bigcityNY

Wow i love ur ground rail! Its exactly what ive been looking for! Where did u get the fences? Theyre the perfect urban gl subway who did them? Are they on the stex?

Hahahaha skyliner22 thats so funny! Although i do wonder how are they going to fit all of those in? that sounds like half of manhattan. But at least NYC has great public transportation i wonder how will LA handle that? They already have huge problems with the highways now. Also are the LA ppl suddenly going to start puffing their chests and acting like theyre the best because theyre finally going to have a real skyline not a ton of little ones? I hope not although i am happy for them with as many ppl that live out their they deserve somethin to enjoy about going downtown.

No one from Baltimore or D.C around? Im dissapointed in the lack of pictures able to be found. Does anyone know where i could look because id really like to show some of my local interchanges.

Ahhhhhhh omg thank u so much for explanin that if u havent already figured it out im no where near familiar with modds. lol thank u for giving me the golden key for my download future. ah now it makes so much more sense! thanks jason.

Originally posted by: Jasoncw dj3591: I don't know what to say. Does it give you that message when you download it, or when you try to install it? Try redownloading it. BigCityNY: You don't need any of those programs for your plugins to work, and you don't need to reinstall your plugins when you download any of those programs. The boxes show up when you have a lot, but are missing something on the lot, like a prop, or the building itself. Whenever you download, make sure to read the STEX description, and read the readme, and download all of the dependencies. Dependencies are files that are not in the download (but your lots depend on those files in order to work as intended). Also, make sure to install all of the files that you need that were included in the download (read the readme to find out which are needed). Does that clear things up? quote> Ok so i followed ur advice but some of them are still popping up as boxes and i read the readmes but theyre only sayin(and this gos for almost all of them)which ones to choose depending on wether u want a plop or growable. I have yet to see a readme that spelled out which ones to place in the plugins folder. Usually i pick whichevr one says plop,copy that, then place it in the plugins but there are always others that ive just ignored unless it said _.lot. From wat ur saying it sounds like i should be putting some others in there as well.

ok im sorry let me clarify i want to put tons of buildings of all sorts that i download from the stex and not have them pop up in the game as boxes. i want to have maybe one city thats nothing but tons and tons of bats and outrqageously huge skyscrapers. id like all of my modds to work.(well actually i think they do but still)does that help u out? I downloaded gmax but i read on one of the message boards and someone was saying that once u download gmax and the other programs u have to redownload all of ur stex stuff if u want it to pop up in the game as the buildings and not boxes. is that true? and again sorry for confusing u.

all my downloads are quickly becoming dilapadated what can i do to stop or at least delay them?

ok ill try that thanks

they do all have road connections and there is water running but they all say abandoned due to lack of water even though i went to the length of laying the pipes under the buildings just to make sure they got the water. why are they still becoming abandoned? its ruining my perfect skyline plan

ok i downloaded the lot editor can this open all of the files or do i have to download the other 2 u mentioned?

Originally posted by: Jasoncw .SC4Model, .SC4Lot, .SC4Desc, .dat all go into your plugins folder. You can only open those files using iLive Reader, the Lot Editor, or the Plugin Manager.quote> Ok im glad u said that because i had downloaded a few buildings and when i put them in the game their was a box in place of the building. Where can i get those and which one of them are free?

Thanks auto i was just making sure so i didnt mess anything else up in that folder.O and now i have another problem(im chock full of them)when i downloaded the hole digging lots and tried to look at the read me it wouldnt pop up adobe said it couldn open it so i took a wild guess and just took the ones i wanted and placed them in the plugin folder was that the right thing to do?

