We had a group going in the St. John's section but haven't played in a while, however, here are some of ours:
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Originally Posted by Dmajackson
So "The Fax Machine" is getting quite impressive.
Once a small backwater town it grew into a small but unimpressive town over a very slow period of time. When it got up around 20'000 people the city was struck by a meteor shower that wiped out the entire downtown area;
The fire ended up being a blessing in disguise. It didn't take long for the downtown to redensify and the town quickly boomed to 60'000;
The excessive oil deposits propped up the city coffers. With brand new petroleum and trading headquarters, multiple trading depots, and over a $100'000 in oil revenue a month the city boomed to 90'000 overnight!
100'000+ people quickly followed. With this size though the city suffered from an arsonist, and an increase in the homeless population.
Oil money and new parks along with a clean-up of "East Village" provided some new land and over a couple of years the city hit it's peak population of 190'000!
Oil royalties peaked shortly after. The city's coffer collapsed. An exodus occured dropping the population to 140'000. Water started drying up and with no where else to turn the mayor had no choice but to diversify. Small coal deposits, the Globe Theatre, and a new casino has kept the city afloat and it now sits at a healthy 160'000 people.
This city has reminded me of Calgary's history. For most of it's history it was a small city on the edge of civilization. Oil changed all this and the city boomed out of control. Sleek glass towers are both cities way of hiding their excessive homelessness and lack of identity. This city like Calgary's likely future is not good because of the boom-bust cycle. Hopefully like The Fax Machine, Calgary can diversify more and get some of its profits for its uncertain future. Otherwise it could end up like Signal Hill
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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
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Originally Posted by rwspencer38
If you don't want a laptop you can get a much more affordable option by using a desktop. I play the game on a $750 desktop and while I can't really run it on full crank, I am able to flick on full graphics to take pictures etc...
speaking of which...
FALL IN MAGNOLIA GARDENS!! I'm actually amazed how well this tiny little coastal town turned out.
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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
My attempt at a European city is still coming along. Added a little Warsaw and London so far. And replaced my simple bridges with arched ones.
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Anyway, in my first city in the 16-city region, this happened:
If you have traffic issues at 13,000
Shit's gonna get serious when you're pushing 100,000
Nothing was moving. Garbage piling up, fires destroying the town, nobody could get to school or shops, so the latter were being abandoned. When highrises began construction they would take forever to build, and once they did, nobody could get to them to move in. Population dropped from 98k to around 80. I managed to squeeze a few more bridges in, including two with streetcars to the South Shore. Then boom, 135,000 people just like that! Now I have power issues but there's no more room to build more modules, so I'm trying to buy from Fort Townshend, but it's not producing enough for me (
HINT).
This is for you Copes so you can see Cope Landing with a bit higher graphics
In front of your expo centre
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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
Oh yeah, I'm gonna have some fun.
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And I built one called Signal Hill that the guys thought was amazing... but it had a nuclear meltdown... lol
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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker
Here's what's left of Signal Hill... lol with my polluted brown wasteland. Copes Landing and Summit Vista off in the distance.
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