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Wings_SWMud posted:I think there can be such a thing as too many satellite dishes, and that's at least approaching it. Are the inhabitants of your city aware there's a government listening base behind the shops? Dont front nigga. No but seriously, generally those are private companies, and people like being in walking distance of their jobs, at least I think it works... And hey if you know of any mods that can diversify the looks of your buildings point me to it. For now though I think it looks fine.
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thesurlyspringKAA posted:Dont front nigga. Well, there is the pack in the first post of this thread, if you're feeling particularly lazy.
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Machismo posted:Low Income CommercialService? That is one I neglect often. I need to zone a bit of commercial right in the midst of my residential to get that to work right. Just a suspicion. Not sure if service workers are exclusive of office. I tried putting low-density commercial around it already; it didn't help. Here's an ugly screenshot 
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Here is my region that I've worked on, on and off over the past 6 months or so.
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What's that shrunken depressed area in the center? Southeast DC?
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Wayback posted:Here is my region that I've worked on, on and off over the past 6 months or so. What map are you using? I really like your map.
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i need a new computer because crashes to desktop stopped being fun a long time ago. I wish there was at least an autosave or something
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victrix posted:What's that shrunken depressed area in the center? Southeast DC? Pretty much. Its a delightful little berg I called Armageddon City which holds about half of my region's overall industrial capacity. The whole thing is swathed in a thick yellow haze and imports the entire region's trash to boot. I tossed one of the massive placeable towers from the last megapack in it just to make it seem all the more dystopian. mrg220t posted:What map are you using? I really like your map. Its called Gauntlet, an absurdly massive region I got from SimTopia I think. That right there is pretty much only 1/4 of the overall region. It is bigger than I think I can reasonably fill. I've done some minor god more work here to there to spice the flat regions up. Wayback fucked around with this message at Feb 27, 2008 around 23:20 |
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Wayback posted:Its called Gauntlet, an absurdly massive region I got from SimTopia I think. That right there is pretty much only 1/4 of the overall region. It is bigger than I think I can reasonably fill. I've done some minor god more work here to there to spice the flat regions up. Do you mind sending me the map? I really like the rivers and the bay.
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Wayback posted:words I'd like this map also.
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Persh posted:I'd like this map also. Thirding this. In addition, I would also be interested in a goon region game.
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Here's the Gauntlet Map: http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=5268
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Yup, thats the one.
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MacGyvers_Mullet posted:Here's a pic of a fun region I played for six months or so before the Road Top Mass Transit mod killed it. I started restoring it to how it was before the mod, but it'd take about 20 hours to replace all the missing roads and rework the transit system, so I just shelved it for the time being. Christ it's like looking at modern day middle earth, I see helm's deep up in the corner there
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I have an insane amount of hate for all of you now. I have begun planning out my cities and debating on whether I still have my cds. I have just one question. Do you start with enough money to regionalize everything right away. Like maybe start with an industrial region in a corner by another region and then your residential/commercial region, or do you need to start with one small city earn money and then regionalize?
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Can you randomly generate regions, or do you have to make your own?
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Does this game work on vista yet? I've been staring at my Sim City 4 cd for a lonnngg time.
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A GOOD POSTER posted:Does this game work on vista yet? I've been staring at my Sim City 4 cd for a lonnngg time. I've never had an issue with this game in Vista. It works for me right now and I am on Vista Ultimate.
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A GOOD POSTER posted:Does this game work on vista yet? I've been staring at my Sim City 4 cd for a lonnngg time. Works great in Vista on my laptop
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Retrograde posted:Here's the Gauntlet Map: Err, where do you save the files it comes with?
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Persh posted:Err, where do you save the files it comes with? Click and save the .bmp file and then right click and save as the .jpg file. Put both of them in a new folder in your My Documents/SimCity4/Regions folder. Then enter the game, click on load region and select the .bmp file that you saved. After that you will see a flat map with the city grids in the region. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R and a box will pop up asking you to select file. Select the .jpg file that you have saved and click ok, then go make tea and wait for the region to be created. (I've been waiting for 10 minutes now).
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SpinyNorman867 posted:Can you randomly generate regions, or do you have to make your own? No random generation. It's all pre-made maps.
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Persh posted:Err, where do you save the files it comes with? There a good tutorial on how to use custom regions like this here: http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/me...5&enterthread=y But if you don't want to read it all I'll summarize: Create a new region in SC4 then alt+tab out of it Go to my documents/simcity4/regions and find the folder with the same name as the region you just created copy the config.bmp file and the grayscale image into that folder go back into SC4 and load a different region now load your new region again and hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R navigate back to your region folder and select the grayscale image Your new region will now generate, this can take about 5 minutes for a small region and up to three or four hours for some of the huge regions(think 400 large cities)
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Alternatively, you can use one of the external programs to make your region. This took all of five minutes including downloading the program itself: using this region (Caveat: you get to open every city if you don't want a radioactive green region view)
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thesurlyspringKAA posted:Wings_SWMud posted:I think there can be such a thing as too many satellite dishes, and that's at least approaching it. Are the inhabitants of your city aware there's a government listening base behind the shops? I think the city's illicitly in contact with aliens. 
