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[aaron32]

New video! This time about their simulation engine.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/20/simulation-stimulation-a-peek-into-sim-citys-glassbox/#more-100147
alternatively, here: http://geeks.thedailywh.at/2012/03/20/geek-news-simcity-glassbox-demo-of-the-day/
DO. WANT. NOW.

I just noticed something that made the sims unique.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/12/mar/glassbox.jpg
Look at the buildings.
The words.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

WHARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Eye beer?

The thing is, It's in english.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simlish <-----------
IMHO it's supposed to look like that.

[Tilla]

New video! This time about their simulation engine.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/20/simulation-stimulation-a-peek-into-sim-citys-glassbox/#more-100147
alternatively, here: http://geeks.thedailywh.at/2012/03/20/geek-news-simcity-glassbox-demo-of-the-day/
DO. WANT. NOW.

I just noticed something that made the sims unique.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/12/mar/glassbox.jpg
Look at the buildings.
The words.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

WHARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

Eye beer?

The thing is, It's in english.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simlish <-----------
IMHO it's supposed to look like that.

Except Simlish was always a 'The Sims' thing, and has never been used as part of the Sim City games AFAIK, or any other Sim franchise titles, and is generally speaking just for SPOKEN content, not written - see the random events in The Sims, which use english text.

[LoSboccacc]

the resources stuff from terrain to economy and the agent interactions seems extremely interesting and reminds me of rush hours.

I hope it won't be axed and reduced to a graphical gimmick

[alway]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/28/simcity-to-be-crippled-by-always-on-lets-change-this/

Bad news: you will have to play it through Origin, with a permanent online connection all the time.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[Mephansteras]

Damn it...I really hope they change that. Otherwise I'll probably end up passing on this. I just don't like the Origin system and I don't like always-on internet requirements for games.

[dogstile]

Heard that, ran here, was to late to post but i can at least tell everyone that this is yet another game i refuse to buy now

[lordcooper]

You will have to play it through Origin

That is a lie.

[Ozyton]

You will have to play it through Origin

That is a lie.

Sauce

[BigD145]

No surprise. F*U EA.

[dogstile]

You will have to play it through Origin

That is a lie.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116537-New-SimCity-Will-Require-Always-On-Internet

This say's otherwise.

[Tilla]

Tracked the project lead down on Facebook and sent him an angry PM linking to the article. Grrr

[alway]

Oh, and another RPS link from earlier: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/28/first-look-simcity/

Glassbox sounds like an awesome approach to things.

[forsaken1111]

Can't wait to try it honestly. The always-on thing has never bothered me as much as others, and the glassbox approach sounds fascinating.

[Rose]

This seems like its gonna have just the right combination of awesome features and drawbacks of actually buying it to make me want to pirate it.

[Leatra]

There will be plenty of cracks available right away at the release date anyway. It just makes things more difficult for the paying customers. When will these big greedy evil corporations learn?