The Legacy

Surprised no one's posted about this yet: Electronic Arts CEO quits as stumbling game maker misses targets Co-incedence?

Awesome post, and awesome timeline. Feel free to tack on John Riccitiello's resignation suspiciously soon after the huge uproar of Simcity 2013. Interested to see where that goes from there.

...That's why you build in small regions in Simcity 4 for!

First time in a very long time posting here, mainly because I just heard that Simcity (2013) was released, and that I wanted to find out information. However, after hearing all the uproar on Simcity's abysmal failures, I'm actually questioning whether to ever get this game. I'm posting in this thread, because I wanted to weigh in on this huge issue. To answer the OP's question, yes, it can be fixed. However, I understand that re-coding the game would take a herculean effort to allow offline play. Why they didn't do this in the first place makes no sense to me. Though I can fully understand and support online features, having everything run server side not only makes for extremely high server requirements, but to also dramatically increase internet usage, which will only make it a money-losing feature. If Maxis is to save Simcity, I hope they do the following: 1) Recode the game so that all the main processing is done client side. 2) Have city saves save on the player's computer rather than the server's. 3) Offer the ability to 'connect' a city to the 'world', ie. give it a connection to the outside world, and have it influenced by player actions. That way, if the server goes down, only one of your cities (or whatever cities you've 'connected') will be affected by a server outage. This would dramatically fix a lot of the issues, and would also open it up to modding far more than the server-side design they have now. As it stands, until I start hearing good about the game, I'm not touching it, which is sad because Simcity 4 is still one of my favorite games of all time. I'm also disappointed by the alleged city size maximums; I liked my ultra-sized regions.

Originally posted by: The Legacy Hey guys! I'm trying to figure out how to extend the length of Freight, Passenger and Light-Rail trains. Can anyone point me in the direction so that way I can modify it myself, or to find an existing mod to change it? Also, I have a question with changing the order of how freight trains are laid out. Thanks!quote> I'm still looking for help with this. Can anyone help me out?

Hey guys! I'm trying to figure out how to extend the length of Freight, Passenger and Light-Rail trains. Can anyone point me in the direction so that way I can modify it myself, or to find an existing mod to change it? Also, I have a question with changing the order of how freight trains are laid out. Thanks!

Might as well add it here... Could anyone created the Express and Collectors interchange signs for the 401 in Toronto? They just simply say Collectors and Express, though all express signs are in blue, while collectors are green. I'm willing to draw up the textures if someone wants to make the actual sign.