the Grid City Community Journals

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

This journal will be the spot, for hosting downloadable region or city requests. I will periodically link new SimCity4 cities for everyone to download and try out or do whatever they wish. I will also add maps/terrains of your choice, for extra challenges.


 You can also post images of any and all of your own creations here and we can make a nice community journal of this idea.
*More to come......





Download the city grid at this address below from File Factory.
Warning: this file download will self destruct in 30 days, due to host sites regulations.

  ReadmePlyth.zip

This downloadable region and Large city file, for SimCity4, plus Rush Hour pack and Network Add-On Mod, from Simtropolis.com, will give you a jump on the tedious task of creating a traffic grid city. Instant network already in place!

Necessary plug-ins: 
Network Add-on Mod from www.simtropolis.com
PEG_GeoThermalPowerPlant_101 or just blow up the brown box and make your own power

Included:
Starting cash: $2,248,932,636.00 Simoleans.
Config bmp. file for balanced region play.

Already built:

Avenues
One-ways
Highway, entire grid access
Minimal busing, entire grid access
fire protection at maximum coverage
police protection at maximum coverage
water pipes, entire city coverage

Change the name of your city. While in the game type, ctrl + X, to bring up the cheat window. then type in it: whererufrom Then type, enter

Optional:

Help test this grid for success. Maximum population, with minimal traffic problems is the goal. Feel free to change or modify this Grid test bed to your liking. The City Center can be changed to whatever you wish. Testing of the primary grid is part of this, so don't over-do the changes. On and Off ramps on the highways, still have spots available for connections. This can be an option if traffic flow begins to snarl up. You can add other transit options to your liking, as well.

Show off your version of Plythmont to the rest of us, at the https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=36&threadid=101000&STARTPAGE=1#1429917

[mrbill67401 0]

After many false starts and restarts on the grid, I've finally decided to slow things down a bit and start out small with only low and medium density zones for residential and commercial.  I've had my first big construction project begin in my city of Dragonia.  The Coca-Cola company has decided to build their HQ in Dragonia:

[manubeas 0]

hmmm It looks like a quite interesting project. Ill check on it later

[fabsies55 5]

***** its the whole city is nearly the same thing over and over again....

its way too basic. but maybe you could prove me wrong and maybe we could get some kool buildings

and a cool city.

[margincall 0]

I'd like to give it a shot but the filefactory link you posted doesn't work. Can you upload to megaupload.com or somewhere else?

edit: nevermind, it worked for me.

[Schulmanator 5,807]

Cool... resistance will be futile. I am interested to see what you get.

[un1 41]

I'll be back later with some pictures. Good luck everyone else.

Can't find the .zip with the link you provided...

-un1

[Sam 163]

I can't download the zip either. I've tried several times and it keeps saying there's no available download slots on the server.

Edit: ok, got it now

[Tommy_Vercetti3 3]

Ah...Grid cities...

The most simple, yet rewarding when built correctly.

I'll check it out later..

[mivec360 0]

can you upload it again? i cant seem to download it, I was really into you CJ for grids.just finished reading it.

[jacqulina 162]

interesting, great start so far

[Tia-may 0]

The file appeared to be expired now so it needs to be re-uploaded. Great work by the way, mrbill67401.

[fabsies55 5]

whens the next update? i would like to see more.

[fabsies55 5]

whens the next update? i would like to see more.

[stryker1942 0]

I would also like to know where to get this.

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

EDIT: This is Pytt City(a Different gridded large city map, from Plythmont)
http://www.filefactory.com/file/df897c/n/ThePytt_zip

I'll register at a secondary host for more convenience. File Factory is buggy at times.
Cool to see some interest in this. I have been building in Plythmont a bit as well.

 Maybe I'll upload one or maybe two images. Mainly wanted to see what other mayors could do with gridding.

CHEERz,
the CrybKeeper / Frendo

[PhatHead 248]

Hi,

First when I look at your avatar it easy to remember your an old friend. Interesting project I like doing grids sometimes. one time I made a region that was 1 large city and a "Borg cube" I made the city a solid box to the max height as far to the edge as I could. I'll have to look at finding a pic to post later. I made the city on top and in a grid. The really funny part was the side were so step that when driving the Bus or any vehicle backwards towards the edge at some point the vehicle would start moving on it's own with out using the back arrow key.

Hope you have a Drop Dead xcellent weekend. I think the title "Veteran" if very on the spot.

[jacqulina 162]

looking forward to more

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

This is Plythmont and included Gridded Region map hosted at FileBam.com

http://www.filebam.com/download/69149-1d6c22/ReadmePlyth.zip

Hey Phathead, LOL!! Only you man, could come up with that and no one else. Thanks for the chuckle.

Thanks Jaculina. I am going to sign-up and host this, at some other hosting sites too. Maybe more mayors will want to grid a region.

I also used megaupload.com Margincall. So, thanks for that one too.

