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Hi Everyone, I hope this is the right place to post this please correct me if I am wrong - I searched and saw no one else had posted as well. I found this great article written by Jeff Ferzoco from the the Regional Plan Association in New York City called "In Praise of the Urban Sandbox" in the American Planning Associations magazine April 2011 edition. It generally discusses city building games including the Caesar series, SimCity, CitiesXL, Cities in Motion and others in their development and influence on planners and real world decision making. It also specifically mentions Simtropolis! Very good overview and discussion of these simulation games in a broader context and their relevance and influence today in the world. Feel free to discuss your thoughts on this. Check it out here: http://www.planning.org/planning/default.htm'>http://www.planning.org/planning/default.htm If the link isn't working for you try going here: http://www.planning.org/planning/ and clicking on the article in the April edition called: "In Praise of the Urban Sandbox".

Thank you normalize for pointing this out. Looks like the author has posted it in full online here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/53630891/In-Praise-of-the-Urban-Sandbox

Looks like the APA just released their May/June edition of their magazine (last night). The current issue is usually free to view online at that website so the April edition that the article appears in is now not viewable without an account... just missed it. Wish I could post it but I dont know about permissions and rights so I wont.

Hey sargeantcm, I found a google sketch up file of the empire state plaza online here: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f5407fdf83bbaa589acf49900a4ddaf6&prevstart=0 If you download the file and open it with googleearth you can move around and zoom in and out of the whole plaza with all the buildings to see what they look like and placement.

I created one of Albany and the Capital District back in July 2007, its up on the STEX hope your still interested...

Wow! Its great to hear that your back! If you need any help with pictures or anything let me know. Cant wait for your updates.

I was just wondering if there are any statistics or web statistics for simtropolis to see where the majority (%) of members are located like by country, state or city or urban to rural... Just a neat geography experiment that can be completely anonymous.

I still have my problem with hospitals and schools... with no opera house

My first was Microsoft Flight Sim 95 and then simcity 2000 and then deadlock.

Im having the same problem but with hospital and school funding... It seemed to happen after the last NAM update... I havent installed any new mods or plugins since the new NAM and it hadnt happened till then... Any ideas how to fix?

Hello, I was using the7trumpets guide to creating a region in the omnibus and I got stuck on the part where you select the water with the magic wand and dilate or edge 3 pixels out from the shoreline to prevent sc4 from interpolating too much into the land. I am using Photoshop and have the water selected with the wand but I have no idea where to find dilate or edge to fix the problem. Is there another way of doing this? or am I over looking the tools? Heres the part in the article: You basically need to extend the shoreline gradually into the water so that when it is interpolated, the resulting shoreline will be in the right place. The best way I've found to do this is to select the water with the magic wand tool and do an edge-->dilate effect enough so that it adds about 3 pixels to your shorelines. This can still fill up some small water channels though, so after I do that, I simply go in and redraw the small waterways that need to be there with a very small Width = 1 pixel paintbrush painting RGB=65.You basically need to extend the shoreline gradually into the water so that when it is interpolated, the resulting shoreline will be in the right place. The best way I've found to do this is to select the water with the magic wand tool and do an edge-->dilate effect enough so that it adds about 3 pixels to your shorelines. This can still fill up some small water channels though, so after I do that, I simply go in and redraw the small waterways that need to be there with a very small Width = 1 pixel paintbrush painting RGB=65.quote>

Thanks, I’m working with it now. I am having a problem with the terraformer program. I started editing a blank region started in sc4 and then loaded it in the terraformer program. I started editing the rivers and mountains and saved it. Everything worked fine until I started up sc4 and the region loaded. The region's colors were that of the sc4 terraformer programs and the grid lines for the cities were all messed up. Any way to fix this? Here’s a screenshot:

Any more progress sargeantcm on the Empire State Plaza in Albany? I know its been a long time...

Hi Id like to request Union Station in Worcester, MA. Built in 1911, newly renovated in the 1990's, serves both Amtrak and MBTA to Boston. some picts can be found here: http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=union+station+worcester&btnG=Search+Images I also know that the Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY was going to be created but that was 3 years ago and only the Corning Tower has come about. This is a large, 1970's modern art inspired, monolithic government office building complex. It would be neat to have this project finished, sargeantcm started the lot way back then but hasn't had time to finish. I have many pictures upon request if any one wants to take this project up, they are also posted in the thread: Operation Buffalo Wing: A Blizzard of BAT. Other pictures can be found here: http://images.google.com/images?um=1&tab=wi&client=firefox-a&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=empire%20state%20plaza Thanks

For the Navy Land Storage lot in particular, but also a majority of the SNM Navy lots I can see everything but the main buildings like the warehouse and boats... I have downloaded everything on the dependency list here: * SNM Essentials * CSX MEGA Props - Vol04 * BSCBATProps RT SNM Vol02 * PEG_CSK-Add-On2_RESOURCE * PEG_Navy_PROPS_vol1 * BSC MEGA Props - JES Vol01 * PEG_MTP_RESOURCE_vol1 * BSC_TexturePack_Cycledogg_V 01 * BSC MEGA Props - Gascooker Vol01 * BSC MEGA Props - DAE Vol01 * BSCBATProps RT WIMPS N Vol02 * CSX MEGA Props - Vol03 With the exception of the PEG CSK Add on 2 Resource, and the BSCBATPRops RT WIMPS N Vol02 any ideas where I can find those two or what lots to download to take the props out of? These are not on the STEX or Sc4 Devotion site nor PEGs site, when searching for their text, I have tried to search for them or lots that might have them in them... any ideas? Thanks.

Is this thread still alive?