Official BAT Request Thread

[simzebu 19]

Date: 3/6/2005 9:50:26 AM
Author: Maranello575
That bridge looks beautiful but it would be pretty hard to make

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Actually, you could probably just mod the existing cable stayed bridge(I'm not volunteering, I'm terrible at 3d stuff)

[abcd 5]

I would like to see some PHOENIX Skyscrapers!!!

[King_SMO 4]

How about some skyscrapers from DownTown Tampa.

I dont think i've seen any from the Tampa Bay area.

Also, the sunshine skyway bridge would be awesome!

[Simmayor8 0]

Can someone BAT One Wachovia Center from Charlotte NC

http://www.skyscraperpicture.com/charlotte11.jpg align=bottom>

[fantnet 0]

Some body should create Fighter Plane Props for a custom Air Force Base

[Dathek 0]

I have a very simple request. We have soccer fields, rugby fields, baseball fields, tennis courts, swimming pools, basketball courts and more but we dont have any cricket fields.

Just wondering if anyone could make a local cricket oval, just something simple.

Thanks.

[garfiedude 2]

Some creative 1x1 sized Industry-Manufactoring buildings, to fill the hole left by Maxis.

[Nenitosoyyo 19]

garfiedude thats a perfect idea

[scba 179]

Dang. Are 1/50 of these requests ever made? ._.

 

Really, really easy request that a couple people might have seen in my uploads - PLEASE, PLEASE someone make some sets of different colored and sized stadium seats and grandstands. I know it can't be that hard, and I've tried the BAT. Just not easy enough for me.

[Orwell1984 0]

I've noticed that most of the requests on this page seem to be of a general nature, but I'd like to make a specific request. I haven't been able to find any kind of archaic-looking gatehouses on the STEX, and I was wondering if someone would like to make one--it would help me out a lot. All I need is a transit-enabled BAT to go over a road. I was thinking something that would look like this:

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//gate-cookst05.jpg align=baseline>

 

or this:

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//west_gate_clonmel.jpeg align=baseline>

 

There really aren't any on the STEX, and I know I could really use one. Any takers?

[petriknl 15]

Date: 3/8/2005 5:25:06 AM Author: Dathek I have a very simple request. We have soccer fields, rugby fields, baseball fields, tennis courts, swimming pools, basketball courts and more but we dont have any cricket fields. Just wondering if anyone could make a local cricket oval, just something simple. Thanks.

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Yes you are right. And also: Why are there no Athletic Sites????????????????

[mrbisonm 1,620]

scba,

Maybe 1/50 request are not fulfilled, but let me say this. This here thread is important to us BATters, since it gives us a lot of ideas. We don't always fulfill the requests exactly, but it helps us to make similar BATs.

I just fulfilled the request of a Grain Elevator and another one, more industrial looking one is coming up also.

One must understand that it takes time to model and we don't always want to model what we don't like.........so when we find something that we like, we might build it. Who knows, it could be your request...

 

Orwell1984
I started something that you showed, a City entrance

[jp walker 1]

here are some nice ones some BATer will like these!

ontario college or art/design Walking city Toronto


80 south street New York (proposed)

[Havenburgher 0]

I would like to request a Tunnel Ventilation Building. Tunnels often have ventilation buildings standing on both sides of the river or bay. These ventilation systems remove the gas emmisions (produced by traffic) out of the tunnel and blow in fresh air into the tunnel. I think it would be nice if someone could create such a building to make our tunnels look even more realistic.

Below are some examples of existing ventilation shafts, though he/she who would like to create such a building can use his own imagination off course.



This is the best example I could make in SC4 using existing buildings. I used the NDEX rail to subway transition for the ventilation building in this picture. I deleted the actual rail tunnel entrance in Photoshop.



This is a ventilation building of the Maastunnel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Personally I don't really like this building.



Ventilation building of a tunnel in Dartford, UK.



Ventilation building of the Triboro tunnel in NYC.



Ventilation building of the Holland tunnel in NYC (I'm not sure if this is really from the Holland tunnel).



Ventilation building of the Battery tunnel in NYC.


Is there a crafted BAT'er who would like to create such a building? Thanks!

PS: perhaps the following 3DS model could be used for this building?
https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=3ds%20Model&Str=superturbine%20model

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

Havent got a pic but, London City hall/civic center, the wierd shaped modern thing next to tower bridge

[Orwell1984 0]

Wow, that's awesome. Thank you so much, I really didn't expect to get a response so quickly. I'll be anxiously awaiting it on the STEX. Thanks again!

