Official BAT Request Thread

[mediaman_12 0]

If people want inspiration for huge sculptures/statues to build
How about doing Angel Of the North which has (almost) the wingspan of a Jumbo Jet (54 metres) and is 20 metres tall.

[Chris M 406]

Date: 2/26/2005 4:56:57 PM Author: XSpiderman Judging by what I saw in those pictures, Aon looks pretty easy. You could definitely attempt to create that, I think the hardest part will be to find the right textures and font for the Aon logo at the top. Why don't you give it a try?

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I might, I dont know Im not the greatest BATer though....

[Linkartist 003 36]

Any tall futuristic building would be nice

[tkirch 4]

I was driving too work today after playing SC4 all weekend and realized how little real life buildings we have. 

No funeral homes.
Not enough small drive up banks.
Small corner taverns.

Driving down a main street here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin i noticed residential, two family houses and then every so often a small one floor business where things like flower shops, small pet stores, a vacuum repair shop, a watch repair shop, local barborshop, tanning salons and things like that pop up.  Just a small diner where on the floor above is an apartment.  Small two floor offices.  A Jackson Hewitt Tax Service to get your taxes done at.  An Edward Jones to do some financial planning.  A Bridal store.  These things we need more of.

Take a drive through a small rural town, you have the local diner,a small drug store, a pizza place and these buildings don't look new, they look weathered.  A Small bowling alley with manual pinsetters. An old tavern where the locals go to shoot the B.S.

All these things create more to reality than anything else.

 

 

We don't need the skyscrapers we need more reality buildings.

[Mayor Badonk-a-donk 0]

I would like to request Napa Auto Parts stores and Autozone parts stores. They'd both look great in any city and both are very well known names

[amstairdam30 0]

my buildings dont show up when i download them, how so i fix this?

[Chris M 406]

Put them in My Documents/Simcity4/Plugins and that'll do it

[amstairdam30 0]

well, i see the base of the building and the props on the floor and the lot, but none of the actual building.

[kassarc16 4]

If someone could make a small 2 story glass structure with stairs going up, and an elevator to the side, and contact either tropod or redlotus, it'd would be a nice building for the NAM Pedestion walkway start/end piece.

[Frog 0]

Lake Point Tower, Chicago IL

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//May11195.jpg align=baseline>

77 floors, ~700 feet tall, bronze-plated outer wall.  I'd say around 7,000 residents.  Condos in here can go for up to a million dollars, so it's definitely R

[Mayor Badonk-a-donk 0]

Whie searching for some cool downloads a thought raced through my cheesy mind and I thought i'd pass it on as a request. 

 

What about a set of large off highway dump trucks and huge shovels for a strip mine? If you ask me there's alot of potential for a strip mine in many of the maps out there.    So lets see some heavy haulage equipment and related items

[p2h5 3]

Lake Point Tower would be pretty cool. It has got very nice lines. $1,000,000 seemed quite cheap to me, compared to London real estate prices. In London, in a tower like that, the apartments would probably start from about $1,000,000, and go up to about $10,000,000 for the penthouses! no kidding or exagurating here.

 

 

[p2h5 3]

I would love it if someone could make a Virgin Megastore Really?  Where are those shops??  Most people i know, me included, consider the Virgin Megastore on Tottenham Court Road (London) to be some form of hell on earth, though there is nothing wrong with the actual buildings in your post  

I always think that it is a bit odd having real brand names in the game, i mean it is like a totally different world in SC4. 

[Maranello575 5]

Could anyone be brave enough to bat the whole Times Square Complex.

http://www.proshare.org/Schools/HSBC%20Times%20Square%20Billboard.jpg align=baseline>

 

 

http://www.wirednewyork.com/skyscrapers/10xsq/images/10xsq_times_square_45th_12jan03.jpg align=baseline>

[Chris M 406]

Date: 2/28/2005 9:28:52 PM Author: amstairdam30 well, i see the base of the building and the props on the floor and the lot, but none of the actual building.

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What BAT is it or is it a lot ?

[Cougar73 0]

i would like for somone to make the University of Virginia Rotunda

 

http://www.virginia.edu/images/index/photoMain2c.jpg width=362>

[jefe 0]

How about some Art Nouveau masterpieces?

 

Pohjola insurance company, Helsinki. I absolutely love this one, it's so unique. Take a look at some of it's amazing and (quite bizarre) details. Unfortunately they would probably be impossible to model.

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And the Finnish Natiolal Theatre

 

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http://www.computec.fi/referenssit/kuvat/kansallisteatteri.jpg align=baseline>

[demerson 42]

Hello,  I would really love to see one of you awesome bat creAters make sum of the following...

steak n shake

schuncks

save alot

IGA

movie gallery

commerce bank

a realistic church

head shop...

and more common american stores and reserants.

