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SimCity city sizes will “eventually” expand, says Maxis
Sandis_van_Great commented on Hellken's article in News
Just for an easy payment of 29,99$ -
Simtropolis interview with Maxis Part 2 - Ocean Quigley
Sandis_van_Great commented on Dirktator's article in News
I personally liked to payout pipelines, and couldnt they just admit that there is no point of power lines in this kinda small village tiles and becouse you cant really build anythign betwen thoes village tiles so. -
Maxis info misleading; scale of plopables is large
Sandis_van_Great replied to William Gates's topic in SimCity (2013) General Discussion
well you don't really need to be a rocket scientist to see that, I personally understood it long time ago. -
Haha i did the same ------------------------------------ To answer your question: Pff, "yeah , right"
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It was already too late to fix it when it was first announced.
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=152_1360906606 http://zyalt.livejournal.com/722930.html#cutid1 Now that boom was quet something Althought it can be just a coincidence but today we gona be passed by "2012 DA 14 " which is 45 meters in diameter. Closest point with earth should be 27 000km
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Is sim city 4 still worth purchasing?
Sandis_van_Great replied to KIERONOO's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
its worth every peny -
ha lol, this company should have made sc 5 , atlist they listen to their fans. And they dont even force you MP but still they give the possibility to play MP if you want. Good job, ill defiently gona buy it. p.s a curiosity question, SC cant have big cities becouse of the agents and such, but if you look at this video, the city was several times bigger that you can make in SC and in this game every person still works as an agent by going to work, comming home and even going shopping or just out to the town, so how come this game can handle much more than crappy sc?
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Discussion about City Tile Size
Sandis_van_Great replied to alex macnamara's topic in SimCity (2013) General Discussion
Cosidering something dosnt really meen they are gona do it And what about all the engine cant even hold any more?- 1,284 Replies
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Dev. Tester Here....
Sandis_van_Great replied to Haljackey's topic in SimCity (2013) General Discussion
"While improvements have been made to SimCity (2013) since the closed beta test," huh? what improvments? -
So what if a city was deleted? Possible?
Sandis_van_Great replied to Dewm's topic in SimCity (2013) General Discussion
for me normaly deleting one city or big part of a city makes the economy grow hehe, demand always goes up. -
so a small village with oil industry and a HQ skyscreaper in middle of the village, damn i can see myself in just an hour or two and i would have notthing more to do there.
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Is anyone going to still play 4 when the new one comes out?
Sandis_van_Great replied to natethegreatforlife's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
The real question should be, if anyone is gonna play the new SC -
something went wrong with everything....
Sandis_van_Great replied to cristi25med's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
I would strongly suggest you to organize your plugins folder,like residental,comercial etc. It would have helped me alot but since i have 4gb with over 12000 files, its impossible for me to do it now hehe. -
"There are a lot of people who want us to be making a 1990s-era game. A lot people who want us to make SimCity4++. It's not the '90s anymore. The world has moved on," says Quigley. you know whats funny, is that he actually admits and he knows what most of the people want, but for some reason does the opposite? i meen, wheres the logic?
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Xannepan's Mods: Sunrise, Moonrise, Weather, and Game Water
Sandis_van_Great replied to 7238320's topic in Community Goings-on
hehe looks like SC4 is just getting betther and betther. First weather, and now this. In your face SC5. -
Fine, youre Northern Europe. It really doesn't matter, the point was that you were a former Communist country. I doubt 'they' in this case was Europe. I think its more likely that the factory got closed down because it couldn't compete with Denmark, rather than Brussels saying that only one country in Europe can produce sugar. I never said that all you factories are crap, I said the ones that closed down where unlikely to have survived the competition without massive subsidies and went out of business because of that. The World Bank is not an EU institution, nor is it controlled by the EU. Austerity measures suck, but you are far from the only country who has to cut back a lot. Pretty much every European country at this moment has to cut back a lot. As for having a say in this, you would even have less of a say in this if you were not part of the EU. The World Bank still would have demanded the cuts before anymore loans could be taken out, and those cuts would have hurt even more due to the fact you would not have access to the European single market which would have restricted any economic growth. Also, how do you measure poverty? As I said, pretty much every European country is currently facing severe budget cuts. Better if it doesn't fail then. And what would that stereotype be? That I called you Eastern European? Well Im sorry, we in the West consider everything that used to be communist east, mostly because geographically speaking, all those countries are located east of us. Well, in your case, North East. I mean nothing with it. In all end, i don't want to argue about this since you have low knowledge about Latvia, and the topic wosnt about Latvia anyway But i do understand why UK would act like this and it dosnt suprise me. And like i said befor, EU is just a growing bubble that will pop soon (you cant escape it, it will happend sooner or later) and it will only make things worse than it is now. World itself is pritty unstable.
