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Does anyone know if there is a lot plop that has all of the essentials in one building. School,fire station,hospital,police station? I hate building all of them cause it takes up so much room where I could place more residential or commercial buildings. And I could have the satisfaction of just having to build one instead of 4.

Exactly what I was gonna say.I was planing to do it myself but like you said before,no idea how to mod the thing but it should be simple enough to do. Maybe someone will go and fix it so all of the amenities Hospital,School,Police Station,and Fire station will be full large city radius and repost it. Hell i'm sure it would benefit for alot of people who don't like building all 4 of them and save room XD.

Actually this is what I am talking about.If you know whether there is another version of this that has a much bigger radius or covers a large city entirely that would be awesome. https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=17843

no one?

So I was looking at this thread and it shows how people make these complex interchanges with the NAM mod. So I thought it would be kool to make my own interchange but whenever I try and make one it just turns out like crap and it isn't complex like the ones in the thread. No i'm not trying to copy the ones on the thread, I just wanna make my own style of good interchanges but it seems so complicated trying to make it look good and I just go back to the regular way of making just one long highway with tons of exits. Does anybody have any good advice on how I could make a decent interchange?

If you notice in the first picture of my first post it shows the highway in the middle but then it shows another highway right next to it but its been cut in-half from the default maxis highway. Did they take it out in the updated NAM or is it still in the program cause I can't find that piece....

I have always wondered......where are the interstates at? I know they already have highways in the game that they consider interstates but I am talking about the 6-7 lane ones on each side and hold tons and tons of traffic.The big ass ones! Im surprised no one has come out with such a road type yet.Nam definitely has enough road ways and different highways models,etc,etc. But where are the interstates!? It would definitely have to be at least 4-5 squares wide and it would definitely be good for congestion.

Indeed thats where I got it,and yes it is very nice!

So I just installed sim city 4 since I stopped playing it for a while and decided to start playing it again. Anyway I loaded up the game and it seemed to be lagging just a little. This has never happend before when I played originally. Anyway I choose my region and start a city but when I go to bulldoze everything these streaking lines come up and I am thinking wtf? So I just ignore it and continue but then all of a sudden I will start to build roads and its like the games grassy areas are overlapping my roads. I know they are being built but they are covered by the grass. Not all areas of the map do this but parts of it. Has anyone else had this problem before? My sim city disc is in perfect condition so I know it isn't it. So I might be guessing its my pc. YES my pc does have the required specs to play this game!

Now this is what I am talking about! HUGE over the top interstate/highway! lolololol XD

Thats what i was using.A sandbox region but some of the pieces are just stubborn as hell and don't wanna snap together like they are supposed to. Maybe when a new updated version of it comes out it will fix some of the bugs. Also when I was using the 5-lane interstate it had these small arrows that would change different directions everytime I tried to add a new piece to the road and would go a glitchy on me. MEH...o well I'll just wait till a new update for it comes out. Also that would be an awesome idea.10 lanes per direction except you don't have to build 2 different highways and it would just be on big puzzle piece with 10 lanes on each side. Like the default highways on maxis with it being 1 puzzle piece but both sides are going in the either direction.

Well I can safely say that the RHW is fail in my opinion....it is just to complicated and the roads don't wanna snap together like they are supposed to.....and it gets very annoying going back and trying to fix it all up again....I plan to stick with just the NAM mod and since the default highways are easier to put together and NAM mod is easier to use.Its probably just me not used to using the RHW. Anyway I might just made my own Interstate road as a project. So that way they connect with the maxis default highway and the off-ramps are compatible with it. Im just not sure where to start though. Also does anyone else have anything else that would be a interstate but isn't the RHW?

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Hello simtropolis users.I have had this idea to make sim city 4 online.It would pretty much be a download installer that Installs onto your game and a new menu option will show "online" when you start up sim city 4.It starts out with a blank region.(No land mass)Then a menu shows up in the corner saying "click here to start a new city" and asks what size region you want and you choose between the small,medium,and large region and how much money you start out with.It will then be placed on the blank region in a random area.Also your probably saying "but how the hell are we supposed to find our region with it being so huge?" It will has have a loading bar menu so that way it will show a list of all the cities you have made and will automatically load your city to the acquired location and you can continue building.Then another person chooses what size they want and then it pops up next to their region.(Think of it like a puzzle persay).You begin to build your city like any other city. Then when you are done with that you save it and exit to the online region and it shows your city and the neighboring city how much you have built and the combined population of all the cities and as the region grows more and more the population will rise making it a super region!.You can dump garbage in other cities and ask for water just like in the game except you have to ask the mayor of that city if he will allow it. It pops-up just like in the single player version of the game.You can also connect your cities with roads,highways,avenues,etc. So that way if your neighboring city doesn't have enough room for his population he can easily bring them yo your neighbors city and help him.As for stex and downloads,it would have to go through tests before anything could be downloaded.Because some people have downloads that other people Don't have and other people have downloads...well you see where I am going with this. And as you know if they don't have the building downloaded it just shows up as a black box or brown box.I would most definitely have the "Nam Mod' as a vital install in the installer (I mean who doesn't have it right!?). You can also browse other peoples cities but just not mess with anything.Everything would be blanked out in grey so you can only choose to exit the region so that way nobody else messes up anyone else's hard work on their city.I know this sounds like alot of work,which it probably is, but since I don't have the manpower and time to make this it might be only a dream but if someone wants to try this feat,it could become a reality.

