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I'm curious to know about said issues, yould you name those please?

I don't think Maxis has confirmed any of this yet.

I found an interesting article on softpedia, apparently some users have gotten a survey... The development team at Maxis and publisher Electronic Arts are asking the fan base of SimCity to offer their feedback on the features that they might want to see in a potential expansion for the game, which has not yet been officially announced. Edit; someone else already posted this. sorry. http://news.softpedia.com/news/SimCity-Might-Get-Bigger-Cities-Subway-Network-Survey-365417.shtml

Found this on reddit. (posted by MaxisBazajaytee) Update 6 Changes Currently in Testing We are testing changes to how RCI works in the game in response to feedback directly from our players. The main goals are to make Industrial matter more and make sure the demand bars inform players what they should zone. • New: RCI Tuning - Tuning to make Industrial needed more. Commercial buildings lose profit if they don’t have enough freight. The demand bars should feel like they inform the player what they should zone. • New: RCI height variations for Density 3 Buildings. This will add more variety to the look of your cities. • New: Borderless windowed mode setting. • Fixes for some issues of the “out of money” problem or unexplained abandonment. • Clarity around unfilled jobs and workers to make sure players are messaged that there may be an issue where workers cannot get to unfilled jobs. • Residential and Commercial buildings are now more consistently in the same wealth in an area of a particular land value. Improves visually consistency. • Help Wanted, no Shoppers, and No Jobs alerts have been added to the Zoning info panel as alerts. • Data Layer: Greater map accuracy on the land value map. Residential and Commercial wealth colors added. Abandoned buildings show up red. • Data Layer: Land Value map shows when placing parks. • Fixed issue where RCI sometimes builds on roads. • Fix performance slowdown in cities with more than one million tourists. • UI Clarity: Show which city hall modules are already placed in the region on the palette UI. • Garbage UI: fixed issue where garbage UI sometimes showed bins that had already been picked up. • Gifting: Cash gifts will send to another city even if a player leaves the gifting city before seeing gift confirmation.

Thanks for posting this. A very good guide indeed. I would like to add, avoid 4 way intersectiones, try to only have T intersectiones, it will imrprove your traffick alot! You won't need busses for a long time!

Wierd that some can't play at all, i've been playing all day without a problem.

I've started a public region called Viridianse Bossen. Anyone who is interested in joining can do so. Department of education and of utilities are available in the region. I.m on the Europe west 4 server.

My cpu is a c2q 2.4 ghz GPU is a HD 7950

I've had (and still do) the problem when you start the simcity launcher, that i'm stuck at the checking for updates message. I can't select a server, and i can't launch the game. Now i've read on the EA forums that the solution to this is deleting the contents of: "C:/program files/Origin games/simcity/simcityuserdata". So i tried this, and after redownloading some files i was able to get back in the main menu and i was actualy able to play the game. After about an hour i was disconected from the server again, do i quit the game and tried to restart it. Now i'm stuck again at "checking for updates". So it looks like deleting the above mentioned folder content is atleast a partial solution. Edit: I deleted the folder contents again, and it looked like it worked again, however now Maxis has closed logins (while they investigate reports of system performance), so i'me unable to start the game. This problem is solved, i no longer the above problem.

I found an article about Simcity's technical problems on Tweakers. Here's the original article in Dutch. http://tweakers.net/nieuws/87721/release-simcity-geplaagd-door-technische-problemen.html Release SimCity plagued by technical problems By Jurian Ubachs , Thursday, March 7, 2013 10:06, views: 15177 God-sim SimCity facing serious technical problems, which in many cases cause the game completely unplayable. The cause is not yet officially announced, but it would seem that the servers can not handle the pressure. The Thursday by Electronic Arts released PC and Mac game SimCity faces significant technical problems. Many gamers complain about connection problems. It started last Tuesday with complaints from the U.S. market, and European gamers Thursday joined them. The topic is one of the many threads complaining about SimCity can be found on the website of Electronic Arts. Some of the injured players get even no contact with the SimCity servers, while another part no further than the first menus and so the game can not play. Earlier this week, the U.S. release is already disturbed by similar problems. That was according to the publisher due to the "overwhelming popularity" of the game, allowing more people at the Origin servers wanted than the servers could handle. The publisher said to have made ​​adjustments so that the international releases on Thursday and Friday against the same problems would run into. These adjustments do not seem the desired effect, The connection problems are striking because development studio EA Maxis seemed sure beforehand that there would be no major problems. Tweakers early SimCity producer Jason Haber earlier this year to any server problems. Haber promised that any problems are quickly solved would be. Despite this, EA and EA Maxis still have no answer to the server problems that many gamers are currently applying their game.

I just downloaded and installed the game without any problems. I've been able to launch the game once, but when i started the tuturial i was in spectator mode. After this i tried restarting the game, but now i can't even do that. I get a report "Server unavailable please try again later". It doesn't matter if i choose another server. Maybe the're updating the servers? Edit: I've been able to play for an hour now, after that i got diconected from the servers and haven't been able to get back in yet.

You can add my aswell, Once i get simcity that is.

So i ordered Simcity via Ubisoft thinking i would be able to download it today at release, but as of now 10 am in The Netherlands it doesn't show up in my game list. If i had known that Origin accepts Click and Buy, i would have ordered it from there. (I should have checked i know). Anyone (from the us) ordered it from Ubisoft, if so when where you able to donload it. In the mean time i'll just wait patiently untill i can download it. Edit: It's npw 11 am, and i'm happy to report i'm downloading simcity

Looks like the review sites are having server issues aswell.

Hopefully Ubisofts uplay does the same, and releases it at midnight.