 She goes on to say that increased connectivity to neighboring cities allows for a better experience, allowing for better trade and wider scale effects such as crime and pollution to keep synchronized across the region.Bradshaw also noted the performance benefit due to the engine using EA's server hardware to assist in gameplay calculations.However, "Rock, Paper, Shotgun" pointed out after the release that cloud resources were not used to support gameplay computation but simply to support inter-city and social media mechanisms.