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Aurabolt12
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i am a beginner and need some advise
Aurabolt12 replied to tmp07's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
When my expenses are high and my income is low, I always just zone more to get more res/com/ind until I'm in the green. Usually a neighborhood or small business district. That was my mistake: zoning too little. So try that. Also, once you DO get your income higher than your expenses, let the sim run on high speed to get yourself a bit of extra money. -
Your problem is definitely the dual core. I have the laptop in my sig, and it crashes EVERY time when I don't switch Sim City 4.exe's affinity to only one CPU. On your region view screen, press the Windows key, then bring up task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) and right-click SC4.exe > Affinity... > and uncheck ONE of the CPUs. When the game uses all of your first CPU, it tries to use the second, and Sim City 4 can't handle that. Works for me 100% of the time!
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Georgetown Tell me what you think!
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There's no restrictions, I don't care. By all means, post your pics so we can compare! (lol that rhymes)
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OK, I've read your comments (thanks for all the feedback!) and I took 4 more pics from zoom level 3. Tell me what you think!
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I have SC4 and all other programs and files on my second partition to the hard drive (E: Drive) but SC4 still reads my plugins from the My Documents folder on the C: Drive. Can I tell SC4 to look on the E: drive in some folder for the plugins instead? My custom stuff is starting to take up a LOT of space Thanks for any help.
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Changing the SC4 Plugins directory?
Aurabolt12 replied to Aurabolt12's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
I right-clicked on MyDocs and then Move... and I moved it simply to E:\My Documents. It does work fine btw. Thanks for everyone's help. -
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Changing the SC4 Plugins directory?
Aurabolt12 replied to Aurabolt12's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
Wow that was really easy.. Thanks for the reply! (I haven't tried it yet though, I hope it works) -
Save as a .bmp or a .jpg/.jpeg, I don't remember which. I think .bmp. Then find the file when the window comes up.
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Start Simcity 4 and create a new region. After the blank region appears press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R, find your terrain image and let Simcity 4 run. Note: Do not do anything else while your terrain is being loaded. This will take several minutes depending on the speed of your computer, so expect to wait. That quote came from this link: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=141&threadid=76310&enterthread=y Good luck
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I think I'm stuck in SC Classic or SC3k mode.. I feel like I'm not taking advantage of SC4's realism. All my cities feel like I just add a blob/block/piece on to the side of the big city blob and I just keep going from there. My hospitals and schools are also slapped on a road on the edge... How do you make your cities look like snapshots from a helicopter? I just need a mindset... some tips please?
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What matters more... region population or city population?
Aurabolt12 posted a topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
If all my cities are connected, and my region has 500,000... could i get huge buildings in a city with 20,000 people? Is it possible? If there are any algorithms or equations that have to do with city or region population and development, I'd like to see them. Thanks for any info -
I want to delete all of my downloaded ploppables but keep all the growables. Is there a specific file extension associated strictly with landmarks/ploppables? Thanks.
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What kind of file is a landmark?
Aurabolt12 replied to Aurabolt12's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
thanks guys. I'm currently running a search on my Plugins folder for "plop". This will do just fine. Problem solved (hopefully) -
For example when you are in the STEX, you can't (as of now) look at them in any order besides most recently added. Hopefully they will add the little drop-down so you can view them Most Downloaded, Most Popular, Highest Rated, etc..
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I've downloaded a few buildings from STEX and am very pleased when they grow in my city by themselves. The little button that appears on STEX that says GROWS, PLOP, or [grayed out]... What does the grey button mean? It both grows and plops? Is there a specific file extention that is only for growable lots? And the same for plop? Also, what do the buttons REALLY mean? If it says PLOP, does it mean it only plops (and the same for GROWS)? Thanks to anyone who can answer this.
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(attachment) I just created the region. I think there isn't enough water. Anyone want to suggest a nicely balanced region (water v. land)?
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No one is using my railroads! I have freight stations in my industrial zones, touching a road. There is a rail touching/surrounding the station, which goes to another station to the other side of the map and also into the neighboring city, where there's a station near some commercial development. Can someone give me a quick rails tutorial? Maybe one on subways too? They're probably similar.. thanks.
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Thanks a lot guys, I found out that most buildings on the STEX are growable!! Now i can have my city build lots of sweet custom buildings! Simtropolis = pwnage
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No one is using my railroads! I have freight stations in my industrial zones, touching a road. There is a rail touching/surrounding the station, which goes to another station to the other side of the map and also into the neighboring city, where there's a station near some commercial development. Can someone give me a quick rails tutorial? Maybe one on subways too? They're probably similar.. thanks.
