OT: Nothing More Frustrating

Atrocities · #1 March 31st, 2005, 11:31 AM

I bought the Chronicals of Riddick "Escape from Butcher Bay" and so far I am impressed with the game. A bit glitch on my less than high end machine, but otherwise so far a fun game that has a lot of action and story to it.

The best new games I have played in the last year would have to be:

1. Farcry (Simply outstanding)
2. Riddick EFBB
3. Tribes Vengeance

NullAshton · #2 March 31st, 2005, 11:35 AM

Atrocities, how do you get commercial skyscrapers? The most I've had a building provide jobs for is a little over 1,000 people.

Puke · #3 March 31st, 2005, 04:47 PM

all that stuff is outlined in the tips on the Maxis web page. and there's a hint card that came with the game that tells you how to raise the desireablity of different zones. you need a large enough plot of C$$$ with high land value, water, power, low polution, flat, educated workers, etc. etc.

Atrocities · #4 March 31st, 2005, 11:27 PM

It takes a lot of time to get the big ones.... Mainly zone your C$ then rezone to C$$ then again later to C$$$. Keep rezoning your surrounding Residential as well.

It takes a bit to get the populations high enough in a concentrated area to get the sims to build those big buildings. That is why I say expand slowly and in small increaments. If you start to see slums, plop down a baseball part or something near by. Also be sure you have plenty of bus stops and eventually next to the bus stops, sub way portols.

If you run into big problems visit simtropolis for some $$ making buildings. I can even send the water front casino to you if you need it. (Goes into your MyDocuments/SC4/Plugins folder. Let me know.

Puke · #5 April 1st, 2005, 03:17 PM

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Atrocities said:
If you run into big problems visit simtropolis for some $$ making buildings. I can even send the water front casino to you if you need it. (Goes into your MyDocuments/SC4/Plugins folder. Let me know.

now THAT's cheating. one of the things i saw on there was a money tree. plop down a tree that generates billions. I'm just using official Maxis buildings. I might miss some neat stuff, but im not making the game easier than it should be.

NullAshton · #6 April 1st, 2005, 03:18 PM

Some new landmarks that aren't too imbalanced might be nice. Does anyone know if the Empire State Building and Bank of Tokyo generate jobs? I got both of em