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Hi There, For everybody who is looking for let's play/news on Cities Skyline... I just found out that in 2 days the embargo ends for posting let's play video's on youtube. So on the 3rd of march (3pm CET) expect alot of new video content of the game. Than the hard part is waiting for another week before you can built it yourself Gr. Ferry Ps. link to embargo info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cJLMnpQAqE

I spend €39,- for my hard copy.. but right now its a €39,- down the drain. Cant even play because of all the server errors.. Why didn't EA put more power in this..? (they act surprised many people went online and try to play it)

signed.. I hate EA for abusing the online situation. I dont mind they checking if i paid for the version or the want to compair my gameplay to other people.. But right now i still have to start my first freaking city/town.. getting already 4 hours of server errors! And EA is saying theyre adding more servers etc. but why didnt they do it in the first place???!!!!! Its always going wrong like this on a launchweek (same problem with Battlefield) So @EA get your stuff right.

Sc4 looks better??? Whaaaaat? Did you see SM4 recently? The graphics getting worse and worse every year. Example: An other point way to many people are talking about is the always online! Everybody thats saying must be online is a no-deal should live somewhere far away from our society. We are always online (even on the toilet) And if this helps against piracy im ok for it. What people should worry more about is that the cities/savegames are on the servers of EA (and not on your own machine) But than again.. i can still play Battlefield 1942 (from 2002) and my account is still online! Yes, i will buy the game and will see if there is a deal-breaker for me in the game. Yes i have some mixt feelings.. but saying stuff like never-ever.. no never!

So Maxis finely showed a movie with some gameplay (http://www.simcity.c...imCity-gameplay) Thanks for that Maxis There were a couple of things new to me like the casino and the trainstation. Also the graphics looked better than the alpha demo version that i played () But after watching it closely i notice a couple of things i didnt like so much. Still the map size is very small. It looked even smaller than the alpha version that i played. So i took a couple of screenshots and put them together. The result: It only took 14 buildings to cover half of the map! The trainstation is smaller than the trains that are comming in! and the connection to the region train tracks was 90 degrees! So i really hope to see some bigger maps soon (hint to Maxis_MD ) Anyway, im still a fan of the new game and still gonna buy it. But my expectations are lower than i want it to be. Greetings, FerryV Ps. read the tekst in the picture

I use their browser (Comodo Dragon) pretty good, safe and fast browser! (im not gonna use their anti virus)

Hi there, AVG has alot of false positive results. Also when you used a "no cd crack" or something AVG Free will definitely react on it. So if you have a fake version of the game thats your reason. If you have the original version of SimCity and AVG is still stopping everything just disable the AVG for a while. See how to disable AVG (till next start up) on http://www.avg.com/ww-en/faq.num-4497 Hope this help you further. If not let met know and be more specific whats happends. Good luck!

Hi there, Im born in Rotterdam - Netherlands. It had the biggest port of the world till the upraise of Asia Here is a website with great and many many Rotterdam harbour pictures: http://www.portpictures.nl/ Some expamples i like: some birdviews: And as last: those are 2 heavy doors that can close if the seawater is getting to high (big part of the Netherlands is below sea level) and protect the harbour. if you want to read more about it: http://en.wikipedia..../Maeslantkering

