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I see! Thank you for the reply. I believe (blind guess), that he might be updating the Residential lots in a way to extend it to other classes, like R$, R$$ and R$$$, for example. I remember that there were quite a few American-style houses even with the lots installed, so let's hope! Just a real blind guess, but I'm glad to know they might still be working on that. Too bad I can't BAT for my life, otherwise I would really love to help them.

Hello everyone! I've been in these forums since a long time ago (one of the first people to create a new cool lot with the Lot Editor), but only recently came back to SimCity 4 after all the new content. My problem is: 1) I've been dumb enough to overwrite my whole region while trying to copy the terrain from an elevation BMP. I had no backup. I had some cities in this previous region, and they're gone. However, I got a recovery program for deleted files and got to save one of my beloved towns. 2) Now, I have a recreated region map, but cannot import the city back to the same spot. Why? 3) When I press "import" button, I cannot find my city file in the menu (and region sub-menus), since it's obviously not part of any region yet. Question: Is there any way I can "browse" my HD and find this city to import? Thank you very much in advance. I know you people are very busy, but I'd be very happy with an answer! (On a different perspective, please save this poor troubled soul that has just lost days of his hard work )

Very true! You're so right... that's what I'm going to do. Thanks for cheering me up!

Yeah, indeed... I open the Downloads folder in the Import menu, and it's not there. I've tried renaming it to a bunch of things, but no avail... corrupted most certainly. My only recovered city, how sad. Guess that's what I'm going to do now... be a little compulsive about copying too... haha

Hey everyone! Sorry, I don't know if this is the appropriate place to post this... but... So I've heard some of our enterprising Japanese friends were planning on replacing a great quantity of the SC4 buildings, and putting Japanese-style ones in their place. Is that plan still ongoing?! Well, I'm a foreigner in Japan (although I'm not fluent in Japanese yet [especially reading], sadly)... but I am VERY interested on the outcome for this project and I simply love Japanese buildings! I've seen that Kei's page has some buildings available, but the Japanese House Set 1 and 2 (check my avatar ) are under "renewal". I remember Kei actually had a set up before, and I had the file, but after a crash on my HD, I lost it. I really want to substitute those "ordinary" houses for the Japanese ones. Any ideas if it's still under development, or how I can get those (at least the old version)? Thanks a lot for the attention!

Thanks for the swift response! Indeed, I forgot the Downloads folder. However, it still cannot recognise my city... (it's the same size, since I put it on the same spot) I wonder why... Oh well... thank you very much, though! It'll be useful for the future.

Greetings everyone! I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this message, nonetheless, I'd appreciate any replies! I've been a reasonably active member of these forums long ago, before Rush Hour was released and in the time of the first Lot Editor. However, after some time I stopped posting and consequently playing SC4. (Shame on me ) But after a couple of years, I came back and acquired Rush Hour, and discovered so many new tools like the BAT and the new Lot Editor. However, I'm still a newbie in the matter of these new buildings, so here is my question: Is it possible to work on a city by installing new BATs, in a way that all the American/European looking buildings go away, making the city substantially Japanese-like? I've tried this, but with little success since the small slum ocidental houses still appear at first, and consequently other buildings like that insist on coming. (I live in a small town in Japan, so I know that buildings are really different from the ones that come by default with SimCity 4). Of course, commercial buildings are similar around the world (including Japan - see the centre of Tokyo...), so they could be used from the other city styles, but I was thinking if other buildings (mainly residential zones) could follow the japanese pattern... By asking this question, I mean, substitute the buildings... or is plopping them the only way that you'd have a true japanese-looking town? Also, I had an overall look on the links, read some stuff, but could not find any True Japanese Tanbo BAT (Rice Paddies that are everywhere here!). Anyone knows if these exist? Sorry for the long message. I'd be thankful for any replies. Thank you!

Look at this, an orange tree as employer... I imagine Bob Newbie asking the orange tree in the end of the month: "Hey ya boss, can yo gimme a wage raise... man, the work's really hard and my old ma 'n pa wanna a new home, yo!" How will the tree pay him? with oranges?! lol!! "Hey kids, dad got the payment today! Here, oranges for everybody!"

I was wondering... what property do I have to change to set lower values to the monthly manteinance cost of parks, open grass areas and stuff... I want a low value, such as 1 per month or something like that. I have ilive's reader... and I just want to know what thing do I have to change there, in the Parks properties... If anyone can help me, I'll be happy!