Samness

Hello all: It has been a real hot minute since I last posted on these forums but I'm finally looking to get a little more involved with the community again. I'm trying to load up my C:S save files but no matter what I try to do I always end up with a display issue right at the end of the loading period, right after "InGame" loads (see two attached images moments before and then right after the display bug). Once the game shows the display bug it freezes there - I've left it untouched for up to 40 minutes and nothing ever loads. I am running out of ideas at this point - I tried disabling all mods, then enabling only the loading screen mod, then enabling only Save Our Saves plus any road-adding or core gameplay mods like 25 Tiles and TM:PE. When Loading Screen Mod was disabled the progress bar got stuck towards the end and was stuck spinning forever. Here's my output_log after my most recent attempt. I've tried loading my old saves for 3 different cities. 2 of them are large and well-developed cities, and both gave me the same display bug issue when trying to load. However, one of my less-developed cities that was last played 2 years ago opens perfectly fine even with all 92 mods enabled. My hardware has always struggled to keep up with the amount of assets/mods I load but neither my hardware nor my asset subscriptions have changed since the last time I successfully opened these saves. Any thoughts on what could be going on? Thanks in advance.

Oo, nice! Really looking forward to using and abusing this one!

The Riverfront Freeway:

I think my high school might have a bit of a gang problem...

Absolutely nothing, besides perhaps a cookout. What was the most recent book you finished?

The same ness as always! Playin the wild card here with jmsepe?

Banned because I too love Firefox and use it all the time.

Banned for not having an avatar that was painted by Bob Ross

Not yet... not yet... wait for it... ...aaaand NOW!

Next round! Ln X - "The Urban Transition" (2 of 4) Themistokles - "A Lawn Apart" Let's begin! Ln X - 1 Themistokles - 0

I'm surprised they haven't added more disasters to the game. They're especially loved by the casual gamer, and by that group of us city builders that loves destroying what we've created. Perhaps there could also be an earthquake (a real one that follows seismic patterns, unlike the one in SC4 ). Maybe when you first create a city, you can choose the 'generate fault line' option, which will randomly place earthquake-prone areas and volcanoes.

Here I am! Stitch, you're up.

Yes, it's been there for a while now. TNP had to get a new avatar to accommodate for the switch to round avatars.

I don't want to live on this planet anymore...

Ln X - 3 Feyss - 0

Nuh-uh. Mush?

Floor 108 (American numbering) of the Sears Tower (Willis? Nope, never heard of it.), which happens to be the top floor. Would you rather live in a communist or a fascist state?

artistic ^ Looks like the chain broke up there.

Fork. You can't stab stuff with a spoon! Black or white?

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Nonny, I think your future of the world is far too idealistic. Technology will progress of course, populations will explode, and certainly the food crisis will forever become a greater and greater issue (unless some penicillin-like 'miracle cure' is developed). All of this progress, however, will alas be equal to the progress of people developing better ways to kill other people. WWIII is inevitable, as is WWIV and WWV. "Science is a key that can unlock the gates to heaven, but can also open the pits of hell." My image of the human landscape of the future will be that eventually we will run out of arable land from the spread of our cities. Hopefully by then we have been able to establish colonies on other planets and moons, and these colonies can either serve as population centers or as major food producers (ideally the latter). Perhaps we will be able to establish a world government by then, though probably not. Either way, wars and conflict will rip through society every generation or so, because history has proven that pacifism is far from sustainable. Society will probably be less focused on the individual, and more so on the society as a whole (especially with the inevitable food crisis, which will probably get bad enough to force even the greatest enemies to work together to solve it. Or it will cause the rich to hoard all of the food, causing mass war and terror).

Can't help noticing that all of the new additions are things that have been suggested in the "What do you want in C:S" page on the forums. Always nice to see a company actually listening to its customers. Great work Paradox and CO!

Banned for lacking wheels.

Oh hey, look at that. Let's go phil.

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