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If I were going to throw in my two cents, I would say Osaka, Japan has to be up there on the worst planned cities list. Not so much for architectural choices but more for how the transit system is set up around the city. You can definitely tell that the railroad system was put into place before they rebuilt the road system after WWII. Driving anywhere remotely close to Osaka is a nightmare.

I am going to say no until I hear more about the actual game mechanics. Most people replying seem to think that the graphics are making this game and to be honest, I am fine with how Simcity 4 looks. When I hear about the simulation aspects of the game and how it actually plays and how much it will allow for custom content I may change my mind. I am also playing A7 right now and between that and SC4, I have a pretty good combo.

I have always found Putin to be an intriguing person. Though I must say, he reminds me of one of the admirals on the Death Star in Star Wars.

Yeah, it's just a shame though that tax payer money has to go toward housing him until the convicts have their way with them. One 9mm slug is only about $0.25.

Four years??? What the guy should have gotten was a bullet to the head.

Originally posted by: Odd from Sweden 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.quote> I know a lot of Toyota people who would happily take a 2003 Celica or Matrix over the 2007. The 2003 Toyotas are some of the most modifiable and have more powerful engines than their modern counterparts. Anywho, back to Simcity!

This thread has got me intrigued. I never realized so many people thought this was a hard game. Sure, Maxis always said it had been made too difficult for beginners but I never realized there were this many people within the community that had difficulty playing without cheats. The only thing I found annoying was tunnels and subways but that was more of a graphical thing than a game mechanic thing. Not bragging, but it doesn't take me much work to get a city above 1 million people; now I just want to know what I am doing that other people aren't. This is a good thread, keep it up! Those of you that find the game hard, what parts give you difficulty?

I think I remember an interview where one of the Tilted Mill guys said that if Sim City Societies didn't sell, their next product would be a real Sim City game. I wonder if they are still thinking about that and also, whether or not we should be afraid if they are?

I never found SC4 to be that hard but I have played every version before it so maybe that helped. I also don't use cheats or mods that mess with the economics of the game too much. I use NAM but that is because the game is virtually broken without it when you get into bigger cities. The key to playing without cheats and being successful lays in being patient and not overreaching your budget early in the game. I have also found that you need to balance play time between the cities in your region as to keep all growth on par with neighboring cities, that helps a lot.

Beebs, I have been following this for a while and you have done a great job! One question: How do you make your newspaper so that you can display it in your CJ? What software do you use and what methods to you use to go from that program and then to your CJ? I am curious because I will soon be starting a CJ and the idea of a newspaper is something I have tossed around for a while and I really like your implementation. Keep up the good work!

I downloaded the Three Rivers Region map and loaded it into Simcity 4 Terraformer tool like the installation file said. Once loaded into the Terraformer, I saved it as a .png file and then closed the Terraformer. When I boot up SC4 and go into the region, I can see the bump file is being used due to all of the big city squares but I am not seeing the Three Rivers map. I figured that I may have to render the map like a usual map downloaded from the STEX but when I did the CTRL-SHFT-ALT-R and chose the png file, it would not load it. After I tried a couple more times with the same result, I reasoned that perhaps it was in the color of the png file so I went into Photoshop and changed the png from color to greyscale. I tried loading this new file and it worked but after 40mins of rendering, it messed up the map to the point where it looked nothing like the Three Rivers region and more like an archipelago out of Water World or something. I figure the problem is that the greyscaling was to harsh and it took out the height things were supposed to be or something, it was very strange. Are color png's allowed to be rendered in SC4, maybe I should have left it colored. So what am I doing wrong? I have never used the terraformer before I and I just want to load the region. The only thing outside of the installation instructions that I did was to rename the region and I made sure to do that in the .ini file that came with the map as well. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

There is a building code in Tokyo that states a building can't be over 65 stories I think. I know it is somewhere in there. It has to do with earthquake readiness. All buildings built in Tokyo have to be able to take at least a 7 magnitude earthquake without major structural damage.

Do you know what your RAM timings are? Is it performance RAM like Corsair or anything like that? Usually it doesn't affect things this much but I have heard of RAM upgrades crashing things if the timings are way off. Is one stick of RAM really old? What motherboard do you have? If you could post the exact kind of RAM both sticks are and what kind of motherboard you have, it would be helpful.

That pic with Walmart a few pages back was classic!

I downloaded the Three Rivers Region map and loaded it into Simcity 4 Terraformer tool like the installation file said. Once loaded into the Terraformer, I saved it as a .png file and then closed the Terraformer. When I boot up SC4 and go into the region, I can see the bump file is being used due to all of the big city squares but I am not seeing the Three Rivers map. I figured that I may have to render the map like a usual map downloaded from the STEX but when I did the CTRL-SHFT-ALT-R and chose the png file, it would not load it. After I tried a couple more times with the same result, I reasoned that perhaps it was in the color of the png file so I went into Photoshop and changed the png from color to greyscale. I tried loading this new file and it worked but after 40mins of rendering, it messed up the map to the point where it looked nothing like the Three Rivers region and more like an archipelago out of Water World or something. I figure the problem is that the greyscaling was to harsh and it took out the height things were supposed to be or something, it was very strange. Are color png's allowed to be rendered in SC4, maybe I should have left it colored. So what am I doing wrong? I have never used the terraformer before I and I just want to load the region. The only thing outside of the installation instructions that I did was to rename the region and I made sure to do that in the .ini file that came with the map as well. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!