PUBLIC Game: Region Name: Heavy Trade 2

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Starting New PUBLIC Region, May 4, 2017

Username: Randy22E

SimCity 2013, NA release, Digital Deluxe, 10.3.4
Individual Game Settings:  Disasters disabled
Text Chat Settings: Origin disabled, In-game enabled

Server: North America West 1

Region Map: Viridian Woods

Region Name: Heavy Trade 2

All welcome to join. 

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PROGRESS:  No. 9 on Leaderboard for Simoleons. All cities full May 11. Pop. 965.000

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Here's a link to the official site server list and status:

http://www.SimCity.com/en_US/server-status

Issues related to online game-play:
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I haven't completed a list of official (non-user-created) DLCs for SC5 (2013), but below are general indicators of what variation there may be in content between players online:

Editions:
Limited, Digital Deluxe, Collectors

Releases:
Windows: NA, EU, AU, JP, UK, Worldwide, Mac OSX

Latest Version:  10.03.04.00

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So far I have determined that user-created mods are less likely to cause difficulty in online game-play than the yet 'unfixed' condition of different official DLCs causing the 'unable to reclaim' error. 

If a city is abandoned by another player and you can't reclaim it, it is most-likely because of the variation in official DLC. 

Not being able to reclaim an abandoned city is most-likely the difference of which 'release' is being used by different players.  Some content that was available for free and has been discontinued is furthermore likely to cause the error.

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All welcome to join means ALL regardless of geographic location, release or OS.

From the multiplayer menu you can view a region and visit the cities in the region without having to 'claim' a city to get inside to look around.  This way you can choose from several public regions with active players to join, and then claim a city in one you want to play without immediately leaving behind an abandoned city that can't be reclaimed by others if they have different DLCs.