ManagerJosh

I'll vouch for the report as during the early open beta tests, I successfully played the game for close to a whole hour AFTER they shut down the servers Saturday evening.

Originally posted by: belfastuniguy Originally posted by: panthersimcity4 Pfft, charging for toilets. Europeans complain about our healthcare system - but they have to pay to use the potty! heh, jk, but seriously paying to use the toilet is mean.quote> We complain for a reason.....its unfair, crap and elitist. Not all Europeans pay to use the toliet, I have never had to. As for Ryanair....no thanks, I never have and never will fly with them, horrendously third world and an utterly rubbish airline. When I fly, no matter the distance I like to fly with a degree of comfort and style. quote> Or at least be treated human...and not like cattle.

I, ManagerJosh, do accept this award..o wait, wrong speech. But congratulations to everyone :-)

Micah - I believe it is this. http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2879

Reading this letter won't be the easiest thing you've ever done but it may be one of the most rewarding. Let me cut to the chase: If you study Lord Palpatine's pigheaded hariolations long enough, you'll come to the inescapable conclusion that he keeps telling us that once he has approved of something it can't possibly be heartless. Are we also supposed to believe that it is his moral imperative to pour a few drops of wormwood into our general enthusiasm? I didn't think so. If I weren't so forgiving, I'd have to say that Palpatine sees no reason why he shouldn't flout all of society's rules. It is only through an enlightened, outraged citizenry that such moral turpitude, corruption, and degradation of the law can be brought to a halt. So, let me enlighten and outrage you by stating that the question that's on everyone's mind these days is, "Is Palpatine so stentorian as to think that this can go on forever?" While I don't know the answer to that particular question, I do know that I would be grateful if Palpatine would take a little time from his rigorous schedule to rouse people's indignation at Palpatine. Of course, pigs will grow wings and fly before that ever happens. A recent fact-finder's report revealed that Palpatine vacillates between adversarial assertions and indelicate squibs. I could write pages on the subject, but the following should suffice. If natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species then Palpatine is clearly going to be the first to go. Because his power is built on lies, it therefore stands to reason that I try never to argue with him because it's clear he's not susceptible to reason. Palpatine's claim that the moon is made of green cheese is factually unsupported and politically motivated. Palpatine demands that we make a choice. Either we let him diminish society's inducements to good behavior or he'll create catchy, new terms for boring, old issues. This "choice" exemplifies what is commonly known as a "false dichotomy" or "the fallacy of the excluded middle" because it denies other alternatives, such as that the impact of Palpatine's apolaustic metanarratives is exactly that predicted by the Book of Revelation. Evil will preside over the land. Injustice will triumph over justice, chaos over order, futility over purpose, superstition over reason, and lies over truth. Only when humanity experiences this Hell on Earth will it fully appreciate that if you look soberly and carefully at the evidence all around you, you will obviously find that idle hands are the devil's tools. That's why Palpatine spends his leisure time devising ever more revolting ways to reinforce the concept of collective guilt that is the root of all prejudice. Palpatine leads me to believe that he is crotchety. Stated differently, when it comes to his causeries, I, not being one of the many detestable scum of this world, insist that we have drifted along for too long in a state of blissful denial and outright complacency. It's time to encourage individuals to come out of their cocoons and flourish. The sooner we do that the better because he cannot tolerate the world as it is. He needs to live in a world of fantasies. To be more specific, some people don't seem to mind that Palpatine likes to treat anyone who doesn't agree with him to a torrent of vitriol and vilification. What a self-centered world we live in! Palpatine can't seriously believe that he's merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live, can he? It's an interesting question and its examination will help us understand how Palpatine's mind works. Let me start by providing evidence that before Palpatine initiated a nonrepresentationalism flap to help promote his aberrant, overbearing fibs, people everywhere were expected to compile readers' remarks and suggestions and use them to raise several issues about his silly, pestilential teachings that are frequently m

Seeing if I can comment. Apparently I can. Anyhow, currently I refuse to touch Firefox with a ten mile long pole. The program itself is absolutely buggy. My biggest gripe about Firefox is that it is far more unstable than IE itself. Firefox v2.0.x has managed to cripple my system on multiple occasions. After investigating why it's crippling my system, I discover the Firefox has more in common than the Titanic than we think. It's got HUGE memory leaks. I mean HUGE. I've had only the download manager open in FireFox (Safe-Mode) at one point and it consumed 1GB of memory. Yes, 1Gigabyte. No other tabs or windows were open in firefox. Plus what infuritated me more was the fast that memory usage was STILL climbing even though nothing was being viewed or utilized in firefox.

Originally posted by: Nelson340 It happened in 1995. The name? Simtown.quote> SimTown focused on the environment. Not societal values.

Joe I wish you wouldn't jump quickly to conclusions like that. SimCity 4 itself had an expansion pack and SimCity 3000 had an "unlimited" and "world edition" with a number of add-ons.

