Odd from Sweden

If a route takes more than 30 000 passangers per day, a tramway line may be more economical than a bus service. The investment cost for sthe rail is of course a burden, but in the long run lower costs for personnel (long trains still only have one driver), vehicles (a bus do not last very many years), energy (rail consumes a fraction of the power) pays off. At least this is what has been discussed here in Stockholm where bus line 4 carries about 45 000 passangers a day and would serve better if converted to a tramway line.

As a bater, I would like to add my point here. I have had great help from Simtropolis, without the Simtropolis tutorials, the downloads and the great help from all friendly forumers, my bats had never existed. Further, without Simtropolis I would not have even been a very devoted SC4 player at all. Furthermore, it would be unpractical to have the bats for download in many places. Making screenshots that fit the site's format, uploading and checking/ responding to comments and moderating occational flaming comments is enough to do in one site. Sometimes more experimental advanced bats are reported to have bugs that need to be announced, fixed and updated and that process would be a hell to do in say five different sites. Therefore, I upload my bats only here, to contribute back to all the devoted Simtropolis moderators and users and keep it all going. Creating a decent and decently sized bat takes at least 20 hours. If anyone do not think that it is worth to spend a few minutes to check a couple of different DL sites to get the new bats that come out, then I do not think that this person appericates the bat work enough to download the buildings.

I also think that the STEX needs to be cleaner. Even if all posts are not as good looking as Marilyn Monroe or as smooth performing as a Siemens fuel pump, 96% of the posted contents are the outcome of the hard and devoted work of Simtropolis members. But then the last 4% are abusive, "test" or "joke" uploads we could well do without. I would suggest that there would be a "report this file to an admin" button, and once a file was reported by several users, the admins would be notifyed and also been taken action.

This CJ looks very relistic, great use of bats!

Seriously... If a 2003 Toyota would be more popular on the market than a 2007 Toyota, then A LOT of Toyota employees would be fired. I seriously hope that the computer game industry has the same logic.

Some BATs may be very bad configured, they can have too many sims working/living in a small building for example. This makes this bat "override" all other buildings and "cancer-grow". This may be the fault in Your city. You may need to remove or modd those buildings. Please post a screenshot of an area that is not developing good and I am sure that You can have more specific answers of getting a nice-growing city.

Funny thing... I do not think that hanging around this downtown spot is antisocial behaviour. Really, hanging out with Your friends IS social behaviour! I think that the authorities think that those youngsters buy too little in the shops and that it is the anti-consumerish behaviour that is the problem here...

I would not volunteer to clean up the street after the crash that will happen in about 0,8 seconds...

Hello fellows! It was quite some time since I made a BAT, it has been scool, work, traveling, renovating my new home, work again and other IRL stuff. But now I think it is time for a new BAT and I need Your help to decide what building to make. So I want You to request what building You would like to see. Of course, there are some limitations as follows: I only accept real-world buildings. Could be existing ones, or demolished/destroyed - as far as anyone remembers what they looked like of course. I also only accept W2W-buildings - per definiton a building with firewalls to its next neighbours, and with moderate height (20-25 meters tall to the eave at max). NOTE: It does not to be an European building though! And not to be sitting here forever, and also due to my computer specs, the BAT may not be larger than 9 game tiles (could be a 3x3, 2x4/4x2 or anything smaller). You need to provide a photo or a photo link. Of course, more photos, satellite pics, drawings and everything else that could be useful would be good to have, but that is not the main point. The main point is that I need a very interesting building to BAT!! So how to do? Well just reply to this message with a post including one picture of the building or a picture link. Yes ONE picture, if You have more I will ask for it later if I need. So please think of those 56K´ers and also mind Simtropolis´ 800x600 pixels maximum rule when You post. Also provide some information (as long as You know it) about location, time of erection, architect, funny trivia and so. Suggestion time ends 9th of September, and the jury is me .

- You know I think that this game has run into a dead end. The focus on weapons and arms has really ruined this franchise; You practically need to know what WW2 was to enjoy this game. - Well I have heard about a company that is called Screwed Mill. Maybe they can help us. (later, at Screwed Mill) - So guys, do You have any fresh ideas for us? - Well the problem about games on war is that they are too hard for the average user. For example, if You lead a platoon and hunt down some enemies, enemy snipers may shoot You in the back. Lots of people think that this is really frustrating. - Can we solve this? - We have come up with the idea to make the enemies ploppable. We make a bar in the bottom of the screen and when it gets red You need to add more enemies. You can place them out in the woods or anywhere you want, they do not even need a road. - We never thought of that… - The graphics need to improve too. A lot of people get depressed by seeing those trashed vehicles and bombed out buildings everywhere. You need to add some gingerbread houses and chocolate factories. - OK, then I guess that we have enough ideas for the new game. - No, we need to go further. You know I let my 11 years old daughter play Battlefield last night and she said that it was not nice to hunt down Russian soldiers on the way to Moscow. We need to make the game fit all people, not just those who are appealed by the traditional combat elements. We thought about the slogan “Create Your own kind of battles”. Say if the Red Army strike back to the village You took from them, then You can plop a special building with special abilities who send out Halloween zombies and scares the soviets off. If You plop it next to the Gingerbread house the zombies will have a 28% boost. - A 28% boost by the gingerbread house?? - Yes, it may

Really a beautiful city. I love the mix of old-style US and Euro buildings. The streetscape is creative and You are good at hiding the "jagginess" of the diagonals. Can not wait to see more!

Great job with that city! Very realistic Euro feeling!