Show us your... r-r-r-r-r-repetition-n-n-n-n!

[Lucario Boricua 7,062]

Uuuuhhhh...

 

 

 

[Arn71 806]

Well, I was going for a Chicago 3-flats neighborhood... so I guess my plan succeeded:

[Denim Destroyer 11]

On 9/19/2019 at 12:01 PM, Arn71 said:

Well, I was going for a Chicago 3-flats neighborhood... so I guess my plan succeeded:

Has a nice comblock vibe going on.

This one is a couple months ago. At the time I didn't quite understand how the demand system worked.

[Naomi57 2,985]

I zoned a set of 3x4s, and was a tad surprised when all these Impeccable Tenements suddenly grew on the northern banks of the Charles River, in Boston.

At about 2500 R$ sims in each one, I then spent the next few weeks getting them all employed!

Ten ferry terminals, two monorail stations, a brand new monorail network, a whole new commercial zone, and a new neighbour city with a mass of industry, and phew, I managed to get rid of the last No Job Zot.  It makes me sad to see unemployed sims.  

That was with SimCity 4 Rush Hour vanilla, and it was a tad bit harder back then, to find those unfit sims happy commutes with a minimum of walking distance!  

[infamousjbe 593]

On 11/14/2019 at 4:11 AM, Naomi57 said:

At about 2500 R$ sims in each one, I then spent the next few weeks getting them all employed!

 

You're nicer to your Sims than I am. Those buildings never would have stayed. I don't bend to my Sims. lol 

[Naomi57 2,985]

2 hours ago, infamousjbe said:

You're nicer to your Sims than I am. Those buildings never would have stayed. I don't bend to my Sims. lol 

I still like to be nice to them, but I'm getting better at bending those sims to my will these days.

"You will build your tenement where I tell you, and no where else!"  

I've a mean trick up my sleeve now.  I run the simulator several times on Cheetah mode (aka "Cheater"?), to see what happens, then I go back and tweak some things, turning hindsight into foresight.  Those sims cannot trip up a Mayor who has foreknowledge of what the future holds.  The transient aura effect rather comes in handy, too, for making development happen where I want it.

[Haljackey 17,440]

[infamousjbe 593]

On 11/17/2019 at 9:25 PM, Naomi57 said:

 The transient aura effect rather comes in handy, too, for making development happen where I want it.

I tend to use the God Mode trees as a way of saying "HEY LOOK AT THIS ZONE, I WANT YOU TO PAY ATTENTION TO THIS ZONE"!    Not even sure if that works or not, but I do it anyways. lol

[Naomi57 2,985]

On 22/12/2019 at 9:26 PM, infamousjbe said:

I tend to use the God Mode trees as a way of saying "HEY LOOK AT THIS ZONE, I WANT YOU TO PAY ATTENTION TO THIS ZONE"!    Not even sure if that works or not, but I do it anyways. lol

Oooh, that's interesting, I've been using Mayor mode trees for that job.  I'll try God mode trees and see if that works just as well.  :-)

[Aracari 23]

A clerical error resulted in Depiesse's Diner Inc. accidentally approving 77 adjacent franchises along a single road in the same small city. Against all expectations, especially as none of the lots are large enough to offer parking, every single location has thrived. The company is baffled, and the local university has a dedicated team of economists so far unable to explain the phenomenon. A thorough investigation by local police has ruled out the initial suspicions of money laundering.

[this picture only shows about half of this continuous strip!]

[CorinaMarie 29,934]

2 minutes ago, Aracari said:

A clerical error resulted in Depiesse's Diner Inc. accidentally approving 77 adjacent franchises along a single road in the same small city.

Overheard:

Where do want to go for lunch?

Depiesse's Diner.

Duh, I know that. I mean which one?

[RobertLM78 1,598]

Sometimes this behavior in SC4 has me thinking of the communist blocks in eastern Europe and Russia: 

"Zis good block, I like zis block"  <repeats block 30 times>

[Naomi57 2,985]

Where's Wally?
... I mean where's wally's twins?
... I mean where are all these twins?

Anybody else remember "Where's Wally"?

SimCity seems to have a penchant for raising up two identical buildings, right next to each other.  Most of the time it doesn't, of course, but every once in awhile.  I usually do a "Mark Historical" on them when they happen, because it's cute.  I do wonder if it's completely random, or if there is some kind of a building magnet that attracts particular lots to certain areas.

Here's one such scene in my Breezy Point large city tile (my first inner-city tram suburb), which makes me feel sure that there really must be a building magnet at work.  Sometimes I push the game for these twins, using the bulldozer, but this time, every single one of these twins came up all by itself.  

