The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
Wayback Machine: Sim City 4 [56k]
Stover
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
Or: That is a great place for a bus stop God damn it.
So recently I decided I didn't like talking to people and started playing Sim City 4 again. I had kind of forgotten how much I loved this game. I am also confused and frightened by the changes in Sim City Societies so I'll just act like that doesn't exist. I also don't own the expansion pack, but I would if I could find it.
I also kind of forgot how to play, but more on that later.
Sim City 4 is a fantabulous game that involves you building cities in a region, and trying to keep your Sims happy. Or at least keep them from rioting. Also it is good to make money.
This is the default region. You can see my cities in it!
From this region, you select one of the plots. There's a bunch. You are given $100,000. And then you start making things!
Most of the time, you don't actually build the buildings. Instead, you zone areas of land for development. You can make residential, commercial, and industrial zones. The zones come in light, medium, and dense. That determines how big the buildings can be in the zone. For instance, light residential can only have houses. Medium can have apartment buildings, and dense can have massive apartment buildings.
Once you make the zones, the Sims will build things there, like houses or offices or industrial buildings or apartments or research labs or small stores or etc etc. There is a bunch of stuff that can show up. And it all looks very pretty.
For instance:
However, you have to actually build some buildings. Things like power plants, police stations, schools, libraries, parks, and so on are built by you, and paid for by you. The paying part is tricky.
After a little bit of building and taxing the hell out of people, your fledgling city may look something like this:
You may notice a road going off to nowhere. That road leads to another city! In this game, each of your cities can affect its neighbors if you want. In order to make really big cities, you pretty much have to build up the cities around it. The cities can buy and sell services to each other, such as water, power, and garbage space. Also, the neighbors can affect the demand for things in each city.
After a while, you might have a city that looks like this:
Hopefully however, your city won't be dead ass broke like mine is.
This is where I kind of forgot how to play. I've been having some budget management issues, and also power issues, and also development issues, and tax issues.
This game is kind of hard. But its very rewarding!
Plus if your sims don't do what you want, you can always RAIN CHAOS DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS
BURN HERETICS
So, make post. Share your stories from this wonderful game, give advice, and increase post count.
So recently I decided I didn't like talking to people and started playing Sim City 4 again. I had kind of forgotten how much I loved this game. I am also confused and frightened by the changes in Sim City Societies so I'll just act like that doesn't exist. I also don't own the expansion pack, but I would if I could find it.
I also kind of forgot how to play, but more on that later.
Sim City 4 is a fantabulous game that involves you building cities in a region, and trying to keep your Sims happy. Or at least keep them from rioting. Also it is good to make money.
This is the default region. You can see my cities in it!
From this region, you select one of the plots. There's a bunch. You are given $100,000. And then you start making things!
Most of the time, you don't actually build the buildings. Instead, you zone areas of land for development. You can make residential, commercial, and industrial zones. The zones come in light, medium, and dense. That determines how big the buildings can be in the zone. For instance, light residential can only have houses. Medium can have apartment buildings, and dense can have massive apartment buildings.
Once you make the zones, the Sims will build things there, like houses or offices or industrial buildings or apartments or research labs or small stores or etc etc. There is a bunch of stuff that can show up. And it all looks very pretty.
For instance:
However, you have to actually build some buildings. Things like power plants, police stations, schools, libraries, parks, and so on are built by you, and paid for by you. The paying part is tricky.
After a little bit of building and taxing the hell out of people, your fledgling city may look something like this:
You may notice a road going off to nowhere. That road leads to another city! In this game, each of your cities can affect its neighbors if you want. In order to make really big cities, you pretty much have to build up the cities around it. The cities can buy and sell services to each other, such as water, power, and garbage space. Also, the neighbors can affect the demand for things in each city.
After a while, you might have a city that looks like this:
Hopefully however, your city won't be dead ass broke like mine is.
This is where I kind of forgot how to play. I've been having some budget management issues, and also power issues, and also development issues, and tax issues.
This game is kind of hard. But its very rewarding!
Plus if your sims don't do what you want, you can always RAIN CHAOS DOWN FROM THE HEAVENS
BURN HERETICS
So, make post. Share your stories from this wonderful game, give advice, and increase post count.
Stover on
0
Posts
Ah SimCity 4, you lovely little bitch.
In SimCity 4, it's a bit different. You basically need to micromanage your budget to stay in the black. That's pretty much it. Stay in the black and you can do anything you want. Stay in the red and even the largest surplus you've been saving up will vanish before you know it. Play around with school, police, fire, and hospital radiuses, play around with tax rates, play around with anything you can change. It's nice.
