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You guys i made a city but then the nuclear reactor blowed up because of dumb brains.
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May 14, 2013 04:00
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I think someone in the previous thread said that SC's game design should have been whittled down even further to just "click a button, get a graphic happen, hooray!
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May 14, 2013 04:02
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", because that's the level of complexity EA was apparently seeking.
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Efexeye posted:There is no way to fail because you can always jack up tax rates to the max for two months and essentially have unlimited money with no consequences. This game sucks. Guide To Sim City, by Me 1) Buy Sim City based solely on the name without reading anything about it. Notice how broken everything seems to be and read up on how terrible everything is. Despite all this, try to create an aesthetically pleasing, self sustaining city. Lose it due to random city eating bug. 2) Realize how poo poo the game is, turn next city into trading/mining hellscape and make millions from exporting alloy 3) Send mega mellions to next city, do whatever the gently caress I want, realize it isn't really fun at all 4) Get refund OR 4) Get Pissed
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May 14, 2013 04:07
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Yeah I tried a last ditch, let's-make-a-badass-16-city-region-and-max-everything-out playthrough and at city 8 it corrupted and won't load any more. gently caress it. There's plenty of other poo poo to play.
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May 14, 2013 04:12
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WHAT A GOOD DOG posted:You guys i made a city but then the nuclear reactor blowed up because of dumb brains. I dunno, that seems pretty true to life, it just takes less time in SimCity. Efexeye posted:Yeah I tried a last ditch, let's-make-a-badass-16-city-region-and-max-everything-out playthrough and at city 8 it corrupted and won't load any more. I also want to reiterate that I don't know who said 'sure, SimCity, you guys can just build your own save/download/cms infrastructure for everything on top of trying to reboot a beloved franchise, that makes perfect sense when we already did all that in this thing called Origin that is the only place where you will be available for play' but they're the real idiots here. Personally, I've never had any cloud save issues through Origin for Most Wanted or ME3 or Crysis 3. Hell, they could've kept the whole always-online thing by making a few concessions that might not make this game so unbelievably loving dumb. Primarily, use Origin's existing cloudsave system. Store the files locally and transmit periodic update data to the central server that acts as a keep-alive for always-online and lets the lovely multiplayer bumble along, but do the main city saving through Origin. Zellyn fucked around with this message at 04:20 on May 14, 2013 |
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May 14, 2013 04:14
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WeaponBoy posted:I dunno, that seems pretty true to life, it just takes less time in SimCity. Proper modern nuclear reactors can't blow up, though. Sim City is pushing it's leftist anti-nuclear agenda!
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May 14, 2013 04:15
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OLIVIAS WILDE RIDER posted:Proper modern nuclear reactors can't blow up, though. I never bothered with them, do they actually explode or just unleash clouds of nuclear fallout?
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May 14, 2013 04:21
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WeaponBoy posted:I never bothered with them, do they actually explode or just unleash clouds of nuclear fallout? I have no idea, thankfully being poor allowed me to not succumb to temptation pre-beta to purchase it!
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May 14, 2013 04:23
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Eric the Mauve posted:SC4 goes on sale on Steam for $5 about once a month. Unfortunately most of that $5 would make it back to EA. They haven't given me any reason to give them another cent.
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May 14, 2013 04:56
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I suspect EA stands to lose more from you leaving Origin behind in favor of Steam and never returning than they stand to gain from the $3 profit from the transaction.
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May 14, 2013 05:24
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Vanderdeath posted:Five hundred eighteen thousand four hundred seconds hahaha love it Glad Amazon was cool though. I know they mostly won't return opened games, but I'm sure they've had thousands of return requests for this game. I'd never buy something directly on Origin. Guess I'll reinstall my old copy of Sim City 4 when I want to make a city
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May 14, 2013 05:26
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The only thing I want to do in this game is mess with the leaderboard. Why is the leaderboard still not active? It was a major advertized feature per-release!
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May 14, 2013 06:04
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WeaponBoy posted:I never bothered with them, do they actually explode or just unleash clouds of nuclear fallout? They do not explode.
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May 14, 2013 06:06
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Just delete the road leading to it and the radiation agents won't be able to get to the rest of your city.
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May 14, 2013 06:12
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Please, please tell me you're being facetious. I can believe a lot of stupid poo poo this game does without playing it myself, but that just can't possibly be true.
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May 14, 2013 06:15
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Cojawfee posted:Just delete the road leading to it and the radiation agents won't be able to get to the rest of your city. You drive home after a day at a job you never applied for, and have no talent at. No matter, tomorrow you might be back cleaning the park. You go to bed early. At exactly midnight you snap awake, and look at the other side of the room. A glowing green ball of radiation has replaced your wife and is floating out through your window.
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May 14, 2013 06:16
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Ulvirich posted:Please, please tell me you're being facetious. I can believe a lot of stupid poo poo this game does without playing it myself, but that just can't possibly be true. It's not true, radiation is handled similarly to ground pollution.
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May 14, 2013 06:20
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Mr. Sharps posted:It's not true, radiation is handled similarly to ground pollution. You have to delete the road leading to the ground so the pollution agents can't get to it?
