where does freight go?

[choopa 0]

I know it almost always goes to the nearest edge,where does it go afterwords assuming the city it crosses over too has no city exits except the one you came through,where does it dissapate to?

I assume freight train traffic dissipates when it reaches a freight station because it can't become a freight truck.

Has anyone ever worked this out?

[dabadon5 295]

Well it goes into other freight stations within your region or if it goes into another region you can assume it goes to an imaginary city outside your region map.

[madpraxis 1]

It goes nowhere. Basically it falls into the cracks between the regions city's and feeds Cthulhu.

[SS3K 160]

I wouldn't worry about it!

[z1 566]

It goes to same place that time goes when it passes.

[Mister Giggles 310]

...where does time go when it passes?

[SS3K 160]

...where does time go when it passes?

into the past.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

SC4 freight goes to the great, infinite bit-bucket in the sky.

[madpraxis 1]

I still say Cthulhu...I mean, he needs some sort of energy to create the zots over the lots, right?

[raynev1 1,886]

To infinity and beyond , quoted by Buzz Lightyear .

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Transported instantaneously to the wilds of Barsoom.

[SimCoug 5,973]

Good to know that John Carter has company...

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Actually I suspect the freight goes to feed the Siths long the Kaolian Road. -- If you haven't read the Princess of Mars series, you won't get that one.

[lhrob 213]

Where do you think Santa gets all the raw materials to build all those toys for good little girls and boys?

[choopa 0]

has anyone ever considered making a mod to make this work like normal?like commercial services requiring freght and manufacturing industry's needing dirty industry raw materials,and high tech needing manufacturing industry products?

how hard would that be to do?

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

has anyone ever considered making a mod to make this work like normal?like commercial services requiring freght and manufacturing industry's needing dirty industry raw materials,and high tech needing manufacturing industry products?

how hard would that be to do?

Unfortunately, this is hard coded in the .exe and we can't touch it. It would require a modification to the database layout for cities, adding slots similar to the passenger passing slots and there is no space for it.

It would make a nice expansion pack (SimCity 4 Trade and Commerce). In such a set up, the Rush Hour preference would need to be toned down a little. Certain features such as freight depots and distribution centres would have to be added along with a change to commercial zoning to allow them.

[choopa 0]

Not trying to sound like a jerk,but in english please?

When you say it is hard coded,does that mean it is physically unchangable,or that we cant touch for fear that it will severly mess up the game if we tweak it at all.

And when you say "there is no space for it",im not exactly sure what you mean.

Sorry,my computer skills when it comes to stuff like this isn't exactly up to par.

[Ganaram Inukshuk 906]

When you say it is hard coded,does that mean it is physically unchangable,or that we cant touch for fear that it will severly mess up the game if we tweak it at all.

It means that it's illegal to even modify, as in "breaking the law" illegal.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Not trying to sound like a jerk,but in english please?

When you say it is hard coded,does that mean it is physically unchangable,or that we cant touch for fear that it will severly mess up the game if we tweak it at all.

And when you say "there is no space for it",im not exactly sure what you mean.

Sorry,my computer skills when it comes to stuff like this isn't exactly up to par.

Since I said it, I'll try to explain.

First of all, it is illegal to reverse engineer copyrighted material like the code for SimCity 4. Therefore the executable code is invariant unless you are EA.

Next, we at Simtropolis, have agreed that we wouldn't do it, anyway.

The current digital version does not seem to be encrypted, and just for fun I ran it through my disassembler. The program is written in Microsoft C. There are perfectly good decompilers, but I refrain. I am a member of an organization that frowns on hacking.

Then, "no space for it" means exactly that. The format of a city file would require such a change to add some slots to the data to hold the freight information. There are none available as far as I know. If such a change were made, it would have to be recognized by the game which means, again, hacking the .exe. Uh-uh.