Maxis/E.A. has been too quiet

[Yayie 311]

Recently a dev from Maxis said they were helping modders make content and that they hadn't abandoned Simcity2013 when asked if they were doing any more patches etc.  If I had to guess what it is Capton knows, it's probably tools to help modders make 3rd party content. 

 I vote for that.

[Moonraker39 17]

 

Not everything can be public I'm just attempting to stay in-line and give people hope.

 

 

You got more will power than me! Id be tempted to spill the beans!

[CapTon 592]

Recently a dev from Maxis said they were helping modders make content and that they hadn't abandoned Simcity2013 when asked if they were doing any more patches etc.  If I had to guess what it is Capton knows, it's probably tools to help modders make 3rd party content. 

Nope it's not that.

 

 

 

 

Not everything can be public I'm just attempting to stay in-line and give people hope.

 

 

You got more will power than me! Id be tempted to spill the beans!

 

Well I'm just doing what I'm told.

[cmdp123789 710]

Wait a second... It makes no sense... It's not s mod, not a patch, not an update, no new expansion, and we won't pay for it... Is it a new cover? Cause that's the only option left? Lol! Plus, if we were to be honest... There has to be one of those.. But you just can't really tell

[CapTon 592]

Wait a second... It makes no sense... It's not s mod, not a patch, not an update, no new expansion, and we won't pay for it... Is it a new cover? Cause that's the only option left? Lol! Plus, if we were to be honest... There has to be one of those.. But you just can't really tell

I never said it wasn't a mod but that's all I'm gonna say now. I'm probably giving too much away.

[AidanA28 17]

^{It was Project Orion [DEclassified] wasn't it...}

[bobp 29]

Whilst it is true that the Maxis guys have been quiet, only yesterday I spotted one of them reading the forum posts. Just because they are not posting doesn't mean they are not around. As far as I am aware they are still supporting the game, and I too have heard that there is still more to come.

[xoxide 377]

things are changing.. but they are there and around.. trust me.. just more is going on than most realize and they never tell the public what they are up to let alone devtest other than wait for information its coming.

 

 

but everyone is still at work trust.. we see them online every day

[AidanA28 17]

xoxide, what things shall be changing??

[CapTon 592]

^{It was Project Orion [DEclassified] wasn't it...}

Indeed it was Project Orion

[ColdMoney21 2]

 

^{It was Project Orion [DEclassified] wasn't it...}

Indeed it was Project Orion

 

 

Project Orion is the best mod that has come out from the modding community. Now my garbage and sewer plants can be even farther away from my nice and clean town lol. If Maxis decides to make another SimCity in the next 10 years, by that time SimCity 2013 will probably be completely modded just like SimCity 4. I do hope that they make a new SimCity though with huge improvements with the glassbox engine, performance, and better modding capabilites. Or they can announce a true sucessor of SimCity 4 and have it all complicated lol.

[AidanA28 17]

 

^{It was Project Orion [DEclassified] wasn't it...}

Indeed it was Project Orion

 

HAW HAW HAW! I am the master of all masters!!! (not really!!!)

[NCGAIO 562]

Project Orion is the best mod that has come out from the modding community

Wow ... this is really contrasting if placed against the perpective own creator.

 

"AGAIN THIS IS A RISKY MOD, tempermental and NOT DESIGNED to function honestly so be glad it works at all in many ways."

but everyone is entitled to your opinion ... of course.

[bobp 29]

I think that it is a brilliant mod, and yes by far it is the best mod for SC2013 to date. That being said it does have some quirks that cannot be changed due to the complexities of the glassbox game code. So to achieve what has been done, when Maxis said bigger cities are impossible is quite remarkable in my opinion. The community should be grateful for the efforts of the people involved as I am....THANKS GUYS

[cord11 10]

If EA makes a new simcity they would need to balance approachability with complexity makeing it easy to learn yet hard to master, the frist tworollercoaster tycoon games are examples of this because even little kids could build rides that atleast kinda work, yet there is a lot more detail you could go into if you knew a bit about how rollercoasters work and the game's systems makeing huge complex rides with 5 lift hills, or you just kill all the guests by dropping them into water or lanching a ride into space

[xoxide 377]

well ..
#1 its offline mode so just about any mod is ok and not against the normal aspects of integrity actually.

We have names or I have names for just about all the projects to keep them straight in my head to be honest.

considering myself and many others were saying it was not going to be possible to even get where we have today via mods .. I think its pretty much a win for the community no matter how you try to spin it.

#2 maxis is aware of most of the mods we are making and our efforts since we interact with them on the ideas to create the content so far for those which are larger and more dramatic dynamic changes to the degree they have been.

Fact is the mod community is still learning a lot in general and we have a lot more to try and do and learn and even explore. Projects Pony, Unicorn, Freedom, Cluster Enhancements list goes on.. its not like most of it has not been published publically on reddit .. look and search for our suggestion lists that I have posted myself. My desires for the game and the content has been very much public for a long time.

But people mostly ignored the posts thinking they had no credit or merit. Things have changed and over time by posting information and allowing users to see what is possible and reflect against the lists we posted your able to see where our efforts have been concentrated big and small.

