SimCity 4 - Page 5

Adagio · December 17, 2002, 13:38

Me first, me first!

Grumbold · December 17, 2002, 14:07

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Originally posted by XarXo
Arcologies need a highway connection, why? Think in the food needed for maintain all the people!!!

I can see a huge building with one or more highways with hundreds of truck. Also train connections, subway and other transports saturated trying to solve the demand problem. Think in all the load/unload actions of a small city of 65.000 to 300.000 inhabitants!!!

The concept of an Arcology is that it is a self contained "Ark" containing all the requirements its inhabitants need. A dry run for building big spaceships that will be going where they can't just dial up 300,000 pizza's if their internal cooking arrangements fail. Okay this probably means its inhabitants are eating tank-grown yeast products for all their meals because tere simply isn't the space to raise animals and grow traditional crops unless you drastically increase the volume of space per resident, but thats the idea.

FrustratedPoet · December 24, 2002, 07:32

Has nobody noticed this news?

Sim City 4 goes gold!!!

http://pc.ign.com/articles/380/380937p1.html

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December 20, 2002 - Break out the parade permit and port-o-johns, Mr. Blevins -- Maxis let it be known today that SimCity 4 has finally been completed. While we'll have to wait until the new year to get our hands on a copy, this latest in the acclaimed SimCity franchise promises to be the best yet. But we can already see that the game at least looks fantastic courtesy of a full minute-and-a-half of exclusive footage straight from Maxis. Take a gander at it in our media section.

Adagio · December 24, 2002, 08:02

I heard it last night, on some other forum, but there was no link included (and was too tired to look for it myself), but thx for letting us know

Lemmy · December 24, 2002, 08:08

Now when will it be released in europe

FrustratedPoet · December 24, 2002, 08:21

Release date for the UK is currently set at 17th January.

Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...016379-8210003

GAME:
http://www.game.uk.com/nextmonth.asp

Lemmy · December 24, 2002, 08:35

Ah, cool, we always get the UK version of games here in the Netherlands, so it should be here at least a few days after that.

XarXo · December 24, 2002, 11:10

YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! COLLONUT!!!!

Sarxis · December 24, 2002, 15:35

I am a little disturbed by the fact that in the first pic, there's a drive-in movie playing during the day.

Grumbold · December 24, 2002, 19:36

17th Jan? I'm going to have to work up some more flexi hours in a hurry

Adagio · December 25, 2002, 14:14

New screenshots at the official site... plus a new nice wallpaper...

Eli · December 25, 2002, 14:24

I like the shore graphics in the first pic.

Sarxis · December 25, 2002, 23:07

Man, this one looks great. Can't wait. Gonna have to get both MoO3 and SC4 at the same time it seems.

XarXo · December 26, 2002, 12:00

I want a cemetary screen!!

Just for see if there are some ghosts or will-o-the-wisp at night!!

Juggler · December 26, 2002, 14:39

I think I'll actually buy this one.

Sarxis · December 26, 2002, 17:21

There is a random terrain generator in this one, right? I heard something about a 'couple' region maps included, but can they still be randomly generated with all the sliders and stuff?

Adagio · December 26, 2002, 19:09

I haven't read anything about it, but I assume it'll be in, though I don't know if I'll be using it anyway, since I like (the sound of) the region stuff

Az · December 29, 2002, 16:40

It must be in. It would be a real shock if it lacks it.

Btw, IMO, Arcologies SUCK.
there I said it.

Adagio · January 6, 2003, 15:21

8 days til release

I guess this will be the last new screenshots we'll see before the release:

http://www.pcgames.de/external/brows...=309502&page=1

And about the release date: (quote from SimCity Central)

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We all know that SimCity will be released 14 January in US/CAN. But what about Scandinavia, and the rest of Europe for that matter? I did some checking on various online stores and almost all of them had 16 January set as the release date. So don't worry folks, at least I think the wait is acceptable!

As for prices they vary from $45 up to $50, not to shabby. In about two more weeks we'll all be playing SimCity 4 like crazy!

Sarxis · January 7, 2003, 03:29

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Originally posted by Azazel
Btw, IMO, Arcologies SUCK.
there I said it.

They were kinda neat because it gave you a sense of future tech and society, but really were a game breaker.

Grumbold · January 7, 2003, 11:57

I'd settle for monorails, bigger skyscrapers, subterranean buildings, arcologies or anything that makes it continue to feel like a growing and changing environment. Reaching 2002 and then getting stuck in freeze frame except for a couple of new power plants is something I hope won't happen. Not long now till we get to find out. Yay!