New to SC4

[ross]

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Does your city acctually change appearance as it gets older. For instance as
the year increases does your city look more modern? I remember that in
SC3000 the city buildings changed according to the year, that was nice. So
far in SC4 i have had a few skyscrapers built but they look pretty old and
blocky. Is this because i havnt played the game for long enough yet?
I get a lot of black buildings that nobody will move into, how do i stop
this?

 

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Ross wrote:
> Does your city acctually change appearance as it gets older. For
> instance as the year increases does your city look more modern? I
> remember that in SC3000 the city buildings changed according to the
> year, that was nice. So far in SC4 i have had a few skyscrapers built
> but they look pretty old and blocky. Is this because i havnt played
> the game for long enough yet?
> I get a lot of black buildings that nobody will move into, how do i
> stop this?

SC4 is very different to previous versions, in old ones you would build/zone
everything your Sims needed ie police, school, hospital, fire, residential,
comertial, industrial. With SC4 you have to start off slowly, zone low
residential, then start. As you can afford it, gradually build or zone what
your Sims want. That way, the RCI shouldn't go below 0 much, your buildings
won't get abandoned, and you won't loose money.

As for modern buildings, I'm not realy sure, I don't remember it hapening in
SC3k but when you zone high comertial and there is a high demand for high
wealth comertial, you will get nice, modern looking skyscrapers.

 

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On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:43:20 +1100, Ross put finger to keyboard and
typed:

>Does your city acctually change appearance as it gets older. For instance as
>the year increases does your city look more modern? I remember that in
>SC3000 the city buildings changed according to the year, that was nice. So
>far in SC4 i have had a few skyscrapers built but they look pretty old and
>blocky. Is this because i havnt played the game for long enough yet?

Unlike previous versions, which have a fixed start and end point in
terms of design, SC4 will cycle through the designs. So if you play it
long enough, you'll get all the styles over time and then back to the
start again. You can change this in the options, if you want.

Also, the more upmarket (high-wealth) tend to be more interesting in
terms of design (less blocky, more decorated), but you won't get those
in any style until you've got enough demand for them. This can take a
while.

>I get a lot of black buildings that nobody will move into, how do i stop
>this?

Too many degraded buildings usually means that they're not close
enough to the jobs for sims to be able to commute. You either need to
zone more industrial or commercial within existing commuting
distances, or improve your transport so that sims can commute further.

Mark
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