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C&C 4
By kSlank, May 19, 2025
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- May 19, 2025
Civilization VII
By Terring, June 8, 2024
- civilization
- 1 Reply
- 254 Views
- kSlank
- June 11, 2024
President Elect
By anonymous1234, November 27, 2023
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- anonymous1234
- November 27, 2023
Dice Legacy
By SIM-ple Jack, May 14, 2021
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- strategy
- 1 Reply
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- Mike91
- January 13, 2022
Empire Earth
By Zukunftstraume, January 24, 2013
- empire earth
- 29 Replies
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- Terring
- October 21, 2021
Civilization VI
By Urban Cartographer, September 14, 2016
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- civilization vi
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- 11 Replies
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- Toby66
- October 24, 2019
Close Combat games. Complex / accurate in detail war games
By Toby66, October 24, 2019
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- combat
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- 521 Views
- Toby66
- October 24, 2019
Master of Orion series

By GMT, March 8, 2013
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- 398 Views
- Leo_the_robot
- October 2, 2019
Surviving Mars
By Terring, May 16, 2017
- paradox
- interactive
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- Leo_the_robot
- October 2, 2019
What was your favorite non-SimCity Maxis Sim game? (Besides The Sims)

By simcityerr, February 10, 2014
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- Leo_the_robot
- October 2, 2019
Stellaris
By Sim Trekker, April 26, 2017
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- paradox
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- 8 Replies
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- Leo_the_robot
- October 2, 2019
Starcraft
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By Pooty, December 22, 2005
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- 6,102 Views
- Stauf
- November 14, 2017
Game ostriv need testers
By sander12345, July 13, 2017
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- 2 Replies
- 430 Views
- CorinaMarie
- July 13, 2017
Illuminati video game?
By Stellaris88, March 23, 2017
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  government
  
  world government
  
  communism
- 1 Reply
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- CorinaMarie
- March 23, 2017
Tropico 5 totalitarian state
By Stellaris88, March 20, 2017
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  police
  
  state
- 5 Replies
- 5,586 Views
- Bastet69008
- March 22, 2017
Communist Games
By Stellaris88, March 21, 2017
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  police
  
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  taxes
- 5 Replies
- 2,661 Views
- Stellaris88
- March 22, 2017
Tropico 5 increase hapiness
By Stellaris88, March 21, 2017
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  election
- 1 Reply
- 388 Views
- TekindusT
- March 21, 2017
Cold war era games
By Stellaris88, March 21, 2017
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  realism
- 1 Reply
- 971 Views
- Silur
- March 21, 2017
Totalitarian dictatorship game
By Stellaris88, March 20, 2017
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  city
  
  politician
  
  illuminati
- 1 Reply
- 1,562 Views
- CorinaMarie
- March 20, 2017
Games like Tropico
By Stellaris88, March 18, 2017
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- dictatorship
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  simulation
  
  dystopia
  
  question
- 3 Replies
- 1,807 Views
- Stellaris88
- March 20, 2017
Galactic Civilizations III

By Terring, October 16, 2013
- 1 Reply
- 345 Views
- Sim Trekker
- January 29, 2017
Mud and Blood 2
By APSMS, January 7, 2017
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- wwii
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  defense games
- 3 Replies
- 2,491 Views
- MeMyself&I
- January 7, 2017
Your Favorite Civilization
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By The Avatar, March 27, 2012
- 31 Replies
- 2,412 Views
- HayleyRenaNemeth
- January 6, 2017
Anyone else playing Democracy 3?
By Whte_rbt, July 8, 2015
- democracy 3
- turn-based
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- 5 Replies
- 1,416 Views
- Whte_rbt
- December 9, 2016
CINEMA GOD - A campaign-based simulation game [Dev Blog]
By Borrego6165, August 12, 2016
- tycoon
- build
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  indie game
  
  indie
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- 9,694 Views
- Borrego6165
- August 12, 2016
Company of Heroes 2
By GC_Vos, February 27, 2016
- coh2
- world builder
- 3 Replies
- 857 Views
- GC_Vos
- April 18, 2016
KOEI Strategy Games Thread
By RipRap, May 28, 2015
- koei
- strategy
- 10 Replies
- 2,155 Views
- jmsepe
- October 22, 2015
Civilization: Beyond Earth
By The Avatar, April 20, 2014
- civilization
- alpha centauri
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  4x
- 22 Replies
- 3,157 Views
- Ocram's Razr
- October 12, 2015
Galactic Civilizations 3

By EyeofMobius, May 24, 2015
- 1 Reply
- 377 Views
- Tropod
- May 24, 2015
The Great Civ 5 Discussion
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By Dirktator, April 18, 2011
- 54 Replies
- 6,193 Views
- HayleyRenaNemeth
- May 14, 2015

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  Thank you Kergelen. No i didn't use water, you can build brigdes where there is a certain height between the two sides of the cliff.
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  By darkscaryforest · Posted: 2 hours ago
  
