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Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant
Now that we know for a fact that EA doesn't do ANY serverside calculations, it means the tiny city sizes are not to save bandwidth.
Knowing the fact that the entire population all try to go home to the same house and try to work at the same building, the tiny city sizes are now likely just a way to disguise the fact that there is no actual AI in the citizens. If you have a Simcity 4 size metropolis in Simcity2013, you would quickly see the entire population all trying to get to work at the same part of town. But with city sizes so small, EA was able to hide the issue in the demo and for the first week of sales.
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Not really correct though. There is a server side calculation but it is use for region calculation not a city one. Tried and found out that if there's no connection it is possible to run a city but there will not be any update on region at all, such as you would not be able to buy utilities from other cities or sims from other city would not to your city.
So EA/Maxis doesn't really lie (as servers are needed for region calculation), but they did not tell the whole truth (servers are not needed for local city calculation).
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