 

 i would love to see these made.  thank you  

[gravemind 0]

I have added a post to the end of the Lot request thread at this location:

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=35148&pageNo=1&num=30

 

This thread details my plan for a better garbage management solution than the game currently allows, through the use of some realistic and balanced lots. Hope you find it interesting.

 

Gravemind

[WillowArcane 0]

I know we already have alot of train stations on the exchange, but living in windsor ontario, we only have a very small version of the Via Rail stations. Since my father works there, would someone be able to make a BAT for me to honor him with? I DON'T want a model of the windsor one though, 'cos its so pathetic.

Thanks!

-W

[NEpi 0]

hi everyone,

a few months ago i went cold turkey on SC4 due to RL issues, and now i'm ready for more

the only thing i still miss is planning tools. as one of the most hard-to-control concept of this game (at least it is for me) is transit, why not having all sorts of roads and mass transit buildings that are merely place holders?
here are the specs:
1. all kinds of teransit buildings and streets (at least the basic ones, or just the big ones, avenues rails and hiways, maybe)
2. clear way of differentiating them from real lots (for example, roads as black stripes).
3. cost nothing (plopping and maintianance)
4. have zero capacity
5. will appear on the overall transit map correctly (great for planning)

since i have no idea how to make that, and since i think it will boost the fun for many many city developers in this community, i'm asking someone else to pick up the gauntlet.

thanks you in advance!

P.S. since i haven't been around for quite a while, i'm not sure if this issue has been addressed in the past, and searching got me nothing, so i'm asking now.

[topcliff 1]

what we need are fraternities! perfect for those creating university villages.

[buckbeach 8]

I would like to see a bunch of small town/city businesses (you know before malls. Walmarts and fast food restaurants)  They really wouldn't need to be up to the major efforts of the group at large and I wouldn't think very hard to be pumped out (this from someone who knows nothing of lot building).

These are examples (keep them small and local): bars, beauty shops, lunch/breakfast spots (oriental, mexican, italian, were the farmers/locals go for coffee in the morning to get an eye opener and shoot the breeze) laundrymats,  accountants, lawyers, mom & pop markets, doctors, dentists, video rentals, funeral homes,  sporting store (fishing and hunting equipment and such), bread discount outlets, drug store/pharmacies, etc, etc, etc, etc.. The list could go on and on.

 

BTW as I am writing this I can see problems with growing versions and we all know that ploppables fall short in the RCI world.  Damn, I wish you genuises could break that barrier.

[buckbeach 8]

Date: 2/28/2005 11:30:23 AM Author: tkirch

I was driving too work today after playing SC4 all weekend and realized how little real life buildings we have. 

No funeral homes. Not enough small drive up banks. Small corner taverns.

Driving down a main street here in Milwaukee, Wisconsin i noticed residential, two family houses and then every so often a small one floor business where things like flower shops, small pet stores, a vacuum repair shop, a watch repair shop, local barborshop, tanning salons and things like that pop up.  Just a small diner where on the floor above is an apartment.  Small two floor offices.  A Jackson Hewitt Tax Service to get your taxes done at.  An Edward Jones to do some financial planning.  A Bridal store.  These things we need more of.

Take a drive through a small rural town, you have the local diner,a small drug store, a pizza place and these buildings don't look new, they look weathered.  A Small bowling alley with manual pinsetters. An old tavern where the locals go to shoot the B.S.

All these things create more to reality than anything else.

We don't need the skyscrapers we need more reality buildings.

 

I just wrote a request also for such items (hard not to double request somethings on a 35 page thread).  I completely echo your words.  I worked for a while in a couple of small ag and timber coummunities in the California dessert and Oregon but I know these types of items are not exclusive to just these areas.

 

Grampa Al has resurrected the farming world and these are the type of support businesses that make up such towns/areas.

[Maranello575 5]

Maybe they should ease up the stress on this thread and divide it into different sections.A request forum for industry;another for comercial etc.

[sepsis 17]

Don't know if this has been requested before, but I'd really like to see some oil rigs ingame...

 

 

 

[jp walker 1]

YES oil rigs are a good idea

[Cougar73 0]

Can somone make

The Rotunda (University of Virginia)

Scott Stadium(University of Virginia)

 The Georgia Dome(Atlanta)

 

Philips Arena (Atlanta)

[petriknl 15]

Also I have some request!

From Holland - The Hague some governmental administrationbuildings;

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//haag2.jpg align=baseline>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//haag4.JPG align=baseline>

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//haag5.JPG align=baseline>

 

 

 

To make European cities look really realistic we need an IKEA

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//ikea2.JPG align=baseline>

 And just something I think is beautiful:

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Erasmusbrug.JPG align=baseline>

[Maranello575 5]

That bridge looks beautiful but it would be pretty hard to make