Privatize Your Water & Power Companies! 1.1

It sounds like Menem...

oh no.. let's not bring neo-liberalism in sc4 too...

Been there, done that, but i will download these great lots regardless. go private sector!

Sounds like what Bechtel and Suez Lyonaise did to Cochabamba's water supply in 2000...

I am not clear... so if I plop these, I will not need to lay down any pipes or power lines at all?

Yeah, I'm a little confused on how it works too.  Can we get a little more detail?  Because it sounds intriguing.  

Can you give some real world explanation instead? Your description is too...broad. It's an interesting concept...although in a game where one can simply create infinite money via cheats it seems redundant to take this approach. Unique...but I don't see the point of this.

It's unrealistic, too. Costs are not privatised. Earnings are privatised, costs are socialised. :P <= I can politics.

Hey all,

 

I have updated the description to make it clearer. As for the point, the concept is more about saving time than money. Infinite money cheats won't save time but they will take the realism out of the game with this solution you still need to run a balanced budget.

I think a disadvantage to this should be regular water shortages and a poorer, unhealthier, and grumpier population, since here in London the water companies cannot be bothered to fix the centuries-old rusty pipes.

Not a fan of privatization of everything in real life(!), but in game it is something new it seems and can be worth to try. Interesting idea!

anyone ever open mouthed kissed a camel?

Managing a city's telephone network.

 

I need that.

damn capitialists

Interesting lot....

Good to be an independent...

 

Thanks for sharing :)

 

If I use this prop, do i have to delete all existing power and water infrastructure?  I already go the phantom slider bug once from using stuff like this and I don't feel like dealing with it again.

anyone ever open mouthed kissed a camel?

I haven't but I watched a guy do it in Afghanistan, he made 20 bucks.

anyone ever open mouthed kissed a camel?

I haven't but I watched a guy do it in Afghanistan, he made 20 bucks.

i dont like camels i would rather do it to something else...as as for the money heh well you can keep it i do all my things for free =D

I have tried both of these, and my game keeps crashing.

Hey Silverbullet, I have sent you a message to see if it's possible to establish the cause of the game crashing. Thank you for the feedback.

5 star

It sounds like Menem...

Yes.I know what you're talking about, I live in Argentina

Great idea and great looks

Not sure if it would be hard to do or not, but could you simply scale the monthly cost based off the demand?

Okay, it worked well until - hmmm, dunno exactly, first every single lot showed the "lack of water" symbol, then the whole game kinda freezed and after one minute of patience I decided to kill the process.

 

I guess - no more - that perhaps the industry sector grew (I created a few new zones recently) and the water pollution came up that much that the whole water infrastructure was polluted.

My idea:

usually only a specific water tower or water pump is affacted if the pollution raises, so that specific water tower or water pump is shut down.

 

Using this mod, if no water towers or water pumps exist at all AND the pollution raises, the result is a completely chaos as I described above.

 

Could that be?

 

Now I'll load the last save, pause, build up water towers here and there, build up pipes, build up powerplants and poles if necessary - then bulldoze the privatize lots, save, exit the game and remove the mods.

 

But that was kinda experiment.