Porting SimCity 3000 cities into SimCity 4?

[LivingInThePast 364]

The following text is taken from a post I made on SimCity 4 Devotion some weeks ago. Unfortunately, they never answered this one, or any of my other posts for that matter. Jerks.

I think one thing that would make SimCity 4 complete (to an extent) is to make a tool that would port SimCity 3000 cities into SimCity 4 by automatically "reassigning" every lot on SC3K to a new SC4 standard. It would also use a method to directly bring your existing money and terrain into the new SimCity 4 plot.

This would be awesome in the fact that it would bring in a lot of old SC3K cities from the cold as well as allowing you to ultimately bring an old-school SimCity city to SC4...yeah, no kidding.  

For one thing, this would convince me to play SC3K and SC2K a lot more until my monitor gets fixed...  

[Andreas Roth 607]

Calling other people "jerks" in public is not exactly nice. Consider this as a warning.

And to answer your question, no it's not possible to import SC3000 cities in SC4, as their structure is completely different.

[LivingInThePast 364]

OK, I'm sorry, but I felt that having several posts ignored on SC4D for several weeks while other questions were answered kind of seemed rude.

Too bad anyway. I wish there would've been some way to "convert" everything.

Light industrial agricultural would become agricultural.

All other light industrial becomes medium industrial.

The Simolean value would stay constant

A few buildings unable to be ported would vanish, but the structure of the city...including the mayor name, city name, and basic overall layout...will remain the same.

[rainyday 2]

It simply isn't possible. Maybe if EA did it, but that would never happen. We haven't got the means to do something like that and there actually wouldn't be very much interest in my opinion