Here's my biggest city, Westside. It's a part of the london region (modified), and this was the first city I made.

I've been playing this region since the first day SC4 was out and the goal is to get the regions filled with great cities:-)

I have used money cheats, since I just want to build as much as possible:)

Populations:

Region: 3.494.160
Westside: 776.893

Here's first a overview of the region:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/region.jpg


Here you see most of Westside:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/westside.jpg


And a closer view:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/close.jpg


Please rate it:)

:eek: Wow, that's a cool region! 9/10

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I lost my face (french expression). Like the smilies.:eek2: :eek2:

I give you 10/10:eek:

Awsome city! Nice selection of buildings and density. You placed your landmarks in very nice places too. I only noticed Empire! The street grid is nice but small in some areas. I also like your extensive monorail system!


Very cool city.


10/10 :banana:

Thanx for all the nice words guys:)

Here are more pics from Westside:

The newly added monorail crosses the highway:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/1.jpg

New beach area close to the CBD, there are also a few residential zones:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/2.jpg

Part of the largest business area:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/3.jpg

Same:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/4.jpg

Older residential area:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/5.jpg

Mixed use area:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/6.jpg

And a night view, part of the CBD:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/7.jpg

Closer view:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/8.jpg

New residential developments (same area as my fist photo of westside just from another angle)
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/9.jpg

2 nice buildings:):
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/10.jpg

Dense old residential area:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/11.jpg

Dense new residential area:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/12.jpg

That's all for now:)

Dang! Man, that city rocks. Love the density and the wide selection of buildings. :cool:


I have wanted something like this (http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/3.jpg) for a while. Beaches, water, skyscrapers, and parks. Very nice city.

That area was totally demolished a few years ago (maybe 20-30), before that it was a lot denser but also really messed up. The cars could get nowhere and the area was more of less out of control. I've actualy redeveloped most of the city more than one time and I'm finally getting a better organized city now. Transpotation seems to work great too. You still see a lot of areas with no buildings, this is caused by all the demolishing I've been doing lately. Hopefully it will be denser now if I stop redeveloping all the time:D

Wow


That's awesome man, I wish I could made big cities like this, my pc doesn't afford big cities it become way too slow.

That's a great city.


Congratulations.


:okay:

Great city !! I like it

By the way, how can you build those tall office buildings in your city ??

I have a lot of very tall residential buildings in my city, but not office buildings even my city population already pass 300000 people

Originally posted by Eric Wong

Great city !! I like it

By the way, how can you build those tall office buildings in your city ??

I have a lot of very tall residential buildings in my city, but not office buildings even my city population already pass 300000 people

Education, if your sims get more education they will increase you office demand.

Tip = you should create a good education system (schools, colleges, libriries, museuns, facultys, university, ...) and then just let the time pass, you will see the office demand increase.

:okay:

:eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2::eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:

Originally posted by Fabio

Education, if your sims get more education they will increase you office demand.

Tip = you should create a good education system (schools, colleges, libriries, museuns, facultys, university, ...) and then just let the time pass, you will see the office demand increase.

:okay:

But the school grade is already high and there is still a lot of demand on industry.

Is it possible to make a region with no industires ??

I have a region with industry. Create a city next to the one you want to have the office space. Place good connections and have them commute. Do not try to place only industry though. That is really hard to get a mix of. Best of luck! :)

Originally posted by Eric Wong

But the school grade is already high and there is still a lot of demand on industry.

Is it possible to make a region with no industires ??

PS. to have a high demand the education rate must be over 120 and even better if over 160.

:okay:

wooow!!! that city kick ass!!
:colgate:
11/10

Impressive city!

Wouldn't mind seeing more shots of it...

cool. needs more density, but still, 10.

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Originally posted by Jarmo

Impressive city!

Wouldn't mind seeing more shots of it...

Thanx! I've spend all of this week away from home but I will upload a few new screenshots when I get back monday or tuesday:)

Sweet! I will be waiting for them! :D

New screenshots as promissed:)

First a LARGE one of my region. I've made some changes, as you can see. I added a coastline at the bottom part and added 2 new cities:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/13.jpg


Next is a bunch of shots from westside:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/14.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/15.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/16.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/17.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/18.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/19.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/20.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/21.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/22.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/23.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/24.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/25.jpg


And at last a shot from one of the suburbs, this is the first of my cities city where Messeturm has appeared:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/26.jpg


Over and out:)

Incredible city!!!!! :D very nice!

Wouldn't mind living in your city. Well done!

Dude, that's one heck of a city! Very nice. Love the screen shots! :D

Thanx guys:)

I just made a few new cities, the region has now passed the 4 million mark:cheers: I'll take a screenshot of the region soon.

The new region screenshot:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/newregion.jpg

Btw. does anyone know how to change the name of the region?

:)

WOW, the city is realy growing. Beautiful city mlm, i like the terrain, and the city is well situated betveen the mountains, the river and the sea. 9/10:okay:

Westside news:

The city council decided that Westside was getting too many bridges, destroying the overall feeling of the city so the found a new way to get the cars around without using bridges. The regions best engineers made it possible to make a new high capacity route under the river. Here, 2 years after the first construction, the mayor of Westside is proud to announce the new MLM Tunnel opened.

TV Stations and journalists from all over the country was gathered to withness this great event and here's a few of their photos:

View from the air:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/tunnel1.jpg

Tunnel entrance on the Northside of the river:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/tunnel2.jpg

South side tunnel entrance:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/tunnel3.jpg

:D

he,he,he MLM Tunnel, i gess you love that one!!!?!!!:D :D

Woooooooooooooooooow!!!:)

How do you built it?:?

Det faktisk en ret fed by.. Du må give nogel tips :) :happy: :colgate: :cheers:

You are the best! I've tried to get one of those for forever now!

That's really cool. I think I will have to try to build one now! I will play it until I am done. ;)


:guns1:

Originally posted by Woko

Woooooooooooooooooow!!!:)

How do you built it?:?


You need to raise the land where you want the tunnel, then you build your tunnel and then you lower the land again. Be very carefull not to destroy the tunnel entrances when lowering the land, if that happens you have to start all over:bash: I "rehearsed" on another region before I made this one and it takes a little time to figure out the best way. A good way to get the land around the entrances straight is to build one tile of road on all the tiles near the entrance. That will level the area but also takes some practice. Just play with it and you'll get it done:)

Oh and be very carefull when using those terraforming tools;)

Thanks:D

Update time since I finally passed 5 million in my region:)

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/region1.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/transport1.jpg


:cheers:

how long did it take you to get this far?

