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The title explains it all, what does your power plant look like? Here is mine, sorry about the industry that got caught there, I actually consider the industry there part of it.

Explains itself My first pet was a cat that was just called "Kitty". She either ran away, or got hit by a car. She was very independent while sweet. My current pet is a pit-bull terrier/mix named Ginger. Some of you might have seen her before. So the question is does any other of our members have pets? If only 1/420,000 people have a pet, then what is the world coming to?!

I used these when I was first starting to get the hang of SC4, but now I think that they are out to control my city! I was wondering if anyone uses those monsters, of which one was threatining that rats would run through the street, another one said that if I didn't give the healthcare industry more moolah, I would have to face the consequences? What does that mean anyway? So basically I was wondering if anyone still uses and or pays attention to them. If you don't feel free to complain about them.

I've played the third and fourth one and they were awesome. I haven't played Gt5 yet, and I was wondering if anyone else played it, and if so, what do u guys think of it?

This story came from a time when I was using the lake tool with the Extra Terrains Tool uploaded awhile back. I held it down for around 16 or 17 seconds and then what wasn't water in this small town turned to water. Giant floods began popping up here and therefore completely destroying this regions advantages, giving it a dark future. I decided to base this on, like a hurricane came through town and just wiped it out. Keep in mind that this is actually the games pictures, just converted to JPG. These were not affected by MS Paint, Gimp, Photoshop, Paint.net, or any other editor you can come up with... Episode 1: Trajedy Strikes People who evacuated came back to these horrible scenes. If you lived in the SimWorld you would have had to experience Katrina to understand this huge calamity: The Above Picture used to be open grass and meadows...: The above picture is Highway 288, which in this case is Main St. It used to be a bustling huge road network, now it is just dead and empty. One Single tree pokes up in this small neighborhood of homes that lined Main St. Some of the survivors chose to move back into their homes. However some of those brave folks tried to forge the dirt roads, which became pits of mud. Some cars ended up getting stuck, look extremely closely and you will see a van and motorcycle, as well as a car completely submerged, and a red car with his front end getting buried. Anyway, here are the remainder pictures: And now what didn't get that flooded did get flooded up above people's homes and businesses from the huge thunderstorms that dumped buckets of rain onto the barren landscape: Look at the idiots who thought that they could brave this... And also look at that guys backyard whose fance snapped in half like a twig... And now from region view. Notice the place where land meets water, that is where the initial flooding took place Please post your suggestions, questions, and comments.

Another self explanatory one. My favorite is NASCAR and similar race car driving things. Or anything related to car racing for that matter. Football is meh.. ok.... I watch it on occasion.

I played the first version of that video game. It seemed rather interesting. Now my take on the first one was it was very whimsical compared to the rest of them. Put 1 and 2 side by side and 1 looks like something a 7 or 8 year old to play. Once we beat that game I would play it and beat it again within the next couple of days. Now Jak 2 was very hard. Some parts we would literally throw in the towel and not come crawling back to it for another few months or so. We are down to the last part of that one, you know where that Kor guy turns out to be that monster thing, that happened right after you got out of "The Nest." Jak 3 made no sense at the beggining. We would have to beat Jak 2 to figure out why he was dumped in the desert. But that one was easier. We are like at, oh last time we were at the, uh, I think it was right after the nest, when you used your jetboard to kill those, what seemed like hundereds of dark eco plants with the jetboard. And that orange looking thing was chasing you. Never made it past that. To bad they don't make that for the PlayStation 3. Or do they? I don't know. I think I have heard of a Jak 4 in the making so it is bound to be. We are still stuck using that old PS2 box. My brother really wants a PS3, or an Xbox Live it seems.

I skimmed the forum for this game but I didn't seem to find it anywhere. Rules--------- 1: What you do is I say 3 words and the next poster says 3 more words related to the ones I just said. The cycle goes on, it basically makes a story. 2: The overall forum game rules I'll start. One day I

This is a basic thread where you can share, and discuss what kinds of towns you like building. Whether it be urban, megalopolis, mountainous, this is a place to share your style of playing. My current way to play is towns in the middle of the forest up in the mountains. Simple, looks good, somewhat easier to manage. I also occasionally use the wide suburbs, small downtown tatic. What's yours?

I did a search (google search) and couldn't find anything like this, sooooo... Title explains itself. What types of music do you like? My favorites are some forms of rock (a little not to much, nothing heavy metal) , Maxis made the SC4 music, some of it I like, while what I don't like I consider to be trash. Rap, one of my worst enemies. Hate it

Big mansions can't grow on small zones like that. You unfortunately have to use larger zones.

