@LNBCKRU wrote:I have the same problem. I have Heroes and Villians, but I don't have Digital Deluxe. Those "Deluxe" city types are just a skin pack for your buildings anyway; that shouldn't matter for inheriting cities. Coupled with the continued inability of the Join Game menu to show us regions with open cities, this means that it's literally impossible to play games with people who aren't already our friends on Origin.
It makes me wonder: who are the "millions of fans loving multiplayer" who Lucy Bradshaw keeps bragging about?
The sims in the cities with content you can't claim...
Anyway. The issue boils down to EA's content service being too selective. Nobody should be restricted from claiming an abandonned city if said city has no DLC ploppables in it. In fact, the proper way to handle this is to force the DLC content to be deleted upon abandonment. This would allow anyone, with any mixture of DLC to claim said cities.
Here's how this breaks down:
There are, in fact, 26 versions of the game...
That will only get worse as DLC comes out... My solution (forcing deletion of DLC content upon abandonment) is the ONLY one that can work.
@CynicalDriver wrote:
@LNBCKRU wrote:I have the same problem. I have Heroes and Villians, but I don't have Digital Deluxe. Those "Deluxe" city types are just a skin pack for your buildings anyway; that shouldn't matter for inheriting cities. Coupled with the continued inability of the Join Game menu to show us regions with open cities, this means that it's literally impossible to play games with people who aren't already our friends on Origin.
It makes me wonder: who are the "millions of fans loving multiplayer" who Lucy Bradshaw keeps bragging about?
The sims in the cities with content you can't claim...
Anyway. The issue boils down to EA's content service being too selective. Nobody should be restricted from claiming an abandonned city if said city has no DLC ploppables in it. In fact, the proper way to handle this is to force the DLC content to be deleted upon abandonment. This would allow anyone, with any mixture of DLC to claim said cities.
Here's how this breaks down:
There are, in fact, 26 versions of the game...
- SimCity (SC)
- SimCity Limited Edition (SC:LE)
- SimCity Digital Deluxe
- SimCity + Digital Deluxe Upgrade
- SC:LE + British
- SC:LE + German
- SC:LE + French
- SC:LE + British & German
- SC:LE + British & French
- SC:LE + German & French
- SC:LE + British & German & French
- SC + British
- SC + German
- SC + French
- SC + British & German
- SC + British & French
- SC + German & French
- SC + British & German & French
- SC + HV
- SC + HV & British
- SC + HV & German
- SC + HV & French
- SC + HV & British & German
- SC + HV & British & French
- SC + HV & German & French
- SC + HV & British & German & French
That will only get worse as DLC comes out... My solution (forcing deletion of DLC content upon abandonment) is the ONLY one that can work.
Actually, I'd think that when you go claim a city, if it just deleted the content you didnt have, that would be ideal. In fact, it should delete it and refund the price to plop back to the city.
I'm having the same problem. My group of 7 players has 3 versions with them. Our whole 16 plot has been corrupted to only have 4 free standard slots and 2 limited slots...rest are all deluxe. Big shot deluxe players claim unclaimed stuff and it's ruined for everyone else.
I talked to some techs at EA on their support hotline and they said it's a bug and that they will look into fixing it.
I sure hope so: otherwise they should move those deluxe people to another server and let them downgrade to standard while they play with us "Standard" folk
> Actually, I'd think that when you go claim a city, if it just deleted the content you didnt have, that would be ideal. In fact, it should delete it and refund the price to plop back to the city.
I've bee thinking about this. You definitely should not get a refund because that's more challenging: but I think better would be to allow you to inherit the stuff you can't build. And since you don't have the license you can't edit it or add subbuildings. So that would make you need to turn around and find a deluxe person (or upgrade) to make the building more useful. It would be a way to turn Deluxe players into heroes instead of city destroyers as they are now.
Right now my tiny region has 16 cities, but most of them have been edited by a deluxe player. Some of htem with the city and villain pack. 5/7 of our group has the standard or limited editions (which are also incompatible) and 2 of the group has deluxe, one with heroes and villains. What this means is that if anyone touches a city it's permanently upgraded or downgraded or sidegraded and unavailable for the original owner. I've lost dozens of hours to building a city only to have one of my friends with deluxe ruin it permanently for me by just claiming it and adding a few roads and a water tower to supply him water--and now I can never play in that city again ~tears~ until they fix this bug.
