SC4 unplugged

[Tysons4 68]

First thing i did was completely uninstalled the game (i backed all my plugins up)

i then installed the game, downloaded everything off sc4 site, and created a new region...

I then made it the only region i played and called it the Municipality Matrix and planned on creating a region wide city covering all land...

To simplify all small cities are districts, medium-sized are Zones, and Large are sectors...

To simplify more and make development fast i used the click-hold to fill an area and would jump between q and z  to zone low res and ag land.

res would be ploped in the middle area on flat land and ag would surround..

Things picked up as i developed district 43 in the center

After creating my vast network i decided to expand my region...

I created this page as a place to periodicly post imagaes of my region in progress...

Any comments questions or request would awesome

Thanks

[jacqulina 162]

interesting start my friend

[Tysons4 68]

jacqulina - thanks

[iGod 6]

Rather impressive idea! It would be cool to see if you can actually fill all the region with one massive city. Good effort and hope to see more soon.

[sobol 1]

Gonna keep my eyes on this one. I don't remember the last time I played without various downloads from ST.

[Za 164]

Wow, the region looks really nice so far and I look forward to seeing how this progresses

[Tysons4 68]

iGod: i know really huh!!! this region is a total of 176 small cities, 132 medium-sized and 20 large...

sobol: yeah, after playing with so many plugins for so long im dying to get back at the core of the simulator...

Za:... maybe time for quick update on what happens in a city viewed for the first time eh?

Firstly: I plot...

how about the sims live on the islands...

hold the low res tool in the center of an area and...

then build a bridge... this island is too small for a ferry

Then get some power lines in place in areas that cannot be reached

then zone with the same zone style all the rest of your simolions away on ag land

No more money... take a loan and finish zoning

Starved for power sims in this town only get 3 wind power...

it will suffice as the zones develop

Some buildings i dont like are starting to pop up...

Bulldozer!!!

ahh much better...

the city completly develops in minimal time...

ehh.... could be little less water polution...

but save to region (f8=magic)

this game trys to hard to pull you in and make you play till ctd...not me...

Doesnt look too bad on the region map... all the green fields make it look pretty nice... one would think a nice place to fish....

maybe some other day...

[jim 546 43]

There should be no need for that power line between the two islands, as bridges can carry power. It's an interesting journal, although the region looks a bit sporadic.

[Tysons4 68]

jim 546: good call on the powerline, but i just add them for color. Thanks for your comment... sporadic yes... and as they come together i hope it gives me the most organic looking region wide city i could hope to create.

it's going to be a big job

[Cleaner475 150]

Really interesting project you've got here - I've seen a few in the past on different websites but I don't think anyone one of the ones I've seen has tried to use as big a region as you, this is going to be pretty good

Hope you keep going at it.

Regards,

Richard

[Tysons4 68]

Cleaner475: yeah i hope to keep going with this... i am over half done with zoning already

I will move on to phase 2 after i finish the zones..

phase 2 is streets to roads...

(phase 3 is mass transit

[Tysons4 68]

New city being planned...

zoning is nearing completion and networks are taking shape

existing area:

area for Living new business and international airport

completed project:

should i zone on the brown or the green farms?

zoning on green will give me dry looking cities... zoneing on the brown will give me green cities

and remeber... no plugins... so pm me (:

[PhatHead 247]

Wow what a big region hope it works well. looks like you have a super start.

[Tysons4 68]

PhatHead: this is only a fraction of what i want my city to become...

And the Region Now sits on a coast:

[sandroalexis 2]

whow, double whow this is huge

[Timmystwin 201]

. All i can say.

[SimCity4IE 202]

Awesome!! I love how big the region is! This is going to be such a cool cj

[tarrina 2]

Wow... I'm REALLY impressed by your commitment to this massive project. As "sporadic" as it may be, what you've done so far reminds me a lot of the middle part of America with its unending fields and random cities popping up here and there. My only suggestion would to build up more around the water ways as you develop in the future. Great job!

[Slashback 136]

Interesting concept, hope to see a lot more!

[Legobuilder123 24]

Make more of this CJ sir!I like it,and btw keep it up!

[Tysons4 68]

sandroalexis: enjoy

Timmystwin: thanks!

SimCity4IE: youl love this quick update

tarrina: im going to try and not give up on you... ill show my new water cities shortly

ImVhOzzi: thanks... i thought why not just make a huge city... here it starts

Legobuilder123: thanks for you comments...

and thank you readers...

i uncovered 2 new areas that are going to be protected from development

my landscaping made these 2 places unique... one looks like a mine and the other looks like a giant stone city... both are now protected areas

Every 5 sectors = 44 Districts and 33 zones

total region size=  40 sectors

[Legobuilder123 24]

This is great Tysons4! I like how you terraform your region too!Also you should keep the water pollution down too for the river in the region clear as crystal.

[Patricius Maximus 236]

This is a fascinating, as as far as I know, unique endeavour you have going here. I hope you can make a beautiful region with a no-plugin Simcity 4.