For the record, I'm not discrediting Motley Fool as an uncredible news resource. I'm just merely advocating that what's being presented is half-baked and therefore taking a single line blurb of "disappointment" on the part of a statement from the CFO is rather unreliable since the context of the statement can be taken in more than one direction. Without further details, it is hard to determine the actual statement and intent from the CFO's statement. Your points are well thought out but I do see a problem with some of them Point one is based on the premise disappointment is on sales figures. Again, its an assumption on the readers implying sales figures. I'm personally not going to make such an assumption unless there are more facts on hand to support that argument. Point two, Disappointment is used frequently in the corporate world. It's context varies though from disappointing earnings to disappointing sales figures. Basically it can be interpreted through a myriad of ways from "we met our target goals, but didn't surpass them" to "target goals weren't met and we're disappointed". Point three, the price point is a curious one. I've been pretty much quiet on that one and basically I spent half of the day yesterday doing research with all my local retailers. Thus far, I don't see any major evidence of a price reduction. BestBuy, CircuitCity in my areas respectively have continued to set the price between 39.99 and 49.99. Fry's Electronics continues to maintain the price of 39.99. The only person I've seen who made a lower price move and I suspect it has to do with the Christmas shopping season would be Amazon and with a price reduction of 10.00. My personal interpretation of the price reduction is that the game was being sold too expensive in the first place.

I would take what the Motley Fool wrote with a heavy dash of salt rather than a grain of salt. Primarily what is written is just a simple one liner expression from the CFO saying he is disappointed. The context its written is pretty bad since it is written in a third party perspective as well as there was no further elaboration on his disappointment. Disappointment in what? Game production? Sales? Being outsourced? Title name? Reception from the Community? A single one line blurb isn't enough to draw a conclusion.

As far as I saw, everything shown with the BP logo is part of the current BP portfolio.

I certainly don't have a super computer but I'm running SCS quite well. Intel 3.0GHz 2GB RAM 15GB Free Hard Disk Space

Mind submitting a bug report? http://forums.worldsims.org/project.php?do=issuelist&projectid=7&issuetypeid=bug

http://simcitysocieties.ea.com/exchange/mod/index.php

Article: SimCity Societies Ships to Retailers Article: SimCity Launch Screenshots

Please stop posting stuff in a pejorative manner.

Now now Theodore. No need to get violent

Technically EA Games is focusing on Spore. But from my discussions with Maxoids and EA team members, Maxis as we know it has split into two: EA Games and Sims Division. Spore has been assigned to EA Games and Sims Series (SimCity/The Sims) is in Sims Division.

Maxis didn't abandon SimCity. EA abandoned Maxis. Officially, "Maxis" doesn't exist anymore.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — October 31, 2007 — Today Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced that SimCity Societies, the newest edition of the top-selling PC gaming franchise, SimCity, has been approved for manufacturing and is expected to begin shipping to stores across North America, Asia, Australia and Europe on November 13th. In SimCity Societies, you construct not only the cities you desire, but create their cultures, societal behaviors and environments as well. Build an artistic city, authoritarian dictatorship, spiritual community or most any society you want in SimCity Societies! With more than 500 building types, decorative objects and all-new resources, there are endless possibilities to the cities you can develop. A revolutionary feature set allows you to combine buildings that will produce or consume new kinds of resources called “social energies.” How you mix and match these resources – industry, wealth, obedience, knowledge, devotion, or creativity—determines the social energy of your city. Will your city be happy and creative, spiritual and knowledgeable, will it be wealthy and powerful or obedient and fearful? Its fate is in your hands! From futuristic metropolises and fantastical haunted cities to obedient Orwellian states and devout contemplative towns – what to combine and connect is up to you, the creator. The SimCity franchise is one of the most popular PC gaming franchises in history, having sold more than 18 million games worldwide to date since the SimCity launch in 1989. Subsequent base game releases include SimCity 2000 (1989), SimCity 3000 (1989) and SimCity 4 (2003). SimCity Societies is being published by Electronic Arts and developed by Tilted Mill Entertainment. It is rated “E10+” by the ESRB and has a MSRP of $49.99.

Maybe get the demo, Tim? :-)

As I've pointed out over at TM, BP will have ads on select dirty power. As far as I can tell, the BP logo will appear on power plants that is part of their current energy portfolio. If they misrepresent themselves in SimCity Societies, then I do have a problem. But thus far, all evidence suggests that what's being implemented in the game is a true representation of who they really are in real life. I don't think it's fair to slap a BP logo on all power plant types. It simply isn't an honest representation of who BP is. They don't do nuclear power so why should their logo appear on a nuclear plant? So as long as BP's energy portfolio is being representative as accurately as possible, I don't have any immediate problems with it.

From WorldSims.org: With the announcement from EA that BP has product placement within SimCity Societies, a new video has been released featuring BP highlighting pollution Quicktime Required. View it here (If above link doesn't work, click here)

What EA has done inside it is just product placement. It's nothing new. BF, if I may add, is just blatant advertisement. The product placement here is relatively tasteful. It's not overly blatant. What's being offered is within character of the game. One might view it adds authenticity to a city, making it more life like because there are real companies in it. Looking even in the STEX itself I see buildings like McDonalds, Burger King, etc. Cities Unlimited has Bellagio Hotel and Casino, as a reminder ;-)

MTV cites that BP was the one who approached EA. Not the other way around. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1571531/20071010/index.jhtml