Hello @all,

i have some questions to Sim City 4:

1. Is it possible to build a city in different styles like european or asian ?

2. Is it possible to put all the business areas into one city and all the industrial in the next city?
Does it works when i then connect the "living city" with the "business city" and the "industrial city"

3. What hardware i need for Sim City 4?

It would be cool if you can help me!

Asian's not really possible right now, but they said it would be. European became possible with Rush Hour.

yeah, it works to some extent, mostly I've found with border overlap (lots of residential along one border and lots of commercial on the border of the other city and the residents will go over for work.)

hardware? decent video card, 1ghz+ processor, and at least 384 RAM. it runs fine on my 1.2 ghz with 384, although I don't have a lot of the extraneous details selected as an option, like seeing traffic.

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Try to put some people in the city with all commercial. Only commercial may not work out at first. You may also get taller buildings faster.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Well in my massive 6.7million region - I have one city of 1.6million sitting next door to an entirely commercial city of around 2,000,000 jobs (I literally have around 300 Raemon Plazas). I also have a few other cities with mixed use (500,000+ commercial jobs) and 2 major residential and industrial cities (both with around 500,000+ industrial jobs and 500,000 residents approx in both. Look in the other thread to see my region pic (albeit it is now slightly dated)

I have one question to ask :

My region population is around 2 million and I have a city with population of 400000. I still cannot see any tall commerical buildings around my cities even the school grade is high, the mayor grade is high and the health grade is high, but my cities have a lot of tall residential towers.

How can I get some taller commerical buildings in my cities ??

Originally posted by Eric Wong

How can I get some taller commerical buildings in my cities ??

Have you downloaded all the patches? I believe there are 2 that need to be installed, the patchs make getting tall building 100 times easier.

Originally posted by Eric Wong

How can I get some taller commerical buildings in my cities ??

i had this problem for a while...

zone 4x4s, and get the demand up.

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Hey can you guys tell me where to get the SimCity 4000 patches? I've downloaded one of them and gotten the game upgraded at the SimCity website, but I really don't know where to get the second one....any help would be good, thanks.

Another question that I've got...about tilesets, whats the deal with those? I've not got a big city yet, and I'm already dead tired of the buildings. I'm seeing stuff about European and Asian tilesets and all that...where would I get them? Do the European buildings come with Rush Hour? Again, thanks.

Originally posted by paul_radley

Hey can you guys tell me where to get the SimCity 4000 patches? I've downloaded one of them and gotten the game upgraded at the SimCity website, but I really don't know where to get the second one....any help would be good, thanks.

Another question that I've got...about tilesets, whats the deal with those? I've not got a big city yet, and I'm already dead tired of the buildings. I'm seeing stuff about European and Asian tilesets and all that...where would I get them? Do the European buildings come with Rush Hour? Again, thanks.

When did you download it? I believe that the second patch (name: PATCH-SKU1-TO-P2.EXE) also includes the first patch in it allready, so it should all be one big patch now.

Hmm...I downloaded it quite a while back, it wasn't really recent. Sometime over the summer, I believe. There were a couple of errors that it's said to have addressed, but I really didn't notice anything. I get a lot of 'No Car' access zots, even when there is access to roads and sometimes my cities just sit dormant for long periods of time without development, thus leaving big blanks in the commercial and residential zones. I think that's my fault though, probaby due to bad planning. Are there any websites that you can download these patches from?

http://simcity.ea.com/update/index.php

^^^ that should auto detect and install patches.

Thanks alot Meffy...need to delete that double post now.

Alrite...I've got a problem with SimCity. I'm not really getting any development or growth in my city. I've got quite a large commercial office population (somewhere around 30,000) and my city itself is not that big, around 83,000 people. There are alot of empty lots in my city, even in the middle of the 'CBD' and neighborhoods. The commercial and residential demand is high, but I'm not getting any new development in some of the zones. I've heard that Rush Hour helps things get going...is there any advice that someone could give me? Thanks

If all else fails, place parks/plazas and subway/bus stops near the zoned area. That almost always gets growth and yes, rush hour helps ALOT!

I just got the game for christmas and also have a few questions:

1) How high can you raise taxes before it becomes unacceptable?

2) Are there any pre-done cities you can load?

3) How do you best encourage High Tech industry?

4) Do you have any other hints/tips?

1. 9.9% any higher and things tend to go backwards.
2. Yes try the Sim City website
3. Over time once you have got a reasonably wealthy city and a well educated population with a university etc.
4. Cheat, this game is so huge.
Play the U drive missions (rush hour expansion pack) if you run low on funds.
The best way I have found to keep the money rolling in whilst spending out on services and all the good stuff, is to make as many neighbour deals as pos. e.g sell power,water buy garbage. this can be a big earner if the next city is huge. Pause the city when saving then open the next door city which will be in pause mode (yes?) and reverse the deals and the money keeps rolling in to that city. I hope they don't bring out a patch to fix this.
Build all water facility's well away from industrial Zones as they don't work if too much polution gets to them. pipe in the fresh water to these areas.
When you start adding public services like education use large elementary schools and turn it's budget down as far as you can get away with. Don't use large libraries at first. Use large Hospitals, Police & Fire Stations do the same with thier budgets. The point of all this is if you use the smaller buildings as your city grows you will need too many of these building or keep demolshing and building larger ones which are better value any way.

Thanks for your replies Cabman. I'll definately look into the Rush Hour pack.

:)