Show us your WORST cities

[hobostank 8]

So whats is your worst city?I don't know it so please tell us.

[Compromise 1]

Well this is a good idea for a thread but I don't really have any worst cities to show so I look forward to seeing others.

[Jerebannus XVI 7]

i have some rubbish cities that i made even before i had Rush Hour so they're quite old, i used to play a lot with them so they're very developed and have 700k+ pop. i used some of the names from Phillip Pullman's majestic trilogy (His Dark Materials), the Region is called The Gavillespian Federation, then i have names like Belaqua City, The Dunes, Botanic Garden (which is the name of the last chapter of the Amber Spyglass, the last novel) i have other names like Pekkala City and many more, by the way i would encourage anyone to read those novels, they are excellent., i will be posting the pics soon when i take the photographs.

[ThePeoplesPerson 3]

I deleted all my bad cities long ago, so I don't really have any under par left...

[franky_83 8]

Let's see...I keep on deleting my cities and regions...I guess all my cities are crappy...that's why I delete them lol

[mpetryni 0]

I'm afraid i have no pictures, but i know of some excellently horrible cities friends have made.

Among these wrecks are the sleepy little town of Please Save and Don't Delete. Most of the time, my friend played for only about 20 minutes at a time, powered his city by Wind Power alone, and watered it by Water Towers alone. However, they were pretty funny to look at.

 

One bad city was naturally destroyed in what I believe may have been one of the worst demand caps ever. The population was just over 160,000, and when taxes were upped .2% in Residential brackets, Sims emigrated in mass numbers, shrinking the city by 70,000 people in less than a year. Instead of lowering taxes and destroying civic buildings rendered useless by the exodus, he resorted to loans to continue operating a level of service. To keep in the black, my friend floated loans to pay the operating expenses, hoping his precious Sims would someday return.

 

He was ousted from office (bankruptcy) paying $15,000 per month in debt service with a population of 21,200 and negative demand across the board. I felt so sad. I've never seen such a collapse before. Cities are delicate organisms - handle them carefully. Or just patch your way out of it, I suppose that's an option, ethical dilemmas aside.

[Pepster 1]

Don't you think, that a bad city isn't just one with declining population, but also with out eye candy appeal, a square city, with a boring grid, and kinda boring, lacking of parks, and even for the sims no mather how digital are they, consider the city boring and with out diversions and such things like landmarks to increase the land value and desirability, lol... i think that maybe even today i have some cities like that, but after a time i try to upgrade the entertaiment, build parks and reduce pollution, also limiting population when traffic goes bad (i have one suburb on the map of boston, and with 100,000 people, the NAM and in a mid sized city its having heavy traffic elsewhere, even in the freeway system, i have residential halver and even so, the population its way too high, also traffic and still half of the map space its free, so im starting a green proyect, to build a large park).

so i thing a bad city should be broadly rated by several factors, not just economic and demografic ones, after all declining population in a central city, con be compensated by surging sprawling suburbs, and that turns the city in to a suburbanization phase, more than a economic decline.

 

P.Polari

[toxicpiano 125]

You don't want to know.

[ephorex_77 0]

I think I may have one in mind, but I'll post pictures a little later. I'm taking a break from ST for a while.

[FavreKev04 13]

Just to tell you all my city that where my worst I deleted and never want anyone to see what monsters I made

[cucurbitac 0]

Hi guys ,

 

     I deleted all my bad cities .But for you , I'm going to build a awful city , with pollution , corruption,  nasty buildings and some others great things .

     I'm not really attached to my sims (but they said I'm a good Mayor ); they're living in my cities only for experimentation...(just streets and boats , no police to see holligans...)

   

The great Mayor.

 

cucurbitac

[Facelessman 5]

This is only a medium sized city, but it's still pretty bad.  I threw it together really fast...

[newy2 0]

Facelessman: thats a pretty good city if u put it up pretty fast, sometimes if i try to put together a city fast i dont even end up wit a city wit growth lol

peace

[Yajimari21 0]

lol Facelessman... if u added some terraces... used the slope mod... leveled terrain that the buildings were on... added more trees and parks.. then it would completly turn around ^-^

[Facelessman 5]

Lol, well I don't care about the city....which is why I didn't put any time into it.  It just sits there near the corner of my region.

