The good old SimCity4 :) I actually prefer the grid and it's aesthetics. Not to mention the roads, you can plan every bit of roads to as much details as you want (with mods), and you actually have enough space for complex road systems.

I like I how he had the simctiy 3000 music playing , ahhh memories....

SOOOO happy that you are back doing Simcity 4!!! It's so classic and everything looks exactly like in real world. I get inspired by your previous series and I can't wait to see what you gonna show us in this one!

Omg! I’m so glad I found this series. I miss playing SC4! Such a classic.

Yay! I love SC4! I hope this goes for many seasons! Likes all around! Exclamation point!

This is oldskool!! Nice to see!! Realy love SC4!!

Love this! I demand 24 one hour episodes a day.

this game will never die out

excited for this new series!

He should've grabbed SPAM Agricultural Mod Trains not so good with that and it's companion mods your really rural even down to the roads putting a train will destroy esthetics. Subway better just add PEG Subway Station that would look better

Love your stuff. Keyboard shortcuts will make your life easier!

Hey Strictoaster, glad to see the decision! I was very surprised to see it was 4. Cool!

Oh nice! This zone is one I took a bit to recognize because of the minor changes you made, but I'm using it too! The designer did a great job with mostly flat land and nice hills/mountains. Ahaha great choice =P Thanks for these videos and so many amazing creative ideas.

2021 and soo much amazing stuff you can do with this game

This is like the fourth time I've watched this episode, I plan on finally finishing the series this time as I myself get back into SC4

He starts building at 6:00. For future reference.

So many features in this game, good!

Simcity 3000 music? Brilliant!

OMG I am soooooo excited for this series! :D

Jay :D Simcity 4 looks actually a bit better than Simcity 5

What!! I never thought I would see this day come. I like your other series, can't wait until I can actually watch this video through. By the way, I just recently uploaded my own 200th SC4 video with essentially the same principals--focusing on realism, organic development, aesthetics in general over everything else, etc. It will be very interesting to see how your work measures up.

Why does he have the Simcity 3000 soundtrack instead of Simcity 4.

A bunch of roads are born

loving this, keep it up

Ooh, SC4. Retro but unique. I'm in.

Just found this - really cool man! Will catch up on all the videos and have a marathon :D

Yey for the Sim City 3000 soundtrack

And just when I start to feel good about my cities

Still best city building and manger game of all time. Love cities skylines but it's not even close to the level of details and mechanics of this. I reached billions in regional population and had aesthetically linked cities and was so effin proud lol

Love your SC4 series

never forget.

You need to place the bushes and trees on specific days for them to look properly. If it's a seasonal tree or bush place it on 9/1 that is when they change to the fall look.

For the future you should lower the music a tad more (just slightly really) but nevertheless it's amazing to see a new Simcity 4 series on youtube, the game deserves a lot of attention for the mods

Great serie! Sim City 4 is the best Sim City ever!

Any chance we could see you try some natural growth patterns in some of your cities on this play through? I love watching how cities can organically grow in sim 4

You should try to find a tunnel and slope mod. At least for the draggables. The ploppables I just end up flattening the land with roads. With the NAM puzzle pieces, if you go by one, use shift+tab to go back.

Neil P. Harris can't drink Heinekin! Cool Vid Series!

I like this game there is more to it then the simcity 2013

There is a mod that allows the debug cheats to be accessed... I think its on simtropolis. Plus one of the cheats lets you put in how much money you want to habe!

Finally some real Simcity !

Why haven't I discovered this channel earlier? Great videos!

Hey Strictoaster are you planning to film and present on KZfaq you building the entire region? That would be neat.

I'm guessing for all these mods to work you need SimCity 4 Deluxe? I bought the regular version years ago and never realised the potential that mods had. Btw can't wait for more episodes!

YAHOO just found this, excellent! I am far too lazy to comment on every video of yours i have watched, I am sorry. Ty for your 'Design centric' videos I enjoy them across many games!! Hope to see more vids soon!

Very excited for this! Do you get problems with the game crashing when transit enabled pieces/lots are hovered over by other pieces/lots? I'd hate for you to lose a tonne of stuff to a game crash. Good luck with the series, can't wait!

They should have dirt roads for farms, that would definitely look awesome! Nice channel, I like it.

oooh SC4!! I love this game :)

I absolutely LOVE your series! It has gotten me back into playing SC4. One question: how did you get the annoying tooltips to disappear? (Like when you have a tool selected, the bubble covers it up!) I can't seem to find something online that does this.

The old SimCity 4, where you load maps from the internet and they get the normal sprite when you enter them! xD I think I'll enjoy this more than the futuristic design centric, I watched most of the episodes of season 1 though. Also, there are night mods available if you would like. :P Another thing, you should add parking lots to your town as well, those can be plopped if you have the mods for them, for example parking spots in between two lanes. :) And you were going to post links for the mods? I'm already drooling.

Hi Strictoaster I like your designs. Very happy to see this series. I have exhausted the ideas while designing San Francisco map. So hope to find some really cool ideas as always. :) Can you share the list of mods u have used for this video. One more thing, according to my experience the difficulty level does not matter.

Im excited

ready to watch all 6 :)

Are you gonna use mods and buildings form simotropolis? Sim City 4 is a way better looking city bulidng game than new Sim City. It's more realistic. We can make a downtown ,centre, and not have a 1000skyscrapers at small city tile like in new Sim City.

HomerSPC had some good mods on his channel. His would be especially helpful if you want more diversity in the roads.

