MothMaiden

You can't rebuild New Orleans at this time. Right now that poor city is one of the country's biggest superfund sites. That water was a horrid toxic soup that soaked into all the buildings and coated everything it touched. The mayor is a fool for reopening the city. This all has to be cleaned up, and Bush is too busy trying to suspend environmental laws to do the job. Then there is the question of the levees. They are still leaking. As Rita proved, any hurricane hit, however glancing, will take them down and reflood the city. They need to be completely redesigned (just improving them as they were preKatrina to withstand a Cat. 5 would have cost $14 million, a redesign and rebuilding would be more). The problem with the wetlands is that the silt from the Mississippi is not coming down to replace what the ocean erodes. At the current rate of erosion, you will rebuild the city only to have the Gulf of Mexico swallow it up for good. By storm or erosion, if things don't change, New Orleans is bound for a name change to New Atlantis. The source of the problem is the locks, dams, and levees upriver. A healthy river is supposed to drag silt from upriver and use it to build the delta. Until the whole river is fixed, New Orleans has no permanent future. Fix all that, and yeah, rebuild New Orleans in all her old glory. Bring back all her citizens that want to come, put local people from the region to work doing the rebuilding (not megacorps with Washington DC political connections), and do whatever it takes to jumpstart her economy and make her prosperous.

ExiL3, I went to the site you linked to on page 1, but I got The page you requested is unavailable errors whenever I tried to download a file. I also got a similar error when I tried to download Cycledogg's update on page 2. Do you know where this mod is located now, so I can download it? Thanks.

There is no lot editor for the Mac either because of rights issues, or because Aspyr can not be bothered to use the porting libraries they already developed for SimCity to recompile and test the Lot Editor. They still could provide it, but don't hold your breath. There will probably never be a BAT for the Mac because Maxis chose to go with a Windows Only 3d modeling program (gmax), instead of one that runs on Windows and Mac (like Blender). If you want to use the lot editor and/or the BAT, at the moment the only route is to grab a PC if you have access to one (the one you switched from if it can at all run SimCity should be fine for lot editing, but for the BAT you need some serious muscle), buy SimCity Deluxe for the PC, and set the PC up as your content creation station for your Mac game. Otherwise, you will have to rely on earlier lots in the lot exchange. Search for lots by someone named 'Pegasus', a lot of his early work works on the Mac, and some lots are even specifically Mac compatible. Most of his pond and stream lots work on the Mac, there is one trail system lot pack that is for the Mac, and even some of the river retaining walls work. To my mind, his lots add nearly as much to the game as Rush Hour itself, especially in the area of civic beauty. EDIT I have just found out that Pegasus has pulled his lots from the exchange. I'm sorry, I am going to have to withdraw my recommendation of his lots, as there is now no way to get them. Unfortunately, he is the only one to ever try to be Mac compatible.