[Centraal] Sim City 4 Rush Hour Plugin Topic

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The Messeturm in Basel is the highest building in Switzerland. It is located next to the Basel fairground. The height of the BAT is exaggerated a bit compared to the original building in order to get a realistic in-game look of the building. The roof junk is not the original, because the aerial photos of Basel show only the structural work of the building.

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This Year, Century of Flight (Wright Brothers at 1904) KLM 767-300ER KLM Royal Dutch airlines Enjoy! Thanks for kk0192,donit2,hong's,jalbutak,Aigo(<-Korean) And thunderman (Passerby) Made by Dutch Navy in S.Korea PLZ vote ..Plz.. NO PASS...

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Greystone Church originally came form the mind of DuskTrooper, who envisioned a large,
televangelist-style church with a lot of helpful functions behind it, such as

Health, Education, and Demand benefits for the surrounding city.

The Church fits onto a 6x6 lot - it takes up nearly the whole lot, we didn't add a lot of fluff
there. It provides health and education to 20,000 pious Sims. The lot costs §125,000 to
plop, and then §2/month for maintenance. What's that I hear - seperation of church and state?

Provides 15 CO§§ jobs, for the minister, his underlings, and the organ player. (The ushers
are volunteers.) It has a landmark effect of +65 over 64 tiles, as well as a park effect of +45
over 96 tiles.

Lastly, this will boost your EQ by 1000% and your HQ by 550%.
These numbers aren't as big as they seem...

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The Cologne Cathedral is the landmark on the city of cologne. Until 1889 the Cologne Cathedral was the highest building of the world with an height of 157 m.

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Tired of the small standard zoo?. Create your own size Zoo and Aquarium with this set. Create a hilly zoo and plop the different animals at different levels. Add parking and trail parks to extend your Zoo and Aquarium in any direction you want. Or use the single lots to create small zoos around your cities and regions. Your imagination is the limit.

The set is based in the Maxis Zoo and Citynut’s great Seaworld Aquarium. So there is only a additional dependancie to download ( If you don’t have it already). Find it here: Klik

have to specially thanks Citynut for allowing me to use his outstanding Seaworld models for this release !!!

The rest of dependacies are included.

The set includes 15 lots.

Zoo: Bear,Polar Bear,Monkey,Lion,Giraffe,Doe,Buck,Aviary,Zoo entrance

Aquarium: Dolphin,Shark,Whale,Mutitank,Main Building,Entrance

Read the included html file for detailed thecnical information and installation instructions.

Additional Information

See: http://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=66214

Done by Jeronij. July 2005

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This small museum houses significant, rare documents in the history of promiment NDEX architects like DuskTrooper, EBurress, and Oneil_1. See architectural treasures, kept in their massive computer database as GMAX files.

However, you cannot just walk in. This museum is kept under high security because of the value of the stored designs, and only a few are allowed to enter. However, those select few spread their new knowledge and benefit everybody!

Who knows? Perhaps one day the NDEX vault will open!
This lot functions similarly to the Major Art Museum already in-game. It has slightly reduced capacities. Let's see - it is medium wealth (§§), and comes on a 3x4 lot, with a small parking lot in the back. It costs §1500 to plop, and then §25/month. It provides in Park Effect, +70 over 26 tiles, and in Landmark Effect, +50 over 22 tiles. People like to live and work near such a prestigious museum.... :p Lastly, the lot will boost your local EQ by 50 points, so it appears in the Education Menu. Touchdown!
No dependencies.
Uses the usual NDEX query. Like every other plugin, you unzip the files into your
SimCity 4/Plugins folder.
BTW - nice job, Tragicomicus! I tweaked it a bit from your original version, but I think the changes turned out well. The building was very creative, and I had quite a bit of fun trying to devise a lot to fit around it!

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Trail Park Kit - White Version V1.0 04-2005

This is a set that will allow you to create your own trail parks. The set includes custom textures for all the lots, including diagonal pieces and new crosses and plazas to let you build a really big variety of shapes. They are compatible with the Diagonal Park fences, and if you use them together, you can break those linear and squared Parks. This version is supposed to be used in high wealth areas.
The lots
This set includes 12 pieces to maximize flexibility. Of course, you can use the ones you want. The more pieces you install, the more flexibility you will have. See the included readme file for detailed info on the lots.

The lots will appear under the miscellaneous transit menu.

The Dependencies
A full list of links is included in the .zip.Many small props are needed to give those textures some personality. You will need those prop packs and BATs to use the trail parks as seen in the pictures.A BIG THANKS and much credit from here to Pegasus, Simgoober and SWI21 who made the outstanding props used in this set.

You can avoid dependencies and make your own style using the Lot Editor and the textures included ( .dat file)

I hope you enjoy those lots !!!. You can see more of my creations here. You can see those lots in action in my City Journal Sculpting Columbia River.

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Trail Park Kit - Tarmac Version V1.0 04-2005

This is a set that will allow you to create your own trail parks. The set includes custom textures for all the lots, including diagonal pieces and new crosses and plazas to let you build a really big variety of shapes. They are compatible with the Diagonal Park fences, and if you use them together, you can break those linear and squared Parks. This version is supposed to be used in medium / low wealth areas.
The lots
This set includes 12 pieces to maximize flexibility. Of course, you can use the ones you want. The more pieces you install, the more flexibility you will have. See the included readme file for detailed info on the lots.

