Don't prove much. Remember: All the citys in the region(Normally 3 or 5, but can be up to 16) will in most cases be controlled by the same player. No need for internet to emulate that.

Yes the game does have an online global component, but its effect is currently very limited, and the game would work just as fine without it. Its only effect is that the import/export prices changes, based on the import/export of all cityes on your server. You could just use a random function to change the prices of resources, and the game would run fine without any internet.

I guess the reason the pirates don't have a working server already, is that it's very difficult to reverse-engineer the client/server communication as long as it is as unreliable as it currently is.

The "Facebook like" referer to the fact that you get free items(Firetruck, police cars and so on) which you can't use in your own city, but which you can give to an other city and earn a bonus that way. Like all the facebook games, where you give resources to your facebook frinds.

Do you really think it need to be referer free? I can't imagine anyone reading this story, and then thinking: Hey I need to buy this game now :}

The city you play with is NOT partly calculated server. And I know this because the city building itself works fine even when the ea server is crashed and no data is passed between the server and client. Only save, and change city/region stops working.

All you really need to implement to pirate the game, is a service which can load/save the game. And then you can just return fixed values for the global marked place. Then you have a perfectly working pirated game.

I don't know how complicated the load/save thing is, but If we are luckey, save just serialize the data and send it to the server, and load just get the same serialized stream back. If they do it that way, making a pirate save function should be rather simple. They did it for settlers 7.

The servers are handling a part of the game which is not that important. That is: The global marked placed. And while it is an interesting feature it is in no way vital to the system.

And I know this because I bought the game, and managed to play half an hour with absolut no internet connection and it worked fine. But then I wanted to change region, and I have been unable to play since. But once you get a game started you can normally play until you want to change to a new city. (Or the game crashes, or you look the wrong way).

Where did they ever give that answer? All the beta testers have reported that if you pull your your internet cable, the simulation will continue to run fo at least a couple of minutes on the local machine. So I don't think the servers are running any simulation other then the global "Take import/export from all cityes, and calculate a global marked price for resources" part.

Sorry, but I will keep using java server side. I just hope I don't end up with that "Ask toolbar" on our server :}

And the fact that the Java Security Manager is as safe as an open door, does not really matter because 99% of all server side java code, is running without the security manager. (Or at least without relaying on the Security manager to provide security).

Am I the only one who think about giant worms each time i hear about the "Maker movement" ?

I think that using "tens of thousands of our nation's best and brightest engineers" to build something more useful instead would be a good choice.

I just do a sudo yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia to get the drivers. Not that difficult, but there is a gui to select the nvidia binary package, if you prefer that kind of thing.

I think you missed the most important point:

Fix the fucked up social system, which provides so many young with no future.

No they could not. The problem is development time. When they started the development they most likely started with state of the art available hardware, but it take them so long to develop and release a phone, that its performance will be meh once they release them.

And it take them so long because their development staff is extreamly small, compared to Samsung, HTC and Apple.

Enjoy thte story??? Are we talking about the same movie?.