Like many other who have tried playing Simcity since it’s launch, I’ve had time wasted fighting with their servers trying to get online. This motivated me to start looking at the game’s network traffic to see what I could find. When you initially start up the game, the launcher connects to a number of different servers; this includes the advertisement area (the newsletter in the above screenshot) and recent news. If you click the “SELECT SERVER” button, it does a GET on this URL:...