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[gommasan 48]

Hi everyone!

My name is Andre and i'm a long time SimCity 4 player, used to play it so much that the original cd eventually cracked an broke. Life put me away from it for many years now, but i saw it on GOG a few weeks ago and decided to come back again, what a blast it has been to play again the game i would spend hundreds of hours on.

I'm actually a long time member of the community, I made an account back in the early days of simtropolis, mainly for downloads but for the forums too.

Sadly said account has been long lost, so i decided to come back with a fresh face and rejoin the family. 

 

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi Andre and welcome back to SC4 and Simtropolis.

Glad you could re-join the community, and we're pleased to confirm SC4 is still going strong with new content being made regularly. If ever you did wish to recover your old account, we could try and look that up for you. Otherwise it sounds a great idea to make a fresh start and getting into mayoral things again.

[CorinaMarie 29,577]

49 minutes ago, gommasan said:

Hi everyone!

Hiya, one single one!

Welcome back to Simtropolis.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

1 hour ago, gommasan said:

Hi everyone!

My name is Andre and i'm a long time SimCity 4 player, used to play it so much that the original cd eventually cracked an broke. Life put me away from it for many years now, but i saw it on GOG a few weeks ago and decided to come back again, what a blast it has been to play again the game i would spend hundreds of hours on.

I'm actually a long time member of the community, I made an account back in the early days of simtropolis, mainly for downloads but for the forums too.

Sadly said account has been long lost, so i decided to come back with a fresh face and rejoin the family. 

 

But....how do we really know it is you?!!! Hello and Welcome.

[Master SqueakyEye 5]

Hello,

Found an Old Dell Optiplex 755. It was corrupted. I used Hirens, Put Ubuntu, used that to put win 8.1 on USB Boot, replaced Ubuntu with 8.1(Updates OFF!!! lol) and have an Operational PC. And the ONE Game it will still run at 2GB RAM? Yeah Baby..........................SC4 Forever yo's, was on here a looooooong time ago, before I had my kids lol. Hope all have been well. This thing will come to a crawl if I stuff it with add ons so Ima have to be choosy but its so nostalgic and cool to be back on this site. Glad to see you've kept it running all these years. The region creation tools have certainly come a long way as well. 

Anyway, glad to be back on and see everyone round the exchange!!!

[CorinaMarie 29,577]

Hiya, @Master SqueakyEye. Welcome back to the game and Simtropolis.

I played for a couple of years on an XP comp with a mere 2 GB RAM and it was plenty good enough for me. Just like you intend to do, I kept mods to a minimum. I added the various terrain and water mods and a minimal NAM install just to get the SAM streets and a few other things like wide radius curves.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

8 minutes ago, Master SqueakyEye said:

Hello,

Found an Old Dell Optiplex 755. It was corrupted. I used Hirens, Put Ubuntu, used that to put win 8.1 on USB Boot, replaced Ubuntu with 8.1(Updates OFF!!! lol) and have an Operational PC. And the ONE Game it will still run at 2GB RAM? Yeah Baby..........................SC4 Forever yo's, was on here a looooooong time ago, before I had my kids lol. Hope all have been well. This thing will come to a crawl if I stuff it with add ons so Ima have to be choosy but its so nostalgic and cool to be back on this site. Glad to see you've kept it running all these years. The region creation tools have certainly come a long way as well. 

Anyway, glad to be back on and see everyone round the exchange!!!

Hello and welcome to the forum!

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @Master SqueakyEye and welcome to Simtropolis.

That's excellent how you got SC4 running on an older computer which needed repairing with the setup. It's very much still chugging along is the community we're pleased to say, and you'll find there's multitudes of content which is still being made on quite a regular basis.

See you on the forums!  (Oh wait. We are already there technically.)

[clw2147 10]

hello, just started playing SimCity again after about a 10 year break.  decided to try using a few mods this time around.  any tips on "must have" mods would be good

 

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @clw2147 and welcome to Simtropolis and back to SC4!

This topic is an excellent starting point for content suggestions:

As pictured I highly recommend Cori's No Kickout in particular which I see as a must have mod.

Also take a look through Cori's Shoppes for lists of graphical mods which take your fancy.

Lots to explore and feel free to post in new and existing topics for anything you'd like assistance with on the resumption of your mayoral journey.

[clw2147 10]

thanks, i'll take a look at those.  haven't gotten to far into any city building yet, still relearning the basics.  

 

[CorinaMarie 29,577]

Hiya, @clw2147. Welcome to ST for your renewed journey with the game.

Btw, if you like to play any of the original Maxis regions there are now versions of them on the STEX with much better layouts for city tile sizes. Keep this in mind if you like to play in Timbuktu because that particular region is also where the tutorials are and in certain situations Maxis sometimes decides to wipe out all of your hard work and replace it with the original.

If you'd like linkys to those, let us know. I reconfigured a couple of them and CB created the rest recently so he could easily post where to find them. (Ofc, you might prefer a custom map of your own making or one of the million hosted here or on Devotion.)

