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    Steve Watts posted a new article, SimCity mod shows offline play, editing roads outside cities.

    A modder has posted a video showing SimCity highways being built outside city boundaries, and a sort of "offline mode" in which the disconnect timer has been disabled.
    Mar 14, 2013 8:15am PDT
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    Steve Watts posted a new article, SimCity mod shows offline play, editing roads outside cities.

    A modder has posted a video showing SimCity highways being built outside city boundaries, and a sort of "offline mode" in which the disconnect timer has been disabled. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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      Why isn't this considered a crack? It's circumventing the DRM, even if it is a shitty DRM scheme. : DerringerThis person is cool!
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        It's the game's built-in debug mode. : bigimpThis person is cool!
        • I wonder how that would work then? Using a built-in part of the game that's not intended to be used by... : DerringerThis person is cool!
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      It also neglects the fact that a lot of the gameplay hooks are having it connected with other uses. Great... : Sephiras
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        MAxis missed the point of how people like to play SimCity : JohnnyRey
        • Well they still do not understand at this point, so might as well say: Maxis misses the point of why peop... : p34nk
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          I don't disagree, but the point of this Simcity is to play online, so by creating an offline mode seems p... : Sephiras
          • "the point of this (game in a traditionally offline franchise) is to play online..." That's how I read... : the archvileThis person is cool!
        • to be fair they've been trying to stick region-based multiplayer stuff into the game for a long time, eve... : DeBurgoThis person is cool!
      • It's not impossible for those to be added in. It's not like Maxis themselves didn't already have a networ... : LoioshDwaggieThis person is cool!
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        The point is that the modder actually disproves the theory that the game needs to always be online as all... : p34nk
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          It's worse than that, actually. The save games are written out locally before being transferred to the se... : LoioshDwaggieThis person is cool!
          • Is this for real? This is new info for me...And that does not look good at all. THanks for the additio... : p34nk
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            hahaha wow. this is just amazing to watch unfold. EA is being completely dissected. the closer it gets ... : DownforceThis person is cool!
            • id donate money if it meant that guy figuring out how to build a city using the entire region without the... : UnleashedThis person is cool!
        • i havent played a multiplayer game yet. nor do i have a desire to. : rtrson
        • No one has ever said all the simulation is done server side. Some were misinformed about how much is hand... : pyideThis person is cool!
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      The reason EA will not come off of this is because they spent a lot of time and effort to sell their DRM ... : ThresherThis person is cool!
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        And yet people still try and defend EA's DRM and Maxis developers despite the hundreds of problems that h... : Wej00
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          i wonder how much money those servers cost. i cant imagine it was worth all this just to stop thousands o... : rtrson
          • They pretty much guaranteed that I won't be buying it! : NighteyesThis person is cool!
    • Uh oh. : Dr_Cube
    • This might be one of the biggest PR disasters I've seen in gaming. It's just one thing after the other. : not a crook