SimCity 4 Tips,tricks, and useful cheats
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SimCity 4 info, tips, cheats, ect.
I have been playing SimCity 4 for a long time and I have found a few tips and tricks to aid you in building your town to 100,000 Sims. This is the step to step procedure:
- Select a medium sized layout with a little bit of water a mainly flat land. Now
when you first get to the name of the city and how hard screen select hard and name your city. Hard makes the game easier in the case that the city population is more balanced.
- Ok in the center of the map zone a fairly large area of Residential. Then add a either an avenue around or a simple street. Then add a few avenues in the residential zone.
- Place a large industrial center close to the water but leave some space for the business for the water were later you will add marinas.
- Build a small business area. Now attach the areas together with avenues.
- Build a power plant and a garbage dump that is 4 * 2.
- Connect the power to all the grids.
- wait and watch as the city builds
- once you have enough money build a sea port near the industrial center or a rail system so that there are fewer trucks on the roads on the roads.
- Now wait until you have enough inflow of cash and you get the large elementary school if you have the deluxe edition, if you don't build 2 small elementary schools in the residential area. Check to make sure you aren't wasting money by adjusting the funding to the school.
- Now wait for about 3 years
- now build and upgrade roads and industrial areas, if needed add more commercial area too.
- now space pipes about 7 to 9 apart from each other and zone the whole city for water even unused areas
- now go to the residential and rezone it in medium sized homes
- now build a water pumps until demand is met
- If you need to build or increase power, garbage, water, sea ports, rail ways, ect. Do so now
- Once the residential is mainly small apartments add a few monuments like the Hollywood sign or something else near or in the business area. Redo all streets to roads. If you want now would be the time to add more avenues and so forth, later you will find problems
- now select the central area of your residential and zone for large after you have put in a High School and a college, if needed add more industrial zones and commercial zones
- Now wait for the large towers to appear
- this is your time to put in reward that you have gotten like: the mayor house, city hall, parks, ect.
- Keep watch on the industrial areas, build a few fire department, make sure that they are large fire departments
- look at your budget and make sure you are still making money
- click on the cheetah speed button and go in to the 20's.
- once you have gotten to the 20's add have a good budget build a few police stations
- rezone the rest of the residential to high and rezone or build new zones for industrial and commercial as needed for the next few years, old zones should be zoned for high and new zones should be zoned for low, add more seaports or railways as needed
- now rezone all commercial to high when you have enough money
- select your speed setting as desired
- watch it go up to 100,000 population
- build anything else you like but keep the budget in mind
- add the university and other education and hospitals when you have the money
- once you want more high tec. industry go to the tax menu and change it to 3 %
- now you should have a city of 100,000
- good job!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheats: To get into the cheat menu press Ctrl + X
- 1. weaknesspays
- 2. You Don't Deserve It
These too cheats will aid you if needed
1 gives you 1000 Simoleons
2 Gives you All Rewards
Tips:
- don't build hospitals until you have a large population other wise it is a waste of money
- Build large police stations and fire stations because they do save money in the end
- build parks to lower the co2 emitions
- build a water treatment plant to decrease water pollution
- build power plants that suit your current needs like coal when you don't have a lot of money and others when you have the money
- the far best power plant I have found out are the natural gas plants and wind mills
IF you have any other questions or good ideas leave me a comment
Cameron Munroe
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i usually try to add stuff like parks,schools, and other things that boost the rating of the area.
I've done that - and added trees like crazy - still have trouble with the traffic noise, especially if it's a busy street. I even bought the book but it mentions nothing about how to solve this problem.
You should use the cheat to get rid of power requirement and water requirement, it reduces a lot of pollution and if you want even more high tech you should build more schools, libraries, museums, etc because educated sims want high tech jobs
You shouldn't use cheats unless you can do it and still feel like a winner.
Still, about the only thing you can do about your traffic/noise issue is reorganize your zones. Currently, I start in a corner of a city with avenues connecting to both neighbors spaced 5 blocks from the edge/corner. From the corner of these avenues, I layout a grid of one-way roads in my residential zones, with 8 blocks, then a one-way, then 3 blocks, then the opposite one-way, then another 8 blocks, and so on until an avenue for the commercial zones. In the 8 block areas I zone residential, and in the 3 block wide areas I provide transportation, schools, fire, police, schools, hospitals, parks, churches, libraries, museums, and even a few commercial zones to reduce commute times. In industrial areas, you can zone commercial in the 3-block areas, or just plant trees in half of them to help keep air pollution in check, and your development high-tech.