The lots will appear under the miscellaneous transit menu.

The Dependencies
A full list of links is included in the .zip.Many small props are needed to give those textures some personality. You will need those prop packs and BATs to use the trail parks as seen in the pictures.A BIG THANKS and much credit from here to Pegasus, Porkie, Simgoober and SWI21 who made the outstanding props used in this set.

You can avoid dependencies and make your own style using the Lot Editor and the textures included ( .dat file)

I hope you enjoy those lots !!!. You can see more of my creations here. You can see those lots in action in my City Journal Sculpting Columbia River.

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Kleine Mietshaeuser / Small Rented Flats

2 residential

models, houses typical for north european cities. In total 3 lots are

in the pack, each house around 100 R$ residents. For a change, the

blocks of flats are angled, just thought I'd try it out, and then

thought it looked kinda ok :-) Have fun with them...

Pack contains:
Bramfeld Haus (the white one) - 2 lots, 2x3 and 3x3 (zowwie - mit Anstellbalkone!)
Huttrop Haus (the other one) - 1 Lot, 3x3
3 screenshots

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Now you can extend your Streams with a more Urban look with this 'channelized' add-on for the PEG Stream Kit. Although technically an extension of the Stream Kit, these concrete lined channels evolved during development (feature creep) into their own, stand-alone mini-canal or channel system. They will merge seamlessly with the existing Streams but can also be used all by themselves. The new single tile wide Channels are a great way to have water flowing through your city without sacrificing a lot of real estate.

With the old and stained concrete look, they are grungy enough to look right at home in even the dirtiest industrial area. Yet, with the red tile wall caps, they have that old-world charm & Mediterranean styling that adds class to any residential or commercial area. Very flexible... with 2 styles of corners (square or round), a pedestrian bridge designed for use with the PEG Trail Park & Seasonal Trail Park, a roadway/network bridge and an extender lot to allow passage under elevated rail or highways, these channels can go almost anywhere. They are even mildly slope-tolerant and can traverse up/down smooth, modest slopes.

The kit also includes a Stream Transition lot for a seamless transition to & from the original Streams. Additional lots, including a waterfall and a lock, are being developed for the first add-on to the new style.

The individual lots retain a small taste of park & landmark benefits, however, their desirability values have been greatly reduced. They still provide a taste of the YIMBY, but they won't collectively blow out any caps. Their plop price has also been reduced significantly and maintenance averages $1 a lot/tile.

* These lots have been relocated to the Water Transportation Menu for ease of use.

** The straight, 3x straight and straight Utility lots are slope tolerant and will allow the channels to flow down (or up) modest slopes.

*** All the channel lots fully cover the tile(s) of the lot... so there is no concern about matching adjacent terrain.

** The Stream Channel Kit has no outside dependencies.

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These are 9 different types of retaining walls to spice up your city!
These lots make use of the following dependencies which you can find on the stex!
Just click on the link to download the packs which contains the needed dependencies...

Jeroni Fence.dat
Peg Base Textures.dat
BSC Miscellaneous Textures vol 1.dat
BSC Petronas Textures vol 1.dat
Cerulean Textures V101v5.dat
NDEX Base Texture Set 1.dat

plop cost: $ 5
demolision cost: $ 0
pollution: none
monthly cost: $ 0

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Noise barriers that you put alongside a polluting road and which reduce the air/noise pollution.

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These two High Street Shop buildings are built in a renovated modernist theme and come with 10 well known High Street Shops

Marks and Spencer
Virgin Megastore
Tesco Express
NEXT
Burger King
New Look
The Link
Subway
GAME
Caffe Nero

The ZIP Includes two CS££ Growables on 2x4 lots and two CS££ Ploppable RCI 2x4 lots (modded by Barbyw)

Special Thanks to Barbyw for the modding work and SC4_Meister for the Render Job.

Detailed Readme included.

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This is the 2nd HK Tower Pack. Unlike the 1st Pack this one has some Med Res Towers that are slightly more modern looking. Remember, both the HKTowerPack1 and this 2ndTowerPack buildings will not grow unless you zone dense 2x2 blocks.

I noticed during game play some towers like to grow more than others, to fix this I changed their Res Occupation values so that they were relatively closer to each other on an average. Hopefully this will cause them to grow a little more evenly.

(If anybody has some better ideas to a solution to this please PM me.)

So finally here's what you get. From the Day picture starting Left to Right

Tower Occupation
Saiwan Tower 1 1130 R$$
Saiwan Tower 3 1210 R$$
Saiwan Tower 2 950 R$$

Be sure to read the README included in the download, there is some extra info there you might want to look at. I call these the Saiwan Towers after looking at some photos of the Saiwan district in HK.

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Coming to your local CJ, San Portello is the fabulous Las Venturas. If any of you have noticed there are a poor amount of casinos around in the STEX, and Im here to change that! Second on my great list is the Neyorka Bay Hotel & Casino...
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Little Story:

The Neyorka Bay casino & Hotel originally founded itself in the spwaling metropolis of Santa Neyorka, the Casino itself was originally named the Viva Las Neyorka. However, after the thwarted attack of Hurricane Carl, the Casino was left in ruin, but the mayor of the city wasn't going to give up on it.

