Dear Oskar, you are a great visionary and me and my wife delight in your "simple", yet to the eye beautifully complex and detailled expression of interedpendent order. If you are reading these reviews from time to time, than let this idea of mine be my token of love and gratitude for your work: Please add a walking camera mechanic: keyboard arrow input, no jumping, only connected streets and parks are walkable, camera tremor to simulate steps, opaque buildings while walking. I am a hobby programmer myself, so I deem this task easier and much faster in implementation than many others conveyed to you by other community members. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! You are remarkable!
Alright guys, here is how it is done: 1. Install the game. 2. Download DXGL and start it. 3. Add S4.exe and S4_main.exe and don't change absolutely nothing. 4. Open the GameSettings.cfg in the Config folder (using Notepad) and change the value ObjectHardware = 1 to ObjectHardware = 0. Change nothing else. Moving objects render normally now. 5. Open Video.cfg in the Config folder and change all the values to 1. The videos are now displayed. Enjoy the game! :) Everyone fixing the game this way please give a helpful thumbs up to this post, so other players can filter by helpful votes and find the solution as well. This game is well worth the price after all.
It is precisely those special "walker" dynamics and building placement rules and effects that make this game one of the best city builder gems in the whole wide world. It is almost impossible to overstate in describing the overwhelming feeling of thrill and reward when your houses evolve into palaces and you manage to have a working infrastructure that supports high standards of wealth for your people... which is a quite difficult thing to achieve, especially when ressources are somewhat limited and your population ages. By the way, the last mentioned mechanism is not a pain in the ass, as some critics tend to claim, it is a brilliant and realistic touch to controlling your cities population over generations. This game represents true greatness in game development and almost no other game in this category has aged that well, that's for sure.
