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A New Hope 7; The New Farmland... During the evening meal one of the workers raised up a question about how large the new farmfield had to be... Simpson and Samantha looked up against eachother, "Well, we haven't talked about that before, but i guess we'll just start with the size of 1 acre, i think that should be enough for the time being". Samantha agreed with her husband. "And what are you planning of what kind of crops you're going to harvest?" Another worker asked curiously. "I think we're going to start with corn first", Samantha replied quickly. "Because thats the easiest crop to start with", Simpson added to her answer. "Can I borrow your Van tomorrow?", Simpson asked one of the workers. "Why so?", he replied. "Well, we need to buy a tractor and maybe a harvester", Simpson answered. Samantha quickly jumped up and grabbed her gift that she had been gifted by her mother. "No need to hun, I can call my mother and ask her if she wants to do that for us!", She responded quickly... Her gift was a new cellphone of the brand 'I-Rang!'. She quickly called her mother. "Mom, could you do a favor for us?". "Could you go out tomorrow for us to the local dealer and order a brand new tractor and a harvester for us?". Her mother was thrilled in doing that for her daughter, and she agreed in doing that for them. Her mother told her that it would be a gift from her for their new farm! Samantha was pleased to hear that. "She's going to gift us the tractor and the harvester for us!!!", Samantha told it at an excited voice to Simpson after she hanged up the phone. Simpson almost choked on his potatoe when he heared Samantha yelling the news. "Is she serious?!?", He replied, after almost choking on his potatoe! "Isn't this great?!!!". Samantha replied. The workers cheered upon the news of Samantha... "But, but...", Simpson stuttered... "That will cost her over 200.000 Rizlians for your mother?!!!", (rizlians is the local currency of Rizla) 200 times this amount equals 200.000 Rizlians... "We can't accept such grand gift from her!?", Simpson answered. Samantha replied that her mother had saved all her money over the years and that her mother also had won the lottery in the past... And that her mother doesn't care about money, and that she wants to help us in starting up this new farm of us. Samantha informed her husband. Simpson wasn't all too happy about this, but he couldn't argue against her because they hadn't enough money for themselves currently. So he just agreed with it. Everyone was very happy for the couple and so they celebrated the evening with alot of booze! (the workers had brought those along!). It went into the late hours and everyone was very drunk and they all fell asleep one by one on the campsite. The nights were warm because it was summertime and the temperature was around the 18 degrees. The next day everyone woke up with a huge hangover as they started to get their breakfast and coffee. After one and a half hour everyone was forgotten their hangover already and started on their job again. There had alot to be done before the new farm was ready for service. The workers worked very hard in achieving the job at hand. Soon the farmfield and the new barn was going to be visible in its shape and size. Suddenly, (a couple of hours had already past), everyone heared alot of honking and the sound of a tractor approaching. Simpson and Samantha rushed to the gravel road and they saw the new machines approaching with her mother behind the steering wheel of the tractor. They both laughed very hard at her while she approached the two. "O MY GOD!, I can't believe my mother is actually driving it!", Samantha yelled out loud! Simpson also couldn't believe it. Samantha's mother parked the tractor and jumped of. She graciously greeted her daughter and she was happy to see the face of Simpson. "So, your the husband of my daughter?", She asked curiously... "Yes Ma'am!", Simpson answered proudly! "Nice to meet you son!", Samanatha's mother graciously shaked Simpson's hand. "Come lets sit down and talk abit more", Samantha told the two... So they went inside their cabin and chatted along with eachother for a couple of hours, while the workers were working hard on the land. To Be Continued! Here are some extra shots of the area in question!!! Have a great weekend!

@ Schulmanator; I just got word from Samantha and Simpson that they're happy to join them for the meal! They told me you're welcome to visit and join them for lunch whenever you want to!

Are Simpson and Samantha also invited to this ceremony?!? Date is marked on my calender

Well, schulmanator, i try to post a comment whenever i can, but it still makes me proud that i made upon your list currently I didn't expected it at all I like your updates but i don't reply to them all, even when im just lurking them

