The ability to play offline is far down the list of improvements they could make to this game. For a start, the inability to create any meaningful regions means

The ability to play offline is far down the list of improvements they could make to this game. For a start, the inability to create any meaningful regions means players just end up building a few specialised 'neighbourhoods' separated by a couple of miles of grass or forest. The highways and railways only seem to link up 4 neighbourhoods at a time so your 'Metropolis' ends up being more like 4 seperate, non-connected towns, each consisting of 4 little neighbourhoods. EA massively missed the goal posts on SC5. Players enjoyed crafting a whole world of their own, micromanaging it down to the nth degree. I didn't spend hours and hours playing SC1,2000,3 & 4 thinking "if only my city could be smaller and it was compulsory to play with strangers who don't share my design ideas". The only thing they got right, in my opinion, was the graphic refresh and bendy-roads. I did buy the game when it came out, even had to buy the Windows 8 upgrade pack to play it! I don't know what I was more disappointed with, SC5 or Windows 8. I can't remember to be honest because, after 1 week of playing the game, I booted back into Linux and haven't restarted since.