10 Best SimCity 4 Mods That Make Everything More Awesome
SimCity 4 is the fourth installment in a franchise where you can create your own cities. The three different modes allow you to play god, manage, or even play as one of the citizens yourself. This particular version has even more tools to create your own terrains and buildings to simulate real life. Just like in The Sims franchise, players can get hooked building and play with a life that is not their own.
Even though this game came out back in 2003, this game is still very popular with so many options for downloading and building. It is no wonder that various players have created their own content. Mods are not uncommon in PC video games. They can change up the looks of players, places, and even objects in order to make the games more fun and unique. However, some tend to stand out among the rest.
Here are some of the best ones you can find for SimCity 4.
How to install mods
The game itself contains a few bugs that dull down the gamer experience. Mods for this game have been created to enhance the gameplay making it so that players have a better time playing the game with little to no issues. YouTube and the internet are the best places to find these mods. They have various fan-made content and so many ways of learning how to download and integrate them into your own game.
Installing mods is the first part of the process. The first thing you need to do is go to a website like SImtropolis.com. You need to make sure that you have a free account and that your game has been added to the games that you own. The next thing you can do is go to the community site and search through the various mods by style, name, or city that you want to download.
You will need to click on the file that you want and then look for the dependencies with are what you need on your computer in order to use the specific mod. If you do not already have that dependency installed, you need to install that first, and then go back and download the mod you want. When they are finished downloading, open them up in your downloads file in WinZip or whatever else you use to open zip files on your particular computer.
The next thing you need to do is open your SimCity 4 file and click on the “plugins” folder. Drag the new files into the plug-ins folder and you have downloaded the mods you wanted quickly and easily. To make sure they installed correctly, all you need to do is to go into your game and check the category of which the mod was supposed to go into. The content should be there.
That is only one of the various places you can get mods. All other websites have very similar ways of installing and all you need to know is that you need to drag any new files into the “plugins” section in order to make sure they work in your game. Now that you know how to install the mods onto your game, here are some of the best mods for SimCity 4.
If you need an audio-visual explanation, here is a quick example video.
10) NAM
Check out this tutorial on how to use this mod in depth!
“NAM” stands for “Network Add-On Mod.” In the game, when you create a city from scratch the sims end up commuting to work the long way around rather than a shorter way. This mod fixes the problem and adds in a lot more options such as pedestrian and bike roads for other commuters who do not travel by car or bus. It’s the perfect mod for those who want to make sure their sims get to work and home at a decent time and do not waste too much time during their daily commute.
9) Garbage Chute
This is how you use the garbage chute!
If you are very tired of managing with the waste of your city, this is a great mod to have. This particular mod allows all the accumulated garbage from the city to go into its own waste disposal site where it simply dumps the extra waste off the edge of the map when it’s filled up. This simple device will allow the cities you create to be cleaner and the waste will simply disappear off the edge of the Sim world!
8) Larger Essentials
Right here shows you how to get and use these larger buildings.
On Simtropolis and various other mod sites, there are various mods that can save space in your city. From police stations to schools, larger buildings take up a lot less space in the city. At the same time, they cover more of the city instead of adding a bunch of smaller buildings taking up more and more space. For example, a larger firehouse can take out smaller fires before they spread into bigger ones.
7) Radius Doubler
This shows you the benefits of using the radius doubler!
To aid in keeping the amount of extra space taken up in the city to a minimum, a radius doubler mod is perfect. This mod allows essential places to widen their radius of what they cover so that the placement of smaller essential buildings decreases. This in conjunction with the larger essential mods are perfect for keeping your city clean and tidy.
6) BSC Funding Tool
This video shows various mods including how to use the BSC Funding Tool.
This tool allows you to freeze your assets when in play. Nothing will go in or out of your account. It can obviously be used as a cheat, but if you’re a poor mayor struggling to keep your city afloat, this is the perfect mod. It allows you to buy and do anything you want with the city for free while making sure your funding stays on an even level.
5)Realism Mod
This shows what you can do with this amazing mod!
The SimCity 4 Maxis realism mod allows you to make your city seem more realistic. Backyards can go from a pixilated mess to tame yards with hedges and fences. You can use alleyways to create bike paths so the sims can ride around safely instead of being hurt by cars driving by. Instead of making the city look like another dull pixel game, use this mod to give a sense of realism and flair to your eyes.
4)Civilian Cars
This video shows a review of the civilian cars mod!
If you are sick and tired of seeing the same cars over and over, download this mod. It brings more modern cars into the game so that there are more of a variety and real-life image to the streets. Watch as thousands of new model cars roam the streets on their way to work, school, or play.
3)Make Your Own Parks
This video shows an overview of all the kinds of parks you can create with this tool.
These mods will allow you to make your own pedestrian paths, put trees anywhere you want, and add park benches anywhere. Want to make a national forest park or a normal park with lots of trees? Anything is possible with these mods. Just use all of these ideas to form the perfect park instead of taking up so much space with boring-looking parks that are already installed in the game.
2) Simfox Night N
This shows what it looks like in its beautiful lights at night and in daylight.
Do you have a lot of lighting in your city and want to know what it looks like in the dark? Is the night mode in the game too light? This mod allows you to make nighttime even darker so you can enjoy the views of the lit city. It gives more of a realistic feel of what a city is really like at night with beautiful perks.
1) The SimPeg Agricultural Mod (SPAM)
This shows all the different things you can do to create more agriculture!
Finally, this Agricultural mod allows you to create a more realistic farming experience. All you need is dirt roads and the agriculture tool, and it will create a more realistic farming experience for everyone to love and enjoy.
Mods are a wonderful tool to customize your game and add a more realistic feel to your world-building game. There are so many mods out there, but these are some of the best that will help you to build what you want and have it look realistic as possible. No more hassle of fake towns and businesses. These will look so real you may want to play this game all the time!