Originally posted by Baranelo

how long did it take you to get this far?

11 Months:D It's the only region I've played. Sometimes I haven't played for weeks and other times a play it a lot:)

lol i am soo not like you :P i like play a region for a while... then i go for a new one... :P

Okay it's about time for another small region update. I haven't been playing that much lately but I've made a few new cities. I also (finally) managed to get my main city Westside, over the 1 million mark. Almost 6 million in the region now.

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/32.jpg


And also a transportation map:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/31.jpg

:)

Oh my *stars*! ;)


That is one crazy region! Almost five million people! :eek:

You have a very nice region too! Keep up the great work! :)

Originally posted by mlm


Btw. does anyone know how to change the name of the region?

:)

Goto the folder where your regions are saved (for me its in the "my documents" folder)
Click on the folder for region whos name you want to change, inside should be a file called region.ini, open that file up there should be a line in there like this (name = London) just change the London part to what ever you want to change it to.

Thanx Meffy, I actually found out a few weeks ago. When I had to find a new name I couldn't find anything...typical:D Well, it is Riverville now....can't come up with anything better.

Also thanks to Style, I hope I'll be able to fill all of the map but it just takes soooo much time:)

Synes stadigvæk et det er en flot region du har lavet, du må lige give mig nogle tips, for skal lave en ny region da den anden erslettet :(

Skrives ved.

Originally posted by mlm
Also thanks to Style, I hope I'll be able to fill all of the map but it just takes soooo much time:)


Anytime! :D


I know what you mean. It takes time to plan out my sprawl! :D

@loveCPH - can't you just download finnished regions at www.simtropolis.com? and to make yr own region can be hard i think so to :P

Originally posted by wolkenkrabber

@loveCPH - can't you just download finnished regions at www.simtropolis.com? and to make yr own region can be hard i think so to :P

Well, I have tried to download some regions, but I can't get them into the game. It's shit I think..

i have a very newbish question (i am still a newbie ;) )

which tools do you use for maximising that "cube" borders, alway when i click to generate the new region i have only 2-3 gigantic cube borders, i want to have it everywhere !! :D like that:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/region.jpg

Originally posted by individue

i have a very newbish question (i am still a newbie ;) )

which tools do you use for maximising that "cube" borders, alway when i click to generate the new region i have only 2-3 gigantic cube borders, i want to have it everywhere !! :D like that:


Do you mean the size of each of the cities? They are controlled by a file called "config.bmp" that is in every region folder. I'm not sure what happens if you change it but you could try (you should probably try it with a new region so you don't destroy anything if it doesn't work;) )

If that doesn't work you can probably find some info on http://www.simtropolis.com:)

The ones on my map was just there from the beginning.

Okay a small update, the region now have a population just over 6.500.000. I also posted the screenshot in the "Sim City 4 - Largest Region and City" thread, but I though I better keep this one updated too.

Well here it is:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/33.jpg

MASSIVE your region is very cool :), det är fint att du inte bara för runtönster utan lite ojämna fyrkanter också, plus att det inte bar är höghus :)

best of wishes for ya

I can honestly say that this is the best region I've ever seen on SC4, as wolken said, it's cool that it isn't only skyscrapers everywhere, then it doesn't look realistic. This one looks very realistic! Awesome work mlm! :okay:

Thanx guys:)

I think there's a bit too many high-rises for it to be realistc (unless it's supposed to be Sao Paulo:D ). The few cities that still needs to be build will mostly be parks, low-rise residential and maybe a bit more industry.

Time for a few closer looks.

First the new park I've built. It was really getting too dense to I decided to make a huge green park covering most of a medium sized city:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/34.jpg


And a clser look, notice the cool paths that only can be used for walking, they are all over the park in a large network:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/35.jpg


A Closer look of some of the new buildings that can be downloaded (since the new building architect tool was released)
First the Kingdom Center:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/36.jpg


A crazy new elevated-train station:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/37.jpg



You probably know the next 2:D

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/38.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/39.jpg


Another crazy elevated-train station:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/40.jpg


And last, a nice church, found a few cool ones on Simtropolis:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/41.jpg

wow, cool train stations... they looks really good. I dont got any words for wath it lokks like... but.... wired... and modern.:cheers:

Yeah I love the train stations too. I really hope someone wil make something similar for the monorail stations since I have a lot more of those.

Very nice buildings! I love BAT and what you can do with it. Very nice job, mlm! :)

Just found some nice old buildings on simtropolis and I created the old Westside "downtown".

This is where it all started:)

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/43.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/44.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/45.jpg


http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/46.jpg

I like all the San Fran buildings in there! Bank of America & Transamerica! :guns1:


mlm, your cities get better every time! :okay:


I also like that photo with the small 'town' inside of the downtown. Looks great at night too! :eek:

Det en kanon skøn by du har der :)
Men jeg ville blive glad hvis du gad at hjælpe mig lidt.. Har ik spillet det i et stykke tid nu.. Men er der kommet nye opdateringer? Og hva med BAT ?

Ses.

Amazing city. I'd love to see a tutorial on how to make such a thing by you.

First an region update, I'm soon running out of space to build on:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/47.jpg

And the transportation map:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/49.jpg



I'm not sure I would be able to make a tutorial but I can tell you about some of the things I've done.

First: I CHEAT. Yes, I use money cheats to get all the money I can spend.
I've explain in the first posts why so no reason to get into that again.
(You can find many lots on both www.simtropolis.com and www.simcity.com that gives you tons of money).
On www.simtropolis.com you'll also find other things that will help you get a huge city,
like traffic patches, super demand patches etc.

I've been playing this region since the game was released*,
so it takes some time (*game was released about 13 months ago)
.

I started out with the london region. My first city was the biggest one (today) right in the middle.
Here's a screenshot that shows the first city (yellow part are industrial areas):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/48.jpg


The main city (the red one) has probably been torn down and rebuild again a few times but I started it with
a mix of both res, com and ind zones just to get it started.
I started building highways, subways when I started, otherwise you'll spend a lot of time later implating things like these.

I soon decided to completely re-design the region, it's also a good idea to do early if you for example
wants some large mountains.

Basicly I've just kept on building smaller cities around the main one. I have industrial areas spread all around the
region and commercial/residential areas are more or less mixed everywhere.