[garfiedude 2]

To expand on my 1x1 manufactoring industries. The Game neede more industry peroid.

[rp2005 165]

Date: 3/10/2005 1:54:15 AM Author: garfiedude To expand on my 1x1 manufactoring industries. The Game neede more industry peroid.

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Well, there's a few of us taking on the industrial sector.  As well as myself, mathe man and prepo regularly release industrials, but they take time to do and in my case I don't like to specialise.  But still - more industrials are on the way.

 

 

[garfiedude 2]

I have yours and Prepo's (the Finnish guy right?) already, but thanks for the mathe man suggestion.
I think mainly though, the game lacks serious manufactoring and high-tech dense industry, its like, the biggest ones of those are at best have only medium density feel or something, at least compared to a few of the bigger dirty Industry ones.
Anyways, keep up the good work and i look foreward to your Victorian mill.

[rp2005 165]

Date: 3/10/2005 7:23:59 AM Author: garfiedude I have yours and Prepo's (the Finnish guy right?) already, but thanks for the mathe man suggestion. I think mainly though, the game lacks serious manufactoring and high-tech dense industry, its like, the biggest ones of those are at best have only medium density feel or something, at least compared to a few of the bigger dirty Industry ones.

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The game isn't really geared up to allow really BIG industry - like steel or car plants.  The 6x6 growable limitation is quite severe (96m x 96m) and I think Maxis decided that creating large zones and allowing a variety of industrial lots to grow would give an industrial complex feel. 

 

Unfortunately that approach lacks the coherence of a real industrial plant.  The alternative is large ploppables like the Newman Inc lots.

 

Like everything else in the game you have to reach a compromise.  In the case of buildings that take huge areas of land that means cutting the real scale down.  I mean if you wanted to have a car plant to scale you'd be looking at a whole small city square. 

 

[garfiedude 2]

Hmm true i guess. Are there many 6x6s in the game? Maybe a few more could be made.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

I am working on a 6x6 Steel Manufacturing plant at the moment and it will be a growable I

[Rodan 0]

What we need I think to make our cities more realistic are stores, small ones, not like walmart and so on, I mean like Apple Concept Store, Zara, H&M, Urbanoutfitters, LaCoste, Gucci, Prada you know, brands.

To make streets like Oxford Street in London.

 

http://images.apple.com/uk/retail/regentstreet/gallery/images/potential_hero.jpg align=baseline>

 This is the Apple Store in London.

http://www.eskimo.com/~rwb/images/europe/11-milan-gucci.jpg width=1179 align=baseline>

Gucci Store in Milan

 

 

That woud be cool if someone did, a lot of brand stores, to do a long shopping street.

 

/Sorry For my bad english.\

 

/Rodan

[Sox303 0]

Hi all !

Let me first say thanks for all the great info and work u guys have done here !

 

Second, my idea is for an industrial cap reliver like a port. All u swedes prolly heard about the Kockum Crane. It is (was, sold to some asian country i belive) a great ship building and repair (i guess) crane located in Malm

[Sox303 0]

Heres some pictures of the crane

http://www.varvshistoria.se/kranens-webbsida/bilder.htm

[garfiedude 2]

First off, a reponse to an earlier post by kaboom.
Tower 42 (Natwest building) is available on the Maxis site, however, i recently got my hands on it, and it appears that the person who uploaded it to the SC-Exchange got it from somewhere else, either as a partialy finnished building, or a botched job at stealing. So there is the main tower looking almost finished, stuck in a lot with some native SC props, giving it a very crappy look. At the very least you have the model for the main tower that you could try finnishing of something (my attempts to track down the origin of this building havn't gotten very far).



Back to industry, yeah, i can see the problems that such large lots would pose from the BATing perspective, hmm, maybe i could try using some of the ones relased as props and make some large lots that have several of those buildings aranged differently for variety or something.

[_-NEO-_ 0]

I like to request Zims house form Invader Zim i love that show and it be cool if it was in my city thuxs.

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

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//zimhouse2.jpg align=baseline>

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

[hairy114 0]

How about some car hire companies to place around an airport?

Companies such as:

 

Alamo

Avis

Hertz

Dollar

Thrifty

Budget

 

And maybe a few more airport hotels?

[ThyGuy 6]

I'd like to request a $ commercial skyscraper, since there are none, and $ commercial gets so jipped in the game.

[Anonymous3030 0]

If anyone is still taking requests....how about an avenue with a ground light rail instead of a median....just a thought