Mega City in SC4.
population:
City: about 1,850,000
Region: 2,919,633

CURRENT STATS:
MEga City - about 2.3 million
Neo MEga City - 1.1 million
Kilo City - about 800,000

region: 11,300,000


medium-sized satellites with large populations:
- 718,000
- 630,000
- 610,000
- 430,000

old info:

started: June or July 2003
cheats: weaknesspays a few dozen times here and there during budget crises. before Rush Hour, I'd have huge population spikes, 100,000 people would move in in a month, and then it'd return to normal within two years. expenses would go way over income when this happened.

Currently there's a budget shortfall thanks to the effort to keep schools no more than 60% occupied. There's also redevelopment of previously industrial areas, especially the dirtier industries, and a smaller rezoning program for larger towers.

Neo Powerpack is also about to soon be redeveloped into a residential commerical area, with the power plants being moved farther out.

here's some various pics, which are slightly out of date (there's been more supertalls and large park projects since these were taken:)

Current satellite image:
http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/35166452/original.jpg

older one

http://www.pbase.com/image/30548146/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/30548147/original.jpg

MEga, largest city, pics:

http://www.pbase.com/image/28134889.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/28917230.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/27070356.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/27070355.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/28135012.jpg

New MEga, second largest city:

http://www.pbase.com/image/28404933.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/28746230.jpg

Power Pack Cove, the Chinese-city-looking burb:

http://www.pbase.com/image/28268682.jpg

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edited to show pics again after changing hosts

Awsome city! 10/10! Larget one I have seen yet. Very cool.

Looks like it took you a while too! ;)



:guns1:

Originally posted by Style

Awsome city! 10/10! Larget one I have seen yet. Very cool.

Looks like it took you a while too! ;)



:guns1:

thanks. yeah, i've been working on it, and the region, since about early-mid july. and the work continues...

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I already said you what I think... In short, I give you 10/10. :master: :angel1:

Originally posted by Woko

I already said you what I think... In short, I give you 10/10. :master: :angel1:

heh, thanks again.

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Congratulations for the city, its huge...I can´t get my cities larger than 250 k, my computer crashes :(...anyway congratulations deserves a 10 :ok:

Its good to see that you have a very large population. The problem lies in that you admit to using cheats. I have obtained a city of 950,000 people with no cheats and using village and suburban area tactics. If I used the grid systm, I coudl probably get 2,000,000+ - but originality and hard work is what I do :D it pays off eventually :P I aint bothered with Rush Hour cause ive been busy with the nice Fresher girls down here in Portsmouth :D I doubt I will ever play SC4 again :D

it's not like the cheats were an integral part of the city, i consider them more of "government assistance" than cheats. and they were only used when the game's bugs would hit me.
crazy limey.

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hmmm, if i remember correctly, big density started between 50-75, really super big density started around 300.

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If I need to cheat I will. I see it is 'Federal Aid.' :D

I would hate to be in that rush hour commute!

A great city, but i dont like the location or the terrain around it. 5/5

Originally posted by Christian

A great city, but i dont like the location or the terrain around it. 5/5

terrain's a work in progress.

update: the financial loss is over thanks to cutting spending to some of the large high schools. the brownfields of commercial and residential zones seen in those pics have also developed, with dirty industry now nearly gone. right now i'm making more money to build more subways and improve roads. then i'll lower taxes and watch some more boom.

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I don't really like too many skyscrapers. :colgate:

Great City cant wait to start playing this game again
have to get the add on for it
many many days invested there !

newest pic.
City size is now up to about 2,030,000.
and you can see the region population!

edit.

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3,276,263! Dude, that's insane!!! Awsome region though. Probably one of the best out there right now. It is huge!

:guns1:

Your region is huge !!

newest pic.

city size is down to 2,004,000, while the region size is up.

edit due to hack.

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Dang, that's one heck of a region! :guns1:

used cheats...

not worth considering a work of art.

Originally posted by Matixvolta

used cheats...

not worth considering a work of art.