Well like I said before its just an idea. I thought maybe we could make it happen since sim city as we know it is dead and since sim city 4 plus simtropolis is the only thing keeping it alive at the moment we could have a new online mode/mod to hold us over until the new sim city game comes out.If anyone is up to the task go for it. It will probably be the only thing that keeps sim city 4 from dying besides simtropolis.

I was actually gonna ask that.....if sim city 5 or whatever next game is gonna be called. When it is supposed to be out......ea and maxis are taking waaay to long,or is there not gonna be a next sim city? I feel your pain brother......

I do know that cities xl has it but that costs a monthly subscription. And this was supposed to be a free mod for online play.Maybe when sim city 5 comes out or whenever the next sim city game comes out Will Wright will make it online play and make it FREE unlike cities xl.

ok,so i download the hongkong region,i save the config.bmp and the image,but whenever i try to load the region thing with the ctrl-alt-shift-r choose the image but when i choose it and press ok it does nothing,it just stays as the plains,i have done this probably over a million times and it works,but now it wont work anymore,any ideas? here is the region i wanted to use https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=5725 is the image that you download supposed to be "bitmap" or is it supposed to be a "jpeg" image ive tried both but it doesnt work,HELP PLEASE!

Go with towering residential and commercial buildings,make sure to put elevated highways for traffic and monorail as well,bus stops are essentail,clean power,either wind or solar,download a couple of plugins for this game to make your city more futuristic,here are a few,just open them then place them in your,(my computer/my documents/sim city 4/plugins) https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=3143 https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=3808 https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=18576 https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=21545 https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=21544 https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=16672 (i know its a london region but this could be the center of your city) https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=3038 https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=19417 (dont worry about fence dependency) https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=11214 https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=18462 https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=17034 (your gonna need this to protect yourself) wink wink https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=14618 (almost forgot about this bad boy) it gives you $100,000 a month,enjoy

I never knew you could just build one region as residential and then the other region as commercial or industry and then they would go to work there if there roads were connected,i alwayz thought that yu had to have both jobs and res in one city,this will help me out ALOT!

omfg it worked!!!! it finally worked,thank you!!!!!!!!! thank you all for your help!!!!!! 100 points to each of you and a cookie,lol

ok i will try the rendering thing,also when i download the grayscale image it saves as a bitmap image,not a jpeg and trust me i try to choose jpeg,im using vista then using a usb drive to transfer it to my xp system when i save both the grayscale and config.bmp

Ok so here is the deal i downloaded the "extra cheats plugin" and i had noticed the "lotplop" cheat so press enter it brings up a list of all the plopable lots in the game,i can tell which is high and low residential etc,etc,the only problem is finding the right building that i want but it doesnt have pictures next to each building lot only a bunch of numbers and letters and i was wondering if anybody has a list of each building for each plop or pictures for each building,that would help hugely! the one building i am looking for is the "Mc Carthy Condos" but since there are so many plops it would take forever to find it,not just that one but others as well,thanks!

Ok so here is the deal,i am looking at peoples citys and i am seeing these road layouts that are very complex,ive tried doing this before but i can't seem to get the hang of it,now before i go any futher,yes i have used the NAM mod,but since it slows down my game i have no other choice but to uninstall it,so if you have any complex road designs that i could use for my city,that would help alot!

This may sound kinda dumb but i am an otaku, I LOVE ANIME, and i have always wondered if anybody has ever wanted to make a city that REPRESENTS anime, ie-like a statue of your favorite anime character you place in your city,or buildings that have huge posters hanging from the front or side of them showcasing the newst anime,or convention centers with an anime picture on top of it,or a building that is painted to look like an anime charcter is on it/ those are just some ideas that i came up with,YES I KNOW IT SOUNDS RETARDED but it just kinda came up to me and i wanted to know what your thoughts are on it?