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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on January 12, 2003, 07:39:05 AM
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Is this game out yet?
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Uk release date is 17th Jan.
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OK, nevermind. It comes out on January 14th.
Let me tell you. It kicks freaking ass.
I\'d go into details about the game, but then people would assume that I\'m playing it right now and I could get screen shots and stuff and I just can\'t have that.
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I’m so excited about this game. I have been monitoring SimCity4.com regularly for updates. The screen shots are amazing. The thought of night falling on my Sims and watching my city light up. You can also import your Sims. Also the technology behind this game is impressive, its said that an individual Sim can find his or her way to the particular job they work.
You can also guide Meteors in on your city! Is any one has not checked out the screenshots it’s a must Here (http://simcity.ea.com/screens/screens0.html) they are.
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I\'ve never been into the sim games but liked some sim-type theme park game my sister had. What\'s so cool about building a city? Is it open-ended like GTA where anything can happen or is it just the challenge of managing a huge metropolis? And is there online play to challenge a handsome internet nerd such as myself?
Videoholic give us the demo, are you holding out on us???
Official site (http://simcity.ea.com/)
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Really neat. THere are now elementary schools and high schools
When you drop a school a big ring goes around it telling you the coverage area. Then you can spend more/less money for bussing and the ring changes. Very cool.
There are so many adds I don\'t know where to begin.
You start off with a HUGE map with a grid on it. You can then create your city on your grid. So you can have a metropolis of 30-40 cities when you are done. Very neat.
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Man, I\'ve been waiting for Sim City 4 since Sim City 3000 came out. I hope SC4 has the building creator in it. I love starting in early times, making lots of cash and then progressing through time.
I hate trying to fix the tax issue though, it\'s never just right, either people are complaining, or the government says they are too low. Oh well, the second someone gets a review on this I must read it.
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THe game is hard as hell. I haven\'t seen much with any building creator in it.
You can zoom in real tight. It\'s pretty cool because when construction is going on there are little people in the buildings doing all of the construction.
Also when there is a fire, all the people working in the building run out in the street. Very funny.
I have yet to make it very many years. Tough getting the budget up where you make money. I guess I just don\'t have the patience and I build too fast.
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I really like it.. But its way harder than 3000.. I dont know how many times Ive gone bankrupt already..
I like the idea of the big map and that you can controll several cities at once..
Great but hard game.
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Yeah, the large map is fntastic. And then you can link the cities together. So you could have whole towns based on agriculture (Yes, low industry is now agriculture. There are farms and everything).
Damn I suck though. Once people get good cities up and running we should trade towns.
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We must mention "God Mode"... fantastic...
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Got this game, FANTASTIC...
I don\'t like the auto road thing though.
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Yeah, the auto road sometimes puts them in crappy places, but it\'s needed since it divides the low medium and high to what they need to be. I wish the roads would match up better though.
I do like when you put a road in a road construction truck puts the road down rather than it just appearing. That\'s pretty cool.
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the graphics and details in this game are astounding!
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Yeah, I wish I had a real 3-D card. I can\'t really go into the close layer because it slows it down. Pretty much sucks. I wish it was true 3-d in that you could scroll down to street level like they promoted years ago with sim city 3000. Kind of like with warcraft 3.
If you ever get a viable city let me know. I\'d love to see it. I can\'t get a city to take hold.
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Damn, I have been monitoring this game and let it slip right by me. Now I have no money to get it :( $50 as usual?
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sim city 4 looks coool but is there any thing diffent between the this and the other ones
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this game looks great. i liked all the other ones and this will probibly be even better.the grafix for 3000 were super for when it came out and i bet these will be also.
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It\'s very similar, but a lot more detail. It\'s also a heck of a lot harder. I have yet to have a city survive. Granted I\'ve only played about 10 times, but it\'s hard.
The detail is Way more than the others.
The main map is great
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I\'ve got a city named after my own, it was going pretty well, but now my cash is going down the toilet, the god damn medical clinics suck the money right out of you.
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Yeah. ANd so does the high school. It\'s tough as shit.
So you haven\'t gotten a successfule city together either I take it.
