Crappy Sim City

[Brynn]

Just been playing Sim City 4 - how the hell do i get my people to :
1) have jobs (and yes there are lots of un-developed blue/yellow squares)
2) Give me SkyScrapers and uber looking houses as opposed to the crappy houses

Someone out there must know how to play Sim City.



BTW Transport Tycoon 2 out next month \o/

 

[tris-]

i got sim city 4. it takes some practice i can tell yah. i have now managed hi-tech industry, rich people, high paying jobs and most of the chavs kicked out of the city. i also turned a whole square into rich commerical property and now more rich people are moving into my residential square.

 

[Brynn]

i got sim city 4. it takes some practice i can tell yah. i have now managed hi-tech industry, rich people, high paying jobs and most of the chavs kicked out of the city. i also turned a whole square into rich commerical property and now more rich people are moving into my residential square.

how god dammit - dont pimp your city, my people will probably move to your neighbourhood.

tell me how

 

[tris-]

private schools and such lemme load my game up and i will tell you how its layed out

 

[Brynn]

yay \o/

 

[tris-]

basically got private schools/uni/library in the centre of an area then houses built around that. build statues aswell then richer people come in. when you get the richest people with high education, build HT industry areas near their homes. build parks too and paved areas plus lots of trees and other goodies. make sure the air is clean aswell, make subways, less roads, get the clean air act and car poole act.

 

[Brynn]

Take a screenshot and host it here or pass it on msn - i need more help than that


what do i do at the start coz they want jobs - or do i just say sod them?

 

[Lazarus]

what do i do at the start coz they want jobs - or do i just say sod them?

Take a leaf out of Tony Blair's book and say "sod em"

 

[tris-]

some more tips, if you want less chavs raise their taxes and low taxes for middle and upper class. same for industry and commercial.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Someone out there must know how to play Sim City.

Maybe they do in the right forum

 

[Loxleyhood]

A city must grow out before it grows up. You'll be at a population of about 20,000-25,000 before you see your first, sickly, pathetic skyscrapers. As for filling industrial and commercial spaces, make sure you don't built too many, and build them with good transport links to pleantiful residential areas to provide employees. Commercial areas built on busy roads (i.e. a road linking industry to residential) will do well because of many customers.

Expensive buildings like airports and ports also encourage growth of industry and commercial areas.

 

[Louster]

BTW Transport Tycoon 2 out next month \o/

Yeah, I really, really hope that doesn't suck, as Transport Tycoon is wonderful. I've gotten used to all the unofficial patches and stuff though, with advanced signals and such, so it might actually be a step backwards.

 

[Brynn]

Yeah, I really, really hope that doesn't suck, as Transport Tycoon is wonderful. I've gotten used to all the unofficial patches and stuff though, with advanced signals and such, so it might actually be a step backwards.

It looks kinda shit i think

They are using the rollecoaster tycoon engine - and to be honest it looks crap. But im just praying that were the prelimenary screenshots.

Im praying its just like the old game - fuckit i like the old game the most it looks uber

 

[Cask]

Maybe they do in the right forum

To be fair he might have been waiting till 2005 to get any kind of a response in the strategy forum. But there are much better sites to visit, for instance Simtropolis for info on Sim City.

 

[Louster]

It looks kinda shit i think

They are using the rollecoaster tycoon engine - and to be honest it looks crap. But im just praying that were the prelimenary screenshots.

Im praying its just like the old game - fuckit i like the old game the most it looks uber

Yeah I saw the screenshots. I don't really mind so much what it looks like as long as it plays well. The advantage of the RCT engine is that it's not totally limited to being on flat ground (plus very limited usage of bridges) as the original was, which might actually make a difference. The animations from the few videos look nice, also, but building track with the RCT engine looks to be quite a pain (a tradeoff for the flexibility, I guess.)
What I'll miss most, I think, is the advanced signals from the unofficial patches, like I said. Man, they make SUCH a difference.

 

[Mazling]

http://underdogs.cjb.net/ & http://dosbox.sf.net/
Have a go at the first two games yourselves.

(Hope nobody minds my posting links to old, defunct games, do whatever )

 

[Trem]

Just been playing Sim City 4 - how the hell do i get my people to :
1) have jobs (and yes there are lots of un-developed blue/yellow squares)

FS! You bought the chav version.

 

[Moving Target]

BTW Transport Tycoon 2 out next month \o/

Transport Tycoon = teh win.

 

[Cyfr]

Hmm so building near motorways increases customers ect? Seems pretty real... I was a big fan of Sim City 3000 (Originaly got it because I thought you could put mcdonalds on every street!1) but never bothered to get Sim City 4..

*runs out to buy it*

 

[Brynn]

Fucking Sods Law.

I get a decent town with population 13k and making about 1000 a month - then the Heads on my hard disk drop - meaning i had to buy a new HD and re=install everything

 

[Mazling]

http://www.ttdpatch.net/ (mature) &
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openttd (immature)

 

[mookie]

http://www.ttdpatch.net/ (mature) &
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openttd (immature)

openTTD rules because of the sole fact it lets me play TT on my ibook. Cant wait for the new one, the original stole months of my life.

 

[Mazling]

OPenTTD is smooth, doesn't jerk while music plays, and can run in a bigger res. It really is far from complete though - not everything has been implemented (like higher payments for greater distances, erk!) - so TTDpatch will have to do.

 

[Louster]

doesn't jerk while music plays

And with TTDPatch this can be fixed by downloading the .dll which tells TTD how to play music through directx. Worked for me. It's on that site.

 

[mookie]

And with TTDPatch this can be fixed by downloading the .dll which tells TTD how to play music through directx. Worked for me. It's on that site.

lol, tt music. its great. Me and a friend used to play tt far too much back in the day, building just trains on simple ptp links, none of these fancy networks. Come to think of it, most of my current game is manily ptp because signals confuse the crap out of me - got any tips?

hah, just thought of an amusing town name i found - generated by the game and i just had to put my HQ there... I'm now Cuntbourne Transport

 

[Louster]

This is a pretty nice site for that sortof information. Check out the pictures of the huge junctions. Some are completely mind-boggling.

 

[Mazling]

Thanks louster

TTDX is the kind of game you can just sit and play by yourself for hours, not even against the computer. Just building, then sitting and watching. Like Settlers.

 

[Louster]

Yeah I totally agree, and this is why I hope the sequel does the original justice. It'd be wonderful to have a more modern version of such a great game.

 

[Cyfr]

ffs how do I do this game?
Whatever I do my outgoings are always more then income

 

[tris-]

lol.