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Can someone attempt to answer this question for me? Im not a modder but a mod user so I know nothing about creating the amazing mods I DL off here and SC4devotion so please forgive my ignorance. Since EA has already made it clear that its going to be made for modding how will user created mods be affected with this being an online game connecting to EA servers? What I mean is that for the last ten years SC4 has been all about the mod however SC4 wasnt online and didnt connect to an EA server. Anything we DL is at our own risk as we are DL it to our own computers. We all run the risk of DL something that could harm the computer and or crash the game. However with the set up of the new Simcity will maxis/EA allow anyone to create a mod that will be used in game? It seems that it would be risky for EA to allow us to add/change something within our program/plugin files and then connect to their server thus potentionally harming their servers and everyones game play? Can something like that even happen? Also what about SC4devotion and Simtropolis? It seems to me that Maxis/EA would create a simcity websit monitored by them in which they can scan and control everything just to make sure no one is doing something they arent suppossed to, they protect thier servers and all users would have access to the same mods/updates. Plus this may solve the issue of multiplayer since if I have mod type 1 tunnel going into my neighbors city and he has mod type 2 tunnel then when we visit we wouldnt be able to see the tunnels correctly as we have two different versions of the mod. Again excuse my ignorance in this matter as I dont know all the ins and outs of modding so maybe this isnt even and issue.

I vote for disease pandemics and of course when I say that I really mean I want a Zombie epidemic that would have to be countered by Military personel.

Im sure the suggestions/wish list I am about to post has been discussed and or posted by various other users, however in the hopes that Maxis reads these suggestions and sees how many fans bring them up they will in fact implement them within the new Simcity. - WEATHER and SEASONS ! I put this at the top of my list because frankly its whats always been lacking and never really explored. If were going for realism there has to be a change in seasons with coresponding weather. Snow in the winter, thunderstorms in the spring, hurricanes in the summer, etc - DISASTERS - Not everyone likes them so you should have the option to play with and without disasters. However, some of the disasters from the older Simcity games should make a come back as well as creating new ones: - Floods - Huricanes - War/terrorist attack - Zombie Plague - Riots *i know SC4 has riots but you cant make them happen with the click of a button and its very hard to make them happen without causing your population to seriously drop. - Tsunamis - More rewards/Civic buildings. Some suggestions - Newspaper building, Communications tower, different Radio/TV stations (not realisitic to have just one of each), TV News building (like a CNN type building), Different statues rather than the standard male/female smale large huge ones. Aquariums, More Theme Parks/Water Parks, More Zoo's, Botantical Gardens, Sportsplex/Sports Arena (seperate from Stadium) Ski Resorts, Beach Resorts, different Casinos, Movie Theatres. Lastly overall diversity of current buildings. For example you can plop only one kind of Museum in SC4 which isnt realistic. It would be nice to have a variety of police, education buildings, fire stations, hospitals etc. - WATER ! - The one thing I hated in SC4 was that you couldnt add water where you wanted. You had to lower the terrain until water showed up but it never looked correct and you had to DL a mod to "paint" the terain which would just be there and look nice but not interactive. In other words I would like to be able to create a lake or pond by adding water to a valley or crater. - KEEP TERAFORMING - I know many dont use it but if you want to keep realism then you are going to have to be able to create a hill or valley or river where you want/need it. - More landmarks from around the world. - MORE DIVERSE BUILDINGS. Again its all about realism. In SC4 you zone for a commercial area and you would get the same buildings (ie hotels) and it wouldnt look realistic to have 10 of the same hotel in a comercial zone. Whats worse is that it seemed that you were limited by diversity when you would look around your city. I mean it would be like having in real life 6 starbucks in a row just not realistic. This is not to say every building should be unique and only show up once but maybe have a rule that makes it so they dont all show up on the same block. - U DRIVE IT IN FULL 3D. Driving a car in SC4 is near impossible and the overhead view just silly. I want to be able to sit in a car/commuter train/bus whatever and look out the window and see the actual city view from street level. - AUTOSAVE. Games crash as we all experienced in SC4. Im sure with this being an online server game with a constant internet connections these things will still happen, therefore autosave is imperitive. - DISTRICTS. Recently I created a city and wanted to make different districts ie - Business district, entertainment/tourist district, art district, etc. However the only way to do this is by constantly plopping BAT buildings (which may or may not work)or making the ones that grow historic and then continually destroying surrounding buildings until something grows that goes with that district. Either method is tedious and not realistic. I would like to be able to zone an area and then label that area so that the only buildings that grow are specific to the label I put. Example I want to make a shopping district and therefore label the 5 blocks there as shopping only so that only shopping type stores grow (malls, electronic stores, toy stores etc) --- EDIT: One other thing the trees. When you make an avenue or street it automatically spings up palm trees which isnt realistic. Maybe make an option to change the trees to make it more realistic. So far thats all I can really think of and while Im sure that not everything on the list is possible Im sure that even if half of it is implemented many fans would be happy.

I have yet to see this topic brought up yet but what about the montly subscription fee? I have yet to see anyone (fan or game maker) bring this up. A monthly subscription fee will kill any chance of me buying this game. Also for anyone that doesnt think that they will charge a subscription fee is fooling themselves. Why? Because the game is fully online and using EA/Maxis/whomevers servers. Servers cost money to the owners that manage them and thus will cost a fee to the end users. The only online games that dont are either simple ones that dont require much space/maintence, are paid for by advertising (ie Facebook gamess) or online games that used to charge and then realized no one would pay to play and therefore took away the monthly subscription.