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>>15699725

I see you're also a man of culture

3000 Unlimited is probably the best, but SC4 is pretty good with mods. More mods are disappearing though and a lot of good content makers are gone.

>>15699709

I shiggy diggy.

>>15700628

>emulating it

>not building your own CE machine from scratch

>>15700803

You and me must have been playing different games, because I loved 3000's hand-drawn isometric sprites.

>>15701221

>put sign post up saying "FIRE ISLAND" and then put a road and bridge through so I could pretend it was a tourist attraction

You will never be that innocent ever again

>playing simcity 4

>accidentally place two toll booths going into small town

>notice that now they just produce twice the profit

>cautiously place more toll booths, which seem to just make more and more money

>eventually have long twisting avenues of toll-booths to get in and out of town

>mfw enough income that I set all taxes to zero and could still afford my services

>>15701604

>visitors to your city get taxed

>permanent residents who don't travel much pretty much never pay taxes

>all the industries pay shipping tax but not any other taxes

>???

>lods of emone

>>15699755

while this one was the best one i've played, the one i've probably played most and always go back to a console version of sim city for the S NES

>>15699690

I liked the DS game.

>>15702878

Wrong game im a retard.

Still a game i liked though.

>>15701221

Reminds me of when I first played flight simulator in the late 90's as a slightly-psychopathic 12-year-old. One of the "preset" flights put you on landing approach to JFK airport right near Manhattan. Of course, if you turned slightly to the left, there was the WTC towers (or at least grey boxes that vaguely looked like them) right there. Was easy to fly between them with a small plane, far more difficult to do so with a BIG plane. So why bother trying to get between? Instead, just load up the biggest jumbo jet the game had, and fly into the towers. Repeatedly. For the lulz. Sometimes I'd hit one, reload and then hit the other. Was always disappointed that the plane would crash but the buildings would never get damaged. So on 9/11 I was the only person in the world that yelled out "I did it first!"

No, not really. That would have been mean.

On-topic, I've played the SimCity series since SC2000 (ported to the PSX). Back then I was really terrible at it. Had no sense of aesthetic and assumed that the "goal" was just to cover every possible square of the map with stuff. So I'd flatten mountains and fill oceans and put houses and shops there. Just endless low-density sprawl (because land values were too shit to allow much else). I basically turned every single map into Los Angeles. Funny.

I played a lot of SC3000, probably more than any of the others. Loved the music, loved the style, loved the ability to make my own buildings, loved the off-brand humor. Experimented with various (mostly graphical) exploits that allowed you to do stuff like put tunnels under rivers, connect avenues seamlessly with freeways, put multiple bridges side-by-side, make railway viaducts, etc.. Also started creating custom maps with greyscale jpegs. It was just the most comfy iteration in the series, if you ask me.

Finally got actually good with SC4. Learned how to actually play the game rather than just winging it. While I think it's the best game in the series just by virtue of its complexity, I don't play it as much as I should. Especially when cities start getting really big, everything just takes FOREVER to do anything. You zone some new land and it'll sit idle for half an hour before half of them will grow some level-1 houses, and the rest will continue to sit idle. Mostly, I turned to "painting" landscapes using a variety of mods that do little more than put in aesthetic ground clutter. But compared to what I was doing in earlier games, this finally allowed me to start making some truly beautiful things.

>>15701604

>costing your citizen both time and money

Truly an mayor.

>>15707044

>unlock arcologies

>bulldoze entire original city

>spam arcologies everywhere

> have nearly 10 million citizens

>trigger a lot of earthquakes, fires, plane crashes

>watch it all burn to the ground

>kill all 10 million people

>be informed by advisor you will regret cutting down road budget

simtower

>>15709656

>>15709834

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>>15714764

I know I have my download link somewhere.

Having a weird problem. I set up a custom region and after I imported my terrain image, the overall region map display is all fucked up (see pic). Any idea how to fix this?

>>15700803

>Only problem with 3000 is the aesthetic

wtf are you talking about 3000 is the best looking Sim City game. Some of the UI aged poorly but it's a great looking and sounding game

>>15699776

Simcity 4 mods are ridiculous, that first picture looks like an actual city. A very comfy city, at that. I could never get setup with all the mods I wanted, but I guess I wouldn't be able to make very nice cities anyways, seems really hard lol. Here are some more nice SC4 pics.

>>15715078

>>15715090

That's really good looking.

>>15715063

They do, but it kinda kills my motivation. However, I appear to have fixed it. Seems to be a bug when using software rendering instead of hardware. Game can't do resolutions higher than 1920x1080 using the hardware renderer. Or at least that is what I'm assuming is what caused the problem.

>>15714860

I've never seen that problem before, what a mess

>>15715078

Yeah, getting all the right mods together can be a chore. Especially if the goal is a completely different city design. Then after that it really becomes a test of how well you know real towns and how good you are at the game. Autism as well, some people on Simtropolis would spend like a year just planning out their cities to make them perfect.

>>15715531

>some people on Simtropolis would spend like a year just planning out their cities to make them perfect

Always wanted to make one of those City Journal things over there. Just never got up the motivation, and always felt it would be a waste of time because there were so many and I wasn't doing anything special to stand out. Spend months putting together shit and then three people look at it and nobody comments.