Same... I already purchase the DLC (SIMCITY™ DIGITAL DELUXE UPGRADE PACK)... but still has this problem "You cannot claim this city because you do not own some of the content used to create it"... is quite annoying now... EA and Maxis Developer please fix it......
javelintorch: it's possible you don't have the Heroes and Villains Extra pack.
Can you build the Vu Tower and the MaxisManor?
If you don't have the *exact* matching version of someone, even if that person paid the same $80 you did to get the Deluxe edition with Heroes and Villains, if you have the standard Deluxe edition fopr the same price then I believe you cannot edit cities that have been even touched by the Deluxe Edition with heroes and villains. This is definitely true with the Standard versus Limited edition (which only have those 2 buildings as differences and both cost $40)
The EA tech I talked to said that this was a bug with the way their claim code worked and that they would look into addressing it immediately. I'm hoping so!
In the meanwhile: lets not build any of the heroes and villains stuff--it makes our cities less portable for the future.
@fireflyk64 wrote:> Actually, I'd think that when you go claim a city, if it just deleted the content you didnt have, that would be ideal. In fact, it should delete it and refund the price to plop back to the city.
I've bee thinking about this. You definitely should not get a refund because that's more challenging: but I think better would be to allow you to inherit the stuff you can't build. And since you don't have the license you can't edit it or add subbuildings. So that would make you need to turn around and find a deluxe person (or upgrade) to make the building more useful. It would be a way to turn Deluxe players into heroes instead of city destroyers as they are now.
Right now my tiny region has 16 cities, but most of them have been edited by a deluxe player. Some of htem with the city and villain pack. 5/7 of our group has the standard or limited editions (which are also incompatible) and 2 of the group has deluxe, one with heroes and villains. What this means is that if anyone touches a city it's permanently upgraded or downgraded or sidegraded and unavailable for the original owner. I've lost dozens of hours to building a city only to have one of my friends with deluxe ruin it permanently for me by just claiming it and adding a few roads and a water tower to supply him water--and now I can never play in that city again ~tears~ until they fix this bug.
Um... Why did you abandon it if you still wanted it?? You CAN have two cities at the same time, in one region, in normal play...
>Um... Why did you abandon it if you still wanted it?? You CAN have two cities at the same time, in one region, in normal play...
Because it is a private region and my friends are playing in the same room as me.
Our policy *was* "before you logout, abandon city". The idea was it was a huge community run city with 16 regions: anyone could login wherever and make improvements. Like one gigantic fun area.
that policy changed VERY rapidly when we realized they started corruping our hard work by editing it with the deluxe edition. I hate the deluxe edition (!) They managed to destroy many cities before we realized it because the deluxe people play more than the rest of us.
@fireflyk64 wrote:>Um... Why did you abandon it if you still wanted it?? You CAN have two cities at the same time, in one region, in normal play...
Because it is a private region and my friends are playing in the same room as me.
Our policy *was* "before you logout, abandon city"
that policy changed VERY rapidly when we realized they started corruping our hard work by editing it with the deluxe edition. I hate the deluxe edition (!) They managed to destroy many cities before we realized it because the deluxe people play more than the rest of us.
Interesting... I hadn't thought to play like that. Ok, now they need to fix it so I can try that, lol.
It's so important they fix it soon before my group disbands because we are unable to play together in the way we want to! We want to build this group collaboration where we can all go.
I have a quick fix idea: allow Deluxe players to login downgraded as "Standard Edition"
That way we can play together and they can go deluxing off on their own in their own regions.
Ok, got me the Basic SimCity 5 DVD + all 3 City-Packs. Got the same annoying message everytime I tried to claim a city........ They should give us the Dr. Vu & Hero thing + Diamond-whatever for free so we can finally play together!!! (if that is what causes this!)
EDIT: Since 1 hour im trying to claim a city somewhere with no luck.... And I seem to see only one and the same map in the Join Menue "TITAN GORGE".
Anyone care to help? This issue, like others too for sure..., is fatal ☹️ I can't play with other players! I threw almost 70€ out of the window to get me told that I don't have that extra-better edition of this game!
