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[PJKeogh 10]

Wow. Impressive place to be  Hope all are well.

Newbie to all this but i had to try...i mean.. SimCity 4 modded just looks fantastic and i would love to do the same to my Vanilla Deluxe version

If i can make my SC4 like yours i will be very happy.

51 year old male, 3 children, one 8 years old, i need a break in the late evening and SC4 it is

[CaptCity 4,915]

Welcome to the site, @PJKeogh

Lots to look through here. Let us know if we can help.

[PJKeogh 10]

Thank you CaptCity.

Give me a day or three and hopefully i can do this. See you around, i have a lot of reading to do!

Professional site this.

[Cyclone Boom 17,032]

Hi @PJKeogh and welcome to Simtropolis.

It is incredible how custom content transforms SC4 to provide even more limitless freedom than the standard vanilla offering. The fact new BATs and mods are still being uploaded as the community continues to actively thrive 18+ years later, really is true testament to the game's impressive longevity.

We hope you enjoy ST as a complement to your mayoral explorations.

[CorinaMarie 29,896]

Hiya, @PJKeogh. Welcome to Simtropolis.

[jeeps2141 7]

Hello all,

New to Simtropolis, but revisiting game.  Is there a thread with suggested downloadable content, mods bats maps etc.  I am running sc4 with steam, and have no real clue as to how to get these items into the game, or which mods are best for gameplay.  Any and all help is appreciated, and links great as well as I am sure im not the first nor last to ask these questions.  Thanks everyone.

J

[CorinaMarie 29,896]

Hiya, J. Welcome to Simtropolis.

For graphical terrain mods, you could peek at These Shoppes and the following thread has a bunch of content suggestion ideas:
 

 

[City_Slider 2,716]

Hello @jeeps2141 and welcome on Board.

Check this out:

And feel free to ask away, if there are any open Questions.

Have a good Time, Oliver

[jeeps2141 7]

Thank you both for the help.  I definitely have problems getting mods and even maps into steam version of the app.  Can download files, do the ctrl alt shift R move but no rendering occurs.  I have resized jpgs to 1025 as described in some threads.  any other possible advice?

[CorinaMarie 29,896]

@jeeps2141

Check out @Shoarmadharma's reply here and then my reply after that. I believe the whole trouble is finding Steam's equivalent of My Documents which it buries in some asinine location.

[Cyclone Boom 17,032]

Hi @jeeps2141 and welcome to Simtropolis!

See whether the paths Cori linked above match yours, but I'll just post another possibility (which might be more likely if you're on Windows).
 

For this it'll be in the Documents location, for example my Plugins folder is at:
C:\Users\CB\Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins

Then for Regions it's at:
C:\Users\CB\Documents\SimCity 4\Regions

(Of course, it'll have your own computer user instead of CB for me.)

Let us know, and we're all here to help you get started.

[Pinkystephano10 5]

hello, Im new here Ive been playing SimCity since 2014

[City_Slider 2,716]

Hiya @Pinkystephano10 and welcome at Simtropolis.

Enjoy your Time at the Board. All members are here to assist you by Problems and Questions... By the Way, your Icon wont show up.

Regards, Oliver

[Cyclone Boom 17,032]

Hi @Pinkystephano10 and welcome to Simtropolis.

For anything city building related, you've certainly arrived at a great place. We hope you enjoy the site too.

[CorinaMarie 29,896]

Hiya, @Pinkystephano10. Welcome to Simtropolis.

[Kiwiwriter47 473]

13 hours ago, Pinkystephano10 said:

hello, Im new here Ive been playing SimCity since 2014

Greetings to you, @Pinkystephano10...enjoy the site.

[TheElkaz 12]

Old player here, recently coming back here to do some occasional city building in mainly Cities Skylines and SC4 Deluxe in future. Coming back here to get some SC4 mods into it.

I've been playing SC4 since the release, but have largely left it to the dust (to the point I lost the original CDs too!) for years. But the love of city building hasn't completely died down yet. Here's to *hopefully* make something beautiful 

[Cyclone Boom 17,032]

Hi @TheElkaz and welcome back to Simtropolis.

Great to hear you've decided to make a return to city building again, and thing with SC4 is it remains a timeless classic. All these years have gone by since release, and yet the community has been able to support the excellent platform the developers laid. This means we can build to even higher heights, with vast potential for expansion.

So you've made a most excellent choice, and we hope you like the site. Feel free to post in new and/or existing topics to your heart's content.

[CorinaMarie 29,896]

Hiya, @TheElkaz. Welcome to Simtropolis.

[DafDayz 10]

Hey y'all, 

I'm DJ from BC, Canada. I'm currently a mid-twenties music student and a part-time snowboard instructor and substitute child-care provider, aspiring to be a music educator.

Got into SimCity 3000 when I was 5 and SimCity 2000 when I was 8. I figured I'd give SimCity another whirl with SimCity 4 now that I have a lot more proficiency with problem-solving and reading  .

I'm having a lot of fun getting into SimCity 4 and just city simulators in general, and I'm just now starting to work on regional play. 

If anyone has more info on it, I'm looking for a city simulator like simcity4 that I can play with my long-distance girlfriend on a multiplayer platform. I've been trying to look for a good match. She's not very tech-savvy so it'd be best if the multiplayer came in the game.

Looking forward to see what this site has in store 
 

[CorinaMarie 29,896]

Hiya, DJ. Welcome to Simtropolis.