Hi there, My name is FerryV and i just came back from GamesCom 2012! The first thing I did was running to hall 6 were half of the hall was build up by EA. And wow what a amazing stands. My favorite: SimCity off course. So I went in line and waited 2 hours. This was the longest I waited for a game at GamesCom. I was amazed how popular SimCity is. In line I watched all the trailers and studied the whole stand with the amazing art. Finely it was my change to experience SimCity and I can tell you the following: Guys and girls. Its going to be a great game!!! We played the alpha version (not beta) with a basic prebuild city. Off course there was a lot wrong with the city (no power, no water, no fire stations, not enough housing etc.) so I had 20min to rebuild the whole city and watched it got destroyed in the end by an meteor shower Because it was an alpha version a lot of building/mass transit etc wasn’t available. This is more than logic but still Maxis gave me a real good feeling were the game is going to. This is what I discovered/experienced in that 20 minutes: - building road (and bus stations) The first thing I had to do is connect my city with the regional highway. I had 2 options to build my connections: Straight road or Curvy road. There was also an 3th option showing but not available. That looked like an zone function. I think it’s going to be the same function as SC4 automatic roads when zoning. I have to be honest that the curvy road system wasn’t flawless. But giving it’s a Alpha version completely logical. But the roads worked pretty good and looked pretty fine. I also build 3 bus stations and upgraded the bus stations with extra capacity. Because I build this more in the end I didn’t had enough time to really explore all the possibility’s (sorry for that one) - Zoning Yes zoning! No plopables! (only government buildings) And I was amazed by it. Here the glassbox revealed itself. If you build a plain road and then go to the option zoning you will get automatic zoning on the road. So even when your roads are curvy and makes no sence the zoning will figure it out. The best part about this was that I didn’t had to figure out exactly how the zoning will fit within the curvy road and I didn’t had any empty space! (like Cities XL) It was such a joy seeing the housing, commercials and smelly industry growing. My residential neighborhood was with a lot of gardens and green. But the houses closer to the commercial zone were more dense and were as my commercial area more of concrete. It was beautiful. Not like you see on the trailer with high skyscrapers and a grass garden around it. Now I must say I didn’t had really skyscrapers yet because the city wasn’t big enough yet. And for the people that want to control their own zoning completely. I could bulldoze everything pretty easy. And not all the zoning possibilities where available. - Popable (with upgrades) This is the best part I think. You can transform all your plopable building and transform them as you dement them to. I build the following: Coal Plant, Windmill Farm, Fire station, Bus station. All of the building had unique add-ons. Some of them you could plant around your building (see also trailer were they build a school and putt dorms around it) In my case I build a fire station, put a bell tower on it. Build an extra garage on the other side of the street and put a nice flag pole next to it J With the windmill I made 2 classic windmills (not the hypermodern you’ve seen on some screenshot from Maxis) and I build a nice sign that it was a windmill park in front of the building. Next I made dirt road from the office to the windmills for the maintenance truck. At this point I realized the game is going to be deep enough for SimCity builders. - Water tower (and groundwater) When I build my water tower I got the water table of the map. I build it on a splash of dark blue water instead of light blue water. This off course the get a higher output of the tower. Right away I seen the water run down the city. Finely not wasting my time on water pipes anymore! J At this stage I got also involved in the next item: - Graphs In the older SimCity I used my graphs a lot in combinations with the famous minimap. In this version Maxis does it different. The whole map interact in what you want to see. So I click on fire risk and seen that one house was burned down and was now rubbish and that there were some warnings at some local factories. Next I switched to density and the whole city went white (buildings) and circle towers in different colors where shooting out of my city. I could see right away were all the people work, sleep, shop etc. It was very clear and much better than before. Than by accident I clicked on a car that was driving over the street. Guess what happened: - Cars, citizens, agents and routes etc. When you click a car it give you information about that car. Who is driving it. Were that person lives and were he is going to! It was so cool to see that the agent system from glassbox really is there. This gives an extra deep dimension to control your city and its transport system (if you want to micromanagement) But luckily the agents found their way also by themselves. So one of the cars that I followed didn’t took the shortest route (through my nice green residential zone) but was driving a bit around it on my bigger avenue. Soon my avenue got some bad traffic jam at the big intersection with the commercial zone. Suddenly I seen some care (not all) sneak around it through my nice neighborhood. I don’t want that off course, so I build even an even bigger avenue (the one with the light rail in the middle) now the traffic was getting this as preferred road.I didn’t figure out a way to upgrade the road, but then again I didn’t put much effort in it (had nice empty space) and I could not work with the light rail because at this point my time was up. I also think that the light rail didn’t work yet in this version. - Graphics OMG it was already beautiful. And I cant wait till the final result. For the first time in SimCity I really love the night time. I build my power plant by accident in the evening and blink blink blink.. all the lights in the city were turned on. It was amazing to see. And because not all are burning and some go off or on it really looks realistic. Well maybe realistic isn’t the right word because as you know SimCity works wilt tilt-shift. My brother found it looks like a bit cartoony because of the tilt-shirt. That its looked a bit more like sims and not like SC4. But still disagree with him. I feld like I could really see every detail in my city and still see everything that’s going on. But then again I love good tilt-shift movies. How suddenly a real life big environment still keeps all its details but looks like you can play with it like Lego. - Disasters (meteor shower) I’m not a big fan of disasters. Why would I destroy a perfect city?! But I guess it’s a part of SimCity and a lot of people like it. Well the meteor shower was a nice ending and it looked pretty amazing. Maxis/Dr Vu destroyed all recently build cities in one click. Maybe it was better this way because I really wanted to take the city home with me. Now it was destroyed it was easier to go outside of the stand. - 20minutes and feedback Because I only had 20 minutes I tried as many things as possible in that period of time. But every SimCity player knows how fast time goes away with that game. The thing I regret the most is also the time shortage I had. I really hope the beta comes out soon and hopefully (fingers crossed, wink to Maxis) I will be selected as a beta user. In this story I described my experience as accurate as possible. If you still have questions for me about my experience please ask. I will try to answer them as good and quick as I can. But remember I only played 20 minutes (way to short Maxis!!) So I only experienced a tip of the iceberg. As last: The computers were SimCity was running on was behind closed doors. Cameras were not allowed and they were made sure nobody was filming anything. I think they did that just to tease everybody that was not there. So im sorry I dont have any nice vids/screens. Also I didn’t talk to anybody from Maxis. So I had no change to ask my questions / give my feedback to them. If maxis still want my feedback they know how to contact me. But for now: Thanks Maxis, you did a really great job. Thanks everybody for reading my story and please give me feedback. Greetings, FerryV (origin/simtropolis accountname) Ps. My native language is not English as you can see and I am dyslectic. So sorry for the mistakes and please read over them. If you don’t understand a part please also leave feedback, Pss. Just reminds me: I did no terraforming / nor did i seen the option Psss. I build one beautiful park out of 4 options i had. I didnt check if that was upgradable

Why do you post this in "SimCity (2013) General Discussion"? If you search the same way you post your stuff no wonder you cant find anything

Why do you still react to the game Cirugo? Your already said multiple times your not gonna buy the game. So stop comment on the game plz and do something else with your life.

