Maxis explains difficulties of removing SimCity's online requirement
"The original creative vision for SimCity was to make a game where every action had an effect on other cities in your region," Fox wrote. "As such, we engineered the game to meet this vision, setting up the player's PC (client) to communicate all of its information to the servers."
Fox then addresses claims made by Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw that the game simply couldn't function offline. "Lucy once said that Offline wouldn't be possible 'without a significant amount of engineering work,' and she's right. By the time we're finished we will have spent over [six and a half] months working to write and rewrite core parts of the game to get this to work."
To drive his point home, Fox explains that SimCity was designed from conception to periodically check in with the game's servers. This allows players' cities to communicate with one another (and transfer water, power, garbage and other utilities), as well as the entire SimCity universe. Removing this feature involves writing new code for the game to simulate this transfer of information and resources, which is why it's taken so long for Maxis to remove the online requirement.
Finally, Fox thanks SimCity players for their patience. "We know you want Offline play in SimCity and we are really happy that we are finally getting ready to deliver it to you."
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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2014/01/14/maxis-explains-difficulties-of-removing-simcitys-online-require/
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slapshot101Posted:
I think the whole concept to have the communities interact and change with other players near you but the problem is that sometimes people don't have access to the internet or just want to create their own things.
VPNPosted:
LavishAustraliansIce-Coolz I really did stop playing sim city a while ago.
Yeah, it was more of a children's game, but when i look at it, i wanna play it xD
I don't see how you could say this is a childrens game.
There is so much micromanagement involved in this game.
Well its not rated M or T. Also most people that are older than Child status play CoD or a shooter.
TywinPosted:
AustraliansIce-Coolz I really did stop playing sim city a while ago.
Yeah, it was more of a children's game, but when i look at it, i wanna play it xD
I don't see how you could say this is a childrens game.
There is so much micromanagement involved in this game.
DissPosted:
AsboAustraliansIce-Coolz I really did stop playing sim city a while ago.
Yeah, it was more of a children's game, but when i look at it, i wanna play it xD
its a game you would play when you are bored not an everyday thing.
Very true, I only ever played Sims when there wasn't anything else to do. It is a pretty fun game to just waste a bit of time though.
AsboPosted:
AustraliansIce-Coolz I really did stop playing sim city a while ago.
Yeah, it was more of a children's game, but when i look at it, i wanna play it xD
its a game you would play when you are bored not an everyday thing.
HonkPosted:
KatsumiNahh Maybe they just make it single player.
They recently added a single player mode of play into Sim City.
Yah it makes the game a lot better.
KatsumiPosted:
Nahh Maybe they just make it single player.
They recently added a single player mode of play into Sim City.
DohPosted:
CraigyyKatsumiLooped This seems an OK game but why would a game like this not have single player anyway?
Because Electronic Arts made it..
EA are okay, but they need help in some places when designing games lol.
That is probably the best way to put it, they always seem to make a game what's the word..
Imbalanced? ahaha
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