Suprematrix.sc3  1.0

The third city in Imperar's -Matrix series. The original blurb:

"Once again, my efforts and dedication to the SimCity 3000 world has produced yet another urban monster, one taking 3 weeks to construct. Completed in the year 10001, I behold to you all, the sequel to Unimatrix – Suprematrix.

Not only has it surpassed 4.2 million residents, but it has fully gained the A-level grades I have strived hard to obtain since 2004 at that population. To clarify, the ‘A-level grades’ I mention refers to the grading system that sc3000.com’s city center had used before it became historical – A-grade in aura, health, education, crime, traffic, pollution, land value, and unemployment. This city has it all.

Firstly, I started directly from scratch, raising the elevation much higher than any previous supercity I had built, in order to accommodate for tunnels. I then began building a temporary city at the center, that once big enough would be replaced by the actual permanent city.

Secondly, in comparison to the prequel, I opted to completely eliminate roads, which posed an entirely new yet interesting problem. Since I planned to have the RCI zones laid out in clusters just as before, without roads there is liability of having them abandoning (due to poor transportation) in large numbers. To solve this dilemma, I came up with a theoretical solution – cover the underneath of the city entirely with subways.

Thirdly, this time, I designed the shape of the RCI zone clusters in direct relationship to the classical layout model – a circular CBD superimposed onto the square map, with 4 smaller industrial squares located at the corners of the map, the rest being residential zones. The CBD disk, shaped as a circle – the perfect form – relates to the concept of an ideal and unified society, and also to the harmony of the microcosm and the macrocosm, like Leonardo Da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’. In which case, the city becomes a representation of the universe itself.

Fourthly, there are 49 modules that make up the collective whole of the city, which I developed from several tests not before, but during the making of the city. Unusual in design, these modules contain an irregular layout of subway stations, and houses structures for all sizes, that I admit I struggled to conceptualize at first and that I could have had improved. Nevertheless, all the modules in the city managed to fit well as whole sections, with a slight modification to the design at the edges of the city.

Fifthly, another varying property of the city is my choice towards the type of RCI buildings. Like Unimatrix, this city has only 3 types of 4x4 buildings, but what is different now is that the commercial and industrial buildings have changed.

Finally, I wanted Suprematrix to have yet another unique feature – a fully adequate recycling system. Another interesting fact during the making of the city was that I had attempted to add as many trees into the city as I possibly can, in order to get rid of the ‘city goes green’ message. Many parks and libraries were demolished in the attempt that ultimately led to failure. This led to a separate investigation to see how and when the message actually appeared, and also disappeared. The results revealed that the message never actually goes away once half of the tiles on any size map have been developed, no matter how many trees were added afterwards. Even though, an earlier part of the city’s history had proven that with the removal of the recycling centers and libraries, and the addition of many trees, the overall pollution came down to an incredible level 2, the cleanest ever attained at such a city size.

As always, NO cheats, hacks, trainers, plop buildings, sc2000 imports, etc, were used to make this city. NO automated software, robots, aliens, or anything else absurd for that matter either, despite what others may want to believe.

Thanks for listening and enjoy the city :-)

Imperar V Omnika"