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[jblack2010 25]

Hey sim world this my first post.i want to know what kind of city you guys are making.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Hey sim world this my first post.i want to know what kind of city you guys are making.

Welcome to the Conversation

With thousands of members you are going to get quite a few replies.

I've been playing as long as the game has been out, and I have evolved through several different styles. Currently, I am playing on coastal cities creating small towns and harbors, fishing villages, and recreational areas. In this region I also have two large port cities but the largest population in one of them is less than 200,000 scattered among several village/town areas on a large tile. I am getting to the point in that one where the scattered areas are starting to merge, but that is not a priority. My regional population is currently less than 450,000.

I play in a leisurely fashion. No rush, and carefully let the areas I plant grow organically. I hardly ever run above second gear, and often just leave things in the default (turtle). Being retired makes for lots of time to use up.

Think of the program as providing a canvas on which you may express your art, and I think you will come to the conclusion that many people who create City Journals have arrived at. Within the limitations of the program, you can do quite creative work. It is up to you as god to make things happen any way you like. The open-endedness of this program gives you scope for a lot of imaginative community building.

Here is an example of one of my shore installations.

There is a great deal of custom content here, but my plugins folder occupies only 236.8 MB (I don't put junk in my plugins folder), and this keeps me quite happy for now. BTW, nearly 40% of my plugins are Network Addon Modd related.

So, my friend, dive in, the water's fine.

[UncleSim 2]

Not my best, but a good one to show my general layout strategy... 'Waterfront' Pittsburgh

Surface Map

I started in the top left corner, and worked out from there. Hospital and school near center are higher-cap downloads which cover the whole city.

Traffic Volume

Blue means commercial demand. Some avenue segments have 3 tollbooths between intersections.

Subway Map

Notice I don't connect subways to neighbors. This forces traffic through the toll booths on the surface connections, which generates revenue. If it gets too congested, the option is always there.

RCI Demand

I have more CO capacity than necessary now, which is why those are low. Notice that I-D is low, but overall I is still positive. I-M demand keeps it up, but super HT demand and lower rate means that will usually be built instead.

Budget and Tax Panels

Note the Transportation revenue, primarily from tollbooths... also, the low R/C rates

  Edited October 18, 2011 by UncleSim  

[UncleSim 2]

FYI, I use no game cheats in the city above or any of my cities, just some expanded capacity toll booths, school, hospital, and mass transit stations, and start on the 'Hard' setting.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

FYI, I use no game cheats in the city above or any of my cities, just some expanded capacity toll booths, school, hospital, and mass transit stations, and start on the 'Hard' setting.

And I, on the other hand, am a blatant "cheat". I use a power building of my own design that supplies cheap unlimited power and eats pollution over a very wide radius, and a water plant that produces much water cheaply. When I start a city on hard, which is the only mode I play in, I often set the treasury to 500,000 using the moolah command. In cities with a sea coast I use the PEG garbage barges and if there is no seacoast, I use the black hole disposal system. I also make heavy use of the SPAM. I don't allow cities to go in the red. I simply moolah them back to solvency.

Since everything is so open ended, I have no compunctions whatever about acting like a god.

[jblack2010 25]

thanks for the post nice citys

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Well, best is a relative term. As of yesterday, this partially completed city is my best so far. I have made considerable use of PEG's CDK, CDK3 and CDKM packages to produce a neat inland sea with, so far, a residences by the sea section and at the other end of the tile, an industrial port. Sorry if the halves of this don't exactly match up, I had to join them with the GIMP and airbrush some of the errors.

[FreewayofFlight 41]

I like to create the illusion that the region is larger than it is by having seperate large cities spread apart by farmland and villages.

This is Miranova, I am very pleased with the skyline and the way it gently slopes up to the CN Tower and drops off at the freeway.

Port St. Hewlett is the region's first, and largest, city. It's a typical skyscraper thicket. The city proper is 400,000 and 600,000+ in the metro area.

This is Flynn City, which started out as a farming town. The city is the 'capital' of the region.

Here is Falcon Bay, I didn't intend this area to become a large city but I like how it turned out. Falcon Bay is the youngest city in the region.

Here is the region (not current) with Miranova (Middle Right), Port St. Hewlett (Bottom Right) and Flynn City (Top Left)

Falcon Bay is not pictured.

[jblack2010 25]

OK, guys. Love the post. Keep it coming.

[CaptCity 4,916]

Please don't "bump" posts if not contributing to the discussion. To see various techniques and styles, check out the City Building Concepts subforum. Or take a look at the CJ Section. There's many good ideas in either place. Thanks.

[Kruemel95 27]

Clasic sim city

[jblack2010 25]

Nice love it

[Terring 6,476]

Having in my mind this...

... I'm building this...