[Rictor]

I don't know why, but I have an inexplicable urge to play a sim game, the problem is that since I was never really too interested in them, I don't know what titles to look for.

I'm thinking something along the lines of Cleopatra or Zeus (from a few years back). You know the type, where you have to manage the economy, build granaries, temples and so forth. Demos are a big plus.

[pyro-manic]

Dunno, I don't play 'em. Civilisation 3?

[phreak]

Alpha Centauri
Any SimCity

[Annorax]

Isn't SimCity Classic freeware now?

[Grey Wolf]

Abandonware, more likely.

[Galemp]

No, it's free, there's a Flash version on Maxis' website...
http://simcity.ea.com/play/simcity_classic.php

SimCity 2000 Deluxe is a fantastic game and set of tools. I think I spent four or five years between SC2k, SCURK, SimCopter and Streets of SimCity. Sadly these games have not aged well, due to their 'high detail' settings being abysmally low.

SC3K and Unlimited suffer from some problems with their graphics lagging, and there are some issues with the gameplay too, notably the water system and building bridges. SC4 was rewritten from the ground up and is a much better choice.

[übermetroid]

yea, but it takes a mean machine to run SC4 looking good.  I know because I have trouble running it.

[redsniper]

Alpha Centauri owns...
"The drones need you, they look up to you."

[Corsair]

Melikes SimCity 2000 and SimTower.

[aldo_14]

SC4 is quite buggy; I ended up returning it.  

There's apparently a graphics bug that stops hardware rendering running on Geforce FX series cards, and a second unrelated bug on ATI cards to with a lack of (IIRC....) back-buffer memory which turns of something else.....I still have SC2000, it's run but eventually you do sort of run out of options.

I think there's a new game of that ilk out set in ancient Egypt.... Children of the Nile it's called, I think....http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpages2/920314.asp (rating averages about 75%, so probably one to try the demo on).

[Sandwich]

MOO1/2/3?

[Fineus]

Dawn of War.

[Gortef]

Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Locomotion... Transport Giant

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Dawn of War.

Er.... city building, not city destroying.....

[Fineus]

Oh. Sorry, my bad

[Rictor]

erm, common mistake. I guess...

Anyway, some incarnation of SimCity is looking like the probable choice, but for some odd reason Maxis never released a SC4 demo. Hmm...guess I'll have to find creative ways around that little problem.

[Black Wolf]

Caeser III, Pharoh, and/or Zeus (Was there a 4th one? Chinese or something?) are the kings of these sorts of games, and they only got better as the franchise moved from one to the other.

[Janos]

Civilization III

GODDAMN SPEARMEN DONT DESTROY ARMOURED FORCES FFS

[Flipside]

Actually I've been playing Immortal Cities - Children of the Nile lately, it's the sequel to Pharoah. If you already have Pharoah, it's almost identical, but is a great city building/infrastructure building game

[Carl]

Originally posted by Black Wolf
Caeser III

If you like SUPER EXTREME MICRO MANAGING! the only accurate word for it would be Nano Managing, like how you have a huge city with 10,000 population covering half the map, and one of your 30 or so temples is short 1 employee for a few seconds, and the whole city goes in the toilet! OH NO!!!! I CAN'T WORSHIP MARS AS OFTEN AS BEFORE NOW I HAVE TO MOVE OUT OF THE CITY!!!!IIIIVIVIV