He set about rebuilding it! And in a few years, Neyorka Bay Hotel & Casino was reborn. And, in it's rebirth, it's sales quadrupoled, and quadrupoled again, until the hotel could stand sales no more. Thus, it went in search for another site, and there it finds itself in Las Ventura.

The hotel found in Las Ventura operatures venues around the clock ranging from Blaze: The Masked Avenger to the Jeronij & Family Stunt Performers, a spectacular show that's been known from San Portello to Columbia River. (Special thanks due for the bolded names).

However, the hotel is suffering the same problem now as it did in Neyorka. Can you help it by building it in your city???

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A diferent style of wall.

Contain corner and open area

1x1

I hope u like

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Wat's this for you ask? it is for my intersection lot a long time ago. Heres another prop street light. Hope this is useful to anybody

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The first of several add-ons for the new CSK Channel Stream Kit. This one is all about moving up and down the terrain and building your channels at different heights. For navigation, that means locks. For simple water flow... waterfalls.

The add-on contains 3 new lots for the CSK. Like all CSK lots, they have been conveniently placed in the Water Transportation Menu. The 3 new lots are:

1. Waterfall Lot - Virtually identical to the PEG Stream Kit waterfall except for the channel sections top & bottom and a new texture on the slope.

2. The Channel Lock - A 1x3 lot that is very similar to the waterfall except for the 2 stage lock in the middle. At different times in the day, the lock will be either filled or partially empty. Channel barges will also appear at the top and bottom of the lock during the day.

3. The Ocean Lock - Similar to the Lock, the lot is only 1x2 and is designed specifically for transitions to game default water. The lock is also a 2-stage model... and barges will appear at the top of the lock.

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This is the second add-on for the PEG CSK... which is probably why we named it, "Add-On 2". Marketing wanted to go with "CSK 2: The Empire Strikes Back" which does sound cool... but we finally settled for , "A Means to an End" because this pack is all about end pieces for the Channels.

The 5 new lots in this add-on will give you lots of flexibility in adding finished ends to your channels and adding smaller channels or short branches into almost any area. Three of the lots are specifically designed for adding channels in industrial areas and can provide that special "grunge" that no self-respecting industrial area can do without. All lots are 1x1 in size. The 5 new lots are:

1. Standard End Lot - A simple finished End lot with banks to match the other Channel lots. This lot has a very mild YIMBY effect that matches the other channel lots.

2. End Lot with Steps - Similar to the standard End lot, but with contoured steps leading to the water instead of sloped banks. This lot also has a very mild YIMBY effect.

3. Industrial End Lot with Docks - Similar to the standard End lot but with small docks on both sides. Random barges will appear at different times of the day. This lot is designed for industrial settings and has no effect on desirability... either way.

4. Industrial End Lot with Surrounding Dock - Similar to standard End lot but with docks on all three sides. Random barges will appear at different times of the day. This lot is designed for industrial settings and has no effect on desirability.

5. Straight Double-side Dock Section - Okay... its technically not an end section. But it goes well with the industrial End sections or for any straight stretch of channel where you want industrial docks. These can be plopped in-line to create docks as long as you want. Random barges will appear at different times of the day. This lot is designed for industrial settings and has no effect on desirability.

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This is the inevitable evolution of the Channel Stream Kit... a variable width Canal system. You can now mix & match your single tile width CSK Channels with channels & canals you create of any width. Like the CSK lots, the variable width CSK2 lots are styled to blend with all areas of your city and look great in both industrial and recreational zones.

These lots are very similar to the PEG Pond Kit lots and plop in the same manner. Their pricing and YIMBY effects have been reduced substantially, however they still retain the same slope handling abilities of the Ponds and Streams.

This is the 'starter pack'. Numerous add-ons are in development to expand the channel-canal system even further and provide a vast collection of waterway lots for your cities.

There are 7 basic lots in this initial release, which are:

* 1x & 3x Straight Channel Banks - Standard straight channel / canal bank sections.


* 1x & 2x2 Water Sections - Solid water sections that can be used to make your channels as wide as you want.


* 1x Outer Corner - Used to created smooth, finished corners Very flexible and can be used in a variety of ways to joins various lots together


* 1x Inner Corners (Squared & Rounded) - The standard corner sections in two styles; squared and rounded. Together, they can be used to create some uniquely shaped channels and basins.


* Transition Tee to the 1x CSK Channels - Similar to the Outer corner... but with corner sections on both sides. Designed specifically to merge the variable width CSK2 lots with the single-tile width CSK channels.

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We continue our Channel Stream Kit series with this latest add-on subtitled... Go With the Flow. This is a collection of 3 specialty waterfalls to add more variety & glitz to your channel systems while offering more options to allow them to flow down your city's terrain.

The Standard Spillway is very similar to the Stream Kit's original non-texture based waterfall and plops just like the CSK Lock & Waterfall lots. The Spillway is 3 tiles long and self adjusts to any height of slope within its range. As it is not texture-based, it will not stretch to cover extremely high slopes... but it does have a fairly adequate height range of approx. 32 meters.

The Ocean Spillway is a variation of the standard Spillway that can be used to run your channels into game water oceans or rivers. It is only 2 tiles long and plops just like the CSK Ocean Lock lot.

The Garden Waterfall is a unique variation designed to add a bit of eye-catching class to your cities. It has a particularly stunning effect when used where your canals descend into recreational & even commercial areas. Accordingly, it has an increased park & landmark effect equivalent to that of a large park & plaza. It is also night-lighted so your Sims can continue to enjoy it after the sun sets.