A New Hope 6: The Undertaking Samantha woke up early, around 6 am in the morning. She stood up and dressed up to prepare her for the day. She went to her mothers kitchen to get some breakfast, her mother was up already and had already prepare a good breakfast for her, a sandwich with bacon, eggs and cereals. "Goodmorning sunshine!" Her mother said to Samantha. "Goodmorning Mother", Samantha replied. "Here, I've made you your favorite, breakfast". "Thanks, mom!" Samantha was still sleepy, but she was happy to have her favorite breakfast again after such awhile. "Can I have some coffee to Mom?" "Sure you can Hunny". Her Mother replied to her. "I've also made some extra coffee and sandwiches for you, for your yourney back". "O, thanks alot mom, I appreciate that". Samantha was blessed in having such a nice mother who took care of her, like most mothers do for their child. Samantha took her time to enjoy her mornings breakfast. It was now 6:45 am. She looked on the clock that was hanging above the doorway of the kitchen, "Christ! I need to hurry! The job applicants are waiting for me!, Samantha grabbed her coat and boots and gave her mother a big kiss on the cheek. "Sorry mom, but i need to run! People are waiting for me at the job agency!" Her mother understood her completely. "Here, hun, i've bought you a small presence, which you could come in handy very much!" "I'll come and visit you soon, okay?" "O, thanks mom, but i need to go now, or else I will be late!" Samantha took the gift and rushed out of the house. Her mother watched her leaving the house and was waving goodbye to her child in the kitchen's doorway. 15 minutes later Samantha arrived at the front of the job agency and people had already arrived at the place and was waiting for her to arrive. "Hi, guys!" Samantha greeted everyone warmly. "Are we ready to go for the trip?" Everyone nodded and they went off to "A New Hope". In the meanwhile in "A New Hope". Simpson had already chopped down a pretty good area of trees already. But he didn't got to it, to move the chopped down logs aside, the place was a big mess! Simpson had woken up around 8 am and he already had his breakfast and coffee. He looked out of the window, watching over the area of chopped down logs... "O, boy!, What a mess!" He thought upon himself while seeing all those chopped down logs. "How the hell am i going to move those logs aside?!" Simpson wondered. Simpson was discouraged to start cleaning up the mess that he made the previous day... He knew it would take him up to a whole day to clean it all up. Suddenly he heared the noise of cars and machines approaching!!! "Finally! My wife has arrived!!!!" Simpson cheered from happiness. The workers parked their caravans alongside the cabin of Samantha and Simpson. They were eager to start their work and they started right away! "O, hun, i'm glad to see you!" Simpson told his wife. "Yes, dear and i've managed to get the manpower and equipment to get this job done!" Samantha replied to him. After a couple of hours, the workers had already cleared the site for most of its part. In the meanwhile while the workers and Simpson were busy to clear the site of chopped down trees, Samantha had prepared a big evening meal for the people. She had made potatoes with chicken and beans. Her mother had packed her bag and supplied her with these foods before she went of this morning. To be continued!

@ Simcoug: Thanks for the positive comment, and yes, i've been quite busy with it... But as this is my first CJ, i try and learn new things along the way so hopefully i can compare with the greatest CJ's out there

ok, well good luck make sure u make a backup of your plugins, maps, cities etcetera, so you can move them back in after re-installing the game ;-)

I think mandelsoft can guide u in the right the direction for that one, he has made lighting poles and stoplights in the past, so i think he can help, just send him a pm

Have you tried my previous option like stated above already?

Tell mr. stevens and his crew to watch out for robbers on that line, looks like they'll be hitting a tree stomp that has been laid down on the rail line by the robbers :kitty: And i miss SG-1 also very much, luckily i still got my dvd's and downloaded content

thanks for batting this 00.7 cheeses i really like the bat! one happy camper here

Well, after reading some other topics on this forum, i came across something that might be another solution. I dunno if you have installed the "Texture Problem Fix", made by maxis??? You can find the fix on here: http://screwpile.wordpress.com/screw-pile-exchange-spex/maxis-files/ I checked the zip and there are no instructions to be found in it im afraid, so i don't know in which folder it has to be installed... Just download it, and first find the location of the files of where they are and then make a backup of them and then replace them. I hope this might fix your problem, if not, then reinstalling the game should be a last resort to do... Btw, have you also tried to move your downloaded plugins out of the map and to see if the problem still exists then? If it doesn't then some plugin might be conflicting with them... in any way or another. Im just trying to help you out here as i don't really know what might be causing this.

Can you gives us your computer specs? Like amount of memory (ram) installed, type of videocard, type of OS etc etc... It sounds to me as if you don't have enough memory installed. And Sc4 is a very memory consuming game when it comes to large cities...

It can't hurt to try it out. Let us know if it did or didn't solved your issue... What i also just wondered was, did you recently (re-) installed the game? Because maybe there went something wrong during the installation process...

Dirk is a very busy man , i suggest you wait till the end of this week and then give it another try... I sended him a pm also in the beginning of this month and even i didn't had any response from him yet... So give it some time and then try again. Some people are too caught up in their Real Life Syndromes that they sometimes forget their online commitments...

No you won't have to repatch the game again. The Sgr files (when loaded by the game) only tells the game which videocards to be recognised in order to display it properly These are kind of instruction files so the game knows how to handle it all... It won't hurt your installation. But make sure to make backups of the old ones before placing the ones i gave you, just to be on the save side.

Ok thats what i wanted to know... Hmm im just trying to pinpoint what your problem currently is, so could you try out the following things, dunno if it will help but it might: - Before launching the game, close all problems that are running (in the background also) down. - Startup taskmanager and select simcity4.exe process and set its core use to 1 Because it seems to me, your memory or the one on your videocard can't handle it very good somehow...

