Sim City 4
I LOVE this game. I started playing it last week, and never managed to make a dime. A friend of mine told me a few simple tricks, and now I'm building cities far and high! The expansiveness of this game blows me away.
Anyone else playing? Got any secrets to share?
Anyone else playing? Got any secrets to share?
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But seriously, I was hooked on SimCity4 for a good month or so, leaving it on all night just to let my funds build up. (make sure you turn off disasters if you plan to do the same)
The gameplay kinda hits a wall though when you have 5-6 massive cities all interconnected and every gift built. I have a feeling however, that the new expansion 'Rush Hour' will get me back into my 'up-till-4am' SimCity rut again.
The engine that drives how cities are built has been completely overhauled from previous games. You can't instantly turn your little village of people into a bustling metropolis. It takes time, money, a well-trained eye and lots of planning to grow your towns.
A large emphasis has been placed on the interconnection of cities. You are NOT able to grow your city to have a large population unless you diversify and spread your city across multiple land tiles. There are "ceilings" in the game that prevent your city from developing any further unless you do specific things, such as expanding your cities to multiple land tiles, and have each city diversified enough that they provide certain services to the other city tiles in exchange for other services (such as one city being a suburban mecca, while the other city is the dirty, industrial slum).
If you are a die-hard player of this game, your best bet is to purchase Prima's "SimCity 4 Official Strategy Guide", available at Electronics Boutique for $19.99 CDN. It's over 350 pages of tips, strategies and explainations. I consider it the "documentation" that SHOULD have been included with the game. I never play without it.
Enjoy!
/me goes back to Wolfenstein Enemy Territory
For example, placing the "Bank of China Tower" next to your commercial zones, it will have an "effect" on the zones of 100 YIMBY points, and has an effect radius of 48 tiles from the centre of the building (essentially 24 tiles from each side to the centre).
These higher YIMBY points that a building has an effect on the surrounding buildings, the more desirable the building is and the more tenants will move in, increasing land value, decreasing crime and increasing the city population, allowing you to extract more tax values from them.
There are two types of YIMBY/NIMBY classifications: Commercial & Residential/HighTech.
Generally, commercial YIMBY buildings have a NIMBY value on residential/hightech and vice versa.
The best buildings in the game to place next to both commercial zones & residential/hightech buildings to provide maximum effectiveness are the "Colossal Mayor's Statue" and the "Mayor's House."
Use them wisely.
so I just stopped playing it.
NS
Here's my favorite games, in no particular order:
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Sim City 4
Age of Mythologies
Super Mario Sunshine
howdryiam - enables water cheat. You no longer have to build water plants
fightthepower - enables power cheat. No need to build power plants.
These two cheats save quite a bit of money
Anyone up for a game of Life?
Enable them by pressing CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+X and then enter any one of the following cheats:
stopwatch - Pause/resume the 24 hour clock.
whatimeizit - Set the time of day. Follow with a space and the time you wish to set (in military time, e.g., 8 PM = 20)
whererufrom - Change the city name.
hellomynameis - Change the mayor name.
you don't deserve it - All Rewards Available.
sizeof - Increases magnification (1 to 100).
weaknesspays - Adds §1000 to your treasury.
fightthepower - Eliminates the need for electricity-producing equipment.
zoneria - Hides empty zone colors.
tastyzots - Toggles zots.
howdryiam - Eliminates the need for water-producing equipment.
Oh and someone said something about letting the game run all night just to build funds. I found that with SC3K I could never really let it sit or else everyone would leave my city or something. Of course maybe that is because my city sucked but iono. Is Sim City 4 more friendly when it comes to just letting it sit for a while?
Norge
1.5 GHz and 512 MB of RAM with a decient video card (GF4 or higher) can handle it no problem. The original version (1.0) of the game lagged quite badly when your city started to become large.
Now, if you install the latest patch, it does wonders for performance of the game.
As long as when you leave your PC on for the night, you make sure that your Sims are happy, well-powered, well-watered, well protected (fire, police & medical) and traffic moves nicely around the city, you should be fine to leave it on overnight.
A word of warning though, I'd disable disasters and lower the graphical detail so as to let the simulation run as fast as possible.
Norge