Adding Variety to Maxis Zones

[Xplorer4x4 0]

I'm not sure how to explain this very well so please bare with me. Is there any way to add varieiety to the zones in the game? For example, i plop down a residential zone. Are there any mods that will add more choices for the game to choose from? Earlier I noticed 3 houses in a row exactly the same.

[tungston 19]

I don't believe there is a way avoid that.

[Xyloxadoria 1,098]

You can avoid repititon by donwloading cutom content. The more options the game has the less it will repeat.

[Merlin of Flyote 8]

Originally posted by: Xyloxadoria

You can avoid repititon by donwloading cutom content. The more options the game has the less it will repeat.

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Is this true!

I have lots of CC but still get repeats of just a few things at a time.

[Randomtaskk 1]

I notice this occurs more often in a big city with NAM running which has started to bog down.

The game will freeze while NAM does its stuff, then when it starts running again all the new buildings will be off one type, then it freezes again, next set of buildings are all the same, but something different from before, etc.

[JakeMD 107]

Originally posted by: Xplorer4x4

I'm not sure how to explain this very well so please bare with me. Is there any way to add varieiety to the zones in the game? For example, i plop down a residential zone. Are there any mods that will add more choices for the game to choose from? Earlier I noticed 3 houses in a row exactly the same.

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The more custom content you download, the more the game has to choose from buildings.  Another option, and can still be used on top of the first option, is to download the CAM (Colossus Addon Mod (Windows)) .  Be sure to download all of the dependencies, though.  If you do not you will get adverse effects on your game.  Be sure to read the readme and notes.

[SimCityeurocat 0]

SWAT-MEDIC - I clicked on the link for the CAM and was taken to the BSC site, but was unable to download the mod. I looked all over on the page, clicked on a bunch of stuff hoping it would start the download and nothing happened. Do you have to logged in to the BSC as a member in order to download the mod?

[kai22015 0]

I believe that it is supposed to do that.

For example, on one street nearly all houses are the same in real life, two story houses in my suburban neighborhood, apartments in New York, etc.

I have seen eight identical middle income, high density houses.

Perhaps Sim City doesn't use a RANDOM function but instead uses a variable "log" on a street.

[Jezus53 18]

Originally posted by: SimCityeurocat

SWAT-MEDIC - I clicked on the link for the CAM and was taken to the BSC site, but was unable to download the mod. I looked all over on the page, clicked on a bunch of stuff hoping it would start the download and nothing happened. Do you have to logged in to the BSC as a member in order to download the mod?quote>

You have to logged on at the LEX in order to download it. Here is a link to the login/registration page for the LEX. I had the same problem for while as well. It happens.

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Well they should be similar but not identical. Depending on the population capacity a building has, some will grow far more aggressively than others. If you want all your buildings to grow at the same rate, you need to change the population capacity on the SC4Tool, so that all similar buildings grow in fairly equal amounts.