Hmm a 32 mb videocard is very low! How long do you have this system? If you have it for a very long time, then i do think your videocard is giving out on you... Have you encountered this also with other games aswell? Like lagging, tearing in screens etc? I've provided an healthy graphic.sgr and videocard sgr file for you in this post. Backup your previous ones and try if it works. You can find these files in your program files folder where the game is installed Sgr files.zip

Can i ask how "old" your videocard is? Do you have it for years or is it a new one? Because it might also be a problem with the videocard. Do you encounter these problems also with other games???

Welcome to Simtropolis I hope you will enjoy your stay on this site and you'll notice that we are one big family, well sort of Take care!

A New hope 5, Meeting The Town's People, Samantha just had her lunch eaten, when she decided that it would be best to search across the town for people they could use for their new farm. She went to the local job agency where she could find the people she needed. She asked the agency if their would be people willingly to fulfill the job requirements thats she has asked for. The agency responded that they'd have the necessary people into their account to fullfill her task. Samantha was very pleased to hear that, so she asked the agency when the first person could be available and ready for taking the job. The agency responded that it would only take a day at least to screen the candidate and to select them for the job procedure.Samantha was very pleased to hear it and she told the agency to go ahead with the pronounced procedure. Soon, the first 5 candidates responded back positive, they were very interested at the job at hand. Samantha decided to hire them right away, leaving her no choice than to they trust them in their capabilities. The candidates were rather strong and capable of doing their job at hand. She told the candidates that the job at hand was more over 75 km from Rizla away. The first 4 candidates weren't bothered, cause they were eager to get some kind of job again. One of the candidates told her that he had a van and that everyone could ride along to their new job. Samantha was thrilled in hearing that. "Ok, guys, lets meet eachother here at this place at 7:00 am tomorrow", Samantha instructed them to bring along proper clothes and workshoes. "Ma'am, do we have to ride back and forth each morning and afternoon?" One of the guys asked her. "Well, it depends on what you want yourself. You can stay but we don't got the extra space for you guys to sleep there. But we can easily build some proper houses for you guys since we're now got enough people to build it all up". Samantha told the guys. Everyone agreed to just stay there and make this new farm work. They were sure it would be easily done. So they splitted up and they went back home to prepare for the next morning. Samantha went to her mothers place that was located in Silverpinestreet. Samantha had fond memories of her childhood here. She loved the place were she grew up. But when she turned at the age of 19, she decided that she would go out and seek out a place to do things on her own, that place was "A New Hope". The area which she had named it to after she had found it after her yourney throughout the wilderness. Her father left her mother when Samantha was at the age of 15. Her father divorced her mother because he had found another lover. Samantha was still mad at him about that. When it happend, she swore to never talk to him again, EVER!. Samantha knocked on the door of her former home, couple of seconds later, her mother opens the door. Her mother saw Samantha and yelled: "My little girl is back!". Samantha smiled and she hugged her mother intensively. "Come, lets sit down and have a nice cup of coffee", her mother told Samantha. Samantha took a seat in the living room. "Are you staying for dinner hun?" Her mother yelled to from the kitchen while she was making coffee. "Well, yes mom, and if you don't mind, ill sleep here for the night". Samantha told her mother. "That's ok, Sam, i've still got an extra bed for you". After 5 minutes, her mother came into the livingroom with coffee. They chatted up with eachother about Samantha's yourney's. Samantha told her mother what she had been doing all those years. She told her mother that she came across a man and that they were married. Her mother was thrilled in hearing such wonderfull news. Her mother was proud on her daughter, proud that she was capable in managing herself all alone all those years. She told her daughter that she was looking forward in meeting her husband and she couldn't wait to be a grandmother. Samantha told her mother that they were planning on raising a farm and that that was the reason she was back in town. Her mother was excited in hearing such news, that she told Sam, that the local government was planning in laying down a railroad line towards the coast. But she also mentioned that it would take years before it would be completed, due to the fact that the government was seeking for sponsors and the additional donations they needed to get the funds for this project. Samantha was excited, because then she wouldn't have to walk all those miles between Rizla and her place. Stay Tuned! O, and here's another teaser!!!!

Well, if you have read the readme, than it would have said that it doesn't coexist withother. If the readme's doesn't mention any set backs between the two then you mostly can assume that they will work nicely together... And sometimes you'll have to do some trial 'n' error on it. I believe i use all of them and as of yet, i've not noticed any setbacks yet, so i think it's pretty safe to say that they both work well together. You just have to try it out and see if you can notice any setback...

oooo i love this already... is there a thread where you will be posting your updates of the work in progress? cuz i would love to see how this would develop!

woot i made it into the list! nr 463 currently :D