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 Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:32 pm
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Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro I try to avoid making those sorts of places too. I like my places to look nice. ^^ I could never break even with my Sim Cities, but at least they had low crime rate and high education. SimCity 3000 was the easiest of the various SimCity games. If you kept the game paused for a bit at the very beginning while you set up a few things, didn't take out any loans, set your garbage dumps are the far edge of the map away from everything else, and lowered your tax rate a bit to draw people in... You could reach a point where you could set the tax rate at 1% and still turn a profit. The other trick was to stick any high pollution power plants over with the garbage dumps as nobody wants to live near those things either, and never go nuclear as meltdowns are never fun to deal with. I think I had SimCity 2000. Still, maybe the same advice applies. I forget what my tax rates were like, but I do remember taking out loans. SimCity 2000 was probably the hardest or at least the hardest of the ones I did play. I don't think I played a game more determined than that to see that the player fails. Wow. No wonder I failed so miserably. xd I think my problem with it is that I took out one too many loans and for some reason people just didn't want to flock to my city. I had fun with the disaster options though. I generally hate the loans in the SimCity games. It's like all you end up doing is going into debt where you cannot earn money fast enough to pay them off. I think it is generally better to stay debt free as much as you can and take things more slowly. It's one thing to take out a loan because a disaster hit your city, and you need a lot of money quickly to clean up after it. Even then if you think you can sweat it out without the loan, I think it is better not to touch them.
Maybe I should give the game another shot sometime, this time without any loans. I'd take longer, but there's no point in having a full city if you're constantly in the red.
It's funny, I hate paying for stuff using credit card in real life, but in a video game I'll take loan after loan thinking I'll just make it back later. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:04 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:06 pm
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Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Maybe I should give the game another shot sometime, this time without any loans. I'd take longer, but there's no point in having a full city if you're constantly in the red. It's funny, I hate paying for stuff using credit card in real life, but in a video game I'll take loan after loan thinking I'll just make it back later. With SimCity 2000, I think the difficulty of that game is such that you are doomed to fail at some point. It may be possible to make a profitable city in that game, but it isn't as easy as with the other games.
Oh wow. Isn't that bad game design? To make it so difficult that it's next to impossible to actually win? Oo |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:17 pm
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Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Maybe I should give the game another shot sometime, this time without any loans. I'd take longer, but there's no point in having a full city if you're constantly in the red. It's funny, I hate paying for stuff using credit card in real life, but in a video game I'll take loan after loan thinking I'll just make it back later. With SimCity 2000, I think the difficulty of that game is such that you are doomed to fail at some point. It may be possible to make a profitable city in that game, but it isn't as easy as with the other games. Oh wow. Isn't that bad game design? To make it so difficult that it's next to impossible to actually win? Oo
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:27 pm
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Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Maybe I should give the game another shot sometime, this time without any loans. I'd take longer, but there's no point in having a full city if you're constantly in the red. It's funny, I hate paying for stuff using credit card in real life, but in a video game I'll take loan after loan thinking I'll just make it back later. With SimCity 2000, I think the difficulty of that game is such that you are doomed to fail at some point. It may be possible to make a profitable city in that game, but it isn't as easy as with the other games. Oh wow. Isn't that bad game design? To make it so difficult that it's next to impossible to actually win? Oo Yes
I thought so. xp It's a shame my dad didn't leave me one of the better Sim City games. Which one was your favorite of the ones you've played? |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:54 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:04 pm
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Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro I thought so. xp It's a shame my dad didn't leave me one of the better Sim City games. Which one was your favorite of the ones you've played? SimCity 3000
Hehe, the news ticker in that one sounds pretty entertaining. ^^ It's nice that the Sims games don't take themselves too seriously. They wouldn't be half as entertaining if they did. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:07 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:41 pm
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Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro I thought so. xp It's a shame my dad didn't leave me one of the better Sim City games. Which one was your favorite of the ones you've played? SimCity 3000 Hehe, the news ticker in that one sounds pretty entertaining. ^^ It's nice that the Sims games don't take themselves too seriously. They wouldn't be half as entertaining if they did.
I don't think they would be all that fun if they did treat themselves as serious business. |
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Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 11:53 pm
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Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro I thought so. xp It's a shame my dad didn't leave me one of the better Sim City games. Which one was your favorite of the ones you've played? SimCity 3000 Hehe, the news ticker in that one sounds pretty entertaining. ^^ It's nice that the Sims games don't take themselves too seriously. They wouldn't be half as entertaining if they did. I don't think they would be all that fun if they did treat themselves as serious business.
