Anybody who wants to play SimCity 4 MP

[Adagio]

That's because you started your city, before you imported his city... Try to goto his city, and reconnect, then you have the connection in your city...

[John-SJ]

I have a problem uploading my city. First, I was able to upload it the first time but I realized that I had not set binary mode first so I attempted to upload it a second time after setting binary mode. When I did this I got the message "Cannot STOR. No permission". I then tried to delety the city so I could re-uplaod it in binary mode and got the message "Cannot DELE. No permission". Finally, I switched back to ASCII mode and attempted to uplad again. This failed also. Hmmm.

I think this permission problem needs to be fixed or we will have to upload each save file under a different name.

Questions: Did everyone else remember to upload in binary mode? Am I missing something? Is there a way to do what I'm trying to do?

John-SJ

[Adagio]

I haven't allowed to delete/overwrite files, but will change this now...

Not sure what you mean with "Upload in binary mode"..?

[Adagio]

What exactly is the problem, but not uploading in binary mode? I just imported your city, and had no problems!?!


Jonny is now the only one, who haven't played his turn yet...

[John-SJ]

Maybe binary mode is not necessary, if no one else has done it and is able to download successfuly. But ftp, by default, converts 8-bit bytes to 7-bit ascii characters. If you ftp a binary file such as an executable or many data file types in this mode it will be unusable. Binary mode prevents this conversion and gurantees that no 8->7 bit conversion takes place.

If no one else is doing this then I guess it is not required for .sc4 files.

John-SJ

edit: Just saw your last post ADG, in that case binary mode is not needed. Thanks!

[vovan]

Okay, we need to coordinate our efforts a little bit here. Thing is, two bedroom communities right next to each other (namely, mine, and Eli's) would not work very well, as there will then be lots of deman for industrial areas, and only ADG would have it. (And possibly Johnny.) So, I suppose one of us should build some industry on the border between the two cities - Elipolis and Vovanburg. I suppose since I have more money left, I could do this. But what do you think, Eli?

[John-SJ]

Hehe! Sorry about bringing these "old world" concepts such as binary mode to this forum. You see, I have been working with Unix->Windows ftp transfers for such a long time that I totally forgot that IE is capable of handling all of those details on its own.

I got it now though. Gee, IE ftp is so much easier than using the ftp from a dos prompt!

John-SJ

[John-SJ]

Originally posted by vovansim
Okay, we need to coordinate our efforts a little bit here. Thing is, two bedroom communities right next to each other (namely, mine, and Eli's) would not work very well, as there will then be lots of deman for industrial areas, and only ADG would have it. (And possibly Johnny.) ...

Hehe, everyone wants to avoid having industry in their city (NIMBY). Looks like ADG is going to have one dirty city!

John-SJ

[General Ludd]

Does anyone know the effects that seaports and airports have on inter-region development?

I assume that seaports would all you to exchange commercial and industrial produce with other cities while airports would allow residents to commute, as well as promote commerce and tourism.

I will be building a seaport as soon as possible.

[Adagio]

For those who were just downloading from me, you can now download again... my internet connection just failed...

Originally posted by John-SJ
Hehe, everyone wants to avoid having industry in their city (NIMBY). Looks like ADG is going to have one dirty city!

John-SJ

Trying to avoid it, if possible, but I had no other choice when starting, since I imported Vovanburg, before starting to play

[vovan]

I am not really sure about the effects, since I have yet to build a seaport or an airport, but I think you are very close to truth here, Osweld.

I was wondering, does anybody have the city, where Jonny is supposed to be? After I downloaded all the cities from the FTP, I accidentally put John-SJ's city in the place of Jonny's. Now, that I moved it to the right place, sure enough the original terrain setting is reverted to just flat plains. Which looks ugly. So, if somebody has that city intact, please attach it here, or upload it to the FTP.

[Adagio]

Btw, an update for the game has been released... but I wouldn't update just yet, I've read on the official board, there's lots of problems with it...

[Adagio]

Vovansim >> Couldn't you just open the his spot, and press the button to erase all evidence of mankind, and then reconcile edges? That way it doesn't look THAT ugly, and it doesn't interact with the gameplay...

Isn't the regions also placed on the cd? You could just try to find it there... good luck

[vovan]

Well, thing is, that his city is on the other side of the peninsula. So, if I just reconcile the edges, there appears now a lake in the middle of it.

And I cannot find it on the CD, since everything is in the .dat files... It is certainly playable for now, just doesn't look so good. I'll just either wait till Jonny plays his turn to put the city there, or whine more for somebody to post the city here.

[Adagio]

I can't find the city, since all city files are called City - New City (x) or semething like that... But it is on the city, I found it there (But only as region...)

I have sent Jonny a PM...