My Sims need me !
OK,
I know it rarely happens, maybe once every few years I play a PC game and get hooked. The only games I ever played with any consistency were Quake and Quake2/3, and SimTower way back when. Well don’t ask me why, but I was bored sitting here the other day and decided to find a copy of SimCity 3000. Well I did and damned if I can’t stop playing that stupid game. It really takes awhile to build a substantial city!!
I guess I have about 7 or so hours in real time invested in my city so far. In sim time the city is 220 years old (I run it at the fastest speed) and has around 135,000 inhabitants. My budget is fine, I have almost $400,000 to build stuff. I have a fusion power plant (pricey but makes tons of energy) along with a nuclear one as well. A seaport, airport, military base, university, a couple colleges, like around 5 hospitals, police stations and firehouses. I also have the Adler planetarium, some nice parks, a couple marinas, a recital hall, and so on and so forth. When it gets really nice and big I’ll make it available for download if anyone wants to load it into their game and take a look. The things that are the biggest pain are planning the subway system and getting the highways good so traffic is not a major problem. They are always complaining about traffic!
In the real world, I have the pool sparkling (if the sun would shine that is) and I put the steps in so if’n one wanted to freeze, one could go for a dip. I got this “liquid solar blanket” that I’ll try if the sun ever comes out, it’s supposed to help warm it up faster. Besides that, not much has changed, I’m broke, depressed and just trying to keep the faith that there is indeed some light at the end of the tunnel somewhere. Tomorrow is Grace and mines one year anniversary, but I try not to think about it, if you know what I mean. Otherwise I can’t complain… Well I could but it doesn’t change anything so I gave up on that (except in small doses and mini-rants of course).
K, I’m outta here, gonna go give a Hugo a ride to the mall and prolly come back here and build my city more.
