OT: Nothing More Frustrating

Atrocities · #1 March 27th, 2005, 04:40 AM

There is nothing more frustrating than to spend eight hours playing SimCity4 Rush Hour, build one of the best cities of your life, have everything clicking, have over 10m in the bank with an average of 20k a mth coming into your coffers, spend hours setting up your parks system, transet system, and economy only to have @#$(@($(%&&&@#*@!ing crash and loosing everything!

I am utterly and completely discussed with myself for not having saved my game and WindBLOWS for casuing the uber crash in the first fricking place.

There are times where I really have to lie to myself and say that throttling Bill Gates to death just wouldn't be fun. I bet if this happened to him, he would be firing a bunch of programers!

eight plus hours on that city gone! GD IT TO F***ing H***!

Captain Kwok · #2 March 27th, 2005, 08:51 AM

Crazy AT, What wouldn't you have saved it during play - especially with a game like SC4.

DarkAnt · #3 March 27th, 2005, 10:31 AM

Ummm... I have nothing to say other than I guess this falls along the line of backing up your hard drive. Saving would have taken what? 20 seconds max?

NullAshton · #4 March 27th, 2005, 02:49 PM

I've learned to always save. You never know when something will crash. No complex program is perfect, and either Windows or the program will crash. On a side note, can you give me pointers for SimCity 4, without the expansion? I can never seem to balance growth with expenses, and I either have the whole city abandoning me because of lack of public services, overcrowding, or unbalanced zones.

Atrocities · #5 March 28th, 2005, 02:14 AM

The Rush Hour expansion really makes the game playable. You can dowload some nice buildings like the water front casino to get extra cash, $25,000, if you want, but I find I don't need that if I take out 2 million in loans. (25k a month pay back) but with 2.5 million to start the game with, a vast expanse of res/com/ind you will do fine.

Oh well, I guess I might as well go start the game up and see if I can rebuild.

NullAshton · #6 March 28th, 2005, 12:14 PM

I had a 17,000 population city, but it somehow collapsed. Was making a good 300 a month, then suddenly, it went kaput. Everyone started leaving... My profits collapsed to about -500 a month... I think I stressed the city too much with my rapid residential growth...