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doctorfrog posted:Just loaded my city from 1998 and yep, the valley-based airport still results in numerous plane crashes and fires into "Hideous Explosion Hill." Oh right, signs! I loved naming features on the landscape. I do that when I'm playing multi Civ games, too. I like to name features near my enemies rude names and wait for them to notice. Oh, you found Lake Fuckface?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:and while I haven't played 3000 it seems to have its quirks too. 3000 had some pretty funny activist/petitioner dialogue screens and the news ticker has multiple headlines that suggest broccoli is evil and is plotting to end humanity. Snow Cone Capone posted:oh my god 
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Fabulousity posted:3000 had some pretty funny activist/petitioner dialogue screens and the news ticker has multiple headlines that suggest broccoli is evil and is plotting to end humanity. Tainted Broccoli Weapon Of Choice For Global Assassins Talking Broccoli Hosts Talk Show; Guests A "Bunch Of Vegetables" Stand Up And Cheer If You Like SimCity More here https://simcity.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_news_ticker_messages
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doctorfrog posted:Just loaded my city from 1998 and yep, the valley-based airport still results in numerous plane crashes and fires into "Hideous Explosion Hill." You have to have your airport on its own island with no police protection it's the only way.
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Just discovered this thread. Anyone listened to this album? There's only weird fragments of it on YouTube, with it all out of order or weirdly edited together.
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Echo Chamber posted:Just discovered this thread. Anyone listened to this album? drat, didn't know about this. Awesome arrangements for a mediocre soundtrack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9D8rM2o24k They could use this AST for a remastered SC2k but that's never gonna happen.
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Negrostrike posted:Tainted Broccoli Weapon Of Choice For Global Assassins I always liked that little cheat you could enter for an event where the mob will offer you a one-time payment. If you take it, nothing bad happens. If you don't, the Sim FBI shows up, says it was a sting, and congratulates you for not cheating by giving you a castle that megaboosts happiness and is an even bigger cheat.
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If we're talking awesome old-rear end game soundtracks I submit The Incredible Machine 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QV3lfib_8
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Wasn't there some convoluted easter egg in SC3K to turn your city into a mushroom city or something?
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I am pretty sure there was a cheat in SC2K that resulted in a launch arco dancing across your screen wearing a bowler hat and cane.
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VomitOnLino posted:Loved SC2k also played a *ton* of this: YOU!! You're the guy who understands SimLife!! What the gently caress was its deal? How the hell do you actually play it??
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I think if you typed "heck" in the mac version your town would be slowly consumed by churches. There was also the porntipscuzardo cheat.
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Baronjutter posted:I think if you typed "heck" in the mac version your town would be slowly consumed by churches. There was also the porntipscuzardo cheat. Neat, I remember always having to bulldoze them whenever they sprung up because the whole game mechanic reason they exist is they spawn in high land value residential areas and don't pay anything in property taxes
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I'm also grateful for the Windows version for me never having to type such a vulgar cheat as "porntipsguzzardo"
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You could just type "porn" and you'd hear a goofy voice saying "can't get enough!". Don't recall which version though.
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Baronjutter posted:I think if you typed "heck" in the mac version your town would be slowly consumed by churches. I ruined my city with dozens of hours of work in it because I tried that cheat just to see what it did and inadvertently saved the city when it was infected.
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I remember in school we there was this Future Cities thing where schools competed in developing cities with a real model, but also a digital model created with either SimCity 2000 or 3000. I ended up getting Sim City 4 and have to this day never figured out how to make a good bustling city  I also had Roller Coaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon (oddly underrated or not as talked up), and SimAnt/Park/Safari/Town (I think there was a big pack that came with them all) Sim games are cool, pisses me off how underwhelming Jurassic World Evolution was instead of just being an upscaled Jurassic Park Operation Genesis
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achillesforever6 posted:I ended up getting Sim City 4 and have to this day never figured out how to make a good bustling city What was the problem, if you can recall? One thing which took me forever to realize was that a city needs much less than you'd expect. Power, water, a few garbage tiles, and a meager fire station. I used to plop all services down at the start which seemed like the right thing to do, as mayor rating would go up. But soon, I'd have astronomical monthly expenses supporting a low density farming town with pitiful tax revenue. Just keep building what the RCI asks of you, then maybe splurge on some surplus income with another service. Go back to building what RCI demands and repeat the same cycle. Eventually that surplus margin will grow wider and you'll be able to shower your sims with top of the line medical care, education, and safety services, all while staying solvent. If you're tired of seeing apartments and want grandiose skyscrapers, you'll have to start a new city in an adjacent tile and connect them both via road. I forget how exactly why it has to be done this way, but once you get the neighboring cities up to a healthy level with high enough population, you can get your "main" city to get the big high risers and stuff. You can also offload RCI demand you don't want in your city to a neighboring tile and get the benefits too.
