Il lancio del controverso nuovo capitolo di SimCity, che nelle intenzioni di Maxis e di EA dovrebbe rappresentare una sorta di nuovo inizio della saga, ha avuto un lancio controverso agli inizi di marzo, che si è portato dietro diversi problemi di gioventù, primo tra i quali quelli relativi alla connettività online. Come già riportato qualche giorno fa, l’update 3.0 è dirittura d’arrivo e promette di sistemare diversi aspetti della simulazione cittadina.L’aggiornamento si prospetta corposo; a seguire trovate i dettagli completi resi noti dallo sviluppatore:- New: Added 24 new hotel models to increase hotel variety.- Traffic: Updated routing system to improve traffic. Routing system now understands more information about u-turns, required vehicle stops, and vehicle behavior on certain road types. This should make traffic smarter.- Traffic: Commercial and industrial buildings stagger their work shifts to start throughout commute hours instead of at the top of the hour. This should reduce traffic.- Traffic: Fixes one issue where a car won’t move causing traffic to back up behind it.- Traffic: Vehicles can now make right turns on Red. This should improve some cases of traffic.- Traffic: Trading polish that will improve regional traffic when one city has a lot of jobs and its neighboring city has a lot of workers.- Air Pollution: Fixed more issues where cities that placed air polluting buildings received large amounts of air pollution from unknown sources.- Service Vehicles: Fix for disappearing service vehicles on cities that whose vehicles had disappeared before update 2.- School Buses: Fix for issue where school buses were getting stuck at neighbor’s city or arcology.- Audio: Tuned audio on French Police Station.- Trading: Fixed issue where fire services were not trading consistently between Brakeman’s Folly and Twain in Whitewater Valley.- Trading: Sewage trading: Sewage will now take a more direct route to regional sewage plant instead of throughout the city.- Trading: Made gifting more reliable.- Ferry Terminal: Ferry Terminal can now send its sewage to the output pipe and treatment plant.- RCI Tuning: Fixed issue where sims going to a park via transit would sometimes lose their money or happiness on the way home.- RCI Tuning: Bulldozing abandoned or rubble buildings will now prevent new developments for 6-12 hours.- RCI Tuning: Less Happiness is taken from wealth 2 and 3 buildings when rent is due when no money is present.- RCI Tuning: Fix for issue some users experienced where buildings would stay abandoned because moving trucks would not be able to move in.- Trees: Trees now last longer, but also do not eliminate as much ground pollution.- Radiation: Radiation causes less ground pollution than previously.- Transit: Changed thought bubble suggestion to add more trains to deal with crowded passenger trains to suggest that you add more train stations.- Transit: Improvements to lights to make rail look better at night.- Transit: Streetcar stops can now be placed directly on standalone streetcar tracks, and passengers can walk along the tracks to them.- Transit: Tuned the chance buses or streetcars will go to high-traffic stops first as a minor traffic improvement.- Roads: University pedestrian paths can now cross streets.- Manufacturing Trucks: Fixed issue some users experienced where manufacturing trucks left the city and were lost permanently.- Delivery Trucks: Fixed issue where some users would experience a loss of resources is their delivery trucks returned to garages without proper storage.- Sports Parks: Tuned the amount of skateboarders and neighborhood athletes at the sports parks.- Data Layers: Zones are now visible in heavy data layers.- Edit Mode: Added more valid snap points in edit mode. This improvement is most noticeable on Parks.- Buildings: Addressed some cases where buildings would stack on one another.