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I put train tracks through my industrial land and I put a commuter air strip in right from the beginning. This is the closest i\'ve been to having a viable community. I\'ve actually virtually filled the map now and I am still in the black on budget. I\'m trying to put a freeway through the city though and it\'s costing me a bundle. Don\'t know if I\'ll get to do it.
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Buh.. I dont have the energy anymore to play fair.. Right now Im cheating my way to building a bigger city (my biggest one right now is Güntheburg with ~25000 peps)
But Im going to stop at some point and try to balance up the budget.
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i did that in some other simcity. dont remember which one it was thought, and i had like 40 billion dollars. it was cheap but i was young at the time. My favorite sims i can remember are SimAnt and SimFarm. those were addictive. I wanna get my old simcity cd and play it now since when i first played it i was incompetent on what i was supposed to do and all i did was make fires and earthquakes and plane crashes but i cant find the fricken cd
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you have the trainer fastson? I couldn\'t get mine to work. Mine either sucks, or I am ignorant.
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Im lasting on Loans now, not a good thing, I\'ve gotten myself to break even on income vs. expense, even getting some income, but the problem is there is always a demand for something.
My major problem now is traffic congestion, they want trains, subways, and bus stops, but the problem is there is no where to put them because most of the land is built on already.
BTW, my population is over 50,000.
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Originally posted by videoholic
you have the trainer fastson? I couldn\'t get mine to work. Mine either sucks, or I am ignorant.
Nope, I cant use it because the game keeps crashing.
There is a cheat code which you can enter in the game though..
Hold down Ctrl + X (remember, you cant have anything selected) .. A small window will open, enter Weaknesspays .
This cheat will only give you 1000 credits though.. If you want to enter it multiple times without having to type every time just press CTRL + X and then press the UP-arrow and the text will appear in the window.
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hey i no sim city was the starting of these type of games but has anyone played tropico its the best game i have for computer
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I HAVE A VIABLE CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is what I figured out. DON\'T GIVE THEM WATER!!!
When your city is small you don\'t need water. It is very expensive on a monthly basis so until you get your city pretty big you don\'t need it.
What percentage of taxes you doing? I am up in the 10-12 range on residents. As long as the green is up I keep it high.
Then when I want to build something big I just drop funding for medical and I get about 400 bucks a month extra and no real huge loss in residents.
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The game is great, abit to hard though..
anyway, my city as it is right now... not the greatest, i\'ve had the game 1 day.. give me a frggin break.
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psx2central.com%2F%7Esoul%2FImage1.jpg&hash=02135b3501787b08d1f6783f00f503ec78bebf46)
a close up view. for more detail. U can see the guy cleaning he\'s pool in the top left corner.. :)
(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psx2central.com%2F%7Esoul%2FImage2.jpg&hash=fab193d251b86ef14fa38643bcdfbf47d5e6960c)
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Looks great. Are you able to stay on budget? It\'s tough as shit. You have the large airport too. Doesn\'t that kill your budget?
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hell yea.. I tax as high as possible around 23% and run everything as low as i can.. they seem to stay happy. so i get enough for what i need. :)
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23% Holy shit. And the lines stay above the center?
I tax low income around 8%, middle income around 9.5% and high income around 13-14%. If I go up any more than that and they get pissed off at me.
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nar they are really shitty with me.. i do it to get quick money.. then take it back down again.
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I found a nice tutorial at http://www.simcity-4.net/
http://www.simcity-4.net/game.guide.faq.01.asp
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ha, wait til I show you one of my cities, I filled one of the big squares. My only issue is traffic and mass transit, hopefully want to get some *SPECIAL* buildings.
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Will a better graphics card help me out? I have to keep the stuff pretty low detail and it still starts to suck after about 7000 people.
I\'d like to get a card under 200 bucks. Is it worth waiting till new cards come out and get the top shelf cards as they drop in price or are we still a ways off. I\'d like this game to run a little smoother.
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I have a REALLY good graphics card and mine craps out after about 10,000 people, like choppy framerates and all.
even at 512 MB of memory... think it may be time to double that.