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Sim Business

 Simulate your own small business like a resteraunt or gas station!
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I propose a game that would run on the same platform as "the sims", and would have the same furnishing and buying interface. It could come with a certain set of businesses on the disk, such as a restaurant, gas station, and bank, then it could have expansion packs with things like bowling alleys and nightclubs. I know you can build a night club on the sims with the new house party pack, but I want one where you can charge people for it. It could have certain objects you could buy for different businesses, like you can buy a dishwasher for a resteraunt but not a gas pump for a bowling alley. You could even have networked games where you could compete in real time with rival businesses.
—fogfreak, Sep 22 2001

The Sims Online http://thesimsonline.ea.com/
This eagerly awaited persistent on-line world spin-off lets you run businesses including diners, gambling halls and amusement arcades. [mrkillboy, Sep 22 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]


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       Baked, Dotcoms.   

       Seriously, most Chambers of Commerce run these for high school students. They're to teach what teachers can't... how to run a real enterprise.
—UnaBubba, Sep 23 2001
   

       Dough! You beat me to it, [UnaBubba].   

       It seems that if you were to sit down and play all the different Sims about, (SimCity, SimTown, SimCopter, SimHospital, and the clones like Railway Tycoon,) then this idea would be sort of baked.   

       While I'm not a gamer, I'd love for some spectacular open source developers to get together and get a universal model for all gaming structures together. I'd like games to be able to be patch games onto other games and applications.   

       For example, I build a city in SimCity and then grab the newest racing game, and drive around my city. After that, I can fire up Quake, and destroy some of the buildings. I can take some of my characters from The Sims and let them live in a building in my SimCity, et cetera.
—sdm, Sep 23 2001
   


 

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