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I would have posted this on the cities XL forum, but it didn't work. Anyways: No bus stops. Instead, you make bus *routes* that are laid over top of roads or streets and the stops are placed automatically every so often. This is way cooler and much more realistic because then instead of plopping bus stops randomly around the city, you have certain defined routes. Nice options for waterfront development. Something like PEG's CDK set but built into the game and not nearly as buggy. Subways should work like rail. One thing that bugged me in SC4 was that although rail or elrail needed to curve gently, subways can turn on a 90-degree angle. Diagonal/Curved Bridges. Enough said. More diverse buildings. What I think would be really cool is to have a generator for buildings, as for the most part (not so much in suburbs) buildings are not identical. If you had a set of rules about what a low-income house should look like, you could maybe generate unique ones. Or for skyscrapers, you can get some base textures like glass, granite, etc and then rules on what it should look like and then build the skyscraper to fit the lot size and to be only as high as the demand warranted. This would be more difficult, but it it would be really, really cool. Or you could do it just for institutional buildings, so that all your police stations were slightly different etc. while keeping a set of growable RCI lots. Streetcars. NAM GLR is nice but it's rather messy due to it not being designed to be in the game. I don't know how city/region stuff works in Cities XL, but if it's anything like that of SC4, it would be nice to have a region-wide terrain editor. Highway interchange editor. Something where you could have your highways meet at some arbitrary angle or whatever, and then you can connect all the overpasses/underpasses yourself. (in addition to preset ones) Stricter terrain leveling for roads/rail/highways etc. Also, it would be really awesome if you released it for Linux.

I think it would be great to have no bus stops. Instead you would put bus routes along normal roads as a sort of top layer thing. this would be way more realistic. Then a passenger could switch bus routes where they crossed, or walk between them. As you dragged the bus route over top of the road it would automagically put in bus stops along the side of the road.

Date: 1/13/2006 9:21:54 AM Author: ancientsociety EAGCE: 'People....If its possible to do it, evenutally someone will do it. It's better for us to do this and be able to discover defenses to it before someone else discovers how to do this. If we didnt discover this and someone else did, they may use it on us and we wouldnt know what hit us. ' This is classic fear-mongering propaganda. Who else in this world has 1. The BILLIONS of dollars to develop, produce, and maintain such a weapon? 2. The high level of scientific education to create scientists with the knowledge to develop this? 3. The liberal, non-theological scientific community for these scientists to operate in? 4. The high-tech, quality industry to produce the weapon's systems? 5. The viable, well-staffed space agency to launch this weapon? I'm sure a few coutries meet some (maybe most) of these requirements. However, only the US, has ALL of these things. So who 'else' could develop it? That's like saying that, even though the US has about 10,000 ICBMs still active, that we should produce and develop large and more powerful missiles because some day, far in the future, 'someone' else could get their hands on an entire arsenal of thermonuclear weapons.quote> You Forgot one- 6. The political will to divert funds away from education, healthcare, etc, to finance this. I'm sure many governments have the money, but they want to spend it on something else. Also, America could spend the money on better projects- like social security or some other valuable social program American soceity could not afford to lose. I have noticed many 'neo-cons' have proposed cutting funding to these programs. But where would America be without an education system? I myself live in Canada, but I watch the American Media and notice many things that that nation's politicians seem to ignore.

the reason Firefox uses up more ram is because of tabbed browsing. Firefox is better.

edmonton, Alberta.

Date: 12/22/2005 9:58:08 AM Author: BlackBeard Welcome to ST and Happy Holidays. I found Rail as waste but if you gotta do it make sure you 'No' roads connecting to other cities.The game set up so a Car or Truck is the choice of travel but if there is no other connections they will be forced to use the rail.Goodluck quote> That's not true. Sims use rail if it is convenient, and if you put lots of toll booths in, they will use rail even more. For industry, box in th industrial zones with no truck lots from the STEX, and put rail lines through the zones themselves. If an industrial lot is next to a rail line, it doesn't need a station.

