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SimCity is an open-ended city-building game that was made for the PC and later, on different video game consoles. The first game was published in 1989 as SimCity, and was a world wide phenomenon.
In SimCity, the player is given the task of founding a city, while maintaining the happiness of the citizens and keeping a stable budget. In SimCity 2000, SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4, the player is allowed to alter the terrain of the city before building on it.
The player must lay down zones, each having a specific kind of building that will be built there. The residential zones, in green, provide housing for Sims; the commercial zones, in blue, provide shops and offices; and the industrial zones, in yellow, provide factories, laboratories and farms. There are three different densities (two for SimCity 2000) in the game: high density for large buildings, mid-density for mid-sized buildings, and low density for small buildings.
The player (acting as Mayor) is given a blank map to start with, and must expand their city with the budget they have. As the city matures, the player may get to place government and other special buildings (Mayor's House, Courthouse, etc.), depending on how large their city is. The player must supply services to their citizens. These include health, education, safety, parks and leisure. These come in the form of different buildings, where each building covers a circular "range" of service. Inadequate funding of these services can lead to strikes.
Cities must also provide basic utilities, namely electricity, water and (in SimCity 3000 and SimCity 4) waste management.
The primary source of income is taxation, which can be altered by one percent increments in all versions through SimCity 3000, and by tenths of a percent in SimCity 4. Legalizing gambling and placing certain "special" buildings (military bases, federal prisons, etc.) can generate income as well. The player may also make deals with neighbouring cities to sell or buy services, as long as a connection is made to the neighbor for that service (introduced in SimCity 3000).
SimCity is predominantly a single-player game (the exceptions being a "Network Edition" of SimCity 2000, and a Unix port of the original SimCity). SimCity 4 also provides a form of multiplayer gaming with the ability to share regional maps and cities with other players, allowing players to collaborate, but not to interact in real time gameplay.
Notable SimCity games was:
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SimCity
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SimCity 2000
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SimCity 3000
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SimCity 4
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Rush Hour Expansion Pack:
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Drive around the city with plane, cars, boat, UFO, Boeing (Addon) and destroy your city with even more disasters!
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After SimCity 4, the series began to slowly die because of SimCity Societies, also known as SimCity 5. The game wasn't too good because of it's lack of gameplay, etc. The best that I will always remember is the 4th with Rush Hour expansion pack. So much gameplay and for addons, go to [url]www.Simtropolis.com[/url], ST-Exchange, for maps, buildings, cars, etc.
Long live SimCity!
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Recommended mod: NAM
NAM re-works SC4 AI so its much smarter and add in a load of new transit stuff like new overpasses, highway onramps, intersections, ped-malls, a ground light rail network, roundabouts and turning lanes. It also makes the game much easier because of how horrible the stock AI is.
According to Political Gamer.
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Don't call Societies a SimCity. That thing was a spin-off. It was completely different and marketed for a completely different audience.
But SimCity 4 will still be one of my favorite games of all time.
[QUOTE=UserDirk580;23294615]Don't call Societies a SimCity. That thing was a spin-off. It was completely different and marketed for a completely different audience.
But SimCity 4 will still be one of my favorite games of all time.[/QUOTE]
I agree with you, it's such a fun game. I never get bored with it.
"Oh fuck, should have turned off disasters, a meteor struck the city's power plant and riots are filling the streets."
Favorite or least favorite experience in SimCity? I can't decide.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;23294720]"Oh fuck, should have turned off disasters, a meteor struck the city's power plant and riots are filling the streets."
Favorite or least favorite experience in SimCity? I can't decide.[/QUOTE]
Thank God I always remember to turn off the disasters lol. Although you should always save before anything happens to your city, I also never managed to get a riot in my city. :/
It was so fun to explore the city you built in Streets of Sim City.
Most of my cities end up radioactive wastelands after one of my Nuclear Reactors "accidentally" blow up.
I remember I had Sim City 2000 when I was little, I was rubbish at it but spent most of my time triggering disasters in pre-made cities.
I wish the future SimCity if there is one would have driving in the city sort of like Streets of Sim City. Except perform well and look good.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;23297651]I wish the future SimCity if there is one would have driving in the city sort of like Streets of Sim City. Except perform well and look good.[/QUOTE]
Sim Copter too. Nothing beats destroying your city in an Apache.
