Your Best Cities

[simcityplyr100 2]

Dear Simcity Players,

I am new at this game and I just opened a profile on this website a few days ago. Can you show me some pictures of your best cities to help me get started. Some tips would also be appreciated.

Sincerely,
simcityplyr100

[deeejayeee 0]

go through the 'City Journal' menu and you'll find many

[alexbieiniek 0]

im trying to find a tut on how to start a city, no luck for me.

[Acadi 0]

1. Plop a powerplant, or windmill.

2. Water pump, water pipes.

3. build roads

4. zoneresidential

5. zoneindustial

6. budget balancing, kee growing, DO NOT LOWER TAXES. 9% is good.

7.keepzoning.

8. when you havelots of money startproviding schools.

that shouldget you started. just always keep a goodbudget and you should be fine. to keep a good budget you just gotta zone more.

[Ecania 6]

Here is a link on some tips to play simcity, good luck with ur city.

http://www.gamesover.com/walkthroughs/simcity_4.txt

[therealcdg 0]

Note that this tutorial is how I've created many of my larger cities. It may not be the best, as I'm definately not the best Simcity player here.

If your afraid of micromanagement, the below would be how I'd create a city in one tile.

1. Pick a region and terraform.

2. Create power plant, if a polluter, it should be towards the side or corner of the map.

3. Around the power plant, you should create medium density industry.

4. When you first start the game, you don't need a highway or mass transit, but it usually helps to plan ahead at this point. I usually start with a simple A-B-A rail-line.

5. Zone residential about half way across the map from the industry. I say halfway because that allows people to get to work quickly and they don't get the full brunt of the pollution.

6. Zone commercial between the residential and industrial areas.

7. Provide an elementary school in the core of your residential area. If your budget is good, you might also want to start a 1/4 funded hospital, and increase as your city grows. Make sure your not putting to much money into your services.

8. Do some U-Drive-Its or try to get some awards. Commercial growth has always been important to me, but I've been told it isn't as important as providing industrial jobs.

9. If your going for realism, keep to low density residential until a reasonable population. 50,000-100,000 is what I usually wait for. If your not, I would zone higher as soon as possible.

If you are fine with a little bit of tile-flipping...

1. Make a coal power plant in one tile. Surround it with high-density industry.

2. Create power lines and a surplus of transit options. Sims don't travel quickly between tiles.

3. In the region without the plant, make the residential and commercial as close to the jobs as possible. You would probably want to create the residential right up against the tile edge, and the commercial on the other side to avoid congestion.

4. Since your only paying for 1000Mwtz of power from your polluting tile, you should be able to afford schools and a medical clinic unless you want to go with a hospital.

[ac94 5]

If you want to see big cities. Just go to my thead for large cities: Largest City Ever

Here's the link: 

http:

//www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=23&threadid=96174&highlight_key=y&keyword1=ac94

[Haljackey 17,302]

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Originally posted by: alexbieiniek im trying to find a tut on how to start a city, no luck for me.quote>

Here is one: 

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=79659&enterthread=y

This should help ya out!

Best,

-Haljackey