This page addresses the technical questions of the SC4 region GRUNEN and lists most of the custom content used.

Style of Play

I will be playing after the natural growth principle. You can find a full description of that game-play-style here. Basically every step in this city journal will be done without pre-planning and in a role-playing state of mind. Not the best or the most beautiful city is the aim. I will be seeking for natural development and natural look.

I will also incorporate elements of synoecism, the process of villages joining to become a town. You can find a blog focusing on synoecism here.

The Region GRUNEN

I developed the region GRUNEN from a map of the greater Auckland region. I rotated that map and removed some of the water, as the region should not be an island but continental. Then I added a few island and broadened some of the rivers to allow for ferrys. As last step I equalized the terrain five times with the terraformer tool. And this was the result:

The region is 11 x 12 big city tiles.

Mods used

I have a conservative approach to custom content, normally using only pieces that have no dependencies or do use few basic dependencies. Also I liked to limit the number of mods to keep different regions comparable. For GRUNEN this will probably change, as I take this city journal more seriously than my SC4 games to date. The mods used for the region GRUNEN include:

General

• Network Addon Mod
• Euro Road Textures
• Euro Trafficlights Mod
• Hole Digging Lots
• Cul de Sac Mod
• Bridge Height Mod
• BRF Slope and Tunnel Mod
• Modification of Edmonton’s Region View Mod

Terrain and Water Mods

• Peg Water Mod “Brigantine”
• CPTNo7AssortedTreeControllers (Cycledogg’s Tree Mod)

Buildings

• CSGdesigns Basic Ferry Pontoon
• CSGdesign Small Schoolhouse
• Marrast Railroad Stations
• Nexis Emergency Diesel Power
• Simple Empty Tiles
• SFBT Schweizer Bahnhof von voltaic

Eyecandy

• Ploppable Farm Fields
• PEG Mayor Mode Construction Equipment Mod
• PEG Mayor Mode Construction Site Prop Mod
• PEG-MTP Mayor Mode Logging Scenes Mod

Dependencies

• BSC Essentials
• BSC Mega Prop Pack von Cycledogg
• SFBT Essentials
• Marrast Mega Pack Vol.01
• Marrast Mega Pack Vol.02

3 Responses to “Custom Content”

1. Shilka says:

   April 5, 2010 at 13:35

   A very nice region map Wilson, some very challenging terrain at places!

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2. Gorbag says:

   May 18, 2010 at 02:09

   I wonder if it would be possible to get the Bridge Height Mod from you. It’s listed as blocked on the STEX.

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3. dutchneworleanian says:

   February 4, 2011 at 10:38

   Hi there, great cj, really like your style.

   Can you tell me which mod you sue to get the dirt roads? i have checked the above mods but could not see them between those.

   thanks,
   Henri

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