I prefere to make my lot 6 x 6 in the dense res/com areas, otherwise too much space will be used for streets.
Be sure to make a lot of parks, place landmarks and plant trees, that will make your sims a lot more happy
and keep the buildings from abandonment (is that a word??).
I hate those old empty ugly building so I normally destroy them as soon as they appear.
They don't appear that much anymore since I now have the above mentioned things en masse.

I've now started to build less dense areas in the outer areas, which gives it a more realistc look.

I can't really give you a more detailed tutorial cause there wans't really any large masterplan. I've just kept on building.

A good way to start is to go to www.simtropolis.com and find lots and bat buildings you like.
I've downloaded schools, landmarks, arenas, parks, growable buildings,
power plants, garbage disposals and a lot more things that all helps me build a better city.


I hope this will help you a bit, but the best thing is really just to get started with your new region and maybe try
some different things. You can always just find the bulldozer and do it over again if you don't like what you see. :)

Wow that's great. Looks like you're gonna hit the 7 million mark soon :p

I'm kinda curious though, did you start out with a highway or did you, before you started zoning/building, lay down the entire infrastructure?? Or did you perhaps make that as you went along and maybe later re-did it?? Cause the infrastructure is what it's all about huh.

Oh yeah, I also make those 6 by 6 squares, well 7 by 7 if you count the road.

To be honest, I can't remember how/when I built the roads etc in the beginning. But now I lay down roads, highways, subways, monorails, trainstracks atc. before I zone anything. Then I sometimes have to make small corrections but it's not much. The biggest problems comes when I need to implant etc a monorail line into one of the older cities, that can cause some frustration. That's also why i try to build everything like that from the beginning now in my new cities.

Oh I see, that makes sense.

Doesn't that cost a crapload of money though??

Originally posted by RobinHood

Doesn't that cost a crapload of money though??

You got that right:yes:

heh, I feel ya. I put in an avenue on an older city (pre-Rush Hour) through part of the dense CBD...then I put in Elevated Rail over most of the main grade rail line, and rerouted the grade rail line around the edges of the city.

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Time for an update from the downtown area in Westside (which is pretty much downtown all of it:D ). I've decided to get rid of any really tall buildings outside downtown and place them here instead, this way you should atleast be able to see where the central part of my region is instead of having reallt tall ones spread out over a much larger area. Here we go:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/50.jpg

And the same at night:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/51.jpg

Notice any buildings you know?:D

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/52.jpg

Old and modern:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/53.jpg

My new rail station:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/54.jpg

Many famous buildings from this angle:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/55.jpg

:)

Thats what I call a great city!

mlm are u playing expansion set or original simcity 4? cause some of the nice buildings in the picture i never see b4!! or maybe i not yet reach that level yet:bleep: BTW, your city is so NICE!!! great job! i was mesmerised by ur city...

mlm,how you take ur city picture? izzit took the picture inside the simcity4 that allow u to take photo of your city?:?

mlm: did u place a lot of park or trees around the comercial and res. area so that wealthy and beautiful skyscrapers can pop up!?

Hi Kevinkhoo1986 and thanx for the nice words. Let me try to answer your questions:

mlm are u playing expansion set or original simcity 4? cause some of the nice buildings in the picture i never see b4!!

I'm playing the game with the expansion pack. The reason why there's some buildings you don't know is probably that I've downloaded a lot of new buildings from www.simtropolis.com


how you take ur city picture?

When you're in the game you press "Prt Scrn" button, then you go out of the game (with "alt" + "tabs") and paste it into a graphic program such as photoshop, paint shop pro or whatever you use.


did u place a lot of park or trees around the comercial and res. area so that wealthy and beautiful skyscrapers can pop up!?

Yes! I always plant a lot of trees and parks all over my cities.

:)

i couldn't find where to d/l new building in that website, mlm: would you mind to tell me where izzit?

Originally posted by Kevinkhoo1986

i couldn't find where to d/l new building in that website, mlm: would you mind to tell me where izzit?

In the menu to the left you see a "The ST Exchange", just click that. I think the best buildings can be found among the "BAT Files". Then you just click on the building you want to download.

Maybe you need to register at the site to be able to download the files but that shouldn't take long.

wowowowowowow


MLM, you are always surprising me, you city and region look awesome.

congratulations


:applause:

@Mlm

Is it easy to download, or is it complicated?
Please tell :)

Originally posted by LoveCPH

@Mlm

Is it easy to download, or is it complicated?
Please tell :)

Yes it's very easy. Just do as I wrote, click on a building (and a page pop up with information). Then click "download" and when done you unzip the files in your plugin folder, Dokumenter\SimCity 4\Plugins (the one in documents/dokumenter, not the one in the game forlder). That's it...

Originally posted by mlm

Yes it's very easy. Just do as I wrote, click on a building (and a page pop up with information). Then click "download" and when done you unzip the files in your plugin folder, Dokumenter\SimCity 4\Plugins (the one in documents/dokumenter, not the one in the game forlder). That's it...

Oh okay.. I will try that soon, when I'm going to play it :)

can this type of building that i d/l work on the original simcity4?

what is the different between plopable and growable?

Originally posted by Kevinkhoo1986

can this type of building that i d/l work on the original simcity4?

Some work with the original and some with RH. They normally write what that.




Originally posted by Kevinkhoo1986

what is the different between plopable and growable?


Growable buildings appear randomly like all the normal buildings in the game. Plopable are buildings that can be placed at any time/location (like landmarks).

FANTASTIC CITY!:eek2: CONGRATULATIONS!

Look at my small city

http://simcity4pl3.w.interia.pl/screen2.JPG

Good start Sitol447, looks nice:okay:

Looks like you still have a lot of land to develop, should keep you busy for many hours to come:)

Din mailbox er fyldt op.

@ LoveCPH: Ja det fik jeg at vide, har slettet en masse nu.
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Time for an update. I just made my 3rd large tunnel in the main city Westside, since traffic is getting worse and worse all the time.
This new link includes both a Highway tunnel and a monorail tunnel. These tunnels actually do work if someone should doubt that. About a month after building it the new monorail tunnel has a average usage of about 12900:)



The population im Westside is ranging between 1.050.000 and 1.100.000 most of the time right now.

