SimCity RH Game #6

[Spaced Cowboy]

Cool I might take one, but my time is quite limited with civ4 multiplay games.

I'll wait and see if there be any left.

[Blake]

Plugins:
NAM: Do we want to use plain Better Pathfinding with default capacities? I'm happy with that but wouldn't mind using 2x Capacity.

For completeness sake I'll descibe how SC4 plugins work.

In Simcity when a building or anything really is placed all the *function* information is encoded into the save file, so when you place a station the game knows there's a station there and it's capacity and a bunch of other information. Even if you delete the station plugin the station will continue to function.
The *form* (apperance) is not encoded into the save, which means were someone else to load the city with the custom station, the city would function correctely but there would be blank tiles or the placeholder box where the custom station is, but it would be a purely visual problem.

Some plugins are *function* only, a good example is a hole digger, you dig the hole, and any Simcity4 installation will be okay with the hole, it's just a hole, it doesn't care how the hole was created. You can take these plugins in and out at a whim, if you wish to create something special.

Here are two pure-function mods that can be added to plugins and removed safely at will.
Smoother road and rail slope mod (get rid of "bumpy" rails and such)

Bridge Height mod (end the giant foundation madness!)

I will not be including them in the plugin pack, but feel free to use them to make your cities look nicer.

Hole Digging Lots
Make it way easier to dig holes for tunnels and stuff. Atleast some will be included in the pack.

This is a mod made by yours truly:
Station Pathfinding Fix
follow link and it has screenshots of what it does. I'll probably include it in the plugins pack, and will definitely use it myself (it's one of those "pure function" mods).

In the category of mods that add both form and function:
The Garbage Chute
I'll add this to the plugin pack. If anyone else has plugins they particullary like then we can consider including them, also there's no reason why additional plugins can't be added part way through, other than it might be confusing.

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Hmm, we got 4 with possibly a 5th player interested. Shall we start with the seventh or the 6th?

[Adagio]

I'll take plot one, but I doubt I'll get to the installing of the game before next week

[Maquiladora]

Ill start once the mod zip is up, im in no rush to continue if we're short though.

[Jonny]

I'll be in, and I'll take #3.

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I propose we use this mod as well: The Bomb Pack.

http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=14732

A month after this lot is built, it explodes and takes out several blocks!

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Plugin zip has been uploaded. Get it here:

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=8873_Plugins_apolyton.zip

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Map so far: Blake, I'm guessing you want #4 since it's the one with the crater.

[Maquiladora]

I have left-hand drive version of SC, do i need different/extra files with that zip Smiley?

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This one right here - just decompress it into the plugins folder with the rest of them.

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The Bathtub

Year 5

Large deposits of were discovered in the mountains, leading to much as the mountains were mined for the chewy yellow fruit.

Docks were built to ship the down the river and out to sea for export, while the thousands of peels were shoved off the side of the wharf for landfill.

Citizens are assured that this "soap scum" will not attract monkeys with typewriters or other undesirables, such as refugees from Ohnoes.

I'll upload the save file later once we figure out where we're going to to load them up to. Anyone know if Lemmy's site still works?

[Blake]

And the 60 milion dollar question is, what do I need with a giant terraformed crater ?

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Mmmm, too bad the river can't flow right through that rock in an underground tunnel.

Can't wait to see what devious plan is in store... are we going to see a reappearance of the Coin Wringer?

[Sava]

from the other thread:

Originally posted by Blake

The scrawled text serves to detract from the most important part, the ingenious COIN WRINGER. Sims return-commute doesn't count against commute time, hence they can be shuffled through DOzEns! of ToLL BOoths! And they don't even know they are being shafted! Bwa ha ha ha ha. And the most efficient way to do this is to loop them through avenues, so they pass through each toll booth twice! I'm so evil I should be lynched by an angry mob!

What do you get when you put a city of 52,000 sims through 24 toll booths? 50K a month

THAT IS AWESOME BLAKE

YOU ARE A GENIUS