FP SimCity 4 Collab v.3 Now with 100% less Dropbox! - Games

[h2]Regional Bulletin[/h2] [highlight]The collab is completely dead but it might come back soon so stay tuned[/highlight] [img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/FPOP/sc4collabPIC5.png[/img] [h2]Introduction[/h2] Yes, it is true! We're doing it again! With only one more month until the new SimCity is going to arrive, I (and some other people) decided that it's time for another Sim City collaboration. I have headed up the creation of a brand new region, partially pregenerated and partially oceanic. Between the mainland and the Great Sea of Piss, you will once again be able to create the greatest city you can and have it forever prosper among similar creations, and also islands shaped like penises. That is, of course, until your city corrupts and you lose your work forever, as will come inevitably. But enough about that, let's get into the meat and bones of this. [h2]Important Stuff[/h2] [del]- We are no longer using Dropbox. We are now using Google Drive. This is mostly due to the fact that Google Drive gives us 5GB as opposed to 2GB on Dropbox.[/del] I'm sorry, we're using Dropbox again due to technical difficulties, I'm so sorry for the inconvenience. - PM me with your email for invites - [b][url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/facepunchsc4collab]We have a steam group now so click here and be one of us[/b][/url] - This region is all large cities this time around! - [u][highlight]KEEP A LOCAL COPY OF YOUR CITIES AT ALL TIMES[/highlight][/u] [h2]Getting it to Work[/h2] You [b]WILL[/b] need: A) A working copy of [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/24780/]SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition[/url] B) [url=http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html]A symbolic link creation program like this one[/url] C) Dropbox; be sure to install the client Here's a How-to that I shamelessly ripped off from the past two OPs. Credit to Binladen34, etc. [quote]Step 1) Right Click on "Facepunchiav3" in the folder marked "Facepunch SimCity Collab v3" in the Dropbox folder. Step 2) Click on "Pick Link Source" Step 3) Navigate to your Sim City Regions folder in My Documents and right click it. (If that doesn't work right click inside it) Step 5) Go to the menu marked Drop As, then inside that menu, click Symbolic Link. Step 6) Wait for a shortcut to be placed, if shortcut has anything besides "Facepunchiav3" in the name, shorten it until it is just "Facepunchiav3". Step 7) Copy or delete your plugins folder from your SimCity 4 folder (depending on whether or not you want to keep your personal mods), then repeat the last few steps with the plugin folder in the Dropbox folder (be sure to drop the link in the SimCity 4 folder, not the region one!). Step 8) Launch up Sim City 4, load the region, and don't enter other people's cities without permission. Limit to one person per city per time OR THERE WILL BE CORRUPTION!.[/quote] [h2]Rules:[/h2] [highlight]READ THESE[/highlight] 1. Don't edit anyone else's city unless they give you permission to do so. 2. Try not to settle adjacent to too many cities. This is because SimCity likes to save not only your city but the cities right next to it, which can cause corruption if two players are playing two different cities side by side. 3. After founding your city, save the game and restart the game. This is so we can cut down on people taking the same city at the same time. If your city is still there after you reload it, it should be ok. 4. No mods other than the ones provided. [u]This includes any mods that increase demand artificially as this is known for screwing up the demand/RCI tables beyond comprehension[/u]. However, feel free to link any mods you would want to throw in, and I'll provide them. 5. Cheats that do not mess with demand/RCI are allowed. No "extra cheats" mods, however, if those even exist. 6. Do not fiddle with the region configuration file unless I say it's ok. 7. Do not make any huge landscape changes to any of the pregenerated pieces of land (e.g. flattening a mountain). If you're on a completely flat piece of land, or if there's an ocean nearby, feel free to completely mess with that to your heart's content. 8. Keep backup copies of your cities so it's less of a pain in the ass to recover. 9. No importing cities. Importing uninhabited landscapes and things are permitted so long as you don't completely screw up and take out half the region somehow. [h2]Tutorials[/h2] Not all of us are master SimCity players, so here's some tutorials for those that are new/suck huge monkey balls: [b]Oldshoes' TruFax Tutorial Series[/b] [url=http://oldshoes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/trufaxpart01.jpg]Part 1[/url] [url=http://oldshoes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/trufaxpart02.jpg]Part 2[/url] [url=http://oldshoes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/trufaxpart03.jpg]Part 3[/url] [url=http://oldshoes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/trufaxpart04.jpg]Part 4[/url] [url=http://oldshoes.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/trufaxpart05.jpg]Part 5[/url] Courtesy of Oldshoes.ca [b]Fhex's Guide to Starting Out[/b] [quote]1. Start with the bare essentials: Residential zones, commercial or industrial zones, some type of road connecting them all together (which one is really not that big of a deal right now, since the maintenance costs for roads are negligibly low when you first start out), a power source, and a water source (Recommended, but not required; you'll see why later). Be sure all the zones are high-density! 2. Go to the power source and the water source and lower the little bar on the top that controls the funding the building receives. This is crucial. Basically, by downing this, you better suit the building to your city's needs, rather than having a gigantic power plant or water pump that makes waste. Keep it on the lower thresholds for now and increase it as the city requires power. 3. Press the play button. You'll notice that sims will start building their shit all over without any sort of school, police station, fire station, etc. 4. As the population plateaus, build schools, police stations, fire stations, etc, one by one. Be sure to increase or decrease the funding thresholds as necessary to fit to your city. Congratulations! You've made a city that probably is making a profit! If you want to know how long you can usually do this for, one of my last cities actually got up to a population of 40,000 without building anything other than the "bare essentials." [/quote] [h2]FAQ[/h2] These are stolen from my last OP, I'll edit them a little bit later. All credit to that horrible Fhenexx person, etc. [quote] [b]Q: My city keeps turning into a flat plain/ocean.