mrbarham

What I have anyways found strange and often wondered about is how the sims choose their work place. Why do sims choose to get jobs on the other side of the city when they could work across the street? Is there a modd to push sims into trying to get jobs closer to home I wonder?

I second the angst about diagonal roads,. I am very curious about how this works out as I have been using tunnels pretty extensively in my latest region. Mainly for the asthetics and the space conservation. However a decrease in commute times would be an excellent upside to it all. I look forward to seeing how this turns out.

thanks barby, I found it while I was going over the predeletes for the mega pack. you rock

Hi guys thanks for all the lots... I have been going through my prop packs and dependencies and doing the amalgamations, (sweet) but since then I am having a problem loading my capital. Which has neccesitated a long look through my plugins folder. (oh the fun!) anyway I noticed that I had 1)BSC BAT Props swi21 Vol06.dat and 2)BSCBATProps_swi21_Vol06.dat one older then the other but they were in different installer paths... (I don't like to alter the paths) I took a look through to try to find them in the prop section, but could not. So finally to my question, was 1 a replacement for 2? Thanks for your time

I noticed an installer that stated that pictures (that most buildings come with) degrade game performance if they are in your plugins folder. Is this true? Do any other files other then dat files do this? Should I delete all the readmes and pics that came with my downloads from my plugin folder? (For other researchers, Duplicate Dat files sould be deleted also) Note:I looked around the forum, (specifically the five pages of the general simcity discussion form) and I didn't find this question about game performance. (I hope I didn't miss it)

Date: 1/17/2006 6:51:47 AM Author: T Wrecks Besides, I would guess that there is an effect. Wanna know why? Ok, let's say you want to deactivate a lot for the time being. I thought 'Hey, why not just rename the file undesired_item.sc4lot to undesired_item.REMOVED'? The effect was - none. So I found out that SC4 doesn't care at all about file extensions and reads everything it can interpret. quote> Thanks guys I guess I will just go ahead and delete the files since as T Wrecks said there is no real positive effect to having them. I wonder though from what you said if the the game is still reading the file from the program file plugin dir and thats why they show up. or does deleteing the file from the my doc's folder also end up deleting it from the prog file when the game checks it. I guess I will test that one on my own. thanks also rhino for the link to the right thread.

you made those tunnels with avenues?!?!? WOW, Don't you get a problem with commute time? I tend to try to do all mine with Highways so as to make the tunnels fast.

The STEX CD is exactly what you are looking for, it has most of the really good buildings and a lot of the extras, including the Sbahn series. $20 to help a site that gives us so much stuff isn't that bad either.

The one thing I wonder is will these cities get much if any R$$$ residents. I seem to remember reading that R$$$ residents hate to use public transport, and from what I have seen on the screen shots most of the res is $ or $$. I think that without a decent number of $$$ you wouldn't be able to afford all the mass transit. I'm curious to see though.