SimCity's servers have been troubled since Tuesday's launch. Our own reviewer has had trouble signing into EA's servers, severely limiting his ability to play. People on many, many forums have complained and provided thoughtful criticism against EA's "always online" solution for SimCity.
Developer G.A.M. wants to provide an alternative, namely a simulation game titled Civitas. Touted as DRM free, and slated to feature both a single and multiplayer component, the Kickstarter page describes Civitas as, "a revolutionary, open ended, community driven, highly moddable city building game, where you are not only responsible for terraforming the land, zoning, and building the structures, but you will also be able to manage many other aspects of your civilization." More specific features are broken down on the page as follows:
- Terraform the land
- Zone the land for your city
- Build the structures that make up your city
- Manage all aspects of the city for everything from transportation, utilities, emergency management, natural resources, and commerce.
- Continue to grow your city. Meet the demands of the civilization you have created and respond to natural and unnatural disasters to make your city as great as you want it to be. Civitas will include a fully featured day-night system for added realism.
The plan is to release Civitas as a beta in November to people who back it at the $25 tier or higher. The studio wants to get the community involved in the development before the project finishes.
The studio also isn't afraid to call out EA, whom they say is, "forcing the worst form of draconian DRM on its players known as the "Always On-line" requirement." Check out the page on Kickstarter to learn more about the plans for Civitas.
Anthony Gallegos is an Editor on IGN's PC team. He enjoys scaring the crap out of himself with horror games and then releasing some steam in shooters like Blacklight and Tribes. You can follow him on @Chufmoney on Twitter and on at Ant-IGN on IGN.
Source : ign[dot]com
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