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For the ones interested there is a new version on NAM! http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_f....php?lotGET=851 Edit: They have created a big installation file, with a lot of add-ons, including RHW, High Speed Rail and stations RHW. benzine fucked around with this message at Mar 2, 2013 around 15:06 |
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DropsySufferer posted:Stick in C:\Users\[username]\Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins Much obliged. Retail Slave fucked around with this message at Mar 2, 2013 around 19:18 |
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After playing with the new NAM, it's still very buggy, so better pass it until a more stable release.
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Ok, absolutely no modpacks or addons of any kind are working right now. Perhaps it's because I have SC4 on a different computer than what I've usually played on? I'm on a laptop right now and I always used to play on my old desktop. The game runs just fine on my laptop, and I know I've played with some sort of modpack before on my desktop, but I'm unsure if it was the one linked in the OP or not. I'm not very good when it comes to computer issues, so any help from goons is appreciated. I downloaded the latest modpack using Utorrent. Perhaps that's the issue? It's just frustrating. Thanks in advance for any help. My plugins directory through the C:user/document/Simcity folder is empty. Retail Slave fucked around with this message at Mar 2, 2013 around 19:24 |
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benzine posted:After playing with the new NAM, it's still very buggy, so better pass it until a more stable release. Lots and lots of bugs, even in areas where you wouldn't expect bugs. Just consider this to be a beta version (as it should have been in the first place) and hope for some hotfixes on the way soon.* *or just revert back to NAM30
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Retail Slave posted:Ok, absolutely no modpacks or addons of any kind are working right now. Perhaps it's because I have SC4 on a different computer than what I've usually played on? I'm on a laptop right now and I always used to play on my old desktop. The game runs just fine on my laptop, and I know I've played with some sort of modpack before on my desktop, but I'm unsure if it was the one linked in the OP or not. Try putting the mod files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\plugins No clue why the user directory isn't working, may have needed to run and save the game once. Anyway just put the files in the above.
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Awhile back, I wound up re-installing SC4:RH on an older desktop I've revived just to see what it can handle and holy crap, forget the music making I intended to do with it- Time to fill out an entire region with cities... I asked about the modpack and checking back in on this thread, I'm not getting a good impression about it. Is it buggy as hell so take a pass on it still? The game's alright vanilla but I'd like to have the transit system actually work across regions. Is there an older version of the modpack that's fairly bug-free floating around out there?
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I think you're mixing NAM with Punch's old fashioned modpack. If it is NAM, download the latest version (31) but just install the Traffic Simulator Only. The bugs come from the add-ons. The old fashioned modpack, is the most recent modpack, the OP's is outdated.
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benzine posted:Expanding more for your question, the high density buildings depend entirely on demand and population. There is a thing called growth stages. Thanks! This really did help, and now I realize I was thinking about it in the wrong terms.
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benzine posted:I think you're mixing NAM with Punch's old fashioned modpack. Is the oldfashioned pack 2.0 stable? I just bought SC4 because I wanted to poke around in it and was wondering which megapack I should use.
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It is for most people. The main difficulty with the pack are the terrain mods, which will only work if you're rendering in hardware mode; if you have trouble, delete that folder and you should be fine.
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Does anyone know how diagonal buildings work? Do I have to zone specially, or are they a ploppable or something? I see some packs out there for them and I see a lot people using them... Does the newest Old Fashioned Pack contain any diagonal buildings?
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Opals25 posted:Sadly that's just the lot itself, and I don't know nearly enough to go in and try and change that myself. This is really, really nice.
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Maltor posted:Does anyone know how diagonal buildings work? Do I have to zone specially, or are they a ploppable or something? I see some packs out there for them and I see a lot people using them... Diagonal buildings are ploppable only, normally found in the landmarks menu after you install them. They usually consist of a 1x1 or some other small-sized lot that has the building overhang the lot so it lines up with the diagonal roads. They're fun if you're into realism and making things look nice and want to do something like recreate an old-fashioned European city; if you're into more casual playing and don't care about that stuff you can give them a pass.
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Watching the shitstorm over SC5 has reminded me that SimCity 4 exists. Aside from the old-fashioned pack and NAM, what are some good mods and BATs for the game, preferably ones with few or no dependencies? What are some good maps? Why do things look like brightly-colored poo poo when I try to render a map with that SC4 terraformer program half the maps out there require you use to set them up properly?