[LironTheChick 20]

This CJ is really great. Good to see a person who doesn't use much custom content make a CJ, and not just a CJ, a mega CJ.

[asmol 1]

Awesome work love how u dived straight in and made it happen.

[TheFelican 0]

DEAR LORD! Great idea you got there, I'm looking forward to see how large this gets if you keep it going for another half-year.

[Tysons4 68]

Legobuilder123: i will try to keep pollution down... every city with an area next to water will get maxis' wonderful water treatment plant... just for you...should make the water pristine

Patricius Maximus: every time i look at cjs it is page after page of special buildings and props and road stuff... the core simulator has it all, and i think it is all very pretty

noypi07 if a mega cj is over 720 cities then indeed this is mega...(just imagine if i wanted to add a water mod... it would take eons) it's hard to even play the game i spend forever just gawking at the region map

asmol: yeah i was doing this for myself but then i thought 'maybe i should show others' it may look like i have just dived in... but i have been constructing this for almost a year.. maybe over 5000 hours already

TheFelican: welcome to simtropolis.. thank you for posting here first! ... lets just say you start a new region.... do that 8 times and thats what i have now... im hoping to double that... or maybe quadruple it to square it out a bit better...

to everybody else: if you would like to see my region in your game personal message me and ill see what i can do... oh and if you know a site where i can upload ginormous photos i would create a city map for everyone to see... however the picture is over 10mb...

this is a simple pic showing how im nearing completion of the 'hard' zone's zoning

maybe in the next update i will have enough roads laid out where i wont be embarassed over my transport map... some cities have very bad traffic, but it's beacuse they dont have any roads; only streets

only one more Sector and 22 more Zones before Hard is complete

my difficulty setting map:

and if you want to see how big this city is so far make a new region and replace the config bmp with this one

[Walden95 8]

Sorry for being a pain but I'd like to ask where do you download this tool that allows you to expand and form your region like that. I've been lurking around here and other places for years and have yet to find a tool like this.

[Tysons4 68]

Originally posted by: walden

Sorry for being a pain but I'd like to ask where do you download this tool that allows you to expand and form your region like that. I've been lurking around here and other places for years and have yet to find a tool like this.quote>

it is really simple... open your documents go to simcity 4 and open your regions... open the bmp for the region you want to enlarge with paint... zoom in to max (it's usually very small) move the borders out a bit... and add the colors for the new citys... can only work from the top corner out... unless you dont mind losing your region

what i'm doing for this is copying the region that is there and squaring it out by adding one to the right, bottom and bottom corner.

then after i render the ground by opening simcity 4 and loading the region i quit and open the simcity 4 terraformer and spend some time editing the terrain...

then i painstakingly open all the citys and save back to region so they are all the same color...

with that being said i have completed zoning the 'hard' section... all loans have been paid back and every city is in the black, meaning they are making lots of money

currnet region population 1,893,486

commerical 307,407

industrial 674,197

region shot:

current region size: 970mb

next steps... busy streets to roads dirty industrial for flat cities with no water spots and commerical offices in heavy traffic cities... also i need to start naming the cities in the bald areas and i might expand it one more time to develop some island cities and maybe start another contenent... this is 1/4 of the the total region size i hope to achieve... lets see you do that cites xl

my next updates will be of completed individual cities... i might do them 10 at a time since there are 720 cities all together in this region... i might even start a cj in the other thread so i can post all the individual city styles i hope to achieve... all res... all commerical... all industry... garbage cities, power cities, laying public transport lines, cities using only huston, only new york, euro contemporary, only light, medium and dense... how to use buildings efficently  ect... there are so many faces to this game that even without plugins it is still grand!

2 more things:

does anybody know where i can upload my zoomed region shot? it's over 23mb and super awesome...

does anyone know how to sort the region census under the city info tab... it makes it hard to find things... nothing big i just want to know what has the most and the least of things...

thank you all for reading, comments, and requests! i love simcity4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and if anyone wants my region in their game pm me... everyone needs a giant city to toy with

[Walden95 8]

Originally posted by: Tysons4

Originally posted by: walden

Sorry for being a pain but I'd like to ask where do you download this tool that allows you to expand and form your region like that. I've been lurking around here and other places for years and have yet to find a tool like this.quote>

it is really simple... open your documents go to simcity 4 and open your regions... open the bmp for the region you want to enlarge with paint... zoom in to max (it's usually very small) move the borders out a bit... and add the colors for the new citys... can only work from the top corner out... unless you dont mind losing your region

what i'm doing for this is copying the region that is there and squaring it out by adding one to the right, bottom and bottom corner.

then after i render the ground by opening simcity 4 and loading the region i quit and open the simcity 4 terraformer and spend some time editing the terrain...

then i painstakingly open all the citys and save back to region so they are all the same color...

with that being said i have completed zoning the 'hard' section... all loans have been paid back and every city is in the black, meaning they are making lots of money

quote>

Thank you. I'll try that out soon.

I'll have to back up first though.