The result has been very high density development with very low traffic and commute times between 20 and 30 minutes. Mayor rating is over 90%. Land value is high everywhere that's zoned, population about 90,000 and growing, with less than half the large city's area used, the rest is covered with trees.
well a couple days ago i got sim city 4 and it sucks balls that you cant get like a 100,000 dollear cheat cause its hard to get money
there is a kind of park witch give you much money each month. you should download it. it makes the game a lot easier
I love this game, even though it crashes to the desktop a lot. My main problem is roads. My sims complain about the street so I upgrade to a road, then they complain about the roads. The avenues suck, the game never lets me place them where i want. Are one way streets any good? I find myself adding a second parallel road when traffic is bad. I love seeing high wealth homes being built ;) it's such a rewarding feeling.
I've found organizing your city in a grid system which utilizes a rudimentary traffic flow helps. I.E. Laying Avenues around the outside of the city and in a giant plus sign through the city. Around the plus is a grid of Commercial zones, inside the blocks created by the Avenue is residential zones. In commercial areas place heavy rewards I.E. Colleges etc. when money allows. (making enough to support) Place hospitals, schools, and police in the residential zones. (everyone wants to sleep where it's safe, but the police should cover Commercial zones too) Outside the giant box created by the avenues(roads can initially be placed until funds allow) place industrial/agricultural zones and update the density as the game continues. Eventually you'll need more jobs, place commercial zones over what was industrial starting at connecting roads/avenues and expand as needed. This should get you a good city. Remember: Once city will not grow large until all cities around it are filled and demand is modified by what is connected.
OMG cheats? whats that? either you guys suck or im just a badass. yes, i do search for sim city tips to place certain things on my map. learn to play without cheats. you'll enjoy the game
If your city has heavy traffic you should put subway and allow all city ordinance
The Problem with doing that is there are only a few ordinances that you need to do for lowering traffic the rest will just be a waste of money
I do all that and it still does not work! It's like my PC is allergic to high-tech!
I have 100000 pop and growing! If you want to lower traffic build subways and bus stops. Also, high tech will come if you lower $$$ taxes and zones high-density away from your dirty and manufacturing industrial companies.
I read about these one way streets, and yet I have no clue as to how to make them. Help please? I might add that I have the original Sim City 4 with no expansions (updated version though)... Do they even exist in the original? Goddamn traffic jams are messing up my cities :P
If you go to the road section in Simcity 4 there will or won't be a selection for one way streets. The only problem is that they are hard to utilize and build.
This really didn't work... I tried it on my city and went 35k into debt.
Why?
hi great post but your not a bright boy
dude.how can i make money in SIMCITY 4 coz i always have my expences higher then my income even if i have my rates up on 20% for every1.
can u plz help?
you people suck at sim city 4 i am awsome at it though i gotten over 110,000 people when i wsn't even done with half of the city oh and WaRIOrD IF U raise youre taxes higher then people will leave ure city the most amount of money i ever got was 6 million dollars without cheating
PLEASE READ THIS I KNOW IT IS LONG BUT ITS THE MOST HELPFUL INFORMATION YOU EVER GOT!!! always build a city center and dont buy things thats montly cost is high unless your income is way higher than your expence. always start out with small things not big things for example:elemantary schools,clinics instead of hospitals and etc. then when u get lots of income and ure income is more than ure expence, then you can place hospitals and highscools and all that stuff. o and i forgot to mention always place parks and plazas esspesialy plase plasaz near commercial zones also always put stuff that attract tourists and business around commercial zones. if u get the tourist trap then place it by commercial zones. if u have more than 25,000 jobs in a medium city and also have a stock exchange, then you might see gigantic , huge, tall scy srapers being built.I PROMISSE THAT WAS THE MOST HELPFUL INFORMATION YOU EVER GOT!!!!
