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@grips Cumburg

@grips @benis @issdeinschnitzel @bebe @maxmustermann You can’t just name your city that! You will regret this!

(I haven’t played SC2K in ages, probably long before 3000 was even released)

@grips don’t hydroelectric plants last forever in 2k?

@grips I can’t remember if you could jack up taxes near the end of the fiscal year and then immediately lower them after in SC2K

I know you could pull that shit in SimCity 1989

@grips it’s just been over twenty years since I touched this game, I remember doing the absolute bare minimum of police and fire services to prevent things from going completely off the rails, and autistically minimizing the amount of infrastructure built to save every single dollar possible

I should probably try playing it again. It’s not really piracy if I lost the floppy disks last millennium is it?

@grips all those hills and not a single hydro dam 😔

@grips it’s a long-term strategy since they never have to be replaced it’s just the one time purchase and there’s only so much you can do with hillsides anyway

@grips if you had any power plants there it probably would have fucked you over pretty bad

@grips so I fired up a game of SimCity 2000 and you do get hydroelectric at the start you just have to click and hold on the power plant button

It was a bit cheaper than just plopping down for a lot of extra power you won’t use right off the bat plus there’s no pollution

@grips not so much in Easter egg it was just however you load up the power plant selection menu

Call hydro and oil are all available in 1900 unless I was playing on some weird baby bitch mode that I wasn’t aware of

@grips you will need to place a water tile on a hillside of choice, and connect it to the power grid

You don’t have to use a lot of them at first just two or three, and as your city grows you can gradually add more or save up for a coal oil or nuclear plant later on

There’s no real point in dropping a coal plant so early when you can use that money for City development and not have excess power running idle for 20 years or longer and polluting your City to boot

@grips also water tiles are like a hundred bucks so technically it costs a little bit more than coal if you have an equivalent number of dams to produce the same amount of megawatts, but since you can gradually build up your capacity you won’t feel it as much

@grips they also never demolish themselves after 50 years so it’s a one and done purchase

@grips given that they don’t pollute you can place them closer to your city and save money on powerline construction and maintenance (I think you have to pay for that)

They look better when there is water around them like a lake as well but it’s purely aesthetics