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Thanks, that's what I needed to know! I got spoiled in SC4 with interchanges that you can plop on existing highway...

Beautiful!

Yeah you want one with a mouse-wheel-button, or it defeats much of the usefullness of the mouse. You'll like the ease with which you can zoom in and out and rotate the camera. And the secret is to get a book and put it on the chair's arm rest, and put the mouse on that. Cat-and-mouse? Actually, the real problem is the cat chewing on the cords. Apparently "very few" cats are ever electrocuted that way, but I do worry. Thanks!

Okay, so I'm spreading my city out, buying the adjacent tiles, making it all work with the awkward controls of my MacBook Air's trackpad, and I realize I want to add a highway offramp... Uh... what? So, yeah: how on earth do I make an offramp? Am I missing something obvious? Do the offramp pieces overlay existing highway, or do I need to rebuild the highway around a plopped offramp?? Answers or links to a tutorial somewhere would be most welcome.

素敵です！よくできました。公園とかは特にリアルな感じです！

What I've read is that the game doesn't work on the MBP. It has to do with the graphics cards. I read somewhere I can't find now about forcing the game to use not the graphics card but the CPU (or vice versa?) to fix the issue.

Sigh. I'd hoped to find a solution here. I like to curl up in my reading chair with the laptop on one knee and a cat on the other, so I'm not sure where I'd fit a mouse, but I'll probably go that route. Does it have to be a three-button mouse?

Looking for hydroelectric power plants. I'm trying to recreate this location: The section on the right is a dead ringer for Peg's small hydro dam, but I haven't a clue as to what could work on the left -- or the sluice (?) in the middle. Thanks! The Boats (not the green one) are probably part of NBVC's collection, as for the water mod i can't think of others but the I don't think the water mod is the Brigantine. Is it possibly one of dogfight's mods? There are three packs available at SC4D. (The website is acting up, otherwise I'd link.)

AMAZING. I love the sims and the detail.

Very sad. Shouldn't it be 風が吹いている？

After spending about three hours trying to match city tile borders building some mountains, I gave up and selected a map I like: -- based on Redding, CA. I have fond memories of this city not only because their local philharmonic has provided me with the occasional cello gig, but also because an hour to the northeast is one of my favorite places in the world, MacArthur-Burney Falls State Park. Sadly, that isn't on this map. But the large expanse of flat land should make it fairly easy to develop, and if I run out of ideas I can always refer to reality. I quickly ran out of original ideas and so I turned to Google Maps to help me lay things out. I decided to start with the major intersection near the old downtown, I-5 and the local 44 which, on the other side of the river, ends and becomes a one-way road system. It only took me three complete bulldozed attempts and about seven cumulative hours of tinkering. (Well, what would you do if you were proctoring a four-hour practice college entrance exam?) I'm pretty proud of it. I know that my Hilltop Ave (road on the far right) is too far from the freeway, and that my curves are square rather than, well, curvy, but it's a pretty good imitation. And it works. Sims use it! So, all-in-all, huzzah. Time for a beer.

It was funnier when they were popping up into existence.

Oooh, very nice!