Indiana Joe

You're right, Lucario uploaded it separately, I was mistaken. The only one that's included with the NAM now is the RRW tunnel/slope parameters. Thanks for pointing it out.

The latest Network Addon Mod comes with its own slope mod baked-in a slope mod for the RealRailway. You just have to make sure the file Indiana Joe's Slope Mod loads after the NAM in your plugins folder. Create a folder named z_SlopeMod (or anything after the letter N) and drop it in there. I may try to go back to these 2 regions and fix them to use the new NAM slope parameters. The good news is that after someone on Reddit posted their cities in my region, I was flattered enough and re-motivated to start a new one a few weeks ago. Based on Tagehring's New Palermo, you might see it get uploaded before summer ends (north of the equator at least). I do need permission from @tagehring first. Matt

Welcome weary readers in 2023 and beyond. As time marches on, the community for this 20 year old computer game dwindles but survives. Perhaps there are yet those who are newly discovering and downloading the amazing custom content users have poured their effort into for 2 decades. With the shutdown of the BSC Lot Exchange (the LEX formerly at SC4Devotion.com), a huge blow is dealt to the archive of SimCity 4 mods. As Alex (Tarkus) said, there were over 4,000 files hosted there, and many were not available here on Simtropolis. This also created tremendous link rot for my list here of some 250+ content creators and files. Some of the most important ones -- such as the entire BSC dependency collection -- have been quickly replaced on Tarkus's new site, SC4Evermore.com. Amusingly enough it took the crash of the entire website to do something fairly simple that was a very contentious point for years: combine all those dependencies into one file. I can't emphasize enough how much this community owes to Alex who, on top of coordinating the Network Addon Mod for the last decade or so, took over the second largest fan and content site in the community, and is now trying to save its content from the oblivion of time. Who knows how long it will take until all of that content is available again. In the meantime, unlike my introduction to this thread from 2018 states, it is a sad time in the community and not a good one to be building a plugins folder. One day perhaps I can go back and replace every LEX link here with a SC4E link, and I hope I'm still around here to do so. One day I know I will log off for the last time, like so many others already have. I want to thank everyone who I've ever interacted with here in the community, even 15-odd years ago when I was a kid and probably less-than-eloquently spoken (sorry ). I know Discord is the spiritual successor in many ways, but as far as website forums go, Simtropolis is pretty much the last place left. An era coming to an end. We've been around a long time; a few of you dinosaurs even from the 2003 days (). Hell, we've been around so long that the sequel to our beloved game launched, flopped, and was forgotten; our beloved resident grumpy old man died; and our beloved, benevolent, administrative beacon-of-positivity tried to end it all. Everyone here who ever contributed anything, no matter how small: thanks for stopping by. Whether or not you realize, you were a part of something amazing. Last but not least thank you Dirk for making it all possible. Matt

Incredibly sad potential news, CB. I don't have much to add to the volumes others have written about how much of an impact and presence Cori has here in the community. The fact that everyone has a story about personal interactions and Cori's kindness says it all. I think TheMurderousCricket brings up a good point that there is always a real person behind an online persona. Often it is the most outwardly kind and considerate that have the deepest personal struggles. It is all of our jobs to look after each other. It doesn't matter what silly little thing started a community. Whether it was baseball in an empty lot, or books, movies, or a video game. When people have been gathering in the same space for nearly 20 years---it makes us all friends and family. I hope that you, @Cyclone Boom, are able to look after yourself in this tough time. I know that you are probably already working on things at the back-end (as you and Cori have done as a team for years). I think most are aware, but suicidal ideation is an emergency and if someone you trust expresses it seriously, you need to contact the proper local authorities and get help for them ASAP. I know we are all hoping for the best outcome. Please reach out and lean on us when needed, CB....and that goes for everyone else. Otherwise, there are a growing number of resources. I am only familiar with ones in the U.S., but there are certainly international resources as well. Dialing 9-8-8 in the United States will connect you to the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. This brand-new number was just implemented in place of 1-800-273-TALK. The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention has a good list of resources. Also see the guide for A Friend Who is at Risk. The Suicide Prevention Resource Center has local information for all 50 states. And finally, you can always dial 911 / 112. A suicide plan is a medical emergency, and I respond to these as part of my full-time day job. We will always take it seriously and transport someone to a medical professional, and the same is true around most of the world. This is yet another index of links I have made, but I never hoped I would have to make this one. I can't pretend that mental healthcare is as developed as I would like it to be, but the only way to begin the journey to getting better is by reaching out the first time. Please take care everyone. We hope to see you again, Corina Marie. Matt

A very smooth spinny boi, with the new RHW pieces. Matt

Added a disclaimer at the top for PEG content and its occasional compatibility issues. Hopefully will make newcomers aware and able to avoid problems. It has only came up once, recently, since I wrote the guide. I had not thought about it in a long time, but I do seem to recall some controversy back in the day. In general it's iconic, quality content. The team was just interested in doing their own thing, with their own rural plugin-verse. Fortunately the incompatibilities are generally rare. Matt

Hey Turnstyled, glad you've gotten some use out of my guide. I haven't had your problem with the regular SPAM mod, so I think it probably came from one of the SPAM add-on content packs. Specifically this is the link I have in the post. I may have to go back and edit that out, as some of the plugins in that section are probably not what the average user wants. For example, one of them even overrides the NAM! PEG plugins are kind of unique, in that many files are incompatible with other major mods (they were geared toward making the entire game agricultural/rural.) I couldn't find reference to any water utilities other than maybe this one. You can also try the "binary search" method---remove half of your PEG Productions folders; load the game and see if the problem is fixed. If it's not that half, it's in the other half. Keep splitting it down until you narrow down which file is causing the problem. Matt

This is neat and smooth. But I had to stare at it for a minute because something wasn't right. 5 ramps and only 4 directions of travel. I'm curious if the redundancy serves a purpose.

Seriously tight work. And seeing it tucked into the urban environment where it belongs is just I don't have any masterful cities to show off my RHW. Right now all of my work is in test regions, playing with new pieces, like this... WeNeedADizzySpinningEyesLlamaEmoji.gif

I can hear the dull roar of the crickets, frogs and cicadas rising up in this picture as dusk sets in. Perfectly captures the southern U.S. I'd believe you if you told me it was a real place. Feels real to me just looking at it. Well done!

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Nothing spectacular; a quaint little bridge over the river in a city for testing out plugins. Destined to be destroyed unfortunately.

Gotta bump this to bring up a more obscure terrain mod, never released to the exchanges (yet). It's Badsim's VIP terrain mod. Which can only be downloaded by this link from the AntiGone city journal at SC4D.