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SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)

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Re: SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)

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Post by iamtheworstdev »

dylan604 wrote: post #105
lbrito wrote: post #95

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Apartments are safer than single family houses regarding fires. In 2023, the annual fire fatality rates for single-family homes and older multifamily homes were roughly equivalent at 7.6 and 7.7 deaths per million, respectively. In contrast, according to Pew researchers, the annual fire fatality rate for newer multifamily residences was 1.2 deaths per million. https://www.multifamilyexecutive.com/apartment-trends/mod…

A single family home built to today's standards will be safer than an apartment built 50 years ago. Of course newer built anything complying with modernized fire safety regulations will be safer than older anything. I feel like your point is missing the mark

that's actually not true at all. today's homes flash up in a matter of minutes, where as older homes can take nearly a half hour. today's homes are designed to minimize the chance of danger, but in situations like a fire, once they happen they are more dangerous today than they were in the past.

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phaser wrote: post #85
sowbug wrote: post #82

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On Steam Deck, I am having a rough time with the road that the paperclip wants me to place. Holding down the physical A button (of the ABXY group) and wiggling around the left joystick (as well as every other control I can think of), both pressed and not pressed. Sometimes I'll see the green highlight appear, and I can stretch it out into a road path, but when I release A, it just vanishes.

I’m taking a look at that right now. Thanks for flagging this

After today's update, I'm able to build roads. Thank you.

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nielsbot wrote: post #26

> SimCity 3000 is the best SimCity I disagree! SimCity 2K FTW. :) Best balance of complexity IMO and ran pretty well on my old Mac. I'd love a retro-futuristic reboot.

SC4K - The original binaries run at 1080p on modern hardware with excellent performance and gameplay with a few command line tweaks.

With respect to SC3K being great still, I would run it but I haven't been able to get some performance issues ironed out.

Worst might be SC2K for N64.

Neat concept would a game to import cities into a GTA-like engine.

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rl3 wrote: post #8

SC3K had a masterfully executed advisor system that felt both classy and warm. Ditto its music and art. Unfortunately for SC4, they proceeded to make all the advisors 3D-rendered Sims. For SC2K, well: https://www.somethingawful.com/news/simcity-advisors/4/ (that was the least offensive page to link; for the canonical experience start at page 1)

Reticulating splines

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Waterluvian wrote: post #44
MrDOS wrote: post #23

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And when you say “PC original”, you really mean “DOS version wrapped in DOXBox”, because it's easier to ship that on both Windows and Mac than patching the Windows version for Windows, and shipping a Wine wrapper for Mac. (Have they ever shipped a Wine wrapper for anything? I don't think so.) What a shame. I do really wish an application-level classic Mac OS emulator existed. There are lots of great full-system emula…

Marathon Trilogy. Ambrosia SW games. Spectre VR. My childhood was so flavourful. The one downside is that nobody on the playground were talking about the games I had access to.

Naev is a good choice for Eacape Velocity fans looking for a modern game. Naev has a lot of depth and polish, very well crafted.
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