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Punch, found this: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/SimCity_4 Lots of good info could help for the OP. And for the others if you're like me. I'm not fond of the steam train so I found a replacement in SC4 Devotion, thanks to RippleJet's post: http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=7789.0. And a tunnel lift, to a more modern look.  I present Rivit's tunnel mod
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Zaodai posted:Does this play nice with Windows 7 (and 64 bit systems in particular)? Yes I usually don't have any problems with it, sometimes it's more with some mod causing problems. If you've just change the CPU count to one.
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Fewd posted:Are there any graphics packs I should get? I won't mod too much as it's been a long time since I played in the first place. Aside possible graphics mods gonna only get the bugfixes for worst things and that NAM 30 thing for now. They are some textures packs some of them are: Lowkee's: http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2753 Gobias': http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2834 There are also water, rocks, beaches and new trees. I use for example, as a water mode this: http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27272-shk-brigantine-20/ and for the beach http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2840 Giving this look: 
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Just saw this on the STEX, http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28544-sc4-launcher/ I'll try it immediately.
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VarXX posted:Someone posted a guide on steam to do "multiplayer" in SimCity 4 using a folder sync program to share your region with others and have it update whenever they save. I figure with that setup you could pretend your playing the new simcity without the really lovely simulation and bad servers. That's really great, if there is a SC4.5 goon game, I'm all in. Ofaloaf posted:And why isn't the 'moneyeo' cheat working in my game? I don't think that cheat works, it's weaknesspays. Even better just download this: http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/21118-simcity-4-extra-cheats-plugin And type "moolah x" Where x is the amount of money you want.
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We could solve the problem with a no building near the borders for at least 5 tiles. and the connections we could upload a region with the basic transit network done, just like SC5.
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No NAM is still being worked on, as a matter of fact the last version was released a week ago. And for new buildings just check the STEX.
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homeless snail posted:Yeah, I would be way into this if someone wants to set things up, sounds like it'd be a lot of fun. I was thinking on maybe a 4x4 medium tile region. The other problem is the plugins, and the difference between all the players. Again maybe some vanilla + NAM or Old fashioned for all the players. I know there is this stuff: http://kurier.simcityplaza.de/details.php?file=311 So you can load a region with only certain mods, has anyone here used it?
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Breetai, if you'd like more agriculture check the SPAM, http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/26080-simpeg-agricultural-mod-spam/ I downloaded it recently and it was a big mistake on my part to not have used it before. 
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nielsm posted:A question of my own: Download SPAM, it maintains the possibility to keep the agricultural demand and improves the farming part of the game.
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SPAM really is a great addon, just downloaded it and I'm very pleased with it. With a new thread comes a new region, I present Eaton:  Still growing and a lot of stuff to build. Now some beauty shots:  Vanilla SC doesn't have gas stations, but now it does.   I really like the buildings in the game like the Maxis theatre, or the row houses   But not the trains.   Part of the downtown. And from the old region: 
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The region is coming nice, although I'd hate to live in the apartment on the rail loop. Edit: What are your plans for the central city? benzine fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Mar 11, 2013 |
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Breetai posted:Not sure, yet, beyond 'purely commercial/res/high-tech'. I happen to have a city from the last time I went on a Simcity jag that was a perfect representation of the city I live in (Adelaide, Australia) down to each and every individual sidestreet, so I might import that and see if I can't make it match up with what I've done. I can even put the mayor's house exactly where I live! You can't say that and don't post some images, how rude of you.
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Breetai posted:Note that not everything lines up exactly; some concessions had to be made due to the road placement limitations of the SimCity 4 engine and a lot of the time proportions are skewed as a result, but I've got most aspects. Note that I've had to re-imagine the central tram line that IRL shares roadspace with cars up that central avenue as a train rail, however the Victoria Square station is still there, as is the main train station on North Terrace - although that area's being developed currently, so I'll have to see what the final plans look like. Regardless, I've modeled every sidestreet I could. Nice, I want to see that all filled up. You could try with NAM to place the trams, I once tried to recreate mthe place I live, just too hard  And for the railroad fans, got two lots. 