The traffic advisor guy would never shut up EVER there was no pleasing that guy
The thing with SimCity, it's really fucking hard to plan an efficient city. So you go ahead anyway thinking you'll build as you go, then you end up with a quagmire and a transportation and waste nightmare.
You will find yourself sitting down and properly planning your city as if you were some sort of government city planning official. >:(
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I find building a 'growth' area outside of your planned city centre works well.
Then, when you transfer all your economy into your city proper, you can just pave over the ugly cluster fuck.
I once tried recreating San Francisco, I failed miserably.
I probably spent a good thousand hours playing SimCity 2000 when I was a kid, I loved that game like no other.
Also, this is easily recognizable to anyone who spent time on 2k: [IMG]http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h245/DRCEQ2/VG/cutbackonfunding.gif[/IMG]
Hahahha, brought up some memories yeah :v:
Is there any more comics like that?
Not any more SimCity ones, but more custom ones by the artist (KC Green) are here: [URL]http://kcgreendotcom.com/CC/comics/[/URL]
and here's his main site: [URL]http://www.kcgreendotcom.com[/URL]
Damn this game was awesome. If only SimCity 4 had multiplayer feature. Imagine region mode with a bunch of other people.
SimCity 4 was the same game, where you could send things down to destory your city?
[QUOTE=Rich209;23304642]SimCity 4 was the same game, where you could send things down to destory your city?[/QUOTE]
Yes SimCity 4 had disaster. But so did other SimCity titles.
[QUOTE=Rich209;23304642]SimCity 4 was the same game, where you could send things down to destory your city?[/QUOTE]
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Brb, reinstalling.
[QUOTE=Mac2468;23305719]Brb, reinstalling.[/QUOTE]
Me too.
[QUOTE=dArKnEsS_2;23304469]Damn this game was awesome. If only SimCity 4 had multiplayer feature. Imagine region mode with a bunch of other people.[/QUOTE]
That's pretty much Cities XL
There aren't disasters in it, but it looks to me like the true successor of Simcity 4...Only downside is to connect to other cities..you have to pay :v:
[QUOTE=Swilly;23306103]That's pretty much Cities XL
There aren't disasters in it, but it looks to me like the true successor of Simcity 4...Only downside is to connect to other cities..you have to pay :v:[/QUOTE]
Cities XL online was taken down. Too few people paying. Plus I'm talking a region style multiplayer. One with roads connecting each other, water pipes, power lines, etc... That would make some badass multiplayer game play.
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IDEA. Sim City 4's maps are stored in your documents. If we created a junction link from there to a dropbox shared folder, we could have online play! Holy shit. It would be like each player has a city in the region. Not live but would allow for some badass regions to be created.
[QUOTE=dArKnEsS_2;23307062]Cities XL online was taken down. Too few people paying. Plus I'm talking a region style multiplayer. One with roads connecting each other, water pipes, power lines, etc... That would make some badass multiplayer game play.
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IDEA. Sim City 4's maps are stored in your documents. If we created a junction link from there to a dropbox shared folder, we could have online play! Holy shit. It would be like each player has a city in the region. Not live but would allow for some badass regions to be created.[/QUOTE]
That would be cool to do, if only I could find the disk to reinstall.
My idea is pretty simple. Put all the region files into the shared dropbox folder then create a NTFS junction link from the regions folder to the dropbox folder. Then share the dropbox folder so that whenever someone saves, it's updated. Not live but it have online-region play. With neighbour deals and such. It would have to be a trusted group of people because there would be no security on such a system. People could visit other cities and do shit to them.
Oh yeah, if you install SC4 and/or Rush Hour, be sure to download the update for bug fixes and improvements.
Alright, i'm going to test my idea now. Anyone willing to help, add me on steam: thedarkterritory
Let's see if my multiplayer idea will work! :v:
Societies sucked big-time.
I still have my SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition disc, sadly I'm too busy playing HoMM 3
Does it have to be a legal copy o.o?
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Oh man, I had SimCity 4, but lost the CDs. I always look for them every few months but can never find them.
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