[clw2147 10]

@CorinaMarie sure, i'd like to take a look at them.  i was never partial to making my own regions, probably because i wasn't very good at it

 

[clw2147 10]

@Cyclone Boom  wasn't sure what the no kickout mod was for at first, but now that i'm really looking at some of my practice cities i'm seeing alot of high wealth buildings in low wealth areas.  i never noticed that it does that before.  i'll definitely be using this mod.  thanks  

[CorinaMarie 29,577]

44 minutes ago, clw2147 said:

@CorinaMarie sure, i'd like to take a look at them.

CB is compiling the list as we speak.

@clw2147

Tiny tip: For the @mention thinger, if you type the @ sign then just start typing a member name, it should pop up a list as it see what matches. (This lets it be in blue and sends a beep (notification).

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

1 hour ago, clw2147 said:

hello, just started playing SimCity again after about a 10 year break.  decided to try using a few mods this time around.  any tips on "must have" mods would be good

 

Hello and Welcome. My first mod was for getting rid of that bulldozer that makes streets.

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

@clw2147

Sounds great. You'll find NKO really transforms the gameplay, and the great thing too it can be used perfectly fine in existing cities.

And here are those Maxis maps if you're interested in them sometime:

• Timbuktu Too
  Maxis region with 4 versions to choose from (including 4x4 all Large tiles).
• New York
  Maxis region as 4x4 all Large tiles.
• Berlin
  Maxis region as 4x4 all Large tiles + Maxis cities version (optimised mostly Large region layout).
• Fairview
  Maxis region as 2x2 all Large tiles.
• Kanto Tokai
  Maxis region as 4x4 all Large tiles.
• London
  Maxis region as 4x4 all Large tiles+ Maxis cities version (optimised mostly Large region layout).
• San Francisco
  Maxis upscaled region as 4x4 all Large tiles + Alternative layout (original scale).

 

[clw2147 10]

  @CorinaMarie <---  thanks for the tip

[Tamijo 2,028]

Hi, I'm a big fan of any type of City/Empire builder. played SimCity Classic, 2000 3000 and Rush Hour. Civ I to V, and all the Tropico's, Banished, Children of the Nile, Caesar IV, Transport Fever and many other builder or transport games.

Actually I register mainly to do a story based on Tropico 6, as i saw others have done something similar with Banished. But for some reason I cant post in the "Other Builder" section, hope someone can help me with that.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

1 hour ago, Tamijo said:

Hi, I'm a big fan of any type of City/Empire builder. played SimCity Classic, 2000 3000 and Rush Hour. Civ I to V, and all the Tropico's, Banished, Children of the Nile, Caesar IV, Transport Fever and many other builder or transport games.

Actually I register mainly to do a story based on Tropico 6, as i saw others have done something similar with Banished. But for some reason I cant post in the "Other Builder" section, hope someone can help me with that. 

Hello and welcome!

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @Tamijo and welcome to Simtropolis.

I see you've managed to post your topic in a suitable forum, so looks like you're all set now.

Here it is:

It looks creative with making a story there, and it does remind me of Banished which I remember @catty-cb posting about.

[CorinaMarie 29,577]

Hiya, @Tamijo. Welcome to Simtropolis.

[Ulisse Wolf 4,403]

10 hours ago, Tamijo said:

Hi, I'm a big fan of any type of City/Empire builder. played SimCity Classic, 2000 3000 and Rush Hour. Civ I to V, and all the Tropico's, Banished, Children of the Nile, Caesar IV, Transport Fever and many other builder or transport games.

Actually I register mainly to do a story based on Tropico 6, as i saw others have done something similar with Banished. But for some reason I cant post in the "Other Builder" section, hope someone can help me with that.

Hello and Welcome to Simtropolis

[Tamijo 2,028]

Thanks for all the warm welcomes. And yes after a short period, I was able to start posting my story. So I’m very happy now 

 

[Tamijo 2,028]

Glad to be here, stil got a disk copy of SC4 that I may be able to reg. at Steam (no CD drive in my PC), if or rather when you inspire me to do another city.   

For now I guess it will be all in on my Tropico story, it kind of surprises me how much the family's go trough, when you dig deeper into every persons life.    

 

[Ulisse Wolf 4,403]

14 minutes ago, Tamijo said:

Glad to be here, stil got a disk copy of SC4 that I may be able to reg. at Steam (no CD drive in my PC), if or rather when you inspire me to do another city.   

For now I guess it will be all in on my Tropico story, it kind of surprises me how much the family's go trough, when you dig deeper into every persons life.    

 

Steam does not read the SC4 Disc serial key. I recommend you buy it on GOG or Steam

[Tamijo 2,028]

Sure, guess then I will wait for a sale on the game, quite steep for a game almost 20 years old.

[leaf 3]

hi i play SimCity 5. the 2013 one. looking for plays for co op. 

trying to join the discord actually.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

Welcome to the forum leaf!

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @leaf and welcome to Simtropolis.

Likely there are still some SC13 players around who still play the online mode. (Link to your reply here in case anyone sees this post.)