06-08-2002 03:04									#61
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Solver... of course... if you get bored with your city you can always just hit the little ol' Smite button and send the firestorms, etc... and then rebuild... that's one way to conquer... well, yourself.

ADG, many thanks on all that info, SimCity 4 actually sounds like it'll be fun to play. I've steered clear of The Sims myself but SimCity 4 sounds like it would actually be enjoyable.

	06-08-2002 03:10									#62
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quote: Originally posted by FlameFlash ADG, many thanks on all that info, SimCity 4 actually sounds like it'll be fun to play. I've steered clear of The Sims myself but SimCity 4 sounds like it would actually be enjoyable.

NP If I find some more info, I'll share it here...

As I first heard they was making a SimCity 4, I just thought of a game with that few changes as there was from SimCity 2000 - SimCity 3000, but as I saw the pictures of the flying cows (From Tornado), I began to find as much info as possible, about the game

quote: Originally posted by FlameFlash Solver... of course... if you get bored with your city you can always just hit the little ol' Smite button and send the firestorms, etc... and then rebuild... that's one way to conquer... well, yourself.

And now, since they have Vulcanoes, it'll be even more interesting

	06-08-2002 03:23									#63
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and stampedes!!!

	06-08-2002 04:50									#64
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quote: Originally posted by ADG As I first heard they was making a SimCity 4, I just thought of a game with that few changes as there was from SimCity 2000 - SimCity 3000

That was my worry but most of your quotes here have me excited. I cannot wait to play it.

	06-08-2002 04:54									#65
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*sighs* Too bad they won't do a concurrent release on the Mac and PC...

<-- Will have to wait a year after release to get it.

	06-08-2002 08:22									#66
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quote: Originally posted by Solver First, it lacks a victory condition, you can keep building forever.

That's why they called it a toy, not a game.

	06-08-2002 15:08									#67
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quote: Originally posted by FlameFlash *sighs* Too bad they won't do a concurrent release on the Mac and PC... <-- Will have to wait a year after release to get it.

That's what you get, from having a mac

	06-08-2002 15:25									#68
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I just had a closer look at the new pictures. Take a look at this one:



and then:

quote: If a backyard has a little chalk outline of a murder victim, you know that there's a lot of crime nearby

I think you can see that in the above picture (In the low right corner, just next to the tree)...but I might be mistaking...


Btw, how come the roads doesn't connect? Might be just a bug, they haven't killed yet...


And here's some more information, can't say were I read it though, I forgot:

In SC4, you'll be able to build/zone on slopes (I remember back in the old SC games, were it was a pain in the *** to build a city in a mountain area)...

	06-08-2002 17:38									#69
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ADG, from what I read, it seemed that chalk would only appear on like a sidewalk or driveway or street. It would seem weird to have chalk lines on grass but I guess it is possible.


And about the slope, they said housing can be built on slopes but for industry they are going to want wide open spaces.

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quote: Originally posted by tniem ADG, from what I read, it seemed that chalk would only appear on like a sidewalk or driveway or street. It would seem weird to have chalk lines on grass but I guess it is possible.

It looks weird yes, could be it's a bug or something, that makes it show up "everywhere", the game isn't perfect...yet...

quote: Originally posted by tniem And about the slope, they said housing can be built on slopes but for industry they are going to want wide open spaces.

Yes, but the point was, the slopes are now useable

I wonder if they made roads be able to "turn" on slopes? Haven't noticed anything like that on the screenshots yet...

	06-08-2002 19:06									#71
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Yeah... I think that is chalk.

That road may not be a bug... I've seen odd streets like that in my own city where they do that to route traffic to certain intersections and not slow down traffic with having to deal with a bunch of extra ones.

	17-08-2002 22:21									#72
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A couple of days ago I got some more information about the game (As usual I forgot were the info came from )...Anyway, here it is:

The day/night thingy has a certain speed, not matter which speed you play the game in. So just because you makes time goes faster, that doesn't mean that the day/night thing flickers faster too...A month isn't 30 nights then...

