BrandonThomason

I don't think it was approved to be deleted, either. I didn't get a notice on it, and I worked really hard on it. I even posted a second thread in the CORRECT forum and linked my post to that thread. Now both threads are missing It was posted yesterday. I smell a bad mod or a hacker. Visit thread to get to my point. This was the thread that was deleted. It's irratating cause I have to retype the whole thing.

Hi. I would like to request a heavy assignment. It has come to my attention that the Civics are in a dire need of an overhaul and upgrade. Thus, I would like to request the following BATs to be created, each one unique to it's own perspective, for the civic buildings: These fit in the standard 6 by 6 road division size. This is why there are no 5 by 5 lots or any non-symmetrical (e.x. 2x4) buildings Name (Boundary Max Size) {POLICE} (Part 1) Lite Police Station (1x1) Small Police Station (2x2) Police Station (3x3) Large Police Station (4x4) Deluxe Police Station (6x6) (Part 2) Police Kiosk (1x1) Police Office (2x2) Police Administration Building (3x3) Police Headquarters (4x4) Department of Justice (6x6) (Part 3) Cell Block (1x1) Detention Center (2x2) City Jail (3x3) Prison (4x4) Department of Corrections (6x6) {FIRE} (Part 1) Lite Fire Station (1x1) Small Fire Station (2x2) Fire Station (3x3) Large Fire Station (4x4) Deluxe Fire Station (6x6) (Part 2) Fire Kiosk (1x1) Fire Office (2x2) Fire Administration Building (3x3) Fire Headquarters (4x4) Department of Safety (6x6) {HEALTH} (Part 1) Lite Paramedics Station (1x1) Small Paramedics Station (2x2) Paramedics Station (3x3) Large Paramedics Station (4x4) Deluxe Paramedics Station (6x6) (Part 2) Doctor's Office (1x1) Family Clinic (2x2) General Hospital (3x3) Medical Center (4x4) Department of Health and Wellness (6x6) {SCHOOL} (Part 1) Lite Elementary School (1x1) Small Elementary School (2x2) Elementary School (3x3) Large Elementary School (4x4) Deluxe Elementary School (6x6) (Part 2) Lite High School (1x1) Small High School (2x2) High School (3x3) Large High School (4x4) Deluxe High School (6x6) (Part 3) Vocational School (1x1) Academy (2x2) College (3x3) University (4x4) Technical Institute (6x6) That's pretty much it for now. Some extra things I might want to add is this: {UTILITIES} (Water) Lite Water Pump (1x1) Small Water Pump (2x2) Water Pumping Station (3x3) Large Pumping Station (4x4) Deluxe Pumping Station (6x6) (Electric) Substation (1x1) Power Station (2x2) Superstation (3x3) Power House (4x4) Power Plant (6x6) If you could create this, this would improve many people's gameplay and make them think harder and more strategically in planning their cities. Hmm, I forgot to mention this. The higher the grade of the building in question, the larger the range and capacities it holds. It also costs a lot more. I can program this, but I cannot create custom content.

Does anyone know what anemities and jobs are?

When I open ILives Reader, it says failed to load SimCityLocale.dat After that, it keeps telling me to set up an ini file that the program needs to keep a default set-up Could not being able to load SimCityLocale.dat be why I am having trouble saving the exemplar's files? There doesn't seem to be a save function anywhere, by the way... unless I missed it.

Civic Modded Lots I'm trying to figure out what anemities and jobs are. I'm creating a group of ploppable civics where they have Lite, Small, Normal, Large, and Deluxe sizes. The higher up you go, the better they become. Higher up civics generate more desirability for that group. Education, specifically Elementary, High School, and College; generate anemities. Airports, specifically Landing Strips, Municipal Airports, and International Airports; generate jobs. Seaports, specifically Docks, Marinas, and Seaports; generate Industry (I don'[t know what catagory they fit under) $ is low desirability. Elementary Schools, Landing Strips, and Docks generate these. $$ is medium desirability. High Schools, Municipal Airports, and Marinas generate these. $$$ is high desirability. Colleges, International Airports, and Seaports generate these. I'm also creating the following in the sizes as well: Police_A (Lite Police Station, Small Police Station, Police Station, Large Police Station, Deluxe Police Station) Police_B (Police Kiosk, Police Office, Police Department, Police Administration Building, Department of Justice) Police_C (Detainment Facility, Detention Center, Jail, Prison, Department of Corrections) Fire_A (Lite Fire Station, Small Fire Station, Fire Station, Large Fire Station, Deluxe Fire Station [6x6]) Fire_B (Fire Kiosk, Fire Office, Fire Department, Fire Administration Building, Department of Safety) Fire_C (Field, Runway, Landing Strip, Airstrip, Fireport) Health_A (Lite Paramedic Station, Small Paramedic Station, Paramedic Station, Large Parametic Station, Deluxe Paramedic Station) Health_B (Doctor's Office, Family Clinic, General Hospital, Medical Center, Department of Health) Health_C (Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatrist's Office, Psychiatric Hospital, Disease and Research Lab, Department of Wellness) As a bonus, I'm adding these following perky buildings as a complete-package-only download: Education_A (Local Branch Library [2x2] (Alt), Main Library [3x3] (Alt), Downtown City Library [6x6]) Education_B (Art Museum [2x2], City Museum of Natural History [3x3], National Museum of Art and History [6x6]) Education_C (Branch University [2x2], City University [3x3], Simtropolis National University [6x6]) Also note that these buildings are based on the in-game city buildings and no second-hand plug-ins/bats. The lots' exemplars will be entirely overhauled and edited to fit these catagories. But none of the original lots will be changed... only new content added. My question is: What are amenities and what are jobs? What is the general bases of each? And what about the other of the three? What is it?

