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and is there a way to turn this into an actual City Journal without having to reenter it all?

and is there a way to turn this into an actual City Journal without having to reenter it all?

would it be weird if I started up on this CJ 5+ years later? I found the link to it on my computer and I've been playing this city for all this time. Granted, there have been very long periods that I haven't played, but I still have this region and I still play it. I think I will.

would it be weird if I started up on this CJ 5+ years later? I found the link to it on my computer and I've been playing this city for all this time. Granted, there have been very long periods that I haven't played, but I still have this region and I still play it. I think I will.

So I finally just bought the mac version of SC4. I was tired of having boot camp installed JUST to play this game. I know there are things that people say don't work as well in the mac version, but I'm fine with that. I don't use a lot of mods or custom stuff. The isssue that I'm having, is that I change some of the video settings (like screen resolution, uncheck "clouds", lower the shadows, etc...) and then I get a popup that says the settings will take effect next time I start the game. So I shut down the game and restart, only to find that the setting are UNCHANGED! I've tried this a bunch of times, and still get the same thing. Any thoughts?

Ok, time for update #2... I've not had a lot of time to play, so I'm going a little more slowly than some, but still making headway. First shot is of the region. I've started really playing 4 tiles. Vandi in tile 11 Winehouse Peak in 12 Marshall in 16 Sommerville in 3 The first thing we'll look at today, is the village of Marshall. It was a planned community, that centered around the Tiniest synagogue ever... Although I don't know that I like the industrial at the bottom of the picture... Since this is one of the villages that cannot spill out to another tile, I think I'll have to move the industrial stuff somewhere else. Otherwise it will look silly on the regional map. And here is a bigger overview of Marshall. Next we'll look at Winehouse Peak. This was originally meant to be a "bedroom community" to Vandi, mostly suburban... but that's really not working out the way I had hoped. It's quickly taking over as the center of the city... There are even a couple of small highrise apartment buildings going up in the center of town. AND, I'm doing much better financially than in Vandi (I got rid of the HUGE money cheat, and am playing with NO money cheats at the moment... it's much harder than I recall... ) That's all for this update. I hope to have more time in the next couple of weeks to get a bigger update going. I'm really enjoying looking at how everyone else is doing this region. The only issue is that it's then hard for me to not look at things, and think "Hey! That's a great idea!" and then want to do it. So what I've taken to doing, is not really reading the thread until AFTER I play for a while. That way I usually have in my brain how I want things to work out.

I actually had some time tonight to get a little bit of play in! I started in Tile 11, with the first settlement of the Grand River Valley, Vandi Village. Here are a couple of close up shots of the "downtown" area... I'm really trying to model it after some of the small towns I've lived in (and trust me, there are some SMALL towns in Utah... ) And one a little further out, showing pretty much the extent of what's going on in Vandi so far... and finally some statistics.... I will admit that I have a money cheat installed, and to be honest wth you, forgot that it was even there, until I was rereading the rules, and looking at my pictures... So i know I will get penalized for that one. I also usually use a couple of other cheats (like a windmill that I changed the properties on, and has NO polution, and provides all the power you'll need, and the black hole garbage dump and water purifier... but I'm going to try and refrain from using those during this game. I don't typically play with a lot of custom content, and I know that everyone is really hip on having a ton of that... but it's not really my bag. Also, I'm not a great story-teller. I'm a skimmer... I like to look at the pictures, although I had to stop myself from doing that in this thread, as I didn't really want anyone else's ideas to "taint" what I have in mind.... I did see a few that were great ideas, and I had to stop myself, and just go play.

I think I'd like to get in on this, it's a very cool idea. I hope to have my first post up by weeks end!

