Crazy Stilts and Rediculous Digging - Whacky box ground for lots on slopes

[EnochHeath 0]

Well, I have been playing Sim City 4 for a while now and have recently been boosting the plugins I've been using and have a really nice look coming along in my cities.

Unfortuneately though, this overall image of a realistic city is occasionally destroyed by the way Sim City handles growth on slopes.

If my houses arn't looking like something out of Swiss Family Robinson all up on stilts, my sea ports are dug deep into the ground and no amount of clever road placement can make it look any good. Then of course there's all the slopes cut up into 'box' like spaces for the lots. Or 'box' like boosters sticking up and out of the hill.

I am aware of the obvious limitations of the game, but I rarely see this in good CJs. Maybe people just pick and choose which bits of their city to display and have rubbish things like this too, but I seem to remember something about a smoothing mod maybe, or maybe I dreamed it.

I may be completely wrong and just be very bad at placing my zones, but if anyone could shed any light on this entire situation, with any contributions, any suggestions mods or otherwise, that'd be great.

Many thanks,

EH

[JakeMD 107]

What you can do, is increase the foundation limit for the lot. This will require some editing, but is easily done with a bit of research.

[sqiddster 1]

Hi!

I have this trouble all the time. There is a good article on the omnibus on how to handle this problem. it seems you just 'make historical' the houses that are slope conformed while you demolish all the ones with ugly retaining walls.

Hope that helped,

sqiddster