My team did, however, see a path forward towards Offline, one that would maintain the integrity of the simulation.
So yes, while someone was able to remove the “time check” shortly after launch, they were unable to perform key actions like communicating with other cities that they had created locally, or with the rest of their region(s), or even saving the current state of their cities. That means that our entire architecture was written to support this, from the way that the simulation works to the way that you communicate across a region of cities. As such, we engineered the game to meet this vision, setting up the player’s PC (client) to communicate all of its information to the servers. The original creative vision for SimCity was to make a game where every action had an effect on other cities in your region. I rallied the team to start making that happen as soon as practical after launch. When the game released, our fans were calling for Offline. Hi, I’m Simon Fox, lead engineer on the Single Player Mode for SimCity, and I’m here to tell you more about how we engineered Offline gameplay for SimCity. Simon Fox, Lead Engineer, Single Player Mode
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