Questions

[Roelstra 0]

Hello, This is my first time posting to the site and I'd just like to start out by saying how impressed I am with the volume of information available here. A long time SimCity fan I recently fired up SC4D again in a bid to find something besides WoW to occupy my time and I find myself faced with a questions. So with out further ado. Is there a way to create templates that can be used? To elaborate I'm looking to lay out the same suburb design or Mass Transit hub repeatedly, however I'd like to find a way to do this without having to build each section from scratch repeatedly. If there are some of these in existence could you please point me in the right direction? If this is something that can be created with Lot Editor please let me know as I'm only just now fiddling with it, and have only launched it once at the time of this post. Thanks for any information.

[ididntdidit 0]

I believe the rpatch has something like that. Do you mean combining more than one of the same stations onto the same lot? AND WELCOME TO SIMTROPOLIS!!!!!!!!!!!

[JakeMD 107]

Is there a way to create templates that can be used? To elaborate I'm looking to lay out the same suburb design or Mass Transit hub repeatedly, however I'd like to find a way to do this without having to build each section from scratch repeatedly. If there are some of these in existence could you please point me in the right direction? If this is something that can be created with Lot Editor please let me know as I'm only just now fiddling with it, and have only launched it once at the time of this post. Thanks for any information.quote>

I am afraid not. Every time you start a new city, the game loads a blank canvas for you to build on.

[Roelstra 0]

I quess what I'm really looking for is a way to avoid having to draw out whole suburbs over and over and over again.  Essentially I want to design out a suburb, streets, zoning etc. and then copy it and drop it somewhere else.  W/o all the tediousness of having to redraw it.  And essentially the same thing for the MT hubs.  I've got a good design for putting bus stops and subways into my cities and the hub consists of the MT stops as wells as some other tiles such as streets and paving.  Basically it's about a dozen or so tiles.  I'd like to find a way to cookie cutter this.  Now that I think further on it, I guess essentially what I'm looking for is a new building, that I can plop down that covers all the basic Mass Transit needs.

Hope that makes some sense to everyone else. 

[ididntdidit 0]

Oh thats what you meant. No you can't copy paste things like entire neighborhoods sorry.

[tungston 19]

You can get the layout done, then copy the city multiple times to the download region and import them into the region. The drawback is all the cities will have to be the same size.