DUDE, GREAT HINTS & TIPS PAGE, BUT SERIOUSLY, WORK ON YOUR GRAMMAR. MOST OF YOUR SENTENCES DIDN'T MAKE SENSE.
For all of you ppl cheating and struggling with SimC4 return the game or give it away., this is one of the greatest games ever!, why cheat?, u cheater bastards!!!! there is no point buying a game and cheating... get some business classes and do some with your life.
i have 2 mill ppl and 1 tril dollars, and growing. for all of you no cheaters, keep hanging in there, SimCity for life!
Fessini out.
READ THIS IF YOU WANT A SUCSESSFUL CITY
Its ok to cheat a little bit if you need to cheat. From building 4 sim citys over 100,000 people and 1 of them has 155,000 people, I have a little exprence with this game. To make a SUCSESSFUL city you put lots of commercial and residential zones and little industrial zones. Lower taxes for the high comercial and residential taxes to around 0%. Wait till most of the commercial and residential zones fills up. Then raise the taxes to no more than 9% or until you get out of the hole. The residents love parks and stuff you get when you do some of the cheats. If you want a big city to grow even bigger repeat the tips I gave you
do control x and type weaknesspays hold you mouse bij the s from the s to the w than is it black do control c but on the control all the time and do than c
Here is what I found out that REALLY helps develop high tech:
(This assumes that you have rush hour expansion or deluxe edition)
1. Cover your industrial regions with TONS of police kiosks or police stations.
2. Also add TONS of parks.
3. Make sure your residential areas are highly educated (every sim with an available elementary school, high school, library, museum, and college; university is a + too).
4. Decrease high tech tax rate to 0 (if you can afford it) and increase manufacturing and dirty to 20.
5. Begin manually destroying dirty and manufacturing industries.
High tech really helps develop your city-- I have a city with 410,000 people and one with 230,000 people. My total region's pop. is 1,493,000 people. (that took me a long time)
I do need help with transportation!!!
How can you, if possible, stop the "no job" zots??
How should I build in order to decrease commute time?
These are the things that make building cities difficult-I need help.
I can get ppl easy, it is making zones 3X3 that I'm trying to do. My only question is this: if I make a zone and it is 1X3 does it stay that way, or will the game automatically build a skyscraper by combining 3 (1X3)'s or do I have to manually make sure it is a 3X3 or sometimes I get a 4X3 -- those are awesome....anyway, that's my question
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Coal Power plants are great for small area or industrial citys in sim city 4 because they are cheap and easy to build. The main factor for population in your city is mainly taxes. Lower your taxes and more people will come.
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Avenues can be annoying to implement, but only if you try to implement them AFTER you've already built your city. Chances are you'll have built it pretty compact and therefore cannot build an avenue that helps you at all.Think about Avenues BEFORE or AS you build your city, think about where people will have to get to and from. As your traffic builds on roads, implement subway systems and bus stops regularly. With subways, link a lot of different lines so that people have a lot of available options to get to and from different locations.Also think about your industrial areas. Don't use VERY polluting power stations, try to lower that as much as possible. Think about parks and trees and don't tightly compact industry TOO much. Leave spaces for further development of trees and parks - also make sure you keep an eye on water treatment. It's a useful expense.
The coal power plant is good to be placed in industrial areas were the industrial are is far from the city and conected with comercial zones, still i can manage only get around 30.000 people on easy mode and i think i should lowever the taxes if it brings you more people it would bring more money tho every time i lost more money than i get any help? (btw i need help were to place those parks in the middle of every square sourundered road?)
One simple thing about taxes is lower them in the beginning and then if you are in trouble raise them a little. Your city doesn't need everything in the beginning. Have you done the tutorials in the game? if you have or haven't i suggest going through them again. They are a great resource.
for all of you people the best way to make a city over 1.5 million is to make for city not on a grid system (i have made lots of mistakes doing that because they only support a few hundred thousand people). You make 'mini communities' consiting of 2 Commerical 4 x4 blocks with lots of space around them and 5 or so 4X4 residential with parks of all sorts. then add transportaion systems of rail, bus and subway. Then make Schools and a hospital. Make each community spaced out so that you can put decent sized parks in beetween (add's as eye candy later on). Set your taxes up a the start not to encourage growth but to set you on track (and sims dont complain) and very slowly put them down 0.1% per 10,000.
