Ok, need some SC4 help

[starrling]

What streets do you want added?  I'll do it for you

[BlueSoup]

Okay, please don't laugh at my Paint Shop Skills. 



So where the blue part is, I'd like to add more roads - so they'll fit 2X2 lots, and as many as can fit.  You can close in the streets as well.

Where the red part is, that's land that is unusable.  If you want to see what I mean in the game first, go ahead, but basically you can place lots on the horizontal streets, not on the vertical streets.  Since that area will fit about 4 lots, I kinda want it to work.

If you could fix those, I'd be so grateful! 

[starrling]

* starrling points and laughs

No, seriously, I'm going to give it a try.  One question though:  Since the red area is unusable how do you want it modified? 

[BlueSoup]

Well, I don't know why it's unusable, that was one of the things I wanted to check.  Do you have any idea why lots would be unplaceable there?  In the way this picture shows, it's actually backwards, the one road that looks horizontal is the unusuable one, the others are fine. I would like it maybe closed in and more roads added, so I could place more, I guess.

[starrling]

A little confuzzled - here's a pic of it where I added 7 houses to that area. 

[BlueSoup]

Well, that blows because I can't add any houses to that area...

[starrling]

Once I'm in the file in SC4 I'll try to smooth out the terrain behind it - maybe that will help.  Ok, off I go... (I won't finalize anything on the file till you give me the ok).

Edit:  on a side note, I know the photo you provided is flipped so I wanted to be sure I have it right - see this photo - is that where you want the extra 2x2 rows of houses?

[BlueSoup]

Yes, but I'd like more roads added - as far out on flat land as possible.

[starrling]

Okay, give this a try and let me know how you want it tweaked further.  I'm open to working on this till we get it right.  I didn't do any pngs since we're not final yet.

[BlueSoup]

I dunno what you did to the unusable part, but it works fine now.  I'm happy with it.   

[starrling]

You're kidding.  That's it?  Geez, you should learn to be more demanding

(oh, and I simply used the smoothing tool that's in mayor mode and not god mode)

[BlueSoup]

lol.  Well, what can I say.  You get me. 

[starrling]

I just realized we lost a lot of trees in my smoothing-out of the terrain.  Sorry bout that.

[BlueSoup]

I don't care, trees suck and I remove a lot of them anyway.

[starrling]

oh!  *whew*  good

[BlueSoup]

Thanks so much for doing that, Starrling.  Don't even worry about the PNG files, I'm just going to use the originals since they don't even show the roads anyway. 

[starrling]

I'm done already?

Wow, you can request stuff anytime then. 

[BlueSoup]

So, I just decided to post a picture of why I need more room:

I have the commercial area all set up in one section, and then the residental lots all in another.  No doubt I'll move these several times, but I ran out of room with the last setup I had, so I'm really happy for the extra lot placements.

[starrling]

Very nice!  And it looks like you still have a little room left.

[BlueSoup]

Yeah, which is good for future generations and all (that is, if I don't burninate it first, as is my bad habit  )