Plythmont City and Gridded Region Here at MEGAupload.com: 

Plythmont.zip (2.28 MB) Must have NAM

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KHRNEJDH

ThePytt.zip (1.8 MB) Must not have NAM

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QFUMHNM7

UPDATE: Next grid city hosted will be Large city, with a volcano lake dammed in the middle. Again, it will contain the balanced grid region map, links to a very few, mods and dependencies.

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

Update: Coming Soon!

Craven Lake: keepin' it simple

[PhatHead 248]

The History of Zit County

by

Rick Slick: County Commissioner

Word Count: 583

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Table of Contents

Chapter  number	location	Dateline
1	here	1/1/2000 - 3/30/2010

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Chapter 1 "The Begging"

           A warm welcome, to all you history buffs, everyone else.  First a little background about me.  When I was a teenage boy I had more zits then the average teenager.  This was when I received the nickname “Zits”.  The wonderful name carried with me even to today.  October 28 1999 I won the state lottery.  Then a few months later I found a small county that didn’t have a single city so I acquired the county and named it Zit.  January 1 2000 I bought the county and formed the only city Face.   I was living in the mayor’s limo for some time.  May of that year we gained our first population of 159.  Among these first residents of Face I found an attractive young red head.  Her name is Ann Goat. 

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            June 18 2000 Face grew to 187.  First I knew for a good community we needed an industrial foundation in agricultural.  So I sat down with Greg, Mike, and Ted a few of my friends and we planned out the layout for Face.  We all decided on the way Mike laid out the Highways and roads.  Greg said, “How about having all the industrial and garbage in the northern third of the city.”  The Ted said, “I would like to have the residential be the bottom third of the city.”  Then I agreed and said, “I think the commercial and airport and main city and county buildings be in the middle third of the city.”  So that’s what we all agreed to.  Then by August 12 2000 the population reached 273. 

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            Our fair city reached 1,052 in September of 2001.  Ann and I have been seeing more of each other.  The completion of the mayor’s house was a great thing.  December 5 2002 our first elementary school was built along with a hospital.  Our population reached 1,515.  September 8 2003 Face has its first church and for the first activity Ann and I got married in it.  We had such a wonderful honeymoon that sometimes I feel like it’s still going on today.

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            We finally had some deaths in late 2003.  So in January 2004 we placed the first section of our cemetery.   Face’s population at this time reached 2,610.  Heeding the fire warnings in June of 2003 we had our first fire station built.    We also at this time found the unfortunate need of building our first police station.  This was after someone got caught trying to steal 400 ears of corn from one of the fields of corn.

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            September 2005 we reached the 3,000 population mark with 3,338.  This was a great time for our agricultural people the constructed our Farmer’s Market.  March of 2010 our population reached 5,511.  Once again our agricultural people were the talk of the town when they built our state’s state fair.   We discovered some of the side effects of all that industrial we had to build a water treatment.  Another issue with our growing population was garbage.  So we started an area for a landfill.

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            Chapter conclusion:   We have a population of 5,511 we have 1,022 commercial jobs and 1,255 Industrial jobs.  We have one elementary school, a hospital, a church, two police stations and a fire station.  We have seven windmills and three water towers.  There are four interstates, 34 avenues and 22 one-way roads.

 

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

THis is too awesome Phathead! Sorry I took so long to check back here bud. Am working ten hour days now and traveling one hour to work and then back.

Love the storyline Phat. My favorite part is, living in the mayors Limo. I'm sure you were fertilizing the local farmland all the while. lol.

[aaglo 0]

Very cool thread, Ill think about this.

[jacqulina 162]

and its off to a good start very interesting project

[Hester 700]

I'm enjoying this..just looking. :-)

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

This one is called Craven Lake. Only the Avenue grid and water pipes grid are in place. You may do with it whatever you wish. Your only obstacle is the crater.

CHEERz,

CrybKeeper/frndofyaweh

http://www.filebam.com/download/70276-e553ae/City - Craven Lake.zip and readme.

[rusty_777 0]

That will look cool once completed; I sure hope this one gets used a little more than the last one (maybe it was due to the self-destroying file). Nevertheless, it looks promisisng but it wont be the same I know that forsure. Everyone has different building styles, BATs, and the maxis buildings are set randomly. I can't wait to see some congested avenue maps tho, haha; a good idea would be a elevated rail circle around the crater, don't you think.

Good luck everyone,

Cheers.

[fabsies55 5]

simple... good luck, zoning is all wrong and yea... good luck, sorry but thats how i feel.

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

I am still working on this region and have filled in alot of the Crater Lake city and surrounding medium cities.

Just in case anyones is still slightly interested.

I can re-host the zip files, if anyone makes a request here.

Still would love to see how different people handle a volcano in the middle of there city? Doesn't have to be a grid, or my map. Any volcano terrain is welcome.

[fivexthesecond 0]

I think that Craven lake city wil be the next part of this current area I'm working on.

Edit: Can you rehost it? Thanks