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With the new pedmalls the construction of ancient cities on the hills or mountains is finally possible. You can see the construction here

@SIM-ple Jack No, they are a work in progress. WIP Jacaranda Mimosifolia

Top left are the parks that are part of JPN Downtown/Urban Canal Set http://blog.livedoor.jp/moonlinght/archives/cat_59226.html Bottom left is one of mattb's. Look in his files.

Looks like he's using it to make some nice rolling hills, to me. Be back later. Gone fishin'.

The numerous experiences and developments of previous episodes, call for a little timeout. To this end, today we shall leave the areas occupied by The Smileyfaces, thrust ourselves across New Udanani and try to find a refuge amongst The Localvores. I must warn you though that, as is true almost everywhere, even the smallest communities have their politics and some of The Localvores have drawn their battle lines with regards to a certain issue throughout the last few years... Read on if you are interested about the nature of this problem. I promise it is actually fairly benign, so you certainly won't feel exhausted after reading - don't worry. Farmington - the capital of The Localvores - despite its apparent complexity, consists of just two major parts. Concentrated, low-density urban areas (which are, more or less, linear towns)... ­­ ...and large swathes of farmlands and open meadows. ­ The latter, have been the subject of a serious debate in recent years... For a long time, The Localvores have consistently shied away from expanding their city or farming activities beyond the confluence of The Three Great Rivers. The undeniable benefits of fertile riparian areas caused The Localvores to grow very attached to such environment and land. As a result, many people were convinced that their tribe's goals are best met by staying close to the life-giving waters of Bila An'anani. This, however, started to be challenged by some of the townsfolk who argued that (as is the case with other tribes) the Localvore destiny is to lay claim to as many city tiles across New Udanani as possible. Some of the more religious proponents of this idea also pointed out to the fact that populating the entirety of New Udanani is one of Sulka's commandments and as such should not be ignored. Eventually, two opposing groups have formed as a result of this discord. The "Riparians" asserted that farming and life can only be supported along Bila An'anani river, while the "Explorers" believed that farming and life can be just as successful at any other spot. These ideas have frequently been discussed in public as well as in private. However, despite all of the heated debates (some of them brought before the Tribal Council), neither side was able to convince the other of their point of view. Many have even feared that the tribe itself may fracture and divide should the rift deepen... And although both factions were utilizing civilized methods to lobby for their interests, the divisions were becoming serious. Having practically no clue on how to deescalate the situation, The Localvore Tribal Council decided to allow "Explorer" groups to establish some experimental farms at a significant distance away from the shores of the cherished river. The reasoning was that it was best to simply put some geographical distance between supporters of both ideologies until everyone's tempers cool down a bit. Some officials have also hoped that the "Explorers" will quickly realize the futility of their nonsensical ideas and concede that "business as usual" is the best guarantor of the tribe's continued prosperity. But nothing of the kind has happened actually... On the contrary, it turned out that the "Explorers" have been able to successfully establish several large farms and plantations in their designated areas! The faction's fields have been developed to the Southwest of Farmington, greatly stretching the borders of their tribe's sphere of influence. Qualified research indicated that the plants growing there, were in no ways inferior to those growing closer to the river. ­­­ The progressive Localvore faction became so devoted to the search of new, arable land that they even crossed the boundaries of Farmington. As a result of this "inertia" two additional towns have been established in one go, seamlessly continuing Farmington's development. It had some interesting results like this single grain farm located within three different city tiles! ­ Although the "Explorers" faction have been quite satisfied with their success, they still understood the need to remain connected to their capital. To this end, and with the support of the authorities, they have built a simple cargo rail line that could be used to transfer goods and essential equipment to and from Blossom and Greener Hills. Unfortunately, there are currently no plans to provide passenger capacity to this network. ­­­­ No matter how one looks at things, the distance from Farmington is a clear disadvantage to the new developments