iliveforsleep's Simming Journal...

So after getting some feed back from reader and my husband, I'm going to move on to SimCity 3000. In some ways this is good because I was not getting anywhere with the challenges in SimCity and I played the heck out of SimCity 2000 and SimTower when they were out as new, but SimCity 3000 didn't get as much love I think because it came out in 1999 and I graduated from college in 2000 so for its first whole year and a couple months I probably wasn't playing it (I did summer course as well) and then I was working so I only had two days a week and The Sims came out in 2000 as well which I got right after college and was glued to for, well, however long it was, I played the heck out of that game as well, but I am looking forward to replaying it because I always played it the same way all of the time and there is more than one way to play The Sims where as SimCity games have slightly less flexibility.

I'm nervous about moving on to SimCity 3000 because I am not as familiar with it, but I have two guides, which may or may not be useful to me, but I will do my best to go through them and come up with a set of goals to post before I actually start playing so it may be a while before the next post because this takes a while to prep for this and it is a much bigger game.

While you wait for the next post I have found the loading video on YouTube which I have included with this post for your enjoyment.



Side Note: This video does not scale very well, even when working with the original file but the game itself looks fine. Just hoping I can play the game in windowed mode so I can do screen shots because I don't know yet if there is a camera in the this game and there are things I want to get screen shots of that a camera wouldn't take anyway.

Second Side Note: Now I get to figure out a new icon!!

Yeah I actually managed to play this month...



As always, I recommend viewing the slideshow on full screen mode as that is how I intended it to be viewed so you can read the text.

I had intended to post this earlier today, but my health has been conspiring against me so I had to take a very long nap. Okay, I was asleep for nearly six hours as a nap, because my head decided to go, but I am awake now and doing a little better than this morning so time to get this posted.



You may be noticing that there is also a new icon on this journal, it is the Stadium in SimCity, it was the most colorful thing I could find in the game and decided that was good enough for what I needed it to represent. Kevin told me to remind him on his next day off and he would help me make a better icon, but unless I get inspired to have something better I think I will stick with this one.

This entry is longer than I expected it to be because of "issues" that I ran into with the game; hopefully it will be interesting.

Make sure to view on full size.

 I know I played SimCity before and had considered it finished, but I don't have any notes from it and I cannot remember what I did, but I know it is not quite as complete as this will hopefully be.