Simtropolis Returns!

[justforfun 7,744]

Great to see you, @Andreas Roth! Do you think you can bring some SFBT BATter back into business?  At the very least, they should make some nice building to celebrate your birthday!

[Tyberius06 12,184]

1 hour ago, Andreas Roth said:

I happen to celebrate my 50th birthday today

Wow, Happy Birthday, Andreas! 
Coincidentally, my best friend, who lives in Austria (close to the Hungarian border), is also celebrating his birthday (43 - he caught up to me finally) today!  

1 hour ago, Andreas Roth said:

I wonder how feasible it is to update everything to the current standards (such as the Submenu DLL feature etc.)

I went into a rabbit hole with this regarding most of the LEX/BSC stuff, so I would say, doing that kind of deep cleaning that I am doing not necessarily a worthy thing - takes up a shit loads of time, often demotivating.
I updated some of the SFBT transportation stuff (I need to reupload them now - wednesday or thursday I'll have the time to do so) with current standards and with submenus, but I think there's just a few thing that I would consider kind of necessary to update in general: transportation stuff to current NAM standards ( @CasperVg is working on a 2026 version of the SC4PIM-X bringing it into our timeline, which will include complete and easy to use transit enabling, preset transit switches for most type of now "standard" station types and many other features - good old SC4Tool after 20 years of hard working can finally retire after the release of this), submenus for larger sets (parks or modular stuff) and the most headache considering that the SFBT made a tons of them, adding the w2w OG and w2w building style marker properties for the w2w growable contents... This can be a kind of copy/paste, but I know that there are a lot of w2w buildings in the SFBT collection... 

[Andreas Roth 607]

You're definitely right about that "rabbit hole", and I'm well aware that it's a daunting task, esp. since there are so many lots that needs some work. An updated version of PIM-X that is being able to handle all this sounds very exciting, maybe this could ease some of the work that needs to be done along with the SC4 Command Line tool that also allows batch-editing for submenues and stuff. I'm glad that there are some people with programming experience which are able to create such invaluable tools for the community, otherwise, all that custom content wouldn't have been possible. 

As for reviving the good old SimForum BAT Team, I doubt that's possible, since most members have gone MIA ages ago. But at least @N1_2888 is still holding the flag up, presenting one or another Christmas present from his personal collection.

[Cyclone Boom 16,851]

On 31/05/2026 at 8:57 PM, simmering said:

Could you let us know once the process is completed? Thanks!

Confirmed completed now.

Here's a post with the details (inside the new info topic):

 

[Wiimeiser 436]

On 02/06/2026 at 3:03 AM, Dirktator said:

and then I missed the warning emails that came after it.

I know that feeling, I keep forgetting to check my email. Executive dysfunction is a nightmare, I rambled about it to myself last night as I was lying in bed.

 

8 hours ago, Andreas Roth said:

As for reviving the good old SimForum BAT Team, I doubt that's possible, since most members have gone MIA ages ago. But at least @N1_2888 is still holding the flag up, presenting one or another Christmas present from his personal collection.

I think most of the teams have disappeared, actually. Not sure who is and isn't left, beyond the NAM and CAM still being active. Which is a shame, as we have a lot more tools now than we did before...