Introduce Yourself Here!

[l3abeLincoln 4]

Hello everyone,

I was looking for something new to play the other day and saw Skylines and after reviewing it I decided against it but it did unlock a hidden itch I have had to play a simbuilder since my days with SimCity on Super Nintendo.  After doing some research I decided SimCity 4 would be the one I wanted to dive into and I am happy with my choice.  As a 40 year old father of about to be 2 boys I feel like i can dive into this in my spare time and just have fun building/creating.  I also quickly learned it has a massive modding community, hence, why I am here.   I have only recently gotten into modding starting with Cyberpunk but the sheer number of mods related to this title puts that game to shame. I guess that's what happen when a game has been out for almost 20 years.  Anyways,  I have been learning a lot on this site these  past few days and look forward to joining in on the activities with everyone.

Best,
 

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @l3abeLincoln and welcome to Simtropolis.

That sure is an inspired decision to choose SC4 and begin exploring. There's plentiful potential with what the mayoral platform provides with custom content too, and you'll likely find it becomes a truly fulfilling creative hobby. Whenever you've questions about the game, feel free to post inside new or existing topics.

We hope you enjoy the site and community.

[makye79 6]

hello~

I'm a freshman who just started and I don't know much.

Have fun haha

 

Spoiler

안녕하세요~

시작한지 얼마 안되어 잘 모르는 신입생 입니다

재밌게 지내요 ㅎㅎ

 

  Edited July 20, 2022 by Cyclone Boom  
Translated to English.

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @makye79 and welcome to Simtropolis.

You'll figure things out more while learning about the game. This is a very friendly community with people from many walks of life around the world.

Please do ask in the forums and we'll help you with anything you're unsure about.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

21 hours ago, l3abeLincoln said:

Hello everyone,

I was looking for something new to play the other day and saw Skylines and after reviewing it I decided against it but it did unlock a hidden itch I have had to play a simbuilder since my days with SimCity on Super Nintendo.  After doing some research I decided SimCity 4 would be the one I wanted to dive into and I am happy with my choice.  As a 40 year old father of about to be 2 boys I feel like i can dive into this in my spare time and just have fun building/creating.  I also quickly learned it has a massive modding community, hence, why I am here.   I have only recently gotten into modding starting with Cyberpunk but the sheer number of mods related to this title puts that game to shame. I guess that's what happen when a game has been out for almost 20 years.  Anyways,  I have been learning a lot on this site these  past few days and look forward to joining in on the activities with everyone.

Best,
 

 

31 minutes ago, makye79 said:

hello~

I'm a freshman who just started and I don't know much.

Have fun haha

 

  Korean Translation (Reveal hidden contents)

안녕하세요~

시작한지 얼마 안되어 잘 모르는 신입생 입니다

재밌게 지내요 ㅎㅎ

 

Hello and welcome to the forum!

[Ceafus 88 1,794]

On 7/19/2022 at 3:56 PM, l3abeLincoln said:

Hello everyone,

I was looking for something new to play the other day and saw Skylines and after reviewing it I decided against it but it did unlock a hidden itch I have had to play a simbuilder since my days with SimCity on Super Nintendo.  After doing some research I decided SimCity 4 would be the one I wanted to dive into and I am happy with my choice.  As a 40 year old father of about to be 2 boys I feel like i can dive into this in my spare time and just have fun building/creating.  I also quickly learned it has a massive modding community, hence, why I am here.   I have only recently gotten into modding starting with Cyberpunk but the sheer number of mods related to this title puts that game to shame. I guess that's what happen when a game has been out for almost 20 years.  Anyways,  I have been learning a lot on this site these  past few days and look forward to joining in on the activities with everyone.

Best,
 

 

On 7/17/2022 at 1:17 AM, leaf said:

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

trying to join the discord actually.

 

On 7/20/2022 at 12:40 PM, makye79 said:

hello~

I'm a freshman who just started and I don't know much.

Have fun haha

 

  Korean Translation (Reveal hidden contents)

안녕하세요~

시작한지 얼마 안되어 잘 모르는 신입생 입니다

재밌게 지내요 ㅎㅎ

 

Welcome to Simtropolis!

You won't find a better/more welcoming city simulating community!

[Aleah 11]

Hello!

I am new to Simtropolis but not new to SimCity4. I've been playing the game since it first came out back in 2003. (I'm curious what they're going to do for its 20th anniversary in 2023.) 

