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I really miss sim tower  I loved naming the residents and tracking them all around.
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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 I think this make a lot of sense because if you consider what rural america is really like, a lot of towns lack a lot services and rely on the neighboring cities for support. My home town had 3 "cities" in the county (county was about 20 miles square), the main town has a population of about 1,000 and it has a small hospital, police station and post office. The other two "towns" are literally just a collection of houses and nothing more, they used to have post offices eons ago but those have been closed for decades. If you need a major surgery the nearest real hospital was 80 miles away, hell the ER life-flighted my Dad 400 miles when he had a stroke because they couldn't handle it at the local hospital. Sorry if that is a bit of a derail, but my point is much like in real life, small towns in SC4 just cant provide services for residents and so you have to cut the budgets back to the bare minimum to survive. You can fine tune each building by using the query tool to adjust things like the teacher budget (capacity) or bus budget (range) and police, fire, and medical all have similar sliders. Also, if you can find it, read Deadly Hume's LP. It taught me everything I know about how to play SC4.
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Well thanks to this thread I bought 3000
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Snow Cone Capone posted:Well thanks to this thread I bought 3000 post ur city i bought sc3k-u about a year ago since they finally managed to make it compatible with modern OSes and this was my city       
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Miniature city I'm building last couple days. SC3KU is the first game I ever played that had its own dedicated screenshot tool, though I guess it inherited it from The Sims. I'd also take an updated version of this game, non-curved streets, sprite-based buildings, and all.
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BTW there's a 1080 resolution patch (though tbqh I don't really see a massive difference?) https://www.monitortests.com/sc3k-patcher-1.1.zip
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Snow Cone Capone posted:BTW there's a 1080 resolution patch (though tbqh I don't really see a massive difference?) it just makes it so the game fills the screen without stretching. it doesnt do anything to the graphics
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Apr 22, 2019 05:20
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Applewhite posted:I really miss sim tower That one dumb fucker that keeps taking the worst elevator routes to get anywhere, and is always bright red with fury because of it.
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Brawnfire posted:That one dumb fucker that keeps taking the worst elevator routes to get anywhere, and is always bright red with fury because of it. Don't dox me
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Crotch Fruit posted:the schools have sliders for teacher's budget and bus budget, decrease the radius until it just barely covers all of the houses (you did place it in the center of your residential zone right?) and decrease teacher funding to where it barely covers the number of students. You have to really babysit each building at first fine tuning the budget
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I might buy sc3k if it works on new os's since ive never played it and.im getting a bit burned out on rimworld edit: where can i buy it? Jose fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Apr 22, 2019 |
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Apr 22, 2019 12:55
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GoG
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Apr 22, 2019 13:33
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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. I remember they removed Sim Broadway from the soundtrack in SC3K Unlimited, which is a shame because it's the best.
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Apr 22, 2019 14:01
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Poil posted:I don't care how realistic that is, it's a terrible mechanic that is super unfun to have to deal with. Even worse than replacing waterpumps and whatnot in SimCity 3000 when they age. It’s really not a big deal. Just do it when you first set them down and if you forget to change them as your population grows then the teachers/doctors/whatever will strike and the game will prompt you. Just up the budget then Also as he mentioned you only need to do it at the beginning. There are other things to micro manage but it’s pretty easy really
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Apr 22, 2019 14:35
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Scaling is a tricky thing in citybuilders. At a certain level you need to be able to deal with issues without having to micromanage, while having precision tools when necessary. It all depends on having consistent design philosophy and a clear idea of what minimum and maximum scales you want.
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Creed Reunion Tour posted:I remember they removed Sim Broadway from the soundtrack in SC3K Unlimited, which is a shame because it's the best. No kidding? Hm, I'll have to dig out my CD and get the darn thing back. e: I guess it was removed from the U's CD image back in the day, cuz I ain't got it. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Apr 22, 2019 |
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Apr 22, 2019 17:44
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Creed Reunion Tour posted:I remember they removed Sim Broadway from the soundtrack in SC3K Unlimited, which is a shame because it's the best. Oh yeah thats bullshit
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any SC4 masters in this thread know of any good plugins to get some more industrial variety?
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The SC2K re-release for Windows 95 that included the urban renewal kit and a shitload of alternate tilesets was so good and I miss the era of PC games that were totally happy to run windowed like that
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