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Before I begin, WinXP SP3 w/ Latest updates at 2.85 GB swap Intel I4 2.25 GHZ 0.99 RAM, 1.96 GB Virtual memory, 64 MB Video memory with Intel Extreme 2 for Mobile. Gateway 400VTX model. Usually before I start the game I close everything. Unfortunately, it isn't just a kill everything except system and explorer. I use that ObjectDock program with a huge high-graphics desktop from the internet, 32 Bit color quality, with the Visual effects under the Control Panel>>System>>Advanced area set to Best Performance. I get CTDs often, it is because my disk's contents become fragmented throughout the day. I defrag daily as well as use the Disk Cleanup utility. I even went as far as to write up two Batch Files that will automatically clean out my TEMP and Prefetch Folder. Now I found out how to write a batch file that can stop and start services on a website. I'm researching all services that are on the Services List I have under the Computer Management Console. Some I wish to be able to kill before I launch the game include networking, print spooler, net runtime optimization, computer browser, fast user switching compatibility, telenet, and workstation. There may be others, that is why I am researching these and others. Net rumtime, I don't know about stopping that yet. Net runtime is part of Net Framework, which is needed to run Stardock, which basically ads a second taskbar, except it is more graphical and uses up a small amount of ram in the process. Of course I could close that dock before I begin playing that game, and reopen it after I exit the game. I may do that yet, I may also look into making a batch file to end certain processes which I find unnecessary, such as the one to update Java, Synaptics, and others. As far as it behaves, everything remains normal as far as Windows goes, but my CPU fan kicks in and doesn't want to slow down or stop until I exit that game. And from what it looks like in Task Manager, the page file is active, hitting about 500 MB. Usually according to Task Manager the usage stays down at 120-200. Was also examining the memory usage. It climbed to 600,000 while a city was loading. Usually while the game is loading it jumps to 150,000 at highest. I don't know about while a city is being used as I haven't checked then. I run in Windowed mode, so if I need quick access to the rest of the computer, I have it. But usually folder browsing is very slow, and the graphics sometimes even look chunky. As far as running this game on a dual core though, I had more frequent CTDs, which I got around easily with frequent saves, and updating the game (to build 640)

lol Those are odd

Try placing parks, plazas and occasionally schools. This always helps for me. And where I live, CBDs have small green parks.

The no transportation zots usually go away after a few months or so, after they can realize that work is down the street or are you even providing jobs? If not, that zot also means they can't find a job.

Ha ha I've done that before. I have some more to show. I think some of these I've posted before, but their still pretty funny. [Oversized image resized. Maximum image size is 800x600. -Porter]

Originally posted by: SoujiroElric Looks good! Why are the other cities that apart?quote> Construction on the southern and eastern ends of the city have just begun. However the town to the southeast was there ever since I started this region, but I was just a tiny rural town at the time. It has lately grown into the figure it is in today. How are your's coming along?

Here is a demonstration of my latest city, it is a fantasy city in BC, Canada called Gulf Springs. In Real Life this area is probably uninhabited. The reason why the water suddenly stops at the dip to the left is because I used the Setsealevel "0" cheat to remove the water from the landscape in order to install seawalls. Otherwise, the water would have been tucked up right against the CBD to the northwest. I labeled some significant areas. Every area in bold explains it's working role in the region. I intend on filling in all the empty spaces in the pic. This will take a while. This pic demonstrates 4 large city tiles, btw. Edit: I edited my pic to demonstrate more areas.

First of all, try adding apartments at 15,000 instead of 30,000. That may help. However I rarely zone med density until 30,000. Industry comes in at a low population of 5,000. If you allready have a seaport, just skip that part, for added realism. Commerce, as far as med density goes, wait till a good 15,000 residents.. However I still go for 30,000, because I just don't seem to like medium density that much. As for high density, residental high density will start doing good at 60,000-70,000 residents. The game lets you develop high stage residental at 26,000, but most of the time it fails. High density commercial can come in at a very high commercial population rate. Try getting your commerical office population to about 50,000 to 60,000 before attempting highrises. Mass transit can be established when traffic starts getting very heavy (sometimes uncontrollable) in certain areas. Start with bus stops. Then go to rail, elevated rail/monorail, then subways for the extremely dense areas. Also, I wish you luck with your cities. This has been quite the adventure into realism.

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose If I want aerobic exercise, I can go for a walk. Younger people can actually go for a run. Being out of doors is good for you. quote> That and I don't think bouncing around like a wild hooligan is the best way to get aerobic exercise. Usually if I'm outside, I usually ride my bike all over the neighborhood or at least up and down the street.

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I noticed on the pic of your city you had a big bulky high school in there. I recommend adding a high school later into the game, like at 10,000 residents. As for elementary, I add them once I hit 1,000 or so.

Well, if you have a port you may want to keep the industry, just so you aren't wasting money of hauling produce and dirt (from the giant patches of dirt they call farms). I don't worry if something is high in demand. For the sake of realism, I wait to put it in until X time or X population or whatever.