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the bad about atlanta is that we don't really have a mass transit system of anything other than a really pathetic bus system(in a sprawl city). the good of it is that we have a clean slate whenever we decide to put one in and we could have one interesting one as well(we have A LOT of space).

I'm against a north american union. this would be one step to that.

yes please do, and make some screen shots too. I'd love to see what others come out with. this gave me an idea, someone should wright a program that would pull building datas(location, height, girth,...) and model it to something similar to this. maybe even take screen shots of the ground too so it'll look like what I came out with.

We should also thank simtropolis as well, this is where it all happens thanks to everyone!

This is a great idea and a monumental task at hand. I truely hope this endeavor comes out to it's fullest. BUT, Simtropolis '1000'??? why 1000? dump the numbers and just keep Simtropolis. good luck!

I have 3 main folders inside my plugins folder; bats, textures, mods. under bats I have a series of folders; transportation, industry commercial residential(with their own folders low/med/high), parks, government(with fire/medical/education/police folders inside that),...... I don't have any folders to divide up textures or mods but i'm sure that'll be more helpful. I also have a 'downloads' folder in the sc4 folder that has the same exact folder structure and I dl the file to that folder and extract the folder to the plugins folder(I don't delete all the extra stuff because it hasn't caused a problem for me and it's also easier to find something later on if I want to delete)

yeah posting comments on here is slow for me too. And i've also noticed that cj's load REALLY slow. I don't know about else where though. the stex loads quick though

I place small developments of commercial all over the place like at intersections and such. that way instead of them being in your central business district they'll be spread out in the city making the need of commercial in that district lower. plus it's easier on your transportation infustructure and makes the commute shorter which increases the value.......

I live in a sprawl. Atlanta. I love living in the suburbs, it's the best of both worlds(urban/rural). If I want to be around alot of people and enjoy city life I can. If I want to be void of human life and just chill out with the squirells(sp?) and deers and bears or whatever I can. or I can just go home and enjoy my little slice of heaven, trees grass birds... and in atlanta it's so spread out that we are developing satellite cities with mini office/dt areas. I live about an hour away from dt atlanta but 5 mins away is the largest mall in the south east with massive commercial development surrounding it(with excellent food options), 20 mins away is our convention/sports center(concerts, hockey, basketball, plays opera,....) and there's 15-20 story buildings way out here. When people picture the suburbs they think homes that look alike and strip malls everywhere. I can't speak for other places but atlanta's suburbs is a unique place(even our suburbs are different from one another). plus we are the city in the woods so there's PLENTY of green space.

dude... do you have your suburbia packs on simtrop anymore? I've looked but can't find them. where can I get these packs if they're not available here?

Originally posted by: DARKO Originally posted by: coolotter88 well, I don't know what my religion is but I just want to say, stop bashing the people who believe in a god. Religion is great, even if there is no god, you lived a good, moral life if you follow religion.quote> This is False. If you follow some sort of human manifestation of faith, you've automatically lived a good. moral life? Why is religion great? I could give just as many reasons why it isn't as I could that it is. I agree that the "bashing" could stop,but your last sentence doesn't sit well with me at all.quote> religion is a relatively new. because good religious people(in contrast to bad religous people) have in general run the world over the past couple of thousands of years today is the product of that. I believe we live in the best period man has ever lived even with all the bad stuff going on, man has never lived as great.

it always amazes me how those who bring up 'god' the most are aethists(sp?) i'll just leave the dicussion on global warming with this: scientists of the past were shunned and beaten and imprisoned and sometimes killed for throwing up the ideas that deviated from the norm. today we see 'man made' global warming scientists deniers sent death threats. it's reminds me of how the world was flat, those that denied it were shunned, beatened, imprisoned, and killed for criticizing that thought. link to stories on how scientists who deny 'man made' global warming are sent death threats and other forms of threats. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=global+warming+scientists+threatened&btnG=Google+Search you never hear of global warming scientists who believe it is caused by man threatened like this

@hymewales: what causes the cyclical changes? the sun imo. japan just got their telescope in space working that will study the sun, so it'll be very interesting what they discover

Originally posted by: coolotter88 That last statement about the nickel mine and nasa is a myth. unless you actually saw with your own two eyes (and took pictures), it was probably made up by some person. and that was uncalled for marczar...quote> I haven't actually seen iraq with my own 2 eyes and I haven't taken pictures of iraq, is that all just a myth that someone made up? I read a article about nasa using space laser in mines and the article was about technologies that space has contributed to the mining industry. it also mentioned a 'space robitics used in planet surface exploration'. <--- mars rover? also did you know that the only places that can closely mimmic the dust found on other places are in mines, that's where nasa has also tested brakes for rovers.

