A Mod Idea

[boon1234 9]

There should be a mod that is similar to the SC4Terraformer in which you can lay a whole city (or region's) street and road layout from either bird's eye view or street level. I think this would be so much easier.

BTW, I have no Modding experience, otherwise I'd do it myself.

[Skram 4]

I think thats a petty good idea, but i can't bat or modd sorry

[Smarty218 2]

Great idea, one thing SC4 lacks is the ability to change the views from angled to vertical or horizontal. One tiny thing that SCS beats SC4 in.

[Casual Criminal 0]

If someone could do this and also include scripting language support that would be amazing. It would help me immensely with game experiments.

[Marcin Z 0]

I have some ideas:

1. Mod wich make the weather changes ( rains in autumn, snow in winter etc.)

2. Mod with pack of catastrophes (epidemy, terrorist attack, gas explosion, tsunami)

[doodlea21 31]

Why stop there? How about something that can add zones, place buildings, adjust funding, etc. You might as well make a whole new version of Simcity. Simtropolis has tried to do this, but it's not likely to happen. It's still nice to imagine though.

[Marcin Z 0]

I have one more idea, it' s only suggestion. That can be viaduct of more important street above the less important street, that will reduce the traffic jams

[Morofry 41]

I have a few ideas in which some of them should have been implemented long ago.  We should be able to build roads/rail under non-support over land bridge sections.  Also a rail bridge over ground level highways would be useful too.  And I have one last (crazy?) idea too.  This idea would require some in depth thinking and would probably be voted as impossible anyway.  Allow highway interchanges to express some creativity by allowing 45/135 degree interchanges (diagonal/straight) and or non-straight interchanges in where if someone doesn't get what i'm saying, ill have to draw a picture because i don't know how to explain it in text.

The end.

[Ubi79 0]

Double decked bridges! Tsunamis! Global Warming! and mabe BETTER BUILDINGS...

Ah, Yes. Dreaming is pleasant!

[boisemetro 85]

Originally posted by: Marcin Z I have some ideas:

1. Mod wich make the weather changes ( rains in autumn, snow in winter etc.)

2. Mod with pack of catastrophes (epidemy, terrorist attack, gas explosion, tsunami)

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Great ideas. A flood would be nice too.  I also wish for the seasons to truly change in the game. 

[Hahayoudied 3]

I would doubt EA would listen to any of their customers. If we are going to make our own game, we need a lot of cash, experinced programers, and help from other large fan sites. Also, since the programers might have to exchange files when making the new game, we must find a way to make sure that people won't ruin the game making prosess.

[wir3d 2]

I know.  That's one thing that beats Sc4.  The view.  If sc4 had the same view modes than it would be the best game ever.

[Shadow_prophet 91]

I wish there was a mod so that shadows could be casted on water as well.

[Yeah_Right 2]

i wished there is a mod that actually saw cars pulling into driveways or carparks.

[TRNSTN 0]

A mod that gives you the entire region shot in night-mode

A mod that makes your streets glow like real night-time shots of cities, instead of just the buildings lights.

[BurroDiablo 222]

Is this a thread of pipe dreams? Most of this stuff couldn't be accomplished without the source code

[outriderdriver 4]

Originally posted by: Marcin Z I have one more idea, it' s only suggestion. That can be viaduct of more important street above the less important street, that will reduce the traffic jamsquote>

There are... 

[NetPCDoc 1]

While we are all dreaming and wishing -

How about some good documentation on the transit portion of saved city files?

(IMHO the first step towards being able to mod a regional transit system.)

I know that the terrain portions of the saved city files have been decoded,

but so far I haven't heard that the transit portions have been successfully decoded;

and I haven't seen any general releases of documentation on either.

-NetPCDoc

No detail is too small to be micromanaged.

[PureSpectre 0]

Better graphic effects. I hate to demolish buildings because of this problem. And maybe a regional god mode where you can put an earthquake that shakes the whole region and cause heavy damage on the whole region.

[KingTitan 6]

All hail the newbies. LOL...If anyone wants help PM me. seriously now.

[KingTitan 6]

Sorry for double posting BUT.....HUH??????????????  

Originally posted by: Hahayoudied I would doubt EA would listen to any of their customers. If we are going to make our own game, we need a lot of cash, experinced programers, and help from other large fan sites. Also, since the programers might have to exchange files when making the new game, we must find a way to make sure that people won't ruin the game making prosess.quote>

[8-Clipse 1]

Oke im no developer and stuff but how bout you make your own source,i mean you got al the rest right?

or is that just stupid??

[elbonito665 0]

they need the source code, which is probably hidden deep within EA's vaults

[memedoug85 36]

Simcity should lose the grid foundations and get diagonal bridges

[un1 40]

Originally posted by: abracadabraz85 Simcity should lose the grid foundations and get diagonal bridgesquote>

 

Great idea!!! And slanted zones!!!

My 200th post!!!!

[TV-VCR 14]

Palm on - Apply directly to your face.

It's very nice to dream and all, but if you look at the current circumstances, it's more likely that scientists will get a fusion reactor to work for two years starting tomorrow than it is that people will successfully create these kinds of modifications to the game. Not to mention, for the SC4 community to attempt to embark on this mission impossible, we would need a chunk of the source code from the game (something Electronic Arts will certainly not do), and maybe even a few people who have contributed to the development of SC4. And it would be incredibly long too. You can't kick out a real BAT in one day, so why a mod?

And also, isn't this like, the 2 millionth thread like this?

[hawkpride147 1]

ok first...the traffic thing...download the NAM...that will fix many of your problems...the better buildings thing...check the STEX and sc4devotion's LEX...there are plenty there...and if they aren't good enough for you, learn to BAT and make your own...

[SimRabbit 48]

Many things to clarify:

1. Viewing our Simcities on street view will be Imposible, because the way buildings are made. When you render a building with the BAT

it will take like four pictures on Zoom 5 and so on til Zoom 1. The problem is that these pictures are only taken from one angle and these pictures are placed on boxes called LODs or Level of Detail. If you try to viiew it on a diffrent angle it will get crooked. Kind of like stretching a small picture into a really large picture.

2. Simulating Real traffic is impossible unless we get the source code. If we try to simulate real traffic we will need more power on our PCs and I doubt it our current computers will handle it.

[cmdp123789 710]

Well what about doing the mod that boon1234 said?? it would be very nice to have a "sc4Roadformer" haha, just kidding, but yeah...... It would help a lot, first it should be easier for people who are trying to recreate something or even if not it would save some time by not having to get in and out of a city tile every time, am I right?

[hawkpride147 1]

@cmdp123789, did you read the post above yours? SimRabbit already explained perfectly why that is not possible...yes it would be nice...but it is completely not possible. sorry.