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Hatbox Ghost posted:Yowza! How did you get those angled roads? They're in NAM 
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benzine posted:Lucky you, I tried to datpacked my plugins and it is an instant CTD, at least the plugins are datpacked v Don't pack NAM, and it may take several tries to get it working. But oh man is the performance better.
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They're giving away free copies of SimCity 4? I thought they wanted people to actually play the new one.  Either way, more in the community can't be a bad thing.
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Dapper Dan posted:I recently reinstalled SC4 and I can't seem to find combined road/subway/bus/rail stations mod. I remember it being a lifesaver in terms of space. Anyone know where I might find it? Autumncomet posted:http://www.mediafire.com/?vdmhrlgshr6s8nk Also, does anyone have any ideas about this?  Autumncomet posted:Agh, help me.
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Windows 8 Pro, Intel Core i5-2410M, graphics card is Intel HD Graphics 3000, 4GBs of RAM (it's a laptop). SimCity 4 was working perfectly well with just the -CPUCount:1 thing under Windows 7 Professional, but now, no matter how I run it (I've tried -CPUpriority:high, messing with the resolution, windowing, -d:Software...), it just won't start. As in, I can run it from Steam or the desktop and a window will pop up that says "GDriver Window - DirectX" and then its title changes to "SimCity 4" and then the window goes away and the game stops running. 
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Inverness posted:They're giving away free copies of SimCity 4? I thought they wanted people to actually play the new one. Oh well, could just try patching it I guess 
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Paul.Power posted:Oh well, could just try patching it I guess Is there a readme.txt or an .ini file in the installation directory? That might give you the version number.
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I would just like to thank the goons who created the mod packs. As soon as it was apparent that SC5 was not going to be what I wanted(though I didn't think it would be as horrible as it is) I dug my copy of SC4 out of storage and reinstalled it. Then I remembered that I should get some mods for it, but also remembered how much of a pain in the rear end it was the last time due to all of the missing dependencies. It is really nice to have everything all in one place again, so thank you. (as soon as they are done downloading that is. My crappy DSL connection sure gets upset at torrents and kills the connection periodically. I just have a few questions about the mod pack content. Being a huge fan of railroads I used to enjoy having a realistic, and extensive rail network in my region. I used to have a ton of mods for railyards, and alternate locomotives so that my cities looked more realistic. Unfortunately they were some of the hardest to find dependencies for and if I remember correctly a lot of them require deps that are no longer available. Are there any rail related mods included in these mod packs? Failing that, does anyone have any suggestions for rail related mods that they currently enjoy and recommend for downloading? Finally, I was unable to find my actual disks for the game, so I logged the serial into steam so I could run it through there. Is there any issue associated with modding the game if it is running through steam?
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There are several additional rail stations in the Old Fashioned pack, but not much else.
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One more question dealing with the game itself rather than mods. Is there a way to make it so that disasters are able to happen randomly? If I remember correctly, the only disasters that could occur were fire and riots(maybe earthquake?). It has been years since I have last played the game and I may have missed the setting, but is there anyway that I could make it so that lightning strikes and tornados are able to randomly occur like in SC:C to SC3K rather than have to be started randomly?
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Complete noob problem: I'm starting a city, and after a pop of about 1000 I cannot get the demand for Agriculture down at all. I've tried it both with and without the SPAM addon, and I can cover half the drat city with farms and nothing seems to help. What am I doing wrong?
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You want LESS Agri demand? Just stop zoning it.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Complete noob problem: You will always have agriculture demand with SPAM. If you build schools people stop wanting farms as much.
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Iunnrais posted:You want LESS Agri demand? Plopped down a school, will see what that does.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Uh, yeah, don't I? In SimCity games don't you want to generally keep the RCI graphs close to zero? The Ag bar is pegged to the top of the graph no matter what I do. Zoning agriculture will just increase demand. If you want to kill Agriculture demand, zone a bunch of dirty industry. Also, keeping your RCI graph close to zero isn't what you're "supposed" to do. You generally want a high demand in whatever you want to build.
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How the hell do you use the hole digger lots? I wanted to make a ditch, so I plopped some down on every second tile like the screenshots show. Then I tried to drag a road through it but it just says "unsuitable grade for construction". If I try it perpendicular to the lots it says "unsuitable area to build network".
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In SC4, I rarely have any of the three bars near zero. I focus more on keeping the demands balanced then zero'd. So if R and I are maxed and C is halfway, I build more R and I. That sort of thing. Having anything at zero would make me sad, because then I couldn't build it where I want to. TheFluff posted:How the hell do you use the hole digger lots? I wanted to make a ditch, so I plopped some down on every second tile like the screenshots show. Then I tried to drag a road through it but it just says "unsuitable grade for construction". If I try it perpendicular to the lots it says "unsuitable area to build network". Place ONE digger lot. Connect ONE road to it. It will fail if you are too close to sealevel, as it won't dig into the aquifer.
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Iunnrais posted:It will fail if you are too close to sealevel, as it won't dig into the aquifer. This was the problem, thanks for the help. That's annoying though. I guess I should build it elevated instead.