Anyone wanna play?  There's 19 twins in the picture, pairs of buildings, the exact same building type and size, adjacent, sharing a side, not just a corner — immediately adjacent, not just across the street — a pair of just two buildings, not counting threes, fours and more.  To make things a wee bit tricky, some of the buildings are rotated.  There are:

• 1 pair of government funded plops.
• 3 pairs of high density residential.
• 7 pairs (ooops, 8 pairs) of commercial lots, along avenues and beachfront.
• 7 pairs of medium density residential

Can you spot them?   
( solution picture in the hidden section below ... or just click on the picture and use arrow keys to see )    

There's at least two tiny little low density residential twins, too, rounding out the total to 21, but I didn't include them because they're too darn hard to see.    

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Spoiler

.... oooops, 19 of them, not 18!  

 

[Haljackey 17,440]

9 of the same thing at once!

[Haljackey 17,440]

Ready for harvest

[Naomi57 2,985]

Here's Green Meadows, my latest suburb in Jamaica Bay.  The meadows here used to be green, at least.

They took all the trees
And put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to seem 'em

No no no
Don't it always seem to go,
That you don't know what you've got
Til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
— Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi

It's a subway suburb, with street access only, each set of buildings clustered around grass pedmalls, parks, and a subway entrance.  You can see a couple of the subway entrances if you look closely.  It's grown in stages, R$ first, then R$$, using taxation to stage the development, as @CorinaMarie described so well in this tutorial:

https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/757812-selective-residential-revamping/

These eight Large Tenements sprang up, lined up rather neatly, too! 

Admittedly, that was third time lucky, exiting without saving the first two times.  I like my residential zones to look planned, rather than just random buildings sprouting up.  My city was very ready for the high density zoning, so it was only the last Large Tenement that needed some urging and coaxing ... by plopping a couple nearby bus stops and bulldozing them.  

[Lucario Boricua 7,062]

The city of Ingena has been growing at a crazy pace, enough to sustain two new business districts!

 

 

     This one looks perfectly fine, with a tolerable level of repetition (although twin towers seem awfully common still):

 

 

     But then, THEN, there's this!!!

[CorinaMarie 29,934]

Introducing the results of Cori's Updated Tileset Expansion mod. Deliberate repetition cause I've solved the last issue with the extra tilesets beyond the original 4.

^ Each of those row houses are grown because I put them in their own tileset (0x2010, 0x201A, 0x201B, and 0x201C) and set the city to grow only one set at a time.

Details will follow in a new topic in a day or six once CB and I get all the documentation written.

[Jeffrey500 577]

Its actually possible to create as many tilesets as you want in SimCity? If that is the case it would make my medival town centres a lot easier. 

[CorinaMarie 29,934]

2 minutes ago, Jeffrey500 said:

Its actually possible to create as many tilesets as you want in SimCity? If that is the case it would make my medival town centres a lot easier. 

Yep, it will be once we release my mod.

[Jeffrey500 577]

That's awesome. 

[Cyclone Boom 17,033]

17 minutes ago, Jeffrey500 said:

Its actually possible to create as many tilesets as you want in SimCity?

Technically the limit will be about 4,294,967,295 available tilesets, which we think will be more than a plentiful amount for quite a while.

(Minus about 100 which are reserved ranges, but still probably enough!)

[Jeffrey500 577]

Well, maybe i can make a tileset with Jeffreyan buildings.

[Haljackey 17,440]

Sims must like their spa days

 

[Haljackey 17,440]

I know there isn't a lot of high tech industry buildings but come on!

 

[Haljackey 17,440]

Every now and then repetition looks good

[Mooshieblob 9]

Lucario told me to post this. 

[CorinaMarie 29,934]

Public council houses neighborhood for the lower end of the R$$$ spectrum?

[Kiwiwriter47 473]

On 09/02/2021 at 8:17 AM, Mooshieblob said:

Lucario told me to post this. 

A lot of dense housing at the edge of the city. Keep it up. I see a school and hospital in the lower right...how are their radii?

 

On 03/10/2020 at 4:02 PM, Haljackey said:

Sims must like their spa days

 

That's some boulevard you have over on the left. How's the mass transit scene in this area?

 

On 14/09/2019 at 2:58 AM, Lucario Boricua said:

Uuuuhhhh...

 

 

 

Are those different levels of street paving?

 

4 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

Public council houses neighborhood for the lower end of the R$$$ spectrum?

It's visually weird...but the residents seem to have plenty of backyard space.

[Dgmc2013 954]

Repulsive