So now that the offline patch is live, are you modders making bigger maps?

[nafeasonto 18]

Yeah awesome modding community, you guys have done a crapload for the SimCity games. 

 

I am HOPING to god, this is coming

[Indiana Joe 1,751]

Well it's not exactly like waving a magic wand.  It will take some dissecting to figure out just how the file storage works, and what is locked within the EXE (making it unmoddable).

 

FYI, it has been 11 years since SimCity 4 came out, and we are not able to make larger city tiles for that.

[FuhMuh 0]

Yeah, but in SC4 it really wasn't that important!
I would say in SC5 the most important thing is the map size!!! and then the underground...

 

And thanks to all of the guys and girls which work for us in there private time to make the game playable. If i can choose i would prefer to pay them the money instead of EA's shi*heads!

SC4 with all the mods is the best city simulation i know, till now!

 

May you can answer me if its allowed in this forum to post mods which are not allowed by ea? For example: changed .dll .exe and so on?

greez

[N34rly 1]

I hope so, that give some Modder, they can make bigger Maps for us, so much! 

I would even want to pay for it! ;D

[SkylarWeston 45]

I already have a team working on this topic. Don't worry, we're on the case.

[beagleblue74 1]

Just wondering... Now that we're offline, why does EA care about mods that change the gameplay? it's offline, so who's it hurting?

[N34rly 1]

I already have a team working on this topic. Don't worry, we're on the case.

 

Good to hear this! I wish ure guys good luck, to find a way change these things!  You are the best.

[MindlessMe 2]

Just wondering... Now that we're offline, why does EA care about mods that change the gameplay? it's offline, so who's it hurting?

 

Short answer, it's hurting them. Their micro-transaction based game no longer needs them to create content now that it's offline. If they restrict the content that is made then there will still be money made from "expansion packs" but with the modding community we can make stuff and it's free. They want to restrict the community made content as much as possible so they stay relevant.

[SAGGG 47]

Then if that's the case, let EA create larger maps that can be downloaded for offline use, at least, even with a small fee. They can still be relevant in some other capacity...

[zinshien 0]

they could easily create new maps with bigger city sizes problem solved

[jackcraft57 0]

Could the modders create bigger maps?

Sorry for the english:I'm french

[ImRadek 4]

I don't think that Maxis would create bigger maps. I think they could if they would but now the game is offline & in that case they don't want to waste any more time with the game.

[jackcraft57 0]

But a offline mods that make the maps larger is possible?^^

[Snorp09 5]

Then if that's the case, let EA create larger maps that can be downloaded for offline use, at least, even with a small fee. They can still be relevant in some other capacity.

No it should be in update 11 for free.

[ImRadek 4]

@jackcraft57

 

Actually we don't know if it's possible. Don't understand me wrong but I'm not a modder so I don't know it. Many are saying it will be possible & other say it won't work. There's one thing we can do, hope that it will be possible

[rigurat 6]

I remember the interviews with Maxis/EA they said they did try a bigger map during testing, and implied they might make it bigger later on (a statement later taken back).  That means a bigger map is technically possible.

 

So how would it be done?  A custom region with larger maps?  Modding the existing regions with expanded city borders?  A custom region that's one big mega city?

[SAGGG 47]

I was thinking if not bigger maps, then maps that could be placed beside existing map tiles and appear to make a city look bigger. Such maps could be named for example "Chestwick" as the main tile, then "East Chestwick" as another tile, and so on. From an overhead view, the city would look like a SC4 megacity.

[ImRadek 4]

I agree, that would be cool.
Think about one big Los Angeles with East, Downtown, etc.

[Bluephase 1]

Bigger Maps are Coming ^^ 

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Bigger Maps are Coming ^^ 

 

Is that an official confirmation?

[i0ushephf 1]

i think the whole terrain should be split up into different buyable areas that you as mayor can purchase for a hefty ammount of money. (sort of like the roller coaster tycoon 3 model)... the problem i suppose is that we don't know very much about the map file format and how to edit that (are there resources in the maps outside of the city borders?).

[GMT 389]

Yeah, but in SC4 it really wasn't that important!

I would say in SC5 the most important thing is the map size!!! and then the underground...

 

 

if it was possible w/o illegal methods, bigger maps would've been done already for Sc4. Nothing to do with being important or not.

[migamin 38]

So how would it be done?  A custom region with larger maps?  Modding the existing regions with expanded city borders?  A custom region that's one big mega city?

 

I believe - if there will ever be larger maps - it would be regions with bigger city tiles than the existing regions.

[ImRadek 4]

But there is no map editor or something like that. So how you wonna create a region with bigger city sizes ?

[migamin 38]

We won't. Maybe Maxis will someday.

[ImRadek 4]

Maxis won't do that. Otherwise they would have done this already.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Yeah, but in SC4 it really wasn't that important!

You have no idea...

 

If I had been given a few bucks for every time I saw a newcomer ask if it was possible to have bigger maps, or to use the entire region as one big map, I would be sitting on my own, self-bought small Caribbean island by now.

[Kingdark 1]

When I played the game when I had it (simcity 4) I couldn't even built a city on the smaller plot. I suppose that means I sucked back then.

[ThyGuy 6]

I wouldn't mine the same map size, but with grids right next to each other like SC4, with maybe a small spot for the highway, since that's slightly important.

[CapTon 592]

Don't know if anyone has pointed this out yet, but you can't mod for bigger maps. They're located in something called the core game files, which we're not allowed to mod. It's the same thing for SimCity 4.

 

And even if you were allowed to alter the core game files, you still can't create bigger maps. It's in something called a .exe, which is completely unmoddable.