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There is a mod that has had three threads (the first being the link to the mod and the other two being discussion): https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/4408-my-sim-addon/ https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/31049-adding-new-sim-faces-to-neighborhood/ https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/71219-adding-new-sim-faces/ There hasn't been much discussion about it and I am wondering about a few things: 1) Someone said, in a different thread, that he used The Sims FaceLift to make new faces. The bitmap images that I was able to export using that aren't flat. Therefore, it looks like if I want to use faces generated with this I will have to make screenshots of the faces within the program and resize those with GIMP. I doubt the resulting quality will be good. Perhaps he used Facelift for the advisor replacement. Also, with Facelift, I have tried it and it is hard to get good faces out of it because it mixes children and adults, different adult age groups, makeup and no makeup, and allows for caricature proportions. It's also missing the ability to fix the necks so one often gets turkey necks. There are also cut-off heads (like someone sliced a portion of the top of a person's head away) and other issues. I think the original faces the program uses are also not so optimal, overall. Does anyone know of a better face creator for Sims 1 faces? I would like to upload sets of faces that match the style of the originals. 2) The second thread linked above has the statement that changing that names isn't so easy but I didn't see any further explanation. 3) The third thread has more instructional info than the others but it looks like the mod replaces the original faces. Is there a way to retain any of those? There are a few I have used in my cities and would like to keep. What seems as if it would be most ideal is to retain all of the original faces and have the extra pages for custom faces.

Hello everyone, Another thing I would change is the way the game treats forests as if they have low land value. Simultaneously, mayor-planted forests are treated as if they have high value. This makes little sense. The forest animals also appear to have no value to the game. Has anyone made a mod to correct this, so that the forests created in god mode are treated as just as valuable as mayor-plopped trees? Thank you.

In terms of gameplay, having to painstakingly plant tree seedlings may be the #1 annoyance I have with SimCity.

I know that opinions differ. However, trees don't add pollution in the game because they mimic the real world. If Maxis had added polluting trees to the game I'm sure that some would think that's fine for gameplay reasons.

Someone here said this: "Personally I do not support gay marriage, but I do support gay rights (does that sound like a dichotomy?)." What it is illogical. Gay people marry one another because they're gay. Stating that they shouldn't be able to marry each other is the antithesis of supporting their rights. The only logical basis for arguing against same-sex marriage is when one claims that gay people don't exist. Because they do exist, that argument has no value. This topic is for rebutting any argument against any group's rights, whether it involves gay rights or something else. It's also for asking questions, if you're unsure about the logical soundness of a particular claim/argument.

The word Saudi is nowhere to be found in that paragraph. My take on it is that the US is the largest dealer of arms in the world and has the largest military spending. To keep those businesses going, conflict is necessary.

Authentic (not man-made) tallgrass prairie is now at 1/2 of one percent of its original acreage, according to an article I read recently. The monarch butterfly is also supposed to be endangered but it was argued that there aren't enough resources to officially list it. Humans continue to breed beyond sustainability and almost all of them want to consume/generate waste ever-more unsustainably. When I was a kid in the late 1970s, a tree in front of my house was completely covered with migrating monarch butterflies. Fields and wetlands were all around my town. All of those are gone. Strip malls replaced the wetlands and the fields are houses/condos/stores. One can't even see the lake anymore in some areas because of the housing. Highways are going in where the prairie remnants are. People had to try to desperately transplant Mead's milkweed. Milkweeds do not transplant successfully when they're mature, the vast majority of the time. The soil was also destroyed, although they tried to move some of it. One can't go to Lowe's and get that in a bag. Neonics have increased toxin exposure astronomically for insects and even the pretty flowers one buys for one's garden are likely saturated with them. I really wonder what there is to live for when people have a manic look in their eyes as they lobby to be able to have ever-more reckless use of chemicals in the guise of prosperity. What is the motivation that I am supposed to find? I want a world where the monarch butterfly exists — not one with more strip malls and crazy-eyed folk who think they're cleverly playing a game. Ecological Cannibalism may make for a great survival game title but it's not a nice basis for living.

My favorite part of the Bible is the part where Ezekiel says the problem with Gomorrah was that the people there were rich, greedy, and fat from having so much grain. They didn't share their wealth enough with those less fortunate. Humorous how we grow so many billionaires, globally, who aren't particularly defined by sweetness, light, and the refusal to become billionaires in the first place via charitability. I was flipping through the channels once and found a preacher who said "Leviticus is all you need to know." This was, of course, to scapegoat gay folk for power. Apparently, it is all he did know, as I have never seen him nor any like him preach that cities inhabited by billionaires and other assorted greedy folk deserve to be hit by a deity's balls of fire. (Apparently a comet or asteroid in real life. Can't remember which.) As far as special trees go... my understanding is that early Christians, as they were competing with various popular religions of the time, picked and chose various bits from each of them (such as Numerology) to make their religion more marketable. Tree worship was one of those competing religions. The "apple" was actually a fig, too, apparently.

