Grrrrrr

mrmitchell · January 10, 2004, 20:05

So I'm playing a bit of SC2000. I've built a nice thriving city. Eventually as one of my old coal plants explodes, I decide to replace it with a new Nuclear. Nothing wrong with that right?

DAMN! A few year's after it's placed, all of the sudden there's an explosion, and I see fire and little radioactive-symbols all over my city. Damn fire took out half the city.

DrSpike · January 10, 2004, 20:08

Are you playing with a patch that fixes the water supply bug? If not, your pain is just beginning.

mrmitchell · January 10, 2004, 20:10

Water supply bug?

General Ludd · January 10, 2004, 20:23

I wish exciting things like that happened to me when I played Sim City. I never got a meltdown that I didn't start on my own.

DrSpike · January 10, 2004, 20:26

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Originally posted by Osweld
I wish exciting things like that happened to me when I played Sim City.

It pretty much sums up the genre that you wish for a nuclear accident to relieve the boredom.

DrSpike · January 10, 2004, 20:27

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Originally posted by mrmitchell
Water supply bug?

Yeah in the version out of the box you spend ages sorting out your water distribution system just to find that it inexplicably stops working.

Space05us · January 10, 2004, 20:32

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I wish exciting things like that happened to me when I played Sim City. I never got a meltdown that I didn't start on my own.

Osweld, perhaps if you played a bit more carelessly?

mrmitchell · January 10, 2004, 21:02

All the fires have been put out. I no longer have any Industry save a few tiles, no electricity source, and I'm broke.

Now what?

Space05us · January 10, 2004, 21:17

take out a loan?

mrmitchell · January 10, 2004, 21:27

In sc2000? How?

mrmitchell · January 10, 2004, 21:29

OH YEAH! Thanks

mrmitchell · January 10, 2004, 21:40

(And then my game crashed and I was too busy with rebuilding that I didn't save

)

Space05us · January 10, 2004, 22:45

I forgot how easy SC2000 is. I just built a city (its small still only about 15000 people in it) and it has 1000 MW of hydro power and 200 MW of wind power, soon the Coal power plant will go poop and I will have 1000-1200 MW total clean power. Not like they complain about the smog in SC2K anyway

and Im sorry to hear that mrmitchell

mrmitchell · January 10, 2004, 23:18

Damnit, do I just have some kind of ****ing magnetic attraction to nuclear disaster!? Osweld said he's never had it before, and I just had it, again.

Space05us · January 10, 2004, 23:52

is it hooked up to a water supply? You may want to consider hydro and wind power, the power plants last forever, barring disaster (literaly) It is expensive though.

Tassadar500 · January 11, 2004, 00:01

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Originally posted by Space05us
take out a loan?

Loans are the beginning of the end

Space05us · January 11, 2004, 00:19

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Loans are the beginning of the end

if you dont know what you're doing

mrmitchell · January 15, 2004, 00:34

*sigh* You are now talking to a Mayor gauranteed to bring nuclear annihlation to any city he governs.

(had it again

)

mrmitchell · January 15, 2004, 01:06

....And Monsters, and Floods, and Airplane Crashes, and Earthquakes...

I think, somewhere in the SC2K code, they included a line under "Disaster Probability" that said "IF USER=mrmitchell THEN DISASTERPROB=100%" or something.

Skanky Burns · January 15, 2004, 01:06

Maybe avoid those nuclear power plants.

Nubclear · January 15, 2004, 01:21

SC2K

SC3K

SC4K ....

Skanky Burns · January 15, 2004, 01:35

Or perhaps turned disasters off.

mrmitchell · January 15, 2004, 01:40

Skanky, how could I avoid them? I mean, my city was power-hungry! And they didn't pollute much either!

And, turning off Disasters is the cheap way out. I want challenge, and I want excitement, but I don't want SC2K to be a fire-prevention simulation, I want it to be a city sim damnit.

Space05us · January 15, 2004, 03:03

what causes the power plant explosions anyway? Ive never had it happen to me, all I ever get is earthquakes and aliens.

DrSpike · January 15, 2004, 06:41

It's your pc's way of telling you to play something else.

MrWhereItsAt · January 15, 2004, 06:54

Lessee.... there IS that adjusted FUND cheat...

But for a game where you don't win or lose, I never saw it as a cheat, as I tended to need more cash just to get my city off the ground......

lord of the mark · January 15, 2004, 09:58

yay for sc2000, a great game, quite fascinating.

Theben · January 15, 2004, 10:58

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Originally posted by mrmitchell
All the fires have been put out. I no longer have any Industry save a few tiles, no electricity source, and I'm broke.

Now what?

Move to Canada!!

Japher · January 15, 2004, 12:59

SC2000 was the first SC I played... Thus, I cheated a lot.

Customize your map to have a huge mountain in a corner, cover that mountain with water, except for the top... Wow, look at all those places to put hydro plants and windmills

Never plaved SC3000... I bought it, tinkered with it and plaved CIV2.

SC4 is better than SC2k by far. First off, the terrain editor is too smart to allow me to make my huge mountain of water

... Yet, transportation is a lot better, as is building below the street (no more not being able to build subways because you got a water main there)... The best part is that you build counties not just towns. Thus, you can have buisness cities, industrial cities, suburbs, etc. all living together. I like SC4, but is difficult, and takes longer to build up your towns... oh, and no Archawhatyoumacallits...

O, MrMitchell, would turning off disasters prevent you from turning your town into India?

Space05us · January 15, 2004, 16:10

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Customize your map to have a huge mountain in a corner, cover that mountain with water, except for the top... Wow, look at all those places to put hydro plants and windmills

its not cheating if the mountain is already there.

SC3000 generates maps that are too flat, even with the mountain slider all the way up.