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Yo! I'm also looking for those SC3KU tracks, "Desert Sand" particularly... Haven't had any luck finding it online. If anyone has access to it, could you PM me? :-) Thanks!

Re: Fresh Prince of Wmbg... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Germany_starting_with_D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Austria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Switzerland That should give you some ideas! :-)

I've been building on the San Francisco region, and divided up each peninsula into "countries" with a cluster of similar-sounding city names, hee. Here's the list of names, just to give you some ideas: Peninsula 1 (mid-lower left), Fairytale-ish: Antawood Glocke Belleriant (the "capital city") Foggy Bottomswyth Rund Relish Bellsing Trafalgar Gare Noldowaine Gare Manchest Lower Runelands Upper Runelands Stellocke The Thage Bundy Valley Brandywine Warth of Flatsland Wicked Wilderness Wythywindin Peninsula 2, Upper Left corner (evil communist dictatorship!) Czeskwar Ghecznevy Razhamyrna Severnya Oix Varczhnit Arkangel (capital) Coastal Mainland, scifi-ish with a hint of exoticness Tyrascese (capital) Rotaran (industrial hub) Aer Caspian Aer Oksoon Lintaran Cortisan Da'az Gondhalor (one of the only 2 large size city tiles in the region) Mandhalor (its mid-sized industrial neighbor) Icca Dacca Indo Monsoon Inland/Mountains (far right), Pseudo-German Bad Grendel Alp Ubahnhof Allmendhubel Answeisch Gimmelfels Ausgang (capital) Schwarzen Hinterbrunnen Haagen Oberschen Eisenfels (the other, more rugged large city tile) Floralp Wald Woist Die Nordsee Hope this helps some!

Firstly, I just accidentally solved part of the problem... If you lower the resolution setting to minimum, the "disappearing cars" issue is remedied. Doing this though causes scrolling to be much choppier, and the resolution itself is a bit tinsy. As for modifying the files... not being a technical expert, I'm not sure, but the unsuccessful method I followed was to follow the ATI editing instructions (adding "ATI Radoen #### etc" to the listing of cards in the graphics rules.sgr file) This was, of course, before I realized I did not in fact have a Radeon card, and the problem was made worse. Heh. Perhaps following the same instructions for ATI, but using the GeForce name instead would work?

Heyo, I have a nearly-new Macbook Pro, with the same GeForce card, and have been getting the exact same graphics problems. I've already searched the board for alterations I could make to the graphics rules.sgr file... none of them solved the problem. Peepska may be right, there's probably no solution to the problem until Apsyr itslef does something about it. Meh. If someone else knows otherwise though, please let us know!

I've lived in LA for the past year and a half now (I go to school at USC) and I'm sorry but... I ~language~ HATE it! I've even been considering transfering to a different college because of how hard this city is to live in. It takes like 2h to get anywhere not within the immediate vincity on the public buses (though I respect that the MTA does the best with what they have), and you can't drive anywhere without a headache either because the traffic is INSANE. I'd heard horror stories about LA traffic before coming here, and thought they were all exaggeration, but.... really. You can hop on the 110 at some random odd hour in the middle of the day, and still be stopped for an hour by bumper-to-bumper traffic. And lastly, transport aside, it's simply unpleasant to live in (or maybe I've been spoiled by San Diego, my hometown). There are hardly any parks, and the few that there are, are all ratty and ill-kept. Also, apart from a few select areas in Westwood & Santa Monica, the streets are just endless strings of strip malls & are bland to walk around in. ...and, finally, the whole city has this kind of cold, isolating feel to it... like the feel that was portrayed in "Crash" & "Collateral." As for the Metro Rail... sorry but four scattered, poorly connected lines in a city this big does not a rail system make. Maybe it'll grow to be excellent 20 years from now, but it's a joke in it's present state. Even San Diego has more of a functioning rail network than LA. I wish I lived in Europe :-\ /end rant Harumf.

I live in San Diego right now, a beautiful laid-back SoCal city that I'd be hard pressed to leave, but if I had to move somewhere else, it would be the Berner Oberland in the Swiss Alps (though the cold would be hard to get used to, heehee). I hear its absolutely amazing there, both the scenery and the people. The Pacific Northwest (Oregon & Washington), NYC, and anywhere along the European side of the mediterranean would also be contenders. Maybe Israel too, for the history and such, and its middle-eastern beauty.

San Diego has one of my favorite downtown areas of all the cities I've been to. It's very residential-oriented rather than commercial, with lots of sleak, tall condos along the waterfront, punctuated by plazas, fountains, nightclubs, a really cool 7-story mall, and the like. NYC, New Orleans, San Fransisco, and Vancouver are also up there. Haven't been to Europe yet. On the flipside, Los Angeles is definately one of the worst. It has all of NYC's bad qualities, without any of the good ones. Plus it's ugly.

Well, for a not-lost landmark, here's San Diego's train station, the Santa Fe Depot. It first opened in 1915, and (much like LA's Union Station) is an excellent example of the heavily Spanish-influenced architecture from that peroid, complete with it's own pair of bell towers & pretty looking tile mosaics. It's been kept in pretty good shape over the years (dire condition of its bathrooms aside ), showing up on lots of postcards and such, and has been a thankfully protected historic site for sometime. This picture is a sketch of Santa Fe Depot from when it was first built. The plaza-thing infront no longer exists. Today there's an LRT track in place of it, though I don't know whether the plaza was specifically demolished to make room for the tracks or if it was already gone by the time they were laid out. An old photo of the now nonexistant plaza-thing infront. The streetcar line is now Broadway, downtown's main avenue. Flash forward to present day... The streetcar's no more, but the building is still the same, untouched by Evil Commercial Goons However, just to show how fast times are changing, that golf course whose netting can be seen in the background is gone, replaced last year by a pair of R$$$ high rise condos. 'Bout time anyway, I dunno what a golf course was doing in a dense commercial center in the first place. Here you can see the track layout. There are three platforms, the outer two for Amtrak and commuter trains, and the innermost one (not visible in the shot) for the local LRT line (the San Diego Trolley) Oh, and thanks to cgstock.com for the picture. I have no idea what cgstock is, but they took a good shot. Yay. The front facade; love the fountain. There's also a colorful, tile adorned bench loop on the opposite side, behind the camera man's position. The trolley loops around the front of the building (not very convenient if you're a pedestrian, but whatever), stopping in an adjascent light rail station that's sort of visible in this shot. (follow the photoshopped arrow) I think it also stops at the actual Santa Fe Depot building, but I'm not sure. The above mentioned LRV station, called America Plaza Transfer Center (the attached skyscraper is named One America Plaza) It's a very cold, metallic, modern thing, a sharp contrast to the cozy vintageness nextdoor. Nothing that special, I just figured I might as well show it while I'm at it, considering it's basically part of the same complex (though not officially.) More of America Plaza... And back to the train station, here's the interior of the Santa Fe Depot. Compared to the exquisite outside, it's pretty blah, and in need for a substantial renovation. (though considering the city is in debt $1.6 Billion or somesuch and just got half it's legistature arrested for corruption, that sadly won't happen anytime soon) So, that's all. It's certainly not the world's biggest & greatest train station, but is nevertheless a quaint little Spanish-Mission-Wannabe worthy of this thread.