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as you might have found by now.. VPC (VXP) emulates an S3 Trio VGA/VESA card Which limits gaming to old games which are happy with an S3 VESA , but most of those games are actually firmly rooted in DOS ; so DOSBOX might be a better choice. For windows games whihc require more as an S3 ... you are in VMware territory... their latest "free" version can do OPENGL.. which still limits the choice of course.

I agree with the statement that most Rockstar games could be done For me: Dead Island , Dead Space,.. anything with zombies in it

sc2013 does not autozone wrong forum!

one can only hope that someone launched a DoS on the EA servers :kitty: what ticks me off however is that while most of EA/Origin is down , the STORE is still up and accepting your money....

HQ's mostly it's a pity one cannot plop EA HQ in radioactive zone....

office workers to decide between the red or the blue pill ....

aaah Ceasar.. now i see wellllll, there is a difference between a City Builder & an population/economy simulator and it is NOT easy to pull of a good economy simulator.. unless that is the basis of your sim. Really, really good economy models/simulators are scarce. The good ones are used by those guy who throw millions around on Wall Street. And these are not public or they are a scam (lookup Moneytron) Not a lot of simgames actually implement a halfway decent economy. They failed in XL also remember. Probably Maxis wanted to give it a bit of try, i hope they pull it off At this point their Global MArket rather looks like a supply chain sim, and i haven't played a halfway decent supply-chain sim since Industry Giant 2

all service vehicles -busses, garbage trucks, ambulances, TP/delivery trucks display this behaviour. You need to CLOSE any of these buildings and wait till their vehicles have returned before flattening them

bigger maps : in a DLC for $ 12,- or $15,- if you also want the City Park Maintenance crew/van.... but ONLY if you have the DeLuxe edition. If not then bigger maps DLC will be $ 25,-

you mean.. they are the manifestation of the Higgs boson............ now that i think of it... wasn't SC2013 announced the day after CERN announced that the LHC did indeed do what it was designed to do?

SC2013 has a lot of potential, but if it will ever reach it remains to be seen I keep going back to SC4 because it is so much "more", esspecially with the mods. However, SC4 is showing its age... in the graphics, esspecially graphics. And this is coming from some one who still fires up Industry Giant & Transport Giant every now and then I feel that my GPU & screen were expensive enough to be actually put to test on occasion. Which is what drew me to Cities XL. XL just looks a LOT better as SC4... but is indeed "zombietown". Which is why i like the Tropico series: despite the gameplay it looks fairly ok AND has certain degree of sillyness, which is always good. And this is the strong point of SC2013... it looks good. But there is -unfortunately- still some road to travel before the gameplay is a contentor for SC4. Beside the obvious bugfixing that needs to be done, we DO need at some point NAM for SC2013

IMHO following theories/possibilities exist -out of rabbit holes; or -everytime a Sim dies in The Sims, (s)he gets spawned in SimCity or -they have been snatched by the pod people or -they made the wrong choice between the blue & the red pill

Thats weird, when i planted a TV next to the homeless bum sleeping on a bench in a near park, he didn't become any wealthier.... Or are you suggesting that if we ship thousands & thousands of PCs & TVs to Nigeria and put them in stores at bargain prices that the poverty rate in that country will drop? The TVs & PCs are a product to generate income.. yes, currently it is insane because if yuo do it well your city/cities becomes insanely rich and you can play Santa Claus in the region... its very easy to start a new city if someone in the regio drops a couple of million §§§ in your vault . However, once the global market it fixed and working as intended then those days are over... it would probably take only two or three cities producing/selling in a 16 city regio for the price to collapse.. rules of demand & offer. Its just another specialisation

IMHO unless humanity drastically changes its power needs, and Wind & Solar become far , far, far more efficient as they currently are; the only source that can quelch our thirst is Nuclear... But i suggest leaving these "politic debates" far away from this forum As for the game , radiation does not seem to go away at any rate, dont know if it is bugged or intended... it looks like you have to run your city a couple of centuries for it to lessen. Of course, you cannot prevent a disaster of some kind, meteors, quake,.... but the only way to prevent reactor meltdown is to keep education up, up up... at least 3+ level. Probably need to put a college & an R zone next to it :s

why do i play SC? .... probably because i've got a Machiavellan, Evil Overlord , Megalomaniac character ? I mean.. i played the Sims (1-2-3) to de-stress.. there is noting more satisfying to give your Sims the names of co-workers, (l)users, ex-partners & familymembers and them slowly torture them to death... very gratifying, since you cannot do this in real life I played previous SimCity's (even the 'copter) & still play SC4 for the challenge it offers However, i guess that with SC13, i might have unlocked my inner masochist , cuz -even if it aint broken- it definitely is not yet nowhere near to what it could/should be , but i remain optimistic and have faith that Patch 8.3 will finally solve most issues, and that the community will solve the rest by bringing us wonderful mods. (i want NAM for SC13 :)