[/b] [i]A: That's not actually a question. Regardless, [i]if it turned to plain,[/i]basically SC4's way of saying your city got corrupted, so there's really nothing you can do [i]unless[/i] you have a locally-backed up copy of the city on-hand. In that case, you can just plop that one in and overwrite the old one, and (in theory) it should help you recover. You can also look for other revisions of the city that Dropbox has saved and try restoring those. Flat ocean can also connote this, but there are other possibilities. See below.[/i] [b]Q: I just did that and some asshole took my spot! What do I do?[/b] [i]A: First off, shoot me off a PM and some evidence that the guy took your spot (a screenshot of your city from region view should do, which might not be necessary since I'll be taking screenshots every time I remember). Wait for my response. If I say yes, you can go ahead and bulldoze his city off the map and throw your backup there. If the guy comes back, I'll ban him and he can appeal in the thread.[/i] [b]Q: Is there a city limit per person?[/b] [i]A: No, although I'd like it if you don't completely hog up all the room on the pregenerated areas.[/i] [b]Q: According to Dropbox, people keep deleting my city! Are they griefing me?[/b] [i]A: Not necessarily. It would seem that, for some reason, that sometimes peoples' maps are incompatible with each other and some cities are replaced with older or corrupted versions. Now, I'm not 100% certain, but if you have a backup, you might be able to do something about it. First, notify me that you're doing it just in case something is going wrong. Secondly, delete whatever city tile is in place of the city you're building (you can do this straight from SC4 and get the same effect, I believe). Then, load another map, alt-tab, and put your backup back in the region folder. Reload the map, and theoretically it should come back. However, this is not a completely tested solution as of yet, and I'm not 100% sure if it always works, so don't go around deleting tiles because of it.[/i] [b]Q: Sometimes random tiles turn to flat ocean. Is that a conflict?[/b] [i]A: Once again, not necessarily. I've noticed that the map sometimes glitches out and places city tiles in wrong places, "deletes" others, etc. However, this is temporary and should dissipate if you load one map and load our map again. It can also be caused by the fact that you may not have completely downloaded/synced with the folder yet and some of the cities are still downloading[/i] [b]Q: Why is my demand all screwy?[/b] [i]A: Goddammit! Not again... I'm not sure if this is something that happens naturally or if some kid is trying to use one of those demand mods I told everyone not to use. At any rate, try severing your connections to your neighbors one by one until the problem ceases to exist. Chances are you'll probably have to sever [u]all[/u] your ties to completely escape it, which is sad but the only way to truly fix it.[/i] [b]Q: I have a friend(s) that's [i]not[/i] from FP that wants to join. Can he or she?[/b] [i]A: Of course.[/i] [b]Q: Why are there cities with numbers?[/b] [i]A: Those were just so I can easily import parts of other regions or replace corrupted areas easily. The city is free game, so you can place your city there if you want.[/i] [b]Q: Is there any room left for my city?[/b] [i]A: YES.[/i] [b]Q: I suck at Sim City and I can't build a city worth shit. Can I still join?[/b] [i]A: YES.[/i] [/quote] [b]More questions and responses coming up as soon as I want to make them come up![/b] [h2]Screenshot Album[/h2] I've been collecting screenshots of the collab for a day or two, so I've compiled them into a gallery of screenshots. If you think something is screenshot worthy, don't hesitate to tell me so I can add more! New screenshots are img_thumb'd, while older ones just use the url. [img_thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabcentral/collabfotos2/Cyba-Feb.%2019%2C%201181360700451.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabcentral/collabfotos2/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1360700337.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabcentral/collabfotos2/Cyba-Feb.%2022%2C%201181360700469.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabcentral/collabfotos2/glorious%20candia-Feb.%207%2C%20031360700205.png[/img_thumb] [img_thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabcentral/collabfotos2/Cyba-Mar.%209%2C%201181360700536.png[/img_thumb] [quote][url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/Little%20River-Dec.%209%2C%20441360025891.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/Little%20River-Dec.%2014%2C%20441360025921.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/Mountington%20-%20Commercial%20Basin-Jul.%204%2C%201631360025748.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/Mountington%20-%20Commercial%20Basin-Jul.%207%2C%201631360025775.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/Mountington%20-%20Commercial%20Basin-Jun.%2027%2C%201631360025716.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1359868506.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1359868540.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1359868548.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1360025307.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1360025336.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1360025361.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1360025393.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1360025409.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/The%20Great%20Land%20of%20Facepunchia-1360025469.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/Twin%20Peaks-Feb.%209%2C%20311360025576.png[/url] [url]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34159811/pics/collabfotos/Twin%20Peaks-Feb.%2016%2C%20311360025600.png[/url][/quote] Also here's a compilation of screenshots I had from other collabs. There's not a lot here, so send me any of your screenshots if you want them here. 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Glad this is up already. I'm syncing now, should get my first city in when class is over. Do we have an overview of the region for the Planning document yet? It seems like that would be really helpful for figuring out where to build. We could also figure out who is going to be playing when, so cities can possibly be built right next to each other without corrupting all of them.

