Kirkland22

Sad. People only seem to pay attention to this kind of thing when it happens to a famous person, though.

This appears to be a result of negligence. The actions of the captain are a little appalling. I would NOT be happy if I was on that cruise ship and this happened. That guy's in for some trouble. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I guess the ship isn't salvageable. What an enormous waste. And sad about the loss of life, but fortunately it was at least very minimal considering what it could have been.

While I have to congratulate you on such an achievement, a 20 million population for a Sim City seems a little extreme.

Yeah, you should be able to just buy a physical copy of it from Amazon. That's what I did when I purchased the Mac version of the game. If they've got the Mac version, I highly doubt they wouldn't have the PC version.

Check your local GameStop or other gaming store for the game. If that fails, try Amazon.com.

Wait a minute, are you saying that whenever a fire happens in some different part of your city, the power plant also catches fire? If it just catches because it always happens to be next to the building that catches on fire, then that's understandable but I don't have anything that could explain why it would catch fire in concurrence with a fire in a totally separate part of your city.

Would you mind specifying what you mean, exactly? Do you mean how long it takes to open the game up to the region map after inserting the disk and clicking on the icon? And with or without skipping through the intro trailer? For me it takes less than a minute, especially seeing is how I skip through the intro trailer each time. If it's taking you any longer than about five minutes that's not exactly normal I shouldn't think. I'd be surprised if this poll has any more votes past the 1-10 minute option.

I imagine this situation might be a tad disappointing for Samoans whose birthdays are on the 30th of December.

I think he already killed any chance of being the nomination after the kind of gaffes he's made.

Actually, I get fires and crimes in cities that I've run on easy. I'm sure there are a lot less than what you'd get on hard (I only play my cities on easy or medium), but normally you should encounter some fires and find crimes on the crime map. The only explanation I have for you not getting fires is maybe your city doesn't have much industry, abandoned buildings, or other structures with a high fire hazard. But even still, they should happen occasionally, even if infrequent.

Fantastic, Gabzas; glad I could be of some assistance there, but thank madhatter himself for actually creating those BAT packs…

Welcome to Simtropolis! I guess it's a bit hypocritical of me welcoming new members so soon when I am too a new member… but welcome anyway. Well, you may want to explain what you consider "decent buildings", because that could vary based on your opinion. But from the viewpoint of someone who has recently started giving plugins a try after years of having the authentic SC4 experience, I recommend the BATs of madhatter106 due to their excellence, simplicity, lack of dependencies, and perfect ability to blend in with Maxis structures.

Oh, every year there's a few who are surprised. I know I was the first time. That's part of the fun... Kind of like waking up to snow on the ground on Christmas Day - in some parts. Yeah, I guess I haven't ever played the game ever on Christmas day in the past six years… until now. And hehe, where I live we almost never see snow. So maybe that added to the shock. "WHAT IS THIS WHITE STUFF?".

Oh thank heavens this is just a temporary Christmas thing… I noticed the exact same thing when I visited my main-focus region this morning. Glad I'm not the only one, haha. I'd say it's a nice little Christmas present, but it'd have been nice if there was a little forewarning so it wouldn't come as much of a shock to those unaware.