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Small model that I`m working on lately. It can became a 1x2 mid density residential, possibly R$$ if I`m happy with the final results. Next I will be working on the night lightning.

a little village near the edge of the map built this during a livestream, here for anyone interested:

Hi there, Thanks Cori to reply to this topic, so I saw that there was a topic like this @Urban Vibravant I did the same with one of Krio's building that he sent me to mod and lot a while ago. Check out the TG Krio Elanto HQ. Ploppable Version: Lot size: 4 x 2 tiles Menu position: Building: Landmark, Building: CO$$$, Building: Subway, Building: Strikeable Transit, Building: MiscTransit Jobs: CO-$$ : 445, CO-$$$ : 312 Demand Created: Jobs $ : 36, Jobs $$ : 16, Jobs $$$ : 0, R-$ : 36, R-$$ : 16, R-$$$ : 0 Passenger Capacity: 38000 Plop cost: § 7474 Bulldoze cost: § 478 Monthly cost: § 50 Max. Fire Stage: 4 Power consumption: 13 MWh/month Water consumption: 148 Gallons/month Air pollution: 1 over 6 tiles Water pollution: 1 over 7 tiles Garbage pollution: 4 over 0 tiles I made the more important part red. The problem is with the Plop with job+transportation lots (subway included), that the plop with jobs part can become abandoned which means the building will decay visually and during my tests I haven't seen it recover. And I saw negative effects on the transportation parts too, due to the building was abandoned. However the Demand Created line is to keep the transportation part alive. I did not bother with a custom UI for this lot, but yeah, it's not that hard. For modding the subway part, you need to use either the new under development PIM-X 2026 (which has inbuilt transportation pre-sets), or use the above linked upload as a template for copying the relevant stuff. Corina marked it well, what you need, you will also need the Catalog Capacity property with a matching value as the transit capacity. For transportation stats modding you should always use/refer to the Transit Switch Entry Costs and Station Capacities guide, which helps you to calculate the correct Transit Switch Capacity (Maxis' 2000 passenger is not right, for a 1x2 subway it would be 26000 passengers) and Transit Switch Entry Cost (that's 0.0095 for Subway - Maxis' 0 is again not right). With the Subway stuff, you also need to add the Building: Subway, Bulding: Strikeable Transit and Building: MiscTransit Occupant Groups - though that might mean, that the lot will show up in two menus (landmark and MiscTransit). For the Demand Created jobs @z1 and I were working out a system that I used then with the NAM stations and all the other stations that I modded since then: $ - capacity/5 (round down) + each tile that the building occupies would give 4 $ on each floor $$ - capacity/50 (round down) + each tile that the building occupies would give 2 $$ on each floor $$$ - after every 125k capacity 1 + free assumption based on the model (quite uncommon) However the subway in all cases adds +4 $ and +1 $$, but a single tile subway would have the same stats too. So subway is a bit of an exception. With the Elanto HQ I used an other logic too, and that was the underground floor busineses. So there was the 4 $ + 1 $$ for the base subway, and then for the 8 tiles (4x2) I added another 32 $ + 15 $$ jobs. There is room for custom values, it's not an exact rule. In your cause the Demand created would be 12 $ + 5 $$ jobs, so the subway station don't get abandoned if the business dies above it. I hope it helps! - Tyberius06

That'll be one of the losses. But, you can re-upload it. Edit: Turns out I have a copy of it from a page I'd SF'd:

WORK In PROGRESS

Hi everyone! When I made 200 W. 40th Street, I also had the idea of including a lot with a functional subway along with CS$ jobs since this building actually does have a subway. The problem is, I'm only able to make the building function strictly as a one or the other, not both. I have a feeling a DLL could do the trick, but that's a whole other side of modding that I'm not ready to touch yet. (If someone knowledgeable on DLL's wants to make this happen, I could provide the model.) This likely also means it would need a custom query window that shows both the jobs and subway stats. I know some basics on modifying query windows, but I welcome anyone more experienced to provide their input on this. Since the building has a lot size of 1x2, the only other solution is to make it a 1x1 with half of the building overhanging onto a contiguous tile, for which then you could place a tile-only subway under the building. It's not the cleanest way to do it, but this is what I would go with if there isn't any other way.