I am here mostly for the mods lol once I learned that was a thing (very recently!! how did i not know this?) I am trying to get my hands on all of it haha! i already downloaded and installed the NAM 44. But are theyre other mods i can download??? building mods? where can i find them on this site? Thanks for the warm welcomes

-A. P.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

15 minutes ago, Aleah said:

Hello!

I am new to Simtropolis but not new to SimCity4. I've been playing the game since it first came out back in 2003. (I'm curious what they're going to do for its 20th anniversary in 2023.) 

I am here mostly for the mods lol once I learned that was a thing (very recently!! how did i not know this?) I am trying to get my hands on all of it haha! i already downloaded and installed the NAM 44. But are theyre other mods i can download??? building mods? where can i find them on this site? Thanks for the warm welcomes

-A. P.

Hello and welcome to the forum!  You can find everything you're looking for in the newly refurbished STEX.

17 minutes ago, Aleah said:

(I'm curious what they're going to do for its 20th anniversary in 2023.) 

The game creators? Probably nothing, as they're long gone. Us? Who knows!

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @Aleah and welcome to Simtropolis.

It's great you've joined us here, even though familiar with SC4 already. You'll find being here it opens up a whole new world of mayoral opportunities.

For recommended mods, you might find this topic useful:

 

Also I highly recommend checking out Cori's Shoppes too. These contain lists of graphical mods, for water, beach, terrain, rock, and trees.

[cristipund4 4]

Hello everyone, how are you doing?

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @cristipund4 and welcome to Simtropolis. I'm very well thanks.

We hope you enjoy it here for all your city-building interests!

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

12 hours ago, cristipund4 said:

Hello everyone, how are you doing?

Great, well, except for...

... the sad story of love. A story which repeats as long as the crystal ball of time continues to exist, as long as this ball has not crashed into a star, a star from another time. "Time" will perhaps explode from within because of these sad stories which repeat and fill it to capacity. When time fills with love, overflows with feeling, and chokes with tears and shouted loneliness, its crystal walls will break. But every love story will make a home in the particles of this broken sphere and will, itself, make a new "time." And perhaps a day will come when eternity and everything that has been created and everything that has not been created will be nothing but crystal particles which have in their heart a seed of love, a seed of the sad story of love. Then, time will be a woman and a man sleeping in a bubble of time.... stories with endings not quite the same.

Many know the woman now, for this very story, and to name her doesn't change anything. She was a woman who wrote herself into her stories. And there is the man whose existence or absence is the same since no one knows him. How they got to know each other is not very important either. When a story wants to take shape, it will find its way: looking for a job, reading a tale, publishing a book, it makes no difference.

The woman was simple. There was no distance between her mind, her tongue, and her heart. Her speech was the same as her thoughts and her feelings. In the business of love, she did not believe in time really. She was in love all the time, unlike those who fall in love in a moment and then forget all about it....

That is why when she first saw the man she said, "you are very handsome, let's be friends... I am very lonely."

The man was sitting behind the desk with an untidy face and hair, and a thick stubble about his face. He stared at the woman, smiling lightly. Her manner of behavior was such that he formed no impression about her except that the woman was not more than a child from whom a novelist could be made.

The man had read the woman's short stories and pretended to be interested in them, began to speak about the things that he was supposed to mention without uttering a word about love. The woman concluded that if she wrote good stories, the man would be hers.

The days passed and the man maintained the silent smile on his lips and left everything conditional and hanging in the air.

The woman was as she had always been. She would pace the room, search the books and the shelves, organize the papers on the desk, spread them out, and reorganize them again.... The woman was impatient in every step she took and in every word she uttered and one day after she had messed up things all over the place, she sat in front of the man and said, "Give me your hand, I want to tell your fortune."

The man said, "Wait until you become a writer."

The woman said, But I want to hold your hand, I want you to stroke my hair."

The man smiled and asked, "why?'

The woman said, "I want to caress my hair with your hand."

The man laughed and said, "you're crazy," and did not give his hand.

I am writing this story very quickly because I am afraid someone may come in and sit by that window and look at me and ask; How far has the work come? I am writing this story far from peoples' eyes, because I don't like anyone to read it while it is not yet finished. This is why I avoid naming places, cities, and buildings because it not only takes a lot of time, time that I really don't have, but also because it doesn't matter at all. It is enough to know that everything is happening in the crystal ball of the time.

