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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 06:55 PM
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Poll question: What irks you most about SimCity 4?
Just curious...
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Shrek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 06:55 PM
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1. What's SimCity?
Las Vegas?
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 06:57 PM
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3. Computer game
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 06:57 PM
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2. I thought I was always running out of money
and it slagged along on my Pent4 with 256K memory.

With SimCity3, you always had neighboring cities that you could hook up with neighbor deals to bring some early cash in, but you don't have that with SC4. I gave my copy away
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 06:59 PM
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4. Cheats
:evilgrin:

That helps the spending situation and partially bypasses the micromanagement crap and allows you to build the way you want, and do the u-drive missions as well. :-)

No neighboring cities though. That's a minus I hadn't read...
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adamblast Donating Member (219 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:00 PM
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5. I haven't gotten around to #4 yet....
...but I really enjoy SC3000 unlimited... Now I'm beginning to wonder if I should bother...
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:03 PM
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6. Haven't seen it - what are the highlights/lowlights?
Edited on Thu Dec-04-03 07:06 PM by goobergunch
I've got SC3K Unlimited, but I don't use it much anymore because I became a DU and NationStates addict. Although Goobergunch City is still sitting around my hard disk somewhere....
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:11 PM
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8. Once a city gets going, it's fun to actually drive and fly around in it
(U-Drive missions)

But micromanagement (ala Civilization III, Master of Orion 3) will put some people off. Like me. My employer micromanages like crazy and it's driving me nuts. Why do I want to play a game forcing me to be so ridiculously controlling over every little thing that must be done?
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:23 PM
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9. How do they force micromangement?
Transportation? Utilities? Health/Education/Public Safety? Zoning?

I'm not a big fan of micromanagement either, so I'm just curious.
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:26 PM
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11. im an ns addict too
i have 2 countries

new kingman- liberal democracy
new caucasia- dictatorship
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:31 PM
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13. I have 15 countries
My primary one is Goobergunchia (founder of the Democratic Underground region :)).
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Darranar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:07 PM
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7. That I don't have it.
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YellowRubberDuckie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:26 PM
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10. Complicated much?
It's way more complex than it needs to be. Of course, Skip loves it.
Duckie
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:27 PM
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12. THE ¤&%!¤@ FIRE TRUCKS
The city hardly grew.. there were too much stuff to fix..

AND AND AND OMG AND WHENEVER THERE was a godamm FIRE which in a big city like I had there were CONSTANT fires.. you had to MANUALLY place the fire trucks, o m f g I deleted it soon after I discovered that
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goobergunch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:33 PM
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14. You have to manually place all fire trucks?
One of the best things about SC3K IMHO was that you didn't have to manually place fire trucks like you did in SC2K.
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:37 PM
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16. yep
It was just horrible.. and there were tons and tons of fires.. and you had to place all trucks.. same amount as fire stations I believe
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-04-03 07:35 PM
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15. The fact that it's installed on my PC and I have yet to use it.
Maybe that's my problem....
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