in new city tiles. This is especially true with the following residential area in Greener Hills. This zone, located atop the Tvillik Ridge and hidden beyond a dense coniferous forest, has been dubbed "The Loneliest Neighborhood of New Udanani". It is the farthest point away from the Localvore capital, connected to the rest of the region with just a single, steep road and a couple of hiking trails... While the "Explorers" were busy populating the previously unused land, the "Riparians" tried to strengthen their hold on the farmlands laying close to Bila An'anani. Concerns and fears got the better of the faction's members and they responded to the perceived threats by consolidating some of their farms into larger, more influential enterprises through various deals and establishment of small, family holdings. ­­­ Production on some of the fields have also been adjusted to prioritize the so-called "fast growers" - plants which prefer wet, nutritious soils and don't take long to ripen. Both actions were meant to put "Riparians" into a better negotiating position in an event where the future of agriculture was to be determined on a governmental level. Although no official decisions were taken in this period of time, there was a constant, lingering feeling that it is best to prepare convincing solutions while there was still enough time for it. The conflict within The Localvore tribe has been closely observed not only by the members of both factions but also by The Localvore Statistical Committee (LCS). Unbeknownst to most of the tribe, the LCS has been keeping a watchful eye on the progress and achievements of "Riparians" and "Explorers" and five years after the initial schism, the LCS stepped forward to present data that compared both factions' agricultural models... ­ To everyone's surprise, it turned out that the results of both agricultural styles were actually comparable... However, both have also had some key advantages and best usage under certain conditions. The "Riparian" faction was credited with achieving 19% higher crop yields per hectare compared to the "Explorer" fields. At the same time, the "Explorer" farms turned out to achieve better profitability which surpassed "Riparian" faction's incomes by 11%. The LCS research was crucial due to one central reason - most people, including the Tribal Council, have finally agreed that both farming styles were valid and served specific purposes. River-centric farming was announced to be best for food production due to the superior soils. Farms laying outside of these areas, were earmarked as best spots for growing cash crops and industrially-useful plants. Management of agrarian spaces with respect to efficiency and budget considerations has become a hot topic. ­ The tempers among The Localvores cooled down after the results were announced. While both factions still held lively discussions between each other, the tone of these disputes was significantly friendlier. Eventually, a regular symposium began to be organized in Farmington every two years, allowing the entire population to keep up to date with the newest agricultural trends. In time, both factions have even agreed to establish a special website dedicated to various agricultural-related news, tips and videos... ­ As you can see, The Localvores, one of the least dynamic Udananian tribes, have found some new energy through what appeared to be a serious internal conflict. The tribal bonds prevailed, however, granting this unique tribe a new opportunity to expand and, hopefully, significantly increase the environmental beauty of New Udanani... During our next meeting, you will have an occasion to see the (almost) ready R-1 highway and a new town close to it. All indicates that The Businesspeople are ready to make contact with The Slacker tribe... The question is - does culture of entrepreneurial individuals has anything in common with the lazybones that The Slackers are...? Thank you for visiting today, as well as for all the previous likes, comments and views! Have a wonderful day! Comment replies: @juguesal - Thank you for a very nice comment! I hope you have successfully made the water transition you were aiming for! @TogaMasterJohn - Thanks for stopping by @TogaMasterJohn, always happy to see your comments. Yes, I have to say I myself fell in (narcissistic? ) love with Tralfamadore too. MMPs do the trick! @Ke|is - Indeed! I do plan to find some nice replacement textures for New Udanani. @PaPa-J - Thanks, I'm glad you liked the previous entry! @albireo38 - Thank you! Always nice to hear a compliment like that from a new viewer. @sejr99999 - Very nice to again hear from you @sejr99999 and I'm happy you find the landscaping pleasant. Cool idea regarding the water chute - I'll do it! Credits for the pieces of material used in the "Cornhub" site: 1. Upklyak at https://www.freepik.com/author/upklyak 2. Abel111222 at Wikipedia 3. Ben Keen at Wikipedia 4. Ivar Leidus at Wikipedia 5. Mehr News Agency at Wikipedia 6. Google Chrome web browser 7. Emojipedia