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So here's what I have so far of my flat region. Excuse my terrible city names. I tried to name them descriptively but eventually I fell back into my old SC2K habit of naming cities after food. v:)v Potatoes is coming along really nicely. I'm a few cities away from the biggest square on the map, which will be called Enormo and hopefully will be the best city I've ever made. I have screenshots of Potatoes if anyone wants to see, but they're not too interesting. Oh and I solved the jobless people problem too, the no job indicators just kind of went away after a while.
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I would LOVE some pictures of your favorite towns! My region looks quite a little bit like that, I'd like to see if you've done anything cool!
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thesurlyspringKAA posted:I would LOVE some pictures of your favorite towns! My region looks quite a little bit like that, I'd like to see if you've done anything cool! I haven't, but here's some pictures anyway. They're all really poor quality because I had to make the file sizes small enough for waffleimages. I ended up making them as poor quality as possible because I was lazy.     The last one's my favorite (except for the car crash). I have a lot of poor people in my city  I just started work on North Potatoes and its neighbor, Industria. They both will hook up to Enormo. banana allergy fucked around with this message at Feb 28, 2008 around 05:59 |
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MORE MAPS. I like seeing people's maps in these threads, but I always end up seeing way more "where do I find [map/mod/addon]?" instead. MORE MAPS. And god drat it I was planning on getting a lot of work done this weekend but i guess I'm going back to that region I started around Christmas
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Man i'm having some wierd glitches in my cities. I have main residential city hooked up to a couple industrial sectors with avenues and passenger rail. For some reason my commutes times keep randomly shooting up and I get the NO JOB zots. Unrealated by my medium density residential keeps throwing up wave after wave of the exact same apartment buildings. Its like loving bauhaus in that neighborhood.
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I suck at making aesthetically pleasing cities so I make ones like this: Only 370k people but it's got a stable budget if you don't count having to use coal power plants. Also the traffic is horrible despite a huge subway and bus system.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:What is with people who absolutely hate having their mods distributed elsewhere? Seorin ran into the same poo poo with the morrowind mod pack. Do they not realize that their mod being included in such a pack makes it reach a far larger audience than it would ever otherwise see? Or do they just not care? Oh god, you should see the little monsters in the Fire Pro Wrestling community. Fire Pro Wrestling is a little 2d sprite based Japanese pro wrestling game, and it has 500 slots for created wrestlers. It's a PS2 game, and it's just a fun little time killer with like a million options. Some guys will work together to put a pack of created wrestlers for WWE, some guys will work on a TNA pack, and old school WCW pack, etc.. If anybody has the audiacity to combine a bunch of packs together, these guys go absolutely loving batshit insane. They'll cry, whine, bitch, stomp their feet, track people to other communities and out them, etc.. and this is even if they're fully credited for their creations. For some reason nerds go absolutely apeshit when people distribute their mods for many many games.
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Hikaki posted:I suck at making aesthetically pleasing cities so I make ones like this:
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Hikaki posted:I suck at making aesthetically pleasing cities so I make ones like this: Ha that is awesome, i want to try that once i upgrade my machine and try and alleviate the traffic problems you have.
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Hikaki posted:I suck at making aesthetically pleasing cities so I make ones like this: That's really cool, it looks like something businesmen in Dubai would create for no foreseeable reason.
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God drat it Simcity, I get all excited, install you again then get stuck at the lovely low income stage never getting any good buildings before my budget eventually goes wrong and it all falls apart 
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Pound_Coin posted:God drat it Simcity, I get all excited, install you again then get stuck at the lovely low income stage never getting any good buildings before my budget eventually goes wrong and it all falls apart The two key elements I found for the early game was to think small but have an over all plan and you have to micromanage all of your schools, police, health care and power funding.
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Griffon posted:The two key elements I found for the early game was to think small but have an over all plan and you have to micromanage all of your schools, police, health care and power funding. yeah no matter how much your sims bitch, don't give them any civil services until you absolutely have to to bust through demand caps.
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Large, majestic cliffs look very constricting and feel slightly intimidating, especially when you're starting a new region, but trying to work around the limitations of terrain can produce some fairly nice results: The smaller ones'll never be profitable, but I can't say I care.   
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Two quick questions about the megapack (thnaks so much for it - loving dependencies nightmares). 1) I've the UK version of the game and play with traffic on the left-hand side. Do I need to do anything other than put the ...\z_Left Hand Plugin\NetworkAddonMod_LEFT_HAND_VERSIONS_ONLY_Required_Additional_Plugin.dat folder into the NAM folder? Or is it trickier than that? 2) With the new bus stops, I definitely don't want to use them 'on' the road tiles, since it fucks up the simulator so badly. Can I just place them on the side of the road and they'll behave? Or should I take out that whole folder and stick with the vanilla ones?
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