Considering that Cities Skylines I wasn't a simulator and Cities Skylines II was released in terrible condition (poor QC) — and is still shallow on the simulation, there is clearly an opening for another SimCity. The only thing that is required is a simple vision: Start with SimCity 4 and extend. This means simulation over graphics and depth/breadth over graphics. The high core count CPUs, cheap SSD storage, and cheap RAM of today all combine to make it possible to have a vastly improved game over SimCity 4, while having it be able to be run on systems that don't cost a ton. For people who want a shallow "city painter," they can have Cities Skylines. I have not played it but even the kinder reviews I have read say much the same thing. If EA is reading this, I am happy to work as a producer for a SimCity sequel. What we don't need is a "city simulator" that renders all of the teeth in a person's head in 3D. The other thing that should be #1 in the direction department is to not view the base game as a hollow shell to fill with expensive DLCs. This has worked for The Sims but it failed with SimCity 2013. It was taken too far. The base game should be extremely good on its own. It's time to go back to the era when base games were full games, not shell games. Not everyone is going to fall for the tricks, as was demonstrated by SimCity 2013's failure. The Sims players seem much more tolerant of that strategy but some of us stopped playing after The Sims 2 because paying for the same content four times (plus the inferior quality of The Sims 4) wasn't going to fly.

Hello everyone, The thing that bothers me the most about SimCity 4 is that I have to spend an eternity manually adding seedlings to my cities. Not only does it take a long time for each square because of having to put down one at a time, the plopping tool doesn't even do it easily. It leaves holes and it takes a lot of time to go over in random patterns and such. Plus, it likes to place seedlings in adjacent tiles. What I am wondering is if anyone has made a mod that makes it possible to simply plop a fully-populated square of seedlings using Maxis trees. They would grow and act totally vanilla, as if they had been manually plopped. Even better would be a way to do this over existing buildings and have the game place the trees where they are permitted. For instance, the cemetery, water treatment plant, and some other buildings can have trees planted on them. Having to do this manually is a huge waste of time. Thank you.

They are selling a product and customers deserve to have fair treatment. Someone at EA is apparently going to have to be made aware of that, if their excuse is legitimate which I don't believe it is. This sounds like a good topic for mass media articles. Perhaps MacWorld would cover it as well as gaming mags. "We are glad that you're willing to pay for a game that's two decades old but we still haven't bothered to provide basic feature parity with the Windows release" doesn't sound very aspyring. Perhaps try to get Apple involved, too. It makes Apple look bad to be enabling the sale of a substandard product. Maybe that's an angle that can be used to get MacWorld and similar Mac mags to cover the issue. They have access to the EA code now that they needed in 2014 and earlier to fix the lighting, or do they only have access to their old code? "We don't have access to the EA code" sounds like nonsense. How did they make the Mac port without the EA code? Moreover, since they clearly have to have a code base in order to make the Apple silicon version and provide 64-bit support, they could always write new code to fix the lighting if for some totally unexplained reason they don't have special lighting code from EA they would have been given from the beginning in order to complete a Mac port. The feedback database response is a totally inadequate brush-off. This is a game from 2003. There shouldn't be massive problems with it in 2023. They need to do their jobs.

I saw some discussion about ancient computers running DDR2 RAM. My advice is to ditch that ancient system instead of upgrading the RAM and get a new one. While it's true that SimCity 4 is still the best city simulator, a modern system will make it run well as well as give you the option of running more recent games and also make it speedier for other things, like web browsing. Here is an inexpensive system as an example (using USA Microcenter prices): AMD Ryzen 5 4600G CPU (6 cores, 12 threads, plus integrated graphics; bundled with CPU cooler) — $95 plus tax ($85 at BestBuy) ASRock A520M-HDV mATX motherboard — $63 plus tax TeamGroup T-FORCE VULCAN Z 16GB DDR4 3200-speed RAM — $36 plus tax Inland TN320 1TB SSD NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0x4 M.2 2280 3D NAND TLC SSD — $50 plus tax Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600W 600 Watt 80 Plus Gold PSU — $60 plus tax a case that can hold an mATX motherboard — (check the pricing; it doesn't have to be fancy) an anti-static wrist strap (if you don't have one) to prevent zapping components when installing them — (check the pricing) a 1440-resolution monitor that's 27" or larger, if you don't have one (check input/display lag rating and ghosting if you do action gaming) — (check the pricing) If you don't need the monitor you're looking at a system for less than $375, tax included. The integrated graphics aren't going to run demanding 3D games, though. In my opinion, life is too short to spend time on ancient hardware unless that hardware is required to run special software. In the case of SimCity 4, it can run on current hardware. Ebay sellers often show parts on carpet that aren't in anti-static bags. This makes me very leery of buying used computer parts from Ebay. Plus, Ebay is full of crazily high prices so you have to really make an effort to find a good deal. However, I got a graphics card for a low price there years back and it works fine. I also got another one years before that and it still works. I bought it from sellers who showed them in the anti-static bags inside the boxes — not on carpets. However, there is no way to know how parts have been handled. If you plan to get a strong GPU for current 3D games, then get this RAM instead, as some new games are requiring 32 GB to run well: TeamGroup T-FORCE VULCAN Z 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4 3600-speed RAM — $60 plus tax However, the motherboard is only rated to run at 3200 so you may also need to get a better board for that RAM to run optimally. And, the low clockspeed of the 4600G could be a liability when dealing with the most-demanding new and upcoming 3D games. For the AM4 (DDR4) AMD platform, the 5800X3D CPU, which is much more expensive than the 4600G, is more suited to such demanding games. It would pair well with that 32 GB 3600-speed RAM and would benefit from a motherboard upgrade. It would also need a high-performance 3D GPU which would cost more than the entire computer system I showed above. Also, if you're not going to use the integrated graphics, the Ryzen 3600 is a better choice than the 4600G because it has more L3 cache. Hopefully this advice is helpful for you and others who have ancient equipment, as long as you can spare a few hundred dollars for an upgrade.