Show me your ...population!

[xXZoraLinkXx 5]

As the title says, another 'Show me your'-Thread. I'd like to see what the best population is you could reach yet inbetween ONE CITYBOUND.
Screens may be showed, too.

 

So here I go:

 

City's called 平和の都市 [Hei-wa-no-to-shi]

On EUW 3

Region 'WorldRecords'

Population: varies on about 375.000

 

 

Tell me your's population!

 

[p30pl3h4t3m3 0]

[Superbacon 380]

I didn't know you could build the Tokyo Tower in this game. Looks a little sad and short though. 

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

I didn't know you could build the Tokyo Tower in this game. Looks a little sad and short though. 

 

All the large monuments have been scaled down, that's why I could never plop down the Empire State Building or the Sears Tower because they have been horribly scaled down.

[shockingelk 0]

This is the only city that's made it past 150K or so for me.

 

[p30pl3h4t3m3 0]

I didn't know you could build the Tokyo Tower in this game. Looks a little sad and short though. 

 

i play the digital deluxe version of this game, maybe thats the reason. and dont worry about bigger buildings, there enough attractions that steal a lot of space. in this city i only build attractions for the $ and $$ society. cause it was the first city in region and no support from other cities. and btw, the tokio tower is high, its looks smaller cause all other are high/big 2 ;-) in the backround it's the "willis tower" (527,3 m building top) that is even higher as empire state building (443,2 m top) and the tokio tower (332,6 m top) is still 1/2 of this.the scale maybe not perfect compared to RL, buts it's still one of the higher (not bigger ;-)) buildings... who cares, its a game.

 

i think to get higher population (500.000+) , you have to go for water/energy ressources and build industrial/education/etc (stuff like that) from other cities to "feed the meat machine". autonomous supply maybe with hightech/$$$ population, but don't really know cause i play since 3 days and still $%&^! ;-)

[AlexMBrennan 11]

My city has reached an equilibrium at 450k with massive unemployment/houses being abandoned due to "no money" (I could replace minimally developed residential areas with industry but that, too, would restrict population growth).

I suspect that the best way of doing things is to place an industrial city connected by rail nearby to provide jobs and utilities.

Education is fine - high schools are very compact and I really wouldn't want 10k students clogging up the streets heading to uni.

[Matt20030 6]

City capps at 930k before dieing. last pic i took at 904k People moved out due to lack of cash. Didnt supply enough industry. As of yet im still trying to recreate this city and do even better without the 0% no util bug xD

 

Ps: Sorry the pic is editied, it was a 3mb file and i can only upload a 1 mb file so ya :L

[xXZoraLinkXx 5]

Wow.. my respect, that's extreme... Anyhow, how did you managed it to become THAT big? Is there something special, or what happened?

City capps at 930k before dieing. last pic i took at 904k People moved out due to lack of cash. Didnt supply enough industry. As of yet im still trying to recreate this city and do even better without the 0% no util bug xD

 

Ps: Sorry the pic is editied, it was a 3mb file and i can only upload a 1 mb file so ya :L

[Matt20030 6]

Honestlly i believe it was abit of luck. But also all low wealth pop, keeping taxes as low as fiscally possible and giving them only the neccesities; Power, Water, Sewage, and Healthcare. That was essentially how i did it. haha

[drunkapple 1,743]

G'Day,

 

Well I have been giving SC5 a bit of a whirl ;<). (no maps or UI work, oops) , anyhow just got this thing over 600 thou. It's ugly and all low wealth like Matt's above but very strong with room to move (I hope).

 

 

Cheers

drunk(always)

[Matt20030 6]

hey mine isnt ugly its beutiful

[Errant318 0]

Does low wealth residential apartments have the highest population?

[Matt20030 6]

Does low wealth residential apartments have the highest population?

yes.

[xXZoraLinkXx 5]

So you actually stuff People into the City like fish in a box, huh? ^^

[drunkapple 1,743]

The proverbial tin of sardines

 

 

[JimCityBuilder 14]

So if this is all people can get their population numbers to then how exactly can anyone get the achievement of pop. 2,000,000 ?

 

Jim

[JamieRamsey2005 28]

Reached 603,000 Population with a mining/smelting specialization. A 81% approval rate. A 5k tax profit and a 1.8M monthly profit. A 12% tax rate. Single city, no other cities in the region, one main avenue, all T junctions. 1X4 and 1X2 blocks with only one side of each road having zoning.

 

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64285054/601.PNG

[xXZoraLinkXx 5]

Reached 603,000 Population with a mining/smelting specialization. A 81% approval rate. A 5k tax profit and a 1.8M monthly profit. A 12% tax rate. Single city, no other cities in the region, one main avenue, all T junctions. 1X4 and 1X2 blocks with only one side of each road having zoning.

 

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64285054/601.PNG

Wow, Looks very good! I actually have the problem with my new cities that I start having financial diseases and traffic is f***ed, too... But I see, you're having some lovely traffic jams there, too. Is your traffic flowing, or is ist more 'stationary'? ^^

[JamieRamsey2005 28]

Traffic moves, it is just very congested. At the 400-600k range traffic gets really clogged up, but is still moving. Services get slowed though so I have to use the bulldozer periodically. Overall it is stable with a bit of tending. I posted a start to finish of this map in the tips and experiments thread I started. 60+ images and better than that image actually.

[morriswalters 16]

Mine, No mass transit. self contained RC city.  Currently suffering from the pollution bug.

[tnobles 38]

You mean like this incomplete one

 

So if this is all people can get their population numbers to then how exactly can anyone get the achievement of pop. 2,000,000 ?

 

Jim

Four like this would do;