The new Sim City 4 Expansion pack

[kikicounter 0]

Hello everyone. Someone suggested a new expansion pack for SC4, as SCSocieties may not make us happy.

I am sure most of us would like a new EP, but it just might be too late, deluxe editiomn was already released. Also Maxis is busy with spore and the sims, so I don't think they'll ever release a new EP.

Despite of that, let's discuss what you would like the EP to include:

-Many fixes

-Maxis made NAM, with all its features and even more. Propperly working GLR, elevated roads, new higway pieces and such things. Easy to make roundabouts, streetcar avenues, with the streetcar rail intead of lamp posts and trees (Toronto is a good example), or over-street train (like in Chicago and New York). Tunnels would also be a good addition, highway tunnels would be extreamly expensive, but you would save space, and have a better traffic flow (the Boston and Madrid  underground highways are a good example)

-Improved naval tools, to give more importance to teh water. A mayor mode canal tool. Propperly working seawalls-riverwalls; small canal ports, with watter taxies and touristic boats. Bigger passanger ports, to link far coastal cities. Navy port reward, that should work as a military base, giving you money, but polluting the waters, creating low wealth jobs and such.

-Terrain brushes. For god mode, big terrain brushes, desert, regular gras, dry gras, and tall grass, as well as snow. For mayor mode, small brushes, dirt, park grass and concrete-asphalt.

-New trees. For mayor mode and god mode alike.

-New architectural styles: this might be the biggest feature. We already have old american, actual american (both north american) and actual european. So, wha'ts left? Old european and asian.

Each ploppable building, like hospitals and schools, should have 3 variants, the current one, for the american, and two neo more, for the asian and european.

I am sure many people here would be please to help Maxis making this imaginary EP. in fact Simtropolis has a lot of old european and asian buildings. An entire tile set for Paris can be made, as well as one just for Hong Kong.

The diferent architectural styles should be assigned (if wanted) to the zones you like. That way you can have a chinatown in the middle of your big american city, or an old european downtown surrounded by apartament buildings, and small cores of medium height comercial buildings.

I think this should be more than enought content for an EP, but I would like to read your ideas and thoughts.

Sim City is a game that gives you the chance to make the city of your dreams, or the city you want, and then manage it. That is the basic of the SIM CITY formula. All the ideas that I listed here, are in agreement with that point, because those changes should be enought to make almost everything you dream of and desire, it's SIM CITY guys! keep it alive.

[Cleaner475 150]

I think it would be an idea to make I'll own expansion pack

[Master of Nukes 0]

Were now making a new game so, we don't really need an EP now.

The link goes to where to game is being made as of now. Here

But good idea though!

[Cleaner475 150]

The game idea isn't going to work - I'm not condeming it but I just believe it won't - I'm sure tons of people would be interested in a new EP for SC4

as for ideas - I'd like new views like demand of each sim or something like that and the asbility to see animals on the streets and more choices of animals on God mode. P.s more diasters

[gshmails 534]

I am sorry but there are many threads already that talk about what we want in an expansion pack/new game.  Besides that, there is no way an expansion pack is being considered after 4 to 5 years.  If people put the energy of talking about what they want into new stuff for the stex and modds section, we wouldn't even care about another game or pack.  Sorry, but this is a bit of a waste of time.

[kikicounter 0]

I know Maxis won't do it, but many people would like an EP, as SCSocieties does not please every one. The problem about making an EP on our ownm is that, people have donde a great job here, posting tons of buildings and additios, but despite of that, there are many things that can not be done easily. Maxis created the game, and they can do things like creating a ground light rail GLR that doesn't have to be donde tile by tile. The same applies to the elevated road and other things. maxis can change the interface menu but we cant, maxis can add more tileset options, we just can add more buildings, and set them to grow on certain tilesets. We can not asignate zones to a determinate tileset, and more things as well.

It is maybe too son to say that we wont like SCSocieties, but as far as I know about it, I don't like it. Though the releasing of SCS and a new EP yould make everyone happy.

[kikicounter 0]

well, I know that gshmails, but I just wanted to express that, don't worry anyway.

[petriknl 15]

There is already an expansion pack ... I guess better then Maxis could ever make its called the STEX

[toxicpiano 125]

Originally posted by: cleaner475 The game idea isn't going to work - I'm not condeming it but I just believe it won't - I'm sure tons of people would be interested in a new EP for SC4

as for ideas - I'd like new views like demand of each sim or something like that and the asbility to see animals on the streets and more choices of animals on God mode. P.s more diastersquote>

Most of the stuff you want for an expansion pack is not possible because coders would have to hack into the exe and the redistrute it, which is illegal. Also it would require a hell of a lot of coding. That is why we are building a new game from the bottom up.

[schm0 27]

Someone (jeronij?) has already made the following point: with all the custom content, the NAM and the upcoming releases from the modders on ST and SC4, SimCity 4.5 has already arrived.

[sobol 1]

Funny thing is..  with all the custom content.. and with the NAm 2nd release and soon ot be released CAM...  we have a user built expansion.

[dpk 0]

That  urbsurbis.com page seems to require you to log in to view what's going on with the new game idea, FWIW.

[deadwoods 542]

There are already some good expansion packs out there, such as the NAM and the Farming Expansion made by the BSC. The BSC are also working on a new expansion pack (called CAM, the Collosus Addon Mod) that will blow your game's socks off. See the SC4D CAM Thread for details.

[offgreen 1]

I'm still waiting for another patch...

I can only praise the community for their work though which is as good, if not better, than any "official" expansion pack.