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Just some eye candy for your cities.  I've created 4 sizes of substations from XL to Small.  They don't "do" anything in the game, other than sit there and (hopefully) look nice.  They do have a slight negative effect -- nothing drastic.

These will appear in your power menu.  I've also learned how to drag power lines across these, which gives the illusion that the lines from the in-game standard high-voltage towers actually connect to the substations, as long as you have them lined up with the steel poles in the substations which have the insulators on them.  In my crude diagram, where S is the substation and T is the towers, = are the lines:

T=========T=========T

If you place the substation over existing lines, you will get this:

T=========TTSSSSSST=T

I bulldoze the towers immediately next to the substation (though not necessary), and then, starting with the left-most tower (can be any tower that is not the closest to the substation), begin to drag powerlines across once again, over the middle tower and all the way to the tower on the right.  What will result is this:

T=========T=SSSSSS==T

I hope you like these, and I welcome your feedback.

Dependency:

BSC MEGA Props - DAE Vol.01

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This is great. I have been feining for substations in my cities for literally over a decade. I wanted these back in SimCity Classic. I rate this 10/10. My power grid was not complete until now. I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but the huge transformer ground turns gray underneath after performing data views -or- if it is built on terrain that is not flat.

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wow perfect for those cities tapping power from neighbours which i have so many of

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Thank You so much for these. I was just about to make a huge regional nuclear plant, and these will compliment that and the power distribution system so nicley. 10/10 Very well done.

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Downloaded them, looked at them ingame, kept them!! Darn good looking!!

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I always like it when people come up with new ideas, or do a BAT or LOT that is unique. Definitely very very good work this, 9/10 (gorgeous, useful unique).

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Nice work there! New thinking! and they exist in most every city. Note.. SHOULD fences and WARNING signs around them.. minor point, I know.. :) Kudos on added effort to show how to drag the lines across them to look realistic! Wish: produce some power.. (tho your reasoning is perfect) but as someone else said, multi-power stations stacked in a city are a bit much... GOOD WORK THO!! And I love someone's idea about using for power-buying cities!! :)

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Thanks again to all. I'm so glad these are getting a good response. SC4BOY: There actually are fences -- they're just so unrealistically short, that you really have to look closely! ;)

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These are great exactly what is needed...you can just edit them in the sc4 tool like north country dude said and make them actually produce power..that what I did with them..gave them like a realistic power output like you see in many substations.

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The previous user is right. The huge substation has the blue grid texture. What texture pack did you use?

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