EA have published the changelog for SimCity 6.0, which is expected to be released early next week. Release highlights include much-needed RCI improvements and a new borderless windowed mode setting, which will improve multi-monitor support.
• New: RCI Tuning – Tuning to make Industrial needed more. Commercial buildings lose profit if they don’t have enough freight. The demand bars should feel like they inform the player what they should zone.
• New: RCI height variations for Density 3 Buildings. This will add more variety to the look of your cities.
• New: Borderless windowed mode setting.
• Fixes for some issues of the “out of money” problem or unexplained abandonment.
• Clarity around unfilled jobs and workers to make sure players are messaged that there may be an issue where workers cannot get to unfilled jobs.
• Residential and Commercial buildings are now more consistently in the same wealth in an area of a particular land value. Improves visually consistency.
• Help Wanted, no Shoppers, and No Jobs alerts have been added to the Zoning info panel as alerts.
• Data Layer: Greater map accuracy on the land value map. Residential and Commercial wealth colors added. Abandoned buildings show up red.
• Data Layer: Land Value map shows when placing parks.
• Fixed issue where RCI sometimes builds on roads.
• Fix performance slowdown in cities with more than one million tourists.
• UI Clarity: Show which city hall modules are already placed in the region on the palette UI.
• Garbage UI: fixed issue where garbage UI sometimes showed bins that had already been picked up.
• Gifting: Cash gifts will send to another city even if a player leaves the gifting city before seeing gift confirmation.
While it’s nice to see EA continuing to fix issues with the game, most of the fundamental simulation problems remain untouched.
With these patches……are they automatically downloaded when you run the game?
I’m having trouble connecting a city to a great works site if anyone can help……
I’ve bought the site for 1m , sending resources from two cities, but my third city won’t connect or see the great works build! And this city has the computers. It’s connected via road to the other two city’s and great works site. I don’t understand, I’ve even paid another 1m from the third city to try n access the current build, pending………..hours pass………pending.
Anyone care to help?
Thanks in advance
I’ve had the same problem, but only my one city can see it and the other 3 are just screwed.. I’ve been complaining about this since 5.0 patch was released but apparently they don’t care either.. there is no fix just another screw up from patch 5.0
When you start Sim City and the launcher pops up. It will automatically search for any updates and download any patch required. Also after a patch is downloaded instead of a Green Play button it will become a Yellow-ish orange circle with brackets around it telling you to restarted the application. At this point it will then relaunch and connect to the server. Hit the Green arrow play button and you should be on your way. As for the city connection issue I’m unsure.
downloaded patch today, cant get past title screen…..