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My region's population has cleared 1m sims. Now that I've built up a regional economy, I'm struggling with how to fill in the gaps between my villages. (I like compact urban neighborhoods as a matter of planning and am going for a Hong-Kong-on-the-Pains feel.) Please give me any suggestions; I'll continue working on adding suburbs and filling in gaps. I've attached a couple images of my non-sprawling suburbs below.

Obviously, I'm a new player. Any suggestions? I know my region is a mess but if you have any ideas how to create cooler-looking neighborhoods please let me know.

My next city is intended to have a mild Southeast Asian feel to it. It is entirely low-density and overwhelmingly low-wealth thanks to prohibitive taxes on R$$ and R$$$ development, and consists of a mixture of red-tile roofs and Japanese houses with a few pagodas sprinkled in for good measure.

Pretty good here. Still have the occasional crash to desktop or glitchy city behavior (randomly running out of money happens a lot in one tile) and have lost or had to delete a couple of cities but generally more than functional and worth the $$$. I would like to see the Internet-plugin issue resolved, however.

My region has lots of "ethnic enclaves" in it, some plopped and some grown. Here, you can see a Chinatown, a New England village, and a casino district.

Hi! I am one of the thousands of people who heard all the chatter about SC2013 and jumped to download the re-released Aspyr port. I don't really have much of a story or narrative, although I have followed some principles (I am an urban planning/real estate professional and often build a city or two after work): -New urbanism: mix of housing types and zones within neighborhoods. Although I have suburbs, I have no sprawl, regional malls, or cul-de-sacs and most of my communities are compact. -Little cheating: the only "cheat" I use is a money park that I only use during construction. Almost all of my cities are currently in the black. -Flat terrains: with one exception, none of my cities have been terraformed because I want my planning, not the landscape, to be the focus. -Multicultural BATs: I use buildings from all over the world, although I try to pick buildings that are harmonious with one another. My loose "theme" is imagining that the Filipinos of 18th century New Orleans (no lie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Malo,_Louisiana) got their own country in the American great plains, so I have a mixture of European, Asian, Yankee, and Latin American architecture with some Near Eastern and African influences. The city above, Fouye, has a Haitian name and is intended to have a mild African influence. I don't just do rural, though.

Shows just how important wording is when you're releasing something to the public. I was hoping it was just an ambiguity in the release and am relieved to find that it was.

I recently reinstalled SC4 (Aspyr port) and have been looking for these South African houses (the Simtropolis link is dead): https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=106.0 Does anyone have these? Thanks

Thanks. Unfortunately, I have several large sets of Scandinavian lots (26 Stockholm-style buildings, about a dozen Swedish row houses, and some Finnish corner stores) so I'll have to just demolish around it.

I have a mysterious brown box called "nyn". It appears as a 1x1 medium-density R$$ growable. Does anyone know what it is?

So they're actually going to fix the problem? From the message about plugins not being supported, I was under the impression that in a future update they would remove the ability to use plugins that were already downloaded (even though EA/Maxis had inserted a mod/plugin folder themselves and even released a building and lot editor). For a second, I was convinced Aspyr was even more soulless than EA.

I asked and got the same message: "The command prompting functionality and plugins are not supported with the App Store re-release of SimCity 4 Deluxe. We will be removing it fully in an update but it is not supported as the forum instructions are for the PC version." Very unfortunate and hopefully they are not going to yank out all the plugins that I've already downloaded...

Thanks! Here's a screenshot from one of my cities.

Thanks SO much but way too complicated for me! If I wanted to use Wine I'd have just bought the Windows version...sort of defeats the whole purpose of buying the Aspyr port (I don't like that highly sophisticated computer stuff). I will add a screenshot as my way of thanking all of you!

Guess I'll have to take out the NAM whenever I play offline...which means I have to segregate cities and reintegrate them later. Can I "dat-pack" the NAM on a Mac? I have no Windows installed and having to install it would completely defeat the purpose of buying the OSX version on the App Store.

Thanks. It is annoying having to create separate cities when I have no internet.

NAM works pretty well on my computer...when I'm connected to the Internet. I disconnect and the game is unplayable (all text is missing and I am delivered to a blank region that crashes to desktop if I try to open a city). Has anyone else encountered this before?

I can also verify that it works although you'll have to use File Juicer to get a lot of the custom content. Didn't really see many African-inspired cities so I chose that as the theme for my first.