Here's the pics, first we have the southside of the tunnel:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/64.jpg

And the northside (Downtown side):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/65.jpg

Larger overview:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/66.jpg


Here's a shot of a new waterfront development:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/67.jpg

A little density:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/68.jpg


And finally a large overview, day and night:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/69.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/70.jpg

:)

I decided to give the people of Westside yet another tunnel. This time to ease up teh traffic in the downtown area on the most used Avenues running directly through downtown.

I made a highway tunnel under the avenue, starting and ending where the avenue connects to the other highway network.

Here's the western entrance to the tunnel:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/71.jpg

And the eastern one:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/72.jpg

And finally an overview, showing the route in red:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/73.jpg

:)

I think I just hit a new personal record for most usage for a monorail station. This is in a small sized city, neighboring the main city, Westside:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/74.jpg

:)

Dang. Very nice! :D

mlm: this is my first post and i use it to say i love your city, i love it!

Can you say to me the secret for fill my city of high buildings???

:guns1: :guns1: :guns1: :guns1: :guns1:

:applause:


Amazing, your traffic system is awesome.


:okay:

Originally posted by Salieri

mlm: this is my first post and i use it to say i love your city, i love it!

Can you say to me the secret for fill my city of high buildings???

:guns1: :guns1: :guns1: :guns1: :guns1:


First of all Welcome and thanx Salieri:)

I'm sorry but I don't have one secret tip that can get you tall building right away. Because of the size of my cities and my region they pop up everywhere I want them but it takes a little time to get to this point. You'll of course need to provide your sims with very good school, police, fire, hospital and traffic systems. They also love parks and trees.

Also, the more cities you have connected to the city your working on, the faster it grows. And of course you'll also need to zoom dense if you want tall buildings.

Here in my main city I also have a lot of landmarks and plobablt custon made buildings, you can find many of these on www simtropolis.com . Some of them have jobs and by placing some of those you'll also see your city grow.

That was the fast version, hope it helps you a bit.:)

yes i know simtropolis, thanks for the information MLM


:guns1: :guns1: :guns1:

awesome! the best sc4 region I've seen so far

Det skideflot. :colgate:

great city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey mlm, can you tell me how you were able to do the tunnels that go underwater and land?? i find that it is one of the most interesting features in this game. and one more question, how were you able to obtain that rail station? was it from simtropolis or a gift from the game?

great city!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hey mlm, can you tell me how you were able to do the tunnels that go underwater and land?? i find that it is one of the most interesting features in this game. and one more question, how were you able to obtain that rail station? was it from simtropolis or a gift from the game?

Hi Simgineer and welcome to the forum:wave:

First the easy one: I got the Amsterdam Train Station from www.simtropolis.com yes:)

Let me try to tell step by step how I made the tunnels:

1: Raise the land where you want to make the tunnel. It can't be made under water so you'll have to raise the land above sea level on all of the tunnel route. (Be carefull not to destroy too much with those terraforming tools!)

2. When done, lower the land slightly where you want the 2 entrances and make sure there's a steep hill just next to it (in the direction where the tunnel is supposed to be).

3: Make the tunnel. You might have to terraform the land slightly a few times to be able to make the tunnel.

4: When the tunnel is done, lower the land again and make the water as it was before. Again, be very carefull when you do this. If you get to close to the tunnel entrances the tunnel will be destroyed. Don't go closer to the entrances than 15-20 tiles with the terraforming tool. When the water is close to normal again you'll probably still have a small mountain around the 2 entrances. Use streets to lower this. By placing one tile of street at the time you'll be able to make the land exactly where you want it. You can also use this "street trick" in the other steps, I use that a lot.


It's pretty hard to get it right the first time but after a few tunnels you get used to it and will soon be able to make then a lot faster. Hope it will work for you. :)

thanks for the welcome! and thanks for the tips on tunneling!

Update time. First the region and transportation overoview. Not that much happend here since last update but I did a a few highways and one or two new cities:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/75.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/76.jpg


Now back to Westside, I used to have beaches on almost every coast but now I replaced those with these over most of the harbourfronts. Before it looked really messy and confusing a lot of places with dead end roads etc, now it looks a lot more organized.

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/77.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/78.jpg

And at night:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/79.jpg

Larger view at night:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/80.jpg


And finally the grand overview, I managed (imo:) ) to make the downtown look a little more "downtown'ish" by placing all the tallest buildings there. Now I'm waiting for Petronas which will be on Simtropolis soon:D

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/81.jpg

:)

Another update.

I just made a small island just next to the CBD, it is connected to the land around it with both subway, busses, monorail, a tunnel and 2 bridges.

First 2 overview photos:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/82.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/83.jpg

Closer view:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/84.jpg

And at night:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/85.jpg

man it's hard to tell which are landmarks and which are valid growth.......

nice dude, especially catching the shuttle launching.

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/83.jpg

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That's becoming one awsome city, mlm. Just the best......ever.

Master of Sim City!! :master:

can i live there?????????????????. thats great, just great, the first picture reminds me of Denver in like 200 years. Downtown with a view of the mountains. GREAT.

mmmm i can do much better but i like your city :D ;)
my region has a population of 12.8 million people :o

how did you LSyd make the edge so nice??? it is so hard for me to do that.

i am so envy of u all who can created such an amazing city !! I cant play large map because my computer will run very slow when the city started to get bigger. So i can only can play on medium sizes map... What is your computer speed?? i am using AMD 1.8Ghz and still could not move faster

i am so envy of u all who can created such an amazing city !! I cant play large map because my computer will run very slow when the city started to get bigger. So i can only can play on medium sizes map... What is your computer speed?? i am using AMD 1.8Ghz and still could not move faster

Whats your RAM memory? You need at least 384 Mb memory to run big cities (+500.000)

i am so envy of u all who can created such an amazing city !! I cant play large map because my computer will run very slow when the city started to get bigger. So i can only can play on medium sizes map... What is your computer speed?? i am using AMD 1.8Ghz and still could not move faster


I have an AMD Athlon 2800+ with 1024 DDR RAM and it runs okay but still a bit slow on the largest cities. I could also run large cities on my old AMD 800 with 392 SD RAM so you don't need that big a computer, but of course bigger is better in this case.

mmmm i can do much better but i like your city :D ;)
my region has a population of 12.8 million people :o

I have actually started to get rid of some of all the highrises in the "suburbs", so the population is falling a bit. I just don't think it looks right with highrises all over so now I'm trying to get it a bit more realistic. I'm also imlating more parks and green areas and more water.

