[shortydee999]

I would love to know what the largest city everyone has built in SC4 in terms of population??? The largest i've built was 700K.

Is it possible to get to 1 or 2 million???

[Lemonhead]

My largest is around 220,000 people. Unfortunately it's surrounded my massive cities that failed so it's starting to go downward as well, so I just don't play it anymore... it's quite sad.

[Mock]

My largest is is an extremely dense city on a florida shaped island thingy. It's got around 300,000. I've started work on the large plots in London and Berlin, where my largest cities will soon rise.

[Pride]

The largest city overall I've built, was last year when I was building a huge metropolis. It was around the 550,000 mark. However, I personally don't build like that anymore, and I have to have plenty of trees, shrubs, greenery, etc. Not to mention, my triple highway and spaghetti junction takes up quite a bit of room.

[H-man]

my largest is about 850K and still growing upward

[Jazzman]

94,000






Yeah, keep laughing folks. It's kinda hard, man....................I haven't used any cheats up until now though, so we'll see............

[DeadManWalking]

On sim city 2000 with arcologies, I hit well over a million. On sim city 3000 I built a city with 300,000. On Sim City 4, I couldn't break the 50,000 mark without going belly up.

[Matty]

50,000?... You know you add services little by little AFTER building the initial city, right?

And raising taxes can actually stunt your cities growth or make it shrink. 8.5% is a safe zone.

[DeadManWalking]

Sim City 4 is way too complicated.

[CGII]

^And yet it's still not real enough.

On my old computer, which crashed and I no longer have data or photos for, I just put on the ultrademeand mod and let a city bake far about a day. It got to about 2,000,000 people.

Right now I'm working on a city with about 800,000 in it.

[MobileAl1]

On Sim City 3000 Unlimited I had a city with about 950,000. On Sim City 4 my biggest city has around 300,000 inhabitants.

[CGII]

I'm building one now that fluctuates between 170k and 180k. Pisses me off.

[Matty]

Build a park.

[CGII]

I've built hundreds. ;)

[Pride]

LOL Download the RCI Super Mod!

Actually, does your city have suburbs, or neighboring cities with highways, rail, or any type of road? Usually, time can be an issue as well. But, I never have any problems getting any city above 300,000 as long as I have neighboring cities in all directions, with roads, highways or rail connecting the cities.

[BnaBreaker]

I always build my cities extremely dense.

My largest city takes up about half of the largest size map and it has about 600,000 people.

My next largest is on the second to smallest sized map, and half of that land is taken up by mountains and water and it has 80,000.

My last city is built on the smallest map available but still has 22,000 people.

For some reason I find that when my cities are in a slump, I increase the density, throw in a landmark or two and a couple parks and the entire city turns around extremely quickly.

Also, I try to keep a close eye on air pollution. Keeping the air clean may initially cost more money but in the long run it seems to pay for itself with increased development in the areas that have been cleaned up.

[Pride]

I have to admit, that downloading the air purifier was one of the best downloads I still use to this day.

[BnaBreaker]

Hey Pride, when you get the time would you mind explaining both the Air Purifier mod and the RCI Demand mod and possibly...if you have ALOT of time, and know off the top of your head, giving me a link to both of them? :D

[shortydee999]

Are both of those mods on simtropolis.com???

[biguc]

just download that radical mod, it has a no pollution setting you check under city ordinances, and a garbage to nothing processor so you don't need a dump or anything.


my largest city was 1.2 million. it was basically unplayable.

[Pride]

Hey Pride, when you get the time would you mind explaining both the Air Purifier mod and the RCI Demand mod and possibly...if you have ALOT of time, and know off the top of your head, giving me a link to both of them? :D

Ok Bna, if you are a member of Simtropolis, here are the links to the RCI mod, and the air purifier. I went ahead and threw in the link to an awesome disposal plant, as well.

