Can someone give me a comprehensive list of must have mods for Sim City 4

What are fixes/patches/mods are essential for a fresh up to date Sim City 4 experience in 2025?

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Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (4 replies)

The only essential mod is the Network Addon Mod.

If you feel like searching for all the dependencies, I can also recommend the CAM mod, this mod adds a lot of different building assets and enables more Euro or Asian style cities (high density). Makes dense skyscraper areas more viable. Setting it up is a massive pain as you have to go search for additional asset packs, although I believe CAM should work without them (but then you don't get the asset variety).

I also like to include different sized service buildings (e.g. very large hospital) to support the higher populations with CAM.

Put in "hospital" (or "fire station") here:

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/

Pick one that looks good to you.

Honestly, you can just go with the Network Addon Mod, it is the only I would consider essential for everyone.

bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Thank you, I'll go with NAM & CAM (was great reading up on those two) I'll post an reply to this post once I've got some hours in. My last reference would be vanilla SC4, 15+ years ago. Exciting!

Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Enjoy! It's been almost 20 years since I played vanilla SimCity 4. NAM and CAM are excellent base mods.

ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Well this just took me back 15 years.

SC4 is a timeless piece of software.

Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

I wish EA would release the source code. The community could really patch things up.

I mean there is even a 3D view mod for Simcity 4:

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/36188-3d-camera-dll-for-simcity-4/

Imagine what the community could do with the source code.