When all of my map is build up and I've "cleaned up" some of my old highrise jungle cities I guess I'll end up with some 6-7 million in the region. It would be no problem to get it much higher but I just don't want to end up with a concrete'ish Sao Paulo like region:)

hey beautiful region :D mmm for everyone look at this site 2 see my cities en regions www.fless.tk link: kuno's !!!!!!

Whats your RAM memory? You need at least 384 Mb memory to run big cities (+500.000)

384 Mb?? Now i knew the problems. I am using 256 Mb RAM. Thats why i feel strange why my computer moved so slow eventhough i am using AMD 1.8 Ghz :bash:

I have actually started to get rid of some of all the highrises in the "suburbs", so the population is falling a bit. I just don't think it looks right with highrises all over so now I'm trying to get it a bit more realistic. I'm also imlating more parks and green areas and more water.

When all of my map is build up and I've "cleaned up" some of my old highrise jungle cities I guess I'll end up with some 6-7 million in the region. It would be no problem to get it much higher but I just don't want to end up with a concrete'ish Sao Paulo like region:)

Yupe. I agree with it. I can get a population of 800k on a medium sizes map with all the skyscrapers on it.(using cheat for sure) It is just depend on yourself whether u like to see large population on your city or realistic city. :drunk:

mmm i agree with that. i just started a new region with some more realistic nature and stuff. so i hope that's gonna look great!!

Fantastic, mlm! Nice to see someone from S&B posting here. I haven't played SimCity 4 for ages, but a visit to this part of the board has made me want to start again.

Thanx again:) I'll soon have some updates, not many places left to build now. I just moved and have no internet connection yet, so lots of time to play SC4:D

Damn,that's a very impressive city...Oh damn,i also wanna play this game:(...but my computer is just too slow! (400mhz)

Very impressive city I must say. Great use of stuff and nice layout.

Can you post a traffic (not transportation) map? I think it would be intresting to see how heavy traffic in some areas is. :D



Such a great city still. The use of the trasnportation in many areas (that three way interchange after a tunnel then a curve, etc....dang!).

Can you post a traffic (not transportation) map? I think it would be intresting to see how heavy traffic in some areas is. :D

Such a great city still. The use of the trasnportation in many areas (that three way interchange after a tunnel then a curve, etc....dang!).

Sure, but it will have to wait 2 weeks, I'll be back online then (just moved, don't have internet acces yet in my new appartment.)


Again thanx for all the nice words, it makes me want to make it even better:)

Where did you get such a great waterfront?

Where did you get such a great waterfront?

From www.simtropolis.com

You can download some waterfront packs that makes it possible to make these (just like you download new buildings). I can't remember what the one I used is called but there is more than one. It is also possible to make e.g. a industry waterfront, I haven't tried that yet though. It's a bit hard to get it right the first time you try to use it, but soon you'll be able to make it look nice:)

Thanks, by the way that's the coolest city I have ever witnessed!

Can you post a traffic (not transportation) map? I think it would be intresting to see how heavy traffic in some areas is. :D


Here is your traffic map as promissed. I hope you meant for westside:) :

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/86.jpg

The traffic seems to be fine, I've managed to get most of the heavy traffic out on the highways simply by removing other options (such as small road city connections close to highway city connections). I see that the 3 tunnels I have under the river (2 highway and one avenue) aren't included in this map, these also take quite a lot of traffic.

Westside city overview:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/87.jpg


New region overview. I've killed many highrises, but there's still A LOT:D I've also filled some of the outer cities with "suburb'like" small cities with small houses, shopping centers etc.

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/88.jpg


And finally the usual transportation overview:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/89.jpg


I see that there's a lot of cool new buildings availeble on www.simtropolis.com since the last time I had a change to download any, maybe I should get some of those soon:)

mlm, that traffic map is insane! Talk about massive movements of people around your city! :D

For where your people live and work..there seems to not bee too much traffic between them. Very well done. :)

Another note to the traffic: I just checked the usages for most of my monorail stations, most are somewhere between 10.000 and 30.000. I have replaced all the old monorail stations with new one from Simtropolis, these also includes a bus stop and a metro line. I was chocked when I saw the usage of this one, it's bordering another city:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/90.jpg

171554:eek: Now that has to be new personal record for me:D

I found something very interesting on simtrolis today. I've always wanted to be able to make larger highways and now it seems possible. They call it "Multi-Highways" and you can find some threads about it on their forum. Basicly this makes it possible to make one way highways (splits up the 2 lanes). I've done some testing and I managed to make a 18 laned highway (9 in each direction). The biggest problem is the on-ramp these are more or less impossible to make with that mane lanes. It could be very usefull though if you need to transport A LOT of cars over a distance without needing any on ramps. Here's a few shots (this is not from Westside, but a test city):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/91.jpg

And now working. It is possible to connect the ends with one way streets and avenues are you can see:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/92.jpg
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/93.jpg

...anotother great thing is that it looks much better than the original highways :cheers:

I do not like how they are all seperate. I think they need a freeway that can have two lanes each side and ones with more. Would be better. :)

I agree that this is not perfect. Personally I would like to see more lanes in the highways and more options to connect them to other roads and each other. It would also be great if we could make more than 2 layers of highway on top of each other. :)

I found something very interesting on simtrolis today. I've always wanted to be able to make larger highways and now it seems possible. They call it "Multi-Highways" and you can find some threads about it on their forum. Basicly this makes it possible to make one way highways (splits up the 2 lanes). I've done some testing and I managed to make a 18 laned highway (9 in each direction). The biggest problem is the on-ramp these are more or less impossible to make with that mane lanes. It could be very usefull though if you need to transport A LOT of cars over a distance without needing any on ramps. Here's a few shots (this is not from Westside, but a test city):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/91.jpg

And now working. It is possible to connect the ends with one way streets and avenues are you can see:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/92.jpg
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/93.jpg

...anotother great thing is that it looks much better than the original highways :cheers:

Can i ask about how do u cheat so much money ??

Is it a code with it ?? :)

Can i ask about how do u cheat so much money ??

