u/ActualMostUnionGuy

After a month long reverse engineering (mostly done by codex with my supervision and testing), we now have fully native 4096x4096 city maps with custom regions functioning.

three 4096x4096 city maps in a fully custom region (did not spend much time making the region pretty, but it does work)

Same map before the start of great works construction (these work too, but are not fully tested)

Unlike Project Orion, this implementation is not an extended build boundary or a stretch of the smaller city maps. These new city maps behave like the original 2048×2048 city maps, where the actual simulation area has been enlarged. Zoning, terrain rendering, resources, camera, data maps, regional connections, impostor cities, regional pollution fully work as intended by Maxis or a stock city.

Wealth maps fully working in the entire enlarged city map (note the yellow boundary - that is the original map boundary for comparison)

Custom water map

Regions can also be created from scratch, using your own custom terrain, drawing trees, placing region roads and having these fully work with the placed enlarged city plots.

Slow beginnings for fleshing out how Maxis built regions

A somewhat more decently looking region (Terrain is green because at this point we did not know, water tables were probably built for the entire region - since grass and trees grow where it is wet :) )

Currently the work continues on fleshing out some of the bugs in the engine itself, so it fully supports larger city maps (minor tweaks - like freight trains not arriving, not enough resource trucks spawning, too little ferries, etc. ) , and later building a proper separate region generation application.

Funily enough the original Maxis regions can also be reconstructed and accept the enlarged cities with terrain fully editable. Terrain that previously was outside the playable map can become editable, where trees can be removed, zoning, data maps, essentially everything works as if it was a native city.

Testing how the terrain outside the original city bounds works.

Fully enlarged 4096x4096 city maps inside an original Maxis region (note how trees get removed by the roads and the city map is enlarged all they way around) The original city bound in region view has not yet been increased.

An already larger city, tested out most game mechanics and whether they work in the full enlarged city map.

Now onto the bad news. Since I am working on a mac, this testing and development is done assuming the Aspyr AppStore version of SimCity. Second and even worse news is performance. GlassBox, the engine that runs it all, is essentially built to work on a single core, so as cities grow, the framerate drops to multiples a second. Of course a windows Origin SimCity version would be more performant, but without rebuilding some parts of the engine to work on multiple cores, the game really slows down.

In either case, SimCity 2013 can now run fully native, fully playable 4096x4096 cities, that is like 4x the playable area. Work continues tho....

My country recently had a “proletariat revolution” in which the dirty workers took over the state and turned it into a ragtag “dictatorship”. I’m losing my mind, they are importing people from all over the world because of “internationalism” and it’s destroying us. I can’t even speak in my mother tongue and I’m forced to speak in Esperanto because “it’s the language of the future” ughhhhhhh.

They also seized my mom and pop textile factory and started to produce things based on its social need rather than just pumping things out.

What’s driving me insane is their demands I mean look at this:

i) Limitation of private property through progressive taxation, heavy inher-
itance taxes, abolition of inheritance through collateral lines (brothers,
nephews, etc.) forced loans, etc.
ii) Gradual expropriation of landowners, industrialists, railroad magnates and
shipowners, partly through competition by state industry, partly directly
through compensation in the form of bonds.
iii) Confiscation of the possessions of all emigrants and rebels against the
majority of the people.
11iv) Organization of labor or employment of proletarians on publicly owned
land, in factories and workshops, with competition among the workers
being abolished and with the factory owners, in so far as they still exist,
being obliged to pay the same high wages as those paid by the state.
v) An equal obligation on all members of society to work until such time as
private property has been completely abolished. Formation of industrial
armies, especially for agriculture.
vi) Centralization of money and credit in the hands of the state through a
national bank with state capital, and the suppression of all private banks
and bankers.
vii) Increase in the number of national factories, workshops, railroads, ships;
bringing new lands into cultivation and improvement of land already under
cultivation – all in proportion to the growth of the capital and labor force
at the disposal of the nation.
viii) Education of all children, from the moment they can leave their mother’s
care, in national establishments at national cost. Education and production
together.
ix) Construction, on public lands, of great palaces as communal dwellings for
associated groups of citizens engaged in both industry and agriculture and
combining in their way of life the advantages of urban and rural conditions
while avoiding the one-sidedness and drawbacks of each.
x) Destruction of all unhealthy and jerry-built dwellings in urban districts.
xi) Equal inheritance rights for children born in and out of wedlock.
xii) Concentration of all means of transportation in the hands of the nation.

What the actual eff? They will destroy the STATE. My daddy already had to sell 3 mansions because of that, and my autistic little brother who was obsessed with trains was forced to give up his entire train line to the “proletariat state”. Someone please GET ME OUT OF HERE

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