SimCity4 RH MP Game, revisited

[Jonny]

As for turnlength and difficulty...

It seems like the consensus is for the first turn to take 15 years, then 5 years afterwards.

As for difficulty level, the opinions are more scattered... if I were to suggest Medium as a compromise, would there be any objections?


And one more point to think about before you start: be wary of building on the edges of the map... because if player A places his power plant on the edge, but then his neighbor builds a highway connection in that spot, the power plant may be dissappearing. (Of course, everyone but Ludd has an open border they can use... he and his neighbors may have to make agreements beforehand to prevent any problems...)

[EPW]

I think we should use the hard difficulty.

[:) Smiley]

I agree, we've already got the souped up traffic system.

Jonny and Lemmy- I will most likely be building a railroad connection to each of you near where the water is.

[Maquiladora]

As long as we all set up at least one road connection to everyone at the beginning of our turn, we should have no problems.

Hard difficculty is fine by me too.

[Lemmy]

I think the first few turns should be 5 years as well so we can set up all the neighbouring connections before growing too big.

btw, here's a global planning for my lot:
Early industry will be placed on the northen piece of land (bordering Maq)
Rail connections should be placed as close to it as possible.

Road connections can be anywhere, i think i'll connect them right through the center, and use the traffic generated from it to boost my commercial desirability

[General Ludd]

I'm still unable to download the map.

[Lemmy]

Does this work?

http://lemmy.redial.net/simcity/taipei_sc4.zip

[General Ludd]

Yes. And I don't have to generate the map now.

[:) Smiley]

Ludd-

what kind of error do you get whentrying to connect to the website?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Smiley
Ludd-

what kind of error do you get whentrying to connect to the website?

Not found.


I have this problem with a number of websites, for some reason... even scotiabank.ca won't load for me. I have no idea why.




I mistakenly thought that the map was made up of large and normal sized cities. I didn't realise that 11 was miniature....

Oh well, I'll see what I can do with it.


EDIT: My only request is that people give me free reign over my borders - let me make all the road connections and do a bit of terraforming. The river that goes from 10 to 19 snakes through the corner of my land, and I leveled it because it created an oddity. You may have to shift it over a few tiles to keep it intact. I also smoothed out the border with the island in city 4. Aside from that, I didn't change anything else.

[Atragon]

Hmm, how do we reconcile these differences, I'm not quite sure I 'get' it, unless we are talking about waiting 15 game years and then going 'oh crap'...

[General Ludd]

The best way would be to upload blank slates of terrain modifcations first, and then agreeing where connections can be made later on. I didn't realize people wanted a longer first turn, though, or I would of uploaded my modified terrain before starting to build.

I don't think a longer first turn is neccisary - the quicker the cities start effecting one another the better. That makes the connections easier, too, since you don't need to push all the way to the border in the first five years.

[Jonny]

It looks like Hard and 5 years 1st turn now appear to be the best settings...

I've done the terraforming I want; no borders were changed.

[Atragon]

I need to get a copy of Ludd's changes so I can modify my northern border to fit.

I need this before I can start to build unfortunately, I have plans for that area.

[General Ludd]

I've already played my five years. I'll upload it in a bit.


You can import my city, reconcile borders, and then demolish my city before playing if you want to play the first five turns without a neighbour. (or maybe simply demolishing the road connection temporarily would have a similiar effect)


EDIT: You can download it here: http://s95005245.onlinehome.us/mergdale.rar


I didn't bother to take any screenshots or make any write-ups. Maybe I will in later turns.