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i only cheat because i dont want to wait for a month to get the money needed, weaknesspays and the power and water cheats. with taxes just lower the high wealth of all types to 7, mid to 8, leave lower at 9. if u do this low is always high, then with civics the mid and higher will follow. u can get away with leaving the commercial services high end at 8 n still have high demand. when u start ur city pick a corner next to a plot with water access, for an example, go to new york region, pick the big lot in the middle, there should be to the east a small plot but with alot of water, use the small water plot for dirty industry only(just set taxe rates for everything else other than dirty at 20, leave dirty at 9 trust me). build a seaport and connect the plot with rr's to your main big plot thats where u put ur high tech industry along with commercial and residential. for no reason whatsoever do u ever put dirty with anything else. stay on the corner next to the dirty and build, plan ahead use alot of avenues and highways, dont build more than u need but where u r building trust me. as your city grows and the dirty goes back to peaking ur city should now reach that entire corner, now its time for another dirty area, use the small plot south of ur main and southwest of ur first dirty, connect with highways and avenues and trains, now if u planned correctly rezone if havent to the highest densities, build only large or big civic buildings, u can always adjust the funding take the hit early on trust me, make sure u have at least two to three hospitals in each community, my communities are about 60x60 total, it takes usually three to four sometimes hospitals after r rezone to high density, dont build the small airport, build the biggest one available, it will attract large corporations for commerce as ur residential becomes bigger the commerce will follow then high tech demand will skyrocket, provide everything as early as u can, education and health take time. only build fire departments when a fire breaks out then destroy after the fire, u dont need them even the instructions tell u that, just be quick when a fire breaks n ull be alright. if u follow this, i do this all the time, i build just one corner of the big plot and i had over 200,000 with 70% of land still available. build farms on the other side of ur big plot, as ur city grows demand for farms will b nonexistent, once this happens and u start filling up u can destroy the farms and rezone. for the record i dont play games as much as i used to but, i went 130+ years on my region, all of my r's were on the big plot, i still had one side left to build maybe 15% or so land left, i had almost a million people in my city, if i wouldve finished i wouldve probably had 1.5 million once i rezoned everything high and gave it time to build up, it takes time. if people dont have certain jobs thats ok, use the surronding plots around ur main to build dirty and low tech jobs but keep it close and use highways n mass transit, leave ur big plot for all the nice big buildings, u can thank me later, goodluck!
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Thank you very much for your great hub, for good advice, good wishes and support. Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us.
i never get a great city
I got one city200,000
i'm at 580,000 ..still workin on it
How do I stop those popups with the advisors? Can I get rid of them? Also, why do I have so many industrial fires? LIKE 2 a minute!
How do I stop those popups with the advisors? Can I get rid of them? Also, why do I have so many industrial fires? LIKE 2 a minute!
For the fire problem:
If you have a fire station check the effective radius of that fire station. If it isn't covering you industrial section/ where the fires are starting add another fire station to that area. Also if you don't have any fire station that would be the problem. Finally you can put legislation in place under the tax section/ ordinace/ fire alarm program.
I will check to see if I can figure out the adviser problem.
Is there a way to get rid of the no job zots
Yes, Under the people tab. Go into there and look for the zots Icon and then you can turn it off in there. I hope it works.
actually here's order of best plants:
*Hydrogen plant (50K power, clean)
*Solar plant (10K power, clean)
*Wind plant (clean, but low capacity just 50)
*Natural Gas (3K power, but moderate pollution)
Just build a dummy city next to your main city. Build your pollution plants there, and just run a power hook-up to the border and connect them. You can buy the power on your main city and not worry about the pollution.
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DOES ANYONE KNOWS WHERE THEY SELL SIM CITY 4 IN SAUDIA ARABIA IN RIADH PLEEEEEEEEEEEEESE I WAS WAITING 6 MONTHS OR 4
if you have demand problems and you got a small city you have to build some small elementry schools then a high school and then build a city city unversity... sorry for my bad english
Kat07 says:
2 years ago
Hey, great Hub! SimCity 4 can be so addicting. I never had success with the railroads at all. What do you do when residential areas downgrade due to high traffic noise?