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It depends what kind of maps you prefer, you could try with Eaton, one of the most popular maps: http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/5315-eaton/ And modify it to your preference, recently they upload this gigantic maps, and I rather have a medium one. Brightly-colored poo poo is the way of the SC4 Terraformer of rendering the map, just open it save it, and it will look like a regular one. Edit: And mods you could try the SPAM, it improves the agricultural part of the game. What I do is just try to find new buildings I like, or changing the skins of the stuff. benzine fucked around with this message at Mar 7, 2013 around 06:45 |
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Hey folks, I just re-installed SC4 Deluxe. Are the OP's megapack links still valid for use today? Or has something bigger and better come along?
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*PUNCH* posted:Download torrent81 (1 file; 1.78 GB) Here's the latest goon-made pack. I stopped making a new OP because of work stuff (and the way the thread was moving I got a little daunted by all the tech stuff needed to get this game rolling,) but it looks like we really need one. I'll see what I can bang out tonight. Maps look like poo poo after you import them from terraformer because terraformer doesn't do the region previews. All you've gotta do is open the tiles, save, and exit them, and it should look nice. A community person named Drunkapple made a utility that will do this for you pretty recently, it's either on Simtropolis or the LEX. As far as maps go, I've been playing on the Fhuzo one linked a page or two back in the thread, and it's really good. Wide variety of terrain, stunning mountains, and more than enough space. Plus it's a direct download so you don't have to wrestle with the finicky terraformer!
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I'm another SC5 refugee that's reinstalling SC4. I downloaded that pack in the OP, is all I have to do is extract the zip into the Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins? ty you are doing God's work
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Jackie D posted:I'm another SC5 refugee that's reinstalling SC4. I downloaded that pack in the OP, is all I have to do is extract the zip into the Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins? ty you are doing God's work The OP's pack is very outdated. But yes install it on your plugins folder, load the game and enjoy.
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*PUNCH* posted:I stopped making a new OP because of work stuff (and the way the thread was moving I got a little daunted by all the tech stuff needed to get this game rolling,) but it looks like we really need one. I'll see what I can bang out tonight. We should keep updating the pack, but yes, the new OP definitely needs to go up, what with people getting frustrated with SC5. On the note of updating the pack, I haven't been really into all the little nitty-gritty parks, but I do think we need to add the Irregular Beaches set. By default, if you want a beach town, it must be a perfectly straight beach with no corners or doglegs. *PUNCH* posted:As far as maps go, I've been playing on the Fhuzo one linked a page or two back in the thread, and it's really good. Wide variety of terrain, stunning mountains, and more than enough space. Plus it's a direct download so you don't have to wrestle with the finicky terraformer! This needs to go in the new OP. Fhuzo is fantastic, and I can hardly imagine playing anywhere else now. It's just so varied!
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The OP pack is outdated but it's still quite good (and frankly, it's probably better put together than mine.) I'm going to include it in the new OP since the torrent is still quite active and it offers different stuff. There's also the Spergin' Gigapack buried somewhere in the thread, do people use that? If so I'll include it as well. Anyone have anything intelligent to say about the technical side of things? I've installed SC4 on a couple of computers and never had much trouble getting it running, but from reading the thread I know others have had vastly different experiences. I feel like the tech section I've got sofar isn't very comprehensive, and I've probably forgotten some tips and tricks. Here's a little preview, let me know if I've left out anything glaring: quote:Firstly, you'll want either Sim City 4 Deluxe or the base game plus the Rush Hour expansion (included in Deluxe.) It's fairly difficult to buy just the base game these days, so this shouldn't be too much of a concern. But for the sake of information: Sim City 4 shipped before a lot of very basic bugs were really worked out; many of these have been fixed with Rush Hour. Still more have been fixed through mods, but we'll get to that later.
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The -CPUPriority:high option can also help when used IN ADDITION to -CPUCount:1 I also like to add -audio:off, because the SC4 music gets annoying after a while and I prefer to listen to other music while playing. And it seems more stable without the sound, but I'm not sure about that. MAKE SURE YOUR GRAPHICS DRIVERS ARE UPDATED. Even with updated drivers, some graphics cards just don't play well with SC4, but without updated drivers you can nearly guarantee crashing. Make sure you add the Auto Saver to the OP as well.
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The problem with the OP pack, in my opinion, is that everything is dat-packed, if you don't like something there is no way to remove it. (If there is a way I don't know how) Time to post some screenshots of what SC4 is capable, with a lot of modding of course.  From: http://community.simtropolis.com/jo...hrough-paengia/
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Iunnrais posted:I also like to add -audio:off, because the SC4 music gets annoying after a while and I prefer to listen to other music while playing. And it seems more stable without the sound, but I'm not sure about that. Do you know if this will cut out the obnoxious sounds some modders add to their building queries? If it does I owe you a big debt, god those get annoying. That shot is beautiful and it's going in the OP.