Super Demand Ordiance Mod (http://www.simtropolis.com/modding/index.cfm?mode=details&show=185)

Air Purification Plant 2x2 (http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=Lot&Str=compact%20air%20purification%20plant)

Advanced Disposal Plant (http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=Lot&Str=advanced%20disposal%20plant)

[LSyd]

right now it's 2.3 million in SC4. no cheats to get to 2.2 million, then i decided i need major urban renewal and didn't want to fuck with letting it run for a long time, so i got $4 billion worth of federal aid (it was my region's capitol, but the federal government moved it.)

here's a very outdated region view (the other side of the region, across the sound, is now populated, but not as densely.)

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/34841215.jpg

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[oliveurban]

Largest city so far has been about 230,000 with no cheats, etc. I can't really seem to get it to grow much larger ...

[Antares41]

I been playing for 6 months now my largest city is ~ 105k and second largest is 100K. I have smaller cities around them in the 50 to 15K range.

[fflint]

My largest city is 2.1 million people (after 1,000 years of gameplay, I don't believe it can or will grow any more), and my region is up to 5.3 million and still growing rapidly.

[MolsonExport]

Sim City 2000: I kicked ass and made a behemouth of 29 million. How? Well, with my insanity, I totally built it up, ran it for a day or two for money, gradually replacing all built up areas with Archologies.

Sim City 3000: I have built no less than 40 cities that have reached 2.5 million. Without using any cheats. This number, however, seems to be rather close to the absolute maximum.

Sim City 4: Gave up, after hitting half-a-mil. The game had too many shortcomings, was a memory hog, etc. Went back to playing Sim City 3000.

[FlyersFan118]

SC4 confused the hell out of me, but my Sim City 3000 Unlimited won't work except for BAP, which is all I do anymore on there (made a cool Comcast Center, then remade it better).

[shortydee999]

My largest city is 2.1 million people (after 1,000 years of gameplay, I don't believe it can or will grow any more), and my region is up to 5.3 million and still growing rapidly. In SimCity 4?? How u get that many people??? Or did u use one of those very large lots in a region??

[Jasonhouse]

I don't play very much at all, especially in the past year or so... My largest SC4 metro used to be 2.4mil with a center city of about 500k...

But since that file got corrupted and I had to start over, my biggest metro is 1.8mil, with a center city of 400k res pop... However, when C and I jobs are tabulated as pop, then the number swells to over 1 million. (the new metro is very centralized, with tens of thousands of commuters working in the center city)

[LSyd]

My largest city is 2.1 million people (after 1,000 years of gameplay, I don't believe it can or will grow any more), and my region is up to 5.3 million and still growing rapidly. In SimCity 4?? How u get that many people??? Or did u use one of those very large lots in a region??

really large lot that's really dense.

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[F11Roch]

I don't play it very often. Maybe once or twice a month, but the region I have in SC4 is almost 4 million with only about 60% of the land developed. My first major city was on a large plot, completely filled and peaks at about 680k. I built another major city that has peaked at 800k, but keeps dipping below. That one still has room to grow, but residential demand is slow and the dreaded long commute is playing a part. My entire region is connected by an extensive highway and rail system. I also have about 6 other cities ranging from 150k to 400k in the region, three of which I am slowly growing into major ones. I don't use any cheats or mods.

[fflint]

My city of 2.1 million is indeed on the largest available lot size, but yes--it's really dense. Infinitely moreso than any of my other cities. It might be able to grow more if I had a more powerful computer--I've only got a 256-Meg video card and 1 Gig of RAM. So, as things are right now, it's pretty much built out.

I zoned everything at the densest level from the very beginning, and eventually, after about 750 years, I replaced all the industry with commercial and residential (all the industry is now in the nearby port city). It's been a commercial powerhouse for the last 250 years or so...

[Navyweaxguy]

I hit 300K with one single city, the region is up at around 2.1 Mil.

[rockyi]

Sim City 3000 - I have a couple of cities that are hovering around the 1.2 million mark.

[Goody]

I have to admit, that downloading the air purifier was one of the best downloads I still use to this day.

Trust me there are times when you want slums. I downloaded that a long time ago and didnt figure out how to shut it off untill last month-I was going nuts all I wanted were some dense slums.

