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Has anyone else taken the survey that pops up.. for me it did when I exited the game?

Something caught my eye... they ask: Would you like to see Anno in... and then list certain time periods, the one I put YES! to was ancient greek/roman... now there would be a sweet anno game

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So I decided to pick this up!  Purchasing and dloading from impulse now (wish it was steam... but cheaper this way :P)

CB, up for that multiplayer later? or anyone want to give it a try?

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New features of the Absolute Power expansion include:

• New campaign featuring 10 missions on a separate map (all islands are also available in sandbox mode)
• New buildings (including Garbage Dump, Marina, Small Garage, Children's Playground, and more...) and a new buildings category for current and new decorations with individual icon models
• New “Megalomania” Edicts - demonstrate your absolute power by ordering the construction of a huge golden statue...

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Is there anyway to make the day last longer  in the game?  The weekends seem to fly by too.
The game speed is "normal"
I find it goes too fast for what I want to do after the sim has finished his/her job for the day.  Ie gardening,  visiting places, doing the wish thingies that come up or meeting new people where they need time to chat them up.
It's taking me ages for my sim to find a wife and he is aging.I have also made thier...

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Hi, Here is the latest The Sims 3 expansion pack announcement:



Widen your Sim’s horizons with a bunch of killer new career opportunities. With The Sims™ 3 Ambitions, decide whether your Sim will be the brave town hero or cause loads of mischief among their neighbors. Make your Sim save the day as a brave firefighter, change the town as a leading architect, or live on the edge as a tattoo artist. Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or...

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Yay or nay to the latest Anno 1404 Addon: Venice?

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Hi, just locating the Venice manual (if you can call it that) here for preservation I guess you could say.  Ok, an easy place for me to find it later when it's hidden in the annuls of my computer someplace.

As you can see, it's about as thin as the addon (sorry, I couldn't resist )

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Here are some screenshots that I took of Atrain 9.  I won't bore anybody with descriptions as they are just random screenshots.

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I have the US DVD version of DoD and I downloaded the Venice expansion from Gamersgate yesterday but I can't install it.    It gives me an error installing patch 1.  2 and then quits.    I looked in the temporary download files and the patches say Anno1404 instead of DoD and I can open the manual and it says Anno 1404 Venice instead of Dod as well.    If anyone has gamersgate version does this sound right?  Could I have the wrong version or...

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I know, it's pretty unconcievable that they would name an addon after a culture and not offer up Venetian Islands to build on, but it seems that is the case.

There is one Venetian island in the game, and it's owned by one of the island masters (like Sir Richard or the guy from the southern islands) but thus far in Continuous mode there is no venetian buildings or islands that venice canals can be built on.

I am disappointed to be honest.  For some reason I...

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I love the way this shows the houses on the canals.

EDIT: Unfortunately, we've since found out that this view of Venice is only capable of being built by the AI on one island on each map, it is of the Venetian AI and we don't have the capabilities of building our own "Venice" in the game "Venice" strangely enough

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hello all people

a new version of the a-train gme line well be released in japan 
jan of 2010 here is  website you can take a look the y have movies for a-train

www.a-train9.jp

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Delivered right to the door about 45 minutes ago  .  But now i have a dilemha. I haven't finished Risen and I need too.....but I want to install Tropico too! Decisions, decisions 

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Direct from the UBIsoft Forums:
UBISOFT® ANNOUNCES ANNO 1404 VENICE THE OFFICIAL ANNO 1404 ADD-ON

Anno 1404 universe expands, and now features an online multiplayer mode

LONDON, UK – November 24th, 2009 – Today Ubisoft announced Anno 1404 Venice, the add-on for Anno 1404, the acclaimed real-time strategy and simulation game released earlier this year. Anno 1404 Venice will combine the signature gameplay mechanics of Anno 1404 and the richness of the Venetian culture. In addition, gamers will now be able to play Anno 1404 with their friends thanks to the new online multiplayer mode. The add-on is due to release next February 2010 in EMEA territories.

“With Anno 1404 Venice we are proud to bring a whole new dimension to gamers by letting them experience new multiplayer challenges online with their friends” said John Parkes, marketing director EMEA at Ubisoft, “we're confident that this add-on will please fans of the series as well as newcomers to the franchise.”

Key Features of ANNO 1404 Venice :

• The rich Anno 1404 environment gets complemented with a new Venetian setting offering new possibilities of interaction:
o Build two new Venetian ship types: the small and big tradesman cog
o Develop secret cabinets, infiltrate your enemies and sabotage their expansion
o Take control over enemy cities thanks to your influence in the cities’ council board

• Play Anno 1404 online in a multiplayer mode:
o Choose to play versus or coop to defeat the AI by combining your techniques
o Up to 8 players

• New challenges and quests:
o Up to 60 new items and 300 new quests with two new types: trading race and ship boarding
o Discover and exploit a new type of island, the Volcano island
o New scenarios to face new challenges with new achievements, medals and crests

Make sure you visit the official website http://anno.ubi.com and find out more info on Anno 1404.

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check this out fellas, think you'll be happy with what Ubisoft have in store for the new add-on .    .    

http://www.macksites.co.uk/GameBank/index.php?topic=48.0

(sry, dunno why the linking isn't working)

 

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Kalypso's site posts system requirements. They're pretty hefty. The recommended specs state that a dual core processor is recommended. I don't have one of those*. Is anyone playing T3 with a single core? If so, how well does it run?

It's encouraging, though. This game, judging by it's system reqs, is multi-threaded. There are few of these that I know of. Is gaming finally going to make dual cores  useful? I certainly hope so! It's about time,...

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Does anybody know the answer to these questions:

1. Why do the herding animals (cattle, llamas etc) wander outside of the ranches?

2. Does having herding animals outside the compounds affect the beauty to tourists when they run into a cattle wandering in downtown Tropico?

.Bonus Question.  Have you ever in your life seen a baby calf with a full set of horns?

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Has anybody else tried the Xbox 360 demo of Tropico 3?

Wow, what can I say.....?  If there was ever a game who's controls aren't meant to be used with a controller, Tropico 3 is it.  After about 15 minutes of total and complete frustration trying to get a camera angle that I wanted to use, and trying to place building where I wanted only to have my camera angle messed up again I finally gave up and deleted the game from my 360's hard drive.

In all...

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Hi,
Apparently somebody has figured out how to play Tropico 3 in a window:
http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=2746&pid=26714#pid26714

I've downloaded the file and tried it out and it works great.

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I know that there has been quite a lot of talk on the forum on Tropico 3's website about coming out with expansion packs for tropico 3. I think that once they fix the major bugs in the game itself that they the developers need to come out with expansion packs or add on packs to further enhance the game. One pack or add on would be a pack with more buildings like different farming buildings, maybe more types of hotels and maybe even include a editor in which you can create your very own...

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Just been notified that the release date for the game here in NZ is now 20 Nov.  It had all ready been changed from some earlier date in Oct to the 30th Oct  then 11th Nov and now this..oh man  .  So much for pre-ordering  early :(

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Post: #1Upcoming Update 1.08 - Preliminary Changelog

As posted by Timo on Kalypso forums:

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Here's the preliminary changelog with the most prominent fixes for the upcoming update 1.08:

- Support for legacy ATI cards (fixes graphics issues on X19x0 models)
- Elections and rebel activities persist if you keep playing after your regular
- Population limit raised to 1200
- Road element limit raised to 800

As with all previous...

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I think it is a neat feature.  Be careful on visiting islands though unless you have all your unlocks done.  I visited one isle and was awarded Swiss bank account achievements up to 100,000.   

I also hope that they put something that won't allow you to submit a score that used cheats to achieve.  Right now there is one score in the campaign mode that is 18,000,000.  I'm sure that was acquired using cheats. 

If you do submit a...

