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[TheMurderousCricket 5,085]

Yes, it seems a lot like cheating. 

But it reminds me of the "Civilization: Test of Time" game and the Midgard scenario, where you could travel between four parallel maps - Skies, Land, Underwater and Underground. You had different choices of units and development in each realm.

Frankly, I wouldn't be in a rush to build regular buildings underground. That's rather wacky. And what should happen to the water buildings which are already seen both under and on the surface?

If there existed a BA set of structures made especially for the purpose of creating an underground city, I'd probably give it a go. For example, instead of a pond, you get an underground river. Instead of roads you get tunnels to connect zones in your city!

Anyway, keep experimenting. 

[THijSCiTy 141]

Oh yess yep that's what i'm trying to compare, atm I'm comparing the water treatment plant, there are 2 versions, the underground one and surface one, trying to figure the differences and what tag causes to switch the simulator to underground mode  

 

edit:

For now its unclear what makes a building possible to be built underground, but the time spent will be too much, so I continued constructing my mega city, its nearing 1,4 mil inhabitants, its above the normal big cities out there probably ranking in top 100 population cities  

[SimCityHawk 194]

@THijSCiTy Love your experiments and documentation. You investigate many things in this game that I have thought of sporadically while playing.  

For the record, though, I think reaching 2 mio. inhabitants is where your city will really stand out from "regular" big cities from players. My usual maximum for filling out the whole map with a realistic setting for a really big city is around 1,8-1,9 mio inhabitants. 

[asasnat 216]

I'm currently working on a new city - perhaps the successor to Parksville.

It's named Vladislavus, and it currently has a population of 24k. My hope is that this city's population will eventually reach 1 million.

I've realized that I don't have to overwhelm my Sims with services at the very start of the game. The very start of the game is when I worry about zones and roads, not schools and police. Right now the city's economy isn't able to support an army of all of these, so I will have to move in some more tax-payers. IIRC outside road/rail connections raise the demand for Commercial and Industrial. I feel like this will help me a decent bit while building up my city. ^{ok why did i type out all of THIS this is basic knowledge that every SimCity player should already know by now}

[asasnat 216]

Turns out, maybe I didn't have to make a successor to Parksville, because I've just managed to save its economy.

Lemme give you some context:

In its current state, Parksville was in dire condition. Whenever I load up the city, it would at first have an income of 5k simoleons, and then fall drastically below zero. Turns out that an understanding of the growth cap mechanism did wonders. Basically, I just built more airports (increasing commercial growth cap), seaports (increasing industrial growth cap), road/rail connections (increasing industrial AND commercial growth cap), and libraries (increasing residential growth cap. After that, the city was moovin' again.

Here are some screenshots after the "economy rescue" (I also changed the building set to European because it looked kinda nicer.)

Spoiler

The entirity of Parksville now

The Old Business District

New Business and Residence District

Parksville Spaceport

Also, the population rose from 200k to over 400k, thus unlocking me a Spaceport. Quite nice, I do think so myself.

[catty-cb 4,412]

Very nice, and I think I've only ever managed to get the space port once so well done on that score .... it's nice to see what it looks like 

[asasnat 216]

Happy Birthday Parksville!!

[asasnat 216]

I've developed Parksville a bit more. Population is well above 500k, final goal is 600k. Here are some more screenshots.

Spoiler

This is the entirity of Parksville, a middle-sized metropolis situated near the coast. I don't even know what words to describe this screenshot with, so let's move on.

This is Airport Island. It is split into 3 main islands, which both perform different functions. The solar panels keep the airport powered (the water is sourced from Parksville's main water network), while the police station ensures a safe experience for the passengers. The only way of accessing Airport Island is through subway.

Last but not least, we have the Island of Grief. This is where the nation's worst criminals reside. Security is tight, and a wall keeps the criminals where they should be. Only police are allowed to enter the Island, and trespassers are punished severely.

^{Man, maybe I should create a City Journal.}

_{or maybe not. I suck at writing.}

[catty-cb 4,412]

I like the island setups

And while I'm tempted to say yes please do a city journal, there is a lot to be said for just posting updates as and when you feel like it

[TheMurderousCricket 5,085]

8 hours ago, Bruh Man said:

Man, maybe I should create a City Journal.

Please do. It would be fun to see a city journal from beyond the SC4 scope. There are some from "Cities: Skylines" so why not?

And I don't think you need to be a poet.  I'd say there are screenshot and narrative-driven CJs. I now do a screenshot based myself - some words of explanation and all the rest is basically a slideshow. Pretty quick and easy.