I kind of prefer the SC4 way, as it lets me build a successful city even at small sizes.
The xpack for this game didn't add much for me. Basic SC4 is great, even if I get tired of trying to keep track of so many damn cities.
I don't suppose Rush Hour might still show up in an EBStop somewhere?
Picked up a copy of the CD-enhanced SimCity Original after that and never looked back. I've bought every iteration of the game day one, more or less. SC3000 and Ultimate were probably my favorites, with the non-ultimate version getting the edge for better music track selection.
SC4 was pretty great, I haven't played it in a while. I just started playing Societies, which I find surprisingly enjoyable.
My biggest problem has always been maintaining a balance between taxing and city growth such that I don't go broke. I don't have the patience to wait for all the taxes to come in.
PSN ID : Xander51 Steam ID : Xander51
Streets of Sim City. 8-)
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
That's the one. Couldn't place the name, and SimRacer or SimDriver sounded idiotic. :P
Shitty, shitty game - but awesome music.
I'm just a splatter, splatter, splatter, on the windshield of life...:whistle:
I like Simcity 4, though I haven't played it nearly as much as 3. Definitely a steeper learning curve, though I do thoroughly enjoy the new traffic options and details.
The only mass transit I was ever able to effectively employ were freight and passenger trains.
Shogun Streams Vidya
This thread, for instance! Yeesh.
Or better: Wowzers.
But the amount of effort to get that far would probably require too much dedication.
Alas, I've never had enough computer to run Simcity 4 properly, so it remains unplayed.
However, will be buying Simcity DS soon.
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
Why is that, exactly?
I figure for $10 it can't be any worse than the old SNES Simcity ports.
Switch: 6200-8149-0919 / Wii U: maximumzero / 3DS: 0860-3352-3335 / eBay Shop
YES!
How I miss that game.
I loved it to hell then allowed someone to borrow it in college then I never saw it again.
but it sucks, you kinda cant, every time you meet an edge or worse, a corner edge, it fucks up all the other edges. you can meld them but it never works right for me
Maybe it's time to give this another go.
Shogun Streams Vidya
I haven't ever fooled with the mods. Those of you who are suggesting finding a pathfinding mod (or any other mod); it seems like there are a few options out there. Please name or link to the one you use or recommend.
If you do that, I'll stop at the store and pick up a new copy of Rush Hour. Deal?
Shogun Streams Vidya
I loved them all so much, I picked this screen name. (In 1997!)
Shogun Streams Vidya
Well, I guess for $10... But:
- Too easy to remain in the black
- Very limited amount of buildings so all your city looks the same regardless of how high-density/high-value some areas become (no high-rises)
- CONSTANT interruptions from citizens and advisors asking for More Stadiums/More Marinas/More Hospitals ad infinitum. The game doesn't tell you when something interesting/important/different is demanding a meeting with you, so either you check all of these fucking annoying things, or possibly miss out on a deal for a casino or whatever.
- No subways or highways.
- 'Dialog' types out in a tedious fashion (instead of popping up instantly), requiring several irritating clicks to get back to playing the game.
- 20 years I had a ridiculous amount of money in the bank and couldn't spend it fast enough. No challenge.
- You can only save one city.
I did that though, that was why I got so confused. I tracked property value and demand pretty heavily and always zoned accordingly, but the city just got stagnant.
I guess your second part was my problem then. I got a few high rise apartment buildings (5-8 stories), but I couldn't get any high-end commercial properties. I guess that was because I always play pretty isolationist. Coming from SC2/3000, I adapted very well to the new financial model, but I never really got the hang of using neighbors effectively. I tried looking for tips on fansites, but that was like asking Elmore Leonard to punch up a limerick for me.
Damn you SimCity, give me my skyscrapers!
Everybody played the original DOS SimCity.
In fact, that and SimCity 2000 were the only ones that I've played.
Really, I don't see how any of the successors could have improved on SimCity 2000... it was pretty much perfect.
Whats wrong with 3k?
Now, I played the fuck out of 2000, and it was excellence. Let us never forget the scary transportation adviser. You did NOT just lower his fund.
I don't know... i haven't played it. ;-)
If I feel the urge to play SimCity, I just play SC2K. It's damn-near perfect.
I've been playing it on and off for 14 years, and I'm still not sick of it. I've even got a version that runs on my PDA.
I guess I just never saw the need to "upgrade" to SC3K or SC4 (especially after the mixed reviews for both).