 

2 minutes ago, DafDayz said:

If anyone has more info on it, I'm looking for a city simulator like simcity4 that I can play with my long-distance girlfriend on a multiplayer platform.

I know SimCity 4 isn't set up for that, but hopefully other peeps might know of something.

[Cyclone Boom 17,032]

Hi @DafDayz and welcome to Simtropolis and back to SC4!

 

30 minutes ago, DafDayz said:

I have a lot more proficiency with problem-solving and reading  .

This right here will fit in ideally for the innovative mindset that city building encourages. Each city tile can be a puzzle piece of the larger jigsaw that the overall region forms. Yet inventively through our own creativity and inspiration, we can shape the way each city fits into painting the main picture.

So much potential, and we hope you enjoy the community too.

[DafDayz 10]

51 minutes ago, Cyclone Boom said:

This right here will fit in ideally for the innovative mindset that city building encourages. Each city tile can be a puzzle piece of the larger jigsaw that the overall region forms. Yet inventively through our own creativity and inspiration, we can shape the way each city fits into painting the main picture.

yeee. I mean, I initially meant because I'm not 8 anymore  , but I'm looking into diving into what the NAM mod has to offer too!

[Aurel 15]

Hello community,

I'm Aurel, a french city-builder enthusiast, I've been recommended your community by my coworker. He told me you have very interesting conversations around, especially on the Discord. Here's a bit more about me and my intentions to bring to the community.

That goes without saying but I'm a huge fan of simulation games, in particlar citty builders.
I received SimCity on super Nintendo for my 8th birthday but had no idea how this would shape me for the future. I then played to all SimCity versions. I know I'm probably part of a minority but I also loved the 2015 version and have a ~700h playtime on it.
I also enjoy a lot a good roller coaster tycoon, Factorio, or a game of OpenTTD (only played a couple of times).

I've also been a software architect for a dozen of years now, and it turned out I started to work on my own city builder. I won't cite the name here, it's no place for self advertisement
But yeah that means I'm up to chat about gameplay and mechanics with you all. If some are interested in the future we (the game development has a team of 5 now) would be down as well to offer beta keys and brainstorms about players expectations, desires and motivations in a such game.

Thanks for readin, see you around!
Aurel.

[Cyclone Boom 17,032]

Hi @Aurel and welcome to Simtropolis.

That sounds really cool how you've heard great things about the community already.

Also if ever you wanted to post about the city builder you're working on, feel free to open a topic in the City-Building Games forum to showcase your progress. This is a site where anything about city building fits into discussion after all, so you've certainly just joined the ideal place.

[CorinaMarie 29,896]

Hiya, Aurel. Welcome to Simtropolis.

[Aurel 15]

Cool, Thank you guys!
I surely will do that soon. Maybe it's there already ^^

[Kiwiwriter47 473]

18 minutes ago, Aurel said:

Hello community,

I'm Aurel, a french city-builder enthusiast, I've been recommended your community by my coworker. He told me you have very interesting conversations around, especially on the Discord. Here's a bit more about me and my intentions to bring to the community.

That goes without saying but I'm a huge fan of simulation games, in particlar citty builders.
I received SimCity on super Nintendo for my 8th birthday but had no idea how this would shape me for the future. I then played to all SimCity versions. I know I'm probably part of a minority but I also loved the 2015 version and have a ~700h playtime on it.
I also enjoy a lot a good roller coaster tycoon, Factorio, or a game of OpenTTD (only played a couple of times).

I've also been a software architect for a dozen of years now, and it turned out I started to work on my own city builder. I won't cite the name here, it's no place for self advertisement
But yeah that means I'm up to chat about gameplay and mechanics with you all. If some are interested in the future we (the game development has a team of 5 now) would be down as well to offer beta keys and brainstorms about players expectations, desires and motivations in a such game.

Thanks for readin, see you around!
Aurel.

Welcome aboard!

Everybody here knows everything about SC4!

Except me...I know mostly about New York history. 

[Naomi57 2,985]

6 hours ago, Aurel said:

I've also been a software architect for a dozen of years now, and it turned out I started to work on my own city builder. I won't cite the name here, it's no place for self advertisement
But yeah that means I'm up to chat about gameplay and mechanics with you all. If some are interested in the future we (the game development has a team of 5 now) would be down as well to offer beta keys and brainstorms about players expectations, desires and motivations in a such game.

Welcome to Simtropolis!  I used to do software architecture, too, with a focus on requirements, integration, and data architecture.

Always happy to chat about gameplay mechanics.    That could be a good topic thread; you'll likely find others here would be interested to engage in those sorts of conversations — what SC4 does and how, and why, and how to make it do what you want.

Here's one post of mine on SC4 economic gameplay, I've other posts along those lines, too.

• https://community.simtropolis.com/journals/entry/29039-ten-silent-killers-of-SimCity-4-commercial-growth/

SC4 is surprisingly well designed, though it has many well-known flaws, too.  A lifespan of 20 years is highly irregular, and there's very good reasons why SC4 has had such a long run.  Shorter-lived systems tend to shoot themselves in the foot, one way or another, often by trying too hard to be better.  Are you familiar with the "gold plating" anti-pattern?

[City_Slider 2,716]

I´ll make it short ;-) ...

Hello all "Newbies" and welcome on Board. Good, that you find the Way to this Community. Hope you all enjoy your Time in here. This Page is friendly and really really helpful... trust me ;-)

Again... welcome, Oliver

  Edited May 8, 2021 by City_Slider  
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