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SimCity Hacked to Play Offline?

[Mar 14, 2013, 08:59 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A new video on YouTube shows the work of UKAzzer, who has (apparently) intrepidly worked out how to play the new SimCity offline with some home hacking, in spite of EA's suggestions this would be a massive, if not impossible undertaking (thanks Videogamer). Here's word:

So with a little bit of package editing within SimCity, and a little playing about in the code, it's possible to enable debug mode. I linked the activation to the "Help Center" button in the main menu for ease. Most debug features are disabled without having an actual developer's build (they have terraforming tools etc. available in the full developer build!), but a few things do still work - including editing the main highways.

Not only that - but you can edit the highways ANYWHERE - even outside of your city boundary... and even if you quit the game and log back in later, it's all saved safely on the server.

This shows that highway editing will be easily possible, AND that editing outside of the artificially small city boundaries should be very viable too.

Other things I have modded out with a quick change: Unlimited time to remain disconnected (won't get booted at 20 minutes, can now be disconnected "forever"). Population count now shows REAL figure, not the "artificially inflated" figure. My large cities have a population of about 15k now, not 100k :P

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Re: SimCity Hacked to Play Offline?

Mar 15, 2013, 01:53

NKD

Dev wrote on Mar 15, 2013, 00:23:
NKD wrote on Mar 15, 2013, 00:07:
Dev wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 23:36:
jdreyer wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 19:20:
Someone has probably mentioned this already, but Ubisoft is sticking ti EA with Anno 2070 on sale on Steam this weekend.

EDIT: NKD stole my thunder!
And I stole it before he did. I also told how to get the complete anno 2070 (and no, the complete pack does NOT have it all)

Looks like it has it all to me. What is missing?
As I said way back in post 95
Dev wrote on Mar 14, 2013, 15:56:
Props to ubi, if they timed their Anno 2070 sale for now.
Just because of simcity being out, it has increased my desire to again play a city simulation. Despite that I have zero intention of playing this simcity catastrophe, and certainly wouldn't pay EA more than a couple bucks for it, and maybe not even then.
But I went ahead and got anno 2070.

BTW, the complete game pack isn't, it doesn't appear to give you the deluxe version of the game, and there's no deluxe upgrade pack like some games do (though it does have everything else, so if you dont care about the bits that the deluxe adds, getting the complete game pack should be fine)
Also the complete DLC pack isn't, it doesn't include deep ocean.

So, to get everything add 3 things to cart.
1)Deluxe Anno 2070
2)Complete dlc pack
3)Deep Ocean dlc.
Total should be $36.67

Seems to include Deep Ocean now bro.
Screeny from my Steam

EDIT: Oh nm I see what you're saying the complete pack doesn't have deluxe.




If you don't like where gaming is heading, stop giving your money to the people who are taking it in that direction.

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Comment [quote="NKD"Mar 15, 2013, 01:53][quote="Dev"Mar 15, 2013, 00:23][quote="NKD"Mar 15, 2013, 00:07][quote="Dev"Mar 14, 2013, 23:36][quote="jdreyer"Mar 14, 2013, 19:20]Someone has probably mentioned this already, but Ubisoft is sticking ti EA with[url=http://store.steampowered.com/sale/Ubisoft_Publisher_Weekend_2013/] Anno 2070 on sale on Steam this weekend[/url]. :allthumbsup: EDIT: NKD stole my thunder! :D [/quote] And I stole it before he did. I also told how to get the complete anno 2070 (and no, the complete pack does NOT have it all) [/quote] Looks like it has it all to me. What is missing? [/quote] As I said way back in post 95 [quote="Dev"Mar 14, 2013, 15:56]Props to ubi, if they timed their Anno 2070 sale for now. Just because of simcity being out, it has increased my desire to again play a city simulation. Despite that I have zero intention of playing this simcity catastrophe, and certainly wouldn't pay EA more than a couple bucks for it, and maybe not even then. But I went ahead and got anno 2070. BTW, the complete game pack isn't, it doesn't appear to give you the deluxe version of the game, and there's no deluxe upgrade pack like some games do (though it does have everything else, so if you dont care about the bits that the deluxe adds, getting the complete game pack should be fine) Also the complete DLC pack isn't, it doesn't include deep ocean. r{So, to get everything add 3 things to cart. 1)Deluxe Anno 2070 2)Complete dlc pack 3)Deep Ocean dlc. Total should be $36.67}r [/quote] [/quote] Seems to include Deep Ocean now bro. [url=http://i.imgur.com/M1Yc6QO.png]Screeny from my Steam[/url] EDIT: Oh nm I see what you're saying the complete pack doesn't have deluxe. [/quote]

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