Anybody who wants to play SimCity 4 MP

[Adagio]

Only Jonny is missing...

[Jonny]

Actually, I've played my turn. In fact, I played it Sunday. The problem is that every time I go online to upload the file, the FTP is not up.

Since I don't want to delay the game any more, how about we continue, and I'll upload the file after the next turn?

[vovan]

Hey, Jonny, have you seen the new upload files feature of Apolyton? It can be found here:

http://www.apolyton.net/upload

Just upload your saved game, and post in this thread with a link, and ADG will put it on his FTP when he gets here.

As a matter of fact, I think that this is a good enough solution to have San Jose John come back... What do you all think?

[Adagio]

Didn't know if you could share files shat way... if it's possible, then it'll be a good solution...

[Nubclear]

Now how could I have missed out on a gem of a thread like this again?

I wish to play....I should first warn you that Ive sucked at every Simcity ive ever touched, so be warned! But other than that, can I join? If so, what are the rules?

[Adagio]

There's plenty of room

And don't worry about how bad/good you play it, since I suck at it also

The rules are simple:
- Each turn is 2 years (From January to January (We go for January 1st, but we might not always hit that date)
- When someone has played their turn, you may download his/her city (and import it) before you have played your turn... Though you may not be behind in turns (If you miss a turn, you may not play two turns next time)

And you might want to bookmark this site:

http://www27.brinkster.com/zcollection/db/index.htm

Where I (from time to time) update it, to make a history-site of our region...

But first goto this site:

http://www27.brinkster.com/zcollection/apolytonia.htm

And choose your spot (The rule is: You have to have, at least one neigbor)

[Adagio]

Btw, a new turn starts whenever I say (I post it in bold, on which turn we're now playing)...

We were almost done with the current turn, but we'll wait until you have played it...

We don't have a rule on how fast we should play our turns... just play it as fast as possible


I'll pm you a IP/User/PW for my ftp, where you can download all played turns, and upload your turn when done...

[Adagio]

And a few more things:

If you want to upload pictures of your city, keep it at max two pictures per turn (Just upload them here, and I'll upload them to the site when updating)

If you want to post a newspaper, feel free to post it here (or PM it to me). Take a look at how the newspapers are set up, on the site mentioned above

If you mess up your city so bad, that you want to try over, you may (or I will if you don't) post a newspaper on what happened to your city (To keep the story running), and then start again (ideas could be like an accident or something, that destroyed you city)... You can't have two cities running at the same time, unless you have done everything possible in your city (= There's no room to expand, all your buildings are tall, etc)... All other players has to agree, that it's impossible to do much more in the city, before you can start a new city

EDIT: And one more thing:
Our cities have played till year 12, but you start in year 00, just keep an eye on the date, since you're only supposed to play til year 02 (2 year turn)

[Nubclear]

Is the renaming of cities allowed? Is god-mode terraformation allowed? How exactly do we do this? You gave me your secrets...am I simply supposed to upload my city? Or do I download everyone elses cities?

[Adagio]

You're only allowed to name your own city. You just need to download the cities on my ftp, before you play. When playing you shall connect to the other cities (at least with roads)

You may terraform your city, but when done terraforming you have to reconcile the edges, otherwise the connections to neigbors might not work...

When a turn is over, you shall download (and import) all other players cities. It's a good idea to download the other cities before playing your turn...

[Adagio]

I have now uploaded my save-game with this new upload feature... Don't know if it works

Try downloading it from here to see if it works...

If it works, we have finally found a solution for this problem, were John-SJ couldn't join, and Jonny also have problems getting to my ftp...

So please, if it works, everybody should upload their save-game here (I don't upload all save-games, since my upload is pretty slow at the moment)

[Eli]

Downloaded just fine.

[Adagio]

Good... then we could all just use that way, instead of my ftp (Not that I mind using my ftp, but this way everybody could join... )

[Adagio]

Btw, would be easier if you upload your own city, instead of having me to upload all cities

And it looks like Tassadar can only access my ftp at night (He sent a PM, where he said he was just about to goto sleep, and I was eating breakfast, so if everybody upload their own city, he can get all files tonight...

[vovan]

OK, I will upload my city to my folder in a sec. Only one question though:

Which city spot did you choose, Tass? I personally prefer our bay area to be geographically accurate, and thus would think that it would be best not to form any land bridges across the bays... I didn't mention that before Eli changed his city over, so he got away with it, but in general, IMHO, it would be better if we keep the terrain the way it is.

Thus, the easiest solution for you would be to either choose a city to the north - somewhere next to Osweld, of to the south, next to Jonny, and John, not across the bay, in which case communications would be very hard.