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Except that you can't save your game... Still, it's a useful mod for people who have unstable connections. You can also mod the UI to link a rarely button use

Except that you can't save your game... Still, it's a useful mod for people who have unstable connections. You can also mod the UI to link a rarely button used button to "Sync", so that you save at will.

tomrod 14y ago
Save state in a VM?
- icebraining 14y ago
  On Linux there are "process freezers" that work pretty well for simple applications. I wonder if Windows has anything like that...?
  - jhdevos 14y ago
    Then you still have to hope that the program doesn't have any minor resource leaks that become big leaks when the process has run for a hundred hours...
  - stelonix 14y ago
    Can you list some of those? I've always wanted to implement a "Save State" driver for Windows, but since I use Linux now, it's nice to know such things already exist.
    - icebraining 14y ago
      The ones I know are listed on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing
- JonnieCache 14y ago
  Is the game really that good?
  - potatolicious 14y ago
    Knowing Reddit, and knowing gamers, at this point this is mostly a big "fuck you" exercise towards EA.
    - JonnieCache 14y ago
      I've been fucking off EA for decades by not buying their games and going outside instead. It's great, I can strongly recommend it. It doesn't totally fix the traffic pathfinding problems though.
fname 14y ago
Not true. The actual Reddit[1,2] posts the article pulls this from says they have been able to sync their game to the servers. It seems that when offline, it saves it locally and uploads upon reconnect. He was able to remove the 20 minute timeout disconnect, but it still saves things locally and uploads upon reconnect. 1. http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a9n5j/you_can_edit_highways_outside_of_city_boundaries/c8vbw6k http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a9n5j/you_can_edit... 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1a9t0e/simcity_modder_removes_always_online_forced/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1a9t0e/simcity_modder...

tomrod 14y ago

Save state in a VM?

icebraining 14y ago
On Linux there are "process freezers" that work pretty well for simple applications. I wonder if Windows has anything like that...?
- jhdevos 14y ago
  Then you still have to hope that the program doesn't have any minor resource leaks that become big leaks when the process has run for a hundred hours...
- stelonix 14y ago
  Can you list some of those? I've always wanted to implement a "Save State" driver for Windows, but since I use Linux now, it's nice to know such things already exist.
  - icebraining 14y ago
    The ones I know are listed on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_checkpointing
JonnieCache 14y ago
Is the game really that good?
- potatolicious 14y ago
  Knowing Reddit, and knowing gamers, at this point this is mostly a big "fuck you" exercise towards EA.
  - JonnieCache 14y ago
    I've been fucking off EA for decades by not buying their games and going outside instead. It's great, I can strongly recommend it. It doesn't totally fix the traffic pathfinding problems though.

fname 14y ago

Not true. The actual Reddit[1,2] posts the article pulls this from says they have been able to sync their game to the servers. It seems that when offline, it saves it locally and uploads upon reconnect. He was able to remove the 20 minute timeout disconnect, but it still saves things locally and uploads upon reconnect. 1. http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a9n5j/you_can_edit_highways_outside_of_city_boundaries/c8vbw6k http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a9n5j/you_can_edit... 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1a9t0e/simcity_modder_removes_always_online_forced/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1a9t0e/simcity_modder...