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Awesome SimCity 4 mods you should try for an amazing city builder experience

TheScavengerTheScavenger Member EpicPosts: 3,321
edited September 2018 in General Gaming
For those that still play SimCity 4, since its pretty much still the to-go-to for city builders...

https://steamcommunity.com/app/24780/discussions/0/1621724915803917603/

I highly recommend checking those mods out. You will be amazed by what the mods do to make a much better game!

NAM (Network Addon Mod) especially is a 100% required mod. It overalls the traffic system, adds a lot of new roads/freeways and makes a huge change and a much better change to the game. Its most popular mod for SimCity 4

SPAM ((SimPeg Agricultural Mod) and I-RM (Industrial Revolution Mod) are both great as well for the former overhauling the farming industry (which farming doesn't work well late game in vanilla SimCity 4) and the latter making industry even better.

Those mods work pretty well with...

https://www.moddb.com/mods/simmars

Sim Mars you will be amazed because it changes the entire game to a mars theme! 

Sim Mars never left beta 3, but from what I tested it out...it worked good enough. I didn't run into any problems or anything.

Personally I stopped using mars, because I like my game I have going on on a South America region. That and Sim Mars was mostly aesthetic changes, instead of actual gameplay changes. But, maybe some will like that kinda theme for a city builder.

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/32201-south-america/

The map is massive, I think one of the bigger game maps out there for SimCity 4. You won't believe your eyes when you see how big the map is! So much to build!

As a note, I don't use CAM (Colossus Addon Mod) because it requires a ton of additional lots (way too many for me) and also isn't compatible with some of the other mods in that list.

(update 9/18/18)

Here are a couple more

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/27230-barsoom-project-part-1-memories-of-the-colonists/

Barsoom pretty much overhauls "some" mars maps to a "green" map or used for terran/earth maps but with a sci-fi twist. Granted, I only had one map properly convert. Read the readme cause its kinda hard to setup. If you are good at modding its not too bad, but otherwise its kinda complicated. Do note, it includes Sim mars so you don't need to download that separately. 

On the other hand...for a map that works with Sim Mars terraform addon (its on MODDB sim mars page I linked under addons)...I am using...

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/5630-mars/

it works great with the terraform addon, since you actively need to terraform to introduce water onto mars. But because of the map height (just high enough), nothing starts off green or with water. And goes great with barsoom mod. The map is also really large. I think its actually the largest mars map that is available.



My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB: 

https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul



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  • bartoni33bartoni33 Member RarePosts: 2,044
    I see what you did there!

    I know I shouldn't have clicked but I just wanted to see if was really you. Kinda like a game I used to play back in the day when @Brenics (RIP) would post bollocks about SC and I would try to guess what thread was his. Good times...

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  • TheScavengerTheScavenger Member EpicPosts: 3,321
    edited September 2018
    Hope everyone enjoys the mods :)
    Post edited by TheScavenger on
    Kyleran

    My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB: 

    https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul



  • UngoodUngood Member LegendaryPosts: 7,534
    Do you want me to just start ignoring your ass like I do adds on a porn site?

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  • Panther2103Panther2103 Member EpicPosts: 5,779
    Ungood said:
    Do you want me to just start ignoring your ass like I do adds on a porn site?

    Threads from ignored users still appear (I learned this from frozen or w/e their name was before they got banned)
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,963
    edited September 2018
    My thought is that if you want to talk about "Sim City" then a better title could be "Sim City great game w/great mods"

    And see if people are interested. Your titles seem very much akin to something the Enquirer would use.


    I should add that part of your issue is that your title doesn't mention the game. So I actually clicked on it thinking "skyrim/morrowind?"

    People are going to click on it, see a game they never had interest in playing and then leave.
    Like Skyrim? Need more content? Try my Skyrim mod "Godfred's Tomb." 

