GOLDfish.74

I think Fed Sqare is a great example of good engineering and good architecture coming together. The fact that it's built on top of a railway line is no mean feat either. =)

I don't know anything about Modding SimCity 4 but I was thinking it would be nice if when making your transportation options sims should be able to walk across certain things. For instance empty land, parks and I think commercially zoned structures as well. There aren't many commercial buildings inside cities that you can't either walk through or walk around to get to your desired destination. Could anyone tell me if this is possible to be arranged in a Mod or why it can't and any ideas on other things that pedistrians really should be able to walk through to make their commute quicker =) Regards.

I keep getting the recurring error: D3DXCreateEffect Error D3DXCreateEffect has failed File: Error: Could not retrieve error message. Press OK to Retry. I looked at the Data directory and found no Shader folder. Is that normal or did my installation miss a whole heap of files. I have already reinstalled twice to no avail. Any input would be much appreciated. Regards. To give some background my specs are as follows: I have a Core 2 Quad 8GB RAM Vista Ultimate 64bit Radeon 1GB HD4890 Is this a hardware incompatability because when I installed it on my laptop (which doesnt have the specs to play it) I could at least get to the main menu.

I have done so many things to try to fix it: Update to latest ATI drivers Unistall and then reinstall in safe mode (with restarts inbetween) - this one got me to actually starting the game Update DirectX run Repair .NET tool Run the game with only essential processes operating Run the game with Windows XP compatibility Run the game as administrator (I already have UAC turned off) Update windows to Vista SP2 If there is anything missing from that list, please I beg, tell me.

It has now been 5 days since I first made contact with MC. If they have not replied to me due to the back-log of emails then this game simply is not ready for release. If they haven't contacted me due to poor staff then I think I should just take the game back and wait for the next offering from EA and Maxis.

I have managed to get the game to load but the same error is now occuring when I try to place a Town Hall, has anyone else had this?

While the splash screen is up. On the first install it happened after the cursor changed to the in-game cursor. Now it happens before tha even. And once the error occurs I have to use taskmgr to close the program.

What difference would it make had no one been on the moon? We have the technology to do it now if we wanted to. We had it then as well. It's not really that important anyway. We can analyse anything worth analysing from earth or a satellite anyway at a fraction of the cost. (ie: usable minerals)

There were a few things missing that I wanted to know if they were coming in the final release: Will we be able to tunnel from a flat surface, like using the raise road tool except going underground.? Can we have sunken style highways and possibly be able to build over the highway like you can in real life?

Has anything come of this topic, or was it just hopes and dreams?