SimFarm

[mugs]

Simant was a bit too easy though, at least if you tease the game engine properly.
I found my Simant floppy recently and fired it up. After a test-run through the game to get used to it again, I was able to beat the full thing easily in under an hour. I'd imagine it could go faster if I'd use the Ultra speed setting, but I liked making rather nice nests., and abusing the AI engine to clear out entire food stashes in one fell swoop.

Best ways to kill a red nest:
- Plant a queen, and let the computer duke it out.
- Kill the red queen yourself, then simply out-breed them.



SimCity2000 - also fun. Nothing like an Arcology city large enough to crash the game repeatedly.

Yeah the problem with SimAnt was that once you started spreading to other areas of the yard, the game pretty much played itself. Of course I was a kid when it came out and was probably playing on a low difficulty level.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Sim Ant was too easy, Sim Tower got to be micro-managing when the tower got to be over 70 floors. Sim Copter was... different. I think I prefer the classic Sim City and Sim City 2000.

I remember cheating in the meltdown scenario in Sim City, pause the game at the start, replace all the nuke plants with coal. No problem!

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

11k strawberries! x6!!! Im rich!

 

[PepePeru]

I never played this one, guess I missed out.

I loved SC & SC2000 though. Classic, total classic.

 

[FoBoT]

it was my favorite sim game back in the day

 

[Jeff7]

playing sim farm now. im making 11k per strawberry sell. WOOT.

Question: What machinery do you really need. obviously at tractor. Do you need EVERYTHING?

11k strawberries! x6!!! Im rich!

Dammit, you suck.

Loading Simfarm now....

Nostalgiaing hard....

 

[Newbian]

SimAnt and SimCity is where it's at.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

 

[Nik]

Is there a SimGirlfriend for any of you?

 

[Nik]

Anyone ever play Streets of SimCity? Build a city in SC, import it into SoSC, and race around in a car in the city you built?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Sim Copter was fun too.

 

[zinfamous]

SimFarm, SimAnt, SimTower were good. SimIsle sucked.

SimEarth also sucked. I really liked Populace, though.

never played Farm or Ant, though I always wanted to.

 

[Jeff7]

The heck, are there restrictions on where you can and can't place fields? I'm trying to get it to plant a field on some of my land near the perimeter of the map, but it won't allow it. All I keep getting is the very helpful error of "cannot place field there."

 

[lifeobry]

I loved me some SimFarm. After making a killing in the farming business my guy switched to livestock and then retired.

 

[edro]

The heck, are there restrictions on where you can and can't place fields? I'm trying to get it to plant a field on some of my land near the perimeter of the map, but it won't allow it. All I keep getting is the very helpful error of "cannot place field there."

There can't be any trees or rocks in the way... and you have to OWN the land to plant there.
You buy land by going to the map and clicking on the Dollar icon.

Oranges are where it's at.
I just sold 10 fields at $15000 each!

BTW, you can keep crops in the silos for over a year to wait for the market to rise.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

There can't be any trees or rocks in the way... and you have to OWN the land to plant there.
You buy land by going to the map and clicking on the Dollar icon.

Oranges are where it's at.
I just sold 10 fields at $15000 each!

BTW, you can keep crops in the silos for over a year to wait for the market to rise.

Oh really? I thought they go bad... LOL... ok im gonna keep playing now. I can't wiat for $20k strawberries.

 

[edro]

I have the town blocked in! I had them blocked into 4 squares, but I sold some land to let them expand a little.

 

[Jumpem]

I have been hoping for years that they would remake this.

 

[Matthiasa]

I have been hoping for years that they would remake this.

They did but its lame as mentioned earlier.

 

[SunSamurai]

SimAnt was amazingly addicting, as was SimTower. Just downloaded simcity classic.

SimAnt was epic. I think it wa sthe first game I realized I REALLY enjoyed building an army to destroy and rule.

 

[El Guaraguao]

oh god...all this sim talk is making me want to reinstall simcity 4 :\

 

[BeauJangles]

Fuck you guys were right -- oranges were the $$$$$$. I don't know why I thought peaches and apples.

I loved SimEarth, SimCity, SimFarm... the memories!

edit: I also always used to set aside a small amount of land to breed super-awesome cows, horses, whatever. I just kept them well fed and watered. I guess it's what I did when I was bored of managing my crops. The key to the crops is picking ones that don't require any of the stupid harvesting equipment, just hordes of slave labor.

 

[SunSamurai]

EA has a iPhone Lemonade sim.

 

[edro]

After oranges are a few years old, they do not require any spraying.
Also, they do not require combines to harvest as Beau said.

I just sold 16 fields for $39k each!

After I own the whole map, I will quit this game for another 10 years.

 

[Newbian]

EA has a iPhone Lemonade sim.

Lemonade party?