This also makes sense, I just saw the videos again, and in one of them, they changed the time of day to night, two seconds later they pressed the sun button, and *cha-ching* it became day again

	18-08-2002 08:55									#73
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I started a thread on SimCity 4 a while back (actually, back in March.)

Here it is: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...&threadid=45843

	20-08-2002 18:10									#74
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I just found an old site with a wishlist for SC4, most of the wishes are included in the game. But there's one page (called silly), where they have all the silly wishes...Take a look here, they are worth a laugh

	20-08-2002 18:20									#75
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I just found some more screenshots:

	20-08-2002 18:24									#76
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And here's more:



What is the building on this picture?:







And here's some snow:

	20-08-2002 18:37									#77
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Drool. Salivate.

	20-08-2002 19:13									#78
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I think I just wet my pants

	21-08-2002 00:52									#79
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Could someone please tell me, what that thing next to the house (on the ground...) on the second last picture, I posted, is???

And what is that thing on the second last and third last picture? Is that fog, or a river...or what is that?

And one third note... I can't seem to find any police departments or fire departments on any picture... has anyone else found them? Or do they just look like normal buildings, or are there none of them?

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To the left of the house is a modern sculpture. To the right of the house in the park is some sort of underground bunker. It could be a subway exit, a nuclear shelter or almost anything

I'm sure the blue stuff is water even though it looks rather insubstantial.

There was a picture floating around of fire engines hosing down a blazing building. I didn't hunt for sight of the actual station tho.

	21-08-2002 18:34									#81
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Cool pics! Looking forward to this one, that's for sure!

	21-08-2002 19:40									#82
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http://www.gamerstemple.com/games/0...0s.asp?screen=1

The building in the top left looks like a cop shop to me - ranks of squad cars parked outside...

	22-08-2002 01:01									#83
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quote: Originally posted by Grumbold http://www.gamerstemple.com/games/0...0s.asp?screen=1 The building in the top left looks like a cop shop to me - ranks of squad cars parked outside...

Thx for the picture, haven't seen that one before (as far as I remember)...

Yes, that looks like a police station

	24-08-2002 15:13									#84
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Has anyone actually seen a house (not industri), that wasn't directly connected to a road?

I was just playing a little SC3K, and noticed, that often there's many houses placed behind some other houses. I therefor just checked the screenshots of SC4, to see if they have fixed the problem, but I couldn't find any screenshot, were a residental/commercial house wasn't placed next to the road (I mean, so they don't have to drive through their neighbors house to get to the road, some houses are placed away from the road, but they just have a large garden )

	24-08-2002 20:22									#85
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quote: Originally posted by ADG Has anyone actually seen a house (not industri), that wasn't directly connected to a road?

I thought Maxis had said that wasn't going to happen in SimCity 4. The game was going to automatically draw resedential roads in so that houses are always on roads.

	24-08-2002 20:30									#86
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I've read the game was automaticly making the roads, but I wasn't sure, if that got rid of the houses not touching roads...

	25-08-2002 03:19									#87
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I've got a question about Sc3K for the Americans:

Which side of the road does the cars drive? Like in England, or as in...well...almost the rest of the world?

Just curious, since the part I hated much about the version of SC3K I have (if there's a difference), is the cars all drive on the wrong side of the road, while I noticed in the videos they all drive on the right side (Same side as the rest of the world).

	25-08-2002 13:45									#88
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the french drive on the right side of the road (right and left right, not right and wrong right)

	25-08-2002 20:02									#89
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Has anyone seen any wallpapers of SC4? I haven't been able to find any, so I decided to try to make one myself...

If you want it, just contact me, but be warned, I haven' tried it before, but on the other hand, I've seen worse

	27-08-2002 18:58									#90
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In SC so far you've only had to place the major roads and all the small roads have been invisible, allowing for the 'three tiles deep' rule in light residential, commercial and industrial. With the fantastic level of detail in SC4 perhaps they have decided to get rid of that, but I haven't seen any different road sizes. I'd be a little miffed if you had to connect the cottages of a rural village together with the same major road tiles you use for the centre of a metropolis.