My Biggest City is like 3.3 million or something its on a large tile though about 40% of the city is water and about 5%-10% is unbuildable. Very Hong Kong like- I didnt even plan it to get that big it just sort of happen. Any how I dont know if I still have it because my shitty computer crashed and lost every thing else (inculding all my pictures and music) any how

[Pride]

Well, this wasn't a mod. This was nothing more than a 2x2 building, that cleaned the air wherever it was plopped. However, I don't place them everywhere. There are locations that I leave alone, and let them grow on their own. Besides, I like to plan, and create realistic looking city; including slums and ghettos.

[Goody]

^ I see mine was city wide no smoke smog nothing so land vaules are high every where and develpment patterns scattered

[Pride]

Yeah, I decided not to download that mod. . .No one wants Beverly Hills in every city. :no:

[Pinoy2.0]

Let's get some more screenshots!

[Zephyr]

My largest thus far is Corinth - the region has about 1,014,000 and the city has about 390,000.

http://img160.exs.cx/img160/393/downtown20004qw.jpg

http://img160.exs.cx/img160/6624/corinthregion20003ma.jpg

[Pride]

Let's get some more screenshots!

Sadly, I don't have a photo host. Any quality, decent & cheap ones that come off the top of anyone's head?

[Goody]

well about three or four days after my post my computer crashed I lost all my music, pictures and simcity/sim stuff. I was able to get my pictures (from my camera) but the ones from SC4 werent found so here is my current largest. Which I am going too delete because I downloaded a funky plugin...


http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b164/Bigpyro06/ExeterPoint-Apr.png

Growing up

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b164/Bigpyro06/ExeterPoint-Nov.png

Last picture I got before things started getting weird

I think the pop was smoething like 400,000 but it wasnt much land that city is mostly water and a lot of the land was an airport

[Goody]

^ I dont know why they are so small... but any how you get the idea

[Pinoy2.0]

Let's get some more screenshots!

Sadly, I don't have a photo host. Any quality, decent & cheap ones that come off the top of anyone's head?

I use http://www.imageshack.us/ for hosting.

Damnit, this thread got me all jucied up to re-install SC4K and I can't find my cd!!! D'oh!!!

[Pride]

Here's quite a few night shots (with a couple of day shots), I took a few days ago. It's my central city, or CBD of Whittleston County. It's the largest city, since I had to start new from scratch on my new desktop.

I give you, Gouldboro:

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/5695/gouldborojan226211246455560ay.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldborojan226211246455560ay.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/497/gouldborojul136211246457646mc.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldborojul136211246457646mc.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/387/gouldborojul296211246458191ic.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldborojul296211246458191ic.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/1899/gouldborojun26111246452679ti.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldborojun26111246452679ti.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/2056/gouldboromar155611245691716ji.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldboromar155611245691716ji.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/4660/gouldboronov106411246466423yn.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldboronov106411246466423yn.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7114/gouldboronov155511245688082fn.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldboronov155511245688082fn.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3570/gouldboroaug188111246516997yy.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldboroaug188111246516997yy.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7272/gouldboroapr65611245692674mf.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldboroapr65611245692674mf.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/6195/gouldboroaug286211246459269ur.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldboroaug286211246459269ur.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/5467/gouldborodec266111246454707kw.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldborodec266111246454707kw.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/7407/gouldborofeb196511246468185ac.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldborofeb196511246468185ac.jpg)

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/5443/gouldborojan86311246461062dn.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gouldborojan86311246461062dn.jpg)

[Pinoy2.0]

Very very nice Pride. I turned the 'night option' off...forgot who good it looks at night. Looks awesome!

[Pride]

Appreciate it. . .I need to post some of my suburbs, industrial & airport area, as well.

[rican_papi]

I no my is growing not as fast as yall place But is growing all right:cool: :cool:

[Mock]

Here's the city on the large Berlin plot that I'm working on. It's currently in it's 99th year and has ~383000 people.

Click the thumbnails for the full size screenshot.

Overview - Year 99
http://mock.nourism.net/night/notnomde1t.jpg (http://mock.nourism.net/night/notnomde1.jpg)

Downtown and the main residential areas - Year 37
http://mock.nourism.net/night/notnomde37t.jpg (http://mock.nourism.net/night/notnomde37.jpg)

Downtown and the main residential areas - Year 99
http://mock.nourism.net/night/notnomde99t.jpg (http://mock.nourism.net/night/notnomde99.jpg)

[Pinoy2.0]

Awesome stuff guys.

