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Thanks everyone. I solved the problem like this : i have 20 folders or so in my plugin folder, so i cut/paste half of it in another directory, then run the game, and so on ,until i managed to get to the file that was causing me that much trouble. It was a maxis trees replacement mod that was in conflict with another one. I am preety much deorganized, i admit. I am a doctor ,not a math/logic type. I do use logic in my field, but that's about it, when it comes to logic My post was preety much made when angry. I wanted to say stuff, but not in a hard way, not to offend. Look, seeing all of you, i noticed you all have 500+ posts. Noony Moose and T Wrecks are obviously the veterans. You were here in the beggining. Imagine somebody says to you that a game you used to play back in the 2000's, pirated from DC+ with a lot of bugs and problems is on sale on Steam for only 4 euros, you buy it, you play some Vanilla ,but you want to ask something about it, and discover this website!...and once you do, there's no turning back! The custom content is amazing in quantity and quality, and you don't see yourself playing vanilla, ever again. Someone who actually withnesed the custom content's birth had the chance to "take it slow"....but someone who is new wants everything So ,you start with the mods. You want to have/try a lot of stuff. All that NAM has, SAM, SRT, RHW,etc,etc. ,you want the industry quadrupler, you want parks, buildings, everything. Imagine a starving person in a "all you can eat" buffet but instead of 5 types of food there are 50.000!.... And you start downloading. You get to similar mods and lot's....and you ask yourself wich one is better (do you know how many streetlights are there?!) ,wich one would suit your town better, and so on. My first 4-5 times i tried to make a working plugin folder failed probably because of this. It was my first time as a gamer when i spent more time preparing the game than actually playing. This last time, i organized!...i mean ,i set a limit to 1.5 GB of content. I made folders like : utilities, dependencies, rail, road, mod's ,etc. I even wrote down each and every prop&texture pack i downloaded!... But ,if you ask me, the content has a lot of problems also....For example: installers. BSC stuff has installers. I wanted to put everything where i wanted ,but it's quite annoying manually changing the intalation folder. Other stuff has no installer. A lot of people don't info if something is growable or just LM, almost no one tells you is something is compatible or not with something else. A lot of the links are not working. You do search on google for them,and you maybe find them, but no one tells you if the file or pack is not part of another pack that you allready downloaded, and it might get you into conflict, and the list is really, really long The point is, that from someone who was not in touch with the game or the comunity for the past years, finds himself in the position of someone from 1500's descovering the automobile!...Yes, i am that guy. I would not ride the horse, ever again but understanding and getting confortabile with the automobile is my biggest issue, because driving is easy PS: after removing that file, now i don't even get CTD's anymore , so probably i am getting to understand SC4 custom content better, the problem is/was that i lost a lot of time figuring out what and how, and it's just plain chinese from someone who was not active here, ever. THanks everyone for your swift replys. I think SC4 is here to stay, 2013 looks....well....2013' ish. Stupid, mainstream and expensive

Hello everyone. Despite my numerous attempts to create and organise a decent Plugin folder, i just couldn't do it!...Each and every time i try again ,start over, delete everything, everytime i do it again ,it's the same....over and over....and over and over again. Brown boxes, frequent CTD's and so on. I limited myself in playing with CTD's and saving frequently, and just not using those plops that get brownies and when a grow has a brownbox i just delete it!....i'm sorry content providers ,your content just can't be used by inexperienced players! What's good but old has a dependency list not updated ,80% of the links don't work anymore, 50% of all dependencies had been packed but you don't know in wich pack and so on ,and on and on and sssssooooooooooo On. (i'm pissed, sorry) Don't want to upset or bore anyone right now, i know everyone has it's site, it's team ,it's ego ,and no one will never upload a big pack with All dependencies and update it frequently, so..... MY PROBLEM now, is like this. After dowloading for about 10 hour everything i wanted for a american themed game, i started the game and...90% of my plops and 90% of my growables build with Huge Maxis vanilla buildings (the red tennements from the chicago theme ,3X3 are predominant) even if the lot is 1X1 ,it just builds this huge building over it, and in some cases i get small houses (vanilla also) on parks and structures bigger than 2X2 This happends with MAXIS LOTS Also!....maxis parks&recreations ,everything gets a huge red building ,or a brown box..... I am desperate....this is a my 10-th attempt in gathering&sorting custom content to build a culture themed game, and everytime i abandon because of the boxes and/or CTD's ,but at least i play for a couple of hours before getting completely mad! this one problem here it's just getting me to delete the game forever!.... Any ideea what could had created such a gamewide problem? Please help....

thanks for the suggestion but i did that. I just find it hard to use ,since i am not a old member and i am updating my content but rather new and downloading old,new,mixed content

thanks a lot for the swift reply. I will look in the mod's and threads you pointed ,for some of my questions.... I do build original looking towns.But there are many towns in Europe, eastern or western that do look the same, even if the commercial layout and industrial ones are completely diffrent. In my country in the 70' there were build over 1.000.000 housing units, and there were a little over 15 types of flats, so, actually except the historic center, most of E-european towns look the same!.