Unless your barge captains are adrenalin junkies, we would have to classify these waterfalls as non-navigatable. The spillway falls have warning signs and safety chains to stop channel traffic... and the garden falls could easily be classified as a Class 5 Whitewater adventure.

All 3 lots include a custom waterfall sound effect. They will appear in the Water Transportation Menu along with the other CSK lots. They also have plopping instructions included in the menu descriptions

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Our first add-on pack for the new CSK2 is aptly named as its all about Crossing Over... and getting to the other side. This add-on contains 6 new lots that parrot the Bridge and Extender lots used in the PEG Pond Kit.

The Bridge Lots consists of a left, right and center bridge facade to be used along both sides of a row(s) of blank tiles that cross over the channels. You can then run road, rail, avenues, etc... across those blank tiles and the channel will appear to flow under it..

The Extender Lots work in a similar fashion for use with elevated networks such as monorails or the elevated highways. The extender lots are actually only 1x1 in size, but they also have an offset rendered BAT model that extends to cover a 2nd adjacent tile. This adjacent tile, although covered with the BAT model, is actual blank and therefore networks can run across it.

All of the lots have almost no YIMBY benefit and cost only §1 a month to maintain, Plop costs are also very affordable at §10 - §20 each.

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VM Headquarters is one of my many abstract designs. It is very modern and geometric.

It is 210 meters high and has over 50 floors. It accomodates 4077 Co$$$ workers. I hope you'll enjoy this one.

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2 R$$ models, these buildings stand in the same street as my last BAT,

just a little further towards Landungsbrücke. As with the last model,

textures and fassade detailingare taken direct from photos I took of the buildings.


Zip contains:

2 R$$ buildings, each with 1x1, 1x2 and 1x3 lots. They house around 60 sims.

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Do you remember the good old SimCity 2000 era, where microwaves from space were used as sometimes hazardous, but reliable and clean power source in particular? Now, it has finally returned, the microwave power plant, which receives the beam from a satellite that collects the rays of the sun in earth's orbit. The capacity of this facility is equal to the hydrogen power plant, but the other values are the same as the ones from the solar power plant, which makes the microwave power plant an attractive power source, providing the sims with long-lasting, environment-friendly power. But be careful, when the beam misses the receiver, the next fire station shouldn't be too far away! Dependent on the selected difficulty level, the power plant will become available when certain requirements are met (look below for a list), i. e. you'll need the space port in "hard difficulty", since you'll also need a satellite in space that reflects the solar rays to earth first...

You can select the Power Plant version of this lot from the utilities - energy menu and plop it in your city. This BAT has the same statistics like the solar power plant, but far more output. It is a reward lot which has certain requirements, dependent on the difficulty level:

Easy difficulty: available right from the beginning

Medium difficulty: 10,000 residents, 500 high-tech jobs

Hard difficulty: 25,000 residents, 2,000 high-tech jobs, spaceport

Dependencies:

- no external dependencies -

Lot statistics:

Lot size: 6 x 6 tiles
Menu position: Utilities - Energy
Plop cost: § 125,000
Bulldoze cost: § 1,000
Monthly cost: § 10,000
Flammability: 100
Power produced: 50.000 MWh/month
Water consumption: 5 Gallons/month
Air pollution: 5 over 3 tiles
Water pollution: 5 over 3 tiles
Garbage pollution: 10 over 0 tiles

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This is the first set of lots in the BSC Raised Park series of lots.

This base set of lots contain centre pieces, walls and corners allowing you to build flexible raised parks. The lots (see readem) are modded to act as a combination of Flower Gardens and Plaza's, with the emphasis being on Landmark Effect (to boost commercial demand/growth). The lots will reduce some air pollution, but do use and pollute water.

These lots, and the ones in the associated Rasied Park sets, are based on some ideas I got from Japan. In Shinjuku there are some parks raised above street level. This has the effect of removing much of the traffic noise from the park areas. Connecting these parks to each other and nearby buildings are pedestrian bridges to keep the pedestrian traffic flowing. Finally the Tokyo Government Office building has some amazing stonework at its base emulating some of the magnificent Japanese castles. These were combined into a common set of lots contained in this (and associated) lots.

Full details can be found in the readme. Also see the Rasied Parks tread in the BSC Teamroom forum.

Thansk to sandrasim for the lot beautification and the entire BSC team for help with suggestions/feedback and testing.

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Pegasus Productions will be introducing an entirely new Mountain Theme for SimCity4. The new theme will include updated versions of all the old PEG mountain-related classics along with many new releases, including mountain-specific growable RES, COM and IND.

The contents of this archive are the primary dependency files for all the lots that will be released as part of this theme. Additional volumes will be added as required.

Please note that this theme pack is a replacement for the PEG Mountain Development Pack which should be deleted from your system. The contents of the old development pack are included in this new theme pack so your existing files that rely on it should not be affected.

Also note that once installed, the PEG Pine Trees throughout the game will be updated with an improved appearance. The update is automatic. There is no need to bulldoze and re-plop any lots at this time. No other changes to existing lots should be apparent at this time.

