SimCity (2013) Studies

parallelworlds.json

// http://worlds.simcity.com/parallelworlds.json
//
// Intercepting this request and changing the "Desc" field does nothing to the
// game's UI. The name in the interface seems to come from looking up the "id"
// field against a list of names stored internally. Probably because of locale
// stuff.
//
// Note the hidden servers!

{
    "version":4,
    "hosts":[
        {
            "Desc":"North America West 1",
            "name":"0x0f3b4240",
            "url":"api.p01.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p01.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p01.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p01.simcity.com",
        	"statuses":[{"status":"full"},{"status":"busy"}],
            "id":368427249,
            "sort":0
        },
        {
            "Desc":"North America West 2",
            "name":"0x0f3b4241",
            "url":"api.p02.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p02.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p02.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p02.simcity.com",
        	"statuses":[{"status":"full"},{"status":"busy"}],
            "id":405857543,
            "sort":1
        },
        {
            "Desc":"North America East 1",
            "name":"0x0f3b4244",
            "url":"api.p03.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p03.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p03.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p03.simcity.com",
		"statuses":[{"status":"full"},{"status":"busy"}],
            "id":414380412,
            "sort":2
        },
        {
            "Desc":"North America East 2",
            "name":"0x0f3b4245",
            "url":"api.p04.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p04.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p04.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p04.simcity.com",
        "statuses":[{"status":"full"},{"status":"busy"}],
            "id":424421249,
            "sort":3
        },
        {
            "Desc":"Europe West 1",
            "name":"0x0f3b4248",
            "url":"api.p05.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p05.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p05.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p05.simcity.com",
		"statuses":[{"status":"full"},{"status":"busy"}],
            "id":471580562,
            "sort":4
        },
        {
            "Desc":"Europe West 2",
            "name":"0x0f3b4249",
            "url":"api.p06.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p06.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p06.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p06.simcity.com",
        	"statuses":[{"status":"full"},{"status":"busy"}],
            "id":632376986,
            "sort":5
        },
        {
            "Desc":"Europe West 3",
            "name":"0x0f3b424a",
            "url":"api.p07.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p07.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p07.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p07.simcity.com",
           "statuses":[{"status":"hidden"}],
            "id":637194710,
            "sort":6
        },
        {
            "Desc":"Europe West 4",
            "name":"0x0f3b424b",
            "url":"api.p08.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p08.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p08.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p08.simcity.com",
           "statuses":[{"status":"hidden"}],
            "id":753282788,
            "sort":7
        },
        {
            "Desc":"Europe East 1",
            "name":"0x0f3b424e",
            "url":"api.p09.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p09.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p09.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p09.simcity.com",
		"statuses":[{"status":"full"},{"status":"busy"}],
            "id":903484898,
            "sort":8
        },
        {
            "Desc":"Europe East 2",
            "name":"0x0f3b424f",
            "url":"api.p10.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p10.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p10.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p10.simcity.com",
		"statuses":[{"status":"full"},{"status":"busy"}],
            "id":958278410,
            "sort":9
        },
        {
            "Desc":"Europe East 3",
            "name":"0x0f3b4250",
            "url":"api.p11.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p11.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p11.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p11.simcity.com",
           "statuses":[{"status":"hidden"}],
            "id":979278410,
            "sort":10
        },
        {
            "Desc":"Oceanic",
            "name":"0x0f3b4253",
            "url":"api.p12.simcity.com",
            "game":"api.p12.simcity.com",
            "websocket":"socket.p12.simcity.com",
            "telemetry":"http://telemetry.simcity.com",
            "news":"api.p12.simcity.com",
		"statuses":[{"status":"available"}],
            "id":998778410,
            "sort":11
        }

    ]
}

name is an id into a localization db

looks just like mortal online. json along websockets must be the new in thing.