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Ha, nailed it.Yuuuup. Game was a letdown.. I'll buy it when it's on sale
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I really liked it, but I can not forgive the city sizes and while the simulation level is largely good, a lot of it is pseudo-simulation.
But can you really expect a desktop PC to truly simulate 250,000 people ? I'd wager it'd be really quite intensive.
Seriously considering getting a pair of HiFiMan HE 400 headphones. Would be my first set of planar magnetic headphones.
And this. Schiit Modi & Magni stack.
I really liked it, but I can not forgive the city sizes and while the simulation level is largely good, a lot of it is pseudo-simulation.
But can you really expect a desktop PC to truly simulate 250,000 people ? I'd wager it'd be really quite intensive.
Seriously considering getting a pair of HiFiMan HE 400 headphones. Would be my first set of planar magnetic headphones.
And this. Schiit Modi & Magni stack.
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PP Mguire
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So am I. I'd be willing to bet most people who play the game probably have some form of quad chip.
Too bad we can't see the results of Origin's spying to see what hardware people have that play specific games.
So am I. I'd be willing to bet most people who play the game probably have some form of quad chip.
Too bad we can't see the results of Origin's spying to see what hardware people have that play specific games.
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Just thinking about it a bit more. If you were simming 250K people, that means you are going to be simming 50K cars in rush hour minimum.
Thats not happening on a CPU or GPU front lol. Total War games kill PCs when you get to those figures, and they are only simulating things on a group AI level, which is much less intensive than every soldier individually of course.
Just thinking about it a bit more. If you were simming 250K people, that means you are going to be simming 50K cars in rush hour minimum.
Thats not happening on a CPU or GPU front lol. Total War games kill PCs when you get to those figures, and they are only simulating things on a group AI level, which is much less intensive than every soldier individually of course.
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Gotta ask where you got the 250k number from, because it's been proven you can play the game entirely without their "server offload".
Gotta ask where you got the 250k number from, because it's been proven you can play the game entirely without their "server offload".
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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/12/simcity-server-not-necessary/
Anyway, I finished the HOTS campaign on normal in about 1.5 days (getting the normal achievements with it). Now I'm going through it on Brutal.
I've done about 15 missions so far.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/12/simcity-server-not-necessary/
Anyway, I finished the HOTS campaign on normal in about 1.5 days (getting the normal achievements with it). Now I'm going through it on Brutal.
I've done about 15 missions so far.
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Huh ? With the 250K figure I was referring to the upper population limit in the new SimCity. Most people struggle to get beyond that.
Huh ? With the 250K figure I was referring to the upper population limit in the new SimCity. Most people struggle to get beyond that.
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Due to the limitations put on by needing the cloud. They want more people to interact making bigger cities together, which we all know is code for "reduces server load".
I bet there will be hacks to raise city limits once the offline mod/crack is wide.
Due to the limitations put on by needing the cloud. They want more people to interact making bigger cities together, which we all know is code for "reduces server load".
I bet there will be hacks to raise city limits once the offline mod/crack is wide.
