Getting Started
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The general concept of SimCity is to develop a city and make it successful. Depending on your experience, you can start a city from scratch or start out in a 'starter' city, which are basic cities intended to give you, well, a start. If you've never played a SimCity game or forgot how to play, starter cities are probably the way to go for you.
If you wish to have more control over the look of the map of your city, you can choose a blank map. You can build hills, mountains, lakes, forests, etc. One of the more important features to add early have to be trees. Trees look nice, they're free at this point, they're easy to plant in large numbers, and they absorb the pollution put out by your city. As in real life, pollution is a terrible thing to have, so build a lot of trees early on.
Land value is enhanced by the proximity to water and high ground (elevation-wise). This is your opportunity to make some places that will be higher in land value, and make your place popular among your citizens.
Save the city and exit to the Region. Select the city tile next to the area in which you created, and Enter it. You will be asked if you wish to 'Reconcile Edges'. This automatically raises and lowers terrain on the current city to match that of the Neighboring cities. Accept this reconciliation. Again, save and exit to the Region. In the Region View, you will be able to save your creation. Making terrain features (lakes, mountains, hills, etc), is very important if you wish to get into high-quality Region design. You can do ahead and re-enter your city.
To get this city established, click on the Mayor Mode button and choose a city and Mayor name.
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Your citizens and industries will be needing power, so it's time to select a power source. The two best choices are Wind Power and Natural Gas. Go ahead and buy the Natural Gas Plant. After its placement, we need to lower the budget, or we're paying §400 for more than enough power. Using the query tool, open up the status of the natural gas plant. Lower the budget to §25-50.
Now that we have power, we need people to inhabit the city. To do this, place a nice-sized section of low density residential zoning somewhat near your power plant. Don't put it too close, but far enough so the plant can provide power to that area. Next, build a low or medium density patch of commercial zoning somewhat near your power plant and residential zoning. Now build a school so we can get them smart enough to work at a factory. The school should be in the center of your small neighborhood. Like the natural gas plant, we need to lower the budget. Then lower the teacher budget so you only have one teacher and basically paying to have enough room for fifty or so students.
In Mayor Mode, open the budget panel and raise the taxes across the board. 9-11% is about as high as you want to take the taxes at this point. Build more light density residential and commercial land. Go ahead and raise the power budget- since this new residential and commercial area may not have power.
You can now wait a few game years, until you get a nice population and are ready for factories. Factories pay much more taxes than 'Bob's Greasy Pits'. They also need a workforce with at least Elementary Education. To get some factories, we need to zone for them. Build some light density industrial by your neighborhood, but not too close since they will make your neighborhood dirty. Next to this new industrial zone, build a small trash landfill. Make sure it has street/road access. The landfill will hurt your income quite a bit when it starts to get used. Hopefully the demand for factories is large and many will be built.
If you haven't built a landfill, do so now. When looking for a possible location for the landfill, consider the fact that landfills shouldn't be placed 'downtown'. Put your landfills where they have room to expand and where you could cut off Roads without injuring any nearby developers. Lay down single tiles (like zones) of at least 2x2 groups, connect them to your city via Road, and trash rolls in. Garbage comes to the Landfill and gets dumped on a tile. Each tile holds up to 300 tons of garbage. When one is full, the trash collectors look for another tile to fill. It takes a while to get rid of a Landfill. You have to decommission the Landfill by demolishing all Road access to it. Then you have to wait for all the garbage deposited in it to decompose (at a rate of about 7% per month up to 15 tons).
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Hopefully you're off and running at this point and able to continue on with the game with more advanced things.
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You're stuck playing through the tutorial city whenever switching regions. Quitting the tutorial city doesn't skip it, and I'm not seeing anything else. Have any tricks up your sleeve?
Edit: quitting the city does appear to be working for other people
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To skip the tutorial.
Click the
Getting Started
button on the home screen. The tutorial city will load, and a welcome message popup will show in the lower corner.Simcity 4 Bat Tutorial
You must click the
Okay
button to start the tutorial in order to skip it. If you don't start the tutorial, then it won't work.Once the next popup appears called 'CAMERA'. Click the options button
(..
in the upper right corner, and then click Exit To Main Menu
.When you return to the main menu the tutorial will have been cancelled. You can now go and create your first city for that server.
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No you can not skip the tutorial as this is how you register on a server. However, you can just exit out of the tutorial after you have started it and then continue to play on the server. It seems that just getting into the tutorial is enough to do this registration, you do not have to play through it.
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Just start tutorial and then go back to the main menu and you'll be able to play normal game.
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Start the tutorial and then immediate exit it, you don't need to finish it.
As ESC doesn't work in tutorial, you have to click the Settings icon in the upper right corner of the screen to open the menu.
Also, if the application should accidentally crash, tutorial on that server will not come up again.