Probably some of you have already see this entry, but as we know, we have lost a lot of data, so I will post again Tacoma. Today we will travel to another city in Rivamar. Thanks for all the comments! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today, we will visit finally some city outside from coast, our trip start in Tacoma. Tacoma is former a mainly dormitory city, but in the last of 60s start a new development, with some industries and after that some commerce. The city itself there's no much attractive, so we will pass fastly toward. Tacoma is located east from Santarrío (we will travel after), which in turn is east from San Martin. Tacoma Population: 197.988 First, a city panorama: Centro The first neighborhood it is the currently most important financial hub in city. It was start developed in the late of 90s, and in middle of 2000s have a great change in an ambicious project, drag down all roads, and let the access with cars only by outside neighborhood, while the inside is accessible only with GLR and walk (unless you let your car in some of parking lots nearby and walking). As it is only commercial and offices, the population is exactly zero, as the all parts outside the two avenues are in another districts administration: Tacoma there is no much things to do, however the most famous landmark is the Parque de las Flores which runs south-north and it is divided in three different parts and have access from differents districts in city: Montoya Pop: App. 27.000 Montoya is the second most important district in city in terms of service and commercial jobs and it was the most important itself before the construction in Centro. But still have the importance, and as is connurbated with Santarrío, it is very dense (according city standards): Vista del Río Pop: App. 21.000 It is famous by the biggest church in city: Catedral de Nostra Señora, and it is located southeast from Parque de las Flores: Villa Nueva Pop: App. 10.000 It is the most expensive district in the city, near every major points and it is famous by the apartments blocks building in the last of 50s, which give a very charming appearence to neighborhood. It is very flat and have a lot of land to buy and build in north part, also there's a plan to build a new olympic stadium, but this is at this moment only speculations... To this moment you can go in Villa Nueva to see the Modern Art Museum (Museo de Arte Moderna), and the small park in annex Parque Este Pop: Appr. 28.000 It is mostly residential, and as the spanish name says, it is located east from the Park: San Pedro Pop: 49.000 Finally, we reach the largest and most populated district: It is very residential, but also have a large commercial zones and mixed zonning, with a lot of houses in north part. Now, to ending our trip, some suburban and industrial districts: That's it for today. I hope you enjoy!

@John Scaffold Welcome to Simtropolis! Looking at your city, you have a great start! I will say you're already doing a great job in your urban layout, there's a nice variety in neighborhoods, some gaps of nature that make the place look more alive and realistic, and I can definitely tell your city is doing economically well when judging by the buildings visible. As for suggestions on how to further enhance your city: Try exploring the curve pieces for the networks, if you have the space and want to improve the look of your city, use those to make the networks look more natural rather than boxy. Try using the FLEX Turning Lanes (FTLs) to enhance your road-road, road-avenue and avenue-avenue intersections. If you're feeling adventurous, you can also try a set of terrain mods to give a more customized look to your city. Alternatively, look for Mayor Mode Props (MMPs) to further enhance your landscaping in parks and along the bigger roadways I'd like to see a screenshot of your region, I can give you more ideas if I get more context from your cities.

Never mind. One of the transitions (OWR3 to 5) was reversed

Startup Performance Optimization DLL optimizes the game's loading phase, but the performance boost depends heavily on the computer's performance and the number of mods. There isn't really any difference between Exemplar Patch and the classic override in terms of loading times, but Exemplar Patch is definitely recommended because it avoids directly modifying the original exemplars, which can trigger issues like the Phantom Slider Bug or other game bugs, especially when it comes to Maxis buildings, which are too problematic.

These are almost certainly from Rivit's collection on OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AphvaLJG-tShgsIPfB0UQh7KK6Fv7Q It's the Maxis Lookalike set.

Hello @Bendinerd00 If possible, may I suggest you take your satellite screenshot from Google Earth with Greenshot? The resolution would be significantly better and would allow players to identify landmarks and other clues, which isn't easy when the image quality is too blurry. Let me know if you need additional guidance; and thank you for playing!

I decided to give it a whirl cause it reminded me of a sample growable parking garage I made for someone else eons ago. Here's my result as a growable: So all I did for this was extract a 1 x 2 growable commercial lot. I picked the generic "Small Shops" and did a Group Add to Patch so I got the LText too. I then altered the LText name to be me so I'd know for sure we had the right one when it grew. I also made a copy of the Maxis Subway (with it's woefully low transit stats, but this is proof of concept only so we aren't flustered by that). I then copied all of these from the Subway's Building Exemplar and Pasted them into the CS$'s Building Exemplar: And here's the file if you want to play around with it: Cori's Comm Sub Text v0.02.dat Edit: LOL, that should say "Test", but I think I still had the change to the "LText" in mind. It works tho.

