Gamingforce Community SimCity 4 Region Project

Ah, unlike SC3K y'know, you can place fire stations AFTER a fire starts to bring in the firemen. Remember that in the future :3

Ah, a question! My medical guys went on strike due to low funding, but after building a large facility AND raising the funding to 100%, I still keep getting messages that they're still on strike. Apparently this isn't like SC3K. How do I end the bloody strike?

I've been terraforming a little.

Here is my city after the first year. No clue how good or bad I'm doing, really. I never really played this game too much.

Pretty cool for your first year, but you could save some money by using streets for EVERYTHING. For neighbour connections, I just had a tile of road connected to the street. You don't need roads in the beginning since there's not much people and traffic at this stage to warrant using them.

Another question >_>
I've been using Medium industry for my cities. Is it more benefical to put in High industry at the start? I wonder if that's the reason, because the demand for Industry never goes down even after I plop down lots of medium industry, and even so, lots of the squares don't get filled up despite the demand.

Also, I love your map, Rab.

Well my agricultural monster is doing quite well as I near the 10 year point.

One problem:



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EDIT: I'll post more screenies later, but yeah I have a huge lot and yeah its almost halfway full. All low-density stuff. Farmer's Market built right away and the demand for agriculture just shooting through the roof. Gotta meet my neighbors sometime soon to look over connection plans!

Originally Posted by Freelance Wolf

I've been using Medium industry for my cities. Is it more benefical to put in High industry at the start? I wonder if that's the reason, because the demand for Industry never goes down even after I plop down lots of medium industry, and even so, lots of the squares don't get filled up despite the demand.

You need to look at the detailed RCI graphs. At the beginning most of your population will be low-wealth and hence the demand is more for agricultural industry than medium industry. Once your residential zones build up you can gradually replace agriculture with medium/high.

City of Bunderburg with casino and shark:

Three power plants? :\

My city is like 3x the size and I've got the same number of WIND-powered generators.

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How do I end the bloody strike?

Just make sure their funding allows the patient capacity to be larger thant he total number of patients. It'll take a couple of months, but they will return to work. However as your population grows, so too will the sick people in your hospital, so it'll get overcrowded again. If you can't increase the funding anymore, time to upgrade to a Large Medical Centre. THey're actually most cost effective than they look (one is cheaper to run that three clinics and provides for a larger number of patients.)

And Lukage, ignore the no car access things. They'll go away. The game is jsut dumb.

Another option is to fund things like the "CPR training" and other medical-related services so that less people are going to the hospital.

Originally Posted by Lukage

Three power plants? :\

My city is like 3x the size and I've got the same number of WIND-powered generators.

I dunno, they keep telling me I don't have enough capacity =/

Man, I'm already at year 2010 with my city, along with some other people.

Crash and I were talking about this, and one idea that was brought up was maybe reducing the amount of time between updates? The only problem I can see is people not having the time to play during the week.

Also, again for the record, I'm taking lot 17, for lolarious connections

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

Crash and I were talking about this, and one idea that was brought up was maybe reducing the amount of time between updates? The only problem I can see is people not having the time to play during the week.

I was about to say let's just increase the weekly buildung time to 20 years, but in the end, that would result in the same problem: what about people who do not have enough time.

Wow damn, I can tell I need to learn a few new things from SC3K, where agricultural wasn't required at all unless you wanted it. Thanks for the help about the strike and the industry stuff, you SC4 gurus.

As far as I know, only Taco, Crash, Merv and I have finished our quotas for this week. That's only a few of us compared to the total number of people participating. I'd keep the quota as is. I don't think doubling the year is going to help the others much, especially if they're going to be working on more than one lot. Ten years is a long time unless you go to Cheetah speed.

Well here's my city of Farbanti as of 2010:



I'm starting to have unemployment issues. On the bright side I'm raking in tons of cash. Taxing the rich is fun!

If we have enough people, and I think we do, perhaps we should create two different regions. The first one would be as is, the second one would be identical except we would call it a 'speed region' or something along those lines. Reduce the time to 3-4 days, and if you think you can handle it sign up for that region in addition to the current one. We may actually want to wait as has been suggested though, in order to see how things play out over the standard week.

Oh, and Tacostand: 2010


Shonos, how on Earth did you manage to make it to 2010 with a 5k+ budget surplus and yet only have 560 people >_> Amazing stuff you got there.

Well, I keep the taxes on argiculture and industrial above 9%, and make the taxes on the richer citizens higher. I keep the tax on the low residential zones small and then raise it over time as the population increases.

But now I'm actually starting to lose some population because there's not enough jobs. :/

Originally Posted by KrazyTaco

Shonos, how on Earth did you manage to make it to 2010 with a 5k+ budget surplus and yet only have 560 people >_> Amazing stuff you got there.

He is hosting Formula 1 races on his race course