  I'm a new player. This game just feels like a black box to me most of the time. When I have a problem or am successful at something, I only have concepts of the what or the how instead of solid knowledge of what is happening. I appreciate anyone who can help me understand more about the game with my current problems. I have NAM installed as well as various fixes (including hi-tech fix, opera house fix). No CAM mod installed. I've started my first region. I built a city in one of the small squares. I completely covered it with a mix of residential, commercial, and industrial zones. It looks fairly successful at first glance since I have 120k sims, a large surplus of money, high education/healthcare/desirability, and traffic is under control by having bus stops and a subway along with the roads. The problem is I have massive swathes of high-wealth, high density residential areas without jobs. Interspersed in these areas were buildings abandoned "due to commute time", but I suspect what that really means is "abandoned due to infinite commute time" aka no jobs. (Can anyone confirm if that's a real thing?) I wanted to say the issue was that I have high density residential stuff and low density industrial/commercial? I honestly don't know. What I mean is I mouse over a resident building and see spots for an insane 3000 people, where as I mouse over the biggest high-tech building I can find and it has like 100 jobs. Is it the case that way more of your land will be commercial and industry? I was kind of hoping I'd get very large workplaces too. I don't see how else I could raise the pop further otherwise. Since I was out of land to build more stuff...I knew one way to fix this was to go to a neighboring region and build commercial/industry there. So I did...and it sort of worked? Maybe? I could build a few sections of hi-tech and commercial before the demand zeroed out next door. Then I would reload the main city, quit, then reload the neighbor and low and behold a little more would magically build. I repeated this like 30 times and now 1/3 of the neighbor city is filled with hi-tech/high wealth commercial with 0 residents. I can't tell if I just exploiting a bug here on accident or if you're supposed to reload repeatedly like this. In main city, there are still a few places with no jobs, but I wanted to say that it worked and they are commuting. However, then I noticed a NEW problem. Now, almost all of my existing hi-tech and commercial in the first city are abandoned due to low demand. These places were fine before. I'm assuming this is because of the neighboring region. I don't understand..I thought I was just filling in the jobs that were missing? Yet somehow I have supplanted jobs in the first city... Was I wrong in thinking that I was filling in the missing jobs by building in a neighboring region? Maybe jobs are like pollution...trapped in the same city square Maybe my issue is about this magical, nebulous growth stage I've heard about? Like if I go off and make 3 other 100k cities, and then reload my first one sky scrapers could pop up and solve these density problems? I feel I don't have great control over this stuff. I just kind of float on vibes.
  Thanks for any help. Like I've said I've watched tutorials but it really feels like there's a lot of black magic here.
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  By bhmantan · Posted: 2 hours ago
  
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- Two WinTextEdits for one Query
  
  By Kel9509 · Posted: 3 hours ago
  
  @Urban Vibravant, I'll try to help you. Not only have I used that real subway station many times, I often went to Midtown Comics prior to COVID and have occasionally gone back with the kid in order to browse their extensive selection of toys on their second floor. And your buildings are awesome so they deserve their own awesome query. I recall a thread where you were asking if a growable building could act as a subway. Irrespective if that works or not (I'm not sure if it would), there's no reason why a query cannot display something that appears to be a secondary named item within. I think the issue is that your secondary window for the subway station part of the query is using the "iid=IGZWinTextEdit id=0x00001000" property to display the name of the building twice, which because it's relying on a variable will always display what that variable is, no matter how many times. The variable is 0x00001000, and that is the building name, and if you rename one it will revert back to the "correct" variable from the building exemplar. What might work is hard-coding that secondary name into your custom query so it displays what it's supposed to display. It will be static, but it will appear as you want. Similar coding was done in the secondary windows for the Census Repository, where the name of the building "Census Repository Vault" is shown, but then other elements below are hard-coded as LTEXT or plain text entries: "City Budget Overview", "Residential Capacity", "Commercial Job Supply", and "Industrial Job Supply." Those cannot be edited, but they shouldn't be because the query should display things as they are. If you want the name to be editable, I'm not sure how to do that. But certainly if you hard-code the secondary name into the query, it will display properly just as it does for the Census Repository. Aside from that, your query is light-years ahead of anything I ever could've done. It is a fantastic piece of art. You are very, very skilled and frankly I am super impressed. I'm also very glad to help you out because your buildings and your efforts are top-notch and above all, I love a good custom query (and hence, no need to split off this thread from the original but that's a minor matter).
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  By Null 45 · Posted: 6 hours ago
  
  The Lua extensions DLL wouldn't cover something like this. So basically a building that happens to have a built-in transit station? SC4 only supports one building per lot, so the WinTextEdit field is used for the main building. Internally the custom name property is stored as the item name. While my Query Tool UI Extensions DLL adds additional features to the query dialog, it is not set up for this kind of custom dialog editing.
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