Some pictures of San Miguel downtown

Firstly, welcome back! As many of y'all know, ST went down on 16 April, 2026 due to a billing error 2 days prior to that. The pathetic host decided to not only suspend the server, but to immediately delete it entirely, including the live site and both daily backups. There was no forewarning or communication about this sent to Dirk. From initial correspondence with the old host, they claimed the server was merely suspended and data was kept for 6 months. It seemed like the billing issue only needed correcting. However, once Dirk heard back from a higher level support, to our complete shock and dismay it was confirmed the server had been wiped. They offered to restore it if we had backups. But what use were those when they were on the server?! Everything was gone. A full offline backup was about 187 GB last time CB downloaded it and he had to do it in pieces (due to a very slow internet connection in his teeny, tiny town) and it took several days. This contains all the objects (which are all the files and pictures anywhere on the site including attachments and within the STEX) as well as the board software and the forums. There was also a separate full account backup from 2020, but we didn't need that in the end. Now, separately, the database is all of the posts in the forums, STEX, omnibus, and so forth. That comes in around 6 GB and is backed up and downloaded more often. However, the offline download was just a fallback which should never be needed since we always had full backups run online every single day. (We never anticipated the host would fucking delete everything on the server!) Ofc, in hindsight we'd've kept separate online daily synced backups too, even if those come at a cost. Without any local backup, Simtropolis as we know it would be lost forever to the infinite voids of cyberspace. Thankfully this isn't the case, so it could've been much, much worse. Anyhow, what this means for us now is we have the forums and text of the STEX restored as it was on 28 February, 2026, but all files and pictures (both as forum attachments and in the STEX) are missing from 17 June, 2024 and after. We can recover! (But, we'll need a lot of help.) CB and Dirk have rebuilt the site on a new host. There are some nice positives as a result: Already an outpouring of support from people on Discord and Reddit. We appreciate the encouragement and support. Thank you! We've moved fully away from our old host. They will get nary a nickel from ST anymore ever again (from now till the end of the universe). The hardware is at least 10x more capable, and is no more expensive than our old host. (Depending on your internet connection, the site should be more responsive.) We've got a much more economical and cleaner home (way less server side clutter). We're in more control over the server to manage all aspects of it from the ground up. CB has separately purchased a 1 TB storage cloud for online, but offsite daily backups going forwards. Future potential to upgrade the IPS board software to a newer version, but we're not in a rush to do this. However, a few bad things will be immediately apparent when y'all start looking around: Any pictures or attached files after 17 June, 2024 are missing. Any STEX files added after 17 June, 2024 are gone. All avatar updates or changes after 17 June, 2024 are lost. --------------- All topics have lost any replies after 28 Feb, 2026. Any STEX entries added or updated after 28 Feb, 2026 are gone. Any STEX downloads history since 28 Feb, 2026 is lost. Any new sc4pac tokens since 28 Feb, 2026 are lost (and will need regenerating). Any PMs after 28 Feb, 2026 are missing. Any members who joined after 28 Feb, 2026 will need to re-join Simtropolis. Initial Recovery Efforts: Topic Divider Messages We've added a Topic Divider message to all forum threads which were active as of the last database backup. That's so when reading along now and in the future it'll explain why any given subject might seem disjointed and incoherent if the same peeps aren't able to re-reply. I know one topic in which I'm now the last to reply and my answer was only partially right. I remember at the time someone replied soon later with the real answer. That's lost, but they might re-state it when they have time. Or it could stay missing. (For that particular topic, I'll reply with what I remember of it.) So the divider message serves to explain why many topics might seem choppy for a little while. An example can be seen here. Original Image and File Names for Attachments Since the database info is way more recent than the objects (files and images), we'll often know the name and size of images and files because of their pointer entries in the database, but we won't have the item that points to. So, CB has worked his magic such that a missing pic will show the ST Logo as a placeholder while also showing the original file name for the image or attachment. This will make it easier for peeps to identify and re-upload them. Note: If your image name originally contained spaces, those will be stripped out in the file name which appears as the Original Pic Name. Sample for an image: ^ Original Pic Name: Cori'sWidget.jpg Sample for a file: Attachment Missing (Cori's Exemplar Viewer Output - 2026.02.17.09.37.zip) Additionally, you can go to your own list of attachments and find anything missing. CB plans to add a feature for clicking and re-uploading files directly from that page. STEX Files and Pics (Needs figured out...) We have a separate method for recovering STEX files. That'll be a new forum (or topic) or something where anyone can post a linky to the STEX entry and then also attach the missing files and/or pics. We want to be careful here to not duplicate each other's efforts so searching in there first is a good idea. Then staff (and other peeps recruited to help) will patch up the STEX entries and then move the topic for that item to a Done forum. Or such. We'll reveal more details once we've figured out a battle plan. Also we'll be opening a topic where anyone interested to assist can register as a volunteer to help. Your Own Files and Pics Ofc, any missing STEX entry that you created can be fixed (re-adding files and pics) or recreated (if totally missing) anytime you get a chance. Same for any missing attachments in your posts or elsewhere on the site. When you repair your own STEX entry there is one additional step needed and that is to delete the message banner. (There's some fancy code in it which hides the download button and displays the File Unavailable message.) See this topic to have staff remove the file message banner after you've restored the missing content. Other Notes: Restoration Priority (From CB in Chat) 1) STEX Files 2) STEX Screenshots 3) Attached Files 4) Attached Images 5) Gallery Images 6) Homepage Feature Images 7) Member Avatars 8) Anything Else This order we believe makes a suitable priority for what we'll look to restore first. STEX Screenshots are likely going to need uploading from in-game pics, but for some we might be able to salvage using the Internet Archive (but that depends on which files have been saved to there). Closing Words (for now) We're very glad to be back. We're also pleased to see y'all back. The past month (and a bit) have seemed like many months, and we've missed ST too. While this has been a setback for the community, the key thing is Simtropolis Has Returned. We're determined to rebuild our city stronger than ever before. Oh! One final thing: We might have to put the site in offline maintenance mode for brief periods as some of the tweaks CB is working on cannot be implemented while the site is live. -Cori & CB & Dirk