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Drone posted:At what point do you guys usually start building more "mass" transit between your cities? I'm playing the Fhuzo region from the OP and started my main city (medium-to-high wealth residential/commercial with miles of farmlands behind it) right at the mouth of the river, and it's humming along at about 15,000 residents. Meanwhile next door I have my slums and industrial city with about 30,000 poor people. Since I've got NAM installed I don't really have a ton of traffic issues between the two, but I'm wondering when it would start to make sense to build a train line connecting them, or maybe start on a highway system, with a mind toward future growth. The region in Grand Fromage's amazing LP is something like what I'm going for. You can always start using buses, they're really cheap and use the transit network so there is no big expense, they even cross cities. Just remember their users are R$ and R$$ sims. I like to use rails because they're really cool and you should use them too, especially to connect the cities, just plop an station and some parking lots. Tip: Always if you plan to plop a parking lot if you put mass transit in a residential zone, the sims will park and use the mass transit. I like to use an underground parking lot saving space, but STEX is down so I can't link it. For subways are really cool and really expensive, more like for heavy densities areas and the downtown, after that you can perfectly use elevated rails. And monorails I find them more like a gimmick very expensive and more for intercity travel than for your city, but they're super cool v  vEdit: Just checked the speeds of the transportation for vanilla, don't know if NAM change this. Street: 31 kph Road and Avenues: 46 kph Highway: 100 kph Rail: 150 kph Subway and EL: 150 kph Monorail: 200 kph NAM, opens more options like trams, although I don't use them cause I'm too lazy for the puzzle pieces. benzine fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Mar 11, 2013 |
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Inverness posted:Also, I'm a bit confused about the whole optional NAM traffic simulator. There are different options for the capacities of various road and street objects, but it seems like it kind of defeats the purpose of having to manage traffic if you can adjust it like that. I'm wondering if I should just stick to classic values. The NAM, changed also and very very important travel time, if I recall the original travel time was around 6 minutes. Now it has a longer time and improved the pathfinding. The cool thing is you can just change them and see how it's going, so just classic or low also a great addition you can change the number of sims who prefer to use mass transit. In classic I find the traffic problems come way way to early.
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jerkstore77 posted:Thanks! No, but you can use the mapper to modify the city sizes.
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 Status of my region, after my main city went over 500K pop, it was time to develop the coast although I'm to lazy to fill the rest, now  Disgustipated posted:God drat, I love this game but it's so crash happy playing it kind of sucks. I've done the launch options to run on 1 core at high priority and I'm using software rendering, and still constant random crashes. I can't see any pattern to it, it just all of a sudden shits the bed. Try maybe just without NAM, or with other resolution. Try using this program to modify the startup, http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28544-sc4-launcher/
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Giggily posted:
Haha, hate it when that happens, time for the bulldozers. Time for some images. This is Valois a suburban town just west of my main city.    It's downtown And the Main City.    The night in the game is a real beauty.  Some of my firsts skycraspers.
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Are your sims rich, cause they hate buses, if they're try with subway.
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Giggily posted:Yeah, I think I might have to just upgrade to subways. Either their destinations are so far away that they don't want to bother with the bus, or they're secretly mostly rich and just refuse to use it. It seems a little silly to be making underground trains for a city of 70,000, but whatever. Care to post more pictures, and did you modify the mass transit usage in NAM? The R$$$ sims use only betweeen 10-20% of mass transit, the 80% will be cars trips.
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Jefferoo posted:So I'm starting with a totally blank, new region, (no luck with mod packs, just 4+Rush Hour unless someone knows how to get NAM working on Mac) how do I get to getting the huge commercial skyscrapers everywhere? I have two cities that are a clusterfuck of like, low end residential and agricultural, and not having a lot of luck balancing my books or expanding. I tried the tutorial and just feel like an idiot, hahaha. Building and building and with the right population. Just read the part of the growth stages on the OP, at the higher growth stages there is a change of the building being of certain stage. If the CO pop is over 40k you'll see the buildings as long as you zone high density of course. Fewd posted:Now I mostly want small houses and stuff, no enormous high density buildings. However regarding low density residential areas, if I make 1x1 housing slots then will those attract the poors? I'm guessing if I assign a low-density 9x9 or even 2x2 slots, they won't build things on those? Or maybe build and then start bitching at me. Yes just try with 1x1 and 1x2, the poors never complain and if they'do would you hear them? Just don't zone a big low density plot, the rich tend to fill them with their mansions.