[Captain Adam 422]

[The Thinker 479]

I recently uploaded to the STEX a city of mine, Twaddleborough.  I had planned to do a bit more work on it before uploading, take it up the just past the year 2050 (ingame), but by the late 2000s I felt it had gone as far as I could take it, so I decided to stop at high point and put it on the exchange.  That said, I might decide to re-visit it at a later date, but for now it's pretty much "complete" (inasmuch as anything created in this game can be).

 

Anyway I figured I'd share a few of the latest photos:

To begin with, a (composite) panorama of the whole city it is full glory (Twaddleborough, 1^st January 2010)

In the centre of these towerblocks is the city's "Inaugural Park", so named as it was the very first recreational structure I placed.  It also happens to be located more or less at the geographical dead centre of the city map, something I didn't realise until much later.  A happy accident. 

The Mayor's dwelling.  A well to do part of the city indeed.

City Hall, the "Palace of Indecision" as I've taken to naming it... 

Here the learned do gather.

By the edge of the city, some fresh zoning for more developments and a clearing amongst the trees for a prospective Space Port, which remains unbuilt as it's only the year 2010 in Twaddleborough and I don't fancy cheating the building in.  Maybe someday...

[Cyclone Boom 17,031]

Here's the cool looking SC3K city @The Thinker shared to the STEX for anyone curious:

 

By the way, if you'd like we can edit in a link from your file description pointing to your post above.

Let me know if this would go well (or it could be done yourself if you wish).

[The Thinker 479]

11 minutes ago, Cyclone Boom said:

By the way, if you'd like we can edit in a link from your file description pointing to your post above.

Let me know if this would go well (or it could be done yourself if you wish).

That would be fine by me. 

  Edited June 13, 2022 by Cyclone Boom  
Done!

[TheMurderousCricket 5,085]

Cool city. The "Palace of Indecision" have caused me to crack a smile, but it looks like the Council did a pretty nice job actually... 

[MagicSpear 55]

Recently created a terrain loosely based on Selatapura's geography and started building an Asian-themed city on it.

(All images are linked to their original size counterpart.)

Bonus: An airport I previously put together using the "access all buildings" cheat, plenty of patience, and a lot of repeatedly re-zoning, demolishing, and generally just coercing the game into developing runways how I needed it to (so said airport would actually be functional).

[catty-cb 4,412]

Nice looking airport

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Blockbusters and FADS

 

The Commodore Cinema

 

Littlewoods and HMV

 

Cora - A Vegetarian Restaurant

 

Renaissance Variety - Selling videos, books and computer games

 

Banque Natonale De Canada

 

Revoluton Bistro and Pizza

 

Foxtons Estate Agents

 

Rymans the stationer

 

Turner Wallcoverings

 

Sketchleys/Supasnaps

 

Labrooke Grove Taxis and Laundrette

 

Piazza Al Fresco Cafe

 

The Wellington Pub and Chaudhary The Green Grocers

 

Familiprix, a chain of Quebec pharmacies

 

Cafe Parisiene, a high end cake shop

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

T Jones the Saddlers

T Jones Saddlers.bld

 

First Edition Antiquarian Bookshop

 

Arkwrights - A Yorkshire corner store

 

Dusty's Home

 

Upstairs Downstairs Cookware and MDP Tools

 

Radio Rentals and Lunn Poly

 

Internet Cafe Karaoke

 

 

Fancy Dress Store (Magical) and Watchmakers

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Duke of York pub - Just finished it after 4 days of sweated labour!

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Matelas Dauphin (Dolphin Mattress) and Videotron, the internet giant

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Rose Cottage, Stranraer, Scotland

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Market Place, Wokingham, including:-

- Artfest offices

- Blue Cross - Pet charity shop

- Thomas Cook the travel agents

- Fatface - Ethicall clothing store

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Shoemaster - Shoe repairs, key cutting and watch services

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

The Alloy Foundry - Canada's oldest iron and steel mill, established in 1840

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Homeless encampment on a piece of rough land

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Glass blowers and an industrial scale "grow op"

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Methodist Chapel at Yarm

[kschmidt 6,198]

SC3K Pagema City !

Wondered little about SC3K, like SC2000 a lot. Little hard core vanilla gameplay. Idea with limited resources, build slowly get a established level of occupance. Annoying offscreen scrolling when draging pipes, roads !?!, little experimental. Hope to eventually can enjoy those great custom buildings wich popup the last months !

Enjoy !