made some showcases for the build above, enjoy!

Hello I'm new to SC4 modding and I was wondering if there was a performance difference between the classic overwriting of an exemplar, and the exemplar patching of an exemplar ? My exemple: I've got 30 custom building exemplars that overwrite Maxis files, would the performance (be it at launching the game, loading the city, or running the simulation) be any better, even fractionally, if all those were exemplar patching ? Also does running Startup Performance Optimization DLL come into this ? Like maybe reduce the performance difference between 'old schoo'l overwrite and exemplar patching ? Thanks in advance. (I hope I posted this at the right place, I did my best to find the most relevant forum, plus a few searches)

Halifax, Canada, very recognizable terrain. Is this format good?

@Ulisse Wolf Would you be able to take another look at the sc4pac install link on the mod's STEX page? It's been a few days since I uploaded a new version with a new yaml file and despite the documentation saying it should update within hours, it is still stuck on the old version. Apologies if this is normal operation.

There definitely is! I got my first taste of really nice silver rails from @rsc204 in the RRW Texture Reskinning thread. Such as: What I don't recall is where I got my full updated set. Maybe it's now an option during the NAM install? (And that double crossing has been toned down now in the final version.) Basically, you'll want to search the STEX for Filler Lots such as: MGB - Diagonal Filler Set or peek at this newer development by @CasperVg: SC4 Plop And Paint DLL Looks fine to me.

Yes, indeed. Please do! You can even use the new option in Edit Details to access the pics without creating a new version if you want. (Or go ahead and upload a new version so it'll say last updated by your name.)

I'm not a big fan of my glass shader

Since the shutdown, I've actually spent a large amount of time playing Tropico, but I've finally come around SimCity 4 again and I'm remodeling an old park: I might have to restart a number of poxed cities in my region, unfortunately. That has really brought me down, but at least there's a pleasantness in building these lovely curved entrances.

All R$$ for this update:

Powered by @memo's beautiful 3D Camera Mod, the City of Naperville overlooks the Cirque City skyline early in the morning.

@Kel9509 I will upload the missing files next week (I thought I had lost the files but I found them). I updated my "Automobile DLC" and "Statues and Monuments". I changed the complex file system to a single .dat file: This is what I added

So, as they say: "Photo not contractual" (it's a JPG with some compression) .. But ... Yes yes, you have a good eye; even at Zoom 4, the rails are heavily blurred on its main layout; the contrast is more pronounced on other surfaces .. and this choice is fully deliberate. To limit the DXT3 artifact, I chose this color and grain ; There are too many variations around the world, so... I have to choose. And above all, I noticed in numerous aerial photos of about twenty (or more) cities that at this altitude (zoom 4) the railway tracks are no longer clearly visible! It's all about light... and humidity . That's perfect, that suits me fine ! Notice how well the rails catch the light at zoom level 5... I hope you will find it satisfactory despite this "fading" of the rails.