"Whubble;c-18292174" wrote:
If you haven't tried it already, go into EA app settings (three lines in the top left corner), go into the Applications column, turn everything off there, and try to play offline. Mak sure you scroll to the bottom. If the app has no reason to do anything perhaps it will not require you to be online.
While this is good advice and having the app looking for updates may add to the frequency of the error pop up, it's not the problem.
It's the EA App in general. It worked just fine in offline mode until some point in late March when an update rendered offline mode useless.
It's absolutely by design.
Answers HQ is a joke purposefully designed to keep problems from gaining traction and getting noticed.
I have quit spending money on EA products (TS4) until something changes.
Let Maxis know that you will no longer buy their products due to the EA App client software.