City Planner

I'm using BRF_TunnelAndSlopeMod.dat I'll look at that link, thanks. Edit: Ahhh, I see now, The game itself without any slope mod is the most forgiving and allows to build all the "stuff" with the most drastic slopes. All this time I thought the slope mods worked in the opposite respect in that I thought they allowed me to build on more drastic terrain, but they work the opposite and restrict me from building on drastic terrain but make the slopes smoother that they do allow me to build on. Ha, go figure. Thanks,

Hmmm, I think this thread is broken as the post I made doesn't show up and now I just got a reply that somebody else posted, and it flashed on my screen with their new post and now the post is gone again. Maybe time for a "Show us your - Region 2" thread, maybe.

You wouldn't create your own buildings, but rather download the buildings you want, and then use the SC4Tool to alter their properties, I've been doing it to get rid of things like when the user thought it was a good idea to have a small commercial building put out 2500 tons of garbage or use 5000 units of water for one small building, so I don't suppose it would be a problem to alter the buildings you download to do what you want them to do. As far as downloading the tool I don't know where it's at, try searching google for SC4Tool Download and that should find it for you.

Addison Mountains (map available on the STEX if interested) Enlarged image: i42.tinypic.com/2vt9vfn.jpg

Hi, I've got quite the extensive Airport plugin list in my plugins, however I need to find some documentation to find out what pieces are supposed to hook up with what, so that I know how to put them together to form a complete airport. Is there such documentation for if it's in my plugin folder it would be impossible to find in the 3.89GB of plugins and assorted other "stuff". Thanks

Hi, I'm really no longer into the whole "create my own" custom content when there are so many talented creators out there already creating stuff so ..... I see a couple lots or plugins from time to time that say that they are "HD" or High Definition. While I understand what this means in terms of a television, It's a loss as to how some plugins are HD to me. What makes a plugin a High Definition plugin in SC4 and what sort of extra burden do they put on the game and or computer to display them, and are they really any different than the regular plugins? If so, in what way?

Well if it's only hard drive space that is the difference, then it would be great to see more HD bats hitting the STEX soon as hard drive space is at it's cheapest in years so it's not really a big concern. But if it affects the performance of the game then I could see not wanting too much of it in the game.

Hi, I decided to start a new city in my region and the only things I've done is to put down a road connecting it to an existing road of the neighboring city tile, and some RHW roads I think to make one curve. However then I noticed that the RCI meter is completely tanked out and showing all negative RCI demand, like to the bottom of the scale at more than -6000 What would cause this on a new city tile that doesn't even have any buildings placed in it yet? I then went to another tile and started a city there and the RCI is normal over there. If I go to the city tile that is connected to the city that has the huge negative rci demand, everything is normal over there.

Thanks, you are correct. Once I fast forwarded the game a short time the RCI shot way up high and it's been there ever since and no matter how much R and C that I build it's staying way up there. I guess my neighboring city tile must be keeping it up so high for some reason that I am failing to see. Not that I'm complaining mind you, I rather enjoy being able to build all the R and C that I want and have the game build on the zones that I lay almost immediately even though the city is now getting quite large.

Originally posted by: robin9000 No mistake, It really is one of the worse things you can place down in the city. I have found it provides no real beniftes as it takes up a massive amount of very expensife realestate and like you pointed out is a very much a crime infested location so why bother with it at all. quote> Just for the eye candy effect I guess. Thanks everybody for the replies.

Maybe you want to download "Landscape Designer" and quickly create your own small(ish) maps with mountains and seas, I use it when ever I want a quick map. In conjunction with Sc4mapper I can have a smaller map to play on in less than 5 minutes, and they usually only need some minor terraforming in the game to make some flatter area to play on (but that's an option, I like flat areas to build, other people like to build on undulating landscape).

Have you thought about using the SC4Tool to alter some of the low end commercial service buildings? I'm usually not one to alter somebody elses work but lately with all the downloads I've been doing I've been finding it a necessity to alter other peoples work to add more of this or subtract some of that using the sc4tool. Maybe this would be a good thing for you.

I don't have to force them, they just occur naturally for me LOL In all seriousness, I had my very first riot last night and didn't even know what was going on, the game paused, and the emergency panel came up and i'm scanning the screen for fires but found none, then I see some people demonstrating in the nicest part of town so I throw a half dozen police cars at them and watch as the riot ends without any bloodshed (unfortunately).

"CityScape is $19,000 per seat license." Once I saw that I picked my jaw up off the floor and went back to dreaming about the ultimate Simcity type of game that I'd love to have.

Thank you for the replies. @ N_O_Body: What do you mean by a transportation loop? Maybe if somebody explains how a Transportation loop is setup, then I can avoid setting one up myself. TY

Hi, I searched in the stex for RLS development and found quite a few of simgoobers work but couldn't find the sunnydale park mobil home plugins. Does anybody know where it is located. I've got it installed (somewhere in my plugins) but it's missing some dependencies perhaps since I've got the flag (same as brown box) indicating it's missing something and I'd like to track down what it is since theres very few plugins that I've got in my 3.8GB of plugins that cause the flag to pop up indicating something missing. Any help to find this would be appreciated.

Theres a couple good city and or street name generators on the web that I've used in the past that work really well. Unfortunately I can't find the urls to them anymore in my favorites as it's so cluttered with hundreds if not thousands of favorites (junk now really) but I'm sure googling for city name generator or street name generator would turn up some good ones that could be added to this list above.

Thanks SC4BOY for the advise, yeah when I was building the road (2nd screenshot) I had the same feelings, then I thought of the "Shining" movie and thought well, theres that hotel up all those miles up in the mountains all by itself with that long long road, so why not. But I definitely see your point and will likely need to wipe this and take a much longer approach from the right (not seen on image) to get a more gentler approach to the top. Thanks,

Thank you for the reply, it is appreciated. While I'm on the subject of mountain roads and switchbacks... Has anybody seen a plugin for road guardrails, those metal things that are often seen on the side of the road preventing cars from tumbling off 3,000 foot cliffs? Thanks, My first attempt at making a switchback road, obviously it didn't make it to the top, however it did make it up high enough to make a road that runs along the mountain side. 01 My second attempt to create a switchback did manage to make it up to where I wanted it to go (to the resort area on the plauteau), however this is one of the ones that I'd say looks absolutely Horrid 02