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Good review and you are spot on. Why are we forced to create these communities of the 1980's? I don't think the small city size has anything to do with PC power, or operating systems I think it has to do with the fact that they know their engine is total garbage... imagine if you could build a city 4 - 8 times bigger than what you can now... With 2 - 3 million people... What do you think your traffic would look like then? Every worker in your whole city all trying to commute to the same job... It makes me sick that someone over there actually came up with this idea and other people signed off on it.

No. But it's pretty close. Origins service duplicates Steam. Gamers who use Steam use Origin. Gamers who use Origin, use Steam. You can buy Sim City on Steam. Of course there are exceptions to the rules, but Steams survey pretty accuratly reflects Origins clients. Yea it might not be exact but I am sure the deviation isn't more than +/-2% I guarantee the deviation isn't +48% to make your statement of "50% of gamers use XP" accurate.

Hey I just added you if I could get in that would be awesome

I like the avenues for trading... Other than my trade depot I never build on avenues, it helps out immensely. Personally I see absolutely no reason to go over 15,000 people for a trading city.

And here we thought the reason cities were so small was because of the load of glassbox on the processor... If cities and population could get any bigger the traffic would be so congested no amount of highway design would save it.

that bridge is deplorable... come ON, really!?!???! Anyway, traffic is still pretty much broken. Yes they released a patch to try to help. But the fact of the matter remains, emergency vehicles still do not take any sort of priority and they ALL go the SAME event, even if you have multiples going on at the same time. Also, they don't do U-turns mid road. No real-life ambulance or fire truck is going to wait to get to an intersection to do a u-turn if there's no physical median in the way and the road is wide enough. if you "follow" an emergency or utility vehicle around for any length of time, you'll see just how broken the whole system is. (actually, you can just follow the zots in power or water view. it's the same thing... broken) Yea I have pretty much given up on Avenues. They seem so inefficient because vehicles can't make left hand turns and have to go to the end and make a U turn. With all of the AI trying to go to the same spot it just makes your city so inefficient. I haven't tried a city with only high density streets yet but my last city was a disaster after about 150k residents.

How many of you guys are actually west coast? Or did you all just click on West 3 because it was the only US server not full like me?

I will add you when I get home...

? Did you guys really not know about this? Thanks for taking the time to look into this stuff.

Of course they did? My Navy recruiter lied to me (told me there were bowling alleys onboard aircraft carriers)... My car salesman lied to me... The door to door salesman lied to me... I am not saying it is right but you do have freedom your freedom is to keep your wallet closed. Like it or not the online aspect is not going anywhere, it was stated before launch and any lie as to why it HAS to be there is irrelevant it is there we all knew it would be... If they remove it one day that is great if not... whatever So basically what you're saying is that companies (or services or whatever) have no responsibility whatsoever and it's the consumer's problem if something like SC2013 happens? Unlike cars or something like that where you actually get to try it out first, we didn't get much of a chance with this game. And the chance we got was well hampered by the servers... and we were ensured that it would be fix with the release. It wasn't. It was a lie... so much of this has been lies. And you're gonna blame the consumer? Pound sand, mate... She said we have no rights... I made a simple statement that we have the right not to buy the game... I am not sure how that is blaming the consumer. If you think I am defending Maxis and EA you are sorely mistaken but there comes a point in time that you have to have some sort of consumer responsibility. If we just mindlessly keep buying products from EA they will never learn, there is only one thing they listen to, it isn't the forums it is the amount of zeroes in their bank account... I voted with my wallet, I am not the owner of this game... How did you vote?

Of course they did? My Navy recruiter lied to me (told me there were bowling alleys onboard aircraft carriers)... My car salesman lied to me... The door to door salesman lied to me... I am not saying it is right but you do have freedom your freedom is to keep your wallet closed. Like it or not the online aspect is not going anywhere, it was stated before launch and any lie as to why it HAS to be there is irrelevant it is there we all knew it would be... If they remove it one day that is great if not... whatever

Lockity lock lock... and a delete for the fun of it

That's definitely something we're looking into, yes. If it works, we'll apply it for all the vehicles (garbage trucks, fire trucks, police cars, ambulances, even commuters... That is definitely what I like to hear... I have held off buying... I don't care about constant online connection... But these traffic issues kill immersion. It is good to hear you guys are working on a way to fix them. Keep up the good work and I will buy.

That is good news... i heard they are already on damage control trying to lock out the packages that make this possible. I would definitely leave this as an educational purpose only for the time being. The last thing you want is for your files to be reported to the server as being modified... At that point it technically could be considered "cheating" and you could lose your entire Origin account.