The conversion of the numerous PEG mountain-related lots & mods into a unified theme is an extensive process. Pieces of the theme will be released incrementally as they are completed. All efforts will be made to make the upgrade as easy as possible, but I won't lie to you, Folks... there's gonna be a whole lot of re-plopping' going on. Many of the upgrades and changes are extensive and include new textures, props, re-sized lots and even the removal of some existing lots. But the end result will be more lots, less menu icons, improved resource usage and a whole lot more flexibility.


** MAKE SURE TO DELETE THE ORIGINAL MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT KIT FOLDER & CONTENTS **

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This is a MTP compliant update to the PEG Random Pine Forest lots which provides a fast & flexible means of adding realistic woodlands to your cities and surrounding rural areas. The Random Pine Forests are ploppable lots, in 1x1 & 2x2 sizes, that blend together to form large, forests of custom pines trees. They are fully slope conforming and can be plopped almost anywhere. Their YIMBY effects have also been reduce substantially to avoid blowing out caps.

The new Pine Forests feature pine trees with an upgraded appearance and one new pine tree model. They feature the same pines trees used in the PEG God & Mayor mode Pine Tree Mods.

Two versions are included... one with transparent textures which allow the game's natural terrain to show through... and a textured version that uses the new MTP Forest Floor texture and blends well with other MTP lots. The two versions are included in separate files so after installation, you can remove either one if you do not intend to use that style.


UPDATING LOTS FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS

The transparent texture lots are not affected by this update. However, the textured versions will not show any ground texture changes until they are bulldozed and re-plopped. You can do this at any time... even after the files have been updated. The old version remains fully supported and functional so you can replace them at your leisure.

** The semi-transparent version of the previous version is no longer supported and should be deleted. However, it too remains functional if you prefer to continue using it.


** BE SURE TO REMOVE THE OLDER VERSION FILES WHEN UPGRADING **

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This is a MTP compliant update to the PEG Random Woods lots which provides a fast & flexible means of adding realistic woodlands to your cities and surrounding rural areas. The Random Woods are ploppable lots, in 1x1 & 2x2 sizes, that blend together to form large, wooded forests. They are fully slope conforming and can be plopped almost anywhere. Their YIMBY effects have also been reduce substantially to avoid blowing out caps.

Two versions are included... one with transparent textures which allow the game's natural terrain to show through... and a textured version that uses the new MTP Forest Floor texture and blends well with other MTP lots. The two versions are included in separate files so after installation, you can remove either one if you do not intend to use that style.


UPDATING LOTS FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS

The transparent texture lots are not affected by this update. However, the textured versions will not show any changes until they are bulldozed and re-plopped. You can do this at any time... even after the files have been updated. The old version remains fully supported and functional so you can replace them at you leisure.


** These lot were originally designed for seamless integration with the PEG Trail Parks and the PEG Stream Kit. Obviously, they can be used by themselves, singularly or in groups, anywhere in your cities where you need a little flourish of flora.


** BE SURE TO REMOVE THE OLDER VERSION FILES WHEN UPGRADING **

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This is a MTP compliant PATCH update to the PEG Seasonal Woods. It is NOT a complete update of the product and installation of the original/previous version is required. This patch will not affect the fairly large PEG_Seasonal-Tree-Pack_206b.dat file (476 KB) which contains the 18 original tree models and must not be removed.

Running this patch will install two new versions of the original files containing the lot data. The files...

PEG_Seasonal-Woods_207.dat and PEG_Seasonal-Woods-t_207.dat

...will be installed to the default installation path. The previous versions of those two files...

PEG_Seasonal-Woods_206a.dat and PEG_Seasonal-Woods-t_206a.dat

...must then be manually deleted.

This new version reduces the collective YIMBY effects of the lots in order to avoid blowing over any caps. It also replaces the previous two base and overlay textures with the new, single blended base texture used throughout the new PEG Mountain Theme. This will allow the Seasonal Woods lots to blend better with other MTP lots. Also, the reduction of the extra texture on lots used repeatedly, such as these, can have a notable reduction in game resource usage.

The textured versions of these lots will need to be re-plopped before the new texture will be visible. However, you can do this anytime you wish as the older version textures are still supported and will function and appear normally in the game. Previously plopped transparent version lots do not need to be re-plopped.


** BE SURE TO REMOVE THE OLDER VERSION FILES WHEN UPGRADING **

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As part of the MTP upgrade, the classic Pine Trails have been modified to be "tree-type indifferent". In other words, you can now use them with any trees types you choose. Based upon requests on the support site, the pine tree props have been removed and these new Mountain Trails are now more flexible than ever.

Other modifications include the use of the new blended MTP forest floor texturing along with a new & more subtle 'dirtier' dirt path. These are the same textures used in other MTP lots so they will all blend together quite well. Also, there has been an overall reduction in YIMBY effects to avoid blowing over caps... and the plop prices have been reduced accordingly. All other aspects of the lots remain the same and they still adapt to sloped terrain extremely well..

The lots already present in the game will update automatically for the most part. Only the pine tree props will remain on the lots until you re-plop them. As any trail lots currently in the game are most likely among pines forests, this should not be an issue.