After reading wat ppl have said and im having a hard time not laughing. For all of those who keep saying everything in Dubai is to big WAKE UP! HAvent u ever seen a futuristic movie? Like irobot or anything else set after 2030. Skyscrapers go up which means eventually yes all new buildings will be over 100 floors on average. Dubai is just the first of its kind. Most like i always thought some city would have to break the ice, and possibly in another 10yrs or so when ppl become ajusted to really really tall buidings there will be another race like in the 1930s when i think the chrystler bulding was built all of the other architects wanted to out do each other and thus we have the empire state building. I hate to tell u but the future of skyscrapers is super tall, multi occupation ,into the clouds,and ppl living on different lvls to accomodate the hieght. That is most likely the future and u might want to get used to that idea cause its very posseible.

ok i know this sounds dumb but i havent done it before so here it goes. when u download a BAT where do u put it does it go in the plugins folder?

Ok ive read all of these posts and i just have a few thoughts. First off why would u compare Ny to toronto? Theyre totally different, Ny has a totally different history,it is one of the big 5,probaly(but dont quote me) highest tourism u dont see ppl saying o i want to go to toronto(no offense to canadians), does have the Mets and yankees(mets stadium is shea stadium in queens),maybe not as safe as toronto but their size is totally uncomparable toronto may be big but NY is the biggest city in the U.S and 2nd to LA when u count surrounding areas, its subway is better than torontos because it has a history and is constantly growing(theyre still working on a new line which i cant remeber), although toronto is growing more ppl go to Ny than toronto and theres no comparison Ny is where ppl go to make something of themselves its where dreams come true,NY is the american fashion capital and one of the 5 capitals (toronto isnt even metioned), and ethnically mixed? come on ppl NY is like the biggest mixed population in North America. O and population NY is probaly twice the size of toronto if not triple. NYs population grows everyday and the last census i saw put NY at 11mil and that was last year. So in conclusion i think it is unfair to compare toronto a CANADIAN city to Ny an american city. Instead compare Toronto with another canadian city and NY to an American city because u cant compare two things that are unequal its an unfair advantage. And about the modern skyscarpers yes toronto may have more new modern ones but that just shows that NY has a history of skyscrapers that outnumber all the skyscrapers in toronto.An theres new construction in NY all the time if u dont believe me go look at skysrcapercity.com there are tons and tons of pics of planned skyscarpers. O and the skyline of NY is so much bigger all of u history haters need to look at a pic of Manhattans skyline and shut up theres plenty of new and old mixed together which is what makes NY beautiful. I think hands down NY is better but one day in like 50yrs toronto may have the backup needed to go head to head with NY but not yet ,not now.

Im having trouble with my downloads. I downloaded the new nam and a few other modds. I put them in my plugins folder just like each of them said in the read me but now the only one thats actualy working is the new nam. What can i do to get them to work?

lol srry my bad i shoulda thought of that. ok the mods are functional landmarks, plugin landmarks props, and the simoleon modv1. any help is greatly appriciated becaue im tired of having no modds because i dont know what to do or if im doing something wrong.

Hi everyone i have a problem. I'm new to SC4 and was so excited to start until i noticed a problem. Whenever I started a new city things would be good and the RCI would even go up a little bit but then things just plummet and never get better but in fact they get worse. I have tried everything I know to do and seriously need the pros out there to help me. Also I know that the RCI meter and development go hand in hand so what should i do? My last problem is that in the one city that is going good (but slowly) all of the develpoment that is happening is $ and I'm looking for $$ or $$$ but only a few of those ever come in the city. And what can I do to attract high wealth commercial and residential or does it even matter what finacial level people are? I just want huge skyscrapers and a constant flow of people moving in not moving out. Any advice would make me very grateful because I'm loosing my mind over this.

Thanks to everyone. I have taken your advice and will try to be more patient. Also I have another question does anyone have any advice on how to work a region to its biggest potential? I have looked at some of the City Journals and they all have great transportion from city to city. When I downloaded the NAM I started a new region and conected almost all of the tile squares together(although I think I may have gone overboard). Is there such a thing as to connected or was I thinking ahead and the super highways were a good idea. Please once again help this newbie out. And gml_josea Kars Lake is looking good. I hope my cities will soon look like those.