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I just started SimCity Complete. I've built a city to about 600k in bank and about 18,000 in population. I was just about to put down my Omega Factory when I looked at my city (Cape Trinity - Norwich Hills) and I still wasn't happy with it. I quickly learned that you can't play on Cheetah mode; it will ruin the ability to grow your city...it did for me even though I was on the right path. However, the goal of SimCity is to build neighboring cities with their own personality. Norwich Hills is a very rich oil drilling area with a secondary ore mining site. So it should be an industrial site with many industrial buildings, an oil drill with oil jacks, and eventually an ore mining facility. Seven (7) times I had deleted and start over, with only one victory as I mentioned above. I loved what Complete has done to the SimCity franchise, but I dislike the automatic connection made with power, waiter, garbage and sewer. I think only power and water had lines and pipes in SimCity 4. It doesn't matter now because when I went to purchase SimCity4 from GOG only to find Cities: Skylines on Steam. I decided to purchase the game and give it a try. It's not as intuitive as SimCity...well, it is but I'm use to dropping just about anything needed: power, water, garbage, and other services even if they are not needed. My limitation is simoleons and the necessary infrastructure for that particular service. I did create a small city using Black Woods(?) - what I absolutely love about Skylines is that everything cost money to build and maintain. It makes you plan and grow your city as if you were a city planner in real life. The land isn't half baked like SimCity - the terraforming from SimCity4 is what made SimCity very popular. I remember using GIS information and SimCity's terraforming format to create real cities based on GIS data. I'm sold on Cities: Skylines and the small tutorial wasn't very helpful, but it did supply me with enough information to get going. I love the Chirp - so much easier than to click on a voice bubble everytime someone wants something. Now that I have a taste, where is the manual or even better some tutorials. Youtube is an obvious answer and there are some guides on Steam. Please list comments, advice, and other resources in a reply to this topic. I still have a heart for SimCity, but I think Skylines is a much better experience once you learn the interface and economy. It was just too easy to go from zero and 600k in SimCity on Cheetah speed. CptStrategy