Hopefully that doesn't change.

We need more modders

Everything Orion does IS on broken aspects of the engine where nearly anything in terms of side effects can happen. We do not even completely know just how bad it can be or good it can be to be honest <scratching head>

When you create mods that are based on a group of individuals which have compounded impact and effects in various combinations you tend to get a lot of creative and also unexpected results.

We as a group / mod community so far we have tried to NOT break anything within the original 2k city limits. Orion was in various forms for 1 + months and some of the test examples were lets say Not quite what you would want to use in a normal game.

Niclistin and his all RCI Plop idea and concept with the original Orion proved to be very unstable and unpredictable. The one that was released was what oppie, the devtest group testing and some of the simtrop group felt it would not get any better at this time without more time and understanding which may prove to make Orion obsolete in a year. <shrug> who knows.

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Ok changing..

Update Cycles and duration of time between cycles is now longer.. from 1 a month to most likely 1 a quarter I would say would be expected at this point. They are currently I THINK based on something that was posted in the EA forums on some server side improvements. If we are lucky they will add the udon path to the server path so we can make it and Online and Offline mod but I'm not sure what they are up to.

Being in devtest doesn't mean they tell us anything more than they are willing to be published in public. This is because of some people in the past spilling the beans even when the NDA is suppose to protect activities.

Now also Devtest 2.0 is hopefully going to morph into Devtest 3.0.. WHAT does this mean.. well I can't say in the normal sense but we hope it will allow us to test more ideas and not be so rigid in what we see is only what is going to be released.

But again <shrug> nobody knows..

Many of us as individuals are trying hard to push various aspects of what we feel will benefit the community .. again the lists are out there so just go look for them..

peace
xoxide

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

...they're still quiet...

[Xenocity 343]

...they're still quiet...

Well to their defense, investors are now in charge and shutdown anything that isn't highly profitable.

 You all thought normal EA was evil....

 

I just want an update that fixes education on every level and the regional traveling/economy!

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

 

...they're still quiet...

Well to their defense, investors are now in charge and shutdown anything that isn't highly profitable.

 You all thought normal EA was evil....

 

I just want an update that fixes education on every level and the regional traveling/economy!

 

 

Indeed.  I just want great works fixed so I can mess around with them.  I think I've only completed one since I got the game.

[Xenocity 343]

 

 

...they're still quiet...

Well to their defense, investors are now in charge and shutdown anything that isn't highly profitable.

 You all thought normal EA was evil....

 

I just want an update that fixes education on every level and the regional traveling/economy!

 

 

Indeed.  I just want great works fixed so I can mess around with them.  I think I've only completed one since I got the game.

 

I just want to make a full education town (damn schools are too expensive)

I also want to finally complete a university!

[ausmayor 7]

I reformatted my pc yesterday reupdated simcity... it says it failed to fully update. (But works fine)My vid card is crappy I have everything pretty much set to low... and the graphics look better pre reinstall... so I'm wondering whether or not there has been a performance update somewhere along the way...

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

Launcher update today.  No word on what was done.

[ausmayor 7]

Launcher update today. No word on what was done.

Thanks for the headsup...think its a CLOUD update thing

[Ciaolo 15]

No word on this update... so strange!

We can say that Maxis is too quiet indeed.

[rmjohnson144 39]

I just updated simcity today.  I wanted to wait a day for any fixes to be applied.

 

It asked me if I wanted to apply the update, and it said it was for MP only.  

 

Must be fixes for the server side I've heard they've been working on for a while now.

 

I was hoping it was for regional areas out side of our cities so the mods would work better.  Apparently not.  I'll have to try some MP and see if I can notice anything different.

 

For a minute I was getting worried with some users reporting they couldn't play MP.  Thought they shut the servers down for good.  Glad they didn't.

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

I just updated simcity today.  I wanted to wait a day for any fixes to be applied.

 

It asked me if I wanted to apply the update, and it said it was for MP only.  

 

Must be fixes for the server side I've heard they've been working on for a while now.

 

I was hoping it was for regional areas out side of our cities so the mods would work better.  Apparently not.  I'll have to try some MP and see if I can notice anything different.

 

For a minute I was getting worried with some users reporting they couldn't play MP.  Thought they shut the servers down for good.  Glad they didn't.

 

MP?  Multiplayer?

[ausmayor 7]

yep MP Multiplayer

[Trentreznorspig 4]

You know what. Ross Scott has actually made a video where he was reviewing an EA game from the 80s and closer to the end of the video revealed some things about EA. Maxis probably would be better off without EA. Maybe. You need to watch his video.

 

 

Mod Edit: Language please, no need for that.

[Rufus Honker IV 100]

You know what. Ross Scott has actually made a video where he was reviewing an EA game from the 80s and closer to the end of the video revealed some things about EA. Maxis probably would be better off without EA. Maybe. You need to watch his video. [Video removed for quote]

 

Still waiting on Freeman's Mind #58.  I'll hapily take that in place of anything from EA!

[Trentreznorspig 4]

Yeah. I thought he would have released that a month ago.

 

Heck. More than a month ago I thought he would've released it. Yet again. The recording process is probably agonizing from what I gather.