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Huh. For some reason I was under the impression you got "penalized" somehow if the demand bars were too high. Thanks for the info.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Huh. For some reason I was under the impression you got "penalized" somehow if the demand bars were too high. Thanks for the info. My understanding is that the bars represent how many people would like to move in or build a business in your city if they could. More demand isn't ever a bad thing.
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High demand is actually just Sims asking for a tax hike. Welcome to Obama's Simnation.
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I'm using the awesome region linked in the OP, but when I go out to region view, all my cities look like flattened green nothing. Any fix for this? Apologies if it's already been addressed elsewhere. edit: Somehow the problem resolved itself, hooray! boji fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Mar 22, 2013 |
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Are there any guides for how to use the Dat Packer without getting horrible graphical glitches? Last time I tried it, this happened: 
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Huh. For some reason I was under the impression you got "penalized" somehow if the demand bars were too high. Thanks for the info. You're not the only one, I played the game for a long time always trying to get the bars to 0 too. The agriculture demand bar irritated me for a long time.
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Wait, so if the RCI bars just denote that people want that kind of thing to be zoned, but you still want to keep the bars high above 0 anyway, how are you supposed to know what to zone? Just whatever you like as long as the RCI bar for it is in demand?
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I zone whatever I drat well please and if the sims won't build on it I'm hopping into a military helicopter and leveling a suburb. Suck it down peasants.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Wait, so if the RCI bars just denote that people want that kind of thing to be zoned, but you still want to keep the bars high above 0 anyway, how are you supposed to know what to zone? Just whatever you like as long as the RCI bar for it is in demand? You decide what kind of city you want and zone correspondingly. The RCI indicator tells you what kinds of cities you can build, not what you must build. And if it doesn't support what you want, build services, amenities and otherwise adjust things until your dream city can be supported.
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boji posted:I'm using the awesome region linked in the OP, but when I go out to region view, all my cities look like flattened green nothing. If you alt-tab or click out of the window while it's saving+exiting, the region view will be a flat grass tile. The city is fine. But you have to wait for it to save and go to region view before you go out of the SC4 window if you don't want to gently caress up region view.
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jadebullet posted:Failing that, does anyone have any suggestions for rail related mods that they currently enjoy and recommend for downloading? For added realism, I like catenary mod: the http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/21935-rail-catenary-mod-v3-hd-version/ But if you're like me and don't like that it is to bright there is a fix for it: http://workingman-productions.co.uk/downloads/rvt_faded_catenaries.asp He also has a nice rail pack: http://workingman-productions.co.uk/downloads/rivit_german.html Hope this get you started.
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Masa posted:Are there any guides for how to use the Dat Packer without getting horrible graphical glitches? Last time I tried it, this happened: Seconding this, I can never Dat Pack my mods without running into tons of broken references or just straight up instant CTDs. But the performance gains are SO incredible...
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I forgot how enjoyable this game is. I have spent the last couple of hours working on terraforming my region and listening to the SC3K soundtrack. I haven't even started any cities yet, but I am still having a blast. Still, I wish that you could adjust the terraforming brush size other than zooming in and out. That being said, I am probably being way too spergy about my region building. My current project while I take a break from mountain making, since that is a pain in the rear end, is making a series of smaller rivers and streams to feed into my larger river.
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jadebullet posted:I forgot how enjoyable this game is. I have spent the last couple of hours working on terraforming my region and listening to the SC3K soundtrack. I haven't even started any cities yet, but I am still having a blast. Still, I wish that you could adjust the terraforming brush size other than zooming in and out. The secret is to just download a height map of an actual part of the world ans just skip the terraforming process.
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jadebullet posted:I forgot how enjoyable this game is. I have spent the last couple of hours working on terraforming my region and listening to the SC3K soundtrack. I haven't even started any cities yet, but I am still having a blast. Still, I wish that you could adjust the terraforming brush size other than zooming in and out. Post pictures, this thread can't have enough pictures.  The goon region at PSG.
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Giggily posted:The secret is to just download a height map of an actual part of the world ans just skip the terraforming process. Meh, I prefer doing stuff custom. It just feels more rewarding that way. Plus the area that I am setting my region in (Northeast PA) probably wouldn't transfer over well into Sim City because of all of the mountains. Anyway, because it was requested, I took two pics of my region so far. (ignore the two different texture sets. I made the river while I was downloading the old fashioned pack and haven't updated it yet.)  
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What are the rules for passenger trains in this? Are they more of a region thing or something? I'm on my third city in the region, just trying to figure the game out, and my passenger trains are at like 3% capacity.
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I am kind of disapointed that I can only find the soundtrack for SC3K on Amazon. At least I have that though, since that is the game I played the most when I was younger. By the way, has anyone ever made a mod that would enable random disasters?
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jadebullet posted:Meh, I prefer doing stuff custom. It just feels more rewarding that way. Plus the area that I am setting my region in (Northeast PA) probably wouldn't transfer over well into Sim City because of all of the mountains. Holy crap. You're going to upload this before you start building cities, right?
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jadebullet posted:I am kind of disapointed that I can only find the soundtrack for SC3K on Amazon. At least I have that though, since that is the game I played the most when I was younger. The SC3000 soundtrack is on Spotify, if you have that: http://open.spotify.com/album/1oOsNeGfkAKvYZ3RvSs0Ie
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