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  • animal companionanimal companion xenomortis Registered User regular
    Jasconius wrote: »
    so uhh

    my trade port stopped working

    which meant my recycling storage lots filled up

    which meant my recycling plant stopped working


    which mean I had 60,000 bins of recyclables piled up in my city, resulting in catastrophic pollution that wrecks my entire city

    after deleting and rebuilding the trade port, three days have passed, and only 10,000 of the 60,000 bins have been picked up

    i had to add an entire deck on to the hospital to handle the 240+ illnesses per day

    SimBeijing

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  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    So ea has censored their customer support number on their forums. If you type it in you just get an asterisk.

    That is hilarious.

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    why do my cities never end up looking like this

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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    Beasteh wrote: »
    why do my cities never end up looking like this

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    Because you enjoy not wasting real estate



    Circle roads are incredibly inefficient

    this is a discord of mostly PA people interested in fighting games: https://discord.gg/DZWa97d5rz

    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • Virgil_Leads_YouVirgil_Leads_You Proud Father House GardenerRegistered User regular
    edited March 2013
    What does it say about me, that all I want to do in games like this, is to create Apokolips

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  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    thats tangentially related to simcity but a fascinating watch

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
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    hail satan

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWDRdRQDfds

    this guy is some kind of sorceror

  • FrankoFranko Sometimes I really wish I had four feet so I could dance with myself to the drumbeat Registered User regular
    that guy just made me want to buy simcity again

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    holyshit
    now i want to redo my roads argh

  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    Are all of the plots the same size?

    Cause whenever I play it seems like my plots are smaller than other people's.

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    aint no cure for baby plots

    lmao

  • 101101 Registered User regular
    wow that is a pretty city

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    i feel like such a plebe for just using the straight road and going off the cardinal directions whenever i felt like it

  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    Pretty, but also wasting a ton of space.

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  • VivixenneVivixenne Remember your training, and we'll get through this just fine. Registered User regular
    David_T wrote: »
    Pretty, but also wasting a ton of space.

    the issue is that while it's space wastage, there seems to be a good case for curved/rounded road systems to be best to manage the traffic AI as it currently is

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  • 101101 Registered User regular
    So, does anyone know what our free game is yet?

  • GatsbyGatsby Registered User regular
    Bad Rats

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Is Sim City 4 good you guys?

  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
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  • ASimPersonASimPerson And they will tremble again at the sound of our silence.Registered User regular
    edited March 2013
    smof wrote: »
    Is Sim City 4 good you guys?

    In a word, yes.

    Edit: in slightly more words, it may take some effort to get it running on a modern PC. Also you absolutely need, at a minimum, the Network Addon Mod.

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Cool. The charity shop I work at has it and games only cost £1 here so if it ends up not working it's not a huge loss.

    What's the difficulty with getting it to run? Does it not like multicore processors?

  • ASimPersonASimPerson And they will tremble again at the sound of our silence.Registered User regular
    smof wrote: »
    Cool. The charity shop I work at has it and games only cost £1 here so if it ends up not working it's not a huge loss.

    What's the difficulty with getting it to run? Does it not like multicore processors?

    Yeah, among other things. It's just... finnicky. Like, I've been running it on Win7 machines for years now and sometimes it'll work and sometimes it won't. Is the copy you're thinking about getting the Deluxe Edition? That's the definitive version these days. Otherwise you need the Rush Hour expansion to use any mods.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Kochikens wrote: »
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    It's best when you become the spider and shoot lasers and red ants.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • ASimPersonASimPerson And they will tremble again at the sound of our silence.Registered User regular
    edited March 2013
    Kochikens wrote: »
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    For some reason these have been sitting on my desk since I moved in:
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  • KochikensKochikens Registered User regular
    simant is really good
    except i was really bad at it when i was a kid and would spend fucking houuurrrsss trying to beat it

    now i tried again as an adult and beat it in like 15 minutes

  • bombardierbombardier Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2013
    SimTower is amazing, except at one point the game breaks down when you tower gets really big and nobody will rent offices or restaurants because the rent is too high (because in big buildings, rent totally goes down, not up). It was such a bitch to change all the rent one by one. Years later I discovered there's a rent wizard to do it all in one shot.

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  • Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    ASimPerson wrote: »
    Kochikens wrote: »
    simant-the-electronic-ant-colony_5.png

    For some reason these have been sitting on my desk since I moved in:
    simtower.jpg

    Oh my god! Gimme gimme gimme gimme!

  • FAQFAQ Registered User regular
    I was a 10 year old kid trying to play sim life, everything died all the time

  • ASimPersonASimPerson And they will tremble again at the sound of our silence.Registered User regular
    bombardier wrote: »
    SimTower is amazing, except at one point the game breaks down when you tower gets really big and nobody will rent offices or restaurants because the rent is too high (because in big buildings, rent totally goes down, not up). It was such a bitch to change all the rent one by one. Years later I discovered there's a rent wizard to do it all in one shot.

    I'll have to remember the next time I play it. It's been awhile on that one...

    I also still have my CDs for SimGolf (the first one, not the Sid Meier one), SimCopter, SimCity 2000, 3000, and 4. Oh yeah, and the SNES version of the original SimCity.

  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    every time my gf sits down to play sim city she gets hit by like 5 disasters in a row

    in any random 2 hour session she will be hit by multiple disasters

    meanwhile in 50+ hours of play I have only been hit by 1

    anyone know why?

    this is a discord of mostly PA people interested in fighting games: https://discord.gg/DZWa97d5rz

    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Your gf angered the wrong god

  • BeastehBeasteh THAT WOULD NOT KILL DRACULARegistered User regular
    pele demands a sacrifice

  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    my theory is that if you fix every problem in your city and just sit around without any warnings long enough the game starts to fuck with you

    and since she builds out slow and never takes it off of Llama, she ends up with numerous consecutive days with lots of revenue and no problems (albeit in a smaller town)

    this is a discord of mostly PA people interested in fighting games: https://discord.gg/DZWa97d5rz

    we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
  • 101101 Registered User regular
    I think I've seen a twitter post from one of the Maxis guys to that effect.

    If you leave your city running on its own, chances are you'll come back to a smoking ruin.

  • gtrmpgtrmp Registered User regular
    I can complain about EA in here, right?

    Because I really want TS3 and its expansions but holy shit it would cost a small fortune (even without the stuff packs). I would wait for TS4 and the inevitable complete Sims 3 pack but apparently they're planning to release at least two more expansions (which would make 11 full expansions total).

    Disclaimer: I realize that EA exists to make money and not to fulfill my right to reasonably priced soap opera simulations.

    They never released a complete Sims 2 collection, they'll never release a complete Sims 3 collection. The only Sims game that saw a collection with all expansions was the first one.

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