New Simcity 4 RH game

[Kassiopeia]

Could someone explain to me how I dig monorail tunnels? You use hole diggers, yes, but when I try to, I can't get it to work.

[Jonny]

If the hole diggers aren't working, that probably means the land you're doing it on is too close to water level.

[Kassiopeia]

Yep, I tried it higher up the slope and it worked. Oh my, I'll have to rethink my whole monorail system a bit over since I'll need to demolish a lot of stuff for it to get by... maybe "appropriate" roads...

Edit: Gah, I tried, but when I realised you can't make sharp turns, I decided to give up on anything extensive. It's just too damn expensive and space consuming. I'll probably make a connection through the city with a few stops, but I would need to reshape the entire city to integrate it into the transportation system and I don't have that kind of money yet.

The middle classes use subways yes?

[Blake]

All sims will take busses (and busses don't cause or suffer from congestion! - the bus stops do max out though). I actually think that sims of all wealth will take any of the transit options. Look at my city, large parts of it are completely carless and the sims are forced to use busses, rail and monorail, wait? Did I say forced? They are very happy to take the busses rail and monorail =).

Linked transport systems work really well, build bus stops at all stations, build adjacant stations when monorail/rail/subway cross, the transfers in SC4 are very quick and painless, one of the limitations of the simulator is that the concept of "waiting for the next bus/train" doesn't exist and sims just transfer over, get on thier own personal bus/train waiting for them and carry on at the speed of that type of transit to exactly where they want to go. It's all very convenient.

Rail is really cheap and can achieve somewhat tighter curves than monorail and the sims like riding it just as much (or even more) so you might consider a rail system. El Rail is the same as Monorail (can't achieve the tighter curves of rail) but you can use the "ground light rail" and do 90 degree turns as well as linking into the subway. Monorail is nice because the tracks don't suffer from congestion (the stations do though) but that's only really a useful feature for the main trunklines.

edit: I might actually try and work a ground light rail / el rail system into my city. May as well include some subway stops too heheh.

[EPW]

If no one minds, I'm going to take the Mountain Lot next to Kenshi River City.

[Kassiopeia]

The big ocean, is anyone building on it? Is it a nono to give a person two medium sized lots, or could I build something on it? An artifical island maybe, this being Japan. I could develop the remaining third of that small Pipelines island as well.

[Japher]

Are you guys just using SC4 or do you have any upgrades, transportation package, etc...?

[snoopy369]

We're using Sim City 4: Rush Hour, and a few minor mods (look way up for I think a Jonny post that has the full ZIP of the minor mods) - network mod, transportation mod, something else I think:

The Link to the Mods

[snoopy369]

I'm playing my turn now. Had played about half of it, then my A/C caused my circuit breaker to trip (but then auto-reset) ... which somehow kylled my computer even though I have a (normally functional) UPS. I blame groundhogs of germanic descent ... (that's an inside joke btw not an ethnic thing)

So I try again.

[snoopy369]

Okay.

http://www.geocities.com/snoopy369/index.html

Updated there, went a few months in because i'm a moron.

Tried to do the Urban Renewal thing and dump my heavy industry for hi-tech. Would have worked, but I needed to wait until I had built up some more money

So I ended the last 2 years on hi-hi-hi-high taxes and low-low-low-utility type things (trying to keep everything adequate, but barely). Also had to do a few neighbor deals with EPW and Ohnoes, feel free to cancel them of course on your end

Good news is i'm fine once my loans go away. My $400k or something of loans

[snoopy369]

1/1/25 also put up, since we're at the point of doing that five years.

I'm back in the (almost) blue again! Most of my loans are gone, and the only reason i'm back in 'red' again is I lowered taxes and whatnot (on 12/15/24) and increased services back to normal. Next time up I'm fixing up some more of my problems

[Jonny]

Snoopy: your website has exceeded its bandwith capacity.

[EPW]

Olympus 2020

http://home.comcast.net/~epwood1/City-Olympus.zip

[Maquiladora]

I like it.

[:) Smiley]

Elmwood 2025: Business As Usual

Not all that much happened in Elmwood these five years, as funds took an unexpected drop when transit ridership plunged due to new regional commuting patterns.

Downtown Foodvale/Thousand Elms has seen considerable office development in the meantime.

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Slag Mountain also updated to smooth the abrupt edge with fully urbanized Kenshi River City, this city is also in the attached zip

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=8873_Elmwood_2025.rar