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

Waves_and_Smiles

Thank you! I will buy it through Steam anyway, I play all of my games from them. I am just useless with finding what I need because the plethora of mods and expansion packs confuses me.

I did laugh at your police blocking the fire engines, I used to lose so much to fire so that is going off! Finances can be a pain too, my citizens were never happy and I lost money in bucket loads. I can actually play these games, it sounds like I am useless right now! :rotfl:

Lambyr

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

Thank you! I will buy it through Steam anyway, I play all of my games from them. I am just useless with finding what I need because the plethora of mods and expansion packs confuses me.

I did laugh at your police blocking the fire engines, I used to lose so much to fire so that is going off! Finances can be a pain too, my citizens were never happy and I lost money in bucket loads. I can actually play these games, it sounds like I am useless right now! :rotfl:

Haha! I get it... sometimes the simulation side of things gets in the way of the "I want to build!" side of things. Like right now, my industrial areas are having a whinge that they don't have enough buyers for their goods. Industry sells to commercial which sells to residential... but although I have some commercial districts, I plan on building towards the seafront and creating a large shorefront commercial centre and a business district. I'm currently surrounding the primary moaning industrial areas with some commercial zones but that's still not enough for them.

Fortunately, my citizens are mostly happy. Currently, if I hadn't enabled sandbox mode I would be losing $400,000 a month but cos I'm running in sandbox, I've enabled free public transport and tax reliefs for low incomes and small businesses (benevolent dictator me!). I'm also overfunding public services like police and healthcare. If I set a more reasonable tax rate, and didn't overfund public services then I'd probably be breaking even or making a profit but then I'd be slowed down.

Pyxis

That's funny! My last post isn't there!:huh:


I was going to,say, Lambyr, your penguin made me laugh! :cool:




I was trying to remember when it was that we weren't allowed to take more than a certain amount of money out of the country, eg on holidays.

I think it was £10 max. (But correct me if I'm wrong).

It was in the 1970s, I think.

Can anyone remember?

Tried googling, but no luck so far.

(£10 in 1971 was worth £139).

whitewing

This anything to do with anything?

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1969/jun/30/foreign-travel-allowance-lb50-limit

Pyxis

whitewing wrote: »

This anything to do with anything?

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1969/jun/30/foreign-travel-allowance-lb50-limit

Snap!
Yes, I'd just found that!

It was originally £25 in the 1960s, and rose to £50 by 1970.

I remember that British Tourists weren't very popular, because they didn't have a huge amount of ready spending money! :rotfl:


£25 was worth £457 in 1965.

whitewing

I thought I'd watch the England match to cheer me up after last week's Brexit.

Any chance of moving the duvet fort to Scotland?

(Mind you, Wimbledon fella did well but I don't know which part of Britain he is from)

Torry_Quine

Let's move the fort to Scotland. :beer:

Good day for the underdogs.:T Marcus Willis is from Slough.

Pyxis

whitewing wrote: »

I thought I'd watch the England match to cheer me up after last week's Brexit.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!




I've just heard!




Hahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!




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(What hysterical laughter?)

whitewing

Something else that may help lambyr

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160624-we-have-the-wrong-idea-about-males-females-and-sex

onomatopoeia99

whitewing wrote: »

This anything to do with anything?

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1969/jun/30/foreign-travel-allowance-lb50-limit

That's well worth a read, some of the exchanges are hilarious. I didn't realise the limits persisted until 1979 when the incoming Thatcher government abolished them.