I suppose so - still good work though.............but nothing compared to my mother of a 6,750,000+ region, one city of 1.6million, once city totally made of 2,000,000+ commercial jobs and at least 3 cities of 500,000+ industrial jobs - no cheats, no hacks, no bad stuff except pure skill at macro and micro economics :)

Not to mention a terrain that is not flat (unlike this region sadly), with valleys, hills, mountains, lakes, rivers and islands that seperate great land masses, cut off isolated villages high above the cities. That is artistic :)

Originally posted by Matixvolta

used cheats...

not worth considering a work of art.

blahblahblah...not like it was a big cheat.

and it's a coastal plain under the process or terraforming. this is SIMCITY, not SIM LANDSCAPING last time i checked.

and not quite as big a cheat as altering the tile size of all the cities in the region.

:colgate:

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nope totally wrong - using larger regions enable greater control over terraforming. No coastal plain is 95% totally flat, so dont try to use geography to back up ure ideas, because I see no water mass to indicate such a geographical feature. Just admit it - its easy to build on a flat area AND WITH CHEATS. It is an art and skill to terraform your region to a city style and to then create a city on a terrain which costs more to allow for building areas. It also provides me with inspiration for mountain villages, cut off from the rest of the city and region bar a slow and windy road going down through parks and forests. So dont give me your unskilled, non-labourous shit

Originally posted by nick_taylor

nope totally wrong - using larger regions enable greater control over terraforming. No coastal plain is 95% totally flat, so dont try to use geography to back up ure ideas, because I see no water mass to indicate such a geographical feature. Just admit it - its easy to build on a flat area AND WITH CHEATS. It is an art and skill to terraform your region to a city style and to then create a city on a terrain which costs more to allow for building areas. It also provides me with inspiration for mountain villages, cut off from the rest of the city and region bar a slow and windy road going down through parks and forests. So dont give me your unskilled, non-labourous shit

blahblahblahblah, in my massive region blahblahblah...

the terraforming is in progress. like I've said, it's SIMCITY, not SIMLANDSCAPER.

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No you are wrong - simcity is meant to be a simulation where you have to try and overcome the many obstacles that you or the game put before you. Thus it proves if you are seriously skilled, if you can defeat the terrain you make. I cant really see how you can re-terraform your city, when its all built up - doesn't really make much sense. So cities are all built on flat terrains..........deary deary deary me.

Originally posted by nick_taylor

No you are wrong - simcity is meant to be a simulation where you have to try and overcome the many obstacles that you or the game put before you. Thus it proves if you are seriously skilled, if you can defeat the terrain you make. I cant really see how you can re-terraform your city, when its all built up - doesn't really make much sense. So cities are all built on flat terrains..........deary deary deary me.

not the city terrain, the region terrain.
yeah, overcome obstacles, not spend time crafting them like a landscape painter.

besides, this is only once region of two which I've played; the game hasn't even been out a year. seeing how there's about 3 years between simcity games, at least, i've got plenty of time to play with challenging terrain.

no, not all cities are built on flat land. I've lived in two (one of which I'm currently in) that have plenty of mountains, hills and valleys.

living in this environment for about 20 years, I don't want to play it, at least early on.

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Originally posted by LSyd
no, not all cities are built on flat land. I've lived in two (one of which I'm currently in) that have plenty of mountains, hills and valleys.


Its sarcasm - referring to your perfectly flat cities. You have done well though to get a high population, even though you cheated on a few of the hurdles on the race to get the biggest city :)

Cheating in your game is not bad. I have cheated in many of my cities but they were my first ones and were crappy cities overall so I just demolished them. :)

Sometimes a city gets in a crunch and you do not want to wait for it to come back up and you want some money to screw around with. So, you cheat. It is simple.

i think of low-grade cheating as "federal aid," yes, for when a city gets in a crunch.

bad cheating is using the money hack or whatever, that's just not fun, nor realistic.

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god but I would rather some land scape thats what makes a city of some intrest
and now it not like slopes are wasted space

Cheating is still cheating. If you cant pass a part in the game when the going gets tough, then obviously you cant hack the game. Whats the point? It saddens me deeply even more when people try to make exscuses for cheating in life. It just isn't right :(

A sad day for all simcity fans :D

Originally posted by nick_taylor

Cheating is still cheating. If you cant pass a part in the game when the going gets tough, then obviously you cant hack the game. Whats the point? It saddens me deeply even more when people try to make exscuses for cheating in life. It just isn't right :(

A sad day for all simcity fans :D

uhm, are you serious?

over-dramatic? pretentious? self-absorbed? and that australian artwork guy, too.

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I don't see any landfill sites in Mega.Where does all the garbage go???:?

