OT: Nothing More Frustrating

Instar · #1 March 29th, 2005, 12:18 AM

My region has about 4 million sims...
My strategy for building a city is to build a "core": a large block (8x8 or larger) that has all the main utilities (not power), place a power plant and dump far far away, and zone away. I go in the red for a few months to a year, but when building takes off, I'm close enough to even that one or two NIMBYs takes care of the rest. As the city grows, I can torch the NIMBYs (much more fun that bulldozing) and keep building. Destroying NIMBYs helps a lot, as the overall happiness goes up.
A very useful tip is to tweak all the budgets all the way down so you don't pay for extra capacity. This can bite you in the *** if you don't remember to adjust each budget as time goes.
Also, I play a stock game, with no mods, just official downloads. I'm thinking of getting transportation mod, though, because the transit times in the game are just a bit unrealistic. I've never cheated, and the hardest setting is almost always a breeze to win at.

Captain Kwok · #2 March 29th, 2005, 12:41 AM

I always use a money generating tile. I don't play to "play the game" but to build a nice looking city. However, due to some silly computer issues and time constraints due to SE:IV commitments - don't load it up very often. :-(

NullAshton · #3 March 29th, 2005, 10:18 AM

The 100 dollar a month from gambling thingie? That's kinda boring...

Why bulldoze, when you can launch a precision targeted meteor at it?

I like to use the lightning tool. It can be used to cut lines through your city. Just keep clicking really fast, and eventually, whatever it's on will vaporize.

El_Phil · #4 March 29th, 2005, 11:05 AM

Or there's nothing more frustrating than looking at a thread, remembering you've got a copy of SimCity 4 giving it a quick play then looking up and realising you've wasted an entire day which you really should of spent doing some work.

NullAshton · #5 March 29th, 2005, 11:44 AM

Hehe...

My city broke 30,000 pop! I think I may finnally have the budget stabilized. My city finnally has those high-rise buildings that can hold about 200 high-wealth citizens. Commercial enterprises are on the up-swing, as more and more people flock to my city. Commercial is catching up to industrial now. I got full coverage of elementary schools and libraries. Only amendity that my city doesn't yet have is hospitals, and that'll sooon be fixed!

NullAshton · #6 March 29th, 2005, 12:15 PM

Woohoo! I now have healthcare!!! *cheers*

Soon, Metro City shall expand even more, and require even more amendities... Wish me luck...

NullAshton · #7 March 29th, 2005, 03:20 PM

Yay!!! Skyscrapers!!! And an international airport! Soon, I'm going to run out of room

TerranC · #8 April 1st, 2005, 02:00 AM

since this seems like the thread to go for Simcity 4 answers, I'd like to ask you SC4 buffs a question:

On a city like mine (see attachment) the roads around the downtown area (the one with all the skyscrapers) keep clogging, which causes the transportation advisor to keep nagging at me. Do you know of a solution that would keep the advisor shut once and for all without having to demolish a good chunk of my skyscrapers?

Evil_Duckie · #9 April 1st, 2005, 03:16 AM

TerranC,

How's the public transport in your city? If you make sure there's enough other modes of transit around, it can reduce the road traffic.

Another thing to consider is creating one-way streets. They take up as much space as a normal main road, but have twice the capacity.

El_Phil · #10 April 1st, 2005, 05:45 AM

Is there actually any way to get public transport to work? Maybe it's just me (in fact it probably is) but I can't spot any pattern, I have subway stops running at 200%+ capacity next to stops my transport adviser won't stop complaining about.

So how does anyone else lay out a working public transport system?