Simvision is a web community dedicated to the sharing of information, user-created mods, downloads, hacks, and resources for not only SimCity 4/Rush Hour, but The Sims, City Life, Spore, and Roller Coaster Tycoon. We also talk on the forums about urbanism, including architecture, politics, and any other number of topics.It started in early 2004 with BarbulaM1, heathis, and hello_SC4 among its webmasters, after an initial merging of several smaller sites to produce the name "SimVision". In June, SimVision merged with huskerman007's SimcityHighway. The name remained "SimVision" because that was where the domain was, but SimcityHighway contributed almost 600 members to this new community.
Even as the site now had a domain, the game SimCity itself was in its third year and far beyond the average game's lifespan. Unsurprisingly, activity tapered off during the fourth quarter of 2004.
In Late 2005, jimbo (with the help of clindhartsen) spearheaded a new infrastructure, SimVision "Re-Newed", in an attempt to revitalize a dying community. Self-made PHP files replaced the default content management system made by vBulletin. New features, such as the SVEX, SIMcyclopedia, and Gallery were created. Since the opening of this new version of SimVision, -920 new members have registered.
With the upcoming release and speculation about the new sequel, SimCity 5, SimVision will surely recover and emerge a flourishing community of players of this new game. Spore too will be a major future focus of SimVision.