers at the local burger joint in the neighbouring city. I mean comeon people ok I know it's a game but just a tad of realism would not go a miss. They might as well add horseback travel options and teleportation devices.

[SAGGG 47]

This is just turning into a comedy. So super skyscrapers for people who own a car from the 1940's to travel to their chosen form of public transport the balloon to get to work which happens to be flipping burgers at the local burger joint in the neighbouring city. I mean comeon people ok I know it's a game but just a tad of realism would not go a miss. They might as well add horseback travel options and teleportation devices.

I kinda wonder if they're holding bigger maps back intentionally.

 

This first (half) year after release, it's been a common saying that SimCity suffers from a giant problem: Too small maps. The rest of the crap can be lived with, or dealt with otherwise, but the small maps are a deal breaker for many. Meanwhile, EA keep spewing DLC, making the limited space all the more contested by each release. In the end, the noise about the tiny maps are a defining characteristic with the game.

 

Then, they release bigger maps. Fans, starved for anything bigger than the tennis court we've been dealt, happily squee and start talking positively about the game again. This might spark a second wave of purchases, making the game relevant once again.

 

 

 

Or, more likely, they've painted themselves into a corner with GlassBox, and bugs will become really apparent if the maps are made any bigger. If the agent cap isn't raised, you'll get to a point where the city looks less crowded the higher the population is, because the limited number of sims are spread across a bigger area.

Do you mean "congested", as opposed to "contested"? Just wondering...

[Cobraroll 138]

I think both words fit, if my understanding of English grammar is correct (I'm Norwegian, so please bear with me). I meant that there is, at the moment, more stuff you can put in your city than you've got room to put in at the same time. Thus, the various buildings, zones, roads, etc. have to "compete" for the idle land - making it contested.

[SAGGG 47]

I think both words fit, if my understanding of English grammar is correct (I'm Norwegian, so please bear with me). I meant that there is, at the moment, more stuff you can put in your city than you've got room to put in at the same time. Thus, the various buildings, zones, roads, etc. have to "compete" for the idle land - making it contested.

Oh, okay.

[USA_Pride 49]

The expansion means nothing without larger maps.

[Cheddar 119]

New DLC to maybe go with the expansion?

That's probably just the Red Cross DLC EA announced. 

 

 

The building does look familiar to the one pictured above. 

[The Pennsylvania Turnpike 252]

I'm glad they are giving some of the money they earned to charity, but i think the only reason EA is doing this is because they want to get rid of all the bad press.

[Xenocity 343]

Cities of Tomorrow is officially announced coming November 12th.

 

IGN has the trailer here

http://www.ign.com/videos/2013/09/19/simcity-cities-of-tomorrow-preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K6sqFYQqPuQ

The expansion pack includes the following:

 

• Mega Towers: each have 8 modules featuring commercial, industrial, residental, and power. (holds up to 10k sims) You can mix and match them
• Research Academy: this is needed to unlock all the advancements
• Ground scrubbers: this cleans up ground pollution and radiation
• monorails: yes there are monorails
• Skybridges: connects Mega Towers in the sky
• Delivery Drones: these drones deliver freight, police, fire, and ambulances by flying through the air
• Garbage Antomizer: zaps Garbarge away pollution free
• Omega Corp: Sign a deal and Omega Corp will set up shop. It will infect all other businesses making them wildly profitable and huge polluters
  • Omega will infect other cities
  • Your city will become Omega dependent
  • Omega can destory your city, if it gets out of hand
  • It does make you a ton of money
• Multiple style of futurstic buildings
• Wave Generators: uses water waves to generate clean power

More to be announced later

 

Everyone gets 4 new maps based on Tropical and Wasteland themes

 

No bigger map sizes, offline mode, or flying cars.

[Terring 6,476]

• Mega Towers: each have 8 modules featuring commercial, industrial, residental, and power. (holds up to 10k sims) You can mix and match them
• Ground scrubbers: this cleans up ground pollution and radiation
• monorails: yes there are monorails
• Skybridges: connects Mega Towers in the sky
• Delivery Drones: these drones deliver freight, police, fire, and ambulances by flying through the air
• Garbage Antomizer: zaps Garbarge away pollution free
• Multiple style of futurstic buildings
• Wave Generators: uses water waves to generate clean power

No bigger map sizes, offline mode, or flying cars.

[Xenocity 343]

updated my post with the official trailer.

[reReticulated Spline 69]

This sounds like an expantion I'd like to buy...

 

in about 5 years of so when the price is down and i already got the things I REALLY want.

 

I think it's waay too much of a 'funky' expantion considering there are many 'normal' things still missing. Sigh, at least I won't feel like I'm missing something by not buying it. There's so much in the base game I'd like to see expanded upon that I'm dissapointed that Cities of the Future seems to focus entirely on it's own content.

[kwetzel345 101]

hmmm, bigger cities are still something they don't understand!. Well, people on YouTube do. I mean, has anyone seen the comments section for this teaser video. Everyone just says BIGGER CITIES. Good for them.

[Themaroonday 40]

It feels like Maxis is sending a message that it really does not care much about what the players and fans of the Simcity franchise really want. While Maxis may have taken a few steps forward with the Glassbox Engine and the depth of the game, they have taken many steps back in ignoring and disregarding what attracted players to the franchise in the first place. Maxis obviously knows what players want, such as bigger map sizes, an offline mode, etc, but has decided to take a different route. A route that seems increasingly to lead to a dead-end as time goes on. 

