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Yeah, it's a bit of a stickler when it comes to EA games in particular. Until they can show that the game will be around for as long as you've got it on your PC then it's likely to remain a non-purchase for me whether the game was good or not.

So gave this a spin courtesy of bigdanhero. So here's some impressions of it: Sucks that despite Origin in current forum being around for over a year (nearly two?) they still don't have games integrated with it. So yeah 184MB download on Origin which turns out to be the download client for SimCity not SimCity itself (which is kind of large for an installer/downloader). I guess on the plus side it means you might not need Origin in order to play the game if it's running independently of it. As for the game itself it is pretty small compared to previous games so it's more of a SimTown that SimCity. The zoning works a lot like Caesar 3(and probably others) than the older SimCity titles in that you just zone of space (for free) and then improve the surrounding area to build up value and thus the buildings go from small shacks to big apartment blocks and presumably (you only get an hour) beyond. Apart from industrial as they'll always be negative value so they're always big factories (though maybe they change from big factories to shiny chip plants n stuff?). Money is tight, or at least buildings are severely overpriced. Affording stuff like emergency services and school takes a pretty long time. The module system is neat, and it's lucky zoning is free as it will eat away at the zones around the new modules. The menus are really nice, and so are the stats. Super simple to use and get info from. Especially neat is if you click the education buildings tool in the corner you get quick access to the stat overlays for education coverage and students in and out of education n so on. Same with all the building tools. Though sometimes the stats did feel a bit lacking and I can't remember what it was. Money wise it falls short. Apart from the aforementioned pricing differences there's no ordinances to pass anymore, which had some nice fine grained control. I don't mind losing the ability to run pipes and cabling, it was somewhat tedious in previous games . But it does mean you need to build utilities on road ways instead of in the middle of nowhere. Which I guess is a bit more realistic but with the smaller space given somewhat constraining since you can't plonk one in the middle of nowhere. Without neighbours you're kinda screwed too as extra income(and expenditure is to be more fine tuned through dealing with neighbours than the ordinances I guess. So if you're playing on your own you've got a region with which to develop, you can't run an independent city. Which iirc was a complaint Monte Cristo had with CitiesXL in focusing a bit too much on the MP side of things with resource trading. I think it's why buildings cost so much, you wouldn't build all of them. You'd build power station and your mate would build a rubbish tip, and you trade services, instead of building everything yourself. Oh and PC gaming wise: there's no singular low/medium/high setting so was fun toggling all that stuff (not that a modern game shouldn't auto-configure on launch anyway) and there's no control sensitivity either which I guess is good the towns are small as it's really fucking slow dragging around the town. There's no like "you're at the edge so lets whip you around super fast". edit: I forgot. In the feedback bit at the end they ask how you'd buy it and one of the options is used. lolwut? edit2: Forgot this part too, meant to mention it in the menu section. As you get a better city you can build better buildings and it has pop-ups to alert you to this "successfully petitioned to build town hall" and so on. Well it said I could build casinos, and the tutorial there is a las vegas like city you're neighbours with. But I couldn't find the casino in any of the menus. I don't know where specialised buildings were to be stored, if at all. Didn't seem like you could build the IRL buildings either (but given the £65 version of SimCity has "british/french/german set" I assume that's DLC now) edit3: So back on how it installed. Uninstallign it from within Origin opens up the "Programs and Features" control panel. Who the fuck is coding Origin?

Your edit is because I missed the button that says "reimport" and clicked "disable" instead, so yeah temporarily all of the goodies will have disappeared for everyone. Try changing to the PXOD theme? edit: To reinforce: If between the time of like 4:50PM(GMT) and 5:10PM(aka 3 minutes before this post) you didn't see any status posts it's because there was no status posts. You won't have seen a lot of things for that period of time actually.

@eleven: It's called IP.Board *points to footer* @tfg: mind grabbing a screenshot. Also try ctrl+F5 @tme: likely that.

Done an update: Tapatalk might be sorted..maybe. I updated their plug-in(hook), seems it's updated alongside the forum too as I didn't have to manually edit stuff this time and there's a nice "tapatalk" tab. I'm assuming push notifications are what you're after? If so we should now have them. I've gutted the old "Reputation" tab we'd been running from early days as the forum has for a while had its own system built in, so there's now a forum default "Likes" tab which shows the posts n everything. I've yet to to test it but as far as I can tell the media tag should now accept youtu.be links. It works You can click the cog n screwdriver icon in the RTE to enable an option that'll mean everything you past is in plain text. Could be useful, might not be. Either way clicking the rubber icon on the other side removes formatting of selected text anyway. When quoting people it'll automatically preview the quote. Not sure how to describe it, just quote someone and see it in action. Basically it won't show

Find someone on here to play with you. I need to sort out some folks for co-oping this at some point (though preferably local/national)

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I believe I said "sucks".

Err...you might want to expand upon the question a bit. Though as far as tapatalk stuff goes I can provide zero aid, you'll probs want to go to thier support forum. I just installed the plug-in and that's it.

Last I counted around the turn of this month the members of this forum had around 47 invites between them, a fair chunk may be gone (all mine have) but there should be some lying around.

Huh, could have sworn I gave you a key before now. There's likely some still splashing around. I kind of have one, but it's earmarked for a friend, though it's via Hakidia, he may have some more still left.

I don't think he's saying to tone down the "ridiculousness", like flying a VTOL about, tron-like hacking, zombie apocalypses, diving through a plane etc, but to not focus so much on the whole beating the shit out of folks with giant dildos. As he said, they become "the game with the dildo". Anywho he has expanded some more over on NeoGAF http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=46896054#post46896054 Seems there's an element of the prude america to it too.

It's not under NDA, they've actively wanted folks talking about it for a while. Also it's a beta only in name, it's essentially a soft launch that they can point to the "beta" label if shit goes wrong. It's been on Tranquility for past fortnight, that's when it became a real game so pass judgment all you want.

My mum n sisters went off to watch Lorax as my treat while I watched TDKR (my treat, I get them into cinema, tmum drives me there). Of the four of us the only complaints I heard were me wrt batman. I guess as a kids film it holds up well, but the adult messages might not be things adults go to watch a Dr Suess film for.

Just that the cinematic has been out a while and none of you seem too bothered to post it (and the thread having nothing else posted for half a year).

No one on this forum cares for the game but I figured I'd link the cinematic anyway

How did a topic on this series not exist? Anywho Cliff Bleszinski has given out some words on how he think it could top GTA. Mainly along the lines of dropping the dildos and related elements. http://www.vg247.com/2013/01/25/bleszinski-on-saints-row-lose-the-gimps-and-dildos-to-beat-gta/ The "would you play it in front of SO/parents" is certainly a good benchmark for your game to try n follow.

http://www.origin.com/us/news/origin-for-mac-the-alpha-starts-today-sign-up-now For our OSX brethren Origin is now on Mac. tbh I kind of assumed it already was. Oh and you get a free game called Bookworm, which I don't entirely know what it is becuase I can't find it on Origin.

@MJ: Exxon. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21205692 @FDS: Apple do seem to be in catch-up mode at the moment. Widescreen iPhone 5, the iPad Mini. A cheap iPhone wouldn't surprise me, even if it's just old guts in a new iPhone 5 shell.