SimCityscape™ offers SimCity™ 4 players the chance to grab cities from a region game board, play them, and then upload them to the board for the next Mayor to develop or evolve. Players work independently from each other on their cities in Mayor Mode, and by participating you will contribute to the collective picture of the region game board. Update your Mayor's Log to track the progress of your city, and view other Mayors' Logs to learn the tricks of the trade.
SimCityscape™ can also be your source for small, medium and large city files to use in your own regions. Grab any city at any point in its evolution and load it into your own SimCity™ 4 game.
Whether you want to grab cities in Download Mode or stake your claim in Mayor Mode, SimCityscape™ will become your one-stop shop to populate your region with cities from other players from around the world.
Learn more about Mayor Mode or Download Mode.
Entering Mayor Mode allows you play the SimCityscape™ game. You can view available cities, become a Mayor and download the city file to play in your SimCity™ 4 game. After developing (or destroying) the city you upload it back to regaional game board as many times as you want while you're still Mayor.Once your turn is over, either after your two days are up or after you manually end your turn, the city becomes available for the next Mayor to join, download and play.
Create log entries telling the story of your city and take some snapshots and upload them to your Mayor's Log using the Mayor's Log Updater.
Learn more about Download Mode.
Unless you are playing a city in Mayor Mode, you will be in Download Mode by default when you first open a region game board by selecting the View Region button on the Home page of SimCityscape™. While in this mode you are able to select and download city files to insert into regions within your SimCity™ 4 game.
Select a city to see information such as City Name, Most Recent Mayor, Population, as well as the most recent Mayor's Log entry.
You can always get back to this mode by clicking on the Download Mode button on the left side of the game board
Learn more about Mayor Mode.
Download Mode gives you the opportunity to download as many city files as you want to insert into your SimCity™ 4 game. To enter Download Mode, select a region from the region listing on the SimCityscape™ home page that corresponds to the city size you are most interested in and click the View Region button. Unless you are Mayor of a city within the region you choose, when you open the game board you will be in Download Mode, by default.After the Game Board opens, mouse over cities until you find one you are interested in downloading. Click on a city to learn more about it; the selected city will have a yellow overlay once you click on it and various statistics will become available about that city such as Name, Population and Most Recent Mayor.
Once you have made up your mind click on the Download Button. After accepting the Terms & Conditions for Downloading Materials, a progress meter will be displayed, and you will have the chance to give the city file a unique name in your SimCity™ downloads directory on your hard drive at C:\Documents and Settings\(your user name)\My Documents\SimCity 4\Regions\Downloads.
After the download is complete, open your SimCity™ 4 game, enter a region and import your city file(s).
Need more information? Check out the FAQ.
Mayor Mode allows you to work with other players to evolve a city in a round-robin type game.
From the home page of SimCityscape™ select a region that has available cities and click the View Region button
Once the game board opens and the region loads, click on the Mayor Mode button on the left side of the game board
To see which cities are available in the region click the View Joinable Cities button. Joinable cities will have a green overlay.
After deciding and selecting a city, click the Join City button. Once you join a city it is yours and you are the Mayor for 48 hours or until you manually click the End Turn (X) button in the control panel. SimCityscape™ will download the city file to your hard drive at C:\Documents and Settings\(your user name)\My Documents\SimCity 4\Regions\Downloads
Import it into your SimCity™ 4 game and build it up to greatness or unleash unspeakable disaster upon it. You can upload it back to the Game Board as many times as you want during your 48 hours or you can wait until the end of your time and upload your final version. After 48 hours, or after you manually end your turn, the city is put back into play (whether you've changed it or not) and the next Mayor can claim it.
During your turn, you can update your Mayor's Log with snapshots and the story of your city. You can post up to 10 screenshots and you can add, edit and delete text and captions at any time during your turn.
Need more information? Check out the FAQ.
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City: A unique .sc4 file that a user can download, play within their SimCity™ 4 game and upload back to SimCityscape™ during the course of their turn.
Join: To claim a city within a region for a turn during SimCityscape™. By joining a city you become Mayor of that city for the duration of the turn, or until you manually end the turn.
Mayor: A SimCity™ 4 product-registered user/avatar who joins a city within SimCityscape™ for a turn. An avatar can only join one city within SimCityscape™ at a time. A single user who uses multiple avatars (the web site allows 5 avatars per user) can join multiple cities by using multiple avatars
Region: A map view containing 48 joinable cities. Unlike SimCity™ 4, there isn't regional terrain reconciliation or coordination of neighbor deals between cities within a region, unless users download neighboring cities and reconcile them within their own SimCity™ 4 game. Users contribute to the region by uploading their work to the region game board to alter the view of the region over time.
Round: The period in which a regional map is active within SimCityscape™, in essence the round is the "life cycle" of a region. A round is equal to a city being played for 10 turns. Alternately a round can time-out if 30 days pass since the regional map was added to SimCityscape™.
Turn: A two-day period in which someone who is a Mayor of a city has rights to upload new versions of the .sc4 file to SimCityscape™. A turn can also be ended manually at any time. A Mayor can upload as many iterative versions of the city to SimCityscape™ as they want during their turn.
SimCityscape™ uses Java to display and use the region game board. If you don't have Java on your computer you will need to download the current version and install it to work with Internet Explorer.
You can learn more about Java and download it for free from: http://java.sun.com/getjava/download_issues.html#options. Make sure you get the right version for your computer, web browser and language
SimCityscape™ is only available to registered users of SimCity™ 4 and you must be logged in to the web site to use SimCityscape™.
You can register to use the web site or if you are already a registered user you can update your account with your SimCity™ 4 serial number to get access to both Download and Mayor Modes.
You should also download and install the SimCity™ 4 Update to participate in SimCityscape™.
Browser
Currently SimCityscape™ requires Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 6 or better.
ActiveX
ActiveX is a set of technologies that enables interactive content on the web and SimCityscape™ uses ActiveX to control the uploading and downloading of city files in the game.
We respect your privacy (read our Privacy Policy) and only use ActiveX to locate and place files related to SimCityscape™. To learn more about ActiveX, visit Microsoft's ActiveX pages.
To enable ActiveX in IE 6:
We've set up a separate bulletin board for SimCityscape™ fans to post about their SimCityscape™ experiences.
Use the BBS to learn about what other players are doing with the game, brag about your city, or just lurk and pick up helpful hints.
Just like the SimCity.com BBS, there will be Mayors to moderate and occasionally a Maxis staff member may pop in to get your feedback about the game.
Join the community at the SimCityscape™ BBS!
Here's the place where you can read the story about a city and download the city file from any Mayor's turn for that city. Did one Mayor build up a stumbling farm community into a burgeoning metropolis? Did another take a bedroom community and unleash an unimaginable disaster on it?
The Mayor's Log contains the history of the city for the life span of the region and contains past and current Mayor's screenshots and final or most recent comments as Mayor.
And from the Mayor's Log, you can also download city files from any turn for a city to import into your SimCityTM 4 game from the Mayor's Log.
Every Mayor has a story to tell and the Mayor's Log Updater is the tool you'll use to tell yours.
During your turn as Mayor you can modify your Mayor's Log page as often as you want by using the Updater. You can upload and manage up to nine snapshots and add or modify the text of your Mayor's Log.
By clicking on the View Region button on the front door of SimCityscape™ you'll pull up the region game board.
The game board has two modes: Download Mode and Mayor Mode. Both modes allow you to see the region board and depending on which mode you are in, you'll have different sets of buttons offering you different options.
Learn more about Mayor Mode or Download Mode.
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