 

--Themaroonday

[USA_Pride 49]

• Delivery Drones: these drones deliver freight, police, fire, and ambulances by flying through the air

 

This can be read as:  "We're not fixing transit, so we're going to bypass it."

[Catchin22 299]

EA releases Cities of Tomorrow, can't fix Cities of Yesterday.

 

This is becoming a big joke.

[Xenocity 343]

 

• Delivery Drones: these drones deliver freight, police, fire, and ambulances by flying through the air

 

This can be read as:  "We're not fixing transit, so we're going to bypass it."

 

Well to be fair they didn't bother to fix transit in Simcity 4 either.

[USA_Pride 49]

 

 

• Delivery Drones: these drones deliver freight, police, fire, and ambulances by flying through the air

 

This can be read as:  "We're not fixing transit, so we're going to bypass it."

 

Well to be fair they didn't bother to fix transit in Simcity 4 either.

 

 

True, but at least they let us fix it.

[Xenocity 343]

 

 

 

• Delivery Drones: these drones deliver freight, police, fire, and ambulances by flying through the air

 

This can be read as:  "We're not fixing transit, so we're going to bypass it."

 

Well to be fair they didn't bother to fix transit in Simcity 4 either.

 

 

True, but at least they let us fix it.

 

Which wasn't fixed until 2010 with NAM.

We had almost 6 years of broken transit in Simcity 4.

 

Transit has been getting better in Simcity 2013 with each new update, so they are doing something with it.

My cities post update 7 rarely have traffic issues.

[kinneyj09 4]

Anyone else see the launch Arcology from simcity 2000?

[Ocram's Razr 964]

This looks really exciting! If I discover that I have enough free time on me with Organic Chemistry and Multivariable Calculus this quarter, I might just get SimCity and preorder Cities of the Future EP. The likelihood of me having enough free time is, well...

 

--Ocram

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

Are the expansions going to be like in The Sims where you can pick and choose, or will we have to get each one?

[Xenocity 343]

Are the expansions going to be like in The Sims where you can pick and choose, or will we have to get each one?

Pick and choose.

 

You do not have to get this expansion pack, to play with those who have it.

Everyone still gets to play together regardless of expansion packs.

Anyone else see the launch Arcology from simcity 2000?

up it is a preorder bonus.

 

Damn now I'm going to have to preorder this.

From Origin:

 

Get the Launch Arcology content only when you pre-order the Limited Edition.

Space Tourism comes to SimCity with the Launch Arcology! Make extra money by sending your Sims on a fantastic adventure to the stars. Build this all-new landmark and decide which segments of your populace (good or bad) to send into space on each individual launch. Marvel at the launch spectacle as you send your Sims off to an unknown fate.

 

 

 

[Terring 6,476]

I HATE MAXIS AND E.A.! I HATE THEM WITH THE POWER OF 10 TRILLION GALAXIES!!!

They tease me really badly with awesome stuff, like the return of the Launch Arco, and they still refuse to make offline modes and larger maps. I HATE THEM!!!
 

[ebalosus 19]

 

 

Or, more likely, they've painted themselves into a corner with GlassBox, and bugs will become really apparent if the maps are made any bigger. If the agent cap isn't raised, you'll get to a point where the city looks less crowded the higher the population is, because the limited number of sims are spread across a bigger area.

 

I am sure the modders would know best, but this struck me about the map size. As power struggles to cover the map as it stands (for example) with long streets such idiosyncrasies would become increasingly apparent, leading to what would appear to be a bugfest.

 

As a result I doubt very much that bigger maps will feature in this DLC. Oh, I also noticed that for some reason DLC is a "forbidden" name for a region (I tried to call one "I hate DLC" and it starred out the DLC bit).

 

Back on topic - this has little interest to me at $30, most likely translated to £30. Good luck to those who buy it.

 

(Emphasis mine)

 

I'd hazard a guess that the Glassbox engine does not scale well. Hell, anyone whom has grown their city big enough can attest to that.

 

Still, as others have said: I'd prefer bigger maps over a Cities of Tomorrow DLC.

[Xenocity 343]

I HATE MAXIS AND E.A.! I HATE THEM WITH THE POWER OF 10 TRILLION GALAXIES!!!

They tease me really badly with awesome stuff, like the return of the Launch Arco, and they still refuse to make offline modes and larger maps. I HATE THEM!!!

 

 

I'll let you know how it goes.

 

I finally have a successor to Simcity 2000 (Saturn) futurstic building set.

[C4The_Architect 64]

Well look on the bright side guys at least Morgan Freeman was speaking in the trailer.

[specializedguy 193]

My cities post update 7 rarely have traffic issues.

 

I couldn't agree more. Update 7 really delivered the new and awesome road tool and dramatically improved traffic AI.

[commanderkai 38]

Man all that content, and so little space to actually build it on.

[specializedguy 193]

Well look on the bright side guys at least Morgan Freeman was speaking in the trailer.

 

Someone said the same on a Facebook group I'm a part of. It's not Morgan Freeman.

[ghosty12 13]

Until someone can actually find out why there were no bigger maps (with actual proof and not some made up horse hockey) then maybe the gloop that was the bigger map dead horse may get some peace..