Is it a code with it ?? :)

Sure, it's a small lot I found on either Simtropolis or simcity.com (can't really remember). There are others there now which will do the same, just search one of the sites for "money" or something like that.

you are the god of simcity....though i sense cheats...nevermind, you are the god of simcity 4

can't wailt until my city begins to rise...like yours is new york and mine is London! i have like 10 mid rises...and rest like 10 floors -_-'' its terrible such a low rise city...ah well

its a combination of things

1. You can download a simcity4 money cheat trainer, either from www.gamewinners.com or search it from a say; www.yahoo.com

2. His in like the 2619!! in my city i'm in the year 2019.....as time goes by and population rises, your demand for space is upwards, happens all the time.

good education, policing and health you will have a new york style city...

you are the god of simcity....though i sense cheats...nevermind, you are the god of simcity 4

can't wailt until my city begins to rise...like yours is new york and mine is London! i have like 10 mid rises...and rest like 10 floors -_-'' its terrible such a low rise city...ah well

Firstly Thanx, and sencondly, yes I use money cheat. I've written it earlier and have no problem doing it again:) To me the game is much more funny this way, so that how I'm doing it :cheers:

Anyway, I have been demolishing a lot of highrises lately, to get a more realistic looking region. I'll take a few new screenshots later tonight..

Time for the update.

As written earlier I've been trying to get rid of some of the highrises in the suburbs, it was getting too "Sao Paulo'ish":D

I have also made 2 new large airports, they work regionally now, as long as you remember to add a small lot in the other cities.

The usual region view:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/94.jpg

And the transportation map:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/95.jpg


Here's a closer look at the new airports, first we have the smallest of them, "Westside City Airport":

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/96.jpg


And here two of the other, "Westside Island Airport":

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/97.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/98.jpg


Finally an overview of westside itself, here we still have tall buildings én masse:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/99.jpg

:)

Mlm is just the master of sim city!!!!!!!!!

O wow, mlm! :master::master::master:

Your city is incredible! :applause: I've just gone all the way through this thread -- it's the 1st time I stumble into this forum category. ;) Fascinating to learn what all this SimCity business is all about. :eek:

Be it Westside or Riverville, I give you the full 10! :okay:

You are very wise to create lots of greenery and open space, plus your dedication to public transit is admirable. :)

You built your fabulous infrastructure from non-existent funds? :laugh: I agree with you: I think that's quite OK. :cool:

Thanx:)

@ WH:

I didn't expect to see you here, but I'm glad you took the time to go all the way through this long thread :hug:

:cheers:

Your region is very cool. I noticed that you have answered some questions, and if you don't mind, i would very much like to ask you some things.
#1. How/where did you get those seawalls? They are so cool, did you make them yourself???
#2. When i download something from simcity.com, it works out fine, but when i try to download something from simtropolis.com, it doesn't work, because I don't know how to unzip the file. I have found out that I need Winzip, but where do I get it? Can I download it for free somewhere?
Also, i noticed two things: 1. your city has much freeways (or highways), are they really used? I ask this to everyone, because all my freeways are deserted. and 2. your city has a lot of airports, can you collectivize (is that a word?) them and have a huge airport instead?
One last question: Do all of your cities have a commerical zoned area? , because in my region, there is only one city with all teh jobs, and it seems to work fine for now
Anyway, keep on posting updates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great city and region! Really, I'm amazed!
I've made a folder for your updates, so I can see how your region expanded...:D
Keep the updates! :yes:

Hey. Hvordan får du vandkanten til at være lige?

Your region is very cool. I noticed that you have answered some questions, and if you don't mind, i would very much like to ask you some things.
#1. How/where did you get those seawalls? They are so cool, did you make them yourself???
#2. When i download something from simcity.com, it works out fine, but when i try to download something from simtropolis.com, it doesn't work, because I don't know how to unzip the file. I have found out that I need Winzip, but where do I get it? Can I download it for free somewhere?
Also, i noticed two things: 1. your city has much freeways (or highways), are they really used? I ask this to everyone, because all my freeways are deserted. and 2. your city has a lot of airports, can you collectivize (is that a word?) them and have a huge airport instead?
One last question: Do all of your cities have a commerical zoned area? , because in my region, there is only one city with all teh jobs, and it seems to work fine for now
Anyway, keep on posting updates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you:) Sorry for the late reply, but I've been away all the week. Let me try to answer your questions:

1: I got them from www.simtropolis.com like most of the other stuff I've downloaded. I can't find them there right now, but try to search for "waterfront", "water", "sea" or something like that and you'll probably find some.

2: Yes you need winzip to extract the files from Simtropolis, you can download it on www.winzip.com

3: Highways, yes they are used quite a lot. I make sure to get rid of all other road connections close to the highways, that forces the sims to use them. For many cities I actually only have highway connections to the neighboring cities.

4: Airports. I used to have "normal" airports in almost all of my cities but that kind of sucks. I've have now made 2 huge ones (as you can see on the latest updates) and started to get rid of the normal ones. I downloaded the airport pack called "RH Airport Pack" (search for it) from simtropolis, with that you can build them just like you want. They kind of work "regionally" (is that a word?), but you'll have to place a lot included in the pack in each of your cities. It is all explained in the help file you find with it.

5: Zones. Yes I do have a mix of Residential and Commercial in most of my cities, and then some cities with mostly industrial. In many of the "normal" areas of my densest cities I zone 6x6 and then zone it like a green/blue chess board:)
This works fine for me, but I'm sure other ways will do too.


I hope this answers most of your questions, otherwise don't hesitate to ask again :cheers:

Hey. Hvordan får du vandkanten til at være lige?

I use the "udjævn" tool. First I make the ground level by placing one piece of road at a time (and then delete them), and then I place the seawalls. Some of them will look like they're placed on land, but with the "udjævn" tool you can make them look good. Place the tool in the water outside the seawall, and then drag it carefully against the seawall untill the ground is no longer visible.

The Olympics are comming to Westside! :carrot:

Westside has started contruction of the new "Olympic Island" area, right in the heart of the region, just a few minutes away from Westside Downtown. An old industrial area has been converted to a modern olympic city, and a new canal has been digged (maybe inspired by my Amsterdam visit last week:D ). The new island are not totally completed yet, since I'm waiting for someone to complete the Beijing 2008 olympic stadium. Some of the venues have been built though, one of them a new state of the art swimming arena (exact replica of the Beijing one) + the beaches has returned to the inner city. I god rid of them some time ago, but decided to bring one back now:)

Lets move on to the screenshots:

First we have an overview, you see the Olympic Island in the bottom:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/100.jpg


A closer view:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/101.jpg


Here you see the new Swimming Arena, the new highway tunnel and part of the beach:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/102.jpg


Northern part of the Island:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/103.jpg


Overview with the new canal and the huge empty spot where the main stadium will be build:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/104.jpg


A finally a night view, notice the spectacular lighting on the arena, and the huge palms with different colors:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/105.jpg


Now I just hope the stadium will be released soon:)

9/10 near perfect

Når man skal udjævne noget kan man kun udjævne store arealer med den store runge gule streg.

