1131989
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A little too small for a lake huh? I'd say it's a fishing pond. And I'd say this is about as small as a small town can get. There are many of these fish-rearing ponds in the countryside. In the 19th century, villages like these dotted the exurbs of New Orleans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Malo,_Louisiana. None now survive, sadly, although they have served as an inspiration for my region in many ways.
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A little too small for a lake huh? I'd say it's a fishing pond. And I'd say this is about as small as a small town can get.
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Help to Locate this building after system and plugin crashes
1131989 replied to naftixe's topic in SC4 - Custom Content
It seems to be a heavily modded Bunker Towers, likely in the Lot Editor: http://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Bunker_Towers Sorry I can't give you the actual file but it looks like a lot rather than a BAT. -
Does anyone know if the Sims 2 App Store release is compatible with SC4?
1131989 posted a topic in SC4 Mac Users
The app store re-released Sims 2 with all of its expansions. As I recall, the Windows version of Sims 2 was able to read small .sc4 tiles as neighborhoods. Is that still possible? I've created some pretty cool cities and neighborhoods with the App Store SC4 and would love to play them in The Sims 2 with 3d graphics. I could even make a city journal out of it... -
Does anyone know if the Sims 2 App Store release is compatible with SC4?
1131989 replied to 1131989's topic in SC4 Mac Users
The App Store description says it is. I may just have to cross my fingers and hope it can still read .sc4 files. -
Here's a fishing village in a lake. What do you think??
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Cover photo: A cute Swedish-inspired small town in my region. Attachment: There are no tapas bars in my city? I don't believe you; either you need to work on your disguise or I've encountered the SimCity 4 edition of Schrödinger's Cat. Second attachment: You like the angles? I had a bit of fun trying to put a new "perspective" on one of my screenshots.
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Nope, nothing to see here, most definitely not a tapas bar. I don't know why you'd think that.
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how-to I have NAM 32 installed on my Mac with the Aspyr Re-Release Version. Well, most of it.
1131989 replied to brunoresende29's topic in SC4 Mac Users
I'll try reinstalling. I'm also having pathfinding problems, in that when I switch from Windows to Mac NAM my cities' traffic score goes WAY down and roads that weren't previously congested (I'm using roads as a generic term; this can happen to streets, avenues, and SAM thoroughfares too) suddenly are bright red on my traffic map. Does this sound like something reinstalling would fix as well? -
how-to I have NAM 32 installed on my Mac with the Aspyr Re-Release Version. Well, most of it.
1131989 replied to brunoresende29's topic in SC4 Mac Users
I tried the new Nam 32 Mac on my existing cities and all the ground rail lines have vanished! What is going on? -
I am playing a heavily modded SC4 but some of the cities in my region (including my third-largest) freeze whenever I try to play them. The first loading screen displays, but the message never changes (I've waited for up to 10 minutes)! Not all of my cities are affected, only 3-4. Any idea what is wrong with them? Should I try taking out some plugins?
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I downloaded NAM 32 and am having some issues. When I keep it alongside the crudely unpacked partial Windows version, my highways look hideous. When I throw out the crude Windows version, all of my region's rail lines vanish. Do I need to start a new region; I have ~3 million people in my old one and I don't want to lose it.
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So, I've been working over in the City Journals section but decided to create the first "Judgmental Map" of a SimCity 4 region to my knowledge. http://judgmentalmaps.com This shows my current region with some off-the-cuff insulting remarks about my cities and neighborhoods. My favorite neighborhood is the one labeled "Hipsters"; it is entirely low-wealth but highly-educated and is intended to have a college town or "Portlandia' feel. Breaking character here, but is there an easier way to upload images without parking them in a city journal?
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AMONG THE TOMATO GROWERS -Bassa Principality News The ongoing European debt crisis has had a substantial impact on Bassa's economy and population. Thousands of southern European Sims, mostly Portuguese and Italians, have flocked to the area's outer fringes in search of a better life. Many of these new migrants have brought a little bit of 'the old country' with them: tomato cultivation. Homes in many suburban areas now have tomatoes and grape vines over their driveways and rear yards.
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@TekindusT, the reason for the inconsistency is that this region is said to have an extremely diverse demography and culture. My new journal entry explains some of the theme I am going for, which would be a highly developed economy of +/-3 million people in the same cultural realm as New Orleans, Haiti, and the Louisiana Bayous. Some parts of my region are based on these (http://lagniappenola.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/san-malos-maroons-and-manilamen-in-louisiana-part-two/). Edit: Yes, my thread says "nine-digit" but my username and city-journal have nine digits. That is because my region is a lot bigger than I expected so my username is too!
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The Federal Principality of Bassa
1131989 posted a City Journal entry in Seven Digit Neighborhoods (SC4 Mac)
The Federal Principality of Bassa (FSB) is a SimNation of 2.7 million inhabitants located somewhere in the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico. Founded in 1763 by exiles from Louisiana, the FSB is a highly integrated nation with a strong national culture combining African, European, Latin American, Asian, and Near Eastern cultures. Its official languages are Pretentious Latin and Haitian Creole, although English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Chinese are understood by varying segments of the population. Few early pictures of the Principality survive; the image below, from Sierra Leone, was used to help reconstruct the historic city of Ferrovia (Spanish: Railroad) as a tourism attraction. Today, Old Ferrovia (attached) is a thriving tourist attraction consisting of green, grey, and white townhouses and an open-air crafts and produce market. -
I have already thoroughly "packed" my plugins but I'll try packing them further.
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Update 33: "Flying Get" (Southern Cireseh, Kota Meriah) (19/7/14)
1131989 commented on Forsma7's City Journal Entry in Karasem V3.0 - V4.7 (finished)
Kisa: Those lots are awesome? Any chance you could release? Please... -
My newest city is the hipster/college town that I promised you above (this tile did not exist on the judgmental map; I deleted some sprawl below it). I basically created it by driving out medium and high wealth Sims via high residential taxation, attracting high-tech industries for the tax revenue (bixel makes some high-tech plops that generate tons of tax revenue), and jacking up health and especially education to create a college campus. As a liberal town, Southwest Cobisa is home to the Park of Tolerance, which contains (left to right) a Hindu temple, a Buddhist pagoda, a synagogue, a nondenominational shrine, a church, a mosque, and a pagan temple. SWC's college and hipster orientation can be seen in its housing stock. From converted fire stations, to diagonal condos, to the Victorian and Art Deco homes of Puritan Club, every home (at least as large as my BAT library allows) is unique. And what would a college town be without the college? The artistically mismatched pavement is my favorite, as this is an artsy school.
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Southwest Cobisa is a college town in all of its quirkiness, complete with diagonal condos, dorms, off-campus dining, student housing, and converted barn lofts!
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Here's just a few that I've been thinking about (I'd create them myself as I have SketchUp and a Mac but gmax/3dsmax is Windows-only): -Monticello and the UVA Lawn -Bungalow courts (small detached houses around a central green space) like these: bungalow courts, rockaway bungalows -West African and Caribbean style houses (Nordic architecture comes pretty close with the bright colors but doesn't generally have the overhanging porches): http://www.sierra-leone.org/GSpostcards-6.html, caribbean houses -1x1 low-density R$$$ housing (the LBT Housepack on LEX has a few) -Romanian Gypsy houses (very distinctive style) romanian gypsy houses -Hindu temples to go with the myriad churches, mosques, and pagodas (although the Maxis House of Worship is close enough)
