News Box complaint(very funny)

[Zeck180 18]

Unlike many I suppose, I enjoy nothing more than annoying the crap out of my sims (the ones you select from a list and plop into your city) and/or my advisers. So I maxed out my police funding which I normally get complaints, but I've never had one like this. I guess I never realized how political Sim City can get.

[TekindusT 3,809]

During my task translating the game's LTEXT for a mod I'm working on; I've found some news messages I had never seen just because my gameplay style prevents their appereance. Save your game, try to do something crazy and see how the stories change in your news box!

[RichManSCTV 14]

Oh classic Maxis, HA! Is there anyway you can put your own custom thing in there?

[x493x 446]

Always find new things with this game.

[The Avatar 1,089]

I love the news ticker: "Fluffy the Wonder Cat..."

Good ol' Maxis humor.

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

I actually saved a couple of good ones! Here I'll share, they're really funny:

Fluffy the Wonder Cat:

• Fluffy the wonder cat arrested at anti-mouse protest.
  
• Fluffy the wonder cat given honorary degree; “Whisker-tingling” he says.
  
• Fluffy the wonder cat dating juicy Hollywood babe; “Just friends” he says.
  
• Fluffy the wonder cat recruited by pro basketball league.
  
• Fluffy the wonder cat relaxes in scented bath, handlers reveal.
  
• Giant broccoli sculpture of Fluffy the wonder cat proposed immediately rejected.
  

Discoveries:

• Age 16 not particularly sweet; 15-year-old hopes dashed.
  
• Boringly obvious scientist group warns “Don’t cuddle chainsaws.”
  
• Plastic would make perfect food if it tasted better and had nutrients.
  
• Scientist spots end of infinity; “looks like umbrella.”
  
• Man with constant hiccups found to have trampoline in stomach.
  
• Ball squarely hitting bat determined “best sound of all time.”
  
• Carbonated cherry coffee product developed; “I’d rather drink antifreeze” tester says.
  
• Intelligent earthworms discovered; can perform long-division in seconds.
  
• French mayonnaise fine substitute for good parenting, survey shows.
  
• Reckless skateboarding indicates hidden propensity for Elizabethan poetry, researchers avow.
  

Inanimate objects

• Talking mailbox signed up to be star of new network situation comedy.
  
• Rock and paper sues scissors for discrimination.
  
• Pens proclaim pencils obsolete, “lead is dead.”
  

Animals

• Man bites dog; dog writes bestseller on animal cruelty.
  
• Kangaroo spotted with newspaper and cappuccino at trendy eatery.
  
• Five llamas charged in daring daytime bank heist.
  
• Llamas petition to get in on Twelve day of Christmas song.
  
• Fleas protest bad wages, long hours at flea market.
  
• Woodchuck stops counting how many times he’s chucked “Never again.”
  

Sims:

• Sim marries computer; wedding attended by 100 modems.
  
• Sim reports successfully using harmonica as cheese grater.
  
• Sim children discovered operating international “Go Fish” gambling ring.
  
• Sim composes commercial jingles in her sleep, also knits and writes haiku.
  

News:

• City Clerk first person able to pronounce “@*$%OA!”
  
• Child rewrites encyclopaedia; “It lacked narrative drive,” he says.
  
• Famous actress returns to city to build sombrero factory.
  
• City crows sought by schools as translation experts.
  
• Congratulations to City resident with world record for largest tongue.
  
• City weather deemed “boring;” thunderbolts and hail to be imported.
  

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Lol I wonder if it's possible to make your own news stories in SC4.

[lazy tiger 22]

I've gotten a few based on medical news, as told by 'Super Monkey'

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Hahaha, I love the Monkey Island reference (woodchuck).

[Wiecher 192]

You can change these messages by editing the SimCityLocale.dat file in ilives reader. So yes, you can make your own funny messages.

[RichManSCTV 14]

You can change these messages by editing the SimCityLocale.dat file in ilives reader. So yes, you can make your own funny messages.

What do you open .dat files with? like how do you eve get into the core of SC4(that rhymes Winrar?

[Wiecher 192]

You can change these messages by editing the SimCityLocale.dat file in ilives reader. So yes, you can make your own funny messages.

What do you open .dat files with? like how do you eve get into the core of SC4(that rhymes Winrar?

Like I said in my post, ilives reader.

It's on the STEX:

It's not the easiest thing to use, but just editing texts should not be too hard.

Just make sure you have a backup of simcitylocale.dat so if something goes wrong, it will not break your game.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

There is an basic tutorial on the same STEX page as the reader.

[ILovetheWorldTradeCenter 0]

That's sh*tty. I hate them. I always get rid of them.