When is your city finished?

[JewelsMax 0]

Do you ever get satisfied with where your city is at and declare it finished? Or do you continue all your cities onward and upward? 

Often with the smaller maps, I build little farming towns, and when the map is full, the city is finished. Am I denying my cities their maximum potential?

What do you do? Is your city ever finished?

[SC4BOY 20]

Nope. when you're done, you're done.. and YOU decide ..

[Darth Apple 54]

I'm finished once I decide I'm tired of the current city. That usually happens when it is difficult to continue growth on that city; when it has reached its maximum potential.

-blakesterville.

[newweatherman 0]

I get bored of it and then unleash the Robots.

[Nuclear550 3]

You can always diversify your region and try new stuff. For instance make your farming villages into soaring downtowns or try making ghetto areas, Try making it more realistic.

[local_authority01 3]

I am finished with a region once I have filled all the tiles and growth staggnates.   I have gone back to these finished cities after some region play to try to get them to grow upwards, but it can be hard to export demand like this with no room to grow.

[Eggy 8]

I think that the maximum population of a medium sized map is about 130 million. I filled with only the brown apartment that allows 3120 sims, but though I put numerous tennis courts, there was no demand.

[Deathcat001 8]

Originally posted by: Eggy

I think that the maximum population of a medium sized map is about 130 million. I filled with only the brown apartment that allows 3120 sims, but though I put numerous tennis courts, there was no demand.quote>

Not really. There are some high wealth buildings which can go down wealth levels (And as they do that population goes up). For instance i have high wealth buildings (New York style) which can house 3000 $$$ people. Downgrade this to $ you can have 15,000 In one 4x4 block. I dont have any SS's as my SC4 disk is gone.

[Yonk 2]

I have a bad habit of not finishing things, so many of my regions just get abandoned after I hit an impossible spot or just get bored with it all. I used to have an initial plan for everything, and once I got that far, I'd leave the city and work on something else, but now I'm doing things a bit differently. Since I'm planning on doing a CJ for my latest region, it would be really boring to just have everything perfect and only have static pictures with no changes... so I decided to build about halfway towards where I want each city, and then stablize them. Once I start the CJ, I'll continue building them up until they reach the point where there's basically nothing else to do. I'm emulating (not exactly copying, though) an area of real-world cities, and none of them are gigantic skyscraper metropolises, so once the city limits are filled with suburbs, the farming areas have been farmed, and the downtown is good and full, I'll probably stop. But it's not like I can really tell exactly when that will occur, it's just whenever it looks complete to me, and nice, and I've given every part of every tile consideration and proper details.

- Yonk

[local_authority01 3]

130 million residents, with at least half in the workforce, need a lot of space to work in and must wrek havoc on your transport network and transit capacities.

Desingnating regions for a specific purpose like suburbs can be fun too and it will really make your region view look nice.  If your doing a CJ you might want to jump from region to region after they get filled.  Maybe start with a suburban style road layout and then expand from there.  I would like to see a CJ that shows how to build a city astheticly and how to transfer demand from my suburb regions to my commercial districs.  I would also like to see ways a city with high R$$ + R$$$ desirability can maintain its R$ inhabitants.

[martin722 0]

I just downloaded it and start to play. Don't when it'll be finished.....

[MandelSoft 2,769]

I always consider my cities as quite finished, but never completely finished.

[BattleshipAgincourt 1]

I really enjoy the process of building up a city from scratch, going through the transition from balancing my budget to attracting high-wealth residents and beyond. Then there comes a point after about a decade or two when I get so much wealth and growth stagnates. The oldest city I've EVER built is only about 30 years old. I haven't even gotten to the point where building reach the end of their lifespan.

It's when there's nothing but an ever increasing surplus of money that I lose all interest and go to the next city.

[Nuclear550 3]

You can destroy in fancy ways

[pagenotfound 53]

My cities are never finished, unless i get angry and throw meteors at them.