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How to Use Demand Mods Wisely

Oct 20, 2011 - 09:37 PM | Lot Creator in SC4 Tutorials

A work and investigation by myself

A number of people pass though the HD (help desk) door and ask about links to demand mods and stuff related to demand mods. But what do they actually do? How do you use something like a ID boost to fix up a city? These questions shall be answered in this mini-tutorial.

1. What is a Demand mod?

A demand mod is a mod designed to "explode" the demand on a particular demand. For example, a demand mod for residential $$ wil...

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Make a bigger difference TREES!

Mar 31, 2011 - 03:13 AM | STomnibus in SC4 Tutorials

Article originally found in sc4ever.com Most of you should know this by now that lots accept a little more than one would expect. You got someone riding your hiney about planting more trees. Plant em in people's yards, industrial lots, parks, etc...

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Mega income from toll booths

Mar 31, 2011 - 03:15 AM | STomnibus in SC4 Tutorials

Article originally found in sc4ever.com Toll booths are quite possibly the most unbalanced thing in SC4K. For a modest fee, you can get 20 cents per month for every car or bus passenger that travels through the toll. This can be abused to make m...

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Ways to increase environmental rating, and convert to high-tech industrys

Mar 31, 2011 - 03:21 AM | STomnibus in SC4 Tutorials

Article originally found in sc4ever.com Achieving such results as the title suggests is actually relatively simple, just plaster your city with trees. It's relatively inexpensive for what it does and will do all three things mentioned in the titl...

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How to use train stations effectively

Mar 31, 2011 - 03:20 AM | STomnibus in SC4 Tutorials

Article originally found in sc4ever.com If your trains don't appear when you place them, then you must be doing something wrong, right? Wrong. You just placed the stations in the wrong areas. See Simcity 4 is very realistic in the sense that if y...

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SimCity 4 traffic Layouts

Mar 03, 2012 - 11:08 AM | Adooxx in SC4 Tutorials

Adoxx's Traffic Tutorial Hi guys, I'm running some tutorials on YouTube and got some questions to go deeper into my latest tutorial. I'm going to show how I make my layouts, metro connections, highways, .. in a way they are used at fullest. I prefer...

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Building a more realistic highway interchange...

Mar 24, 2012 - 04:26 PM | rewright in SC4 Tutorials

To build this interchange you will need the NAM and a slope mod. I use BRF_TunnelAndSlopeMod-bJERONI.

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Making Pleasing Downtowns and Skylines

Mar 31, 2011 - 02:55 AM | Mikeaut1 in SC4 Tutorials

Making Pleasing Downtowns and SkylinesBy: Mikeaut1 Please Private Message Mikeaut1 if you have any questions regarding this tutorial! Welcome to "Making Pleasing Downtowns and Skylines". Hopefully this short little tutorial will help you get some ide...

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How To Add Custom Music to the Game

Mar 08, 2009 - 02:53 AM | Nightwolf458 in SC4 Tutorials

Please PM Nightwolf458 if you have questions or comments concerning this article! 1: Copy all the music files (MUST BE IN MP3 FORMAT) 2: Paste them into this directory: C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Radio\Stat...

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Realistic Rural Rail

Mar 30, 2011 - 11:44 PM | Rochefort in SC4 Tutorials

This very simple tutorial is designed to offer just one example of how you can add any transport route, in this instance rail, in such a manner as to enhance the realism and general aesthetics of your cities. To start, I have a small rural community w...

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Fast Population and Profit Growth on Hard Game Play Setting

Mar 30, 2011 - 11:46 PM | Rochefort in SC4 Tutorials

The following technique will allow for a population growth of around 40,000 combined with a monthly profit of between $1,500 – $3,500 within 5 years, when playing on “hard” game-play setting. I would like to thank vab423 & DOXXP29 for testing the tech...

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