How do you get different land regions? Just load a region that came with the game or did you download those regions from somewhere?

I had to re-buy the game since I lost my cd (my cities were still on my hard drive though, lol).

What speed do you guys play at? Rhino...Cheetah? In between?

Man, I'm ctrl x'ing and 'weakness pays' like it's my job right now.

[Pride]

Well, I've deleted that entire city I showed above, due to "crashing" reasons. I've started over with a new region, and starting with a completely different approach.

As for regions, I definately download my maps. I love the realism of the real city maps, or even some of the fantasy style maps. As of right now, I'm still debating if I want to go with the Providence, RI, Cinncinati, OH, or Baltimore, MD. Now, I just use those maps for the cities I build; not to make copies of the actual city itself.

Speed? It all depends at the moment. If I'm wanting my downtown, or a huge subdivision to grow rapidly, then I use cheetah for a minute or two. Like I said, it all depends, at the moment.

Yeah, we all have to CTRL-X quite a bit to make certain buildings grow. And "weakness pays" is a waste. Just download a money tree, or money mod at Simtropolis. I usually keep the 1x1 money park that gives me $4 million a month, then delete it. There's plenty more to create my real looking city, than to wait til the end of the month and barely break even. There's too many mishaps in the game to have to wait. Besides, I'm impatient sometimes, and don't have the time to wait, considering my kids are wanting to do something, or go somewhere.

[Pinoy2.0]

Thanks. I'll have to lookup the money tree mod.

I'm just over 125,000 people. Had to demo a lot of R and C's bc the bastards were complaing about traffic and getting into accidents (I have the Deluxe version which includes rush hour). I made an awesome subway system...even with parking garges next to them to encourage 'park and rides' but...nooooooo...they want to DRIVE. ****ers! The streets are over-crowded (avenues to be exact) and they still don't want to use the subway. So I demo'd a lot of R and C's and took out the ave. that was clogging things up and built and elevated highway.

Anyone have any secrets about public trans. (i.e. subways)? How close the stops should be to each other and in what type of dominated region (RCI)??

I know what you mean about crashing. I was 'goofing off' and I don't save when I do that...I'm curious to see what happens...then it turns out ok...and I want to save it....then *click* game crashes and computer restarts after 4 hours of experimenting. D'oh!!!! BTW, they took out the 'save as' feature in deluxe addition. Boooooo.

Is it possible to have no industry (I) in your city? Can you rely on I from the neighboring region (that you make) to supply it for you and use more of your land for R and C?

[shortydee999]

Is it possible to have no industry (I) in your city? Can you rely on I from the neighboring region (that you make) to supply it for you and use more of your land for R and C? Yes, thats how i build all my cities. One city is all residencial, one all commerical, and one all industry. I works pretty well too.:)

[Mock]

You can do it with power too, I build little "Energy Forest" cities to supply the huge ones. Build coal power plants on the edge of the map, and build a small suburban residential population close to the main neighbour connection.
The taxes from the residents and the revenue from selling power will easily balance the cost of running the power plants.

[Pinoy2.0]

So if I cut out all the industry on my 'main' city...then save and exit to region...go to another region and make the neighboring city all industry...that would effect my industry bar in my main city?

Industry is how I keep the job market flowin, lol. Plus C is down and the residents don't have jobs...how to you have a city with people and jobs and no I? They just travel to the neigboring region? Won't that make the commute super long?

Man, I don't see how you do it! I was much better on that one on SNES.

