Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 3

whitewing

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/rylan-clark-neal-husband-dan-8287426

Hope this is a little bit of good news, lambyr, about gay relationships being more high profile.

onomatopoeia99

whitewing wrote: »

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/rylan-clark-neal-husband-dan-8287426

Hope this is a little bit of good news, lambyr, about gay relationships being more high profile.

Or Justine Greening (cabinet minister for International development) who came out this weekend.

tea_lover

I will not send @rsey email to v annoying boss..... I will not send @rsey email to v annoying boss..... I will not send @rsey email to v annoying boss....

*takes deep breaths and sits on hands*

Pyxis

tea_lover wrote: »

I will not send @rsey email to v annoying boss..... I will not send @rsey email to v annoying boss..... I will not send @rsey email to v annoying boss....

*takes deep breaths and sits on hands*

Tea, if I were you, I wouldn't send an @rsey email to your v. annoying boss.





Bide your time and plan a leadership challenge.

Izadora

Afternoon All (I had typed "Morning" and then realised it's later than I thought), I'm now finally all caught up on what everyone's been up to while I was away. I have of course forgotten everything I was going to reply to other than Calley - those shoes are fabulous and make we wish I could walk in heels. I love anything to do with butterflies and they're so pretty but I'd break my ankle before I made it out of the front door. And Code - that dress is amazing!!! I've always hated the fact that the majority of fancy dress outfits seem to be as skimpy as possible but that manages to be sexy and classy all at the same time.
I think my favourite costume I ever had/made was Kaylee from Firefly. It was a sci-fi theme so a lot of girls went for the shortest, tightest Star Trek dresses imaginable and I was walking round in a boiler suit :rotfl:

I'm very sorry, I let the side down on holiday and forgot how to say "I'm not a turtle" in Greek. I also saw loads of turtles, including baby ones about a 5 min walk from our hotel, so it would've been perfect to tell them that I wasn't one of them. It was an amazing two weeks though with loads of sunshine, gorgeous beaches, fabulous food, a great blend of relaxing and exploring and the most amazingly friendly hotel I've ever been to - we've been to the same place three years in a row now and loads of other couples do the same so being in the hotel bar feels a bit like being in your local

I can't say that I'm exactly overjoyed to be back but it's been nice catching up with family and friends. We've finally got our garden looking nice enough to entertain people so had an impromptu bbq on Saturday night and then spent yesterday at Leigh folk festival. It was a fantastic day out but I am paying for it a bit today, I really must remember that I'm far too old now for all-day drinking, especially on a school night!!!

Love, hugs and squishes to all who want/need them xx

Lambyr

Afternoon all,

OK, so my mother had a long lie-in, which meant I could have a long lie-in! Yay! Ahhh precious sleep.

This does mean I'm already a bit behind on my little schedule but no matter. My schedule isn't fully in effect until after the Euros anyway.

But I've done all my tasks now - made mum breakfast, taken the dog for a walk, and now I'm sitting here sipping a coffee listening to some hard rock music.

Waves_and_Smiles

Lambyr, thank you! That is amazing, I love your city, what a beautiful game. The buildings are rendered so well and I even saw dogs! It is so much more detailed than SimCity was, so pretty. That has decided me, I am buying it for both WaSp and I. I bet I play it more!

Lambyr

Glad you liked it, WaS!

Yeah, it's really detailed. It's a mod that lets me get a first-person camera following a car as it drives around and you don't really appreciate how much detail there is without it! There's even brake-lights on the cars! And like you say, little dogs and there's children too. You can see them waiting for the bus in the morning going to school. It's so easy to get lost in your city like it's a real place because it's like every single person and car you see actually lives there. You can click on anyone, find out who they are, where they live and where they're going. In the tourist areas you even see tourists with maps! And like in real-life you'll find tourists that only stay in areas you've designated for tourism, and some of the more adventurous souls heading out into the other areas.

I built a tourism area around an airport, so that's full of clubs, hotels, casinos and that type of thing and then there's a leisure district to the side which has more clubs, restaurants, bars so the tourists and the locals tend to mingle together around there!

There's even a "Twitter" like feed at the top, where your cims give you their opinions on things. I built an industrial area in a heavily wooded area to use some of the trees and ship them up to the manufacturing centre, and they started moaning about deforestation and started a #savethetrees petition!

There's a few unfortunate quirks. And I'm actually going to PENGUIN this bit just in case (it involves your Cims mortality)

Your Cims die. Unfortunately, due to the way the game is coded they'll all move into a new area at the same time and then all die at the same time so you get what the community has dubbed "death waves". You build crematoriums and cemeteries, who dispatch hearses to pick up the deceased but during a death wave they tend to get overwhelmed. The fix for this is a mod that adds a random chance for each Cim to die early - which is a bit morbid but it does stop you seeing skulls all over the place indicating that the deceased aren't being picked up in a timely fashion, and you likely won't know that a particular cim has passed.

I thought I best mention that bit as there's no mod to turn off death yet, so a few times I've been trundling along and then an entire district has started dropping and the city has just been covered in skulls.
END PENGUIN

If you do get it, I can give you a list of mods that would be useful to get. I can also give you some tips, such as keeping two separate rail networks. One for outbound trains (cargo and passenger trains to the outside network) and one for internal trains. If you don't do this, your railway lines get enormously backed up because the trains that are coming from outside cities, and your cargo trains, swamp the lines so trying to move your cims between stations in your city becomes a nuisance!

Some funny quirks happen too. I saw a building with a red police shield, which indicates high crime so I had a look for the closest police station. Not only was there a police station across the street (literally opposite), but it was a Police Headquarters building which means it has far more officers than any other type of building! Sadly, I was unable to fire them all for their ineptitude.

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahaha! That sounds brilliant! I love the petition for the trees! I am definitely going to buy it this week and would love some links to mods, please! Funny you should talk about in-game problems, in SimCity I always messed up the water pipes and half my city suffered droughts. We won't even mention the disasters of the fires. SimOffice is a good one too, running your own high-rise office block. Again it's cars that are the problem, I never built enough car parks which meant no one could get to work so mass unemployment ensued!

Lambyr

You'll perhaps be glad to know that you can turn off fires in Cities: Skylines... I remember SimCity 4 and my industrial districts catching fire every other day. One time I attempted to respond to it with fire engines and also the police to put up roadblocks, you know, for citizen safety. The police showed up first, blocked the roads and wouldn't let the fire engines past.

Facepalm.

Cities: Skylines lets you go almost full sandbox mode if you want. You can turn off the need to worry about finances if you want, so you can just happily build away, which is what I tend to do. It's not that I am opposed to the challenge but when I'm feeling creative I just kinda want to go with the flow!

I'll compile a list of mods worth getting. I believe you have to have Steam in order to get it to work but just in case, make sure you register the game with a Steam account and then you can access the Steam Workshop and the thousands of possible mods!

Also the money saving option might be getting it through cdkeys.com - when I bought it, cdkeys had it about £15 cheaper than anywhere else, so I was able to get the After Dark expansion for it too!