cammo2003

Originally posted by: owenluby Warrior: No, in Melbourne, most tram lines have tram stops, not stations. Stops would be much simpler to design. They are exactly like bus stops but, when you hail the tram, it stops on the tracks and the passengers cross the road onto the tram. When they're crossing, all cars stop to allow safe crossing of the road. Stations would be too cluttered to fit on avenues unless the lanes were modified. Here is a link to a tram stop. When you click on it you will see just a tram line. There is a tram stop right there, I know because I live close to there. http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=balwyn,+vic&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=-37.814255,145.091951&spn=0.002975,0.005021&z=18&iwloc=addr It would be great if we had both stops and stations!quote> It'd be quite simple to do that... Instead of using a building, you'd just put in a sign somewhere (you need to know it's a stop somehow!). And does anybody else think that this is waaaay too narrow for a safe on-avenue tram station/stop? It just looks really really unsafe to me.

Originally posted by: megaplex4 I downloaded a school and used SC4Tool to change the parameters to make it the same as the city college. This is because I want a city college but I want it to look old, not modern. However when I plonk it down in the game it crashes before the plonk sound has even finished plonking. Can anyone tell me what it is that I might have done wrong? Even if you could just point me into a vague direction, otherwise I'll have to do a trial and error, line by line testing thing and I don't think I can listen to "Challenge Everything" over and over again. I just can't.quote> LOL. BTW, you can turn the intro off. Just add -intro: off to your shortcut (without the space between the : and the o and without the quotation marks. Saves the sanity of us modders (I dabble from time to time), lotmakers, and regionmakers.

*cough* *hack* Hi *cough* *blows dust off thread* Boy, it has been a while since I've done anything of this sort. I'm currently working on a rendition of the Central Coast Region. No image yet, as I'm still doing a few retouches to certain areas on the map. I'm also moving to .SC4M format with this release. Everything else was done the old way until I got into SC4 Terraformer, but this eliminates all of that fiddling around with height .dat files for you end user folks. It does mean registering over at SC4Devotion's LEX to grab SC4Mapper... I'll post the link in short order. EDIT: (Click thumbnail for largish preview).

The idea of implementing a societal element probably is due for SimCity, but they've gone about it the wrong way. I get the feeling, though, that there was a last minute change of direction. As in very last minute (which would explain why the screenshots look so raw. I do like the yellow brick roads though, they look nice. I wouldn't mind a ped mall with tiles like that, actually.

The idea of implementing a societal element probably is due for SimCity, but they've gone about it the wrong way. I get the feeling, though, that there was a last minute change of direction. As in very last minute (which would explain why the screenshots look so raw. I do like the yellow brick roads though, they look nice. I wouldn't mind a ped mall with tiles like that, actually.

On the bright side, the cars are starting to look better...

On the bright side, the cars are starting to look better...

Originally posted by: outriderdriver You bought an intel chip? heh good luck. unless youre really that happy with them....quote> Believe it or not, Intel's Core 2 line is the best thing on the market. The QX6600 is the best of the bunch of course, being quad-core, but the Duo's are no slouch either. The bottom of the line Core 2's even give the top of the line AMD chips a run for their money. That doesn't mean the AMD chips are BAD, but they've got nothing on Core 2 at the moment.

Yeah, I'd personally give the missions a miss, but I do drive around my cities occasionally in SC4, and I've seen people work the UDI option into their CJ's quite well.

Originally posted by: Raxter There is a very simple method of protest that no one ever seems to consider: Don't buy it. If you're unhappy with what they're doing to the game, don't buy it. They'll notice the dip in sales. This may come as a shock, but EA is a corporation, in business to make MONEY. If a decision they make causes them to make less money than previously, they will generally change their strategy. If SCS's sales charts aren't up to par with Sim City 4's, they'll most likely give the project for Sim City 6 back to the guys they know can make money, Maxis. Capitalism is a beautiful thing.quote> No, what'll happen is they'll decide: "The genre must be tapped out. Time to put the franchise to bed." Notice that most games stop after about 5 iterations (besides sports games). *performs last rites on SimCity series* Now, I'm not saying SimCity 4 is dead at all. But I think this'll be it if it turns out to be as crap as it seems to be.

Originally posted by: Tarkus ryanb_sc4: That sounds like a great plan to me. cammo2003: Thanks, I'm glad to hear people are looking forward to the MIS. Don't worry, there will be some sort of walls on the elevated ones--I've basically just been trying to figure out what and how. It's actually been perhaps the biggest factor delaying the project. I do have some interesting things planned for the ground ones, which I hope to show soon. -Tarkusquote> Three words: Keep it simple.

Originally posted by: Jasoncw cammo2003: Thanks! It looks quite nice there. quote> Yeah, it's not bad. I'm finding myself using it all over the place, it's one of those great "filler" buildings, that also rather conveniently stands out in the smaller, suburban skylines. I was surprised how well it looked adjacent to your theatre building (immediately to the left of it). In fact, it works so well that it looks rather like an extension containing offices. I'm actually quite happy with how that section of the CBD turned out full-stop. The block over the road from the Sojot in particular looks like a staged-out convention centre and office development that had myriad delays due to DA issues, strikes etc.

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I really am looking forward to the MIS (and the wider one-ways, too, that's been one of those niggling little things that's always bugged me). One thing about the MIS though - I sure hope you're planning to put walls up on the elevated ramp sections - they look like a liability suit waiting to happen as they stand. You could leave the ground based ones alone though.

He does, GreekMan.

Great work. I didn't mind the dark windows on Perk's (which I use regularly in my smallish ribbon shopping centres, btw) but I do have to admit, it does look better. Kensington Plaza looks a world better. All of the changes are extremely subtle, but when you look at the new vs the old, the new one has a LOT more "life" if you know what I mean. The more saturated colour for the texture really does make the new texture. Province House Credit Union looks great, but for some reason the roof texture seems a little too busy. It definitely has that "bank/credit union" feel to it, though.

Just looking at that interchange (circled above) gives me a headache. And the sprawl, of course, is horrendous. It happens here, too, though on a smaller scale. Not in this area of Sydney, because it's literally built out, but there are two huge chunks of area that have been set aside for suburban sprawl in the South West and North West of Sydney, which are already very heavily car-dependant areas...