This Trail Park pack contains these lots:

1. A 1x1 Straight section. (§10/§1)
* The standard straight piece.

2. A 3x1 straight section. (§15/§2)
* A 3x1 version of the standard straight piece.

3. A Corner section. (§20/§1)
* A standard 90 degree turn or corner section.

4. A Tee section. (§25/§1)
* A standard 'Tee' or 3-way intersection.

5. A 4-way section. (§30/§1)
* A standard 4-way intersection


** UPGRADING THE TRAILS **
The new Mountain Trails files will be installed in the Mountain Theme Pack Folder.
You must remove the old version files from the Pine Trails folder. If that folder
contains other lots as well, retain the folder until those lots are updated.
Otherwise, just delete the folder.

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Updated for the MTP, the Trail Head lot has been modified visually to include new trail textures and, of course, no trees. The Trail Head lot can now be used with all tree sets.

Based on typical trail heads found in many National parks, this lot can also be used as a rural roadside rest stop and picnic area. The lot is modestly slope tolerant but will look best on level terrain. The entrance to the parking area is transit enabled and should be connected using streets.

** UPGRADING THE TRAIL HEAD **
The new Mountain Trail Head files will be installed in the Mountain Theme Pack Folder.
You must remove the old version files that are contained in the Pine TrailsTrail Head folder.

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** This is a MTP update to the original lot. Like the new Mountain Trails, it can now be used with any tree set.

Created by request, the original Pine Trail Railroad Crossing was a simple, 1x1 lot that visually extends the Pine Trails over railroad tracks. In effect, it is no more than a single tile lot that is transit enabled for both freight & passenger rail.

However, with the game's default "dirt" underlying the rail road tracks everywhere in the game, there was no way to get this lot to look quite right. Thus spawned a collective effort at the support site for a means to improve the appearance of the railroad tracks.

The result of that collective effort, is the SWAMPER-PEG No Rail Dirt Mod, which was initially released on the STEX along with Swamper77's OneWay Railroad Crossings Mod ... and is also included in this archive. As is pictured above, the No Rail Dirt Mod eliminates the dirt texture under the railway tracks... which doesn't look bad on straight sections, but looked like chunky Hell on diagonal sections and turns and turnouts.

The side effect to this mod is that is also removes the underlying dirt that appears on streets adjacent to farm and landfill zones. On those tiles, between the road and the sidewalk, the true underlying terrain (usually grass) is visible instead of the dirt. Its barely noticeable and not objectionable in appearance, but a side effect none-the-less.

** UPGRADING THE RAIL CROSSING **
The new Mountain Trail Rail Crossing files will be installed in the Mountain Theme Pack Folder.
You must remove the old version files that are contained in the Pine TrailsRailroad Crossing folder.

** The SWAMPER-PEG No Rail Dirt Mod (included) is also recommended but not required.

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New... for the PEG Mountain Trails... this Recreation Pack adds seven new Mountain Trail lots to your off-road toy box. Included is almost everything you would need to create you very own, custom camp grounds. This pack is loaded with many new custom props that will breathe new life into those old dusty trails. Many props shuffle and change to create an active camp ground look while still maintaining that peaceful, easy feeling.

The seven new lots are:

1. Mountain Trail Tunnel Lot.
By request... this 1x1 lot allows you to visually extend your trails through mountains. Can also be used as a small mine.

2. Mountain Trail Corner Picnic Area.
A 1x1 variation of the standard corner section. The dirt area on this one has been widened to make room for a couple of wooden picnic tables.

3. Mountain Trail Ranger Station.
We re-used the game's Ranger Station prop on this 2x2 lot because... well, because is doesn't suck. With integrated Mountain Trails, this lot looks great as part of a larger camp ground or just about anywhere along the trail.

4. Mountain Trail Camp Site.
A 1x1 individual camp site lot that plugs in to any trail piece. Used with Tees and 4-ways, you can easily create large camp grounds of almost any design. Each lot displays random tents that are packed up each day as the campers head on down the trail. New tents appear as new campers hike in for the night. And, of course, each camp site has a toasty camp fire each night for cooking up those tasty Smores. Anymore know the second verse to 'Kumbaya'?

5. Mountain Trail Recreation Area.
A common fixture at larger campsites, this 2x3 Recreation Area features a large above-ground pool, BBQ pits and plenty of space and toys to keep the kiddies busy. With a large patio area and covered tables, this would be the main focal point and social spot of most camp grounds.

6. Mountain Trail General Store & Trading Post
Many large camp grounds have one... in one form or another. Many also serve as the official headquarters or office for the camp ground. Loaded with the usual over-priced groceries, beer, bug spray, beer, camping supplies, bait & beer... many also have a small grill area and serve food to campers who's idea of "roughing it" means 'no cable'.

7. Roadside General Store & Trading Post (w/ Jobs)
A variation of the Pine Trail store, this one is designed to plop along your road network. Transit enabled and offering jobs, it also includes Mountain Trails and works well as an entrance to a campground or as a trail head.

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Kumbaya, My Friends... Kumbaya!! The translation of this Gullah word was made famous by the popular campfire song, and means "come by here". And that is certainly the message that campgrounds want to get out to campers on the trail.

No self-respecting campground is with out the classic fire circle/amphitheater where the campers gather at night to hear tales from the rangers of local folklore and the history of the surrounding area. A raging fire, a good show by the rangers and plenty of group sing-along songs before hiking back to the campsite and bedding down for the night.

The Campfire Circle / Amphitheater lot is designed for use with the PEG Mountain Trails and fits right in with the other campground lots included in the Mountain Trail Recreation Pack. It features a dual-model amphitheater prop that is largely empty by day. But when the sun sets, the amphitheater fills up with campers, the fire is lit, and the fire glow sets the mood for the often haunting, but always fun & humorous show put on by the rangers.

