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Pure SC3KU | Naturally grown Cities that I still have...

Huston

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I see that there aren't many people that still play the more classic SimCity games - such as 3000 unlimited XD

I've had the game for about 10 years now and still play it on several occassions. I've made a couple of decent cities since management in many aspects of the game is easier than SimCity 4 :P Here are some of my cities that I still play today:

SANTE MARCO ~

This city in particular is failing. Bad budget, population in exodus. And I can't seem to recover it :P It didn't last very long.

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Sylvia ~ One of my favorite SC3KU cities :P I'd been playing this in-game for about 300 years!

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City Overview

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Old Sylvia City - Downtown area...This the exact spot I built the first part of the city. That avenue and intersection

at the left bottom corner has been there for a while now :P Went from Residential to a Commercial center.

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Golf course, City University and municipal business hub near large city park.

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Across the lake, low density housing.

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Then the downtown center of East Sylvia.

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Military base and majority high-tech industry with patches of low tech.

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And low-tech industry with patches of high-tech.

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Edge of the city.

Melville ~ Island City XD

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CITY. I wasn't big on funding this city I guess :P Such a simoleon hog.

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Roads were congested

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Another part of the island.

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Bridges were used frequently.

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The Island was mostly developed for the most part.

Shiba ~ Another favorite of mine :P Been playing this city in-game for 223 years! :P

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On the cross roads of making money, and losing :P It could change pretty easily from in the green to in the red.

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Newest Shiba Business Park - Land value in this area is at Some Astronomical - Very High - High.

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Construction of one of those "special Commercial towers"

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Downtown Shiba - Most of the central well-built up area which I focused on has Astronmical land value.

On the edges, are either Very High, High or Medium. The defintions are pretty easy to distinguish which is Med, High, VH or AS.

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Mansions and Manors to the right, and low to high wealth apartments to the left. University is at the top :)

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This is Shiba's financial district. Unlike it's older counterpart, Downtown Shiba, it's focused solely on Finance & Corporate business and has few, boutique stores in the area. The value of the land here is almost all Astronomical and Very High. Beyond this concentration of Astronomical land value is VH, High and Medium.

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I tried to develop a nice waterfront but it hasn't worked so far :P

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Shiba City port

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Old Shiba. This was intially downtown, but it wasn't as successful as the Downtown Shiba (not the financial district) in this you can see City Hall, The Courthouse, Winter Wonderland and the city's oldest hospital :P

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City overview, Shiba to the west. - (Financial district is a little more to the west)

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City Overview, Shiba to the East.

And finally, Landenburg ~ This city's finances turned from green to red - It's going downhill and a recovery of the city's economy is progressing sloooooowly. 100 years of in-game gameplay. This city is growing at snails pace compared to Sylvia and Shiba.

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Ick.

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That is all :P

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I have SC3K but my laptop makes a VERY irritating loud noise as long as i play it. Is this because of the disc being bad or something or was this game not designed/supposed to be played on laptops?

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I have SC3K but my laptop makes a VERY irritating loud noise as long as i play it. Is this because of the disc being bad or something or was this game not designed/supposed to be played on laptops?

 

Well it should work on a laptop (I'm running SC3KU on my laptop), but it could potentially be the disc. May be getting it repaired would be a good idea, or use a NO CD launcher that doesn't require the CD.

 

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Very Nice Work! I have to say! Haha Man I miss this so much. SC3U Has the best OST for me in my opinion! Nothing beats listening to Jazz while building metropolis's! 

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I've only played SC4 in the SimCity series but this reminds me of Simutrans! Nice work David :)

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Humm yep, now, I've the nostalgia of this game :) . But I haven't loose my disc :D

Beautiful cities man ;)

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Nice to see,

Brings back memories of long hours in my childhood home playing simcity 3000

. i remember how it always seemed like my cities where dark and grey in that game.

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Very nice looking cities....Wow!  Brings back memories!  And I'd forgotten what a difference there was between sc3000 and sc4.    :)

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You've brought back memories of some of the best times in my life whilst I was still a young child. Thank you for that little nostalgia trip!

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Ahhhhh, the good ol' days! I remember this and "Railroad Tycoon" which I still play around with. "Huston" is right, I use Alcohol 52% to run SC4 Deluxe without a CD. It's free, sets up in a few minutes and works great. I no longer worry about damaging these old CDs that are getting harder to find!

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I just realized that this post exists... I LOVE YOU

Brings back a lot of memories and makes me wanna play that game again real bad. I also just now remembered that the diagonal junctions add slip lanes to the acute angle in that game and that's amazing. It's the little things. Keep it up, I love to see these!

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Ahh! I still have my SC3K Unlimited disk! Talk about nostalgia. I might have to play this sometime and relive the good old days. Nice cities though! They look very natural, for SC3KU.
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I always get excited when those high-wealth skyscrapers pop up in my city (Though you could always use the BAT to replace the smaller building :P)!

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