Sunday, Dec 18

Well I knocked off tasks 1-4 from my previous entry, which is the least I wanted to get done today. I figured getting the brushes to work properly would take some time, and it did. Task #1 took me less than 20 minutes, and tasks #3 & 4 took me about an hour, I'm still not that goo…

Sunday, Dec 18

Well I knocked off tasks 1-4 from my previous entry, which is the least I wanted to get done today. I figured getting the brushes to work properly would take some time, and it did. Task #1 took me less than 20 minutes, and tasks #3 & 4 took me about an hour, I'm still not that goo…

Sweet, a solid 5 hours of work and I've completed all the tasks I listed in my previous entry. The three bugs and the first three tasks took me only an hour to get through. I was right about the first bug - the code I was using to determine if the mouse had been clicked on the map was buggy. I was …

Friday, Dec 16th

I got some more work done on GC. In my last entry I had worked out the basics for placing tiles on the map from the palette. Today I reworked a lot of that since there were some aspects I hadn't considered in the original design. However in the end it came out alright. I can now sel…

So okay, I finally worked on some more GC tonight. I figured out the basics of adding tiles to a map, although I did get hung up after a while trying to work out all the logistics. Not only do I have to add tiles, but I need to be able to tell during the game what kind of tiles they are, which play…

Timbuktu Peak

Current Population: 719
Current Date: 7/2/34
Treasury: $421,985
Monthly Income: $3,172
Monthly Expenditures: $2,996

History

Timubuktu Peak is one of the highest towns in the Timbuktu region, located in the far south western corner. It was originally founded as a utilities city, its sole purp…

I've decided to begin a series on my SimCity 4 exploits, looking at the development of each of my cities so far in the Timbuktu (formerly Maxisland) region. A while ago I had expressed my renewed interest in the game, and not to long after that I started having troubles :P Mainly it was some design…

Wednesday, Dec 7th

Ah well, nothing exciting to say really. I'm kind of in a slump right now with all that's going on. I have to kick my insurance company in the ass to get them moving on my claim, and I still have to figure out the best way to deal with the problem of my hard drive. It seems to be …

Monday, Dec 5th

Wow. Most unplanned night ever. I got home from work wanting to rip into some GC but boy did I get side tracked all to hell :P

First I reinstated my main laptop back to its spot on my desk since the hard dive seemed to want to cooperate again. After that I spent some time on the phone…

Well, as I had hoped, letting my comp sit for a few hours has remedied the problem enough for me to log back in and back up all my data. Hallelujah. I'll start looking tomorrow at my options for getting a new hardrive in this sucker. Until then I'll just have to power off when I'm not using it. I d…