Anyone?

I basically been adding a plop and using the "blank" model.

I am baffled by this, but many people on here are claiming they can run Sim City 4 on windows 8 just fine. So, I pop in my Sim City 4 Deluxe CDs (I have 2 of them) and try to run the program Nothing happens except the first pop up you see. I tried all compatiblity modes, and I've tried running it on my laptop, but my laptop appears to be out of date and low on the ram required to play this game. So, I need to know why I can't do this game on Windows 8 Pro 64 bit with an AMD FX 8 GB RAM Core? It's so frustrating! And don't tell me to upgrade to the new Sim City... As I said once before on the forum as a different user, I don't like playing online and I personally think the new Sim City is lame. Just personally. So, can anyone help me?

SC4 Tool seems to have a menu problem. It keeps opening up windows when you access the menu.

Oh, the options menu at the button at the top? I found it, thanks

I'm also having the same problem. Please, someone come up with a solution

Exemplar Error: Width, Height, and Depth The Exemplar doesn't seem to fix this in SC4 PIM... I can do virtually everything in there and more, except edit everything in the exemplar (Only a few items can be edited). I don't know how to set the boundaries of the Buildings... like... what is the actual size? is there a tool that can measure it? And why is the SC4 PIM-X model preview and Sim City 4's plop preview not showing? I think the resource key generator is bugged, because when I create a model, it can't find it.

Hi. This is about the exemplars. So, I notices that there are Jobs, and Anemities. I think jobs is for Commercial, and Anemities is for Industrial, right? If this is so, why cant I find Residential Demand Created? Or is Jobs Commercial, and Anemities Residential? The reason I ask is because I want to create an RCI based city that has Schools for Residential Growth, Airports for Commercial Growth, and Seaports for industrial Growth It works like this: Lite, Small, Normal, Large, and Deluxe. In this order, the more you continue right, the higher the demand created. Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3. School Grade 1 is Elementary, School Grade 2 is Highschool, School Grade 3 is College. Airport Grade in is Landing Strip. Airport Grade 2 is Municiple Airport. Airport Grade 3 is International Airport. Seaport Grade 1 is Docks. Seaport Grade 2 is Marinas. Seaport grade 3 is Seaport. GradeGrade 1 Creates more demand in $ Catagories. Grade 2 creates more demand in $$ catagories. Grade 3 creates more demand in $$$ catagories.

So, I keep seeing $, $$, and $$$ Jobs, as well as Amenities in the exemplars. What exactly are these for (The Jobs and Amenities). I can't figure out which goes where. If jobs and amenities stand for the Industrial and Commercial zones, then where is the Residential version of them?

What? :/ I think I'll mark this as solved

How to flip an object? I cannot seem to open the help file since i'm using Windows 8 Pro.

So, I created some custom lots with the material found in simcity 4 dat and bldgprops_1 and bldgprops_2 with SC4 PIM-X The problem is, I still get a "reset to default" issue when I edit the Exemplar files in iLives Viewer. I'm trying to make the Range that the civic buildings cover larger. I started the Lots out with Blank, and I can upload the completed versions if you want... it's much improved over the over-abused Sim City 4 Official Website Plug-Ins. I can't really use these to my advantage due to the fact that the plug-ins are small in coverage range and keep reseting when I edit them, then go to the game. Any take on this?

Another thing. Does editing the Parent Cohort of a self created object do anything? I keep getting 0 cohorts, and there are some properties missing on this lot where SC4 original lots have. The reason I ask is because the preview in SC4 PIM-X and in the Game don't show anything when you are about to plop. But when you plop, it comes up anyway

How to Fully Edit a Lot I want to know how to fully edit a lot. For example, place a building in the air, edit road transportation in the building, ect. Is there a keyboard shortcut that only allows this? Or does it come with a certain sim city editing tool? Or is it developer-only? I know the NAM team can do it, so... why not me?

How exactly did you change the files' coverage radius?

I may be breaking a code by asking this, but... why aren't shared regions/saved cities shared on this... or particularly... any Forum? Is it something SC4 has implemented? Or is it virus stuff?

I recommend this to be stickied...

I'm Trying to Copy one city from one place in a Region to another without moving the city. It keeps moving it! How do I duplicate the city??? I've done it before, but I forgot exactly how.

I remember DOS systems, and have worked with them. I thought copying the file was enough. Forgot to import.

Here's a File I worked on, fairly simple, but saves time It's an equalized road layout map. I'll upload a picture later when I can figure out how to take a screenshot. Here's the file from Mediafire. [Link removed]