Sim City 4 - Largest Region and City

Well I played a we bit of SC4 and ...............





Largest city currently at around 1.6million - no money cheats, no programs - all pure gameplay also on a variety of terrains (some yet to be terraformed).

[Style™]

Very nice! Nice region too! How did you get only huge maps?

I got the region up to 6.3 million yesterday. One city with a population now of 1.6 million (its the Stansted & Dunmow city). Dimbleby is now totally commercialised - ie no residential or industrial - it has currently 2,020,000 jobs (I'm boosting that by creating the other cities surrounding it - so that region picture is totally out of date and could probably get that figure up to 5,000,000).

To get the large maps - you need to edit your config.bmp (there are tutorials on simtropolis I believe on doing this - cause i cant be arsed to go through it all :P) which should be in your region folder. My region config.bmp is totally blue. You can change your region into a line, or whatever you want into whatever dimensions (remember the bigger your regions and the bigger the city tiles - THE SLOWER IT WILL BE).

[AndrewC]

David Dimbleby?

LOL I was watching the TV, and thought - hell might as well - my region is nos up to 6.7 million

[LSyd]

MEga as of last night.

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Thats a thing I forgot - airports I think I only have something like 7 altogether - lol I need to build a few more me thinkss

[LSyd]

Originally posted by nick_taylor

Thats a thing I forgot - airports I think I only have something like 7 altogether - lol I need to build a few more me thinkss

before Rush Hour, Mega required 4 large international airports...then it was just one, and now the city's grown to need one large and one busy small one.

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[Style™]

What is the real importance of an Airport? Most of mine fail.

[Jasonhouse]

Airport = Commercial demand cap relief




My region is up to 2,050,000...

[Meffy]

Happy to say I just broke 7 million for my region. I still got alot of plans and ideas to work on but I think its coming along nicely




My biggest city is 1.4 million and my second biggest just reached 1.1 million. I plan to show off more of the cities once they get more towards completion.

Add orig.jpg to the end of the URL to see bigger version of the pics (assuming they work in the first place)

OH NO - I dont have a clue why but, I got my region up to 6.89 million and pop - the whole game fucks up - you cant click on anything! Ive reinstalled, but all the regions come up as massive black blocks that cant be clicked on, the region population is now -6.89 million, its jrky as hell - graphic + audio option windows crash the program!!!!!

[Denoordrotterdammer]

LoL

Beautiful cities. My biggest city is 232.000 .

[AG]

Nick_taylor and Meffy, oh boy! You guys got competition from me now! I'm still at 5.25 million in my region with the largest city at 830k but growing fast. Heh, so much for building upwards straight away then leaving massive gaps and eventually filling them. My region fits nicely into about 18 cities.

[Fabio]

WOWOWOWOW

what is this guys I have a city with 550.000 (medium size map) and I tought it was huge, but now I see it looks really small
and my region is about 2,5 million.

but I have one thing I'm really proud of which is a city only with Commercial Offices and the works pop. is about 500.000 but the problem is that it is really difficult to make it grow more.
I'll soon post some shots of it.

[AG]

Originally posted by Fabio

WOWOWOWOW

what is this guys I have a city with 550.000 (medium size map) and I tought it was huge, but now I see it looks really small
and my region is about 2,5 million.

but I have one thing I'm really proud of which is a city only with Commercial Offices and the works pop. is about 500.000 but the problem is that it is really difficult to make it grow more.
I'll soon post some shots of it.

Heh, I tried to make a whole commercial office city a while ago. It only got as far as 700k commercial office jobs tho before I had to add ppl in nearby to liven up that area of downtown. Buildings deteriorated to some extent after adding all those jobs and no people nearby.

My region is up past 5.3 million now.

550k is pretty good for a city pop. You're definetely quite far above the average sized city that any person can make IMO. 2.5 million for a region is also very good, as most people usually don't pass 2 million, let alone 1.5 million.

Most of you guys got it easy with building on the terrain. I'm challenged by several factors. Limited land to build on, having to constantly reclaim land in order to make more space. The second challenge are the mountains and hills which are around the sides of the city and in the middle of the islands, making it challenging building infrastructure to the opposite side.

[Style™]

[AndrewC]

This forums a bit quiet - lets see some cities!

[SS454]

Its almost too embarressing to post pictures of cities along side Meffy's and such.

Meffy, do u have any small region cities? if so how well did they grow, and got pics?

[redstone]

One of my cities is a planning disaster!Poorly planned roads ,very small city blocks.Another has alot of abandoned buildings.Would post photos in say 4 hours time or so.

My largest city is only about 190 000pop.The whole region has almost 500 000.I have almost 14 cities linked together ,but some still not yet developed.I've only made provisions for them ,like a central highway ,some avenues ,water supply ,and at one city ,an airport.

One of my cities is a beauty.A modern themed city ,with monorail service ,plenty of parks & gardens.The city is situated on an island and occupies 4 city grid squares.It is rather hard to develope a city in several parts.So far ,I've only developed 2 out of the 4 grid squares.

The region is pretty much the same as when you first brought the game ,Maxisland.I've flattened some hills ,raised a mountain and increased the land area.But the shape is still mostly unchanged.