Sim City 4 -- Worth buying? - Page 2

1ajs · #21 Posted **Feb 22, 2008, 11:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by borgo100

shit, your my hero!... my cities only like 1.5 million

oo i see you hit the 1.5mill wall build some sprawl lol and share some pics!

Rico Rommheim · #22 Posted **Feb 23, 2008, 6:44 AM**

Thank you kindly everybody. I read every single reply and took them all very seriously (investing in sc4 is costly to say the least) and I went to my local mac store....they basically told me that sc4 was finished for macs, no more being produced or sold. I didn't know it was that old, I mean back in 2002 I was playing sc3 and I only learned of sc4's existence 3 years ago! I bought AoE3 instead, cost me 60 f'in bucks! In retrospect I'm glad I didn't get it, the bootleg version I had on my computer for a few months ate up all of my free time and almost ran my hard drive to the ground! But thank you all very much!

Matty · #23 Posted **Feb 23, 2008, 5:54 PM**

^Treason!

Echo Park · #24 Posted **Feb 23, 2008, 7:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1ajs

sc4 for mac lol check out simtropolis for help

anyhow heres my city

lol@the skyscraper on top of the mountain

Dac150 · #25 Posted **Feb 23, 2008, 7:27 PM**

How do you guys upload the cheats (money one) into the game? Being a college student, I'm probably killing myself by getting involved with this game, but it looks too fun to not play it for an hour a day or so.

1ajs · #26 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 1:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by Dac150

How do you guys upload the cheats (money one) into the game? Being a college student, I'm probably killing myself by getting involved with this game, but it looks too fun to not play it for an hour a day or so.

Press CTRL + X to open the cheat window. Then type in weaknesspays, but befroe you press Enter, press and hold Left Shift. Then press Enter but without letting go of Shift, (don't take your hand off Shift until your satisfied with your savings).

navyweaxguy · #27 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 2:46 AM**

So much easier just to use money parks until you have plenty in the bank.

JDRCRASH · #28 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 2:51 AM**

Simcity 4 DE:

Is it limitless? Of course not.

But is it worth it? Absolutely.

Go to Simtropolis guys and you will find a treasure trove of things on the STEX!

1ajs · #29 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 3:19 AM**

not just the stex theres the sc4devotion there pegisis simcity brazil
and then theres the japenize stuff

Dac150 · #30 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 8:07 PM**

Are there any other cheats that give you larger amounts of money besides $1000?

If so, what are they?

Doady · #31 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 10:14 PM**

When I need money I just get a loan... much easier and less time consuming...

I just started a new region, and in my only city so far that I am playing now, I have borrowed over $100,000 since I started. Now the population is 51,000 and I am making profit of over $2000 per month (the loans have been payed off). I am planning to build a subway system very soon and I might not even need to borrow any money for it.

The only time I cheat is when I want to change the name of my city or the mayor.

Matty · #32 Posted **Feb 24, 2008, 11:10 PM**

^ Same here... why always cheat?

1ajs · #33 Posted **Feb 25, 2008, 12:06 AM**

depends on what kinda city and how fast you wana build it matty

vid · #34 Posted **Feb 25, 2008, 4:00 AM**

There is a plug in from Simtropolis that lets you start off with 100,000,000. It's really hard to run that out.

Doady · #35 Posted **Feb 25, 2008, 8:03 AM**

Simcity 4 is not worth the money after all. I just wasted two hours building a huge subway system TWICE (once after reload) and it has ZERO riders. Wow. Once more and I going smash the CD's and throw the pieces in the garbage.

See? Money is not the a problem in SC4 at all. I'm making $2.5k a month, but I can't a single rider on my subway system.

1ajs · #36 Posted **Feb 25, 2008, 1:35 PM**

bahaah perhaps you need some mods...... like the NAM (Network Add on Mod) installer avail for both windows and mac on simtropolis

vid · #37 Posted **Feb 25, 2008, 6:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by Doady

Simcity 4 is not worth the money after all. I just wasted two hours building a huge subway system TWICE (once after reload) and it has ZERO riders. Wow. Once more and I going smash the CD's and throw the pieces in the garbage.

See? Money is not the a problem in SC4 at all. I'm making $2.5k a month, but I can't a single rider on my subway system.

If you've built a town of 20,000 and have subways linking residential areas to each other, of course. Generally, one has to have a bus service at capacity before subways are a good idea.

Cities don't build subways just because they're cool. They build subways because they're necessary. And in that aspect, Simcity4 is like real life.

Doady · #38 Posted **Feb 25, 2008, 6:44 PM**

^ Even if that was the case, my subway system should not have zero riders. It's as if the game doesn't recognize that the subway is there. I need a subway right now because my roads are congested like mad. My city is 51,000, and half the population already uses the bus; but a good bus service means nothing if the roads are congested. I am starting to get the dreaded "No Job" signs.

Btw, I already have NAM. And also the Road-top Mass Transit addon. I suspect it might be bug with the Road-top addon, I will have to experiment.

Dac150 · #39 Posted **Feb 25, 2008, 8:52 PM**

How do you upload the $25 million mod from simtropolis into the game?

Evo5Boise · #40 Posted **Mar 2, 2008, 7:35 PM**

I enjoy Simcity 4. I don't know why but I actually have found myself playing SC3 more lately though. I think the main thing that throws me off is all the little squares where you have to start new cities. Sure, I understand the idea and actually like it, however, I think they put too many. I would rather work on one large city with a few outside squares or "suburbs".