Time for a woman like her who was after someone to love her, meant only time. She did not see any difference between a moment or a year. Whichever corner she was in, she would milk time to reach the moment when she could see him as a man and herself as a woman, and nothing else.

That is how she started her work, as she used her being to give the words life. As if the words were coming from her body and soul. She wrote story after story, day after day, and all of them romantic. The man was there. He would read the stories, shake his head, and be satisfied with his work.

Sometimes, when the woman finished a story, she would read it to the man and then say, "I am tired, lets go for a walk."

The man would smile and shake his head and the woman knew that it was not yet the time for him to appear with her in public. She would accept the distance between them and would doubt her work. She would then go back to reading and writing.

Time passed and the woman's books were published one after another. The man had begun to spent all his time reading her works. He began to think more and more about her, or more precisely about the heroine of her stories. The man would go to the woman's office and she would jump from one subject to another. She had not been coherent in her speech for some time and her situation was becoming more serious every day to the extent that the man couldn't discern which was speaking, the woman or the protagonist of her stories. The strophe-poem of her conversations had become, "Do you love me?"

The man laughed every time she said this and commented with only, "How far has your work progressed?"

And she would suddenly come to her senses, get herself together, and show her hand which had the pen and pencil marks all over it. Her hand had also toughened and the man said, "It is work."

The woman would go back to work.

How long did it take, how much time passed, before these changes settled into her body and soul? The woman who was so conscious about the door and had wanted the man to come in and read her stories, began to be scared of the thought that the door would open and someone would come in and bend over the pages blackened with words.

Time was never important in the woman's life. If the seed was cultivated, the seed of love, nothing could have harmed it. The man saw gradually that the woman did not show enthusiasm and if he called her, she turned her head to him very slowly. It seemed her look no longer had that romantic shine, that childish excitement. However, the eyes of the woman hero of her stories were shining, she gazed romantically, and her acts and behavior became enthusiastically child-like.

The man read the stories everyday, before and after publishing them, and became familiar with the woman more and more, the woman who felt her skin and blood in her stories.

The man played music for her so that she would write more and give the same romantic air to her stories. Hoping that the movement of her neck and head wouldn't remain so slow, he also prepared fruit juice for her and cared more about her diet. But the woman did not pay attention to these acts of kindness. She only wrote. One day when the man said "you seem tired, let's go for a walk," the woman answered with a weak voice and a dull gaze, "I cannot, I am busy."

And she didn't go. She didn't pay attention to critics of her work either. Journals were racing to talk about her, but she did not even know the number of her books' printings. She didn't react to the acclamations of the man who stood in front of her with newspapers in his hands. Her movements only became slower everyday.

One day when the man woke up, he laughed. He had never laughed like that before, especially alone with himself. He had a strange feeling as he remembered the woman's humor and wit, her childish moves and her strophe-poem "Do you love me?"

The man was singing to himself and felt drawn toward the woman. He eventually went to a flower shop, bought a bouquet and set out. The woman was writing as usual. It seemed as though she was writing the last sentence of a short story for only her hand was moving and her body was like a stone statue. She was far from everything, including time. It seemed as though she was only a hand writing hurriedly. He put the flower in a vase before her, but the woman did not look up. She was staring at what she was writing. She didn't even blink. It seemed as though she had reached the end of the last sentence. The man saw her place a period and her hand came to rest on the page. The man slowly took the papers out from under her hand. He read the title of the story: "The Sad Story of Love." He laughed. He touched the woman's shoulder, and looked at her face and froze. The woman was not a woman any more. She had turned into a statue of words, and when the man touched her on the shoulder thousands of words suddenly spread on the ground and among all those thousands of words the man saw these; "You are very handsome... let's be friends....I am very lonely."

Aren't you glad you asked?!!!

And welcome to the forum!

 

[tequt 6]

hello! I'm tequt and i'm new to the city building community and soon I'll start getting into SimCity 4

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

4 hours ago, tequt said:

hello! I'm tequt and i'm new to the city building community and soon I'll start getting into SimCity 4

Hello and welcome to the forum!

[Ulisse Wolf 4,403]

4 hours ago, tequt said:

hello! I'm tequt and i'm new to the city building community and soon I'll start getting into SimCity 4

Hello and Welcome to SimCity. 

If you have any questions or concerns about mods let us know that we try to answer. If you have discord I suggest you join.