Very nice. I like the swimming area-type thing. However, troy was several miles inland, and it wasn't the trojans being trusting that was the problem. One of the preists said no, but the Gods wanted troy to fall, so they killed him with on of Posiedon's lovely pets. Doesn't really matter though. Nice city, good work

to lift princes into towers, of course!

where are all of those aircraft lots from?

I'm just wondering, is anyone interested in setting up a game of monopoly?

seattle?

wow, that terrain is stunning. I hope to see some ski resorts... what sort of climate is it? like a sort of carribean-type thing with snow on the mountains?

My grandfather was a city planner, and I still have a copy of his thesis.. It's really interesting

RadioheadFan - 250 points Mies - 2100 points Fairlane500 - 400 points Building 1 - The Ontario Legislature, Queens Park Toronto Ontario Building 2 - One King West, 1 King st. West, Toronto, Ontario Building 3 - 415 Yonge st. downtown, Toronto, Ontario Building 4 - Whitney Block, Toronto Building 5 - Casa Loma Building 6 - UCC, Toronto I got the idea from RadioheadFan's game, but I wanted to have more variety (hence the Structures). If you guess the city / town - 100 points If you guess the area/ neibourhood/ district/ subdivision etc - 200 points (NOTE - In the Amalgamated City of Toronto, this can count as the city that it was in before amalgamation) If you can get the building name - 400 points If you can get the street adress (eg 27 Fake st. Faketown, Example Province/State) - 50 points the highest number of points possible from a building is 750. DO NOT GUESS AGAIN FOR at least 4 hours, and if you got points on a building correctly twice in a row, you cannot geuss again for the next building To start, here's an easy one.

[This is my first CJ, so it will probably not be very good, but I will try to make the best of it, so suggestions would be very helpful. It will be Built on the Maxisland map] One fine summer's day, Earl Johnston was sailing his yacht along the gulf of the Earl River, which he had extensively charted and mapped. He looked over, and saw something he hadn't noticed before - a small island high above the water, and a small channel with willow trees lining the bank on one side, with cliffs on the other. Earl decided to call the place Willow Channel. Then he looked over as to what lay on the other bank - and saw a broad flat plain, with a gentle slope into higher ground. Wow he thought to himself. I wonder how deep that Channel is? He Sailed his boat closer, and discovered that the water was deep enough for even the biggest ships made by Maxis Shipyards. I have to come back here someday he thought as he sailed off..... Having ammased a small fortune investing in Insurance, Earl decided to found a small town, and then retire. But he soon realised that there were not many good places left. Willow Channel! Why, that's the perfect place to build a town! He sailed over, only to discover that a willow blight had swept through the area, and all of the willow trees were dead. Oh well, he thought, and began to lay out plans for the new town. He decided on an Industrial area in the low waterfront area, and residential buildings on the higher ground. the commercial areas would be on the island, which he had named Cliffrock Island. He would build himself a house for him and his family on Johnston Point, and build a farm and a dock of his own. A large Indusrial area began to boom on the flat area, and a huge shipping complex was soon developed. The area sonn began to grow rapidly, and more people wanted to move in. What was the mayor to do? His plan was presented at a town hall meeting, and although some residents complained of it being to large and griddy, the mayor pushed on, saying that this was planning ahead for skyscrapers, and the people agreed. With all of these new people, Willow Channel needed a new medical facility. the old clinic had 14 beds, not nearly enough for the future demand. So the new Earl Johnston Medical Centre was founded, in honour of the founder of the town. It will be a new leader in medical care and research, and have a 1400 bed Capacity.

OK. Unfortunatly, something happened to my hard drive, and I have had to re-install simcity, so this city is no more.

Leaside will be hard. the streets curve gently, so you don't notice, and then.. BAM! your'e going in circles.....hehe

4 is best overall, but the Hoth scene in 5 was pretty good

I'm listening to the song CBC News: Canada at 5 from the CBC broadcast centre on 99.1 FM..... I don't really listen to much music, other than a few beatles songs.

Looks interesting.

weel, if it is possible, keep dirt streets all the way. you have better layout skills than me. Your city looks nice, although some underwater tunnels woiuld be nice instead of tons of bridges