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May 14, 2013 06:59
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Man I should know better than to buy games before I read the threads here. 
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May 14, 2013 07:22
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StevenM posted:You have to delete the road leading to the ground so the pollution agents can't get to it? Radiation and ground pollution are both deposited directly into the earth by the buildings that produce them. Ground pollution interacts with roads only so far as sewage travels along roads, and sewage creates ground pollution if it hangs around in one spot for too long.
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May 14, 2013 07:51
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Radiation and ground pollution are the only fairly accurate things the game simulates? Is that what I'm taking from this?
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May 14, 2013 07:56
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Bonapartisan posted:Man I should know better than to buy games before I read the threads here.
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May 14, 2013 08:29
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WeaponBoy posted:I never bothered with them, do they actually explode or just unleash clouds of nuclear fallout? Clouds of nuclear fallout, or rather masses of ground pollution. It is also inevitable and unavoidable that this will happen with a nuclear power plant because eventually the uneducated sims in your city will randomly decide to work there. Io_ fucked around with this message at 09:14 on May 14, 2013 |
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May 14, 2013 09:12
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Ulvirich posted:Radiation and ground pollution are the only fairly accurate things the game simulates? Is that what I'm taking from this? Exactly. Why they didn't do the same for power and water is beyond me.
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May 14, 2013 10:09
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Didn't they say they tweaked radiation decay time in one of the recent patches? If so putting trees on top of it might be more efficient these days. Who knows.
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May 14, 2013 14:49
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kedo posted:Didn't they say they tweaked radiation decay time in one of the recent patches? If so putting trees on top of it might be more efficient these days. Who knows. There's no reason to ever play a city long enough to try to clean up radiation from a nuclear meltdown.
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May 14, 2013 15:33
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Top Bunk Wanker posted:There's no reason to ever play a city long enough to try to clean up radiation from a nuclear meltdown. Doesn't it take something like 200 real-world hours to clean up? And that's if you're absolutely vigilant about planting trees over and over? Edit: Fixed time.
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May 14, 2013 17:35
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Top Bunk Wanker posted:There's no reason to ever play a city long enough to try to clean up radiation from a nuclear meltdown. It probably isn't possible, what with the cities constantly disappearing.
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May 14, 2013 17:48
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ExtraNoise posted:Doesn't it take something like 200 real-world hours to clean up? And that's if you're absolutely vigilant about planting trees over and over? I don't think I even knew you could plant trees in this game. That seems dangerously close to terraforming.
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May 14, 2013 19:31
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OLIVIAS WILDE RIDER posted:You drive home after a day at a job you never applied for, and have no talent at. No matter, tomorrow you might be back cleaning the park. Who cares, tomorrow you can go to your new house and reunite with your loving new wife, and so forth.
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May 14, 2013 19:40
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KnifeWrench posted:I don't think I even knew you could plant trees in this game. That seems dangerously close to terraforming. Don't worry, the trees randomly disappear (or "die off") if any kind of pollution touches them.. so you have to continually replant them.
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May 14, 2013 20:13
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Yeah, but they're absorbing that pollution.
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May 14, 2013 20:15
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So it's been a slow day at work, so I read all 19 pages of this thread. Yea, I'm glad I didn't jump on it at release at $60. My question is this, especially after  Version 3 or whatever - There is some guy selling SimCity codes in SA-Mart for $20. I really want to try it, but this thread, of course, has completely turned me off of it. Is the game even worth $20 as it stands now? 
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May 14, 2013 20:33
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OK, I think 'purchasing this game should be probateable' is over the top, but selling SimShitty codes for $20 in SA-Mart? There should be prison sentences for that kind of thing.
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May 14, 2013 20:35
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Probably not. It's virtually unplayable, since even if you do get in past the draconian always online stuff, there are a thousand and one glitches that might slow you down. If they ever actually make the game function properly, maybe, MAYBE twenty bucks would be a fair price, but as it stands you'd be better off going bargain bin hunting at the local gamestop or something.
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May 14, 2013 20:36
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Endorph posted:Probably not. It's virtually unplayable, since even if you do get in past the draconian always online stuff, there are a thousand and one glitches that might slow you down. If they ever actually make the game function properly, maybe, MAYBE twenty bucks would be a fair price, but as it stands you'd be better off going bargain bin hunting at the local gamestop or something. drat. Alright
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May 14, 2013 20:38
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eightysixed posted:drat. Alright
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May 14, 2013 20:55
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eightysixed posted:drat. Alright If you really feel the need to play a city builder, go buy Simcity 4 or Tropico 4, that's what I did when I saw the poo poo storm that was release day.
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May 14, 2013 21:01
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Endorph posted:Don't be sad, man! There are thousands of great games you haven't played, thousands of wonderful books you haven't read, thousands of amazing movies you haven't watched. The world is your oyster! Go forth, and leave SimCity behind! The time to expand your world is now! This should be in the OP.
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May 14, 2013 21:03
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Tardcore posted:If you really feel the need to play a city builder, go buy Simcity 4 or Tropico 4, that's what I did when I saw the poo poo storm that was release day. SimCity 2000 is only $5 on GoG. Thinking about buying it 
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