Nope, probably not. I think the most entertaining part of the PS2 version of The Sims 2 was going through the shopping catalog and reading the item description. Bad game, good sense of humor. ^^
The Undead Suitor >install sim city 3000 >load pre-made city >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO >TORNADO
O_O Wow, that's some bad luck there. Was the pre-made city in Kansas? |
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 9:05 am
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Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro I thought so. xp It's a shame my dad didn't leave me one of the better Sim City games. Which one was your favorite of the ones you've played? SimCity 3000 Hehe, the news ticker in that one sounds pretty entertaining. ^^ It's nice that the Sims games don't take themselves too seriously. They wouldn't be half as entertaining if they did. I don't think they would be all that fun if they did treat themselves as serious business. Nope, probably not. I think the most entertaining part of the PS2 version of The Sims 2 was going through the shopping catalog and reading the item description. Bad game, good sense of humor. ^^
I never played The Sims 2, just Medieval and the original The Sims. For the latter, I had all the expansions except for the Harry Potter ripoff expansion. My favorite expansion was the one that added pets as you could just build and design houses without having sims living in it. |
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:49 pm
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Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro I thought so. xp It's a shame my dad didn't leave me one of the better Sim City games. Which one was your favorite of the ones you've played? SimCity 3000 Hehe, the news ticker in that one sounds pretty entertaining. ^^ It's nice that the Sims games don't take themselves too seriously. They wouldn't be half as entertaining if they did. I don't think they would be all that fun if they did treat themselves as serious business. Nope, probably not. I think the most entertaining part of the PS2 version of The Sims 2 was going through the shopping catalog and reading the item description. Bad game, good sense of humor. ^^ I never played The Sims 2, just Medieval and the original The Sims. For the latter, I had all the expansions except for the Harry Potter ripoff expansion. My favorite expansion was the one that added pets as you could just build and design houses without having sims living in it.
I'm not really sure I'd like just designing houses without designing the family that lives in it. My favorite part of The Sims are the Sims themselves, and seeing all the silly things that they do. That's just me though. In any case, how would you pay the bills? xd Were there no bills in the first game? |
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:54 pm
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Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby I never played The Sims 2, just Medieval and the original The Sims. For the latter, I had all the expansions except for the Harry Potter ripoff expansion. My favorite expansion was the one that added pets as you could just build and design houses without having sims living in it. I'm not really sure I'd like just designing houses without designing the family that lives in it. My favorite part of The Sims are the Sims themselves, and seeing all the silly things that they do. That's just me though. In any case, how would you pay the bills? xd Were there no bills in the first game?
In that mode, you're just building and designing a house with nobody living in it. I think they added it because in the original The Sims, it seemed like you were spending most of your time either building up their stats, sending them off to work or thwarting their attempts to burn down the house. |
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:59 pm
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Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby I never played The Sims 2, just Medieval and the original The Sims. For the latter, I had all the expansions except for the Harry Potter ripoff expansion. My favorite expansion was the one that added pets as you could just build and design houses without having sims living in it. I'm not really sure I'd like just designing houses without designing the family that lives in it. My favorite part of The Sims are the Sims themselves, and seeing all the silly things that they do. That's just me though. In any case, how would you pay the bills? xd Were there no bills in the first game? In that mode, you're just building and designing a house with nobody living in it. I think they added it because in the original The Sims, it seemed like you were spending most of your time either building up their stats, sending them off to work or thwarting their attempts to burn down the house.
Well, I suppose if they lacked all sense in that game to the point that it was more frustrating than entertaining then I suppose a mode without them would be nice. Plus, it's nice for the people who just want to build houses without all of the extra stuff. ^^
The Sims 2 was a bit better in that regard. I mean, you're still building up their stats and making sure they don't miss work, but at least they usually don't start fires. There's a chance of it if they have a low cooking stat, but I've yet to see that. Oo Same with being electrocuted from repairing things. |
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Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:15 pm
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Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby Sara Hysaro Sachie Whitby I never played The Sims 2, just Medieval and the original The Sims. For the latter, I had all the expansions except for the Harry Potter ripoff expansion. My favorite expansion was the one that added pets as you could just build and design houses without having sims living in it. I'm not really sure I'd like just designing houses without designing the family that lives in it. My favorite part of The Sims are the Sims themselves, and seeing all the silly things that they do. That's just me though. In any case, how would you pay the bills? xd Were there no bills in the first game? In that mode, you're just building and designing a house with nobody living in it. I think they added it because in the original The Sims, it seemed like you were spending most of your time either building up their stats, sending them off to work or thwarting their attempts to burn down the house. Well, I suppose if they lacked all sense in that game to the point that it was more frustrating than entertaining then I suppose a mode without them would be nice. Plus, it's nice for the people who just want to build houses without all of the extra stuff. ^^ The Sims 2 was a bit better in that regard. I mean, you're still building up their stats and making sure they don't miss work, but at least they usually don't start fires. There's a chance of it if they have a low cooking stat, but I've yet to see that. Oo Same with being electrocuted from repairing things.
I gave them no cooking appliances until everyone's cooking skill was at least high enough that they could prepare food without setting the house on fire. This meant that they were eating salads for all meals. |
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