Effect of Maxis Landmarks

[simcitynate 134]

Greetings fellow Sim Jong-uns,

I'd like to know more precisely the effect Maxis landmarks have in order to establish a reference point. I put some landmarks from the Maxis Files bundle into Leprop, and many showed no data at all. The ones that did seemed to average a landmark effect of about 40 with a radius of about 20. I just thought that surely one should expect a little more bang for their buck if dishing out tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars. 

Also curious to know about water consumption. I downloaded a skyscraper that's close to 2800. Not sure what the creator based that on, but I compared it with a Nuclear power plant, which is 900, so I was wondering how consistent the previous figure is with most buildings.   

[twalsh102 1,601]

Any landmark, whether it is a Maxis default, Maxis add-on, or custom content, affects desirability for commercial growth. I don't think anyone has ever determined what algorithm might have been used to create the values for the Landmark Effect. The only consistency I can see is that the larger buildings tend to have larger effect values and larger radii of effect. Landmark Effect apparently has a usable range of -100 to +100. Since any radius of effect does not extend beyond a city boundary, creating a value that exceeds the size of the largest city square will not have any additional benefit.

Landmarks usually also have a Mayor Rating Effect. This has the same range as Landmark Effect (-100 to +100). Mayor Rating Effect affects Residential desirability.

For factors such as Water and Power Consumption, again, I don't think anyone has ever determined how these values were arrived at by the creators.

FWIW, for custom content, CC creators are able to set any of these values to whatever they feel is appropriate, with no effect on whether the LM will work properly.  For that matter, anyone who understands how Reader works could change any of these values to whatever suits their purpose.

I think most people just accept whatever is there with no real second thought about these things.

[simcitynate 134]

Thanks for the response. As I've said before, I consider myself a SimCity purist, so I always strive to have these kinds of values consistent with what Maxis intended.

"I think most people just accept whatever is there with no real second thought about these things".

There's good advice in here which I must force myself to take more often. I know I shouldn't worry so much about these details. Just gotta relax and have fun.  

 

[Yarahi 1,823]

@simcitynate don't know if it is exactly what you are looking for, but I found the statistics for the Maxis Landmarks 

https://strategywiki.org/wiki/SimCity_4/Landmarks

...and here a couple of reference lists for the growables;

http://simcity4buildings.net/index.php?lang=eng&page=gewerbe&wohlstand=1&id=225#225

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4_tH08pH62NaG0tYWxaYVZiYkE/view

[simcitynate 134]

That was really helpful, thanks a lot. 

[xxdita 1,097]

Using Maxis tools can often give some screwy stats. This is the primary reason PIMX was created. 

You can have a look at the User Guide. If you choose to install PIMX, you'll also need this update. 

I run pretty much everything I download for my own use through PIMX.