* The lot also contains a custom audio track. If you listen carefully, you can hear the crickets and occasional owls hooting in the distance.

Like the other Mountain Trail campground lots, the Fire Circle has minor YIMBY effects... somewhat less than a small park. Its very affordable to maintain and quite cheap to build. "Someone's Plopping, Lord... Kumbaya...".

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This mod will give the roads a more European look by changing the yellow double-line into a single white dashed line, as it is common throughout Europe. Every road texture, such as straight and curved pieces, crossroads and intersections, bridges and tunnels etc. were changed, as well as the textures from all new Network Addon Mod additions (roundabouts, overpasses, puzzle pieces,...). It also contains a file that will change the doubled one-way road arrows to single arrows, so the one-way road roundabout from the NAM looks much nicer.

Note: This mod completely replaces the Euro Road Textures Mod by Thorvin and all previous beta versions by frimi2, so please delete them first before installing this mod! This download comes with an EXE installer, a link to the ZIP version can be found in this posting.

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The Cobb Emerald Park Building:
A high wealth residential tower housing 1708 sims. The Cobb Emerald Park is a luxury apartment building with an artistic tower at its apex, designed to provide an attractive addition to your skyline. The building is illuminated with an emerald-themed green and blue night-lighting scheme. Sims who live in the Cobb Emerald Park building have access to several outdoor and indoor parks, a swimming pool, a large recreational area in the lobby, and an elevator-accessible observation level above the Sky Park. There is also a ploppable landmark version included.

Thanks go to KD5RAX for modeling the trees, n74704 and KD for providing textures, and GOLDIVA for providing multi-colored lighting capabilities. I also received numerous helpful suggestions during its creation from contributors in the BAT open discussion forum.

Installation instructions:
1) Unzip all the included files (.SC4Desc, .SC4LOT, and .SC4Model) to your Simcity plugin folder under the "My Documents" path.
2) In SimCity4 RushHour, zone an area of 4x3 high-density residential
3) Just play!

I hope that you enjoy the Cobb Emerald Park Building! --COBB

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A modern passenger station designed for use in a downtown setting. It has two tracks off the rear, 3 tiles back from the road, so it can be used in the middle of a commercial district. It also features a working clock on the tower, which keeps track of the in game time, and your train on schedule.


Lot Details and Information

Building: Transportation

Lot size: 6 x 5 tiles
Lot Wealth : Medium Wealth
Jobs: Civic $ : 50, $$ : 30, $$$ : 10
Plop cost : § 5,875
Bulldoze cost: § 600
Monthly cost: § 10
Passenger Capacity: 20,000
Cap Relief : None
Max. Fire Stage: 3
Flammability: 37 of 256
Occupany Groups: Building: Transportation,Building: Rail,Building: Strikable Transit,Building: Taxi_Maker,Building: PassengerRail,BTE : SimGoober Mass Transit,BTE : SimGoober Creation,BTE : Transit - Passener Rail
Power consumption: 37 MWh/month
Water consumption: 25 Gallons/month
Air pollution: 6 over 4 tiles
Water pollution: 3 over 4 tiles
Garbage pollution: 12 over 0 tiles

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Another modern passenger station designed for use in a downtown setting. It has two tracks off the rear, 3 tiles back from the road, so it can be used in the middle of a commercial district.

Lot Details and Information

Building: Transportation

Lot size: 4 x 5 tiles
Lot Wealth : Medium Wealth
Jobs: Civic $ : 50, $$ : 30, $$$ : 10
Plop cost : § 5,875
Bulldoze cost: § 600
Monthly cost: § 10
Passenger Capacity: 20,000
Cap Relief : None
Max. Fire Stage: 3
Flammability: 37 of 256
Occupany Groups: Building: Transportation,Building: Rail,Building: Strikable Transit,Building: Taxi_Maker,Building: PassengerRail,BTE : SimGoober Mass Transit,BTE : SimGoober Creation,BTE : Transit - Passener Rail
Power consumption: 37 MWh/month
Water consumption: 25 Gallons/month
Air pollution: 6 over 4 tiles
Water pollution: 3 over 4 tiles
Garbage pollution: 12 over 0 tiles

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A modern passenger station designed for use in a downtown setting. I has two tracks off the rear, 3 tiles back from the road, so it can be used in the middle of a commercial district.

Lot Details and Information

Building: Transportation

Lot size: 5 x 5 tiles
Lot Wealth : Medium Wealth
Jobs: Civic $ : 50, $$ : 30, $$$ : 10
Plop cost : § 5,875
Bulldoze cost: § 600
Monthly cost: § 10
Passenger Capacity: 20,000
Cap Relief : None
Max. Fire Stage: 3
Flammability: 37 of 256
Occupany Groups: Building: Transportation,Building: Rail,Building: Strikable Transit,Building: Taxi_Maker,Building: PassengerRail,BTE : SimGoober Mass Transit,BTE : SimGoober Creation,BTE : Transit - Passener Rail
Power consumption: 37 MWh/month
Water consumption: 25 Gallons/month
Air pollution: 6 over 4 tiles
Water pollution: 3 over 4 tiles
Garbage pollution: 12 over 0 tiles

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A larger hospital to help service your more populated cities. Brought to you by GooberGen Labs, where life is better with a little bit of genetic alteration...