Hi Everyone, Working on the Slope Mod...Amazing mod. Thx

@junspud Hi, the tower from RDQ is here

Hi there! So the circled canal pieces are from Moonlinght and it's the ML JPN DT (maybe downtown???) Canal - description in japanese: http://blog.livedoor.jp/moonlinght/archives/1940300.html The building on the left side is one of Mattb325's FA buildings Urban Art Gallery I don't know the tower. As far as I can see the parallel parking is coming with the red-ish bicycle paths and I believe it's unreleased as whole. The parallel parking props were released as part of @Girafe's BSC-VIP Girafe Urbanpack (CarPack vol. 4) vol. 1 and the car props look like Girafe's too. @nos.17 also released a nice pack of (parallel) parking set with other goodies: nos.17 StreetSide Parking (SSP) Where did you get the image? Who uploaded it at the first place?

Hey guys! My first post there, though having been a member on Simtropolis for more than a decade... Anyway, I'm quite slow at creating a region, but here's my mother of pearls, Gold Coast-Fairview, on which I am playing since 2011. Currently at 3.755.000 inhabitants, it's the largest I've ever managed.

SimCity 4 OPEN ACCESS This page has been created to create a list of all available tools that the various modders and NAM Team use to create mods for SC4. The purpose of this list is to create a database of the tools used and that are available on GitHub making it accessible to edit and improve these tools. The main purpose is to speed up the development of new programs for modding by making it easier to access the source code of the programs used so far but they are showing their old age by making it increasingly difficult to use them in modern versions of Windows and in case create specific versions for the MAC If you create programs that start from the source code of the programs available on GitHub, it is strongly recommended to give credits to the original authors as well. The library consists of three main sections LIST OF MODDING TOOLS ON GITHUB LIST OF SC4 DLLs FOR ADVANCED MODDING OPENSC4 The list is still incomplete due to the difficulty of performing reverse engineering of the programs used.

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I made some experiments with the new dragable pedmalls which now come with RCI support (NAM team, you're the best! ), and I'd like to share my results to you. Is it possible to built a road-free and car-free city? Let's find it out. By the way, keep in mind that I didn't use only NAM but some extra mods as well, such as RCImulti. If you try to recreate the experimenter, results may vary a bit. First, let's build a very basic town. It will only have a power plant, pedmalls, and room for houses, shops and factories. And that's all. Not a single road. Let's see how a city with only pedmalls will work. And... we have a problem. It looks like because of game mechanism and limitations (it's a 2003 game, after all), all of our Sims complain about lack of road access. Remember that RCImulti adds residential jobs, which means they can just work at somebody else's house to simulate teleworking or jobs like baby sitters and gardeners. And yet, even this mod doesn't solve the problem. Our city is hitting a brick wall. The only way to solve this problem is by connecting our pedmalls with a road. It doesn't have for the road to be something important or go somewhere. As long as our pedmalls are connected to even a single road tile, we'll be fine. Now our Sims can go to work wherever they want. So it looks like we can't build a road-free city. But roads aren't just for cars, you know. So, can we still build a car-free city? Yes, we can! By building enough bus stops, we now have entire roads dedicated to buses. Why limited to bus lines, when you can have bus roads? And it looks like we have another reason to build some roads. Industries needs them to ship their products. By having a main road next to them and connect it with the pedmalls, freight trucks can now hit the road and ship their goods anywhere they need. So now we have a walk-able and bus-able city that doesn't require owing a car to go whereever you want. Not bad. But let's keep pushing the limits and take it to the extreme. How about subways? Yeah, let's go nuts! Sure, they're expensive, but if we build enough subway stations everywhere, our Sims could go anywhere they need faster than ever without car. Now, building ordinary subway stations at almost every corner would be a big waste of valuable space, especially if we need that space to build something big like apartment buildings or hospitals. But wait a minute! The dragable pedmalls are street-based, and there are subway stations that can be build on the top of them, such as in Road Top Mass Transit (RTMT) and Diagonal Intersection RoadTop SubwayBus Station. So I made a custom set of street-top subway stations specialized for the dragable pedmalls to see if it's possible to have functional subway stations on the pedmalls. And guess what. It's possible! Our Sims can now take the subway to go anywhere they need. In fact, most of our Sims now prefer taking the subway than the bus. And I just noticed that because my subway stations work as bus stops too, there is some bus traffic in our pedmalls as well. That's interesting. And now probably the most important and the coolest part of our experiment. We have now dragable pedmalls, but we also have the older plopaple pedmalls as well. Can they work with each other? Of course they can! All puzzle pieces will work with the dragable pedmalls without any problem. Why that's cool? Think of the possibilities But do you know what's my favorite discovery? The dragable pedmalls are compatible with the specialized tram-pedmall pieces as well! Why need car when you can walk and take the tram? That's my experiments for now. I have some other stuff I'd like to test and I'm going to do it soon. Now that we have a cool challenge on its way, I think it would be a good idea to share my experiments with you, giving you ideas and a topic to share your experiments and results as well. See you in the challenge and I can't wait to see your creations

Good night Everybody, Details as I like..

I had some time and I converted the buildings of AndisART in CAM version in addition to performing a small relotting

It look really beautiful. I hope too, that you will post more of your cities.

Mälardalen. This might be too much to ask, and I'd love to be able to create a map myself, but I'm on a Mac and I haven't seen mapmaking tools for a Mac that would work for SC4 regions. The Mälardalen region in Sweden is the most populated area in the country around the lake Mälaren with major cities like Stockholm, Uppsala, Västerås, Eskilstuna, Nyköping and Örebro and smaller towns all over the place. All interconnected by rail and highways. I'ts a beautiful area with islands and woodlands, pretty flat - just some lower hills. This used to be a bay in the baltic sea in the viking days, and Stockholm is situated where the lake meets the sea. There are plenty of map pictures of the area online, I've included here a schematic of the major urban nodes around the lake to give an idea. Hoping someone is willing to take a look at this project.