Old news.. There is already a topic about it https://www.simtropolis.com/news/_/general-gaming-news/ea-boss-proudly-refuses-to-publish-single-player-games-r246 close topic pls.

I mentioned earilier i played simcity on the snes in the early days. But i dont hope they make any console version of it now. It has similar capibility of a pc? The XBOX360 is from 2005.. 7 years old! The playstation3 and xbox360 are old machines that should already been replaced years ago. If you conbine the XBOX360 and Playstation3 it still doesnt beat my pc. Ive owned both consoles and sold them already. The Xbox i used for GTA4 (early release date) but sold it right after i was done playing the game. The Playstions 3 i bought for GT5. It was a disapioting game. No much different than GT2 besides better graphics. And loading from that slow hdd was my reason the sell it again. Just give me my i7 pc with a GTX680 and my fast SSD When you put that in a console within a year give me a call.

Tweet from SimCity: "Congrats to @The_allister, @MaxwellGBrown, and@Ivan_Garcia_214 for winning our #SimCity t-shirt! Send over a DM with your info, guys!"

I played once SimCity on my good old SNES Was a great game. But nowadays i would prefer PC over console.

I have to admit it's a cool t-shirt.. (normaly i dont like merchandise shirts) Maxis, put it up for sale!

Thats why websites like kickstarter.com could be handy. And why would SC4 on steriods be a flop? sounds like everyone wants it!

Maybe he just came back from a backpackers trip deep down the jungle or is just living under a stone

Hi guys/girls, The new weekly blog is online at SimCity.com: http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/Cool-Looking-City-Rock-Residential Its about a guitar shaped city. The city reminds me a bit about the robot shaped city. The guitar city is a bit bigger than the very small robot. What i also realize is that the edges are not blurry (maybe you can switch on/off) Anyway, i (like always) hoped for more news. I still like it that they write everyweek something. What do you think about this blog? Greetings, FerryV

Do games sell beter than ever? Can you support that? and if its such a good market how come i dont see a small gamestudio making a SimCity4 on steriods that everyone wants? Totaly offline, with cities of 10x10km and super terraforming? Its 2012 and possible. So who is making the real next simcity? You? I just get a bad mood of all those compainers that saying to boycot everything, but i put my money on it that most of them are playing next year all those game that you have to be online for. Reason? Because i think all the big studios are gonna build games this way (Sony, Ubisoft etc)

You have all the right to diSagree, but atleast write the truth and underly your statements. Mistake no1: " EA just use this as a excuse bnothing more" EA dont use piracy as an excuse, thats my opinion for the whole game market. Mistake no2: "There is just as much piracy with the consoles as there is with the pc" If you go to a ragular piracy point for illegal games you will see that pc gaming is more pirated than console gaming. For example: check a famous torrent website and see the differences in seeders/leachers between PC and Console (http://kat.ph/pc-games/ http://kat.ph/ps3/ http://kat.ph/xbox360/) So if you wanna diSagree thats fine by me. But alleast get your facts/statements right...

You releasing a demo then that people can try? Your going in a radical new direction here and of course, people aren't going to shell out the price of a full game for something they don't like the sound of and asking them to buy it on faith. Maxis is releasing a beta version soon (http://www.simcity.com/en_US/beta/info) here you can get the feeling of how the new SimCity is gonna be. Just sign yourself up for the closed beta and experience it yourself. The only problem witht that is that you will only get to try it if you get into the beta. They aren't going to let everyone who signs up in on it after all. Ditto if the only place they do demos are at the expos. Only folks that can get to the expos are going to get any chance to check thigns out. Oh, and for the record I did sign up to give it a go. Were does it say they aren't let everyone who signs up in? Yes its a closed beta (thats the siging up part) and you need to meet the requirements with your computer (dxdiag) But i didnt see somewere that there gonna choose a selected group. And i played SimCity on one of the expos () But it was still a alpha version instead of a beta or demo version.

I think this is the result of the high number of illegal downloads. Many years PC gaming was almost dead (due the console gaming) The PC market was just to big a risk for losing money so gamestudios sometimes didnt bother to make pc version anymore (Red Redemption) . Now everybody is connected with high speed internet there are new opportunities. The way to make money is now by online gaming (WoW) or micro transactions (Angry Birds) Do i like this? No! But i guess its all our fault. We let piracy go way out of hand. So i dont blame EA or other gamecompanies for this so they can make a profit. The gamemarket is not an easy market. Alot of gamestudios went down last couple of years. If its going to be a good profitable market again many new gamestudios will raise (and so good games will come back)

If you look to the specs req for the game your all good on processor.

Hmmz, im ok that they dont create to high expectation so the game is going te be better than i think. Also they still leave alot unanswered so you can still discover something when your playing for real .. And dont forget: the game comes in Februari 2013, thats between 20 a 25 weeks. Thats gonne be alot of funny looking cities they have to reviel No seriously, i think you get the best info in the end, after the beta, just before releasing..