This whole SimCity mess has really blown down my interest in the game :/ I was highly anticipating the game prior to launch, even the DRM i could look over, but Maxis and EA really did manage to turn the whole thing into a complete cluster fuck...

I've worked on gps systems in the past and the solution is so simple :(
All they need to do is update the average speed of each road segment based on how long it takes cars to traverse them, and use that info to calculate the quickest route, congestion solved. A huge undertaking for a gps company, but so simple and elegant in a software simulation. (Sat nav companies do that by a mixture of feedback from gps systems and anonymously tracking cell phone movements along major roads)

It's not only path finding that's broken, another video shows that left turns in general are broken, due to missing left turn signal / advanced green.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6oh1UwrJS0

Maybe they can sell traffic cop dlc in the near future ;)

Looks like your prediction is going to be off Jay :D

My goodness. Now it's at 64.

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/simcity/critic-reviews

Remember when this game was at 91? Good times.

A good demonstration of how broken the review system is. Sim city's subject matter is not polarizing at all, yet reviews range from 40 to 100. All the early closed conditions 2 hour preview event reviewers got called out.