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"Electronic Arts will release the first big SimCity patch Monday to help players with some of the most complained-about bugs, though it still won't contain the most-requested feature: offline mode.\nSimCity, released March 5, is EA and Maxis' reimagining of the popular city buildng game. It features a powerful engine that brings the game into the modern era, but also controversially only allows players to create cities inside a region must always be connected to EA's servers.\nEA detailed the patch notes on its forum. It will include fixes for various systems across the game, including mass transit, emergency response, education and others.\nOne noticeable correction will be to the game's fire trucks. If there was a fire in SimCity, all the city's available firetrucks would respond, clogging the street around the fire and tying all the resources up in one blaze. The patch notes promise that won't happen anymore.\nAnother much-requested fix was that cities could quickly run out of water for the residents, even if there was a river from which to draw more water. \nSimCity's March launch was rocky, as servers couldn't handle the influx of new players. Many were unable to play consistently for the first week. As the servers finally reached stability, gamers were quick to point out problems like the ones above, though most had bigger complaints about the game. The comments from the patch notes thread indicate players are still upset that city size is much smaller than previous SimCity titles, and that the game requires a constant Internet connection to play.\nLater in March, SimCity developer Maxis' General Manager Lucy Bradshaw addressed the online-only complaint in a blog, saying that it was a design feature from the game in the beginning and not going away. She also said offline mode wasn't possible, which several hackers have tried to debunk.\nThe uproar around SimCity could be one of the reasons EA was voted \"Worst Company in America\" by Consumerist readers two weeks ago.\nWhat do you think of the SimCity patch? Please share your thoughts in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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