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Haze-e
Haze-e

Dont try and sneak back in mate.

Mr. Gayle
Mr. Gayle

Behave, bout 5/10   Game is sick, so much to it.   All about have special cities, I have one just for commercial and residents, the other city is power and technology.

Mr. Gayle
Mr. Gayle

EA will sort that soon hopefully.   Few tips I just clocked: Plant trees in industrial/sewage areas BEFORE you build them. Trees keeps the pollution low. No need for all schools, you only need ele

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The new SimCity will ship for the Mac on June 11, EA reported today. Gamers will be able to purchase SimCity for Mac as a $60 digital download via Origin, EA's Steam-like digital store that launched earlier this year, as well as other digital retailers. Owners of the PC version of SimCity will receive the Mac version for free, and vice versa. 

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EA is emphasizing that this is not simply a Mac "port" of the Windows version, but instead is a native version of the game designed specifically for the Mac. The software renderer has been rewritten for OpenGL, but the Mac version will use the same servers as the PC edition so gamers can play together regardless of what platform they are using. 

"SimCity is coming to Mac on June 11 and one purchase will give you both the Mac and PC versions. You only need to buy SimCity once to play together across the same servers, regardless of which version you’re playing," said Lucy Bradshaw, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EA’s Maxis Label. "We didn’t want to make any compromises when it came to the Mac so we created a native version that is optimized for the hardware and OSX."

SimCity's launch was more than a little rocky, largely because the game can only be played online. EA requires that the game be connected to its servers at all times to facilitate region play where multiple cities are connected to share utilities and citizenry. 

At launch, SimCity's servers were overwhelmed with traffic and the gameplay experience was extremely poor. Today, EA seems to have ironed out the bugs and users are playing the game as intended. The company recently turned the 'Cheetah' speed mode back on after disabling it to reduce load on the servers after SimCity's initial release. 

EA originally said SimCity would come to the Mac in February of this year, but pushed that ship date back.

 

 

i will be involved.

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