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  1. Tuco

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    ah well there you go, that makes a lot more sense. Deciding between GoT and the hobbit is a good problem to have.
  2. Tuco

    SimCity

    http://www.pcgamer.com/review/simcity-review/4/ PCGamer's review demonstrates a single road city. I started to try that last night but gave up when my region broke and didn't want my first city on chicagoland to be an experiment.
  3. Tuco

    SimCity

    Optimal builds are elusive when half the game doesn't work, but I was very impressed with the coverage given by the large $$ nature parks that you can unlock regionally. Placing one will literally improve happiness across half the map, around 3 times the circumference indicated by the green...
  4. Tuco

    SimCity

    Yeah the resource sharing is hit and miss. For now I wouldn't send large sums of money around or make power-plant cities. When it works it also takes a long time to synchronize.
  5. Tuco

    SimCity

    I just throw the title bar up on the monitor above my main monitor. I know games usually get mods to add borderless windows.
  6. Tuco

    SimCity

    There's no noticeable lag. Basically the communication between the client and the server seems to happen in the background and the game state updates with server info periodically. All the ingame user actions and their results are client side. I think it's entirely possible to unplug your...
  7. Tuco

    SimCity

    also
  8. Tuco

    SimCity

    Shit worked flawlessly last night in Chicagoland on one of the EU servers that me, hatorade, agraza, faille and kegkilla were on. We got the arco halfway done and tonight I'm going to start on the intl airport. This is going to be a lot of fun when it starts working. Once the servers can get...
  9. Tuco

    SimCity

    best way to get hooked up with us is to join irc. Right now everything is very disorganized so it's hard to get everyone on a region. We're all just happy anytime we can actually play,l ol.
  10. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    You're out of your mind. GSP will GNP him with ease.
  11. Tuco

    Aradune Returns to EQ aka the EQ Nostalgia thread

    Utnayan is like a moth to these threads.
  12. Tuco

    Engagement rings

    Because A: you could be wrong, B: because your marriage could suffer from rushing, C: you'll have decades to be married but only a few years to enjoy dating each other.
  13. Tuco

    [Manga] Naruto (warning: spoilers up to current chapter)

    over/under on madara/Hashi disabling their family next week like a pair of bosses?
  14. Tuco

    SimCity

    Are you or anyone actually playing atm?
  15. Tuco

    SimCity

    Having your bank cancel a payment to origin is not 'asking for a refund' and I'm not surprised that origin's policy is to ban people who do that because I bet most people who do that are trying to defraud the seller.
  16. Tuco

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    See I think that's the root of our disagreement. She nails everything about the role except being a convincing master fighter. She really is spectacularly able in arms, but she's just so gaunt that it doesn't work for me. And I bet there's more to Conan Stevens leaving GoT than playing a...
  17. Tuco

    SimCity

    Good news: Simcity is a great buy flawed city building sim. We'll see if Maxis/EA will remove some of those flaws. The server shit is just a matter of time and by next week it'll probably be fine. The real question is whether the traffic and other more challenging problems will be resolved.
  18. Tuco

    SimCity

    Yeah, there's been about 10 professional reviews on metacritic since right as the game came out. It's a weird situation. Online only games have typically been MMOs and it makes sense to put off giving your score for weeks because of the amount of content. That naturally gives some buffer for...
  19. Tuco

    SimCity

    Seems pretty trivial to just have hard-coded rates at which you buy/sell resources like every other game ever. I have to imagine the market fluctuations won't be that sharp even if it settles at 50% away from a guessed hardcoded value.
  20. Tuco

    SimCity

    650k is huge. A typical successful city made by someone will likely get around 200k. The theoritical max is probably around 1mill. The things that limit it are: 1. how much residential zones you can have (vs roads, commercial, industrial, services, misc buildings and empty/unusable land) 2...
  21. Tuco

    SimCity

    Guy makes a 650k pop city. With one road http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comm...one_road_city/ http://imgur.com/a/gVKs3 I guess he set the tax rate to 0% to encourage growth, but the fact that everything isn't one huge logjam is impressive. I'll have to add this to the things to try...
  22. Tuco

    MMA Thread

    Dana White's response was funny (Do more than beat up two people with no fights and then come talk to me). I have to imagine that a convincingly mtf transgender fighter becoming world class would be a nightmare for wmma. On one hand if they look like a woman and have similar testosterone levels...
  23. Tuco

    SimCity

    I imagine it's more nuanced than that, because if you can play offline for extended periods the servers shouldn't be handling a much greater load at cheetah speed. Unless of course the client does less processing when it has a good connection to the server (Which would be a fucking nightmare)...
  24. Tuco

    SimCity

    wtf. Am I the only one who plays in cheetah speed 80% of the time? I think once we figure out the puzzle that is SimCity's traffic we might go to doublewide plots, but I think for now it's out of our reach.
  25. Tuco

    Engagement rings

    I think I'm in the middle of you two. I'd say, "If you're young and dumb and have no financial means be very careful about getting married noob." "If you don't have a lot of money and want to get married, either wait until you have more money or drop your hopes of a big...
  26. Tuco

    SimCity

    Intropy your secrets are stolen and being criticized http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCityStrat..._traffic_tips/
  27. Tuco

    SimCity

    http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneo...654146#U654146
  28. Tuco

    SimCity

    Yeah I'm wondering how long it'll be before they start sellign dlc that offers functional content that goes beyond what's available currently. Ex: "Non retarded bus drivers".
  29. Tuco

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    What do you mean by distracting? What about her character's physical state is not supposed to be distracting?
  30. Tuco

    SimCity

    The way you fix things is by making a new city, lol. Which usually the EA servers take care of for you. I think I was forced to remake my city 7 times last night.
  31. Tuco

    SimCity

    Somebody made a city that almost entirely uses public transportation: http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comm...ion_98_public/ m8 there's no room, we're going to have to push back the EU/UK release date a month. just kidding!
  32. Tuco

    SimCity

    also
  33. Tuco

    SimCity

    Yeah I think I'll need 2 or three connections like that. Have you used much dirt roads for the avenues? Some people are using them and like them because they let cars get onto/off of avenues but don't cause intersections. It's not intuitive but from what I've seen there's no acceleration on cars...
  34. Tuco

    GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

    Who here hates Brienne? I like her okay but I guess I have a problem with her physically. A good 'female who competes with men' would have to be much more stout or something. A tall and lanky woman has no place wearing armor and swinging a sword. I feel like she and the actor who now plays the...
  35. Tuco

    SimCity

    Intropy I replicated your road-path last night. I'm really apprehensive about making a loop with the avenues vs multiple straight avenues that go through the city. What happened to me is that the intersection of one of my med-density roads wit hthe avenue caused a perpetual traffic jam with...
  36. Tuco

    SimCity

  37. Tuco

    Gavinrad's Mass Effect 3+ Thread

    they had some kind of Q&A right after ME3's release and it was a real letdown. Hopefully someone righteously busts his balls and asks him how it feels to fuck up mass effect 3.
  38. Tuco

    SimCity

    intropy thanks for posting that, elucidated a few unintuitive things.
  39. Tuco

    SimCity

    http://answers.ea.com/t5/Updater/Che...ue/td-p/634232helped me get further in the failbot
  40. Tuco

    SimCity

    Bro are you new here? There's no mistakes being made. And in case anyone gets confused I didn't make the city in that screenshot.