Lot Details and Information

Building: Civic

Lot size: 6 x 4 tiles
Lot Wealth : Medium Wealth
Jobs: Civic $ : 50, $$ : 75, $$$ : 35
Plop cost : § 25,000
Bulldoze cost: § 3,500
Monthly cost: § 1,850
Capacity : 7500
Coverage Radius: 950
Max. Fire Stage: 4
Flammability: 36 of 256
Occupany Groups: Building: Civic,Building: Health,Building: Strikable Health,Building: AmbulanceMaker,Building: Hospital,Building: LargeHealth,BTE : Health,BTE : SimGoober Creation
Power consumption: 63 MWh/month
Water consumption: 175 Gallons/month
Air pollution: 2 over 3 tiles
Water pollution: 2 over 4 tiles
Garbage pollution: 21 over 0 tiles

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A set of three public pools, to help develop the neighborhoods of your cities. All three have duplicate settings, and are open in day, closed at night. These also will count toward a soon to be released reward lot, so be sure to place a few in your cities now!

Lot Details and Information

Menu : Parks

Lot size: 3 x 4, 4 x 4 & 5 x 4 tiles
Lot Wealth : Medium Wealth
Jobs: Civic $ : 12, $$ : 5
Plop cost : § 5,000
Bulldoze cost: § 600
Monthly cost: § 25
Park effect: 20 over 30 tiles
Landmark effect: 10 over 40 tiles
Mayor Rating Effect : None
Cap Relief : R-$ : 500,R-$$ : 500,R-$$$ : 500
Max. Fire Stage: 0
Flammability: 0 of 256
Occupany Groups: BTE : Parks,BTE : SimGoober Creation,BTE : SG Swimming Pools,Building: Park
Power consumption: 0 MWh/month
Water consumption: 5 Gallons/month
Air pollution: -5 over 5 tiles
Water pollution: -5 over 5 tiles
Garbage pollution: 0 over 0 tiles

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The Sim Swim Arena is now available for your Sims, to enhance their lives. It features an olympic sized competition pool (to scale!), as well as a diving pool. It is open air, and has meets twice a game year, complete with fans in the stands!

Larger Pictures can be seen in my BAT thread

This is a reward lot, which has requirements listed below which must be met before it is available.

Lot Details and Information

Building: Reward

Lot size: 8 x 5 tiles
Requirements R$$ Sims > 30,000
Public Pools : 3 or more
Jobs: None
Plop cost : § 28,750
Bulldoze cost: § 5,000
Monthly cost: § 225
Park effect: 30 over 60 tiles
Landmark effect: None
Mayor Rating Effect : 10 over 256 tiles
Cap Relief : R-$$ : 2, 500, R-$$$ : 5,000
Max. Fire Stage: 3
Flammability: 35 of 256
Occupany Groups: Building: Reward,BTE : Civic,BTE : BSC Landmark,BTE : SimGoober Creation,BTE : SG Swimming Pools
Power consumption: 60 MWh/month
Water consumption: 150 Gallons/month
Air pollution: 4 over 5 tiles
Water pollution: 4 over 5 tiles
Garbage pollution: 15 over 0 tiles

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By request of some members of SimTropolis, The engineers as GooberGen have altered the plans of the Sim Swim Arena to accomodate a Hockey Rink! The roof is now enclosed to keep the sun off the ice, and minor enhancements made to the outer decor. Once you have 35,000 R§ Sims in your city, you will have this available in your Rewards Menu.

Lot Details and Information

Building: Reward

Lot size: 8 x 5 tiles
Plop cost : § 28,650
Bulldoze cost: § 5,000
Monthly cost: § 200
Park effect: 30 over 60 tiles
Landmark effect: None
Mayor Rating Effect : 10 over 256 tiles
Cap Relief : R-$$ : 2500,R-$$$ : 5000
Max. Fire Stage: 3
Flammability: 35 of 256
Occupany Groups: Building: Reward,BTE : Civic,BTE : BSC Landmark,BTE : SimGoober Creation,BTE : SimGoober Entertainment
Power consumption: 60 MWh/month
Water consumption: 150 Gallons/month
Air pollution: 4 over 5 tiles
Water pollution: 4 over 5 tiles
Garbage pollution: 15 over 0 tiles

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A couple months ago I started playing with more transit lots. I had the Bus Stop set which I like and use a lot, and wanted more choices in Subways. I made this small set of 3 variations to function as more Urban and higher capacity than the standard maxis ones. I also added a counter to it, so the query tells you how many you have in your city. The Maxis ones cannot be counted...

Lot Details and Information

Building: Transportation

Lot size: 1 x 2 tiles
Lot Wealth : Medium Wealth
Jobs: Civic $ : 2
Plop cost : § 750
Bulldoze cost: § 150
Monthly cost: § 40
Capacity: 5,000
Max. Fire Stage: 2
Flammability: 33 of 256
Occupany Groups: Building: Transportation,Building: Subway,Building: MiscTransit,Building: Strikable Transit,BTE : SimGoober Creation,BTE : SimGoober Mass Transit
Power consumption: 3 MWh/month
Water consumption: 5 Gallons/month
Air pollution: 1 over 1 tiles
Water pollution: 1 over 1 tiles
Garbage pollution: 2 over 0 tiles