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This is my first post in the forum, I have been playing SimCity 4 for about 9 years and one year in this region. It is the Zurich region that is in this forum, Zurich Region. It has 3 cities, 1 main capital, many towns and another 2 cities that I have not started to build yet.
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Argolis zeitgeist - a year in review
Shortsonfire posted a City Journal entry in [SC4]Hills of Argolis
Welcome back to Argolis! You may delay, but time will not. Hey guys, no story to really give you today because I really haven't been playing SC4 enough to come up with any kind of content to provide you with. The time that I have been able to spend playing I've been expanding my CBD as well as the surrounding suburbia...nothing really exciting. Just lots of zoning. I built myself a PC over my spring break and since then have been playing lots of Steam games including SC4! Already accumulated over 60 hours just on this machine. So over the past year, almost exactly as my oldest picture is from March 21st, 2013 I've built a region with a 1.5 million population. Not too bad for someone who'd had trouble getting a city over 40k for the past 7 or 8 years. Heres a link of the few region-ish pictures that I've taken in the past year. You can see the original region I started with, and then how I changed to the Zurich, Switzerland region. And further growth from there. Argolis, a year in review. And these are the plans I have for the region as of today. That's some RHW 6s running through those tiles and hopefully I can get those cities filled out in the next few weeks. Just barely passed the 1.5 million mark. The blue star is an interchange... I'm not entirely sure where I want the roads to go quite yet, but I'll play with that later down the road. I've been having a blasty blast with Steam and SC4. I stream SC4 frequently if you ever wish to hang out. A lot of the time Prens shows up to hang and I'll get the occasional chat member as well. http://www.twitch.tv/shortsonfire79 ! Next CJ update should hopefully have a bit of story to it but who knows where we'll be headed! And with that, I bid you adieu. Thanks for visiting! -If you can dream it, you can do it.- -
Welcome back to Argolis! Shine brighter than the sun Today, we really don't have much story to follow, so I'm just going to post some pictures from a couple months ago and attempt to catch this CJ back up with August! So I'll just show you what I've been working on. I'll probably turn this CJ into a WIP thread since I have trouble finishing things and always get sidetracked. Here's my large city's CBD. The surrounding suburbs are still under development. This is also a fairly old picture as all of the Project Symphony highway was replaced in the last week with mostly RHW 6s. In the picture above, you can see a nice, lush green area south of the dense high rises. Thats my city's main university: Westbridge University. North of campus, you can see a nice angled road that consists of Greek Row. The fraternity and sorority brothers and sisters don't have to travel far to get their party on. The side of campus that borders the business center is where on campus housing is, with the tall, identical buildings. Heres another shot of the airport I've been working on. I've been getting some CTDs due to conflicting lots, so I haven't been able to finish this. Needs to have some of the taxiways reconnected across city ties. If you click the image, it'll take you to a highdef .png. It'll probably take a while to load... :/ I've also gone away from working with dense cities and attempted to make a nice farming town deep in the mountains. I'm really happy with the ways its turned out so far. Theres really not much to see yet, but I hope to get this small village to span the small valley in the hills. And most recently, I've been working on the central city's industrial zone. It used to just be grid after grid of MEGA DIRTY high density dirty industry next to a semi-large container port. Now its a super clean area of medium wealth and also high density dirty industry, with RHW and NWM! You can see the white oil pipelines running across the lower section of the map. Those will run from a southern oil port all the way through the regions new oil power plant and up to the container port. And as promised in the last update, here is a new shot of the current region. This is just an imgur jpeg. If you click on the image it'll bring you to a majhost high-def version that you can zoom in on. Thanks for visiting! -Some pursue happiness; you create it.-
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Version 1.0
2,493 Downloads
Zurich, Switzerland a map by: blunder ------------- Installation: This map is in .sc4m format and requires either Terraformer or Mapper to import. 1. Navigate to your Documents/SimCity 4/Regions folder and create a new folder with your desired region name 2. Copy+paste the config.bmp file into the folder you just created. 3. Open SC4TF, open the new region, import the .sc4m file, save and quit. 4. You must open and save each tile for it to display your terrain mod instead of the terraformer/mapper elevation color overlay. ------------- Description: Zurich and environs are located in switzerland. The compressor tool was used in terraformer because the real shorelines of Lakes lucerne and Zurich are about 30m apart in elevation; in this map they are 4m apart. Also, the bottom of the valleys below the surface of lake Zurich have consequently been flattened. Although this loses some reality in the valley bottoms, more flat land is gained for building in a manner not too unrealistic; a decent trade in my opinion. This huge map is 72km x 80km and made from satellite data. It contains both a standard and a custom config.bmp, please choose only one. Map made using satellite data, image editing software, and drunkapple's invaluable advice. (I HIGHLY recommend using the high altitude + snow installation of Gobias' Alpine terrain mod found over at sc4d) For questions, comments, and requests please see my Map Thread over at simpeg.com Happy Gaming! -
Version 1.0
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This is my first submission. I am glad to receive feedback and critics for improvements. This is a map of Northern Switzerland, inclunding the accurate reproduction of the cantons Aargau, Zurich and zug. It has been generated with official coordinates from the Swiss government. To generate the visual heightmap from the xyz coords I developped a little .Net Tool that performs this task and outputs a bitmap. The water has been drawn by hand into the heightmap with Photoshop. Further editings have been made with the SimCity Landscape Designer. The map is interesting because of its many and accurate rivers and lakes. The most prominent beeing the biggest sideriver of the Rhine, the Aare with it's own siderivers. The map features also great parts of the Lake of Zurich and the Lake of Zug. If you are interested in even a higher resolution or in other parts of Switzerland as SimCity maps you may contact me.
