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Nikolai
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Bergen, Norway
Oct 2000
time: 06:17
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Originally posted by lord of the mark
i bought the Paradox Strategy 6 pack, and as ive only played EU2, that means ive got 5 totally unplayed games - EU2: Asian Chapters, HOI, Vickie, Two Thrones, and COTN.
Similarly some time ago I bought a simmania pack, and never quite got around to simsafari. |
EU2: Asian Chapters are basically Eu2 with more Asian provinces and events. I'd go for one of the mods being made for the newest beta patches, as they give the possibility of much of the same things, only better.
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VJ
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Helsinki
Dec 2001
time: 07:17
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On-topic: I don't buy games until I've played them anymore (civ3 ugh), if you know what I mean.
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I didn't find the interface to be that easy. |
Ok, start off by building a coal power plant. Then create some landfill land (around 6x4 squares is enough). Then start zoning low- and mid-density industrial areas near them. Then create 10-20 water towers. Then create some low-density residentual areas near the industrial areas. Build a police station in the middle of your small town. You should now have around 10k$. Check the budgets for next two years. If you can balance them, good; build slowly more res/ind areas. If not, try pandering with the taxes until it works. Don't even try to build many commercial areas (few low-density squares are fine) before your population hits 15k or such. At start, I've found it very effective to raise $$$ by taking your neighbours' crap and dumping it to landfills (EDIT: Remember to connect your roads to your neighbours by building a road to the edge of your map and clicking "yes" in the popup-menu that follows! Neighbouring cities should offer you deals after a while, you can see them in the running counter). You can (and should) build some trash burning plants and build them near the edge of the map (create incredible amounts of pollution).
If residents don't seem to move in to your residentual areas, take a look at the small green-blue-yellow bar chart with 'R' 'C' and 'I' letters. In your city, there is a demand for those areas which are pointing upwards and too much supply for those areas which are pointing downwards. If all bars are pointing down, try lowering taxes.
Some common sense is required in city planning -- stuff like crime, lack of water, air pollution are real killers of entire regions of the residentual parts of your city (bye bye tax revenue).
Alex,
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Simcity 4
HOMM III (plus 2 expansion packs)
Neverwinter Nights (and the 2 expansions)
Desperados
Europa Universalis
Railroad Tycoon 2
Caesar III |
Of these, I'd recommend trying out HoMM III (it's basically HoMM II with niftier graphics and better units and stuff), Desperados (after 1 hour of playing, you should find out whether you like it or not, adventure/rts on SWAT2-style, nice amount of dialogue and much Western cliches), and Caesar III (well, if you've played pharaoh or zeus don't bother, but the scenarios 2-5 are nice. Combat doesn't really work in that game). Railroad Tycoon II seemed incredible back when I played it first time, but it got boring surprisingly quickly.
All of those games are solid picks, though... I just tried to pick the cream of the crop.
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