I can't seem to join any regions with open cities because of this message. I bought the standard version of the game but I just can't find any regions that were made by someone with the same version.
There seems to be no way to filter for regions created using a certain game version (or even regions with open spots), which makes finding a region to play completely impossible.
@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.
i have the same problem.
I own the collectors edition with the british pack. I also own the german and frence packs. alone with the hero and villians pack.
ea support cannot help me and the last time i contacted them and told them all my details all of a sudden my game said it wasnt responding. did they shut it down while I was asking support questions ?
so many problems I cannot take over abandoned citys. 2 of my citys have the "this town is processing problem". this game is very badly put together.
I thank the EA CEO for standing down today.
This is a common EA practice, probably in hopes that more will buy DLC to be able to fully play the game. It is pathetic. Same thing with Battlefield3. Splitting up the game in several different versions. Making it hard for both players and server owners. This to feels like a way to "force" people to buy premium versions, season passes etc.
But the way it is handled in SC2013 is extraordinarly bad, three release day DLCs are splitting up the playerbase so hard.
Yep, took me a good 15 minutes to find a game I could actually join last night.
I really have to wonder if they even tried this stuff out or just blindly released it? I can't imagine how it's good in any world just to list hundreds of unjoinable games and make the user having to keep adding more games to their list on the off chance they finally find one they can join.
Christ, playing Quake on Gamespy back in the 90's I had an easier time finding servers and joining games. This is just plain stupid.
@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.
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.
