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I dont think I've ever seen a monorail in my life, therefore I don't use them

I'm guessing there's no difference between el-train and monorail, besides appearance?

1- bring back the water tool. Redo water from the ground up (literally). Make water be an important and very customizable part of this game, like it should have been from the get-go. Rivers that move in a specific direction...creeks that branch off of rivers. Lakes that can be a higher water level than the river across the city from it. Allow the water level itself to be raised and lowered to your heart's content...even in certain areas. 2- area-specific terrain (specified by you), instead of one grass & dirt skin for an entire region 3- incorporate the old query tool and how it would give detail on any single tile in the game 4- a persistent volcano that erupts at random would be nice 5- bring back alternate power sources, like fusion, microwave & hydroelectric 6- underground power cables 7- more variety in farm fields and structures 8- Proficiencies (farming, mining, fishing, textiles, steel, oil pumping, etc). Towns with high levels of certain industries are proficient in specific goods and services, and should be established as so...this would affect region-wide trade and a virtual stock market as well. Sim City 2000 *vaguely* hinted at something like this - there was a menu where you could see attributes like these and to what level your city was involved in them, but it had no impact on the game. 9- undo feature in god-mode 10- how about some sort of wall tool, so you don't have to keep creating an incline and painting the texture on the sides? 11- I might be alone on this, but I miss airport and seaport zones. I dont like having to plop down one big slab that I didn't create myself. I guess I'll think of more eventually.

hang in there, they appear eventually. The little freight carts are always the first thing to appear....then after some decent rail usage, you'll see the freight train go by. The el-train is a problem I'm having too, it still hasnt shown up at a population of 15,000 (it's the first time I've ever set up an el-train). Try building up the areas around the stations.

I've yet to use those puzzle pieces, but I love NAM simply because of the left turn lanes that appear when you cross avenues, they look incredible. Also, you get different kinds of roundabouts if you create a tiny circle of road. Just remember to check off the box for additional addons when installing NAM, or you won't see them.

I'm using el-rail too, it gives that gritty feel. Reminds me of Queens NY or something just note that you can't build it over a highway...making it extremely annoying in many cases.

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//xtra2zzup11avosgilpic.jpg align=baseline> WOW-- what kind of water texture is that??? I'd love to have it. Is that the bottom of the lake you're seeing, or just a texture applied to the top of the water or something?

^^which walls are those?? Just when I thought I had downloaded all of the walls that were out there, I saw this Also, where in the world did these things come from?? -- align=baseline>

this is very interesting - my town had a circle that looked exactly like the one seen in the first post here. The only difference is that there were no partitions or 'islands' in between the gaps where the elbow curves met.

very nice stuff....do those lights along the canal edge come WITH the canal? I haven't played around with it yet, but it looks cool.

samoht: they're in the japanese thread (BAT discussion main thread, I think it was....it's a sticky topic). I spent a good hour and looked through all 20+ pages and downloaded all of my favorite things there (there were so many of them, too)...definately check it out. All of those industrial addons were in there.

Date: 7/31/2005 9:19:13 PM Author: DuskTrooper I already posted this in a few other threads, but, what the heck... Here are a few pics of my region's new airport, Berkshire International Airport.  It was built to replace the rediculously small, outdated, and congested Montauk International, which will be modernized soon.  Berkshire will take the main load for the region, though, and can be expanded to suit further needs(I am reserving two large city tiles for this purpose). A regional view: A photo showing the relation of the airport to downtown: quote> did you create those rivers with the terraforming tools, or that ploppable water mod?

I love that park with the big orange ferris wheel on the bottom (canuck's 2nd image)....is that one big object, or just pieces stuck together??

I just tried something new, and my PC stopped crashing when playing SC4...and that was after about 1.5 hours while rotating and zooming out, too... I checked my virtual memory and noticed that I never had it custom set....so I just took my amount of ram (1024) and multiplied it by 2.5 to get 2560 (this is an actual rule). I put this number as the min and max. I then set my 2nd hard drive to PC-run virual memory. After that, under the same system properties advanced menu and the visual effects tab, I noticed that the windows visual effects were on for a ton of really insignificant things, so I set it from let windows choose what's best for my system (which happened to be EVERYTHING) to adjust for best performance. It might have not done much, but who needs a shadow under the mouse cursor and things like that. Anyway, the game works well now hopefully this helps someone else.

I saw this on the SC official site. All of their FAQ stuff about why does my game crash was already covered in this thread: ------------------ Game Crash The crash with MySim is related to the bonus CD. If you have installed the bonus CD and have moved a MySim into your city, crashes are likely. We will have a patch available soon that fixes this issue. Deleting the file called Plugin_007_AirForceBase.dat from the Plugins directory found in Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Plugins is a quick way to avoid the crash. ------------------ what's the bonus CD, are they referring to RH?

this just happened to me for the first time. I created a new region, and am using the Large block. I layed out all of the road and rail, and now it will crash whenever I rotate the map or move around....now Im pissed (since I can't play the game at all anymore)...I'm planning on upping my PC to 2 gigs of ram, I hope this fixes it....

don't like newark, never did...espeically now that my NJ devils are moving there and I'll have to drive an extra 30 minutes to see them play.

Thanks for the help DJ, I want these turning lanes so bad, they look incredible. I didn't even bother to place and save avenues until I figured this problem out! I'll try it tonight.

rename the NAM folder by putting a z in front of it? I'll try it out. I haven't seen anything whatsoever (in-game) in terms of turning lanes after installing NAM

holy crap, aleking that looks awesome....where did you get those circular and globe shaped petroleum tanks? The only one I saw on this site was with the Mobil logo on it also- where did you get that inactive rail yard??

I can't get these turning lanes to show up whatsoever - are they puzzle pieces, or are they supposed to appear? I read through this entire thread and I still don't really know.

I wish I knew why they didn't include this very simple feature in the game....(same for the water tool, terrain randomizer, etc)

to meinhosen, first off, congrats on this incredible looking city, it must have been an awful lot of work to create, but it is worth it (as we can all see) someone asked you how you've created the three lane avenues here: ...and you said it was part of the N.A.M. I just downloaded this addon pack and it is not a part of it (either that, or I just cant find it for the life of me). Could you please re-check, or let me know where you found it?? I'm dying to add this to my city. Thanks