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I'll probably buy it, eventually.. I bought SC4 straightaway, Rush Hour when it came out and recently purchased it again on Steam. I don't like Origin and there are plenty of features in SC2013 I cannot wrap my head around (we get to build dirt roads, but not farms, we can't terraform, the regions, the DLC, the pricetags, etc.). I'll wait for an ultimate edition to come out someday, after the community has been sufficiently milked for all they're worth on DLC and expansions. While I'm waiting for that day, I'll keep on playing SC4.

Having recently reinstalled SC4, the necessary mods and the hundreds of BATs I missed between my active period on Simtropolis and today, I can honestly say that the only reason I decided to do just that was because of the limitations I could see piling up with SC2013.. The game looks like fun and I'm sure there'll be plenty of people willing to play it, but as someone who's looking to resurrect a City Journal, the new game will only remind my of how limited SC4 was in the beginning. What angers me is that in vanilla SC4 I COULD plant Big Ben or other monuments without having to buy DLC, I could build cities in a massive region on giant scales, I could terraform, save locally, right before I destroyed everything in a massive fireball, I could build farms, and so on and so forth. The new SC2013 looks more like a deeper version of the neighbourhood view in The Sims than it looks like a successor to SC4. I tell ya, after Will Wright left Maxis (probably disgusted by how his vision of Spore was mangled into being 'cutesy'), I stopped caring about EA + Maxis.

Banned because the word 'be' is missing in front of the second 'clever' in his signature..

Neither the UK nor the Netherlands are leaving the EU. Mr. Cameron is playing the rabid anti-EU card in the hopes of picking up some more votes in the upcoming election. Currently he doesn't have the necessary majority in parliament to call for the referendum, so he's hoping for an election win to be able to get the referendum through. But even then, polls are showing that the British people are split pretty much 50/50 on the issue. The Netherlands (where I'm from) has its own radical right wing nutjob calling for a referendum, but that's also not going to happen. While we might grumble and gripe about the EU and the Euro (and there definitely need to be changes), we won't leave the EU anytime soon. Also, dzekins, the EU has done plenty of good: I doubt those factories closing had anything to do with joining the EU. Most likely it would've happened anyway. Besides, I believe you're forgetting the tremendous amounts of subsidies that are transferred from all over the EU to other, less developed parts of the EU in order to realize all sorts of improvements. Yes, the Euro is in trouble and yes, things need to change, but the only way we can accomplish that is by electing the right people, keep voting and keep demanding that politicians are held accountable for their actions and their decisions.

Well, it's been a long time since I posted here and a long time since I checked out the Simtropolis forums.. Glad to see so much has changed and yet so much has stayed the same! I'll definitely need to come back more often to see what's going on around here! Anyways, I have something to share with you all: last year I was seriously considering resurrecting Chaumont. Eventually, other things took over my time and other interests pushed aside any time I thought I might have for Simcity 4. Now, more than a year later, I've decided that Chaumont will not be resurrected anymore. Nevertheless, while the thought of resurrection was on my mind, I did make a bit of an 'ad video', with which I hoped to blast off the new topic! So I thought: why not resurrect this dinosaur of a thread, show this video, see what people think about it (maybe even reminisce a bit about the good old days) and then let it die peacefully again. Also, what better way to get ready to launch the New Year than by looking back on good old times, right!? Enjoy! The Return of Chaumont

Well done, Gingerblokey! This looks very realistic and very British indeed.. Great job and I'm looking forward to more.. I think that last shot is especially beautiful..

Lovely.. I'm going to Atlanta between the 24th and 31st of May and I expect to see a working American city when I get there!! Unbelievable, my first trip to the U.S. and I get an empty city!

Originally posted by: Godzillaman So if Osama goes through with this, he'll be killing innocent people just because of an insulting cartoon? Sounds like a bit of overreacting there...sure, it was insulting, but do innocent peoples blood have to be spilled? That's like a fingernail for a freakin' arm...quote> True, but terrorists aren't exactly known for their logic and reasonable thinking.. They tend to overreact once something happens that doesn't suit their fancy. It's their 'thing'.. As for Osama Bin Laden and his threats, I stopped taking him seriously a long time ago and, while I agree that underestimating terrorists is a bad thing, I'm fairly certain their capabilities are constantly overestimated. It's pretty clear they're desperate when they start using mentally handicapped people as martyrs..