It was about intercity connectivity and the challenge of managing a region of cities instead of one metropolis in isolation. "The game's original design focused on the density of an intimate urban environment. "City sizes have been a constant point of conversation among our players since we released the game," general manager of the Maxis Emeryville studio Patrick Buechner said at the time. Last year Maxis said adding larger cities would negatively impact the performance of the game. The game has come under fire for its city sizes, which players consider to be too small and as a result restrictive. But in the same breath it ruled out the addition of larger cities. In October 2013 Maxis announced that SimCity would get an offline mode after a disastrous launch that saw the game unplayable for many. The issues are outlined on the mod page on Simtropolis. For example, the modders warn that as your city grows you may experience lag.
However, the mod is in beta, and there are a number of issues when running it, particularly for work done outside the normal boundary. The Orion mod adds a 3km 2 boundary extension to the normal city size of 2km 2 - enabling players to plop buildings down outside the standard city limits. The company has assured users that the launch issues are nearly over, and EA has promised a free game to affected users.Modders are working to make the cities in SimCity bigger. The official SimCity Twitter recently posted conflicting messages about the possibility of an offline mode. Even found a way to fix the game’s broken population count, which has been criticised for bearing no relation to the number of sims that actually live in your city.
Also modded out the disconnect timer can now play ‘offline’ indefinitely. AzzerUK’s most important discovery though is that the game does not have to be online to run, only to save and use the multiplayer features. Especially as the changes can still be saved on the server, without causing any problems. The small size of the city maps has been one of the major criticisms of the new SimCity, but now it transpires that their limits are also artificial. But a fan has proven that this is not in fact true. According to EA one of the primary reasons why SimCity requires a permanent Internet connection is because many of the computations for the game are done in the cloud on EA’s servers, rather than by your PC. EA’s claims that SimCity has to be online in order to work have been proven untrue, as a fan gets it running offline and with bigger city plots.
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