Hoping I linked up everything correctly like so in the how-to, attempting to load up the region now.

I sent a PM, hope this one goes better than the last ones Sweet got the invite, now to wait for all the files to sync :(

I see the region. [img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-buddy.gif[/img] Is it possible to get started right away? And are we allowed to take multiple tiles (without going nuts, obviously)?

[QUOTE=Furnost;39431983]I see the region. [img]http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-buddy.gif[/img] Is it possible to get started right away? And are we allowed to take multiple tiles (without going nuts, obviously)?[/QUOTE] Yeah, take as much space as you want. The region is 100x100 after all! :v: Just don't take too much on the mainland areas.

I shall be lurking this very interested to see what comes out :D

Im totally playing again. Setting it up now.

[IMG]http://puu.sh/1VBPJ[/IMG] It begins, Kaliningrad's land is ascending already (visually on the region view that is)

As someone who has never used Google Drive before, how do I shove the necessary files on to my PC without accidentally deleting something? :v:

[QUOTE=Furnost;39432189][IMG]http://puu.sh/1VBPJ[/IMG] It begins, Kaliningrad's land is ascending already (visually on the region view that is)[/QUOTE] Oh god we already have corruption!

[QUOTE=Fhenexx;39432223]Oh god we already have corruption![/QUOTE] Any way to fix it? I'm gonna be building in Moscow first so it'd be best to fix that first before I do anything major there.

Russia will grow larger

[QUOTE=Furnost;39432237]Any way to fix it? I'm gonna be building in Moscow first so it'd be best to fix that first before I do anything major there.[/QUOTE] Yeah, but your city is going to have to go bye-bye until I get the replacement piece in :/

Stalingrad shat itself too now, this is off to a good start.

Can't wait to get started... synch faster g-drive you twat!

You could always use reconcile edges and fill in the rest with water.

Collabs will be so much easier in SC5. I would join in on this one, but A: I suck at sim city and B: I would probably fuck shit up. I'll spectate this round :v:

Since simcity 4 is an old game here is a handy guide for those that want 1920x1080 resolution [url]http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/SimCity_4[/url]

[QUOTE=legolover122;39432280]Collabs will be so much easier in SC5. I would join in on this one, but A: I suck at sim city and B: I would probably fuck shit up. I'll spectate this round :v:[/QUOTE] There's tutorials in the OP. Besides, there's lots of land so if you do fuck up it won't matter all that much :v:

Hmm now that I think about it, I spotted some nicer spots for my cities more inland, time to nuke the old ones that had nothing in them yet anyway.

Taking some squares in the top of the region [editline]1st February 2013[/editline] I was claiming my squares and this happened [T]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/902113149273764158/8DBDD0D7F1EFC529B028E8260FB75882694F439A/[/T] How do i fix it?

Yeah, I'm beginning to think that switching to Google Drive might have been a bad idea. It seems like half the region is already completely corrupted. I need to fix a lot right now.

reupload the region to a dropbox, ban everyone from the drive and see if it fixes it if not then reupload it to drive and unban everyone

Officially claiming these squares on the mainland. [IMG]http://puu.sh/1VCDg[/IMG] Fhenexx, would it be alright if I turned the areas circled in yellow to land? [img]http://puu.sh/1VCJA[/img] Adding this too, not sure if a small ass river can function as a port.

Ok guys it is obvious the region is corrupting to high hell, and I have it upon good reasoning to say it's likely because of Google Drive. I guess that wasn't the best idea on my part. Anyways, we're going to switch to Dropbox at some point soon if I can't figure out what is wrong with this. Anyone know?

Switching to dropbox would probably be the best thing tbh

sadface D:

I think I might keep the Google Drive for the plugins if we start getting close to the limit, but Dropbox seemed to work a lot better for the actual region play. I think we're going to need to go to Dropbox. [highlight]We're going to Dropbox in 10 minutes. If you have any work, save it so maybe you can import it when we switch over since I'm using a backup copy I have.[/highlight]' I'm so, so very sorry for this, guys.

Better for it to happen now than a week into this.