[Jerebannus XVI 7]

Date: 7/9/2005 2:23:40 AM Author: Yajimari21 lol Facelessman... if u added some terraces... used the slope mod... leveled terrain that the buildings were on... added more trees and parks.. then it would completly turn around ^-^

quote> Yes but most of the time trees fon't grow oh steep hills like that one, he's probs tried it but it might on have worked.

[atomius 0]

that image gave me the shivers. my worst city is more of a 'worst on purpose one. it is in weast trotskakja. The only thing in it is a road connecting two cities and an army base, toxic waste dump, missle testing range and area5.1. Yup. all because i wasnted to drive a tank.

[Compromise 1]

That remins me of my first city.

[TheCrybKeeper 278]

 

[TheCrybKeeper 278]

All of my cities. I am never satisfied and my grids are boring. 

[+Guest]

I have mastered the art of crap looking cities.I would post a pic but I'm afraid a bunch of ya would toss your cookies.

[AtkinsSJ_ 7]

I did a lot of boring grid cities up until recently. But now I'm doing a purposely bad city, Pollutonia. It was going to just be industrial, but demand dropped so I had to add residential and commercial. The life expectancy dropped to about 45 or something, and the education was terrible! But it still had a huge res demand.
EDIT: w00t! 20 posts!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

i dont have a worst city.

[mentarman 14]

Guess we're all too proud to show off our crummiest cities! Like a lot of other people, I haven't bothered to keep my failures around.

[13thRaptor 0]

This is my worst, i abandoned it months ago and stayed behind.. It wasnt that bad, but it refused to grow, and taxes just barely covered the expenses, mass transit was overloaded, and with no $$ to invest i just gave up.

I just started it to take a SS, but suddenly i was having a 2k money surplus.. for whatever reason.

[hobostank 8]

well not many pic's but thats alright.Anyone else wanna post some?

[sloppet 3]

well, just go and look for my cj's in the city journal section....

[RedImperator 16]

Date: 7/7/2005 1:31:13 PM
Author: Pepster

Don't you think, that a bad city isn't just one with declining population, but also with out eye candy appeal, a square city, with a boring grid, and kinda boring,

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By what measure is this a bad city? Grids are efficient and waste no space. That's why they're used in real life. Diagonal streets look neat, but have you ever tried navigating a 5, 7, or 9 point intersection? And it's worse in SC4 because the game isn't smart enough to turn the buildings diagonal to match the street.

By this standard, Manhattan north of 26th St. is a bad city because it's an unbroken grid all the way to Harlem (except for Broadway).

lacking of parks, and even for the sims no mather how digital are they, consider the city boring and with out diversions and such things like landmarks to increase the land value and desirability, lol...

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Depends on the kind of city you're trying to build. Obviously, if the goal is a reasonably balanced community, you need to boost land value. But suppose you're trying to model a gritty mill town? Or an industrial city that frees its neighbors from building dirty industry? In those cities, parks are a waste of space and money.

so i thing a bad city should be broadly rated by several factors, not just economic and demografic ones, after all declining population in a central city, con be compensated by surging sprawling suburbs, and that turns the city in to a suburbanization phase, more than a economic decline.

P.Polari

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The most important factor is and always should be, Does this city work as intended? Total demographic collapse followed by bankrupcy is a failure no matter how you slice it (I invite you to tell the residents of Buffalo, Detroit, Youngstown, Flint, Newark and other Rust Belt cities that the state of their central cities does not, in fact, represent an economic decline), but past that there should be different measures. If the city of Industry City is all belching smokestacks and sky ghettoes, it's a success. If the city of Parkside Heights looks the same, it's a failure.

[coolotter88 2]

darn! and i thought my perfectly rectangular grids were pretty!

beyond the dazzling glass and steel jungle of east argon and argonia lies a perpetual area of churning smog. with some tall smokestacks and chimneys belching out more smoke and pollutants to add to this toxic air mixture.

[hobostank 8]

Wow...dude thats uhhhh........killing the o-zone!