SimCity 3000 BAT project

[AndisArt 2,068]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SimCity 3000!

SimCity 3000 turns 19 today and in celebration here is your chance to get your favorite buildings from the game into SimCity 4!

From now until Sunday, February 11th 6pm UTC you can nominate up to three of your favorite buildings from SimCity 3000. Then the content creators will pick from the most popular votes and recreate these buildings for SimCity 4! 

Here are the rules:

• each user can post up to three buildings for nomination
• buildings must be original SimCity 3000 content (incl. Add-On content) and not be custom made
• buildings must not be from the landmarks category with real-world buildings, only original designs from the game
• nominations are required to be showing a clear image of the building, preferably with the original ingame name if possible
• please post your nominations individually, so that each building can be liked.
• the most liked buildings will be considered for creation. Users can give likes to as many buildings as they want

For submitting the nominations you can use pictures from the internet or from the SimCity 3000 STEX section, play the game and make a screenshot (please note the name of building as well) or check this selection of SimCity 3000 buildings found here (with names): 

 

For BATers: This project is open to all BATers, if you want to participate, post here or send me a PM. Your involvement can be as small or big as you like. There will be two rounds of due dates for the submission of the buildings, targeted for March and April respectively. BATers are not required to lot their buildings if they dont want to and can just submit their creation as a SimCity4 .model file. 

So far we have for creating BATs:  JP Schriefer, MushyMushy, Diego del Llano, jasoncw, mattb325, nofunk and myself

Happy submitting and good luck!

[catty-cb 4,411]

I'm hoping this is a original SC3000 building - its listed as being the SimCity 3000 Science Center

 

 

[korver 27,685]

Gold Tower

[korver 27,685]

Kong Tower

[RobertLM78 1,598]

49 minutes ago, catty-cb said:

its listed as being the SimCity 3000 Science Center

Hehe - I remember that one.

17 minutes ago, korver said:

Gold Tower

 

5 minutes ago, korver said:

Kong Tower

I got really good at growing tons of these on my SC3000 CBDs

 

Edit: Back on topic, I completely agree with @korver 's picks.   I'd like to see either (or both) of those in SC4 

[korver 27,685]

Quigley Insurance

[AndisArt 2,068]

Great choices already! 

Where are you guys getting these single renders from? Please share any sources  I will add them to the first post 

[korver 27,685]

@andisart Unfortunately I couldn't find any higher res pics online, so I had to dig out my disc and get them straight from the source

I had to go into the game, find a city with the building I needed, and I cropped it out.

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

Silver Tower

Question: Is this only for the original SC3000? Are we allowed to submit buildings from the Euro and Asian tilesets from Unlimited?

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,196]

I've really liked these furnaces shown below (4 in this picture). I liked the auto plant in SC3000 but I cant find a picture of it.

 

[Terring 6,476]

I don't have the game right now, so I'll try to find the best images on the web. Simcity 3000 has tons of awesome buildings and we definitely need more of them into Simcity 4. But only 3 suggestions? Oh well...

Here is my first, the Fusion Power Plant. I never liked the hydrogen power plant on Simcity 4.

[catty-cb 4,411]

6 hours ago, andisart said:

....Where are you guys getting these single renders from? Please share any sources  I will add them to the first post 

In my case google, so doing a search in google for @Terring suggestion of the Fusion Power Plant brings up this picture

 

[pepsi38 46]

I always like the Bradbury building.   Reminds me of a typical NYC building that would occupy an entire block.  
EDIT: Added updated image from @andisart's reference thread. ~ T Wrecks, moderator

[Krasner 1,062]

I've always loved the prefabs in original sc3k - especially the Sketchy Towers

(And, let's be perfectly honest - it's the kind of stuff I'd like to recreate myself for sc4 It's so much alike the prefabs in my town)

[Krasner 1,062]

And the Federal Building was my favorite skyscraper, by far

[AndisArt 2,068]

9 hours ago, korver said:

@andisart Unfortunately I couldn't find any higher res pics online, so I had to dig out my disc and get them straight from the source

Ok and how did you get the images? Did you use a tool to view them from the game file?

@9gruntsand1hammer can you seperate your suggestions into individual posts please? So people can vote on the suggestions one by one. thx

[korver 27,685]

No - I had to go into the game, find a city with the building I needed, and I cropped it out.

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

Corporate Ground Zero Plaza

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

Triangle Terrace

[Allein 329]

Great idea !

I always liked the university campus:

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,196]

Also one that I've always liked in the game was Wilconsin Tower. It's the grey tower.

[Terring 6,476]

The Wilkinson Tower is usually one of the very first skyscrapers appearing after laying large density commercial zones, mostly on land with medium land value. May I propose bringing the Wilkinson Tower into Simcity 4 as a low wealth commercial-services building? Poor Sims lives in huge apartment buildings and works in huge factories. So, how about making them shopping in huge skyscrapers as well?

[catty-cb 4,411]

Suggestion No.2

The Haunted House - could only find a picture of it here

https://lparchive.org/SimCity-3000/Update 23/

Worth visiting if you have some spare time 

 

[matias93 7,535]

Aeh, @Photovoltaic Array, I think both of those buildings were already nominated by Korver and KOSC, so there is no need to repeat them, only to upvote the current entries.

That would free you two nomination slots, and I remember you requested an SC4 BAT of the SC3000 big fountain. Maybe you would want to get the opportunity and nominate it here?

[Photovoltaic Array 97]

@matias93  I misread slightly and botched the nominating process. D'oh! (Hid posts and added likes to the other entries to be safe! <3) 

That said, what you proposed was a good idea, so I'll nominate some of those lots instead: my first nomination shall be the Community Garden... which despite the name, is not a garden but is actually a fountain amongst a brick walk. Still, it looks pretty cool and I always thought they added a small splash of color whenever they showed up in SC3000 cities. I think they would look good in SC4 as well.

(Despite what the land value says, it usually grows in high wealth/what would be R$$$ areas in SimCity 4 terms, if it matters any.)

[Photovoltaic Array 97]

Second nomination: the standard buyable/ploppable Fountain. Hey, fountains are cool. 

Oh yeah, I can take screenshots of both from all four cardinal directions if needed. Also if anyone remembers a SC3000 building but needs someone to take screenshots for them, just ask, I can do it. 

[catty-cb 4,411]

Can I make suggestion three something that I would really have loved to have seen in SC3000 as it was in SC2000 but for some reason was never added and that's the Arcologies which were futuristic self-contained cities where a huge population is all contained in one building ... obviously you couldn't have that many people in a single building as it would really cause issues in SC4 but it would still be nice to have them back

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• Plymouth Arco: available at around the year 2000. Holds 55,000 residents. Price $100,000. The only arcology to emit mild pollution into atmosphere.
• Forest Arco: available at around the year 2050. Holds 30,000 residents. Price $120,000.
• Darco: available at around the year 2100. Holds 45,000 residents. Price $150,000.
• Launch Arco: available at around the year 2150. Holds 65,000 residents. Price $200,000.

 

  Edited February 2, 2018 by catty-cb  
added another picture

[Photovoltaic Array 97]

@catty-cb if it helps, at least the Plymouth Arco has been made for SimMars, if you're willing to download it and extract the files from there. 

[matias93 7,535]

relevant graphic reference from modDB:

[Photovoltaic Array 97]

You know, I just realized, speaking of SimMars -- and also for something other than skyscrapers -- we need the SimMars Research and Testing Facility!

Not going to lie, I think it would look neat in industrial districts.