Originally posted by Style

3,276,263! Dude, that's insane!!! Awsome region though. Probably one of the best out there right now. It is huge!

:guns1:

Check out Meffy's, nick_taylor's and my regions. Those are what you call huge. No cheats either. I will add mine soon. All of ours are at least past 5.4 million (with mine being the lowest of the three and Meffy's being the highest over 7 million)!

Apart from that, that region is absolutely insane! Awesome stuff jamming all those ppl into those spaces!

Originally posted by redstone

I don't see any landfill sites in Mega.Where does all the garbage go???:?

the air, to land elsewhere. :D or it's recycled, and what's left goes to landfills that are in sections along the borders, preferrably with Sim Nation, in the industrial/power/dirty parts of the cities.

my region's close to 4 million now, with a few new suburb cities. haven't had much time to play it.

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Wow ,so how many game years does it yake you to grow your city that big?

Originally posted by redstone

Wow ,so how many game years does it yake you to grow your city that big?

about 250 before it really started, but that was with some pre-rush hour bugs. now it's about year 650.

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^ heh, it's a big party, MEgaFest. thanks.

here's some various pics, which are slightly out of date (there's been more supertalls and large park projects since these were taken:)

http://www.pbase.com/image/30548146/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/30548147/original.jpg

MEga, largest city, pics:

http://www.pbase.com/image/28134889.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/28917230.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/27070356.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/27070355.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/28135012.jpg

New MEga, second largest city:

http://www.pbase.com/image/28404933.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/28746230.jpg

Power Pack Cove, the Chinese-city-looking burb:

http://www.pbase.com/image/28268682.jpg

more pics coming in a few weeks when i get a new machine to run this monster

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What an amazing city, I love it!

Very nice! You must have spent a long time on that. That's the largest region I've ever seen (the 2nd largest was 4.5 million on a different site!) I give you an 8, just because I think you used way too many grids for my taste. Great work otherwise. ;)

Awesome city. The downtown region looks even more massive than real-life Manhattan.

10/10

what is the game called?

thanks y'all. here's an updated regional view plus a detail pic from the western part from back in August.

http://www.pbase.com/image/33370932.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/33370933/original.jpg

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Nice region

whats the population of the largest city. My region only got up to 3million with the biggest cities' pop at 400 000.

cool ! city shows whats really possible
cant wait just about to reinstall simcity after like 7 months

great job, that's an amazing region.


:applause:

hey, is it possible to change the sizes of the cities in the regions? How? I really would prefer to just keep on going with that Urban Sprawl

thanks y'all.

whats the population of the largest city. My region only got up to 3million with the biggest cities' pop at 400 000.

about 2,200,000. that's one of the large sized-tiles; the next largest is about 700,000 (also large tile.)

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What sort of tile layout do you have with that region, Also do you have any custom buildings or is it just the game as it came in the packet?

^ i've got some custom buildings, mostly landmarks, although some growables, too.

tile layout...i'll have to get a pic for that.

anyway, here's an update; region now up to 8 million.

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/34484725/original.jpg

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new shot:

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/35166452/original.jpg

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what the hell is your demand cap?

Post 16 on the 1st page. Is anyone else seeing what i'm seeing! :puke: :eek2:

Post 16 on the 1st page. Is anyone else seeing what i'm seeing! :puke: :eek2:

unfortunately yeah, it seems my old host is renaming files somehow or for some reason. i'm trying to fix them as they appear if i see 'em.

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what the hell is your demand cap?

pretty much unlimited for CS $ and $$, and CO $$. it fluctuates for everything else. oh yeah, industrial's always high when not overtaxed.

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you can make a city journal on the simtropolis, hosting the pictures on the cj, and direct pictures to here, and surely not losing any pictures

Impressive 10!

CAn u please post a pic of your honest city with no cheats or editing using the BAT or using the super demand MOD...

THis city looks nice but still sucks coz it's made out of cheat and lots of it...

Not big, but too long for built the city and it is very realistic. :) 8/10.




Also, could you post a region view?

Awesome density and nice planning, too many grids though. 9/10

thanks for the compliments...i need to update this as there's been a new boom/rennovation in MEga, not to mention huge growth in the region as a whole.

@TJ - you suck ;) no seriously, i don't care...about your opinion as to cheating and custom lots. AND I'VE NEVER USED THE SUPER DEMAND MOD. i will put up pics of Kilo City, which has no cheats (unless you consider custom lots cheats) and fewer grids.

