Ah, the power of modders. Yesterday, we informed you about the opinion of Maxis’ insider regarding a possible offline mode for SimCity. Fast forward and here we are today with a modder, playing the game in offline mode for more than 20 minutes, and without having any crashing issues. YouTube’s member ‘UKAzzer’ has showcased SimCity in offline, though some debug features were disabled (as the modder didn’t have an actual developer’s build. Still, a few things did work – including editing the main highways anywhere – proving that an Offline patch for SimCity wouldn’t take much time or trouble.

As the modder said:

“This shows that highway editing will be easily possible, AND that editing outside of the artificially small city boundaries should be very viable too.”

UKAzzer has also modded a couple of other things too. With his mod (that has not been released yet mind you) there is unlimited time to remain disconnected (won’t get booted at 20 minutes, can now be disconnected “forever”) and the population count now shows REAL figure, not the “artificially inflated” figure.”

You can view a video from UKAzzer’s mod below.

Here is hoping that the modder will further polish and release this mod, or that EA will roll out an official Offline Patch for it!

John Papadopoulos

John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved - and still does - the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the "The Evolution of PC graphics cards." Contact: Email