Taking your time

[Dizastrow 4]

I have a tendancy to overbuild when I start a new city.

I was just wondering, in past Simcity games Ive taken my time building a city, starting out slow and only building things when the advisors told me too, or until absolutely necessary.  

Do the same principles apply to SC4?  Im thinking about starting a city and trying it out.  

Any success stories?

[SeeSpotSplat 0]

I know that my favorite cities are the ones that I spent hours on a single interchange making sure all the terraforming and roads work perfectly and then getting trees to grow right and integrating it into the rest of the map. When I spend a lot of time on one map it tends to have very cool details that don't come out if I just lay down a fast grid.

Aside from aesthetics, it also looks like land values are higher when you zone slowly and let those zones develop. Also it gives you time to figure out funding perfectly.

[Dizastrow 4]

I have a tendancy to hurry up and build a lot of  zones.  Then I run into problems.

Now that I am married and have a full time job I rarely find time to play SC4.

When I was in college I played SC2000 for hours and hours and had time to take it easy and slowly build my cities.