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outdated region view (there's now an east side of the region that's more industrial-based, and "realistic" as a suburb...think of an Asian New Jersey)

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/62581475.jpg

some pics showing the MEga city regeneration plan (which promoted tourism) of 1. taller/thinner landmark buildings with larger capacity 2. larger parks 3. rehabilitation of antiquated industrial areas to lower-density zones.

as i can show with more pics later, this plan was so successful in the central prefecture of MEga that other prefectures have begun following the example, some with MEga's help, others without

taller buildings

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/62581476.jpg

taller buildings/larger park system/dedicated low-rise zones

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/62581481.jpg

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dude your region is tight man!!

weet iemand hoe ik van de site simtropolis gebouwen, rivieren, wegen naar mijn spel kan brengen want ik weet ni in welke map dat ik die moet steken om in het spel te krijgen want ik kan die ook ni vinden als ik aan het spelen ben (ik heb simcity 4)

8/10 Good

8 :okay:

OMG i love that game.. I have it ;).. my buildings won't go that high. Great CITY 10/10.. ive been working on mine forever.. and its not nearly as good as yours!

If no one knows, its called Sim City 4: Rush Hour

^ thanks mate.

fairly recent regional view:

http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/68916227/original.jpg

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CAn u please post a pic of your honest city with no cheats or editing using the BAT or using the super demand MOD...

THis city looks nice but still sucks coz it's made out of cheat and lots of it...

IMHO, bats and mods arent cheating, were not in competition here anyway :) if you feel like you want to use them, then thats just fine..

How your pop is so much?
Do u use any mods?

grate city

Is it possible that you based it a bit on the movie 'Judge Dredd'?? Haha, I'm looking at the movie right now, also has 'Mega City 1' and 'Mega City 2' :nuts:

Great, great city:cheers:!

9.5! awesome! but too original imo :D :okay:

How your pop is so much?
Do u use any mods?
Maybe you should look at the picture

Mega City? Try mega-ultra-super-massive-so-big-it'll-break-your-balls, City. Nice to see you back BTW. U using the CAM?

i'm working on making underground highways with parks on top a la Boston's "big dig..." something i've been putting off doing since 2004ish. phase one is done. pics soon.

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This is a very nice city. That line of bridges connecting the two mainlands looks like an awesome drive. Are you using the traditional way of making the underground highways or the modded underground highways put up on Simtropolis (the ones that use subway tunnels?)

I also see a lot of space on each tile for that pesky Int'l airport. I suggest searching the Stex for a file that takes that lot down to a 7x5 lot (I think). It's called smaller civic lots, or something to that effect. Check it out.

Mega City in SC4.
population:
City: about 1,850,000
Region: 2,919,633

CURRENT STATS:
MEga City - about 2.3 million
Neo MEga City - 1.1 million
Kilo City - about 800,000

region: 11,300,000


medium-sized satellites with large populations:
- 718,000
- 630,000
- 610,000
- 430,000

old info:

started: June or July 2003
cheats: weaknesspays a few dozen times here and there during budget crises. before Rush Hour, I'd have huge population spikes, 100,000 people would move in in a month, and then it'd return to normal within two years. expenses would go way over income when this happened.

Currently there's a budget shortfall thanks to the effort to keep schools no more than 60% occupied. There's also redevelopment of previously industrial areas, especially the dirtier industries, and a smaller rezoning program for larger towers.

Neo Powerpack is also about to soon be redeveloped into a residential commerical area, with the power plants being moved farther out.

here's some various pics, which are slightly out of date (there's been more supertalls and large park projects since these were taken:)

Current satellite image:
http://www.pbase.com/lsyd/image/35166452/original.jpg

older one

http://www.pbase.com/image/30548146/original.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/30548147/original.jpg

MEga, largest city, pics:

http://www.pbase.com/image/28134889.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/28917230.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/27070356.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/27070355.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/28135012.jpg

New MEga, second largest city:

http://www.pbase.com/image/28404933.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/image/28746230.jpg

Power Pack Cove, the Chinese-city-looking burb:

http://www.pbase.com/image/28268682.jpg

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edited to show pics again after changing hosts

how to built a landmark building???i don't know...
plezz tell me step by step

Wow, it's MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEga city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!