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These are beautiful houses and they look great in my city. I do however think that the L3's and probably the L4's as well should be a bit bigger, so they fill out the lot a bit more. They look to my eye to be just a tad bit underscaled compared to similar houses in the game.

Hey all, after playing my region for quite some time I've found myself to be running out of room. Is it possible to expand the borders of my region/add more cities tiles without corrupting the data of the cities I've already built? I've already dabbled in modifying config files and using SC4 terraformer to create regions, etc, and I've already custom-terraformed several regions, but I've never ran into this issue before.

Whooops! Thanks for telling me, the new layout has me a bit confused! Could a mod kindly move my post? [Moved - CaptCity]

One thing I'd want: easy rezoning. The current game doesn't allow for rezoning; you have to destroy the existing buildings before you rezone. I think that would allow for a much more realistic building process, as the older parts of town would become the denser parts, not vice versa.

Honestly, I don't think that EA is going to put the time and the effort to make a new SimCity. I believe the only realistic solution is for a new company, much like Monte Cristo, to make a brand new game. Cities XL was a step in the right direction: the 3D was there, and I'd like to see graphics of that sort be implemented in the next-generation city-building game. However, the gameplay was too vanilla; it lacked the quirkiness and moddability, as well as the warmth, of SimCity 4. It'd be great if we could get a company, or if a serious group could form one, like Maxis was, to work on a "SimCity 5" of some sorts. Perhaps a company could even buy the rights to SimCity so they could use the name for the following games (although that's extremely unlikely). I'd put all hope into a third party developer, because EA simply doesn't care at the moment. Ooh, and by the way, Cities XL has started work on a 2012 version... hopefully it'll be more than a light improvement. I'm not expecting anything grand, though.

Did you go to this via a link? I've noticed the same problem when accessing a link from inside the site. I guess the only way to fix it is to log in and try to access the page through the libraries. Try asking on SimPeg's forums, if you haven't already.

$700 can actually get you a heck of a lot of computer for your money. I recently bought a $400 refurbished PC that came with Windows 7, 4 GB of RAM, and a pretty adequate video card. You definitely want Windows 7; SimCity works great on it for me. You might not be able to use some older applications for SimCity (Like SC4 Mapper), but 7's just a way more feature-filled, faster operating system than simple XP.

Are you running a dual core machine? I've found that limiting SimCity 4 to one core drastically reduces crashes (I use Startup Manger, by the way.) I haven't had a crash since making that tweak.

The Townsville waterfront.

So far my biggest is about 380,000. Not very good when you look at people with million-plus populated cities, but still a start.

Hi, I'm having some issues with Startup Manager. First of all, I run a Windows 7 64 bit (I heard it might have problems with it). The program itself works fine, as I was able to create profiles and choose my plugins with no problems. However, when I tried to start the game from the startup manager, the window pops up, saying it's initializing "sumnjserver'...but then it freezes and i have to close the program on task manager. I tried switching "sumnjserver" and "sumfmserver" in the configuration file, but now when I try to open the region, a window pops up that reads "Datei 'c:\Program Files (x86)\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Plugins Disabled\Reintegrate.vbs' kann nicht erstellt werden Access is denied;" and the second aforementioned window pops up, now saying that "sumfmserver" and the file manager server has worked, but it stays on "hide relevant files" for the longest time until I run out of patience and just close the program. Although I am an administrator on the computer, I have had some weird access problems with windows 7 in the past. I'm really hoping to find an answer to this mystery, as I am very excited to start using this incredible program.

Alas, I have the same problem happening at around 100,000-150,000. My guess is that it must be commute time.

I'm pretty sure I saw a rack of SimCity 4 Deluxes on the bargain bin at my local Target for 9.99 recently. Don't bother buying the SimCity Box unless you want Societies.

Breathtaking City journal! Gotta love that custom content

Here's a suburb that I made.

Hi, So even though I'm a veteran of SimCity, I decided to play the tutorials and build up the cities, especially "Big City Tutorial." However, I hate seeing the name "Big City Tutorial" plastered on region view, even though I've turned off the names. Is there any way to remove the name or perhaps to change it without losing the city that I have built using it? Thanks in advance.

Thanks, the name-changer did indeed work as expected, but unfortunately, the name still appears on region view even when I've turned off the "show city names" button. I have here an example of what I mean. I'm wondering if I can make the name on the thumbnail work normally. Thanks very much for the cheat, though, it'll definitely help me when I need to rename other cities.

Hi, I'm having some very annoying crashing problems on SimCity 4. These crashes happen at random times, but only when I attempt to terraform or build something at a certain location repeatedly. For example, I would open a city and try to terraform a mountain, but the game would crash right when I would start to form the mountain. Another time, each time my city would load, the reconcile edges box would pop up; I would choose to reconcile, and the game would crash. I did this a couple times and the same thing would happen each time. Also, after an hour or so on a certain city, the game would inexplicably crash without warning. I noticed later that a folder had been created in the SimCity folder in documents called "Exemption reports" and they all were made at specific times when the game crashed. Could it be the plugins I have? I have installed many plugins, like NAM, Columbus terrain mod, a water mod, and countless BAT's. I run a Windows 7 with 4GB of DDR2 RAM and a dual core 2.7GHZ processor, and the game runs flawlessly until it crashes. Thanks in advance

Capt City - I used to have a PEG pine tree mod that I uninstalled to be able to use the Columbus Terrain Mod, but the default god mode trees are converted in that mod, so there shouldn't have been any problem. When I removed the pine tree mod, the trees just converted back to the default god mode trees. The Columbus Terrain Mod has been running fine, so I don't think I messed up the installation on it; and i also used to have a snowcap mod, but, again, I removed it in order to install the Columbus Terrain mod. Thanks for the ideas though. A Nonny Moose - Haha sorry about that, I won't do that again, that's for sure. About the CTD's, I do tend to be a fast player and I like to make lots of changes quickly, and I run on cheetah speed a lot; so I will take your advice and slow down my game a bit. I'll also try saving more frequently. Thanks for the kind help.

By the way, here's a copy of an "exception report" from a crash. Sorry about the length.

Well, I have an Intel Pentium E5400 Dual-Core 2.7 GHZ CPU4 GB DDR2 RAMI believe I have 3839 MB of virtual memoryNVIDIA GeForce 7050 with 256 MB of dedicated memory and 1919 MB of total available memoryWindows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit (not sure about patch level)SimCity 4 Deluxe, and I patched everything recommended including the EP1 update and the SC4 BAT update.

Yeah, I've downloaded cleanitol, and it hasn't really helped the crashes. I guess it is the plugins making the game unstable.

Hey, guys, I have a question. My old computer with SimCity 4 installed on it recently broke (the hard drive got fried), taking away all the multiple downloads I had done of mods and whatnot. I have since gotten a new computer and installed SimCity on it. The problem is, I forgot which mods I used besides NAM, and even then I wasn't sure which mods I was getting . I've browsed the exchange, but there are so many different choices that I don't know what to pick. I'd appreciate it if someone could point me out to mods and texture packs generally considered "essential," and maybe some of their favorite other mods as well. Thanks in advance. (Sorry if this is in the wrong place, it's my first post) *edit* Ugh, sorry, I realize I should have posted this under Modding. My apologies.