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  • moshramoshra Member RarePosts: 400
    I will say it is an improvement, this one is not a bold faced lie.  I may check some of these mods out.
    Sovrath
  • TheScavengerTheScavenger Member EpicPosts: 3,321
    edited September 2018
    moshra said:
    I will say it is an improvement, this one is not a bold faced lie.  I may check some of these mods out.
    Well, I DID try to put more effort into this thread. Mostly cause for those who don't mind its age and like those kinda games and I can help them out with recommending them mods. Doesn't need too many mods to make it a lot better, some of the mods in this list are pretty game changing.

    But people don't click on anything (not nearly as much anyway) that is a normal thread/video/news article etc title
    Kyleran

    My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB: 

    https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul



  • Crestian7841Crestian7841 Member UncommonPosts: 6
    welcome to my ignore list

    TheScavenger
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 44,078
    edited September 2018
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    Post edited by Kyleran on

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  • BananableBananable Member UncommonPosts: 194
    edited September 2018
    Ungood said:
    Do you want me to just start ignoring your ass like I do adds on a porn site?

    Hmmm, as they say: "There's no girl on the internet". This sounds weird...since you mention Es and purn in one sentence i really want to be on that ingnore-list.

    Crestian7841 said:
    welcome to my ignore list

    Is it free, can i get it too?  :P
  • MightyUncleanMightyUnclean Member EpicPosts: 3,531
    Is there a way to ignore a poster entirely?
  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,058
    edited September 2018
    'You will NOT believe how I got rid of this one poster that threatened to ruin my life. Find out what AMAZING tips I have to help you do the same! More inside!'

    /Cheers,
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    It is just huge resource waste....'

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  • ConstantineMerusConstantineMerus Member EpicPosts: 3,338
    lahnmir said:
    'You will NOT believe how I got rid of this one poster that threatened to ruin my life. Find out what AMAZING tips I have to help you do the same! More inside!'

    /Cheers,
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  • MaurgrimMaurgrim Member RarePosts: 1,331
    SimCity hahaha.
    Cities Skylines are the best city building sim, SimCIty don't even come close.
  • tal22288tal22288 Member CommonPosts: 4
    Checked this modes are awesome ! 
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  • TheScavengerTheScavenger Member EpicPosts: 3,321
    I added a couple more mods to try in the OP. They are both great if you want either a better Mars experience, or if you want a sci-fi city. Though barsoom mod is kinda complicated to install compared to other simcity 4 mods, so if not good at modding, may be quite a challenge. 

    My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB: 

    https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul



  • TheScavengerTheScavenger Member EpicPosts: 3,321
    Here is my current city. Its most successful city I've had in regards to traffic, and has 51k people so far. Still a lot of space to build in, but I think it looks really nice. Been fun to build too :)


    My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB: 

    https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul



  • TheScavengerTheScavenger Member EpicPosts: 3,321

    Also as a note, the only thing different post-screenshot is I expanded the freeway to the west (though not all the way since its pretty expensive). That solved a lot of congestion issues in that area, though had to demolish a pretty sizable district so the freeway could continue.

    I actually didn't mean to block that freeway from that direction as I always planned to continue it in that direction. But I fixed it and I'll have to remember not to do that again lol. Lost 2k people since that was pretty crowded area, but I rebuilt the housing district next to the expanded freeway and got the population back.

    My Skyrim, Fallout 4, Starbound and WoW + other game mods at MODDB: 

    https://www.moddb.com/mods/skyrim-anime-overhaul



  • CryomatrixCryomatrix Member EpicPosts: 3,223
    MightyUnclean said:
    Is there a way to ignore a poster entirely?

    I actually enjoy @TheScavenger's threads. The best thing about the threads are the pithy and snide responses that he gets. 

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  • JeffSpicoliJeffSpicoli Member EpicPosts: 2,849
    Cryomatrix said:
    MightyUnclean said:
    Is there a way to ignore a poster entirely?

    I actually enjoy @TheScavenger's threads. The best thing about the threads are the pithy and snide responses that he gets. 

    Cryomatrix
    I'v always thought he has a little brain damage, but the not the kind of brain damage that makes you less intelligent , more like the kind of brain damage that turns you into a idiot savant.


    • Aloha Mr Hand ! 

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