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That urbsurbis.com page seems to require you to log in to view what's going on with the new game idea, FWIW.

Did y'all see my response to another thread about this? If not, here's the summary: To fix this, I just clicked download, and let Firefox resume where it left off. Repeat that until the filesize on your computer is the filesize on the site. Then it should open. One thing to note: Each subsequent download will have a new filename, ending with (1) or (2) or so on. So you may end up with a lot of files. This points to either a transparent proxy issue (I have Comcast), some other internet issue, or the server aborting downloads prematurely for another reason. Cable modem (dunno speed) Not using PPPoE, just regular ol NAT Comcast Windows XP SP2 Firefox 2.0.0.4, and yes, if you mean does it automatically go to save when I left-click a file This was mid-day, PDT I don't have Java enabled.

Firefox 2.0.0.4 here. The problem appears to be that the server is aborting the downloads prematurely (I just got about 4MB out of 10.1MB). Firefox is not reporting this fact, for some reason unfathomable to me at the moment. I started the download again, without deleting the corrupted file, and it started where it left off. However, Firefox (for some additionally unfathomable reason) silently adds (2) or (3) or whatever to the name, so you'd have to open that file instead. Isn't open source the best? Heh.

Garbage gets my vote as well. It's a silent killer, until it is a significant problem.

Paintshop Pro, which has a free trial, has a feature which will do batch conversions (among other things). Personally, I think it's great that SC4 saves in PNG, so I can choose how much I want to compress the image after the fact. Who knows what it would choose for compression, or how badly JPG would mangle whatever part of the image I'm trying to showcase (as in crop).

I don't think I understand. How do these laws change how you play the game? The only one I sort of "get" so far is euthanasia: I've had to "euthanize" various residents when I bulldoze their property without notifying them ahead of time.

Not according to the EULA (most unfortunately). 3 2 1 make thread close now.</simpsons>

My city of now 520k profits around 3-4k/month. For a long time it was losing that much each month. I turned things around by reducing my school bus funding and ambulance funding significantly, and increased the number of schools and hospitals. If you think about it, the school busses and ambulances do not provide any value to your cities, except to save space for more lots. I also updated my fire and police stations, to optimize their coverage as best as possible (note that you won't want to reduce their funding). My profits routinely dip to 0 or near 0, especially when one of the hydrogen plants or large water plants wears out.

Does the calculation take the same amount of real time regardless of the game speed? IE can you start it up, pause it, and come back to it in a few minutes? Or in the alternative can you turn the speed down to llama (or whatever the slowest is, heh) and have it recalculate in the same amount of time it would at cheetah? The reason I ask is that it seems to me, through my non-scientific experimentation, that it takes a certain number of months for the Sims to recalculate paths, regardless of the speed of the game.

I have a HP Pavilion zv6130us w/ 1.5GB RAM. SimCity 4+RH+NAM plays great. Even on my largest city (400-700k pop depending on density) a year goes by very quick. I don't know if it's available any more, but there are newer models in the line. Mine, minus the 1GB additional RAM, was around $1k, which was the magic price point I was aiming for. A big advantage it has over other laptops is that it has dedicated video RAM. It does get rather hot in my lap while playing SC4, though.

In large cities, I have to ignore the advice in the news ticker entirely. It suggests that local hospitals or schools are having funding crises, but it doesn't link to the right buildings. I just either end up waiting until they go on strike, or go through and check every building one by one. (Ugh.

You say that a progress bar shows up sometimes. Do you have it set up to automatically download the files somewhere, and it's doing it in the background, perhaps? What if you open up the download manager in Firefox? Do you see the downloads there?

I haven't seen the STEX CD 1, so I don't know if this is already the case. I'm wondering if the STEX CD 2, which I read might be in production?, includes a .exe installer that lets you choose what to install? The zip downloads from the site often contain nested directories and stuff, which I'm not sure even works in SC4. I'm basically wondering if the CD comes with a tool that helps manage the installation/uninstallation of the components? Even if SC4 supports the directory structures, I think it'd be useful.

You can drag avenues right up to the end of a highway and have it connect, and then connect roads to the avenue. That may not be what you want, though.