What is your favorite map?

[skandal 0]

I am trying to find a good map to play on? What is your favorite map and why? I like maps with no plain flat cities. There has to be some water and other features in every city to make it a good map in my opinion. How about you?

[JJC12321 0]

me, well i like blade 2k5's maps. the one that i am playing on right now in my city journal actually. i has mountains in the middle (kinda hard to play with tho, but i guess u could terraform it a little.) but yea, it has a lot of islands and coast.

[sparrowsraven 0]

My Fave map is the GR region. I was going to join the community cj on it but my region crashed so now i re dl and play it for fun. it has some of everything and is all med tiles which i find just right for me.

[IDS2 3,396]

My all time favorite at this point is Ragnarok by flamesrock. I used it for the region Greenstone in my old cj CANDYLAND, check it out to see what I did with it. VERY (and I mean very) mountainous with steep cliffs and a large sea to the east with cliffs bordering it. To the west is a hilly plain with a few plateaus. Another one I like is Katalla, AK by flamesrock. Large body of water to south with mountains and hills to the north with plenty of wide rivers filled with islands.

[Pinoy30 0]

speaking of maps, I have download the SC4 mapper from SC4 Devotion website under BSC forum. My window Vista not able to open the file i have installed?? does anybody have this window vista problem??

[SC4BOY 21]

I've always loved the Timbuktu region.. (modified to get rid of tutorials and to expand the "playability")

[Mistagnerd 0]

Originally posted by: Pinoy30 speaking of maps, I have download the SC4 mapper from SC4 Devotion website under BSC forum. My window Vista not able to open the file i have installed?? does anybody have this window vista problem??quote>

Do you mean the terraformer?

[masochist 111]

Originally posted by: Mistagnerd

Originally posted by: Pinoy30 speaking of maps, I have download the SC4 mapper from SC4 Devotion website under BSC forum. My window Vista not able to open the file i have installed?? does anybody have this window vista problem??quote>

Do you mean the terraformer?quote>

No, I'm pretty sure he means the [sC4 Mapper], which is by the same person who made the Terraformer (wouanagaine).  As he puts it, the Mapper is "basically SC4Terraformer without the terraforming tools and without 3D."

As for Vista compatibility, I'm not sure...you might be able to get more help on the SC4D forums, specifically [right here].

[Cornoosh 1]

I love the richmond region (available on rebel13 site), also the virginia pack on the stex because there's a lot of water and really looking good maps with no mountains, kinda flat but very fun to play with because there's no big obstacles but it doesn't make too flat cities. And to finish there's also panama city in florida and jacksonville for about the same reasons. all of these maps are natural port and it's excellent to build ports and industrial areas, but also coastal cities with a CBD in front of water and great bridges. Anyway I like very much these maps because of the fun you can have playing with it

[Darth Apple 54]

I just use the maxis maps... there easy to use.

I really like the timbuktu and new york maps. ctrl+shift+alt+r = create region out of a properly sized greyscale jpg

to determine the proper size you need to know how wide in kilometers you want your region to be (a small city is 1x1 km , a medium city is 2x2 km and a large city is 4x4 km)

before you create your jpg - go into simcity and click the start new region button , it doesnt matter weather its land or water.

close simcity.

open microsoft paint(it works best for this part)

create a small pic ( one pixel for each kilometer)then put your 1x1 red red squares for small cities - 2x2 green tiles for you medium cities and 4x4 blue tiles for your large cities.

please note that red tiles must have a red value of 255 and all other values anything other than 255 , green must have a value of 255 and other values must not have a value of 255

and blue is similar - blue value : 255 , all other values not 255 , you don't have to worry about this in paint though , thats why its better to use paint.

save it with the name of "config.bmp" as a 24 bit bmp (this is critical - make sure to get this right)and put it in your new region folder(thats important too - its in mydocuments/simcity 4/regions/[region name])

then create the jpeg(now for the size thingy)to determine the size required , multiply the number of kilometers by 64 and add one pixil to that(not the square kilometers of your region but width and hight calculated separately)

a region that is 20 x 20 kilometers should have a jpeg of 1281 x 1281 pixels.

make a jpeg however you want: darker is deeper , I recommend using the gimp (some people like photoshop too - I havent tried that yet.)

then open simcity and load the region your working on.

press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+R and load your new jpeg - if your resolution is right(remember to add one pixil to your jpeg after multiplying)it will start to create the cities one by one and after several minutes you will have a new region.

hope this isnt confusing.

[Vandy 110]

Hello, Skandal and All.

Without "sounding my own horn" and putting ego aside, might I suggest you go to the STEX and do a search on Vandy as well as NHP.  I have a number of maps that would meet your crieteria -- mountains, rivers, coasts, rolling hills, etc.

I do believe you'll find some that would give you enjoyment to develop.

Regards,

Gary (Vandy)

[Cleaner475 150]

I love the two maps I downloaded of the STEX made by shadowassassin, they are fantastic - probably the two most beautiful SC4 maps I have ever seen

Richard

[Couvs 0]

is there a downloadable region shaped as the greater toronto area kicking about?

[phoenix7 3]

Couvs: https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=10945&v=1

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=5120&v=1

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=5457&v=1