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queeb posted:
Yes with NAM, let me show you. First you need to have the terrain digger lots. http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1544 Maka a 15m ditch, using the hole digger lots, make a road pass to activate them. Destroy them and lay the railroad track.  After that use the road puzzle pieces (You can use the other puzzle pieces for other networks), use the slope road so it'll end like this.  After that use the road over rail puzzle piece, it'll give you this result, and you're done.  For the smoother hills use a slope mode, I use Ennedi's http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1512 Edit: FB!!
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Well goons, how do you think for a little MP region? It was previously posted this, http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=125255638#22484. It also says it can work with dropbox, any suggestion?
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Just look at that demand is all negative.
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Giggily posted:
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Well I want to make a goon region, so if anyone want in, please just tell me. The questions are: Shall we play with big or medium cities? What modpack it will use? I thought about as long as you don't enter the city of others each one can use any mods they want, and a 4x4 medium city region. The other problem is the connection, but the region could have the connections before or something like don't build in 5 squares off the border.
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Squiggle posted:Aww, even after the CPU core adjustment, I still get intermittent crashes that are demoralizing. Even better use http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28544-sc4-launcher/ Is more the SC launcher simplifies a lot reducing the cores, resolution and everything, a must for any player that plus the autosave feature.
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Super Waffle posted:Does the Old Fashioned pack mess with how demand is calculated? I loaded it in and all the RCI bars were way more positive than they were before. It's because of the CAM, http://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Colossus_Addon_Mod.
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I'd think the best option is to delete the terrain add-ons of the pack, beware it has some files on the "Everything Else" folder. Try playing only with NAM, the dependencies and the buildings and see if it still crashes.
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Playing this game is divided in three parts: - Searching and downloading new stuff, really check the STEX for new stuff. - Playing the game. - And the metagame, that it's finding a way to not crash.
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NihilVerumNisiMors posted:Wait wait wait, you can apparently rig up a shared region for multiplayer via Dropbox or similar services in SC4? Does this really work? Yes, let's do a goon region. The link talk about using sugarsync, but it seems easier than the Dr. Video Games' post. Did anyone played the online region when the game was released?
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NihilVerumNisiMors posted:Assuming I wanted to make my own modpack (I don't really like the sheer amount of stuff in them, especially since I'm not that good a SC4 player to begin with. I tend to get swamped.), apart from NAM and SPAM, anything else that's really good to have? Like, any good water/grass/plant texture stuff? The STEX is pretty bad to navigate I find. Brigantine's water and sand mod are pretty nice, the Industrial Revolution mode, the matching grass mode. Are some I'd recommend and after playing and seeing you're missing something just a search on the STEX or LEX and it's probably there.
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Sign me up, or it could be Vanilla + NAM for the ones having problems, although as long as you don't load the others city I think everyone could use whatever they want. I don't know if there would be some problem with CAM.
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n0n0 posted:So then, is there a way to uninstall the Gigapack's NAM and replace it with the newer version of NAM? No as far as I know, cause the Gigapack is all datpacked. benzine fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Mar 19, 2013 |
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I've been experimenting with using sugarsync, so you can link the folder directly. No need to use mklink. So before we could just try to experiment in this how it works and stability, so add me benzine.sa@gmail.com Edit: relevant links https://www.sugarsync.com/downloads/ http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=125255638#22484.
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Glorgnole posted:I have SugarSync set up and I think I'm ready to go, if you want to try sharing a region. I'm glorgnole@gmail.com The SugarSync asks not only for a email but also for the first name.  So I'm Benzine and benzine.sa@gmail.com
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Now I made a PGS http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3539325 So we can try to make this work, if you want to add something on the OP, please let me know.
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So yes you can play with others, and for the moment everything is going fine, and even with differents mods. As long as you don't enter others cities it seems it doesn't cause to much problems. If you visit some other city it looks like this.  And region view, you can see the different terrain mods. 
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