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SC4-related Acronyms made Clear (previously Exchange Acronyms made Clear) Searching the STEX and LEX can be quite the exciting, fun, yet overwhelming experience. You have to learn on your own, howto manage through them, and what to download and install to work for your SC4, the way you want to play the game. But there is one way to make our exchange searching just a little less confusing, and that is to know what the various titles and acronyms mean. I couldn't find any omnibus or 'cheat sheet' to answer this in my searches. The purpose of this thread is to find out what all the small exchange acronyms mean. With any luck, new users will search the forums and find this thread, not have to ask again, and improve their overall SimCity 4 gameplay/custom content experience. An acronym is a small group of characters that stands for something, for instance SC4D/RH = SimCity 4 Deluxe/Rush Hour. What do these others mean? (EDIT: People's responses from below have been edited into this original post. Thanks to haljackey and others who are contributing to this list.) RCI - Residential, Commercial, Industrial (Types of zones that are not utility/government?) UDI - U-Drive It or You Drive It (Means game vehicles you can drive around town?) BAT - Building Architect Tool (Program for making new buildings) STEX - SimTropolis Exchange LEX - Lot Exchange ([@ SC4D] also known as BSCLEX) PLEX - Pegasus Lot Exchange (@ Simpeg) PEG - Short for Pegasus and his BATs (a person who does custom content for the game) CAM - Collossus Add-on Mod (Makes the game have more people/capacity?) NAM - Network Add-on Mod (Adds new transit options) RTMT - Road Top Mass Transit (NAM addon?) GLR - Ground Light Rail (NAM Addon?) LRT - Light Rail Transit (Same as GLR) HSR - High Speed Rail (NAM Addon?) GHSR - Ground High Speed Rail (NAM Addon?) SAM - Street Addon Mod (NAM Addon?) RHW - Rual Highway [Mod] (NAM Addon?) MIS - Modular Interchange System (included with the RHW mod) RAM - Rail Addon Mod (NAM Addon) STR - Single Track Rail [Mod] (Part of the RAM) T-RAM - Tram-Road Addon Mod (same as GLR and LRT in road) FLUP - Flexible Underpass (Part of the NAM) 3DS - 3D Studio Max (an advanced modeling program by Autodesk/Discreet - sometimes also called 3dsMax or just MAX, also .3ds is a file format for the program, a program for making new buildings) W2W - Wall-to-Wall (As in wall-to-wall lots) WFK - Waterfront Kit SF - SimForum (a group who does custom content for the game) or (sometimes refers to the user SimFox) or (sometimes means Slope Friendly, as in a lot that has been adjusted to conform to the terrain) SG - Short for SimGoober and his Bats (a person who does custom content for the game) BSC - BAT Squad Certification (a group who does custom content for the game) BTE - BSC Tracking Enabled (relates to the BSC's Reward lots in-game) BTM - Bullet Train Mod NHP - New Horizions Productions (a group who does custom content for the game?) CJ - City Journal MD- Mayor's Diary (same as CJ) SC - City Showcase (Same as CJ and MD) SCAG - SimCity Airport Group NDEX - N74704, DuskTrooper, Equinox (a group who does custom content for the game) ITS - short for Ill Tonkso and his BATs (a person who does custom content for the game) MTP - Mountain Theme Pack (can also be used for multi pack) CDK - Coastal Development Kit SFBT - Simforum BAT Team (a group who does custom content for the game) SNM - SimNation Military BLS - Barby Lot Studio BRT - Bus Rapid Transit CXS - Colyn Serfontein Expanded (a group who does custom content for the game) SC4T - SC4Terraformer (application written by wouanagaine) SC4M - SC4Mapper (program written by wouanagaine) .SC4M - File format (used by SC4T and SC4M) RGB - Red, Green, Blue (reference to color models) MTCS - "Map This! - Cartography Services" (mapping services by Vandy) TUT - Short for Tutorial RUL - Network Rule LOD - Level of Detail RL - Real life (often used as a reason for not doing BATs) RHW - Originally, it was "Rural Highway Mod", then retconned into "RealHighway Mod" Anyone who has an answer or confirmation to any above, please offer! Anyone should feel free to ask what another one means or stands for here as well. We have such knowledgeable people here that I'm sure there will be an answer. Thanks! (Note: And who knows... in a few weeks if we get all the answers and there isn't too many, I'll probably copy and organize them all in the original post here to make it easier for new forum members finding this thread to get answers. I look forward to anyone's answers.) EDIT: Here's a link to the glossary on the wiki. Or try the Simtropolis Glossary. Contributers' Answers' Added: Patricius Maximus, hawkeye0, Hagar Topeka 1, haljackey, Tarkus, Livin in Sim, warrior, Blue Lightning, Vandy, Strategist01
