tcgchamp

To get your entire environment, copy the complete ...Documents\SimCity 4 ... folder. It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to burn it on to a CD or DVD so you will have back-up. All it takes is a stray EMP to blot your flash drive. i need to take this advise into serious consideration. ill never know when someone might EMP my drives.

Going to have to disagree with this. While our highway traffic can be bad it's usually backed up for no more than 3-4 hours a day (unless there is a major accident). The inner-core (Inside 270 Loop Freeway) has great public transportation including Bus, express bus, and expansive light rail that goes to North, South, and Central Counties and then the entire Central Corridor of the City, and eventually into Illinois (LRT expansion deeper into North and South City/County and West County is needed though). While I would agree that the City of St. Louis' streets can be somewhat confusing you only need to drive them once or twice to figure them out. If your outside of the 270 Loop (Deep South and North Counties and West County) good luck. Judging by your username I would imagine you live in Suburban St. Louis. The City isn't very difficult to get around, no matter what is going on down there, considering it's infrastructure was built to accommodate 900,000 residents. Today there are only about 320,000 in the City, while the County's under-built roads have to deal with a population of 998,000. I don't understand why folks in the burbs (the ones who are likely to complain about City traffic) don't take the light rail into Downtown for Cards, Blues, Rams games, and other major events. You can drive halfway to the City and park your car for free at most Park & Ride Lots. The light rail is cheaper drops you off at the front door of every major attraction Downtown (or at least within walking distance) and you don't have to park your car downtown. I know this last one is important to folks in the suburbs. The train itself is safer than driving anyway. Then again not everyone sees this. I agree with you about the artierals in the suburbs however expansion would be a waste. St. Louis County's population is shrinking as population moves out further west. Overbuilding is a stupid thing to do. Build better public transit and take more cars off the road and your solving several St. Louis problems at once. Less Cars, less traffic, less smog, and a better healthier environment. Suburbs are like a giant ponzi scheme. You take more and more money to build more roads and infrastructure further out and then you realize you don't have any money left to service the roads and infrastructure that are already in place. This is why roads in West County are better than roads in North County. While St. Louis County pumps money into West County (the only developing section of St. Louis County anymore) it doesn't have enough to place into older suburbs to maintain what we already have, hence the crappier roads in the Northern and Southern parts of the County. We need to stop building out. It's unsustainable and as the massive baby boomer population begins to age we are going to be faced with a massive problem. Suburbs, not just in St. Louis but in America in general are NOT anywhere close to being set up to handle the challenges ahead. You may not believe it, most people I know in Suburban St. Louis don't. But I can promise you, it's coming. everything you said about the baby boomers is very true, i wish more people would prepare for the challenges ahead.

sim city four is in no way dead, at all. i love this game to pieces. and i will continue to love it no matter how many pieces it ends up in. if this game becomes unplayable on newer machines, i will make an older one to play it. its that good.

honestly the artists on the radio these days(country, rap/hiphop thing) is all just noise with no passion. all i hear is these fake "artist" and their investors making money off their investments. true artists (people with passion for writing such as thrice) don't have a team of people writing their songs for the masses; they are a team creating beautiful art. music is supposed to be an art-form and it really bothers me that the money is bastardizing the whole thing. /rant is done haha I'd be glad if they actually sang, i would then have to respect them for it. its all lip sync and autotune. i watched the CMT, VH1, and MTV(i think they have one) music awards; it was all fake. not one person sang or performed... except maybe the CMT drummers(not like it takes talent to execute those songs on the drums though, its like entry level stuff).