Vast_Deathmaster

Technically, the John Hancock building that is in the game is an Archology. But it's just listed as a landmark. The archology is fun for going back to an older version of the game, but why not use modern variations?

Here is my plist file. I changed all the greater-than and less-than to brackets so it is readable here. When I said plain vanilla I meant I was using the BASIC version of Sim City 4. I do not have Deluxe and I do not have Rush Hour. (yet) [?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?] [!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd] [plist version=1.0] [dict] [key]custom-height[/key] [string]768[/string] [key]custom-resolution[/key] [string]0[/string] [key]custom-width[/key] [string]1024[/string] [key]display.frequency[/key] [string]0[/string] [key]display.index[/key] [string]0[/string] [key]display.rect.origin.x[/key] [string]0.000000[/string] [key]display.rect.origin.y[/key] [string]0.000000[/string] [key]display.rect.size.height[/key] [string]768.000000[/string] [key]display.rect.size.width[/key] [string]1024.000000[/string] [key]display.remember[/key] [string]0[/string] [key]first-time[/key] [string]0[/string] [key]fullscreen-mode[/key] [string]0[/string] [key]intro-movie[/key] [string]0[/string] [key]window-mode[/key] [string]1[/string] [/dict] [/plist] If you look at the part that says fullscreen-mode, it is set to Zero (0) and further below that window-mode is set to One (1). In the plist file, a Zero means OFF, and a One means ON So right now in the above plist, fullscreen-mode is OFF and window-mode is ON. Normally it will be the other way around.

Date: 10/23/2005 5:39:29 AM Author: ajteshin there isn't anything called com.aspyr in the library/preferences file. This is not a solution. Gosh, I 'm quote> Under user\library\preferences, there is a plist that starts with com.aspyr (I'm using the plain vanilla SC4) However there is one more change that needs to be made before you can minimize (I had this in a previous post in a previous topic) [key]window-mode[/key] [string]1[/string] Don't forget to set Fullscreen to 0 and window-mode to 1 Once I did that I was able to minimize the game. Mind you I didn't try opening Photoshop and iTunes with it in that state But in this way, you can minimize SC4

While I have attention here, I have a question about Water Pipes. In previous Simcity games, it was advantagious to to run the pipes in loops (that is, to not have them them end as open pipes. I was wondering if it mattered in Ver. 4 of the game. I don't know which one, but there was also better watersupply for certain areas. That 'feature' seems to have been left out here.

I will try to gradually fill in the Residential instead of all at once. Admittedly, THy's guide is confusing at times and has been posted as such by others.

Keep in mind that I am following THY451's guides. They have worked once before. That is why I have not added things like police or fire dept. If you go to the Omnibus and read, his plan has putting in firedept in at year four and about 4600 sims. Taxes: R: 8.3%, 8.0%, 7.5% C: 7.0%, 7.0%, 7.0% I: 9.0%, 7.5%, 7.0% The real question here is why these formulas have worked before, but have since stopped being reliable. I should be able to follow that plan and consistantly get a city working. Unless the game is uber random and not ever city will succeed, this seems crazy to me. So remember. I'm following a plan. The plan has worked before. Sure I could follow advise and add things here and there, but I don't want to (though thank you for that particular advice) Thanks.

As far as the Zone demand levels, I figured I'd post a screenshot instead. Hopefully it will help. This town is sort of a test so I called it Crap Shoot It is currently at year 7 and it has stagnated at 3000(about) sims Next is a screenshot of the city itself. Again, I am following Thy's scheme. It has worked once or twice, but not regularly Since I am following a plan, there are no Schools, Medical or Fire services. By Thy's plan, at year 3 I will fill out the Industrial area and add a fire station. The 'amenities' are added and continue to be added starting at year 8 (assuming a population of 17k or so. As you can see, the city is very basic by design Below is one of the cities further down the road on Thy's scheme. Instead of following his residetial layout, I put another one on the opposite side of the idustrial area. It also took a bit to get beyond the 4k mark, but once I did, the city growth ran smoothly. I stopped playing this one because I thought I made a mistake on the layout.

Ok, first off, I am using an eMac with 512mb memory and OS10.3.9 I am ONLY using SC4, there is no RH. I am having trouble getting cities to get beyond 3500 sims. I'm not good at the game, so I am following Thy451's walkthrough to 40k. I got one city to that number once. That was on an empty region; the generic one created by the game. I have tried several times since. One time, I did actually got beyond the 3500 mark but I was about 9 years down the line. The most recent game/city I was sitting at about 3500 sims and it was 13 'years'. Thy451's guide has you at about 4500 by year 3. What's going on here? This is on the generic region map. I don't have any Mods running, and I have tried deleting the game (did a search in finder for simcity and deleted everything, did a search for aspyr and deleted everthing) and reinstalling. Same thing. Oh, one other thing. The game is running with the game update I got from Aspyr's website.

I was rather trying to avoid buying RH. I paid 40 for the game, I don't want to spend more just for some extras. I get the feeling that Maxis came up with the idea for SC4 and RH as one product, then some marketing person there suggested breaking the two up and selling them separately. Anyway, as I down't want RH, I just want to know is there a version of NAM that works for SC4 only.

By the way, is there a version of NAM that works with the Basic version of SC4? I don't intend to buy the Rush Hour expansion, muchless buy the Deluxe SC version. I had downloaded the Oct 2005 NAM because it said it was for SC4/RH. I took that to mean it worked in basic SC4. When I read the directions, it said I needed Deluxe or RH. I just want to have 4 lane roads (2 lanes in one direction plus a median then 2 lanes in the other). The majority of roads are like that where I live.

Date: 10/11/2005 2:24:09 PM Author: MasterMayor1 the game ran very well befor downloading any of the modsquote> Have you updated the game? I think it's latest version is 1.0.2. If so, then I would guess that you have to go through your mods a one by one and see which one or which combination of mods causes your screen to mess up.

One thing you should have learned by now reading this website is that This game will drag on ANY system. The question still remains, what happens when you remove ALL your mods? On the other hand, how did the game run before you installed any mods?

Have you tried removing all the mods and extras you have put into the game? If it works clean, then try the mods and extras one at a time to see where the problem starts. Also what kind of system are you running (computer memory, video memory, etc) Sometimes two different pieces of software can clash because they are not made to work with each other. Such things exist in other games I have played, so it does not seem impossible here.

I thought surely there must be a way to run this in a window. Perhaps a backdoor edit to some file. I went googling and found this on Version Tracker And further down in the text: Windowed Mode/Refresh Problems - Version: 1.0, 7/16/2003 06:41AM PST SnyperM: I have been able to get around the full screen refresh problem by editing the simcity plist in my user preferences folder set the window mode key to 1 for true and set full-screen to 0 for false obviously. Additionally you can specify the resolution you want in the same file manually. I personally can't get the game to run higher than 800x600 in full-screen but have no problem pulling 1280x1024 in a window. It's kind of aggravating but you'll be able to play the game. I can't find a plist file for SC4. Perhaps someone else has an idea? BINGO! Got it! Follow the above and you can run the game in window mode

Me too. I'm using OS10.3.7 and when I use the option key, I get the same, but no option to run in a window. Perhaps it's a commandline thing or edit the ini file? I do like knowing about this little menu. I had turned off the movies before by removing them from the movie folder, but this is better.