Hello!
I'm not really a new member, but it's been so long that I might as well be. I bought SimCity 4 in 2003, and played it for several years, building cities, regions, filling up my tiny (at that time large) hard drive with content. Then at some point I lost the CD case. When I replaced my computer, I realized, too late, that I didn't have the CD key anywhere. So I was very excited when SimCity (5) was released... then so incredibly disappointed. After creating so much open content, I was stuck in a tiny sandbox! So I gave up and played other games.
But SimCity 4 kept pulling at me through the years. I had made a couple of attempts to contact EA support to see if I could recover my initial registration, but got nowhere. I didn't want to re-buy the game when I had already paid $60 for it (and was still rather peeved that I had wasted $60 on the sequel... kind of like Alien 3). Finally, last week, the game pulled at me again, and I finally managed to get a one-on-one chat with an EA support agent, who confirmed that they did not have my original 2003 registration info.
Then yesterday, Steam put the game on sale for 75% off! I'm finally back!
But it's been so long that I've forgotten everything I knew about mapping. So I've poked around the forums here, and I think I've found what I need to get started. Time to open my large collection of DEM files...