okay: co2 trapped in the earth's atmosphere absorbes heat that is reflected off the earths surface, green house effect, if there is more co2 than that means that more heat is absorbed which means that the temperature of earth's atmosphere will increase. co2 is increasing. earth is getting hotter(about 1/2 of a degree either F or C over the past 100 years). <--- these are facts that are undisputable. but the real question is: is it humans fault? --------------------- gore has correctly pointed out that co2 levels and earths temperature is VERY similar to the point where it is related to one another. but what he forgot, or doesn't know, is that co2 is a product of warmer temperatures. if you look at the numbers as temperature rises co2 then rises after it. it's not increase co2 then the temperatures will rise, it's the temperature rises then co2 levels rise. but if not from humans then where is co2 coming from? the largest source of co2 is absorbed in the oceans. when you leave a open can of coke out on a hot day what happens? it goes flat, as the temperature of the coke gets warmer the co2(carbination) is released out into the atmosphere. it's the same with the oceans, as it gets warmer co2 is released into the air(from the largest source of co2). what's causing the oceans to warm up? humans? no because the numbers say that co2 is dependant on temperature, temperature causes co2 levels to increase/decrease. if humans are at fault then we would have had to have increased temperature by different means. now suprisingly the sun also is VERY similar to the point where it's related to temperatures. but and this is key the temperature on earth is dependent on the sun, the sun affects increased/decreased temperatures. as the sun puts out more energy the oceans get hotter, as the oceans hotter they release co2. the sun, earths temperatures and co2 levels are all very similar to one another, to the point where they are related. when you look at the bigger picture and input all factors the picture looks alot different. oh also the medivel warming period. during the medivel warming period it was hotter than it is today, however this was before industrialization so what global warming(man made) scientists cannot do is explain how the world heated up without human involvement. -------------------------------------------- just some things to leave with. -the mars ice caps are melting and its very similar to th earths caps melting. -we have 10 years to solve global warming because then the earth is gonna melt down(spec on my part: also in 10 years scientists predict that the earths temperatures will start to cool, when in 10 years the temps start to decrease the global warming religion will say to the world, see we fixed it) -the world was flat, to dispute this meant that you would ultimately have to put your life on the line. people were imprisoned and executed for disputing that the world is flat. fast foward to today and scientists that do not board the 'man made global warming' train have had their lives threatened. correlation? and to the hybrid car people, the overall energy output of a hybrid car(from building to operating to destruction(you can't just throw batteries away)) is more than a hummer. for example nickel is used in the batteries for the hybrids. it is mined(a good story about this mine at the end) in I believe BC canada. then it is shipped to europe, then shipped to china, then shipped to japan. the batteries are built and installed in japan. then the cars are shipped to america. a-round-the-world trip to build a hybrid car, that's alot of gas to ship. that nickel mine: it has cause so much environmental damage to the surrounding area that nasa has tested some of it's mars rovers there. ------------------------------------------ my position: we do use way to much resources, what's better than the hybrid is an offshoot of the hybrid. it has an electirc engine that powers the vehicle for 100(or so) miles which is more than the daily commute of americans. that means that we can power the vehicles solely on electric day to day, but if we need to go further there is a gas engine in it as well. the gas engine would only be used if you needed to travel long distances(which is seldom). the mpg on the thing is 100+. okay I'll stop talking now

there's two steps to invisiblity: 1 stop reflections of light and 2 somehow get rid of that blob that not longer reflects light. what we see is nothing more than light reflection of that thing(color). I would of thought of some kind of material that absorded the light instead of reflecting, I never thought of it reflecting straight back. but the real problem is getting rid of that blob, see we can make something that doesn't reflect light but that mass would still be there, so if it was a sunny day you could see that thing but it just wouldn't have any color and wouldn't produce any shadows so if it was a person all you would see is a shilouette. it's somehow getting rid of that blob. I think something like aston martin in that james bond movie(the N.Korean one). where the cameras filmed the surroundings and just showed that on the exterior of the vechicle.

saying that the EU has a bigger economy than the US is like saying that the Lakers is better than michael jordan. You guys can't compare a continent to a country(like a basketball team to a player) if you want to compare continents to continents fine do that(europe wins) but quite being cheap, it only makes you look desperite(sp?)

three things 1. people use land size because they can't say bla bla bla is bigger in population size, trying to twist... 2. switzerland is nuetral because no one(invader) wants the land(IT'S A BIG MOUNTAIN) 3. (just a thought) If you had to setup an international headquarters, would you rather it be in a place with the best resources/access/ease of travel/best living of standard or nuetrality?

I haven't used new urbaism in sc4 but experience it first hand. I used to live in niceville,fl(near destin/ft.walton) and that's just down the road from seaside. I used to go there every other week or 2 It's nice, it has that small town feel and the people are really nice. but I wish there was more variety in the look of the arcitecture(cosmetics), yeah there was variations of all the buildings but those variations weren't all that different, however the layouts of the house's were cool. the center was nice as well, there was a huge grass court type thing with businesses and restaruants flanking it. then across the road, that wen't thru town, was the beach. all and all it's very nice and would probaly be a very nice place to live, but I'm a private person I'd rather live on a couple of acres off the beaten path.

New York, New York Cause it's the center of the universe