Techleo

Given time you get good enough at manipulating the economy that you can build basically any city. You just need a basic grasp of what people want. Each and every time you get more density you get more needs. My favourite city has 5000 people and runs totally off farms

I MADE IT! WAHOOOOOO!!!

My guess is 30

Basically as it stands, the basic components will be in the game. Parks, docks, airports and such things. If you wanted to develop them to more detail though youd need a expansion. We all probably get the idea with gems. You pay for the elements you want to make your city unique the way you want. Its like buying the rushhour expansion pack for sc4 but being able to decide not to pay for a certain element you have no interest in. *Shrugs* Hella lot cheaper in the long run. I'm personally interested in a Farming, Mining, Advanced Tech such as complex ecofriendly structures and beach Gem. Thats what, 20 to 30 bucks? I am curious to see what the free updates will include. Perhaps new transportation systems, roads, services and a slew of core elements? Hehe only time will tell. I'm fairly confident the microtransaction route will work fine with Cxl.

I am definitely getting anxious. Either hes to busy with the website and the late stex or its a doozy of a report hehe.

Just noticed that jet with the contrails behind it in that pic.

The excitement is killing me! :-D I'm glad you enjoyed your trip to Paris. Gypsies are such a interesting bunch. No matter where you go in the world you run into some sort of vagabond. In the Philippines its more beggars then anything. Not that bad when your 6 foot 3 though. They don't seem comfortable asking money from me hehe. Except this one tiny TINNNNY kid, maybe 3. He was sooooo cute! Ended up buying him a soda and a candy. Hehe his mom rolled her eyes as he got back to his paper shack. Ended up buying her some food. The rest of the trip they would always wave at me when I walked by and the mother even helped wave down a cab for me. That makes my heart warm<3

I've been playing a few games with Secu-Rom and no problems ever so by all means i'll be playing spore. I've been waiting for a LOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGG time for a game like this

Well now that they announced the possibility of pay for play online play how do you all feel about it? There hasn't exactly been a warm welcome at the citiesxl.com website. In fact Id say its downright hostile. That being said I personally dont mind as long as I get good content delivery and they dont shove expansions down our throats. Paying for expansion in increments doesn't exactly hurt all that much. I wouldn't mind say a 10 dollar a month subscription. That being said I also want the ability to link multiple cities in the stand alone version and I suspect we will be able to. It was wise for MC to announce there possible thoughts because that gives them the chance to gauge our reactions. THey haven't to my knowledge made any clear decisions yet so.. we will see what comes of all of this. Still cant wait to play the game

I may actually have some form of the brain disorder. I taste in color. I always have. The first time I ate pepper I called it blue. Mint is a creamy blue. Basil is brown and red. I suppose this is why I can use spices so easily in food. Some colors just dont mix. While others work perfectly. In particular one flavour is heaven to me. Its like a creamy rainbow. Rasberry. I have no clue why I react the way I do to it. It makes the back of my neck tingle all the way into the center of my brain. I have to be careful when I mix chocolate and rasberry because I cant stop eatting it. It has more effect on me then beer. I think I mite do some studying on this disorder because Id love to hear other peoples experiences.

Still playing? Sheesh theres a heck of a mod community working in the background thats for sure. Finally seeing some decent stuff coming out to. Personally Im working on a Highway mod but im having some trouble with the traffic. After I get the Highway up its on to Trains, aught to give me enough headaches... personally I love the game. The sad part is the back end code is flawless. The code they used the front end statistics was ARGHHH?!!??! ***** WERE YOU THINKING BAD! hehe that being said Im getting there man IM GETTING THERE!

Im trying to design a high tech farming city so definitely a hydroponic dome

Personally Im into the Contemplative City Style. It matches my farming community really well. I havent tried to get the Orwellian one though. Looks awesome.

Im trying my hardest to figure how to unlock the highways and one way roads in SCS. The codes in the game. So far only minor luck. Looks to me like TM polished up the game and gave us a game with some inert features to be added later Ill figure it out eventually. Hehe if they dont add it first.

Ok some friendly advice. Use the shift key, select a building. This allows you to duplicate any building already built. SAVES TONS of time. Also you can go into the games systems folder and adjust all of the settings for camera's. Map sizes and so on. The games totally awesome when it comes to customization! Right now Im on a map three times bigger then the starter city map. I also can zoom about twice as far out but that needs some tweaking because of a code issue. Id imagine in a month or two you wont even recognize this game hehe.

I need to dig up my SimIsle guide. Alot of the old passwords work on the new games always seem to hehe. Right now Im using your trick to make your map bigger morpheus and its AWESOME! I finally have a desert map that I needed to make the little desert city I was born in

Dont forget you can increase the size of the map you play on as well. Digging around the .xmls I found the random map settings and upped them to 700 something. Its sooo nice to have a map with more then one city. I wouldnt recommend much bigger then 512 if you have less then 2gigs of ram though. When you put two cities on that big of a map it killlls yer system good.

Well technicaly pollution is exactly what you want. On a massive order. Co2 being a greenhouse gas is a excelent warming gas. Nitrogen as well is useful since it increases pressure. Not that youd want all sorts of pollution. Reealisticaly tho asteriods are the best source of gases and such. That of mining the atmosphere of Jupiter and Saturn. All of which is theorecticaly feasible and within our material means.

Id like to make a comment Azwe. Using ideas from sci-fi is all good and well. But reality is often fairly slow to intergrate. People in general reject ultra-futuristic ideas because of risk. Therefore you often see the oldest ideas with modern elements. I honestly expect the martian colonists to live fairly rough lives with few ammenities. Large bulky metal buidlings. Easy to run and efficent maglevs. Not to fancy. Lots of simples systems that can be repaired without having to ship in parts from earth. Anycase I would expect new systems. Just in a few decades after the intail foundation cities are finished. That raises a question. In this mod how long have humans been on mars?