Need larger lands for cities!!!

@Cornunit wrote:@leymar75 wrote:Need larger lands for cities!!!City sizes have been a constant point of conversation among our players since we released the game. The game’s original design focused on the density of an intimate urban environment. It was about intercity connectivity and the challenge of managing a region of cities instead of one metropolis in isolation. However, we recognize that many players have expressed the desire to build up one big city rather than manage the interrelationship of multiple smaller cities. We’ve put months of investigation into making larger city sizes, reworking the terrain maps, changing the routing algorithms of our agent-based system and altering the way that GlassBox processes the data in a larger space. After months of testing, I confirm that we will not be providing bigger city sizes. The system performance challenges we encountered would mean that the vast majority of our players wouldn’t be able to load, much less play with bigger cities. We’ve tried a number of different approaches to bring performance into an acceptable range, but we just couldn’t achieve it within the confines of the engine. We’ve chosen to cease work on bigger city sizes and put that effort into continuing to evolve the core game and explore an offline mode. Some of the experiments we conducted to improve performance on bigger cities will be rolled into future updates to improve overall game performance. Source: http://www.simcity.com/en_US/blog/article/state-of-simcityWhy can't you make a DLC addon for those that have better computers and wish to have bigger cities, its such a simple idea.Why must everyone suffer, for those who have failed to upgrade their technology?

Engineers that make software actually care a lot about how their work is received. I'm sure once the feedback came in that they tried extremely hard to find a way to accomidate the customer feedback. Who wouldn't want make all the haters shut up? Who wouldn't want people to enjoy a game that they spents years of their life on. So I fully believe that AFTER the feedback they tried very hard to improve everything they could.What I don't understand is why it was desided to have cities that were smaller than in SimCity 4 in the first place. Why chose a game engine that would not allow for a game experience that was at least as good as a game from 10 years earlier? I suppose the multiplayer angle that it orginally shipped with had something to do with it.SimCity looks great and has potential. The main irritants left after allowing for single player offline mode(By the way I have not played a single online multiplayer game since this enhancement was released and most likely never will) are the following:1. No way to create your own region2. No way to handle the intercity road connections on your own. Super annoying because it causes traffic jams with large cities and screws up your supply lines.3. Cities are so small that they just are not believable as cities. I don't want to have to seperate everything. Let me build the huge epic megacities of SimCity past.If those 3 items were handled this new SImCity would be the best SimCity ever shipped. As it stands now I rarely play even tho I upgraded to cities of tomorrow. I remember the first time I saw the orginal simcity on a Pentium 386. Just black squares with letters in the middle. I played that game for hours and hours. Every SimCIty after it was better. I never had a single complaint. Just sad.

It shouldn't be your guys desicion, we are the consumer, it should be ours. We spent our hard earned money too buy this game. I spent 79.99 when it was first released, yes I like some of the aspects of the game, but no city I know of is a perfect little tiny square. I want a bigger map option, as for the majority of your players, what are they running a 32836/16 with 16mb ram??? A lot of your community has awesome machines too run the added load. So it should be our choice. I hope once you unlock the offline mode, some modders go ahead and tweak the macahnics of the game bigger maps and unlimited resources ruining your precious glass box engine. You guys have ruined what could have been one of the greatest games too come out in a long time. I have been a pc gamer since 1984 and have played all the versions of sim city and loved each and every other one. I have nothing further to say, I will never buy an ea based product again. Thanks a lot,

I must say the smaller cities is a huge problem for me. I have stopped plaing this version of the game and went back to the older versions as the maps are bigger. Where I thought SimCity would be my game of choice it is now simply a game I get to break away from the other games I play more often. Pity, but will not be buying any further versions of this game...very disappointed. BUT have come to expect this from EA.

thanks for NO larger maps, since this is what your customers want. You just gave us the finger by saying there will be no larger maps. I will remember this in my next purchase of anything EA. Long live Steam!

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Anonymous
12 years ago
@ MartinBryant I bought the game and they clearly didnt deliver on what they promised. If i had known all the stupid restrictions they would put on their consumers prior to purchase then No i would not have bought the game. Fact of the matter we are dissatisfied. I wanted a refund which they refused to grant so now they have to put up with the complaints. Since they wont give my money back they better produce a better game.
Anonymous
11 years ago
BUMP!
I know I'm late, but I was a victim of a lazy summer afternoon, when boredom struck and I found myself wanting to play the latest version of SimCity. I was a fan of previous versions of this game so I didn't even read any reviews to help me decide if it would be worth forking over $30. Instead I trusted EA implicitly to release a great product.
Initially I liked the new features and since Ive been craving a SimCity that had a true multi player mode I was very excited about the game despite the small city size. I've played through several cities trying out different specializations up to this point. Now that the initial excitement is gone and I'm becoming annoyed with being limited to a small tile sized grid square, I'm truly disappointed that there won't be a release of larger city sizes, or even city zones that are directly next to one another as in SimCity 4. Also the interaction between neighboring cities seems rather limited and buggy. It doesn't feel like a multi player game at all.
I would gladly pay for the option to play regions that have bigger city boundaries. Or better yet, be able to add additional space next to my existing cities. I don't really care if someone running an out of date computer can't load my city, they can admire it from a distance. PC Games should push boundaries. It feels to me like the size and scope of this release is something closer to an app game rather than a traditional boundary pushing PC game.
Please, SimCity 6 soon.
uranium05r
11 years ago
Hi EA, what about slicing One Big City into smaller section if your concern is performance. With this approach we can get the joy of having that massive city effect rather than small but far away. Please work on this! Thank you!
BIA_VOLDORAC
8 years ago
What also should be included in all "spaces" that's available for everyone, offline as in online is to have more or less equally when it comes to resources, every bar should be glowing at some grade, making it able for others to actually playing the game rather than having other players being totally obsessed with another player that can't play the game but has access to all the resources. This issue has also been an major issue regarding playing the game... it's technically a bigger issue than making the city range bigger! and even I payed $80 when this * came out, and I'm still here waiting for the grass to become at least a little bit greener than having a foul soil ,,, smh -.-

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