Okay LoveCPH, let me try to make you a tutorial, I'll keep it in english so other people understadn it too (if anyone need it:) )


1:

First we have our rough, untouched coastline:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/tut/1.jpg


2:

I start by laying pieces of road to make it straight. Only one piece at the time,
and always on the tile next to the prvoius one (so they will be at the same elevation):

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/tut/2.jpg


3:

Delete the road again, the land where it was is now totally at the same level.
Replace it with a line of road and whatever kind of seawall you use:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/tut/3.jpg


4:

Choose the "Udjævn Tærren" tool (sorry, don't know what it is in english), the one with the red ring around it, and start in the water. Be carefull when you level the water towards the coastline, you don't want to give it too much (resulting in demolishion of the seawall/road). You can also make the green ring small and larger, I think it's by pressing down shift and ctrl while leveling:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/tut/4.jpg


5:

Voila! You got yourself a straight coastline:-)

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/tut/6.jpg


This is how it looks under the seawall, if you by accident destroy one of them during leveling (and this happens pretty often) be sure to lay down single pieces of road again to make the land level once again.

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/tut/7.jpg


Hope that helps you:)

Nåh ok. .. Det må jeg lige huske. Tak for hjælpen. Der findes andre vandfront mure ik ?

Cool! I cant wait for more pics!

Wow!!
Very cool!!!! :eek2:

I like all of them!! :)

That's an awesome city!!!

I just can't find that waterfront!!!

You've inspired me to get the game. <-- lamer :D

Small update.

I've started making a lot more canals, now from Westside (the large city in the middle) and into the other cities. There is still a long way to go, but I'll take it slowly:D

Anyway here's the latest region overview:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/106.jpg

:)

Excellent city, "mlm"!!! But, I have to ask everyone how could I make such a huge region, without the small "cells" that are as default in the game????

Thanx mici:)

Actually you already have this region, it is the original London region, I've just terraformed it a lot. The "city cells" are exactly the same sizes as they were in the beginning:)

cool. sprawled, but cool.

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mlm, did your computer getting slower once your city growing bigger? I always face this predicament when my city growing bigger. Sometime it took me more than 2 minutes just to zoom it. That's why i stopped playing it when my cities growing bigger. My computer speed is around 1.8 giga hertz, so i think the problem is not due to my computer speed. Will it due to my RAM speed? my ram is just 256 mhz

mlm, did your computer getting slower once your city growing bigger? I always face this predicament when my city growing bigger. Sometime it took me more than 2 minutes just to zoom it. That's why i stopped playing it when my cities growing bigger. My computer speed is around 1.8 giga hertz, so i think the problem is not due to my computer speed. Will it due to my RAM speed? my ram is just 256 mhz


Well yes, but still not really slow. I don't think it ever takes me more than 3-4 secunds to zoom. The worst problem is actually in one of the medium cities, it is filled with tons of trees and that makes it slow. The game has also chrashed on me a few times, most of them when I'm working on this "tree" city. I think that is because of some other problem with my pc though.

I think more RAM would help you a lot if you want the game to run faster.
My pcu is a AMD Athlon 2800+ (2.07 GHZ) with 1024 DDR RAM.



cool. sprawled, but cool.

Yes it's getting more and more sprawled, that is also what I'm trying to make;) I used to have almost 7 million in the region, and highrises all over the place, but I found that too unrealistic. Now I'm going for the more realistic look, and getting rid of many highrises in the outer cities:) Not sure you can call a city with Sears, ESB, Chrysler, WTC, Petronas, John Hancock, CN Tower etc realistic though:D

1024 RAM! oh my god, that's four time faster than mine :( By the way, i am using AMD Athlon too :)

Update time

Riverville/Westside is undergoing a huge redevelopment plan which will bring water close to all the sims in order to improve living standards.
Here's first some random shots from the smaller cities surrounding Westside:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/108.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/109.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/110.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/111.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/112.jpg

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/113.jpg

Now we're getting really close to Westside itself, here we see some Luxury residential towers for some of the more lucky sims:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/114.jpg

Entering Westside, here we have 2 new office towers along one of the new canals:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/115.jpg


The brand new Westside Olympic Stadium:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/116.jpg


Night time, here we see a new bunch of towers of the southbank of the river.

The council for this neighborhood had for many years protected this hood from really tall office towers,
but now they felt it was time to move ahead like the rest of highrise happy region.
The place is now home to the 2nd skyline of Westside:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/117.jpg


Back on the northside, we see another brand new office tower (the one to the left):
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/118.jpg


Nightview of the tallest in the region:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/119.jpg


Westside overview:
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/120.jpg


And finally the usual region overview, notice all the new canals (mainly in the middle area).
You'll also notice that the population is still dropping, as old residetial blocks in the suburbia is replcaed with new smaller "luxury villages":
http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/121.jpg

:)

"luxury village" being another term for "white man's ghetto?" :laugh:

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Yeah, something like that I guess:D

I'll add a few more screenshots of those when more is being build:)

Magnifincint, the best city i ever see.

NEWS:

The mayor of Westside had known for a long time that most of the sims on Sim Earth didn't like his city. It was too succesful according to most "outsiders". Monday the 28th of October, 2004, hell broke lose. Without no warning the region of westside was hit hard with a nuclear bomb, it totally destroyed everything within a radius of more than 500 km.

To sum up:

WESTSIDE IS NO MORE


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My harddisk died on me last monday. I only had a backup of the city on another partition on the same HD, and everything was lost:( I've been working on this city from the day SC4 was released (back in Jan 2003) but now it's all over. Now all I can do is wait for SC5, I'm too depressed to start over again with this game (atleast for now).

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Oh god....that sucks....ouuhhhh, really, really sad. I remember when i lost my own 1.7 million city in Sim City 3000 world edition...that sucked soemthing deeply...;)

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my condolences.

and that's why i periodically burn a CD with my regions and plugins folder, or move the regions folders onto a pen drive or to the laptop or another computer.

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Thanx guys.