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Getting Started
[edit]
The general concept of SimCity is to develop a city and make it successful. Depending on your experience, you can start a city from scratch or start out in a 'starter' city, which are basic cities intended to give you, well, a start. If you've never played a SimCity game or forgot how to play, starter cities are probably the way to go for you.
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If you wish to have more control over the look of the map of your city, you can choose a blank map. You can build hills, mountains, lakes, forests, etc. One of the more important features to add early have to be trees. Trees look nice, they're free at this point, they're easy to plant in large numbers, and they absorb the pollution put out by your city. As in real life, pollution is a terrible thing to have, so build a lot of trees early on.
Land value is enhanced by the proximity to water and high ground (elevation-wise). This is your opportunity to make some places that will be higher in land value, and make your place popular among your citizens.
Save the city and exit to the Region. Select the city tile next to the area in which you created, and Enter it. You will be asked if you wish to 'Reconcile Edges'. This automatically raises and lowers terrain on the current city to match that of the Neighboring cities. Accept this reconciliation. Again, save and exit to the Region. In the Region View, you will be able to save your creation. Making terrain features (lakes, mountains, hills, etc), is very important if you wish to get into high-quality Region design. You can do ahead and re-enter your city.
To get this city established, click on the Mayor Mode button and choose a city and Mayor name.
Your citizens and industries will be needing power, so it's time to select a power source. The two best choices are Wind Power and Natural Gas. Go ahead and buy the Natural Gas Plant. After its placement, we need to lower the budget, or we're paying §400 for more than enough power. Using the query tool, open up the status of the natural gas plant. Lower the budget to §25-50.
Now that we have power, we need people to inhabit the city. To do this, place a nice-sized section of low density residential zoning somewhat near your power plant. Don't put it too close, but far enough so the plant can provide power to that area. Next, build a low or medium density patch of commercial zoning somewhat near your power plant and residential zoning. Now build a school so we can get them smart enough to work at a factory. The school should be in the center of your small neighborhood. Like the natural gas plant, we need to lower the budget. Then lower the teacher budget so you only have one teacher and basically paying to have enough room for fifty or so students.
In Mayor Mode, open the budget panel and raise the taxes across the board. 9-11% is about as high as you want to take the taxes at this point. Build more light density residential and commercial land. Go ahead and raise the power budget- since this new residential and commercial area may not have power.
You can now wait a few game years, until you get a nice population and are ready for factories. Factories pay much more taxes than 'Bob's Greasy Pits'. They also need a workforce with at least Elementary Education. To get some factories, we need to zone for them. Build some light density industrial by your neighborhood, but not too close since they will make your neighborhood dirty. Next to this new industrial zone, build a small trash landfill. Make sure it has street/road access. The landfill will hurt your income quite a bit when it starts to get used. Hopefully the demand for factories is large and many will be built.
If you haven't built a landfill, do so now. When looking for a possible location for the landfill, consider the fact that landfills shouldn't be placed 'downtown'. Put your landfills where they have room to expand and where you could cut off Roads without injuring any nearby developers. Lay down single tiles (like zones) of at least 2x2 groups, connect them to your city via Road, and trash rolls in. Garbage comes to the Landfill and gets dumped on a tile. Each tile holds up to 300 tons of garbage. When one is full, the trash collectors look for another tile to fill. It takes a while to get rid of a Landfill. You have to decommission the Landfill by demolishing all Road access to it. Then you have to wait for all the garbage deposited in it to decompose (at a rate of about 7% per month up to 15 tons).
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Hopefully you're off and running at this point and able to continue on with the game with more advanced things.
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SimCity 4 is a great game, but I usually start getting problems when my cities reach a population of ~50k people. One of the major problems is traffic.
What are techniques/solutions to this problem? What things do you do to effectively fight problems with traffic in middle-size to larger cities, that have worked? How should you place roads? Should you use trains or metros, and place them where and to what extent etc.?
Anto
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In plain SimCity 4, Sims will take the shortest route by distance to their location. This leads to some rather illogical travel paths where Sims will take the overburdened street and ignore your empty 6 lane highway right next to it. The only way around this is decentralisation. Don't just have an industrial third, commercial third and residential third to your city, have several zones dotted around. Mass transit also helps, but again there is a tendency for Sims to ignore it. Spamming bus stations is the easiest way to get mass transit going.
There is a mod called the Network Addon Mod that fixes this issue by making Sims take the shortest route by time to their location. It also gives you far more options for transport.
Decentralising your zones also helps with NAM installed, but you can also work by having some redundancy too - like having a subway and highway going to the same location. This works far better under NAM than under plain SimCity, where Sims will only ever avail themselves of one option, regardless of how overused it is.
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Road planning.
Maximize the distance between each intersection (a longer road can take more traffic). And limit the AI's choices for choosing their path. Study real world road networks in suburban areas and learn to love Google Maps.
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