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Calorus

Best City Builder for Linux

By Calorus, in City-Building Games

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Calorus    1

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    Best City builder for Linux?

    Your opinions? Any comments? How was installation?

     

     

    I'm interested in native games especially, but am also interested in the performance of the best of the Cross Compatible ones under Wine or Emulators.

     

    All comments much appreciated!

     

    Cheers.

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    Ocram's Razr    963

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    The only one know about is LinCity and LinCity-NG. Simutrans and Towns are not really citybuilders, though.

     

     

    --Ocram

    Ocram's Razor: Though "more things shouldn't be used than are necessary," they're just too fun to pass up! Expect many verbose arguments from me. I will try to write abstracts before or short summaries after from now on.

    Words to live by:
    "Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit... But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually..." 1 Corinthians 4-11
    "Do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34
    "Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." Matthew 7:1-3

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    Calorus    1

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    Thanks for that, I've had a go on "LinCity-NG" And it really isn't too bad.

     

    Do you know of anyone running the current crop on Linux, things like SimCity 2013 (or it's closed Beta as it would be) or indeed CitiesXL Platinum?

     

    Cheers!

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    doorknob60    11

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    The best technically native one is SimCity 3000, although it's a very old build, and is difficult to get running on a modern system (though I managed to do it about 4 years ago), and difficult to find a legal copy of. Your best bet, though, is just running SimCity 4 in Wine. It works quite well, with only very minor graphical bugs, but other than that, works very well (sometimes better than in Windows). There are some open source ones out there, but they don't even come close to the SimCity games.

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