sim city

[magic8ball]

Bugger all this. I'm downloading Sim City 4 instead.

[Gethimout]

Is there anyone on that maybe could send this along to me?

[Arnold.J.Rimmer]

Sim City 2000 was great. I played it through to the year 9999 when it resets back the year zero.  :shock:

[pauld]

Would have thought oxford fan would find Sim City a bit frustrating. "Right, that's the sewage farm built. Now select a stadium to build next to it. Got it. OK, right-click on stadium, Options .... oh hell, there's no option for "three-sided stadium only" what the hell kind of sim game is this?"

[oxford_fan]

this is the city i started the other day after downloading it

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v219/ben3085/untitled-1.jpg

[magic8ball]

Fuck me, you've a lot of derelict housing there....Taxes too high?

[oxford_fan]

it was a bit shit then, just gave it a revamp

[flammableBen]

Behold the master piece which is Wrinkly Hole:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d35/flammableben/wrinkleho.jpg

Couldn't be arsed to check every 5 mins to see if the club had gone under so thought I'd distract myself.

The Utopia of Wrinkly Hole is ran on only Hydroelectric, Wind, and Solar power. Magic stuff eh?

[jayohaitchenn]

http://download.yousendit.com/C10D576624F32B12

unzip it somewhere temporary and run the setup. Should install fine, you can probably delete the install files after if you want.

thanking you. x

[Bogus Dave]

This games doing my nut in. Can some-one tell me how you get started?

[flammableBen]

build 2 6x6 blocks of dence residential, and industrial. surround them with road so that they are next to each other.. like this (R=road, I=industrial, H=residential)

Code:

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
RHHHHHHRIIIIIIR
RHHHHHHRIIIIIIR
RHHHHHHRIIIIIIR
RHHHHHHRIIIIIIR
RHHHHHHRIIIIIIR
RHHHHHHRIIIIIIR
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Then build a power station (if it's coal build it a little way away), and connect up the zones with power cables. You don't have to completely cover the zones but make sure the cables are connected up and running across.

This should start building up, keep doing this in 6x6 sections if you can. Otherwise remember zones won't get built on if they are unpowered or more than 3blocks away from a road or other transport (I think subway stations work aswell but you won't be building them for a while).

There's a little bar on the left which shows you how much things are in demand. You won't need that much commercial until later on, so I'd build a few blocks of light commercial here and there. You can always bulldoze it and dence it up later. The demand is also a good indicator of how much you can tax stuff. At the start I normally go for higher tax on residential than on Industrial and Commercial, Don't go too high though, and if the residential demand starts dropping loads then lower it.

Getting a bit advanced now, but that should start you off. Experiment, it's sort of the point.

[Bogus Dave]

Thanks for the help, but i cant be fucked to work out how to do most of the power supplies and stuff like that.

[flammableBen]

all you do is build a powerstation and draw a line of power cables, it's not hard.

[Supercake2]

i got sim 3000 working on my vista laptop and started dragging in residents im up to 150,000 people. The wonder of high rise flats...and ive even attracted a new stadium to Dog City :? ...called the 'puppies'.

 

[Bogus Dave]

Aha solved it now