LordTarren

When I first bought the game, I removed the music it came with out of the SC4 folder and promptly forgot about them. Years later, I now find them again and for nostalgia's sake, decide to put them back to see if they were as bad as I remember. They were, of course. So I completely delete them. There are two songs from my own playlist that the game refuses to play properly for some reason, so I deleted them as well. My problem is, the game is now playing music that doesn't exist. It's eerie! It's literally playing phantom music and I have no idea how to stop it. Does it have anything to do with the single file in both mayor and region folders with the .id file extension? I can stop the music by simply pushing the "stop" and "accept" buttons in the menu so it goes to the next music file, but that becomes tedious after a while.

It's playing both the original music and my own added music, all of which was deleted. This is the first time it's done this in the nearly eight years I've owned the game, so I don't understand it.

Lovely journal!  May I ask where you found the lovely mediterranean style buildings?  My STEX-fu has failed me =(

KingTitan - I had no need to make any seperate folder whatseover for this dll to work just fine. But it apparently works differently for everyone.

Although this is a very interesting tutorial, I must say that after trying it myself, attempting to recreate this as much as possible, the exact opposite results occured. One - they stubbornly continued to use their cars as much as possible anyway Two - they refused to even acknowledge the existance of the industrial area. When I put in commercial close by, they worked there instead. When I got rid of it and used *only* industrial, they got "no job" zots. The only way to get them to work was to replace the industrial entirely with commercial instead. Three - the *only* time they started using busses more than cars was when I enacted the "mass transit only" radical ordinance I have no idea why I got these results instead, but to each their own, I guess. SC4 is a finicky servant indeed

I am wondering how many people attempt to play their cities as countries. Not an individual one, but a cluster of them in an area surrounded by mountains or rivers that are used to seperate one cluster from another. I've tried my best to search the STEX for maps that adequately protray this, but am still having difficulty with the concept of naming. In such an instance, no city squares are ever perfectly seperate from others most of the time, so how do I name one that is split right down the middle and is part of two different "countries"? Do I call it something like "West soandso and East suchandsuch" as one single name? Or am I perhaps overanylizing it a tad too much?

I have been watching the "STEX Selections" sidebar lately, and today decided to post a concern. There seems to be no reason for it whatsoever. I assumed it was created for the purpose of showcasing popular or semi-popular uploads, similar to "Today's Spotlight", but what I see on it now is, frankly, quite ridiculous. The "Gogo carts" bat, uploaded May 6th, which has never recieved a proper picture, got hammered with bad comments and thumbs down, and is considered spam by many, is now on the front page, in the "selections" sidebar. An upload that probably should have been removed. What is the point? Showcasing bad uploads is not something I'd be proud of. Is that sidebar simply *randomly* chosen, regardless of how well the upload was recieved? Some explaination would be greatly appreciated

Alright, that was mostly what I wanted to know, what it's point was and if it was indeed randomly done. And Tolomar - um, no. Beauty is not "in the eye of the beholder" with the amount of garbage that has been uploaded, including that "Gogo cart" creation. By "slamming" I mean the barrage of negatives, like "this is spam" "stop posting without a picture", "no pic no click", "too much spam on stex" etc, and thumbs down ratings, so please know the context of my remarks before claiming everyone who makes these negative comments is in the wrong. Why it hasn't been deleted is anyone's guess, same with todays building of the day with yet again no picture. This has absolutely nothing to do with "starting somewhere". But anyway, my questions have been answered

Andreas - that's pretty much what Jeronij's mod looked like before I removed Peg's rural mod.

Yes, I did that and I was able to see the sidewalks, but not long after I had started it crashed one me try, try again... Jeronij, you should make an edit in your BAT description to include the fact that Peg's rural roadway mod is an incompatibility

So, as I mentioned in your upload thread before this one was created, why is it that I can see the cars, trees, lampposts, garbage cans, etc, but not the actual *sidewalks* themselves? Why are they only showing up as bare dirt, regardless of wealth? I know of no other mods that would be interfering with this one EDIT: actually, I just found Pegasus' "Rural roadways" mod... could that be causing the problem?

May I ask as to why you continually insist on using clinics, when you are already well aware of thier ineffectiveness, and have been told by several users to use a hospital instead? I'm honestly curious. A city of 135K should *not* be relying on clinics

chocolatemax285 - how in the world did you make that gorgeous pond with all the underwater flora??

Could someone please make a bat of Sauron's evil-eye tower from Lord of the Rings? Or perhaps the tower of Isengard? It would be greatly appreciated

Over time, I have read conflicting theories about residential. The majority of people seem to claim that getting sims to occupy ploppables is impossible, and it will become abandoned. Yet once in a while I'll still see the occasional person saying that no, it's *not* impossible, there are ways to trick the game by zoning, letting it grow, then bulldozing it and immediately plopping, etc... Yes no?

Thanks for the replies. It then begs the question, WHY do people create and upload ploppable residential lots to the STEX, and then also WHY do people download them and say how wonderful they are, if they do, in fact, not work? I don't DL res, so I don't remember if it's common knowledge that they are uploaded only as eye-candy?

I remember a while back reading about the new "theme changer" item, that would allow you to use different themes for different cities without worrying about bat dependencies.... or something like that... I was wondering if it would be possible to make a medieval theme. I know that there are already a few castles and castle ruins bats floating around out there, but what about the rest? How about having horses and horse-drawn carriages and carts instead of cars, stone buildings of only a few stories instead of massive, modern skyscrapers? Soldiers instead of "police men", wells instead of water towers, and torchlight instead of power plants? I think it would also be quite interesting to make a mod capable of inciting a plague.. any thoughts?

Storm991, you said It is actually a bad version of SC3KU what exactly do you mean by that? (i've only played SC2 & 4) I'm looking at screenshots for it not on the IGN site, and it is absolutely AMAZING, especially the nightlighting shots! How in the *world* would I be able to get that to work on my system?