I figure I'll update the cities in the order I built them... (assuming I can actually REMEMBER the order I built them). So I'll start with a small map right in the middle of it all. Imogen. I've pretty much decimated and restarted most of the cities in this region at least once, but Imogen has been obliterated 3 or 4 times. It's so small, and right in the middle of everything, so it has to be just right. As of right now, I like how it's working, but I'm sure I'll find something wrong with it and start all over again. First, an overview of the entire city. Even though the piece in the bottom corner is TECHNICALLY in Imogen, I consider it part of the next town over. Next is a close up of the middle of the city. There is a lot of High density commerical and residential. It's kind of a skyscraper hell. But I don't think it looks TOO bad. And a better close up of the only real park in town... Somehow I planted tress in the middle of the baseball field. I know I could clean it up, but it's just funny to me. The last picture is of the university. There is quite a bit of housing around it, but the one that makes me laugh most is the ONLY single family home I can find in the entirety of Imogen... Guess it's the one crotchety old man who refuses to sell his house to developers no matter how much the offer, or how out of place his house becomes... That's all for Imogen. Again, I don't have time for story telling, just want to show off my cities... Any helpful hints/constructive criticisms would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I downloaded the Middle Earth map about a hundred years ago, and have been playing on it off and on for some time now. I have only a couple mods, transit and bridge height are the only ones I can think of. I have some custom lots that I use A LOT. I don't remember who I downloaded them from, but most are off this site. I just wanted to post a few pictures from this city to see if there would be any interest in seeing more... The first picture is a bunch of cities that have all grown together. This picture actually shows pieces of 7 or 8 cities. as you can see, I have terraformed the CRAP ouf of the map. I do love the sea walls... I think they are Marrast? The little island makes me think of Miami... The next picture is of the second large city in Middle Earth. This one is called Bowie. The last picture is of the final decent sized city in the region Perry Lake. any thoughts? is it worth continuing the pictures? I'm not much of a story-teller, but I do like to show off my cities every now and then.

I have 15G for WinXP and 40 for Mac. I'm only running two programs on the windows side, and the speeds beat my old windows machine hands down.

I just moved to mac, so I've had it on PC since SC4 came out. I've installed boot camp and I'm running under windows... mostly because I didn't want to start my cities all over again... And I have too many mods from the PC side to start all over again.

the only thing I can't figure out, is what key do I use to rotate a building? It's END on the PC, but there IS NO END KEY on my macbook. It's the only thing that doesn't work... otherwise, it actually runs better on my new macbook than it did on the old laptop.

I seriously wish that work wouldn't get in the way of having fun.... and now that it's summer, I get to do all sorts of yard work stuff too. Whoever said that yardwork was rewarding was HIGH I tell you! I have just a small update, but hey, at least it's an update, no? We start with some pix of Balligomingo... you can see the new Catholic School that the sims built... and this is the area BEFORE the school was built... Next are just a couple of pix from the small suburb of Friburn... A change in Latanza Waters... I added a park where it used to be all industry... I think it looks nice. BEFORE AFTER The last city I've been playing is New Haru. It's New Haru because I messed something up REALLY badly with the old city of Haru, and ended up having to obliterate the whole thing and start over. I've been playing with the canal set in this town, and I think it looks REALLY cool... but then I'm biased, it's my city... https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Haru-Aug.%2029,%201151117200535.jpg align=baseline> https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Haru-Dec.%205,%201311118978874.jpg align=baseline> https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Haru-Jan.%2030,%20611116733695.jpg align=baseline> https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Haru-Jan.%2030,%20611116733730.jpg align=baseline> https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Haru-Jan.%2030,%20611116733791.jpg align=baseline> https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//New%20Haru-Jul.%2029,%201311118978841.jpg align=baseline> that's all for now, I hope I will get to play more this summer now that I have all the flower beds planted and the lawn reseeded... as usual, I would love to hear anyone's thoughts on what I'm doing...

godwin, I really like the region you chose. The only change I would make is to mix some high res in with the tourist area (light blue). The port looks really cool! I wouldn't want to be piloting one of those ships though, I can barely back my car out of the driveway without hitting the hedge on either side... Looking forward to seeing more!