Yesterday, EA rolled out a "first draft" of the guidelines it hopes to put in place when UGC is added to SimCity in the future. However, the company's opening bid on restrictions for such user-generated content (UGC) is spurring intense discussion among players and developers. Have a look at the video of the SimCity mods below.EA is taking the first steps toward adding long-promised official modding tools to this year's revamp of SimCity (not to be confused with the unofficial modding tools hackers opened up months ago). Both very minor/easy tweaks.Īlthough not everyone will have the tech skills to mod the game files, the fact that the game appears to work fine offline weakens one of Maxis/EA’s major justifications for the always-online requirement- that the game relies on server-side calculations to run. And I modded out the “fluffed population count”, just shows the real population count now. This shows that highway editing will be easily possible, AND that editing outside of the artificially small city boundaries should be very viable too, potentially (since you can place roads and rails that snap anywhere on-screen).Įdit: And yes I also modded out the disconnect timer (can now play “offline” indefinitely – but no saves/syncs or region related stuff, not yet anyway… but the simulation can carry on with no connection indefinitely). Not only that – but you can edit the highways ANYWHERE – even outside of your city boundary… and even if you quit the game and log back in later, it’s all saved safely on the server. available in the full developer build!), but a few things do still work – including editing the main highways. Most developer debug features are disabled without having an actual developer’s build (they have terraforming tools etc. I linked the activation to the “Help Center” button in the main menu for ease. So with a little bit of package editing within SimCity thanks to the modding guide posted to Reddit earlier, and a little playing about in the code, it’s possible to enable debug mode. Perhaps more interestingly, AzzerUK was able to disable the game’s built-in disconnect timer, allowing indefinite offline play.
By fiddling with the game’s debugging tools, he was able to edit highways outside of the default borders, expanding cities beyond the limits that some have criticized as being artificially small.
Redditor AzzerUK recently posted a video of some SimCity footage- with a few important changes. The SimCity saga continues, but this time the news might be good rather than bad.
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