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About This File
The Hong Kong / Asia BAT Team
presents
Pacific Place Hong Kong
BAT created by paulvmontfort
Modding, lot design, readme & custom menu icons by T Wrecks
Special thanks to SimFox
Introduction / Overview
It has arrived on the STEX... finally! You have seen all four buildings comprising this world-famous complex from Hong Kong's Admiralty district released individually: One Pacific Place, the JW Marriott Hotel, Conrad Hotel and Island Shangri-La.
Now it's time for the real thing - HKABT proudly presents: Pacific Place Hong Kong!
Finally this behemoth has been rendered in one piece, and a project that has literally taken years has come to an end. SimMayors can now plop this complex in their cities and offer either a prestigious landmark or a host of office or service jobs to their citizens.
WARNING: Since this download is rather extreme in nature, it is recommended for advanced players. You will see that the actual lot size is rather small, but the building overhangs the lot by a considerable number of tiles in three directions! To make matters more complex, the buildings are even arranged on a slope. This means that (A) you must make sure to keep a large area around the core lot clear of any obstacles (you will see the dimensions of the building while you have it on your mouse cursor), and (B) you will have to use your terraforming skills to wrap the terrain seamlessly around the edges of this complex. The gap between the edges of the visible building and the actual lot has been made as large as possible to prevent you from accidentally destroying the building while terraforming the surrounding land. However, you will see that the terraforming is well worth the effort as soon as you drag gently sloping diagonal roads around Pacific Place and make it blend into the landscape...
Due to the extraordinary overhanging design and the sheer size of this complex, an RCI growable was out of question. The building has, however, been modded in three different versions:
- Ploppable landmark
- Ploppable functional CO§§§
- Ploppable functional CS§§§
As always, you can choose to stick to one version, or simply use any combination of them simultaneously. You will be able to tell them apart based on their name and description. The icon(s) will be located towards the end of your landmark menu, conveniently grouped together.
This is a bilingual download; it contains in-game labels and descriptions both in English and in German, depending on the SimCity locale installed on your computer. (This means that the language - English or German - will adapt to your SC4 installation automatically, so you won't have to fiddle around with different files.)
Dependencies
None - everything is included!
You need:
1) The model file (duh!)
2) The "Essentials" file (included)
3) Any lot file(s) you wish to use
Stats and Values
All game-relevant values you might like to know are listed in the following overview tables.
TABLE 1: FUNCTIONAL VERSIONS
| Parameter | CO§§§ (Pacific Place Offices) | CS§§§ (Pacific Place Hotel Complex) |
| Occupants: | 12,000 CO§§§ (20,000 CO§§ when dilapidated) | 5,000 CS§§§ (8,000 CS§§ / 12,000 CS§ when dilapidated) |
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Lot Sizes / Growth Stage: |
4x6 (overhanging) n/a |
4x6 (overhanging) n/a |
| Zone Type: | n/a | n/a |
| Tileset(s): | n/a | n/a |
| Value: | § 80,000 | § 100,000 |
| Worth / Bulldoze Cost: | § 3,000 | § 3,200 |
| Flammability: | 35 / Stage 5 | 40 / Stage 5 |
| Power consumed: | 540 MWh/month | 500 MWh/month |
| Water consumed: | 4,500 gallons/month | 4,500 gallons/month |
| Air pollution: | 35 over 5 tiles | 35 over 6 tiles |
| Water pollution: | 35 over 6 tiles | 35 over 7 tiles |
| Garbage generated: | 10 tons/month | 35 tons/month |
| Plop cost: | § 320,000 | § 320,000 |
TABLE 2: LANDMARK
| Parameter | LANDMARK |
| Lot Size | 4x6 (overhanging) |
| Menu Position: | Landmarks, near bottom |
| Plop Cost: | § 320,000 |
| Maintenance Cost: | § 550/month |
| Landmark Effect: | + 150 over 50 tiles |
| Mayor Rating Effect: | + 10 / 256 tiles |
| Worth / Bulldoze Cost: | § 30,000 |
| Flammability: | 40 / Stage 5 |
| Power consumed: | 500 MWh/month |
| Water consumed: | 1,500 gallons/month |
| Air pollution: | 15 over 5 tiles |
| Water pollution: | 15 over 6 tiles |
| Garbage generated: | 40 tons/month |
Installation
First of all, it is recommended to unzip the entire content of this ZIP into some archive folder where you keep all building versions, readme, and screenshots, and maybe even back it up onto a CD or an external HD together with your other SC4 stuff. This way, if you need to clean your HD and reinstall your OS, you can simply copy the stuff from your backup archive into your plugins folder instead of having to download all plugins anew.
That said, in order to use this building in game, I suggest you first go to your plugins folder and make a sub-folder for it.
Then, simply copy the .sc4model file (the actual building model), the essentials file, plus the lot file(s) of whatever version(s) you'd like to use into the newly created folder.
To uninstall a version you don't like, first bulldoze all instances of that version in your cities, then save the cities and exit. Now you can safely remove the version without running any risk to experience crashes or any other inconvenience.
T Wrecks on behalf of the Hong Kong / Asia BAT Team
Sunday, August 2, 2009.
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