Fastest Growing Cities

[fogeybear 0]

i was wondering if anyonehas had a few cities that are growing faster then usual?? one of my greatest  achievments was getting the 100,000 mark in just over 30 years

[Peorth 18]

Note that the growth of your cities is highly affected by the difficulty level. Easy allows the highest growth while Hard, the slowest.

100,000 in 30 years is quite good but isn't that hard to achieve. For example, you can surround a city with 4 fully-developed cities (or even 8, forming a complete ring). The demand from those neighbors should push you to 100k in a short time. I think I was able to hit 96k in 28 years at the Hard level using only 2 neighbors

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

It can depend on the region too, i have had stage 8 commercial growth in a city of 45k

[EricN 0]

Development speed is purely a function of demand.

You can get residential demand 4 ways:
1) Wait for Commercial and Industrial to grow.
2) Build C + I in a neighbor city.
3) Build lots of Civic buildings, like schools and hospitals
4) Lower taxes.


If you want your sims to stay, they need jobs, so lowering residential taxes without a creating more jobs is a very bad idea.

If you want to kickstart a region, do the following: (assuming hard difficulty)

1) Start a city, take out $1,500,000 in loans, and build nothing but City Colleges, ~10 coal powerplants, and roads. Spend all the money.

2) Start a second city, take out $200,000 in loans, and lay out residential zoning and services. You should hit 50K population almost instantly.

3) Go back to the first city and lay out Commercial and Industrial zones. Use your remaining $500,000 credit limit to keep yourself from going bankrupt on the previous loan payments and wait until you are solvent.

4) Return to the second city, and continue zoning. You may need to take out more loans to speed up the process, but at this point you should be covering your loan payments and making a solid $10K/month on top of that.

Using civic jobs as a kickstarter, it's pretty straightforward to start a new region and hit 100,000 residents in 5-10 years.

[fogeybear 0]

no i really dont like building neighbouring cities, it just messes up their status, it was only with the single city!

[EricN 0]

With just one city in a region, 100K residents in 10 years is a reasonable target. Using neighbors just gives you the 20% bonus from extrapolation and boosts your effective credit limit, but it's not necessary.

[fogeybear 0]

im working on a town at the moment and id say its one of my favourates coz i figured out to only make buildings, (high density) but only 1x1 tile which makes it look more real! iv got it just scraping 20,000, the area is not that spread out and i made a ringroad motorway around the northern half of it to stop it from growing out, it really looks cool nd irish/ european, im goin to post a few pics on it in a couple of mins so stay put!

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

Green Griddle population: 1,009,000 in 33 years. here is the link to proper page.

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?mode=viewtopic&topicID=68200&num=30&pageNo=5

[fogeybear 0]

no affence but theres nothing intresting about it! its all grid work, cities rnt like that tho, you should do wah im doing with my town, its so much more fun. by the way how do i upload my pics??

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

hehee. No offense taken. I agree it totally sucks Zzzz's. I know it is boring, but that is the answer, to speed growth; a grid system.

 EDIT: there is a tutorial for adding images to your City journals, on the Omnibus Table of contents, left sidebar.

[fogeybear 0]

heres my town anyway

[BubbaGump 0]

I got my downtown to make it to 150,000 in 30 years.........

 

with a lot of pausing the game.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

and with the radical demand ordinance........

 

 

 

 

[fogeybear 0]

whats radical demand ordinance??

[fogeybear 0]

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[JDRCRASH 53]

I'm not sure, but I think its kind of a super demand mod.

[fogeybear 0]

how do you get it?? im very curious by it

 

[fogeybear 0]

this is a pic of my town anyw http://img114.imageshack.us/img114/7061/cartercity6mw.jpg width=492> ay

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

Congrats Fogeybear, You got your pic uploaded! Very nice town too!

Meanwhile, here is an old image of my terraforming projects.

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//Gristedi-Portcity1.jpg align=baseline>

 

 

 

[fogeybear 0]

haha cheers! that town you see now has spread south of the river now and also has big suburbs nd a second town was also put in, a few miles from the center with a beach!

[chriswiller 0]

about a year ago, a city of mine hit 70000 in just 12 years(easy level)

[fivedayrental 0]

my central city (medium tile) is currently at 266,000 after about 30 years. Most of my sims live in the suburbs so my regional population is 608,000. I havnt worked on the central city in about a week (been building subdivisons and durning some of the inner, older suburbs to have a few medium density condos).

[fogeybear 0]

cool, im shure i could perk my population up a good bit but my city is quite complicated so all i really have left is the zoning of small houses acting as suburbs to make it look somewhat real, if ya get what i mean?

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

Sounds really great FogeyBear. The thing about SimCity is; you can go for one or the other, but both is a bit tougher.  Mass Population or style and realism.

I am currently working on a Region that incorporates both grid and style, but it is taken 3 times longer to build it.

Maybe you are ready to start a CJ, FogeyBear? Show us your realistic views a bit, eh?

[tomdapom 79]

One of my fastest growing cities is about 150000 in 40 years. I'm thinking about making a cj on it but I don't know. Im a $%&^!

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

Waz up Tom? Welcome to ST!

Well, I can say that when you are a $%&^!, people will be nice and they will welcome you in with an eager hello.

 

However, just like the real world; people will have to warm up to you a bit. Once they see you are sticking around and sincere, they are more likely to interact.

 

My first CJ flopped, my second CJ flopped. determination made number three a success, but a chunk of that was due to my sticking around and not getting discouraged. Also some wonderful encouragement from Mr.Cinatit and many others.

They do not want to seem rude, but ST has had its share of bad manners and silly hackers. they have also had a handful of trouble makers who can't seem to just let it go. Not to mention, all web communities have their dedicated members they have trusted and relied on, only to have them disappear into Real Life Issues.

All that tends to make us sitizens wait and lurk, to see if you will hang and to see that you are not a nut case.....Don't know how I slipped by them so easily? hehee.

 

[USA Patriot 49]

This is for one tile city square, not entire region.
I got 780,000 in less then 30 years.
I can easily achieve over 100,000 in 2 years.
Normal if I'm trying to make a big city is 65,000 to 80,000 in a year.
My region has over 7 million with lots of cities, each on one city tile.

[TheCrybKeeper 301]

Date: 2/22/2006 1:16:20 AM Author: USA Patriot This is for one tile city square, not entire region. I got 780,000 in less then 30 years. I can easily achieve over 100,000 in 2 years. Normal if I'm trying to make a big city is 65,000 to 80,000 in a year. My region has over 7 million with lots of cities, each on one city tile.

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Wowzers!! 7million! wonder if I will ever reach that high?

 

P.S. My one city tile of 1,009,000 in 33 years; also included a money cheat, so really my claim should be disqualified.

[USA Patriot 49]

Thankyou.
Its a very ugly city infested region. My new regions are more sceneic and worl like.

[sim1234 62]

Date: 2/13/2006 2:12:29 PM Author: fogeybear whats radical demand ordinance??

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It's a mod which boosts the demand for Industrial and Commercial and it can be found here:

https://www.simtropolis.com/modding/index.cfm?mode=details&show=282