[Goody]

Here is what I do. Start on your main city. Most likely this is the one you want the most commercial in; though I don't start it off that way. I start out with what will be downtown zoned to almost the size I want it but normally in low density. I typically make the water front industrial, and the rest of the city I zone for rows. (Hum I should make a thread on how to do that because its my trade mark and is really neat- any how) Don't over do with streets and no parks or schools for a while- you can add all your extra stuff later- at first all you need is power and roads... a few streets and such to get people around. Lower taxes on R$ then play normally until the city stops growing. If you are happy with where you are at save then start the city next to it. Do it however you want BUT make sure its going to be your main Industrial city... build all the industry you can make sure they cities are well connected. Then you go back to your main city, start raising taxes on dirty industry and start rezoning it. Going back and forth moving all your industry to another secondary city while you start to rezone and increase demand for commercial in your main one. You start adding you 'flavor' then and it will spur higher wealth and development. Think of it like most real cities, they start out 90% industrial then that turns to commercial then to high rises and high wealth while the industrial sector moves/shifts to a different location. Then you can build the rest of your region around these to main cities, always make sure that every city has a little of something- pure residential cities don't normally work unless you have very good transit; are directly connected and you have a very large downtown. It best not to use the large maps for this, I use the middle sized ones for my cities, and if ever I feel like suburbs I use large maps for that.

That help?

[Pinoy2.0]

Oh yeah, sounds like a plan. :D

What do you recommend is the best way of transit? Subways, Ave.'s, one way streets, bus stops? I have subways, but those dolts don't use them. Not sure if they are too far away from each other or not in enough res. areas or what. I'm at 130,000 and was thinking about starting over anyway. My city is all over the place right now.

[biguc]

pride, could you give me a link to a download for those big highway lights?

[Pride]

Pinoy, personally I don't use subways, at all. I usually use commuter rail, bus stops, highway, avenues & a few one way streets. I'm just not real big on using overhead rail or subway.

biguc, if you have a simtropolis.com account you can goto the STEX to view & download them here: Highway Light Towers v2 (http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=all&category=default&sortby=DatePosted&show=12&Str=highway%20light%20towers%20v2)

[biguc]

thanks.

[Goody]

Oh yeah, sounds like a plan. :D

What do you recommend is the best way of transit? Subways, Ave.'s, one way streets, bus stops? I have subways, but those dolts don't use them. Not sure if they are too far away from each other or not in enough res. areas or what. I'm at 130,000 and was thinking about starting over anyway. My city is all over the place right now.

I use subways, well I use the subway/bus stop off off Simtropis, so I get a Two in one. I use Mainly streets (mind you the roads that get zoned are what become my streets I just replace them.) I have one or two Ave's per city, and I sometimes use highways but most of the time I dont bother they take up to much space, and my cities are tranist based.

I should make a thread.... I think thats what I am going to do tonight. A 'how to make a wicked kick ass dense city' :yes:

[Pinoy2.0]

How do you not have traffic and car crashes up the wazoo if you don't use a lot of one way streets, ave.'s, highways...?

I have ave.'s and subways everywhere but the traffic is always horrible and they don't even take the subway... which I don't know why.

Maybe you should start that tread. :)

[Pride]

Actually, traffic is cool. I love taking photos of my cities, with built up traffic, especially at night around one of the stadiums, arenas, or fields.

[shortydee999]

How do you not have traffic and car crashes up the wazoo if you don't use a lot of one way streets, ave.'s, highways...?

I have ave.'s and subways everywhere but the traffic is always horrible and they don't even take the subway... which I don't know why.

Maybe you should start that tread. :) The problem i have in my cities are major traffic problems. But i hate taking the time to build mass transit(probably shold have build mass transit before the city get crowded with skyscrapers:) ). And use your tax system to make those cities with one of each zone(i.e. resident, commerical, industry)

[Pinoy2.0]

I think if I made a an all R city, they would have the briefcase zot and complain about their time of commute and/or just become jobless. Then I get distressed buildings. That's what is semi-happening now in my city and it's mixed C and R!

I think I solved all my traffic problems. 1 way streets everywhere. F-ing beautiful! Oh, and bus stops every block.

[comoneymaker]

my last region shots

http://img201.exs.cx/img201/1857/region7ab3wn.jpg
http://img232.exs.cx/img232/4274/transportview7ab1rw.jpg

[simonisback01]

I got the single city population of a 1/4 sized tile up past 250,000 in one day. It was also the nastiest ghetto i had ever seen, rivaling that of Kowloon Walled City (now its demolished...good riddence).

[biguc]

just the other day i built a suburb along a highway that looks like those chinese ones with 40 highrises.

[Pride]

LOL Their so easy to make, aren't they biguc?

[biguc]

yeah, they really are. just put a bunch of 4x4 high density lots next to an interchange with open grass area between them. they produce loads of traffic too, which rules.

[1ajs]

-*TDK*-

2.5 mil
my comric pop is 1.22 mil
my downtown comric pop is 955k
my downtown res pop 1.035 mil

http://img430.imageshack.us/img430/2005/tdk347hz.th.jpg (http://img430.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tdk347hz.jpg)http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/9716/tdk3419xb.th.jpg (http://img381.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tdk3419xb.jpg)

http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/5619/tdk2749gx.jpg
http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/4503/tdk2727bb.jpg
http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/9491/tdk2739zq.jpg
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/6194/tdk2423vl.jpg
http://img416.imageshack.us/img416/7057/tdk2710lv.jpg
http://img462.imageshack.us/img462/2729/tdk2435wk.jpg

super sized rail yard
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/7715/tdk2919lz.jpg

[FlyersFan118]

my jaw just hit the floor.


wow.


on sc4 the largest i built is about 200,000 I think. On sc3ku, I built a city of around 2.1 million based on miami.

[Hof]

I just got a new computer,one capable of running SC4,so I'm a novice to that game and I'm awaiting SC 5000,or whatever Maxis names it.
I still run SC3K Unlimited,despite a few bugs I inherited when I reloaded to the new Dell.
The largest city I built on the old platform,before I dumped all my old cities was "Cleve" (...Lando Hio was Mayor...) and I created it using--duh--Cleveland as a prototype.

THE LOST CITY OF CLEVE

I played with this city for about a year creating and destroying until I got what I wanted,then would visit from time to time to make changes.
The city's airport,sports complex(Browns 'n Indians Park),rail yards and major industrial zones were all along the waterfront,eventually bleeding into expensive waterfront suburbs;industry followed the river and the shore,and most outlying neighborhoods were clean and eventually became high value zones.

Since Cleveland actually had a pretty good rail transit system,so did Cleve.Trains encircled the area,and all the stations were heavily used.Freeways bordered the top and bottom of the area,and just like in Ohio the CBD is bordered by twin limited-access highways and reached over big river bridges:a dual-laned inner loop/parkway circles the central city.Traffic was always moving around the CBD.I tried to follow actual street patterns,although that did grow into problems at times,like when I introduced freeways in the late 40's.

I used the Gold Tower flanked by 2 Retail Exchanges for the actual Terminal Tower,built a Public Square with a lot of old and new Landmarks around it and down along"Euclid Ave"I created a Mansion area; I plopped out the skyscrapers,zoned the Commercial area and the neighborhoods and historic areas within the CBD and I had a fair representation of the real city's skyline.A LOT of trial and error there.

CL,Ohio has an extensive Parks system,and I tried to imitate that in the game,devoting large areas to greenspace.It also has a lot of universities,and I built several neat campuses,including a Gothic John Carroll Univ and a zoomy,21St Century Cleve State campus.They were all placed in approximation of how the real city is laid out.

Cleve got built out.I found myself making tough decisions about what to tear down.The city eventually became a set peice,something I'd visit from time to time to see how things were and to see what happened when I clicked it to run.The only thing I could do was destroy to rebuild,and that was senseless.
Cleve was created mostly through cheats and plops,although I did allow a lot of the outlying zoned areas to do whatever the game wanted.

Cleve followed the 1900 timeline.I tried to develop the game along the lines of Cleveland's 20th Century evolution.I had a Depression in the '30s,taxes went way up and the City floundered.
There were wars,when whole neighborhoods were sacrificed for wartime production.After the war,it turned residential again.I allowed several fiscal crises,like a year without water,to test and discourage the city's success,because no matter what I did to it,Cleve,from about 1945 onward was amazingly successful.
Also,it was one of the few towns I made where Sims actually used the Expressways.For whatever the reason,these guys LOVED the freeways.