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Honky Dong Country posted:I remember when I found out that you could just pay to add water to a slope tile and slap a hydro dam on it and basically have completely green energy forever and it was awesome.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:SimCopter was basically the same. Garbage as a game by every metric but fun to explore your city, and a lot of easter eggs, iirc you could spot a UFO flying above the city? This goddamn thread got me playing simcity 3000 again and I've stayed up way too late playing it the past several nights. gently caress. It definitely has the most charm and personality of the simcity games I think. The advisers and petitioners all have a lot of character, there's humor in the writing (like the news ticker), and somehow the whole game feels really upbeat. I might actually prefer it to SC4, despite all the extra features and various quality of life improvements SC4 added (like showing the service radius of buildings while you plop them, not having that in SC3000 sucks). But SC4's complexity makes it hard to wrap your head around the entire game, I never felt like I truly mastered it. SC3000 is a lot more approachable I think.
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I sometimes wonder how many people got into urban planning because of Simcity and then topped themselves because urban planning is one of the least rewarding professions around.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:SimCopter was basically the same. Garbage as a game by every metric but fun to explore your city, and a lot of easter eggs, iirc you could spot a UFO flying above the city? Not only could you spot a UFO you could shoot it down if you had the attack helicopter, which would get you a lot of cash.
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I used to play Lucas Art's Afterlife a lot back in the day. But switching between heaven and hell and keeping each balanced was too confusing so I always just influenced to living to think that sinning was cool so then every soul went straight to hell and I could just focus on building up that.
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That actually sounds rad as h*ck man
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This!!! this one is my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiVYs-VB55U full playlist if you want it: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuHQkYn7oBXEuI-Bho7gG89CbnXLN1a4
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 Fear and trembling driving on your city’s trash roads.
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For anyone interested, Lucasarts had a pretty funny simcity type game. https://classicreload.com/dosx-afterlife.html You're in charge of building housing for Heaven and Hell. Each building has a description of what kind of reward or punishment the occupants will be spending their life with. Main one I remember is Hell having a gluttony building where the people feed each other the human centipede way through hoses.
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Remember when maxis made good games? Remember when Lucasarts made good games? Remember when both of them existed? God, good times.
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ArfJason posted:Actually its 3k unlimited We knew what you meant. And hopefully all agreed  2K was great but 3K:U renders it obsolete. It's everything 2K did and more, same format, not some weirdly unoptimized mess that 4 was.
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simcity 3ku is some kind of mythical game, with an absolutely god tier soundtrack that i still listen to every now and then. I bought 4 on steam ages ago but never installed it. I heard its incredible with a couple mods but I wouldn't know, since all i've heard is that Cities Skylines is the better game anyway
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crazy eyes mustafa posted:Sim city 64 come on now that's just sim city 2000 in japanese, with a built-in building creator
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ArfJason posted:simcity 3ku is some kind of mythical game, with an absolutely god tier soundtrack that i still listen to every now and then. Does Cities Skylines give its cities as much personality as the Sim City franchise? My favorite part of any of the Maxis games was the tongue in cheek humor they somehow infused into every pixel, like the game was secretly having fun at your expense.
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Applewhite posted:Does Cities Skylines give its cities as much personality as the Sim City franchise? My favorite part of any of the Maxis games was the tongue in cheek humor they somehow infused into every pixel, like the game was secretly having fun at your expense. not really. feels kinda sterile there's a fake twitter feed thing that comes in and out but the jokes are kind of lame and also extremely repetitive
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I especially miss it in the Tower Project or whatever the new Simtower knockoff is. We need an indie studio to do a full pixel art remake of SimTower
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mycophobia posted:not really. feels kinda sterile *sigh* that’s what I was afraid of. Guess I’ll pass.
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