Hello everyone. I'm not actually that new to Simtropolis, but in never posted before. I strongly support the ideea of actually looking yourself in older threads to find common answers, but since it's my 5-th fail, i have to ASK so....here it is. Basically i am intro realism. I want to build towns and cities, agriculutral landscapes and large downtowns using a specific feel, american ,european, asian, and so on. So, i try to customize my Plugins folder the way it does match what i look for. Well ,the problem is, after 2-3 hours of downloading i do get every time the CTD and after 2-3 CTD's it just closes the game without warning. The main issue, i think it's conflict between custom content, so...here it goes, my questions. 1) Custom content in the STEX had been around for 10 years or so. From what i had seen, a lot of them developed from small prop packs to giant prop packs, but there is a lot of custom content that has a specific prop dependency (that might be or not included in a superpack by now). If i click the download link, it just puts me to the front page of the STEX. Where i can find those files? and if i do find it somewhere else, would there be a conflict between those older small prop packs and the new, updated super packs? 2) Are there to be found threads or tutorials that manage to gather all the custom content one needs for developing a specific city? The main issue here is the dependencies and the conflicts they might generate. What i do is downloading all the dependencies, and then download the file i want, but in game experience is a bit frustrating because of CTD's and crashes and ocasionally brown boxes. Is there anyone that made a GUIDE of what to download to have (for example) a comunist city : comunist roads, buildings, utilities but tested so that each and every download it recommends will have common dependencies and will not crash? 3) The NAM is way too cool, but in my case, in my last town everyone was using mass transit. I live in Bucharest, ROmania, wich has the 3'rd largest, most expansive mass transit system in Europe. Virually no block is left without a bus, trolleybus, tram ,light rail, heavy rail, minibus or subway (surface and underground) station. Even if so, the city is truely congested with road traffic because...well....people like them better than mass transit. Hate the beggars in it, the lowlifes that forget tot take a shower for weeks, the packed trains in the morning, etc. What do i have to do for a more realistic mass transit use? where people are using it, and should use it more, but in this packed medium density towm i made, people are using 400% of the buses and virtually no road use!...Or maybe a pack of incentives for the city hall that cost a lot and increases ridership...like we have 100% off the pices for college students, and so on. 4) How do i eliminate original maxis growable buildings? i love to grow not to plop a landmark...i like to create the conditions for my town to build them. But even with 300 custom buildings, the town still builds a lot of it's own ,and give a weird feeling to the town. 2$$ res in commie style looks much worse thant 2$$ maxis style!...but still ,they grow togherer. 5)Again, please....did anyone packed this stuff in a thread? I had seen tons of CJ's ....if they made it...why not share the plugins folder? Thnaks a lot everyone. PS: my version is bought via steam, so i do have the lastes version.

Hello everyone. Today i just found out that my beloved SC4 rush hour ,a game that i have and play each year since 2004 ,has lo's ,mod's ,dependecies and all that new ,great ,glamorous stuff. I am aware now that almost all good games have a thriving ,inspired and dedicated comunity that looks for ways of making it a better experience. So ,i am a *****. I play Sim City since the 90's ,had hundred of hourplay in SC2000 ,SC3000 and now SC4 ,but never the wa you people play. Ths new and interesting face of SC4 made me feel like a child in a candy shop..... NOW ,after i read all posted above i just wanted to try and disclaim some of the people named by the author ,because i find myself in the very-same position. I wasted 5 hours today trying to understand how this works. They were hundreds of good looking mod's and textures and mostly all needed some dependency list. I have a 100 MB/second connection ,so this is not a problem ,but chosing what to download ,where to download ,where to find it ,and what to do ,drven me nuts! I am a doctor ,not a programmer ,and not a student....so my time is limited. I preffer to develop a region in 1-2 hours/day than spendng 40-60 minutes to find and download the dependency list that a nice pair of german houses need to have in order to appear in my city. So ,OLD ONES.....remember that this game is for all ,and all are maybe stupid...or not english primary....,or just not that kind of addictive person so in order to pursuit a mod until it actually works.... I looked at some MD's and saw some beautyfull work......and i wanted to do some of that too. But now ,after so much wasted time....i think i will get back to my original MAXIS SC4 because of all dependenyes and never ending lists of prop's and whatever.. Put yourself n the shoes of that child in the candyshop that is let to take everything in the store for free ,but finds out is harder that even buyng the stuff.....just see it like that ,and maybe you will understand why some users are frustrated