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About This File
The Maxis San Francisco region rendered in ready-to-use form in a Large tile configuration.
Originally Maxis made the regions to have few (or no) Large sized tiles due to performance considerations. By popular demand and from what @ASV7900 specifically requested, here is the San Francisco region in an expanded tile layout. This allows more freedom to build on the terrain over a larger area at once.
Each tile has been saved with vanilla Plugins to update the tile appearance in the region view to be consistent with how Maxis created them originally. All cities have also been paused for convenience.
Two Versions
Option A - San Francisco (Upscaled All Large)
4 x 4 region formed of 16 Large tiles in total.
For this version, the region area has been enlarged in scale to a 16 Large tile layout. To make this possible, the terrain has been upscaled from the original, making it slightly proportionally larger in size.
Preview pic (from Mapper):
To represent this difference, here's a comparison using the upper left corner:
(Before / After: Click to flick between and compare the terrain scaling.)
Option B - San Francisco (New Layout)
This version has a custom configuration, while retaining the original map size.
The aim is to emphasise the Bay Area to maximise Large tiles where the main urban areas are in reality. The design of this layout also optimises the potential placement of bridges, including the famous Golden Gate which can connect in the northwestern Large tile. This gives more options for where you may wish to construct bridges between tiles.
The terrain is unmodified from the original map with no development.
Preview pic (from Mapper):
Installation
Copy either folder into your Regions folder:
Documents\SimCity 4\Regions
Both regions can be installed without conflict, and even in addition to the Maxis original.
Renaming (Optional)
It isn't necessary, but you may wish to rename either region. This can be worth doing if wanting the name to simply be San Francisco instead of with the descriptive parts in both names.
To do this:
- With the game closed, open the region.ini file with Notepad (or any text editor).
- Change the name to whatever you'd like it to be instead. For example: Name = San Francisco
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Save the file and then the name will be updated when reloading the game
Also in this Maxis Maps series
Here are the other 4 Maxis regions I've uploaded along the same theme:
Special Thanks
As ever, I dearly appreciate @CorinaMarie helping me with a few ideas for these region releases, inspired by her Maxis New York 4x4 upload. Cori also kindly helped share the workload with me for saving each tile with a vanilla Plugins folder to update the terrain from the Mapper color scheme, and to pause each city tile.
And of course, to Maxis for creating these regions for us mayors to enjoy, even all these years later.
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