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At first, I thought SCS concept is a little bit weird. But then again, I think it is good for anyone to try something new and therefore I am eager to give this new SC a try. There is a potential for this game to suck hard, but on the other hand there is also a potential that this game will be enjoyable despite its difference from the good old Sim City.

The only upgrade I'm planning in the near future would be my speaker set. My 6 yo DTT2500 is dying and I need a new set of speaker. In the next year I probably would do a full upgrade with the new upcoming 45nm Intel chips (if they turns out to be good, or I'll get AMD), a new video card, probably 4 GB of RAM and perhaps some other stuff. But since this is too preliminary I'm not sure how this plan would turns out.

Since I don't have an external MP3 player (yet), I usually just listen to the radio - playing WinAmp in the background affect performances significantly. But from my music collection, the ones that works best with SC4 are classic big band music such as Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman - especially if you're working on a Chicagoan/New Yorkian city. Very stylish.

This might not be happening soon but if the sun turns into a Red Giant we'll all be swallowed into it.

Try re-plopping the high school again from every direction and then bulldoze it.

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SKU2 is the European version of SC4. If you select an update from ea website, select manual update. From there you can select which version of SC4 you are updating.

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Most probably you have an incorrect patch version. If you're from Europe or have European version of SC4, try using SKU2 to EP1 installation patch.

Yeah Order of Phoenix. But it was the worst book of the lot, so people wasn't expecting it much. Let's hope the movie turns out good.

Duke87, I enjoyed Harry Potter both on movies and books. As a movie enthusiast I understand that filmmaker must change something due to duration limitation and more importantly, books and movies work differently. Before I watch Goblet of Fire, I was under an impression that its going to be suck, but I see it anyway. How I couldn't be more wrong about my presentiment. It was trimmed, of course, but it was tight, entertaining and fun. I still loved the book better, but the movie are also good in my opinion. And now that someone mentions The Lord of the Ring, I really loved the book, and the movie shows that although Tolkien was a great storyteller, LOTR can never be made to a movie as well as how Peter Jackson and his writer wrote it - simply because it would be confusing to move back and forth in time in the book's fashion. The movie has some technical problem, but from narrative standpoint, I couldn't imagine something better than a combination of the Extended Edition of FOTR and Two Towers with the theatrical version of ROTK.

Sweet! SC4 actually works better with an NVidia chipset, but a 9600 is sufficient enough (I was using them before upgrading to a 6600 and it's pretty good for SC4). Other thing that works well for me is two HD setup - one for SC4 program files and the other for plugins. Not really 2x faster, but still noticeably faster.

Fritz Lang's Metropolis? I wouldn't call that apocalyptic, it's rather an utopian/dystopian vision of the future. Perhaps we need to match the definition in our dictionary. fwiw, although it has some similarities, Osamu Tezuka's Metoroporisu is not a remake of Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece. The anime is taken from a manga while the silent classic is written for a novel. And yeah, I'm in the age range you just mention.

You can always try a CD repair kit (and probably a lens cleaner for your CD/DVD-ROM, they might be dirty but I guess that's not the case). There are some technique to repair CD using home-made appliances (car wax, boiling the CD or such) but if you don't think its worth the trouble, you can always buy a new one.

What do you mean by cubicle? Pixellated? Do you see boxes? pics?