pop.: 9.5 million
comm. jobs: 2.6 million, the rest work in the industrial neighboring cities and/or public service.
budget: 170 million sml
need to build another large airport, tough idk where. the three large int. are at maximum capacity. its interesting, when i was building this city, i build it piece by piece, neighborhood by neighborhood. many of the problems i face in the game are problems present in the real world. so i had a quastion come to mind, for any of whom are urban planners out there. lol. did any of you play simcity4, and how realistic is it. would you recommend urban planning students to play the game as part of their studies. danke.
Last edited by detroitmetro101; Dec 20, 2010 at 6:04 AM.
Sim City has always been one of my favorite games. Although I dislike how Maxis lacks a variety of buildings.The Simtropolis website offers many different mods and a huge variety of architecture, and buildings. Makes building a city seem quite realistic to me (:
I think urban planning students would have had an exposure to something similar to Sim City only in a more strict fashion.. ex. zoning permits, high restrictions etc etc..
yes it does lack veriaty, but, i am addicted to this game. i ve been playing it for five years, and i learn new things everytime i do. the mechanics of it are very impressive. if it had more veriaty, and more detail like 3d etc. it would be perfect.
for those of you whom are familiar with the game and are wondering how is there so much demand to build such a city. there are a couple of steps you must take. 1st. start on a blank region and spcialize on certian industries like dirty industrail, manufacturing, or high tech. exit out of the game. copy and paste those cities a couple of times on your sim city 4 file, copy the from the region, and paste them to the download. restart the game again, and start importing the pasted cities from the download file. leave a center city of your preffered size in the middle that you want to develop as a residential and commercial zone. also make sure to have a utility city neighboring the city you want to develop, equiped with hydrogen power plants and landfills. once you prepared the region around the city your gonna develop, select the city and start it up. use the regular cheats like fightthepower, howdryiam, youdontdeserveit, and weaknesspays, if you need extra money. after you enter the cheat youdontdeserveit, implement most of the gifts offered to you. as the game goes on and your city grows, you will be offered those gifts again. pick than an area, preferably somewhere around the airport where yuou will wait until the end to develop, and build multiple stadiums and zoos, which will increase demand for residential development, stadiums=lower income-middle, zoos=middle income-upper income. if you notice most of my city has its lights on, there are no depressed areas due to loss in value, except for a few that crime hapends to be higher than normal temporarely. to achieve this, separate the different income residences.
notice. lower income residences are on the outskirts of the city because most of the people living there work in the industral zones. whereas the middle class and the upper class live in the center, of which most work in offices. th emiddle and upper income have access to roads, whereas the lower income do not. that means that the roads are fragmented every 8 lots or so, equiped with two subway station on each side of the fragment, thereby forcing the lower income to take the subway, which lower congestion and air pollution. you can pass doing the same to the middle class, but not the upper, because they want to have the choice of driving, so allow them the access to roads, although for high density, make roads one way. oh, and the reason why the lower income housing has not been torn down to build middle-upper income housing, is, all of that lower income housing you see has been madce historical one by one, building by buidling, and so have the middle income as well.
Last edited by detroitmetro101; Dec 21, 2010 at 1:21 AM.
in a way, by playing the game, i came to understand economics a little better. what happend in europe and america in the 19th century, industrialization. and, what is currently happeing in china. meaning. a nation needs a strong industrial base of aprox. 30% of its economy to provide good paying middle class jobs. that, inturn, will support the greater economy.
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