USA Patriot

So many awesome downtowns and skylines! I am greatly impressed. I don't have a whole lot to share at the moment. One would barely classify as a skyline. ] The first city shown here is Evern City. It is a bigger city with a major port. It has a population of about 330,000 in this photo. ] This is Rennington. I like this downtown, as it is a heavily office oriented downtown. It is a small/midsized city, and far more suburban then others. I like the mix of low and mid rise buildings. The population of Rennington is 130,000.

I have really enjoyed reading through your topic you have here, and the amount of thought and details that goes into your thoughtful commentary about real world places and road infrastructure is astounding to me. Great photos, great work, and you got a follower. Emerald City for life!

Sadly none of these links work anymore. Were all these journals lost?

Painting/Zoning Parks Instead of Plopping I have always wondered why games made forced us to use square shaped parks for our cities. Even in Cities:Skylines parks are for the most part square. I don't know about you, but I can think of many parks that are along riverfronts, oceanfronts, cliffsides, forests, and hills. I always thought it would be cool to have a tool, much like Cities:Skylines, "districting/zoning" tool to highlight an area and turn it into a park that is actually functional. Allow for plopping of paths, benches, picnic areas, designate viewing platforms, and much more. I can not mod, but I was thinking, this certainly has to be possible with Cities:Skylines capabilities. Would have loved it back in the days of Sim City 4, but I don't see that happening. Am I the only one who thinks "painting" parks in cities is a good idea? Imagine a small park that just follows along a stream, with paths on both sides. Maybe a park in a environmentally friendly marshland, or highlighting a stretch of beach as a park to attract tourists? Maybe even a small urban green park packed between busy buildings or a scenic oceanfront park that takes the shape of the coastline and varies depending on the topography. I feel this would be a great idea, and would love feedback from others. We already can zone specific districts by painting them in Cities:Skylines, why not be able to do that with parks?

@ Marla_Singer: Beautiful map you have there. Wow! Love the highway curve too. So here is my first region. I wanted to start out right away at the map editor tool, and golly was it fun! I named this area Port Colister. So far just one mid-sized town on the river mouth. Here are a few views of the region. Looking Southeast. Looking North. Looking north with a more ground level view of the mountain range in the background.

I hope everyone is having luck solving their issues on their Mac's. I was finally able to solve it and the game is running smoothly. Can't say what I did, because I don't even really know. I'm not computer smarts.

Need the specs if you have them. If it is anything like my 2009 iMac, the video card is probably too weak.

I am actually building a new Mac just to play this game. Wow... thankfully I just got my tax money back. I really am excited to play this game. it will soon be the most expensive game I have ever bought, if I include computer upgrades.

Well it seems to all stem from the graphics. I am going to try this on my laptop and find out it's specs. Otherwise I am looking on not being able to play this game and out $30, as well as many others it seems. :-/

All my settings are on low, and I am running on a desktop. 21.5 inch late 2009. I think the issue is my graphics card and from all my research, I don't see a good way to replace a graphics card. Thank you for the help. If anyone has more advice, I would happily listen. Hope I didn't waste $30. I have a Macbook Pro as well but I don't know if it can run the game. How would I go about changing what the game reads?

I'm not sure what is wrong here. I think I have all the right requirements to play. I unfortunately had to download the game for Mac off Steam, and it downloaded really fast, under 5 minutes. No problem and game started up. But as soon as I went to start the map editor or a new game, it lagged as high heck. I couldn't do anything. So I them put all the settings to their lowest setting, and I am still lagging and can't do anything. I also downloaded the game not to my applications, but to an external drive. Not sure if that makes a difference. My computer specs seem like they should easily handle the game, but I could be wrong. Any ideas? Processor 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400 256 MB oftware OS X 10.9.3

You always need the universal binary to work past 10.6.8. I found a copy of the patch at http://www.gamershell.com/download_18916.shtml and it is the legitimate patch. Download and install, and your game should work. Thank you. I downloaded the link without a problem. When I click to install it, it now says this, "This update can not be installed because an existing installation of Sim City 4 Rush Hour could not be found." But now when I stick the game disk in my CD drive, it says that, "you can't open the application Sim City 4 Rush Hour because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." I have a SimCity folder in my documents section of my computer, and a file that says "SimCity 4 Rush Hour.cfg." I assume that is my original game. It worked up till I updated to Maverick last week. So if I can re-install the game, and can't make that game patch install, what should I do? Sorry for making this difficult. Provided this is SC4: Deluxe (which calls itself Rush Hour on the CD), you need to copy the application to your HD/Applications, then run the patch. That should do it. Thank you! You got it to work perfectly! I've never had my game run this fast. It loads entire cities super quick. i used to have to wait for minutes, but now it is about 30 seconds and the game starts right up. Besides some visual glitches, it runs better then I've ever seen it! Thanks!

I have had this same problem since 10.6.8 on my Mac. I could never figure out a solution.

You always need the universal binary to work past 10.6.8. I found a copy of the patch at http://www.gamershell.com/download_18916.shtml and it is the legitimate patch. Download and install, and your game should work. Thank you. I downloaded the link without a problem. When I click to install it, it now says this, "This update can not be installed because an existing installation of Sim City 4 Rush Hour could not be found." But now when I stick the game disk in my CD drive, it says that, "you can't open the application Sim City 4 Rush Hour because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." I have a SimCity folder in my documents section of my computer, and a file that says "SimCity 4 Rush Hour.cfg." I assume that is my original game. It worked up till I updated to Maverick last week. So if I can re-install the game, and can't make that game patch install, what should I do? Sorry for making this difficult.

I downloaded Xcode and followed everything I could. I only have 2 processors and I had no option to turn Hardware Multi-Threading. So then I went to this link to download the Universal Binary Update as an alternative. http://www.macgamefi...com/item/18397/ Sadly it doesn't exist anymore. So what are my options? My Mac is from 2009 and had always been able to run Sim City 4 Rush Hour at the fullest graphics capacity with no problem. Never had any problems with the game until I updated to Maverick. My computer went from a 10.6.8 to a 10.9.2. I have a 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (if that helps any). I am not technical or know anything about coding, so if you can explain something, please say it in non coder speak.