After awhile,I stopped using "i am weak" and let tax money fund everything.Tax money funded the waterfront airport (a major plop job)--and even rebuilt it again,tax money funded the subway and it paid for a huge,inept and expensive freeway realignment job,one that turned into a 1960's urban renewal project and caused me to take out loans to continue it.Tax money built the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Foam (That was it's name.It was California Plaza)an elaborate waterfront complex that I had to put in the wrong place,way across town from where the real one is located.

Taxes reached and stayed at 3%-4%(unless I raised them to fund projects),and provided more than enough to play.
Cleve reached 400,000 in the 1970s and was at 720,000 when it passed on.

Despite long corridors of high-density apartments,Cleve was predominantly low/mid residential with large areas of dark blue Property Values.The whole map was blue,except for a few areas.Some res wound up in the Hot zone near the Power Plant Cluster and always stayed a slum no matter how many parks and museums I'd plop there,so I let them be the ghetto.Surprisingly,res areas near heavy industry became high and sometimes astronomical.

It had tax revenues of 35,000 simoleans per year,high satisfaction and land value indices,ICR graphs were showing slight but even demand ratios,and the city just plain worked!
On August 22,2005,when both our calendars coincided,it passed forever --along with East Jesus,,Gonzo Quarters,Drughole,N Upper Lower E Side (NULES),Villagetown City and Butt,Montana(a city with NO highrises).
Yet of all my cities on th old disc,Cleve was the favorite,the most successful,the one most missed.It had 360,000 s in the bank,was awaiting 40,000 more and EVERYBODY was happy.
Oh,by the way,I'm NOT from Cleveland.

[CC420]

My largest city is at 500 000 and still growing, up that is. Every square inch is built, minus the parks that will always stay. Infact I plan to increase park space by building more highrises while still getting the city to planned 1 million. This should be no problem since it is the main city of my region now at 2.5 million.

[Stratosphere 2020]

City has 745,000 people metro region 1.2 million souls.

[Matty]

How do you not have traffic and car crashes up the wazoo if you don't use a lot of one way streets, ave.'s, highways...?

I have ave.'s and subways everywhere but the traffic is always horrible and they don't even take the subway... which I don't know why.

Maybe you should start that tread. :)

In my experience, you need to combine systems.

A good subway system is nothing without a bus system backing it up. If you look in the STEX exchange, you'll find some stops that you can plop right on the road (but NOT in front of rez sqaures, mind you). I typically put two of those near each other, one for each road direction.
When I did this, car usage plummeted, and both subway AND bus usage went up past car usage. My traffic levels nearly halved.

[ltsmotorsport]

super sized rail yard
http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/7715/tdk2919lz.jpg

OK. I wanna know your trick with that railyard thingy there, wit all dat cargo.

[1ajs]

umm i just used the cargo lots from the airport packs on simtropolis..................

[1ajs]

umm i just used the cargo lots from the airport packs on simtropolis..................
as you can see in this region view
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/6825/tdk20ny.th.jpg (http://img465.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tdk20ny.jpg)

[1ajs]

umm i just used the cargo lots from the airport packs on simtropolis..................
as you can see in this region view
http://img465.imageshack.us/img465/6825/tdk20ny.th.jpg (http://img465.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tdk20ny.jpg)
http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/6705/tdk5el.th.jpg (http://img488.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tdk5el.jpg)

would like to add my completed airport in the next region over from my rail yard and a new image of my rail yard http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/7987/tdk3534jl.jpg
http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/9140/tdk4028eh.jpg

TDK is now at 3.5 mil plp as well
http://img486.imageshack.us/img486/1221/tdk437bs.jpg

[foxmtbr]

Simcity- 100,000?
SC2000- 2,000,000ish
SC3000- 1,049,000
SC4- 550,000 (i just got the game)

[The Jabroni]

320,000+ and counting with Sim City 4.

I just got the game a while back, and I'm on the starting map of Timbuktu. Though I did clear out the tutorial sites and stuff. My downtown region is called Utopia Planitia with a core population of around 210,000~.

[STR]

3 million plus a metro of 10. It was a beautiful looking city too.

Lost it in a HDD failure.