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @tequt and welcome to Simtropolis.

Sounds great for getting into SC4 soon. For any mayoral questions you have, feel free to ask in the forums inside new and existing topics.

We hope you enjoy it here too!

[Erevann 4]

Hello everyone!

I'm erevann and I'm going back to SC4 years later... thanks to Steam because my SC4 CD is lost a long time ago ; ( And luckily I found Simtropolis and its mods !!!; D Why didn't I know it 15 years ago?

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

On 11/5/2022 at 7:02 AM, Erevann said:

Hello everyone! 

I'm erevann and I'm going back to SC4 years later... thanks to Steam because my SC4 CD is lost a long time ago ; ( And luckily I found Simtropolis and its mods !!!; D Why didn't I know it 15 years ago?

Hello and welcome back to the game!

[Thaldren 4]

Greetings!

I used to play a lot of SimCity, SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000, and SimCity 4 when I was younger.

I've wanted to play again and came across this forum and decided to join!

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @Erevann & @CPUx86 and welcome to Simtropolis!

It's great to hear you've both gotten into SC4 again, and even all these years later this is still a home for many of us. Do feel free to post in the forums for anything worth asking about, and there's so much knowledge which has been built up over the past two decades and counting.

We hope you enjoy your mayoral citizenship here.

[Umb 3]

Hello,
I started playing SimCity 1 very many years ago and now SimCity 4 deluxe.

Congratulations for the site.

I'm Italian and I don't write well in English, sorry.

I saw that there are many things to download.....very interesting.

I was wondering what is the difference between LOTS and BUILDINGS (BATs).…

For RCI buildings there are four categories I've seen where to select buildings, whereas in LOTS and BUILDINGS (BAT) are they all non RCI? Or are they all together....?

Thank you

[Ulisse Wolf 4,403]

3 hours ago, Umb said:

Hello,
I started playing SimCity 1 very many years ago and now SimCity 4 deluxe.

Congratulations for the site.

I'm Italian and I don't write well in English, sorry.

I saw that there are many things to download.....very interesting.

I was wondering what is the difference between LOTS and BUILDINGS (BATs).…

For RCI buildings there are four categories I've seen where to select buildings, whereas in LOTS and BUILDINGS (BAT) are they all non RCI? Or are they all together....?

Thank you

First of all, welcome to community

Within a mod zip file there are multiple files that are critical for the mod to work. the term BAT identifies a building that is modeled 3D and that can then be used in LOT that can be positioned or growth. 

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @Umb and welcome to Simtropolis.

In addition to what @ulisse said, you might find the post @CaptCity made in this topic helpful for explaining the difference between file formats. There's also this post which I made a while ago which explains about the file formats too. The type of lot can be RCI and those are called "growable" buildings.

Others are ploppable instead, which means they're available from a game menu.

[CryptoconEmanuel 5]

hi everyone i play SimCity 4 and SimCity 3000 i started playing them again this year i love everything that can be done in game with the plugins.

 

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @CryptoconEmanuel and welcome to Simtropolis also.

That's great to hear, and just in time for the 20th anniversary of SC4 which is tomorrow (14th January). You've sure come to a great community for everything about the SimCity series. Especially SC4 which has the biggest following of any city-building game here.

[aruba 6]

Hi,

Have been playing SimCity 3000 long yime ago. Then while searching for old DOS games stumbled on SimCity 4. Downloaded it from GOG and then Found out about Simtropolis and all the extra plugins to improve the game.

I am retired now and have some time on hand to play games.

However as new-be got completely lost in world of plugins and addons so hope by joining I can get some help.

Saludos

 

[solidus 5]

Hi all. New member here looking to connect about SC4. Looking forward to chatting on Discord!

[Cyclone Boom 16,853]

Hi @aruba and @solidus welcome both of you to the community.

It's great you've found the site, and do feel free to ask in the forums for anything where people can be of assistance. There does appear to be a resurgence of activity recently following the game's 20th anniversary, and it sure bodes well with new people like yourselves getting into SC4 too.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,444]

Hello and welcome CPUx86, Umb, CryptoconEmanuel, aruba, solidus.

[RobVG 16]

Started playing SimCity in the mid 90''s and eventually lost interest.

It came up in conversation recently and I had some cash in my Steam wallet and they had it on sale for $5- so here I am.

The only thing I miss about the old game was placing 3D underground water pipes. But in SC4 it's easier and more efficient.