SimCity4 RH MP Game, revisited

[Atragon]

*cackles maniacly*

Lucky number 7 here

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Unless someone's got a special region in mind, use one of the defaults to save on the downloading. I'm partial to the San Francisco region, but I'd be fine with any as long as all players have access to water.

Difficulty: Easy.

Years before upload: Sliding scale maybe? The first run ought to be longer since not all that much happens in the beginning.

Starting: Where are files going to be hosted?

[Atragon]

San Fran seems to have some nice possibilities

[Jonny]

I guess we could do San Fran, though we did use that one in the first Poly Simcity game. For the second one we used one that we downloaded.

In previous games, we've used 5 year intervals between turns, though that may be too short; consider increasing to 10 years?

Another thing to consider which I've seen done elsewhere is to establish connections between the cities before play starts, so that demand sharing can start immediately; that's something to consider.

I guess we should vote on difficulty level; I normally play on hard but would vote Medium for this in order to get things moving quickly.

[Atragon]

I suggest Medium at the hardest otherwise I will be a drain on your economies, a slum of the highest order... a veritable crime problem... that happens to provide most of the electricity for the region.

[mrmitchell]

I have SC4RH and would be interested in adding Mitchopolis to your squalid slums and ratty villages

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Looking at the last game's thread, 10 years sounds good, maybe 20 for the first round.

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by Smiley
No I think it means that we all play one city, but we download each others' at periodic intervals.

Yeah thats what i meant to say, we only play our own regions, but share each others before we each play our turns. Just came out wrong.

I dont mind what region we play really, but something other than San Francisco would be nice. Im not big on whats available, but something with a bit of everything.

Also preferably a real map to scale, and with just enough regions to players.

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Hmm. A couple years ago I made a map of the world for SimCity. It was a huge map, so it could be either resized or we could pick a particular part of the world to use.

[DaShi]

I may play. But only if Tass does.

[Adagio]

I'll have to pass for now, but maybe I'll join the game at some other point (if we still allow this?)

[Lemmy]

Will we use a pathfinding mod?
I find the default pathfinding horrible, it uses my streets as if they were avenues.
I downloaded one from Simtropolis, it had 2 varieties, better pathfinding and perfect pathfinding, better is easier on the CPU than perfect, but is already IMO a huge improvement over the default pathfinding.

I don't specific map i'd like to use, as long we're all connected by water and maybe roads/highways too at the beginning.
10yr interval sound good, but instead of longer intervals at the starts, maybe we should have one short interval first. The sooner we have populated neighbours the sooner we'll benefit from it.

As for dificulty, i've only played on Easy so far, wouldn't mind a challenge and play on Medium, but i don't think i'm ready for Hard yet

[Jonny]

Originally posted by Lemmy
Will we use a pathfinding mod?
I find the default pathfinding horrible, it uses my streets as if they were avenues.
I downloaded one from Simtropolis, it had 2 varieties, better pathfinding and perfect pathfinding, better is easier on the CPU than perfect, but is already IMO a huge improvement over the default pathfinding.

Yes, that would be good... personaly I use the Network Addon Mod which contains that improved pathfinding. My plugins folder is also full with a lot of custom buildings, and I'd imagine that others have other things.

Since we all need to have the same plugins for sharing cities without problems, I suggest that we assemble a plugins folder that we all agree on, and then we can use it for this game only - that is, switch our regular plugin folder with this one when we play the Apolyton region, and then switch back for regular play. That's the way I've seen it done elsewhere...

[Atragon]

Seeing as this will be the first real game of SimCity 4, I'm up for whatever, a short interval at the begining, perhaps 1 year, sounds like a good idea.

[mrmitchell]

Yeah, I have network addon mod too...

I think 20 years is too much. First interval, 15 years, after that, 5 years.

I don't think we should have preexisting connections, they limit our creativity