mayormommy

I think you need to make it clear where the PMs should go in the very beginning of this thread, and perhaps at the top of every page. Choco or I could clean out this thread for you, but I think you will still get comments on the reviews besides just the requests for reviews. It is hard to keep a thread like this totally clean.

Well, it looks like this has legs, so to speak, so I'll pin it. Let's keep the momentum going, the reviews have been really good so far.

That thing is such a local landmark I'm actually glad to see it stay. So many of the buildings in DC are so bland. Here's another pic I found on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/army_arch/253419829/

Nice pictures! I have to say I haven't heard of this spectacular building before. What are the classrooms like?

Just when you thought this CJ couldn't get more bizarre - Albert Einstein, Billy the Kid, Jesse Owens and The Rock share a scene?

Originally posted by: Joesocwork Part of parenting is to help children to help them to have the internal tools to make appropriate choices about their lives, not to create clones of one' s self or one's aspirations.quote> I thought the most fascinating and fun time to be a parent was the 4-10 year range. That's when you discover that your kids are amazingly interesting and funny people, and the little glimpses you see of yourself in them are fleeting treasures that only come out when you least expect them. My son is older now (13) and it's interesting trying to be a fair negotiator with him while not relinquishing ultimate authority.

Me too. I was just thinking about picking up the series again, around Book 7 or so where I left off. But maybe I'll wait and see if someone will finish it. Too bad about Jordan - he was sick for a long time.

Love the low, low density - reminds me of a lot of small towns in Connecticut, with a little commercial cluster on the main road.

Monorails should be used to carry high-speed intercity traffic with few stops, rather than lower speed intracity commuters. They are not designed to be a substitute for the subway or el, though in certain situations you can use them that way. I like to use them in conjunction with parking garages and bus stops, to give sims an efficient way to get the stations. I've also used them with ferry and subway stops. They're tricky to place correctly to get sims to ride them, but you can get substantial ridership with careful placement/planning.

Wow, the nightlighting is 1000% percent better. The small towns and farms always looked pretty decent, but it's nice to see some improvement/variety in road textures too. And either there's more variety of buildings now and more street traffic or they're beginning to think like a CJer and choose their shots more carefully. Although it's goofy, I do kinda like the totalitarian mind control center or whatever that is.

I was at work and a friend of mine (who happened to leave for work later and was still at home) called me and said a plane crashed in the World Trade Center and they didn't think it was an accident. I logged onto CNN.com and got a glimpse of the burning hole in the building. I thought it was important news but went on with the morning. Then my friend called again and said another plane had hit the other tower and I completely could not believe it. I tried to get onto CNN again but then it wouldn't load that time (nor would it for the rest of the day). Someone who lived nearby brought in a small TV and set it up in the office kitchen, so a group of us huddled around it and saw the first tower fall. I knew it was just a matter of time before the second fell as well, and wondered what happened to all the fire trucks that must have been parked around the buildings.

I have the same one as beebs and just love it. The optical zoom is particularly good, and one set of batteries usually lasts a week of intensive vacation picture taking. It also does pretty well in low light situations but I wish it had a flash shoe instead of just the built-in flash.

MoonCat: Welcome to ST! Interesting to get the background on the lost city journals. No matter how much we complain about the official EA SC4 site, at least it's still there after all these years. But we've had own challenges with picture hosting sites going down as well. MayorVieira: I do have a soft spot for the Egyptian theme of this game myself, having traveled to Egypt as a teenager. The scale of the pyramids in the game is pretty impressive but building them is mostly a matter of labor + time. Importing limestone blocks instead of quarrying my own seem to have made pyramid building move a little faster. Regarding your question on the game setting options, I haven't really studied them too closely, having left everything on default except the camera angle/free camera/snapshot camera type options. But there do seem to be a number of ways to conserve computing power. I suppose I should note that this game has only crashed on me once, while C4 has gone down three times. There are patches I am supposed to download for both games - in COTN, apparently sims can get "stuck" (treadmilling) though I've only noticed this with the traders' donkeys. I assumed they were just stubbon, like all the other sims in this game.

You guys should have heard me muttering to myself about how the darn www.titledmill.com website wasn't working yesterday...

Yes, I see the Titled Mill crowd hasn't perfected the art of the city journal as we have here at ST (no offense). I thought perhaps it was a limitation on posting pictures in the forums, but maybe it's the culture there - creative folks there seem to put more of their energy into scenario development (which can have their own complex story lines). Regarding your other idea in relation to SCS, I would have to say having some multi-player options for SCS would help overshadow some other possible shortcomings, as that has been very difficult to manage in SC4. I hope we can look forward to having some options in this area for SCS. What is Caesar Online like?