Sim City 4 - Largest Region and City

[empersouf]

Yeah, I also don't know how to post pictures.

[Style™]

You must upload it to the internet. Find an image host. There are a few free ones out there.

[Vash]

Originally Posted by amsterdam

mmmmmm you people have beautiful regions only my region has a population of 12.8 million people and my largest city has a population of 3.8 million i guess my largest city is almost as large as some of your largest regions :o haha i want 2 know am i 1 of the best ?????? pls answer
no i don't cheat

3.8 million????????? Thats a lot of people...
How many simcity years did it take and what is you wealth distribution (% of $ % of $$ and % of $$$)

And the adjacent cities [of your 3.8 mil city] also have high a population?

I still have no Rush Hour but am planning to buy it. Dispite that I have 6.8 Mil in my region and 4 big cities of 870.000 ;760.00 ; 750.000 ; 680.000.

I now have a system of planning a medium city that garanties a +250.000 population and a lot of commercial. If i don't forget I will post a picture (am at work now) I have like 10 of them. 1 has like 10 level 8 commercial buildings
It takes me 30min to build an city another 30 min to place al the offerings and than 2 hours to reach the 200.000 mark. (With money cheats that is)

PS: all my cities have higher $$wealth than $wealth

But my F#cking problem is that a falt occurs when opening the big cities. It dusn't load the transprotation things like roads , subway and rails. And after 1 or 2 years (simcity years) the roads are loaded but the rail and subway not.
And in the meanwhile like 50% of my people leave the city................

Does someone have the same problem or knows how to fix it?

[Vash]

oops dubble post

[LSyd]

Originally Posted by Vash

3.8 million????????? Thats a lot of people...
How many simcity years did it take and what is you wealth distribution (% of $ % of $$ and % of $$$)

And the adjacent cities [of your 3.8 mil city] also have high a population?

I still have no Rush Hour but am planning to buy it. Dispite that I have 6.8 Mil in my region and 4 big cities of 870.000 ;760.00 ; 750.000 ; 680.000.

I now have a system of planning a medium city that garanties a +250.000 population and a lot of commercial. If i don't forget I will post a picture (am at work now) I have like 10 of them. 1 has like 10 level 8 commercial buildings
It takes me 30min to build an city another 30 min to place al the offerings and than 2 hours to reach the 200.000 mark. (With money cheats that is)

PS: all my cities have higher $$wealth than $wealth

But my F#cking problem is that a falt occurs when opening the big cities. It dusn't load the transprotation things like roads , subway and rails. And after 1 or 2 years (simcity years) the roads are loaded but the rail and subway not.
And in the meanwhile like 50% of my people leave the city................

Does someone have the same problem or knows how to fix it?

sounds fucked up man...

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[LSyd]

I estimate that you could max a region out at between 35 and 40 million...

it'd be sprawlicious.

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[LSyd]

it looks big and nice for individual cities, but sprawly as a region.

here's my favorite shot:

http://mineftp.homeftp.net/fless/ima...dys%20wife.JPG

so where's pics of the 3 million + city?

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http://mineftp.homeftp.net/fless/images/kuno/leuk%20plaatje%20!!!%20nobod.JPG this 1 is a pic of my 3,8 million city. mmm i know my region is not quite pretty lol. but large it is hehe. there'll be more pictures in a few days/ weeks

My largest region is about 4.2 million and my largest city is 602,000.



This is a little off the topic, but how do you make a lot of money in SC4? I can never make much...I always have to use the cheat.

[LSyd]

you milk your populace for all their worth...

one way is to develop a lot of dirty or manufacturing industrial, then tax the hell out of them.

or do something similar with commercial $$, but not tax them so hard, or tax the residential population once it becomes large and you want to cut back on their costs and still grow your city.

oh, and by coal power from a neighbor...they get the pollution, you get the cheap electricity.

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[Woko]

Now, the population of the region of New Frankfurt is 4.7 millions.

[pau_p1]

wow!... how long did you guys have to play each city to reach 400,000 population? my biggest city is only around 120,000 in population...

[Vash]

Originally Posted by pau_p1

wow!... how long did you guys have to play each city to reach 400,000 population? my biggest city is only around 120,000 in population...

It depends how fast your computer is... I can have a medium city build in half a hour an then after 2hours have a population of +/-200.000.

(I do use cheats)

I only have a 1GHz processor but I have a 128 an 256 Mb RAMstick and a very good GForce4 MX 64MB videocard. At fasted my months fly by as seconds (with he small and medium cities that is). With my bigger cities (+650.000) the speed isn't constant, one minute its going verry fast and the other minute its slow again.

I messed up my first region and wasnt happy with what i had built so i started again and made Iverson County. I think my biggest city is about 27,000 at the moment, but can any of you tell me any tips on how to get population up quicker and how to get a decent commercial area/downtown. My largest city in my last region got upto the point where the first high rise residential was built and the downtown was full of midrises, but then everywhere just started abandonibg to the point where almost half the city was a derelict hell hole!, but I dont know why it did this?

[Vash]

Originally Posted by stretch

I messed up my first region and wasnt happy with what i had built so i started again and made Iverson County. I think my biggest city is about 27,000 at the moment, but can any of you tell me any tips on how to get population up quicker and how to get a decent commercial area/downtown. My largest city in my last region got upto the point where the first high rise residential was built and the downtown was full of midrises, but then everywhere just started abandonibg to the point where almost half the city was a derelict hell hole!, but I dont know why it did this?

If you still have the city you should look in your transportation buget and check if you have any road maintenance costs. If not your tranportation lines aren't loaded properly.

At startup my Large cities transportation lines aren't loaded properly , only after 2 or 3 simyears does the loading of the roads start. And before that happens almost half of my population split town.

If you have this problem, just wait 2 or 3 years and the roads will be loaded (the other transportation things wil not be loaded) and you can play again, with half of your original population that is.

Good luck

[Cee_em_bee]

About a week ago I started to build a city on the london region and eventually built a region thats got about 2.5 million people in it.. My largest city is 900,000 with 650,000 residents and 250,000 jobs. I am rather proud of it... but it looks all uneven so hopefully it will look like a masterpiece when finished.

Crickeys is this forum still going along? Do any of you remember my cities? I think I had like the 2nd or 3rd highest region of the members on these boards. I think if you go up to post # 52 I explained why I had a few problems. However I was going through my computer and deleting some old files and found this old jpeg: Its of my city the last time I actually took a pic of it: I got the region up to 6.89mn from the pic population. I didn't bother buying Rush Hour and so instead the red lines indicate my highways/motorways. If you look at my Industrial Heartland (Mountain Reach) - you can see my 'Spaghetti Junction' - 6 major road connections - traffic is bad as hell and its funny to watch a car drive aroun in circles





I might consider a whole new region now - but I only have 5gb of 60gb left on my hard drive so I'm kinda short on space :P

[LSyd]

heh, you said crikeys.

I've passed 7 million for the region. yay.

the big view, slightly out of date



up to date main view



some shots within:

"new" area of the oldest and largest city



"in progress" pic of the newest city



funny old shot just for comparison



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I've decided to start from scratch again since I got Rush Hour today - I never said I would buy it, by fuck it :P

I've also found that some of the buildings can become quite interesting - does this building remind you of a certain world famous building: