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• Follow Reishika Shepard’s progress

  It’s been a few days since the release of Mass Effect 2, my collectors edition and I are going to have some fun -when we can find the time, to play it through. I’ll be using xFire -much like I do with other games, to keep a visual log of my progress and events in the story.

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• New Eden Bay Area: custom Sim City 4 map

  This large custom region is built entirely from circles placed in shades of gray, together the effect ends up creating an almost real landscape.

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• Extra Life charity event this weekend

  This weekend is the Extra Life event. That’s right, it’s time for some 24 hour charity gaming action!

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• Island Nation: custom Sim City 4 map

  The last ‘quick-play’ map I posted, Stain, was almost too quick to play. I found that with only small and medium size city tiles available busting any population caps was near on impossible. I did however find the mountainous, water surrounded,  terrain fun to play with and it’s that base we start with here.

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• Galactic Civilization II: Ships of the Reileian Exchange

  After the fun I had creating the Battle Fleet Gothic set of Galactic Civilization II ships I decided to create a new civilization with it’s ship style based loosely on another quite popular Sci-Fi IP.

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• Galactic Civilization II: Battle Fleet Gothic

  Yes I still can’t get enough of GalCivII, it’s my favorite space strategy game right now and it was made better when they released version 2.0 late last year (2008). With that 2.0 update came a new standalone ship creator and it’s that creator I’ve been playing with again.

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• Free RPG Poster Set

  I woke up one day last week and thought ‘I want to create something quick that I can give away to my friends and that they’ll be able to relate to’.  That thinking of course lead me to games. The great connector!

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• Galactic Civilization II 2.0 ship designer

  Wherein Paul plays with Galactic Civilization II 2.0 standalone ship designer. Shows off some designs and gets really happy.

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• Stain: custom SimCity 4 map

  This lunchtime I spent about 30 minutes trying to create a ‘quick-play’ custom map.  Yes that’s right, in complete opposition to my ‘bigger is better‘ approach to custom regions I decided to create a much smaller map using only medium and small city sizes.

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• Sector 1: custom SimCity 4 map

  Last time I posted a custom map creation we talked about creating a center piece for my theoretical planet.  Well that didn’t really work out the way I wanted. I pressed on.

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• Sector 7: custom SimCity 4 map

  ‘Enough playing around, try something big’ is what my brain kept taunting me while doing the last custom map. So I thought ‘you brain, are on’ lets make a multiple large city region.  Yes technically my first custom map had multiple large cities, but I’m talking more than a deuce.

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• Sim City 4 play session – Solaris

  Last time I played around with road layout, I cheated some and pointed out some ‘what not to do’ things.  This time I’m gunning for a large city zone fueled by many smaller cities. The Solaris custom map play session.

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• Triangle Nation: custom SimCity 4 map

  With the last map played as much as I’d like it was time to turn my attention to something new.  For those following the map releases skip ahead. For those who aren’t here’s what it’s all about…

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• Solaris: custom SimCity 4 map

  After the fun I had creating and playing my first custom SimCity 4 map I was eager to get started on a new more adventurous project.

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• Sim City 4 play session – Sunspear

  Including play session screen shots from my first custom map and musings on forgetting the best way to layout cities in Sim City 4.

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• How-to: Installing and playing custom SimCity 4 maps

  So I thought I’d throw together a little guide of how to install the custom maps you can download – over there on the right.  This is pretty much just expanded information from the ReadMe.txt included with every download, along with some screen shots.

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• Sunspear: custom SimCity 4 region

  My SimCity 4 resurgence has to thank, at least in part, anime.  To be more specific, the cities of sci-fi anime.  It’s not the buildings themselves I’m interested in, but the layout of the cities and the interesting problems that arise from heavily man made or customized foundations.

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