In Simcity 4,do you eventually get fururistic looking buildings?

[LordJezo]

Didn't the older ones have it that the further you got in the game the newer the buildings looked?

 

[LeStEr]

Ya thats they way it was in the old ones.

 

[LordJezo]

Originally posted by: LeStEr
Ya thats they way it was in the old ones.

Yeah, but what about the new one?

 

[ROTC1983]

Originally posted by: LordJezo

Originally posted by: LeStEr
Ya thats they way it was in the old ones.

Yeah, but what about the new one?

I still haven't seen any futurisitc buildings , and I have been playing for a while...

 

[blahblah99]

This game isn't too difficult... I've balanced my budget with about 1000 sims, and all that remains is to expand expand expand expand!

 

[WinkOsmosis]

The buildings we have now look identical to the ones we had 50 years ago.

 

[Aves]

I've played the game for a while now and have had time progress nearly 100 years and the buildings exactly the same the whole time.

Hopefully they do change later in the game.

 

[Scouzer]

I can't balance my budget at all. I just run myself into the ground... never was any good at this game.

 

[ElFenix]

any good?

 

[Omegachi]

i can't restrain myself from cheating in those games.

 

[Atlantean]

I am up to 2006, and I keep getting into the hole, spending is like 15000 a month, and I only have 4000 something citizens, I keep cheating so that I will stay outta the hole. What does everything think of the game so far?

 

[Bullhonkie]

One of my first cities I ran the year all the way to 360 something and never saw any 'different' looking buildings. It's actually kind of a let down, some of the screenshots of the game show a huge variety of different skyscrapers (aside from the landmarks) but in the actual game, your skyline ends up looking extremely repetitive (same handful of buildings over and over). I'm hoping it's just that no one has figured out how to get the other buildings to build.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
any good?

Just got it yesterday and haven't played much(too many games..just got Rallisport Challenge too, haven't finished Spearhead, Unreal2 and C&C Generals are coming out soon...aaarrrgh!). Anyway, graphics are really nice, zoning areas now builds streets taking the guess work out of zone size, special buildings now show their area of influence(also adjusts size depending on the amount of funding), agriculture can now be zoned, and you can watch a Missile Testing Base fir missilies into the air! That's all I've noticed so far(1 hr playing).

 

[dman]

Well, I've been playing for a bit now and no future looking buildings, but, still in the 1920's.

--- possible Spoiler ---

The way I make $$$:

Use coal powerplant to start out. Put it on an edge away from population location...
Click ? And set funding to power plant down to around $100-125 or so then:

in the center of the map:
Build a school, ? and adjust funding of teachers down to lowest level supported.
Build a large police station.
Build a large firestation.
Add as much residential as will fit in the 'school' circle.
Build some industrial or commercial around the outer school circle but within the fire/police zones.
Can put a garbage dump around the area where the power plant is... or export if you have a neighbor town (*).
Build a water tower (NO PUMPS!) and run pipes to cover town. Squares appear to be 12x12 or 13x13 grids to get full coverage.

Adjust budget and enable gambling. Leave all else alone.

Hit >> and let'er grow. In a short time you should 2000+ sims and budget should begin moving into the positive. You'll need to bump up the school funding, power plant funding and build a few more water towers as population grows but should be able to be about $2-300/mo in the positive that way.

(*) Export Exploit: Found this out by accident, if you connect your powerplant to a neighbor town and fund it so it has 1000MW more than is needed in your current town... then exit to region,then go to that neighbor town and start a city, don't have to really do anything just connect to the border power and go to budget. Then buy power from the other town (Like $89/mo) then go save and exit to the region and go back to the first town.

The first town will have a budget of $89/mo extra coming in but the second town won't be loosing any money while you go forward in time in the active town. So, you could go 20years ($89*12*20 = $21,360) for example and when you save/exit to region because you haven't played the 'neighbor' town the $$$ there haven't decreased. It helps 'pay' for that investment in coal power to get you stated.

The exploit is the game only changes the budget from the active town you are playing! Of course you actual profit is < $89 because you have to fund your power-plant to run at a higher level, but, it still helps a bit.

You can do the same thing, export garbage from the non-active town to the active town and get money for that ($19mo) but your landfill will fill up quicker.


NOTE: You don't need either of these exploits to make money the way I described above. I just noticed it by accident when I was playing 'fairly'. In fact, buying power from the first town (in the second town) is actually still profitable instead of building a power plant, so, you can build two towns of 5000 population with one power plant and have them both be profitable. Then it gets a bit hairy.

--End Spoiler--



That's about where I am now and got bored so need to go back and play some more. Just started getting some high tech industry in the town NOT hosting a power plant. Lack of pollution or something, not sure. But, definitely have reserves cash now, have a library and some parks and still making money. No loans. Etc.

--

Sorry for the long post.

 

[Kerouactivist]

Unlike sim games in the past I find it impossible to maintain profitablity.

I kinda wish the you don't pay for anything cheat like they did in simcity 3000, that would be nice

 

[Atlantean]

I am up to 2006, and I keep getting into the hole, spending is like 15000 a month, and I only have 4000 something citizens, I keep cheating so that I will stay outta the hole. What does everything think of the game so far?

 

[dighn]

this game is hard. i find that after a while, the whole city degenerates for some reason. ppl start leaving and profit goes down. i carefully played til i had like 23000 people with ~6500 spending with a couple of hundred profit but after a while everything dropped. the buildings got darker (people left or devalued) and everything just goes to the crapper....... might be because i have a lot of high tech industry in nearby cities but stil... it's kind of frustrating. i think i'm just gonna cheat and build a kick ass city.

same thing with my high tech industry cities. there is an initial boom of development but after some years they still go to the crapper...

 

[CraigRT]

sounds like sim city original all over again.. city gets good... city dies for no reason.... blah!

i don't like SC4 much.

 

[Nohr]

I hear that a lot of people are having problems with crashing and memory leaks.

 

[dquan97]

I like the game, but it runs slow now that I have about 20K citizens. I have a 1.4Ghz Athlon, 512DDR, GF2MX

 

[hollowman]

I never liked any SimCity games..

They are way too hard for my liking.

 

[Kerouactivist]

Originally posted by: dquan97
I like the game, but it runs slow now that I have about 20K citizens. I have a 1.4Ghz Athlon, 512DDR, GF2MX

yeah it runs slow for me too and crashs everyonce in awhile and I have a 1700+ XP, 512DDR, and a Geforce4 TI4200

I am really not that impressed with the game I was more impressed by simcity 3000 when it came out.

 

[Supermercado]

Originally posted by: blahblah99
This game isn't too difficult... I've balanced my budget with about 1000 sims, and all that remains is to expand expand expand expand!

Care to give a few tips to those of us that can't seem to balance the budget for our lives?

 

[Hoober]

Originally posted by: hollowman
I never liked any SimCity games..

They are way too hard for my liking.

I enjoyed it for the first three or four hours, then got bored out of my mind. Haven't touched it since.

 

[hollowman]

Originally posted by: Hoober

Originally posted by: hollowman
I never liked any SimCity games..

They are way too hard for my liking.

I enjoyed it for the first three or four hours, then got bored out of my mind. Haven't touched it since.

Yea, that's how I feel too.

It's really frustrating when your 3 - 4 hours of effort goes crap within matter of few mins. I tried cheating too but that doesn't help much either.

Btw, I like Sims better.