I'm just got this game, and your game looks awesome. I was wondering if you could tell me what are the "essential" mods you use and where can I get them, I allready have NAM, but what are the other mods you use that change the look so much from "vanilla"?

ooh, that's the same region I'm playing on!

how do u rotate the rails before puttinf it on the land?? what key do u press?

You really don't need to cheat for money in this game. It's easy enough to get in the profit zone.

on the part I saw fireworks

Ypu deserve many more subs..

Is this series going to be one episode a week like SimCity 2013?

i'm watching in 720p, for some reason i get a bit of motion blur while in 1080p (motion blur i think it is). you know, on the tree leaves, they get blurry if he moves the camera around

How do you make the tiles like that and just the size of the region

Stupid question, but I have an old PC with SC 4 installed with Windows XP. Am I out of luck as far as mods go or are there mods for XP?

Just found this channel. Awesome. Loved the region so much I had to try it. One question though. How do I change the god awful color to the more pleasing color. You mentioned something about pre-rendering. Not familiar with this. Looking forward to the whole series. Thanks

One question: Where do you get the music? I really like it!

Hi, what do you have some additional expansion packs installed? You have options and items that I don't have in my base SimCity 4 game.

Is it a mod that you are using to level the terrain with the monorail tracks or is it just something that the game does itself? If it is a mod can you please link me to it as I've been struggling to find it. Thanks Great video by the way

What is the mod that lets you zone individual tiles of agriculture? It's not SPAM, is it? I haven't tried that mod.

Hi Stricto! I know some time has passed, but I was curious about the mods you're using in this series. I'd like to try them out on my game! Hope someone can still answer me ahahah!

Stric I know this is gonna be a great series but for the future can u do lets design prison architect?! That would be absolutely awesome! Looking forward to it!

SimCity 4

Does Simply 4 work on windows 8.1?

I downloaded a mod where when you bring up the cheat box you can type in "moolah (any amount of money, even 9999999999999)" and you get that amount of money. I forgot what it's called though. ?_?

2020, im watching this again... ;)

Hey Strict, just watched the video. It's great to see you already working on some real detailing with puzzle pieces and MMPs. Nice and curvy road networks too. Since you asked for plugins suggestions, I've got a few. I made a list on Reddit recently of basic plugins to install to give your game a "makeover" at least for residential and commercial zones, if you install them it will heavily cut down on the Maxis feel of your growable lots in favor of some top quality American-themed custom content. There are also a handful of purely cosmetic mods, basic stuff that I consider essential enough that I wouldn't play the game without them. Find the list here: www.reddit.com/r/simcity4/comments/295cxt/addons_you_cant_live_without/ciiwv3f?context=3 Just be sure to grab the dependencies along the way if you do download things out of it. As far as modding the look of your terrain and trees, I highly recommend choosing a recent mod for each. HD terrain and tree mods are one area where there's been a lot of qualitative progress in the last few years. For terrain mods, the preeminent three are Gobias' Sudden Valley and Berner Oberland mods and Lowkee's Appalachian Terrain mod. Modern terrain mods affect everything about your terrain and eliminate the need for a rock mod, beach mod, DJEM, etc. For tree controllers, the preeminent recent ones are the Arden tree controllers by vortext and Blunder's Cascadia tree controller, which I use myself with the Sudden Valley terrain mod. Going for older mods in these areas gives you access to more varied choices but usually means giving up some texture quality and diversity in your flora set. Also, it's a lot easier to get smooth slopes if you use a fully functional slope mod that adds variable slope for different networks as opposed to the (quite long in the tooth) monorail slope mod. Personally I suggest Ennedi's slope mod on the medium setting. Even though it's only "medium", the slope restrictions for the heavy rail network are strict enough that you can use it to smooth out just about anything in the same way that you use the monorail slope mod in this video. I hope you find this comment useful! I'm sure if you practice that you'll remaster all of the menus, tab rings and other quirky stuff about this game in no time. Also, it goes a lot quicker if you use the hotkeys!

what is the rail mod you are using?

I used to play sim city 4 on my 2010 gateway pc with windows7 and it crashed all the time on it

I'm unable to sign into sim tropolis it will not let me. The feature is not working.

Where can one download these mods?

I thought you were going to play Cities XL :( Oh well, SimCity 4 will be fun too I suppose :)

I feel like someone is going to kill me for asking this, but has he posted a mod list anywhere? Please don't stab me in the eyes.

anyone tell me which mod(s) are he usin plz?

"Music too loud" How could that soundtrack ever be too loud?

How do you add mods?

Pls do more

Yay ! :)

I forgot how in-depth you can get with detail in this game using mods. Is there still an active modding community for SC4?

Anyone know the name of this region?

Hey, what's that mod where you can plant free trees?

Heey, Ive heard that youre a graphic designer, maybe we can connect sometime and share some knowledge? :) btw awesome series ^^ ive missed sim city ^^''

Hi

Hah that's a uterus.

can u link your mods?

new textures?? 0:19

I wish I could have NAM working for me. I am on a Mac. I already had enough torture from the Steam Summer Sale!

Maybe another one?

One thing Simcity 4 badly BADLY needs a mod for, is instead of the scrolling, a window would open up where it would shows all the different parts. scrolling a list of say 100+ items thats so annoying

14 june, 2021

Check out mendelsofts channel. He does what you are with more skill. You'll get lots of ideas. On the topic of mods I have over 2000 SC mods. I have the sort of train station you're looking for. A 4 tile long single platform. Don't remember what it was called and can't look right now. If you need a mid for anything I'll probably have something for it. I'll let you know. :)