[seamus21514]

Mine was 3 mil in sc4. Very green, with large avenues, yet had really tall buildings

[StarmanO]

>_>

45,000

[TALLTOWER]

my largest city is at 1,759,098. i have spent a long time on it about 2 years to be exact. ill post images of it when i learn how to.:tup: :tup: :tup:

[althegreat III]

On Sim City 3 Unlimited I had a radiant metropolis of 2,2 million. Complete with skyscrapers, massive LRT and subway systems and low crime and heathy aura all around. And I don't use cheats.

Now I've just started Sim City 4 and all my Sim 3 skills are useless. Furthermore, how can you have more than 100 000 people in a city anymore, the maps in Sim 4 are so small??? And you can only chose the ones from the map!!!:hell: :hell: Oh and it lags like shit, and I have a G5!

[F-Misthebest]

My largest city was a little over 124,000 people. Not so big but I don't play it that often. My region was over 300,000 people.

[NcSc74]

The largest city overall I've built, was last year when I was building a huge metropolis. It was around the 550,000 mark. However, I personally don't build like that anymore, and I have to have plenty of trees, shrubs, greenery, etc. Not to mention, my triple highway and spaghetti junction takes up quite a bit of room.
I have been looking for the spaghetti junction and can't find it. I want it...I need it. Where did you get that.

[TWAK]

I got my city up around 450,000 and then residential went down the shitter and has not come back. So I filled the rest of the city up with industry and commercial
http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/9641/nr18ix.jpg
http://img107.imageshack.us/img107/7065/clipboard033xb.jpg

[foxmtbr]

:psycho:

Nice!

[clintmlutes]

i reached over 1 million (no cheats), but somehow could never get the freaking main train station nor the space port. and my environmental record was awful. traffic was pretty bad (although my mass transit network was enormous). i eventually deleted it because nothing happened anymore (no more special gifts, etc.) and it was more like work than play...now i'm building a much more liveable city with more space and green :) ...actually i just started playing a game called Black & White and i may never play again...

[DetroitSky]

On Sim City 3000-1,700,000
On Sim City 4-520,000

[LSyd]

i reached over 1 million (no cheats), but somehow could never get the freaking main train station nor the space port. and my environmental record was awful. traffic was pretty bad (although my mass transit network was enormous). i eventually deleted it because nothing happened anymore (no more special gifts, etc.) and it was more like work than play...now i'm building a much more liveable city with more space and green :) ...actually i just started playing a game called Black & White and i may never play again...

there's a bug with the main train station; you can't get it...unless you use "You Don't Deserve it" cheat, which unlocks all the rewards and stuff.

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[MolsonExport]

Being huge fan first of SimCity, then SC2000, then SC3000; SC4 has been a profound disappointment.

Far too much micromanaging, and quite frankly, the graphics are second-rate. A memory hog, with few redeaming features. Back to SC3000....

[_aLeHo_]

i don't speak english...
in spanish...

mi mayor ciudad 1'100.000
en la region: 14.000.000
saludos

[LSyd]

Being huge fan first of SimCity, then SC2000, then SC3000; SC4 has been a profound disappointment.

Far too much micromanaging, and quite frankly, the graphics are second-rate. A memory hog, with few redeaming features. Back to SC3000....

micromanaging...i didn't like it at first but now i like it, especially with transportation, SC4+Rush Hour plays like a model railroad. if it weren't for the simtropolis BATs, i probably wouldn't like SC4 that much. they also help make micromanaging a lot smoother. so i love SC4, although before Rush Hour came out, i'd gone back to SC3K.

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[effer]

I can't get past 35,000!

Damn I suck...

[HomeInMyShoes]

Just started playing SC4rh this weekend. Currently I have two cities one at about 50,000 and one at 92,000. SC2 skills seem to transfer pretty well.

[Gabo]

my last region shots

http://img201.exs.cx/img201/1857/region7ab3wn.jpg
http://img232.exs.cx/img232/4274/transportview7ab1rw.jpg


Oh My GOD!!!! Is very amazing..... Hey I have SimCity 4....
But that SimCty4 is another version? Since beams so that it leaves the map the region with freeways, railroads, etc? Please somebody that helps me, I want it to have!