Simcity Devs have just released a new patch that should help relieve some of the traffic issues players are experiencing; but they still have quite a bit of ways to go.
Simcity V1.3 Patch
- Fix for a crash related to the highway interchanges and vehicles.
- Traffic was optimized for complex road sections.
- Fix for a specific case of city processing that forced players to rollback their cities to a previous state.
- Fix for a crash some players saw when exiting their city.
- Rapidly clicking or accidentally double clicking the Claim city button will no longer create multiple regions.
- We temporarily removed filtering by friends and maps on the Join Game screen to better support database performance. Players can still find friends’ regions by going to their friends’ profile pages.
Servers
- Various database optimization to address issues with connecting to our servers
- We added 8 new servers!
One of the many issues players have discovered with the traffic system is how the A.I will always choose the shortest path to a destination. This can lead to traffic jams on one-lane roads when there’s clearly enough space available at an avenue nearby. In other cases, the traffic may come to a complete halt due to cars refusing to turn at a clear intersection.