LSyd; good idea, I also used to do that, but then my CD burner broke. I didn't get a new until a few weeks ago, and unfortunately I never burned the city in time:(

Anyway, here's the very last image you'll ever see of Westside. It is huge, and show how it looked the last time I played it:

http://www.mikaellykmadsen.dk/sc4/122.jpg

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Oh man thats a kick in the junk hardcore. At least u can always enjoy the pictures of your great city. Make sure u get a back up of the pics too. On the brighter side, if/when u start a new city you can incorperate new ideas with old ideas you learned with the city of Westside. You did a lot of work to make the city more realistic (and I think the changes looked GREAT), so now u can start a new region with realism in mind, instead of killing off a few million ppl :) Good luck with your next project, whenever u get to it. Could make an interesting city journal too.

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my condolences.

and that's why i periodically burn a CD with my regions and plugins folder, or move the regions folders onto a pen drive or to the laptop or another computer.

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I do the same thing. That is one of the most beutiful regions I have ever seen, Litterelly!

Delete the road again, the land where it was is now totally at the same level.
Replace it with a line of road and whatever kind of seawall you use:

Do is suppose to have that seawall with rush hour or do i have download it?

Do is suppose to have that seawall with rush hour or do i have download it?

Nope there's no seawall included with RH. You have to download it somewhere. I found the one I used the most on www.simtropolis.com :)

how do you build canals like that?

and how do you get to brick the waters edge?

how do you build canals like that?

and how do you get to brick the waters edge?

First of all you need some seawalls. You can probably find some at www.simtropolis.com . Go to the previous page of this thread (page 8) and look at post #147. There I descripe how to make the coast straight. Now you just need to do the same on both side which can be really tricky in the beginning, but once you manage it you'll be able to make the canals pretty fast.

Most of my canals had 6 or 4 tiles of water between the seawalls, like this:

RSSWWWWWWSSR

or

RSSWWWWSSR

R = Road
S = Seawall
W = Water

Some are also wieder to make some variation, but you'll probably figure out yourself what you like the most.

Anyway, I think the canals brings a lot to the cities, they get a lot nicer. Good luck with the project;)

I can't find any seawalls at all at simtropolis.com those at simcity.ea.com suck what is the name of the seawalls on simtropolis.com?

Sorry I can't remember the name of them. I think they were made by "pegasus".

Is a sort of kit that you have install first

sorry is it a sort of kit that you have to install first (that's better :) and can i trust it ?/no virus

sorry is it a sort of kit that you have to install first (that's better :) and can i trust it ?/no virus

No, it's a few files you download and then place them in your "C:\Documents and Settings\Simcity4\plugins" folder (or omsething similar to that). I've downloaded 1000s of files from simtropolis and never seen a virus (nor heard of one from there) After you have placed the files there, the building/seawall/whatever will be availeble in the game. :)

:cheers: well mlm im sure u'll do one better, as for the sea walls, im working on getting them to work and with no viruses or anyting from simtropolis.

But my simtroppolis files aren't working, how do you make them visible in the game?

Btw, downloading winzip cost me money. Can i get for free someway

This >>> http://www.download.com/3405-20-960683.html <<<link will lead you to a download from CNet ( a trusted site) where you can get the evaluation version of WinZip, once you begin using the program (very easy to use) dont click on the Buy Now button and you will be fine... after you have "unzipped" a file, take the items showing in the winzip window and put them in the plugins folder of simcity 4 in your My Documents/Sim City 4/ Plugins.... at least that works for me... try it and ask the forum if you have any problems.

PICTURES can u re upload

how do u get such large terrain? and how do u get such a big city? and also how do u make those little rivers and stuf while ur playing? are they like artificial lakes?

I feel sorry for mlm, particularly since he lost a region that he put so much effort into to make look really good. I know I'd feel sorta sad as well if I lost my largest region which I have been working on for over a year now with 9.5 million sims.

Giorgos69, there's a file called config which you can reconfigure in some way so that you can make all the cities the sizes you want and what position. These articles shows you how to do so and what it does: http://www.sc4ever.com/knowledge/showarticle.cfm?id=1103&openItemID=cid.49%2Ccid.45%2Ccid.47
http://www.simtropolis.com/content.cfm?mode=omnibus&view=114

This specific config is the one I use for 12 x 12 large cities, though I wouldn't exactly recommend it unless you want to make an enormously populated region like me (still have barely used 1/3 of it) or you have some other reason. Absolute no-no for those with slow computers: http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid48/p9b8632e76fab605c64683614ec22844c/fcbecb1d.gif To save, go save target or picture as

very cool layout...downtown is centered well and there is plenty of development in every direction. 9 of 10

damn .. never saw this thread before now .. Awesome work mlm! :D 10/10

I just read his story and what a sad one it is, here he is spending hour upon hour making possibly the best region/city EVER!!! and then the sheer perversity of the universe strikes and its gone (if I knew how to make the crying smiley i'd put it here)
but still what an amazing city/region it made me jealous good show!!

Thanx guys, I really appreciate your comments a lot. :)

Though I installed SC4 on my new hard disk, I never really started playing again, and doubt I will. Just the thought of spending that much time again makes me dizzy. Waiting for SC5 now.... :)

9/10

felt really sorry for this loss

just looking at this city, too bad it's gone...perhaps you should start a new region, taking what you know about SC4 now and build another?

very well planned, clean and organized, the density pretty much matched the terrain, and downtown is recognizable.

NICE :)

6/10

I Dont no if you read this thread anymore but Great Job.. Even though Westside is gone you will you remain a teacher to us less informed SC4 players and ever since i have read you whole thread i have steped my game up ... That is why i come to you oh Great one.
I was wondering how you make tunnels??
its sure has stumped me....

PS. love the Bejing Olympic Stadium reall adds a nice touch

Yes I do read this thread, whenever there's a new reply that is. Thanx for the nice words, I'm glad if the thread has been helpful to you. :)

Let me see if I can find a description of how to make the tunnels. I'm at work right now, so it'll have to wait.

This city was pretty coo, too bad its gone though.

great city you've built up there dude

Hey mlm you should really make use of your skills and build another great city and posted here, we would love to see your work again. :)

9/10

I can't see teh first pics and the others are loading up

/\ Only the 3 first pics (in post 1) is not working, I think they were deleted from my server. All the others still works fine. :)

Nice city, fairly mamooth, not very realistic but