@blue-fox Looking at this map, it's hard to tell. It looks like it was terraformed manually, so there is the possibility that it isn't a published SC4 map. But, knowing the huge variety of maps published on Simtropolis, it's very much possible that it could still be published. Have you attempted to do a reverse image search with this screenshot? You might be surprised how effective that search method can be if you haven't attempted it before.

Hello friend, Do you happen to have any maxis lot blocker among your plugins? In the past I faced a similar situation, and it seems that some moders just replaced the Maxis lots instead of creating new lots, so, in case that you have a blocker in your plugins, it may affect and that may be the reason why those lots are not growing in your region. From my experience, I use those lots very often, it is very easy for them to grow and appear. Try to look for any blocker, remove it and then test it again.

Yes, but the difference is that the modding is fairly easy for that one. You can make such cosmetic lots easily, you just need to add through-through rail-rail and monorail-monorail and if you want to allow it then freight train-freight train switches. In the NAM among the Hybrid RailWay Stations files you should find a path file you need to add that in SC4Tool to activate the Hybrid Rail paths on the lot. I would recommend you to use the monorail TE for such lots and you can connect the lot with the monorail tool to your HRW network. I'm planning to write a bit more coherent tutorial about station and TE lot creation (as I needed to write one to a fellow player) and I will add a section specifically for HRW as that thing is not easy by default.

Stop whatever you're doing, everypony! I was working on my participation for The Walkable City Challenge and I made an incredible discovery. Remember when I said that you need to connect your pedmalls with a road to activate them? Feel free to forget it, because I found a way to build 100% road-less cities! Here is how. As we have seen before, you need to activate the drag-able pedmalls by connecting them to some roads. If your goal is a walk-able city, that's fine. Those roads can be used for buses, freight trucks, tram, and emergency and supply vehicles instead of personal cars. But if you want to build a 100% road-less town, that's a mayor deal breaker. You'll still have to build some roads and connect your pedmalls to them, or else your city will be stalled. I was working on a neighborhood which had no connection to any main road, and by doing that would ruin the results I was hopping to get. What I tried to do is building a road to activate the pedmalls while finding a way to hide it somehow. This actually reminded me a tutorial made by @TheMurderousCricket about how to build large residential blocks along non-orthogonal networks by using FLUPs. Which are road-based. And they also have road-under-pedmall puzzle pieces! (Picture by here) So, what if we replace a tile of the drag-able pedmalls with a "Straight underground route under pedmall" puzzle piece? We get a city without any visible road that goes to nowhere and exist only to activate the drag-able pedmalls. And as you can see, our Sims can still use this puzzle piece without any problem. Finally, no more roads. A 100% road-less city! Well, technically speaking, there is only a single road tile that exist just to active our pedmalls. It's only hidden and became part of them. Like a ninja

Edeficio Fuencaral Odd Bat ! Tonight I had a look at this growable bat in my Spain installation. Poping up frequently in residential zones it disturbed the rural look of my Cataluna town of Gerona. Eedfico Fuencarral is one of those supersize lots wich completly fall out of,nice but plopable please ! http://descargas.capitalsim.net/?sitio=csc&descarga=312 Town medium it would be better on it´s place. Happily I could locate this file and remove it so not be bothred furthurr with it l Sincerely yours, Kschmidt

Dead as a church parking lot on a Sunday night, in here! Church parking lot-

Empress tree

Chinese fringetree Glacous cassia

Calandar Islands

Master project region Overview ! Still in a joung stadium progres in about almost every corner of this region is progesing. Mayor N-S, W-E and Downtown are established. Latest is a extension of the agraculture in tile A3. Recent commercial in tile C2 boosted with educational facilities. Industry in tile B1with some residential and commercial s supported. Plan now is to continue with tile B1, B2, C2 extending activity and have the regional play have their influence. Maritime scene will be added to tile C3 with the island, sample a marina and cruise terminal or fishing port. Future progres to be seen, but i hope to have some pictures in the coming weeks ! Halljackey ! Samgoogalplexian Misk Techdive Kschmidt Hope you liked this overview ! Enjoy !

This style of city centre-suburbs-rural is what I've tried to do in my huge mosaic, and this is an amazing example levvoronov! Love the way fractionally angled roads spread out like arteries. Bristol Bay, population 3.2+ million, still havent finished pasting in the in-game screenshots.

Here's two large suburban city tiles I'm building out. The first city is built on a hill and has quite a few grade changes. A new area being readied for development. Took some time to get the grade just right on all these FA interchanges. The end result was very satisfying! Here's the second city, which is located on the outskirts of the region. I tried breaking up the grid in this one with a combination of curved streets and fractionally angled roads, rails and highways.