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"Parts of the game logic are run on the server." By which they mean: storage of save-games, and resource trading with your city-neighbors.

That is ALL.

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If I remember SimCity correctly, saved games are pretty important. One can only get so far without saving...

They are, but leaving the description at "parts of the game logic" could be taken to mean the servers are being used to offload compute-intensive tasks. Centralization for the sake of performance is understandable, but not allowing offline saves sounds more like centralization for the sake of centralization.

I think that the regional city interactions and global market count as 'parts of the logic'. I agree it's not compute intensive, but it is fairly central to the design of the new SimCity. No reason the region couldn't be locally simulated IMO, however.

You are right.

People have managed to play trough server crashes without noticing. Only after they quit to region, it disconnects.

City is managed locally. Only region management save files are server side.

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