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Dude, thats Eastern Europe. Former Soviet controlled space. Yes, a lot of factories got closed, either because they are not up to the safety and health standards the EU sets for its member states (oh how terrible, the EU wants to protect your health by not having you live next to a polluting factory) or because they were state controlled which does not fit with the EU free market, which means that they needed to be privatized. And a lot of former Soviet factories were so horribly inefficient and cost ineffective that they simply could not survive on the free market without massive state subsidies. Or to put it this way, if those factories were privately owned and conformed to all safety and health standards, than the EU has no power over them. The EU cannot tell businesses to just close down without a very good legal reason. Wanting to change the Latvian economy from a production economy towards a consumer economy is not a legal reason at all. So, what does the EU do for you and your country? Well for starters, on your own Latvia is an insignificant little place, politically unimportant, economically not a super power. Compared to Russia, China, the US and growing global players like Brazil and India, Latvia plays no role of any significance in the world. However, the EU does, because the EU is pretty much every European country put into one political union. Together Europe is much stronger than any of the individual member states could ever be, together Europe can form an effective counter weight against all the other world powers. And as part of the EU, Latvia has a voice in the decision making process, which means it can protect its interests far more effectively than it could ever hope to do on its own. Which seems rather useful when you're geographically so close to Russia. Furthermore, becoming part of the EU has given Latvia business access to one of the largest markets in the world, with no import barriers. Quite useful for anyone who wants to start a business in Latvia, they can operate freely anywhere in Europe. Then there is of course the fact that Latvia is a net. receiver, meaning they get more money from the EU than what they pay. Free money to help build up the economy and what not. Oh, as for the Euro, well right now I agree, its a bit unstable. But, it also saves people money, especially if they go on holidays or do business with other European countries. And if Brussels pulls through and implements the necessary regulations to make the Euro stable again, all Euro members will benefit from it in the long run. The EU also sets standards for products in order to ensure public health and safety, avoid the exploitation of workers, ensures a minimum of social security, protects civil rights and freedoms within its member states, allows European citizens to travel, study, live and work anywhere within the EU without any kind of restrictions. And it promotes local cultures and diversity rather than pushing for a homogeneous pan-European culture. Is the EU perfect? No, it can do better in some areas. It could be more democratic, although this is in part caused by the fact that European elections have rather low voter turnout ratings. More people should vote rather than complain that Europe is so stupid. Furthermore, its possible to start citizen initiatives and send complaints to the Commission to which they must respond. But yeah, if no one makes use of this.... Next year the European Parliament holds elections again, so I would suggest you go out and vote. Meh, the economic models are mostly the same within Europe. Free market capitalism, where states still can put the accent on what they find more important, focus on employment or focus on economic growth. As for nationalism, I agree, it is beginning to become a bit of a problem in some European countries, especially the ones affected heavily by the crisis. But these Nationalists often fail to mention is the crisis they are in is for a large part caused not by Brussels but by themselves. Stepping out of the EU will not only not solve any of their problems, it will also deny them further access to all forms of support and help that the EU can give to help them solve their problems. Another terribly flawed argument that Nationalists tend to use is that they don't like giving Brussels all the sovereignty. They mistakenly assume that in today's world, a country like Greece or the Netherlands would have any real sovereignty if they stepped out of the EU. All European nations heavily rely on NATO in case of a war, most countries would not hold for more than a week in case of a full scale invasion, and when it comes to fighting global terrorism, they need the close cooperation with other countries intelligence and police services. Economically individual countries like Greece or the Netherlands are to weak to make any impact on the global markets and those markets would eventually end up dictating economic policy in those countries. The EU however is big and strong enough to for some extend defy the markets or at least implement its own measures. As for political sovereignty, well, stepping out of the EU would perhaps give you some sovereignty back, but at a very high cost. Assuming you still want to do business with the EU, you still have to deal with a lot of measures they set up, only instead of being able to influence those measures, you just have to follow them up because you stepped out of the EU. So, in that sense you only lose sovereignty. You can make more deals with other countries without going through Brussels, but do you really think that a small country like Greece or the Netherlands is individually strong enough to get a favorable deal with far bigger countries? I doubt it. The real problem with nationalism is that we do not have enough of it on a European level. We are afraid that creating some kind of common European identity will remove any national identities or we are afraid that nationalism spirals out of control and we end up with extremist factions on a European scale. I do not believe that is the case, I think that the EU can create a positive European identity without destroying all the local identities. In fact, I believe that a European identity in the long run can protect all the local identities from being destroyed by globalism. But yeah, the EU