Show us your gameplay style !

[kschmidt 6,161]

SimCity 4 as a game offer us a endless way of doing so. What kind of player are you ? Vanilla play, completely devoted to the game as it was meant to be or you're custom or complete BATs Mods etc player. The first vanilla play imply you to play with the maxis BATs and corresponding way these elements are used in a grid like, hard line of income and expenses apply with easy, medium and hard mode.

Custom Bat's and Mod's enrich the game beyond believe, there choices to make. Variations of players, there's about average several kind of players. Let's player live on YouTube and most average work with one single plugin folder adding custom until they like to go most average repertoire of Bat's, Mod's. Second category I do belong are the multiple plugin folder user where there are several specialized folder parallel installed total independent which means you start the game with the userdir parameter which can be added to the startup shortcut.

Second we have a look how we use these customs in out SimCity- Except the freedom to lay a street and grow or plop customs you soon feel the game mechanics taking hold of your gameplay. What you install has certain sizes and values which influence growth. Ratio of business, industry and residential. Security, Environment Education, Entertainment. All this require to play in a certain kind of infrastructure, grid §

European cities mostly have a grid no more greater than 4x4 average except out of town, Asia might sometime be more tiny. America large city blocks only start with from 4x4 up to 9x9 grids. Park factor often influence these block sizes to ad a park or trail park in-between buildings is added or some kind of transport infrastructure divided. Last the difference between commercial, industrial and residential zones !

What I like to see here are your way of city planning. Some BATs / Mods will help achieve certain goals the simulation require you to do so to release certain rewards like growing stages and a minimum citizenship or the e mini challenges or personal challenges like environmental, beautification, customize to show a actual real or virtual world, show what basic tips, trick you use to create these wonderful creations !

Hope this showcase topic will help to become a better SimCity 4 player !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt