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I think they are looking into offline mode to get out of maintaining the many servers currently in place for online play. I would think usage has dropped considerably since their reactive decision to setup so many servers. Once offline mode is in place, I can see the start of unplugging of multiple sc2013 servers and the end to this poorly designed game. The game looked great, but the engine under it is not scalable enough to support bigger maps. Modding would be great, but does not look like ea/maxis will spend any money on developing or giving tools for us to use. If they were smart they would sell terraforming and modding tools. It looks like the current mods out there only replace existing buildings (skins?). Anyway, why spend any effort creating new buildings if you don't have any map room to put them on...

Very nice work, it looks so real.  I wish I had the patience to do this!  

That is unfortunate about the city sizes, I liked the game's graphics and did not mind being online all the time to play. I was holding my breath, not playing the game for the past several months, waiting for some sort of expansion pack/dlc focused on city sizes, terraforming or new maps. They shot themselves in the foot with their GlassBox engine design, being online and probably knew about it a long time ago, so they hyped the game and shipped it out early. They limited themselves in so many ways. They now talk about modding but also in a limited fashion. Back to Simcity 4 I go. I never get tired of that game after 10 years of playing it. The modding community here has single handedly kept Simcity 4 alive for this long. I will hold my breath again for another great city simulation game but it probably won't be from Maxis EA.

I've been reading elsewhere (Reddit) that people have been seeing the same problems with pollution, that its worse. I am wondering at this point if the patch did anything at all. I don't really see much of a difference with my city.

Make sure you pick up the DRM flavoured toothpaste, the DRM free won't work

The Chief Quimby quote "No no, dig UP you idiots!" kinda fits nicely here....

Good Lord. *shakes head. Love the image on the website, it has Xbox and Ps3 consoles on it. Is this promotion only good in the US? What about the rest of the planet?

I have no more space in my cities to add this extra junk. I am not playing this game until patch 2.0 is out. Last time I played it didn't save any of my progress, waste of time.

Wouldn't there be a problem with ground pollution and polluted water if you did that? I have seen this too. The water table never replenishes. I was thinking that the rain you sometimes see in the game would replenish the water table, but it rarely rains, and I am not sure if rain does replenish it.

I think I know what you mean, I saw this in my other city where I was trying to send power from my oil plant. It was connected to two other cities. The maximum I could send one city was 1/2 of the total power (75mW out of the total 150mW the power plant had). I guess they divide the power by the number of cities you are connected to?

You will need to buy a metals storage at the trade depot gerbles. Make sure it is set to export in the manage global area..

This may sound silly, but I am wondering if the recycling center is filling up on one specific type of recycling material, if you don't have all 3 types of reclamation lines in place to consume it. For example, before I did not have a metals reclamation line tied to the recycling plant, I only cared about alloy and plastic. So what I did was blow up the old recycling plant, stopped the regional recycling trucks, added an alloy, plastic and metals reclamation lines to it, made sure I was exporting metals in my trade depot while the plastic and alloy was being delivered to the processor factories. Things seem to be working ok now (so far).

... well I was going to stop the regional recycling but when I entered the game my city of 190k was gone and is currently busy processing good grief Maxis is right Dirktator!

I will have to try that workaround of stopping the regional recycling, thanks! In relation to plastic and alloy, - does anyone have a problem importing Alloy with the trade depots? It seems to be always empty - I am not sure if its because the processor factories are taking it as fast as it is being imported. I don't want to add another alloy depot for importing or I will go broke from all the imports. Any thoughts or ideas?!