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I have made a discovery (surprised nobody else found it yet on here or the kalypso forums), where by when you generate one of those split islands in the random map generator (an island that is split in two by a body of water), as it turns out you can build on both halves even though you can't get a road over to the other side of the island, and there are no bridges or ferries.

Apparently, the workers (and assumed the tourists too) can walk under the water to get to the other...

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I have built more than enough Apartments, Houses small and large, for my people, and set the rent to $1. 00, BUT some of them insist upon living in shacks.  My wages are above the Caribbean wages.  I can understand an unemployed person in a shack, but a college professor making $20. 00.  This does not make sense !!!
There has to be a way to eliminate the shacks.
HELP PLEASE.

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Each tenement holds up to 24 people, each apartment holds up to 12 people.

So for every tenement you must build 2 apartment buildings to accomodate all of the tenements inhabitants.  Once you've got a nicely built island, that's no longer so easy to do.

I don't even want to think about trying to get them all into houses or mansions.   

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Why is there a time limit in sandbox mode, meaning when you select someone to play as you have a period say 1950 to 2000? I thought that in sandbox mode there was no time limit. Sandbox mode usually means everything is free to use. So will they address this in a future patch?

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Okay, played tutorial and began first campaign map...I'll start a thread for general questions and answers, if anyone has more, please post them and by all means, for those who have answers, give 'em up to us!

Q: What is the screenshot hotkey?  Is it Fn+PrntScrn?

Q: Is there a way to set the salaries of all buildings of the same type (i.e., change ALL farms at once instead of having to click on each at a time)?

Q: Is anyone else get an error...

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This topic has been moved to
http://www.citybuildergames.com/index.php?topic=1766.0

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Sorry if this is old news...CB if it is, please delete!

But the auto uploader will update to 1.04 upon install, etc.!

pat!

http://forum.kalypsomedia.com/showthread.php?tid=2186

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Let everybody know when you / (or if you already have it) get Tropico 3

I picked up a physical copy yesterday and cancelled my steam copy.  They said that since I cancelled before they released it they would issue the refund.  So I wait and see, although the money is likely to get back into steams hands anyway when the next game comes out that I want, so....

Anyway, fun stuff.

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Steam is going to unlock Tropico 3 at 2pm central daylight time on 10/20/09 

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You can now pay for and download Tropico 3 right now  (Oct 20, 2009 - today) if you like.  It's got it's full price tag of $39.99 but it is available right this moment for those that don't wish to wait for steams oct 25th release date.

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You can now either buy the boxed version or download Tropico 3 from their website. Tropico 3 is now in their stores. The boxed version is $39.99 and the download version is $49.99

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Saw this image of Tropico 3 and wanted to share.  I would have to guess that somebody's got a beefy computer to handle the shadows being on what appears to be a very high setting.  Or maybe they do like I do and only turn on shadows to take screenshots but play their games with shadows on the lowest setting or all together off.

Either way, I really like the way the sun rays come over the top of the cliffs.  Looks awesome.

You might have to wait a few...

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I'm a little confused with the features mentioned on steam, like is there gonna be a free or sandbox mode so that you don't have to play with conditions?

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Just pre-ordered the UK import on eBay from the same seller who so quickly sent me my Risen PC UK Import (mailed it out from the UK so early that I have it today, only three days AFTER it hit the streets in Britain...not too bad!).

later,
pat!

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When you read this in the T3 manual:

Cabaret Description: Feed those ever-hungry male eyes with the Cabaret. Exotic showgirls will charm and entertain the visitors of this building. Soldiers find this establishment especially pleasing; go figure why. Despite what you might think, nothing indecent happens behind those neon-lit walls.
Cost: $4000
Requirements: Electricity
Workers: Showgirls (3)

Perhaps you may also wish to read this:...

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Maybe I'm just missing it, but I just watched 7 construction workers working on just one building and it took just as long for that building to be built as the building I watched just 1 worker working on.   

Obviously their experience is going to play into it, however 7 to 1?  And the building that only had 1 worker tasked on it, was actually a couple different workers as the first one had to go do his own thing, another one came on duty.

Im also...

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