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Also Punch, I don't know what version of SC is in Steam. But maybe to put on the OP, that for the lots to have night lights you need this update: http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?page=7 In the bottom there is a link to the BAT section. "The update will enable those custom buildings that have night time effects to display properly in the game." Edit: I have uploaded it to http://www.mediafire.com/?ii66svcc9dp6qbq, if you need it Punch. This also another page with the Maxis files. http://screwpile.wordpress.com/scre...ex/maxis-files/ benzine fucked around with this message at Mar 8, 2013 around 03:44 |
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benzine posted:Also Punch, I don't know what version of SC is in Steam. The version on Steam has all the official patches, so this information is only really needed for physical copies of the game. Also, not to overload Punch or the new OP with links, but I've finally uploaded the new version of the dependency megapack I made. For people not using any of the goon megapacks that don't want to deal with dependencies (and who would?), then simply download this file, extract, and drop in your plugins folder. Within are the 26 most commonly used dependencies, which will cover most of the stuff you'll find out there that has dependencies. A file with the list of all the files in the dependencies in the download is included, since older files on the STEX and such haven't been updated with new dependencies that compile earlier ones, etc. Just for future reference when downloading. Additionally, here's a shorter version of that list: quote:BSC Essentials (BSC Essentials.dat, BSC_Reward_Essential.dat)
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Anomalies posted:Sweet sweet dependencies That's the best best link, even if the people don't plan to use the megapack, just with the dependencies you can download almost anything without problems.
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Indeed, that's definitely going in the OP. Thanks! I'm just filling in the images and links now, it should be up in the next few hours. Feel free to post some more pretty pictures, I've got enough to start with but a few more couldn't hurt. Also, any suggestions for a new thread title? The working one has been Sim City 4: That's not a cloverleaf, it's a Möbius interchange but that seems a bit weak. My sense of humor got lodged somewhere deep in the LEX and I'm coming up short. edit: also I'm having trouble getting those neat torrent links for the new OP, is there a way to do that or are they thread-specific? I seem to have lost the links for the Spergin' Gigapack and GrandFromage's pack, anyone have them? *PUNCH* fucked around with this message at Mar 8, 2013 around 06:30 |
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*PUNCH* posted:Indeed, that's definitely going in the OP. Thanks! SimCity 4: what's a server queue
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Finally managed to find everything. New OP is up! http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3537338 I'll flesh this out when I find time over the next few days. In the meantime, hopefully this will be adequate; it's a textbook already.
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*PUNCH* posted:Finally managed to find everything. New OP is up! Pretty cool, time to pack to the new thread.
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benzine posted:The problem with the OP pack, in my opinion, is that everything is dat-packed, if you don't like something there is no way to remove it. (If there is a way I don't know how) Is there a way that I can tell which nam or whatever I am using? I know I downloaded one from here after I nuked my computer a couple months ago, but I am not sure. I suppose changing it now would really change how my current cities look, huh?? And those canals, are you able to connect them with existing water?? Also, maybe one of you better people can explain how you go about planning your cities? I do region play, so I do a bunch of cities at once and try to plan out where my highways and trains will go ahead of time, build big industry ghettos to support nice burbs/cites, etc... But my cities don't seem to follow any exact plan. They're not nearly as neat as others that are posted here. On my lunch I will try to get a screen shot of the current city I am starting if I have time. I'm using the San Fran region. It's currently where Oakland would be. I only started up a tiny bit of it thus far THE MACHO MAN fucked around with this message at Mar 8, 2013 around 15:38 |
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THE MACHO MAN posted:Lots of questions. There is a new thread, but MachoMan, the canals are eye candy only as far as I know. For region play, regularly I let my first city be Dirty Industrial, and let the second have more education. But pop wise is better to have amix of all three mixed in the city and some of the cities for example the one you quoted they are made form people playing a lot lot of years. But one can try 
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Paengs cities are absolutely insane. I think nearly everything he does is his own custom content. What I like about him is that he tries to upload as much of it as possible on Simpeg.com for people to try.
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I thought SimCity fans would appreciate these photos. http://dedmaxopka.livejournal.com/68119.html
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zalmoxes posted:I thought SimCity fans would appreciate these photos. http://dedmaxopka.livejournal.com/68119.html Hi! This is the old thread. New one is here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3537338 Not sure why this one isn't closed.
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