suffers from a PR problem. Most people have no idea what the EU actually does, and that makes them easy victims of mistaken nationalists who want out of the EU. If the EU could actually show to people how much they benefit from being part of the EU in so many ways, it might make it harder for those nationalist to come into a position where they can seriously harm the EU. Latvia is north europa - http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Europe_subregion_map_UN_geoschme.svg and from wiki - Latvia i/ˈlætviə/ (Latvian: Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Republika), is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe For exemple, in my city there was a suger fabric which got closed down not becouse of health or pollution or that it was old but becouse, as they said, Denmark was producing sugger for EU. And dont even tell me that all our fabrics are crap, especially when you have never even lived there , or maybe not even been to visit it. We have several modern and high quality factories that are still opperating. Just so you know , soviet union toke away everything from us when it collapsed, all the machinery and fabric equipment, they burned down their fabrics. So not much if left from them. EU is treating Latvia like an laboratory bunny. After the global crisis hit EU and world bank ordered us to put alot and i meen ALOT of cut of's from our budget. And like you said, becouse Latvia is small, it dosnt really have much to say about things so we have no choise just to fallow everything EU thinks is right. We hade to close down several schools and hospitals just becouse of the cut of's and exept the EU itself , there have been alot of economical speiclists from all over the world that have said that EU is using Latvia as an experiment to see how a country will do in this harsh conditions they are forcing us to do, and look now where it pusht us, Latvia is just above Bulgaria in powerty. Like i said befor, EU only cares about some of the countries, not all of them. Yeah i do agree that it did help with bussines in Latvia and to work with EU toghetther and i do agree that they are giving us some money to help and such, but lets not forget that EU is giving money to alot of countrys, and coutrys are getting too used to it and after the EU is gona fall how do you think half of the EU countries will stand back on its own feets when they have gone used to this free money? And by the way, you are talking like a typical western european who have its stereotypes on east europeans.
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That is because you, like most European citizens, have no clue what the EU actually does, and how much you benefit from being a part of it. What country are you from then? Im from Latvia. Okey than explain me, what good does it do?
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I assume you are from an Eastern European countries. Lots of state owned factories had to be sold (and got subsequently closed) as part of the internal market and free market regulations set by the EU. You might not like that the EU pushed for this, but trust me, those factories would have been closed sooner or later anyways. State owned factories tend to be ineffective to the point that they can only exist when states massively subsidize them. Essentially, you would be paying taxes just so a factory would remain open. Not really something taxpayer money should be spend on. @A Nonny Moose almost half of the UK trade goes towards mainland Europe. Loosing a lot of that trade because sudden tariff barriers and such would definitely be a blow. Furthermore, in order to trade with the EU, you still have to meet the EU quality standards. As a member of the EU, the UK can help decide what those quality standards are. If they step out, those quality standards will be imposed on them and they will have no voice in it at all. And while it is true that Switzerland and Norway are doing okay, they hardly play a role of any significance in the world. Is that what the UK wants to be known for? Being as insignificant and unimportant as Norway and Switzerland on the world stage, only good for companies and rich people to hide their money? No im from the nother europa. And trust me , they wouldnt have been closed, what EU perfectly did was made my country into consumer rather than producer so the richer eu countrys can earn more. EU dosnt really treat all of its members equally , especially the eastern part. YOu know how much of the trashy export goes to Eastern part just becouse EU dont really care about that side? Offcors we did get some nice things from EU also, like money to renovate schools and such, but thats just to shut up the society. Whenever sombody from EU comes to visit and see how the situation after crisis is going, they go totally dumb with understanding the real situation thats goin on. And in the all end, EU is trying to make the bubble alot more bigger, and it will break pritty soon, and the bigger the bubble gets the more bigger the fall will be. Look at Norway, when they come here to get their nobel prize , all they did was talk about getting Norway into EU, just becouse of its money. Sorry, but i personally dont see anything good with EU
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I hope UK leaves it and otthers fallow it, EU havent done anything good. When my country joined EU we hade to close down several factories all over our country and now we almost whent bancrupt and EU is a part to blame it for. Now they are literrary pushing us Euro which i really really really hate. Anyways Euro is as unstable as the whole EU.
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Xannepan's Mods: Sunrise, Moonrise, Weather, and Game Water
Sandis_van_Great replied to 7238320's topic in Community Goings-on
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SimCity beta lets to players chosen play each city by "One Hour" in his Origin account
Sandis_van_Great commented on NCGAIO's article in News
Well i bet hour will be enough to go over all the few limited options the game actually offer several times, and be already boored. -
A Peek at Things to Come...
Sandis_van_Great commented on clarkjordan12345's City Journal Entry in Utgard
bad thing when making city like this is the dead streets, altought everything ells looks amazing -
computer says "No".
