If you start next to an existing city, use the Reconcile Edges tool! This way your terrain will match up with their terrain. Also make the mayor name your name on the forum, so we know whose it is.Ĥ. Don't take too many of the small tiles either- try to share nicely! Save your game as soon as you've named your city so people know not to play on the same tile. Claim ONE large tile, or two medium tiles. If we really need to I can set Dropbox edit permissions so people can only save their own cities, but that's more work for me so I'd love to just keep it on the honor system.ģ. Remember that if two people try to make changes to the same city at the same time, the version belonging to whoever saves last is the only one that gets saved. You can look at them, but don't save when you exit. Also, we have a limited dropbox filesize.
SIMCITY 4 REGION MODS
Sometimes adding mods mid-game messes things up. These are the basic rules so we're not overwriting eachother's saves and stuff.ġ. However, I'd like you to follow some rules so things go smoothly, and I have some advice on playing as well.
SIMCITY 4 REGION FREE
The Discord now has a dedicated text channel for Simcity 4, so feel free to use it! There are links to my Steam account and the Bay 12 Discord in my signature. If you need help, contact me on Steam or Discord, which is a voice chat room I hang out in. Once you've done all that, you should be ready to play. "B:\Games\SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition\Apps\SimCity 4.exe" -CPUCount:2 -UserDir:"C:\Users\Sensei\Dropbox\SimCity\SimCityB12" -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32 -intro:off -EH:off When all is said and done, my launch target looks like this: Change 1920x1080 to whatever resolution you want. Remember they each need a space in between them. While you're at it though, you can add some other launch arguments.
SIMCITY 4 REGION DOWNLOAD
Don't run SimCity until Dropbox is done download the Plugins though. If you're using Steam, you're instead going to add that line as a Launch Option: Right click the game in your steam library, go to Properties, and then choose Launch Options, a button close to the bottom of the General tab in the Properties window.Ĭongratulations! Once you've done that, your Simcity will look for Plugins (mods) and save files in the folder I've set up in drop box. Of course, you're going to change the file location given so that it leads to your Dropbox folder, but leave everything after the word "dropbox" exactly in tact. UserDir:"C:\Users\YOURNAME\Dropbox\SimCity\SimCityB12" Move your cursor all the way to the right with the arrow keys, and then, outside the existing quotes, add a space and then the following line: Right click the shortcut, choose Properties, and select the box that says "target". If you installed a GOG/Disc copy, you're going to need to launch it from the shortcut. We're going to do this by adding an 'argument' when the game runs. Next you will need to configure SimCity 4 to use save files in your dropbox folder. This will take a little bit because I added some mods, which really inflate the filesize. Once you do this it will start downloading. Then, login to and accept it under the invitations tab. Then, read the rules I've set up to make this game work.įirst you'll have to tell me your Dropbox email so I can invite you to share the file. To get started, you'll need to get Dropbox, get Sim City 4 with the Rush Hour Expansion (or Deluxe Edition) and go through a few short steps to set it up. In addition, it will be fun to see everyone's creations come together to make one big, populated region. You can also interact more directly with the cities adjacent to you by sharing power, water, commuters, and garbage services. Cities in the region will affect the demand for jobs, workers, and goods in other cities. In other words, to build the biggest city possible, you have to build several cities, which I found dull doing on my own. For example, you need something like 30,000 middle-class commercial workers before you can have a middle-class commercial skyscraper. In fact, before your city can have the biggest and best skyscrapers, you must meet hidden quotas for workers for the entire region, which are basically impossible to reach with just one city. In Sim City 4, your city is part of a region, which can contain many cities, all player-made. It's an ad-hoc multiplayer that's effectively play-by-mail, only it mails every time you save. It's possible to sync all of these files by Dropbox while playing simultaneously. Quite simply, an in-game region of cities is composed of individual city files. I got the idea from an old post on sc4devotion forums, which is AFAIK the only time it's really been done. This a multiplayer region for us to play some Simcity 4.
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