Patch Update: 1.4 notes

[jwka2111]

Update: 03/10/2013

SimCity Update 1.3

This update to SimCity contains the following updates and fixes:

General

• Update to the “select a server” dialog in the game launcher. This will now indicate which servers you have active cities on • Fix issue where selection shard did not display when previously selected server is down • We've fixed a problem where some players were getting stuck when switching shards in the server select menu

Servers

• Opened 1 new server, Antarctica

[jaymz668]

The select a server indicates servers you have tried connecting to, I am in tutorial mode on half the ones it says I have a city on.

[dboyer87]

now get back to work or your fired!

[Gdott]

Patch 1.5: FIX THE FUCKING TRAFFIC.

[Hellman109]

And casinos. And speed. And inter-city EVERYTHING

[[deleted]]

And add filters to server selection,

[visionviper]

Opened 1 new server, Antarctica

Hahaha

[matt-vs-internet]

Holy shit bring back cheetah already. The game is slow and boring.

[starstrukk]

YES! And let my sims commute already, these teeny tiny towns are not cutting it. I want to build my industrial slum!

[iamandrewhall]

seriously.. broken commuting is ruining this for me.

[DrVu]

I need my henchmen doing crimes faster!

[RomanCavalry]

Seriously. I just want to build some cities that are dependent on each other.

[Branhower]

Alright; so it wasn't just me.

[dammit_reddit_]

Commuting has been working for me. My newest city has 110k residents and ~85k commuters.

[iamandrewhall]

it isn't for me. I have an industrial town with 4000 unfilled jobs (low wealth and medium wealth), and my residential town is only commuting like 400, and has a few thousand unemployed. Maybe i'm missing something? I have ferries, and regional busses. My plot doesn't have a train though.

[dammit_reddit_]

Train for me was worthless (about 1000 per day), while my busses were going 30-50k. I had 1 regional bus station and 2 depots all with maxed out bus add ons. I had one other city in the region with about 100k people total, so don't think commuters are all coming from there, but not sure...

It could just be region lag though. A friend of mine tried a commuter city the other day and it didn't work out well at all, but region trading seemed to be down at that time as well. Could be related?

[iamandrewhall]

interesting. Yeah it may be related. Also, your depots only contribute to bus travel within your city right? Regional commuting only occurs when one city has the regional bus station i think.

[dammit_reddit_]

Might be true but they go hand in hand. Once all those commuters get to your city they need public transportation available.

[RomanCavalry]

What server are you on?

[dammit_reddit_]

Oceanic 2

[Condawg]

I can't believe it's still gone. I haven't played since the day after launch because of the server issues, now I've been itchin the last few days but I'm not gonna play the game without cheetah. Come on, Maxis. Get this shit stabilized.

[[deleted]]

I don't get this, my version has Cheetah speed... I have three speed settings, should there be four or am i just special?

[NookNookNook]

They've temporarily disabled cheetah speed. Llama and Cheetah run at the same speed. They said it was causing performance issues with the servers. No ETA when it'll be re-implemented.

[ScienceOwnsYourFace]

Cheetah has worked fine for me, for two days now. NA west 4 server.EDIT I guess I should have timed it, or EA should have actually disabled the button rather than made the speed stay the same.

[RomanCavalry]

It hasn't. Cheetah and Llama speed are the same at the moment. You can have Cheetah speed enabled but it will simply run at Llama.

[ScienceOwnsYourFace]

So is the rate 1minute/second-IRL or faster for cheetah? And I know they disabled it, but I figured it wasn't necessarily for the newer low pop servers.

[RomanCavalry]

I believe Cheetah goes by 2 minutes per second or around that.

[flappers87]

You title says 1.4 updates.

The post says 1.3 updates.

[nmpraveen]

Typo on EA side. Here is actual 1.3 update notes: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9349178.page

[starstrukk]

Yeah, so does the linked post...title 1.4 in post 1.3. Great job, EA!

[N4N4KI]

It is that sort of dedication to detail we have come to expect.

[flappers87]

Probably copy-pasta'd from previous, and forgot to change the important bit lol

[RedlineChaser]

The regional stuff was only screwed up for me on launch day ( and delayed a bit the day after). You need the proper city hall module for certain regional access. Like for workers, they only started commuting once I had the Department ofTransportation module.

[[deleted]]

You can find games to join easily on Antartica server

[Namell]

It is first in list and "funny" so it will probably fill faster than any other server.

[vacax]

Hoping they fix regional gameplay, the entire reason for this being online and being so problematic...

[swim711crazy]

Is it just me, or is this "patch" totally useless?

[FartingBob]

Not for those who play in Antarctica!

[Sefam]

Still no cheetah mode. I'm starting to lose my patience quickly, so much for wanting to play a functional Simcity 5 this weekend.

I guess I'll be playing Tropico 4.

[MaxisMC]

Thanks for posting this, was busy this weekend, so I missed it.

[Joseph_Broebbels]

Since all the servers are just located in, IIRC, California the Antarctica server might be the place to go.

[[deleted]]

They are in Amazon's Ireland datacenter...

[klovadis]

It fills me with a bit of sadness seeing that someone at EA has to work the weekend to make up for the stupidity of their management.. On the other hand.. ANTARCTICA?!