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http://i.imgur.com/u4DVg94.png http://i.imgur.com/u4DVg94.png Always on DRM overloaded. Please come back in half an hour to play your single player game? As my friend pointed out: "see if you can spot who got paid off by EA" http://imgur.com/E9Nkgyo http://imgur.com/E9Nkgyo

kyrra 14y ago
Playing around with the client some, that count-down is really misleading to users. It's not actually a queue, it seems to be a hard-coded "try again in 30 minutes" timer. If you click the "Select Server" button in the bottom-left, pick the same server you are already on, it will attempt to connect to the server again. EDIT: looks like I may have just gotten lucky when I did this before... it now just queues you from the start again. :(
- itafroma 14y ago
  That's exactly what it is; EA has now documented this behavior: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9337036.page http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9337036.page
obiefernandez 14y ago
Isn't it a matter of time before someone release a crack/patch that eliminates the online DRM requirement? The bitter complaints seem a little pissant to me. (Then again my experience with the game is limited to one 20 minute session on friend's PC during the first beta period. I'm annoyed that they didn't release concurrently for Mac. Also a bit relieved since I can't afford to spend a lot of time playing right now.
- nwh 14y ago
  It depends how it's made. They're probably running some logic in the "cloud" to make it more difficult, or even impossible.
- duaneb 14y ago
  Well if the game logic/state is all server side (à la Diablo 2) then you would have to reimplement the game client side to get around DRM. However, not all games are like this.
  - andrewmunsell 14y ago
    IIRC, there is logic that is done server side, but it is more of a basic simulation of the cities in the same region you are currently in, but are not currently managing. For obvious reasons, the entire simulation couldn't be done server side. I've gotten numerous "trying to reconnect" messages and the game happily continues until it does reconnect to their servers.

kyrra 14y ago

Playing around with the client some, that count-down is really misleading to users. It's not actually a queue, it seems to be a hard-coded "try again in 30 minutes" timer. If you click the "Select Server" button in the bottom-left, pick the same server you are already on, it will attempt to connect to the server again. EDIT: looks like I may have just gotten lucky when I did this before... it now just queues you from the start again. :(

itafroma 14y ago
That's exactly what it is; EA has now documented this behavior: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9337036.page http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9337036.page

obiefernandez 14y ago

Isn't it a matter of time before someone release a crack/patch that eliminates the online DRM requirement? The bitter complaints seem a little pissant to me. (Then again my experience with the game is limited to one 20 minute session on friend's PC during the first beta period. I'm annoyed that they didn't release concurrently for Mac. Also a bit relieved since I can't afford to spend a lot of time playing right now.

nwh 14y ago
It depends how it's made. They're probably running some logic in the "cloud" to make it more difficult, or even impossible.
duaneb 14y ago
Well if the game logic/state is all server side (à la Diablo 2) then you would have to reimplement the game client side to get around DRM. However, not all games are like this.
- andrewmunsell 14y ago
  IIRC, there is logic that is done server side, but it is more of a basic simulation of the cities in the same region you are currently in, but are not currently managing. For obvious reasons, the entire simulation couldn't be done server side. I've gotten numerous "trying to reconnect" messages and the game happily continues until it does reconnect to their servers.