We could even crack the tiny plot borders. We had SimCity running just fine, offline, within weeks of launch. Some people would rather just believe the lie. However, my thinking goes along with this comment.
I’m have no idea how true this is but I remember when the first hacks came out to allow people to play offline, they were not having performance issues, so I have to question this. This game has been one MASSIVE experiment in the world of planar graph theory and computations on them. The new easier to calculate algorithms can be done on about any computer but at the expense of stupid traffic and stupid agents resulting in some of the glitchey messes we have seen recently that they’ve slowly been programming minor variations into the agents algorithm’s to remedy. This is also what caused mass crashes early on in the games launch is the algorithm’s literally consume all of (even a supercomputers) power and thus the game would do that fantastic little cascade crash grinding to a slow halt. The original algorithms for the agents were traveling salesmen like algorithm which could only be calculated by throwing immense amounts of ram at them as well as general processing power. The comments from the post have your normal rants, but I thought this was interesting. Now what happened to all those statements that SC could ONLY work in the cloud? Well, they seem to have fessed up that it as just for storage and network games features. Our team will be delivering a follow-up blog that will outline the full details in the near future so stay tuned. And because your saved games in this mode are stored locally, you can save and load to your heart’s content. What’s new is the Single Player Mode, which allows you to play the game Offline by yourself.
… In Update 10, you can still play solo in Regions on your own, or in Multiplayer with people from around the world. We are in the late phases of wrapping up its development and while we want to get it into your hands as soon as possible, our priority is to make sure that it’s as polished as possible before we release it. When we launch it, all of your previously downloaded content will be available to you anytime, anywhere, without the need for an internet connection.
Offline is coming as a free download with Update 10 to all SimCity players. Here is a snip from the official announcement.
You can play offline by yourself, you can install mods and save your games without ever touching the cloud.
Well, its not out yet, but SimCity Offline is being tested at the moment. And so they have finally released SimCity in offline mode.