A new update for SimCity 4 NAM, the comprehensive Network Addon Mod, solves an agonizing bug and significantly optimizes your city building. Read the full story on PCGamesN: SimCity 4's biggest labor of love mod just fixed a 23-year-old frustration
A new update for SimCity 4 NAM, the comprehensive Network Addon Mod, solves an agonizing bug and significantly optimizes your city building.
With Cities Skylines 2 struggling to find its feet amid a host of early problems, now feels like a good time to revisit the series that preceded it. EA's 2013 soft-reboot that was essentially SimCity 5 landed to widespread negative reactions, opening the door for Colossal Order t
With Cities Skylines 2 struggling to find its feet amid a host of early problems, now feels like a good time to revisit the series that preceded it. EA's 2013 soft-reboot that was essentially SimCity 5 landed to widespread negative reactions, opening the door for Colossal Order to step in as the go-to realistic city-building simulation. But prior to that fall, the series had long been the epochal city builder, and if you missed it at the time or fancy revisiting it, you can get the best of them all, SimCity 4, at a big discount right now.
SimCity 4 modders are making previously-unheard-of DLL plugins and mods due to recent advances, enabling changes of tweaks to how it runs that prior modders would have considered impossible. Over the past few months these types of deep, game-altering mods, previously restricted t
SimCity 4 modders are making previously-unheard-of DLL plugins and mods due to recent advances, enabling changes of tweaks to how it runs that prior modders would have considered impossible. Over the past few months these types of deep, game-altering mods, previously restricted to just a couple famous examples, have proliferated into dozens of tweaks to quality of life and brand new game features... Read more.
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EA Maxis have been talking more about next year's SimCity reboot, and the new GlassBox engine that's powering it. Just earlier we went inside the GlassBox engine to talk a bit about how the new tech will work differently to SimCity games of old, but there's even more good news. S
EA Maxis have been talking more about next year's SimCity reboot, and the new GlassBox engine that's powering it. Just earlier we went inside the GlassBox engine to talk a bit about how the new tech will work differently to SimCity games of old, but there's even more good news. Shacknews sat in on a GDC panel in which Maxis confirmed that the new engine has been designed with modders in mind.
Creative director Ocean Quigley said that the new SimCity will use the "same package format The Sims and SimCity 4 used," which means it'll be more familiar to seasoned SimCity tweakers. "We know modding is hugely important to our community," Quigley said. "We know the reason why people are still playing SimCity 4 ten years later is because the modding community has kept it alive. GlassBox is built to be moddable, but beyond that we haven't announced anything."
We don't know if there's an official SDK in the works, then. Yet. Even without one, top modders will hopefully be able to tinker with the new engine's insides and bring us a new wave of add-ons and updates, so hooray for that. Have a look at the SimCity trailer for an early look at how it's coming along.
A tweet from EA senior PR Erik Reynolds, noted by CVG, has teased a big Maxis reveal at this year's GDC conference, which is due to kick off in just a few weeks time. He mentions that more information will be appearing over the next few weeks on the Game Changers Facebook page bu
A tweet from EA senior PR Erik Reynolds, noted by CVG, has teased a big Maxis reveal at this year's GDC conference, which is due to kick off in just a few weeks time. He mentions that more information will be appearing over the next few weeks on the Game Changers Facebook page but there's already rampant speculation suggesting that it'll be a new SimCity. We'll get to find out in 13 days, 20 hours and counting according to the reassuringly massive clock on the Game Changers page, where EA's GDC event will be broadcasted live to the world in just under two weeks time. Anyone up for some more SimCity?
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I’m losing more than $10,000 a minute. My citizens hate me because I’ve had to sell all the Ferris wheels. They leave in droves and I spiral further and further into debt. In city-building sim Cities XL 2011, it’s easy to lose, but you can never really win. You have to work hard
I’m losing more than $10,000 a minute. My citizens hate me because I’ve had to sell all the Ferris wheels. They leave in droves and I spiral further and further into debt. In city-building sim Cities XL 2011, it’s easy to lose, but you can never really win. You have to work hard to turn a profit and keep everyone happy.
You build your cities by sketching out districts (housing, shopping and industrial) onto a sizeable map. Citizens are divided into four classes: Unskilled Workers, Skilled Workers, Executives and Elites. While they all have the same basic needs, they also require good access to specific places of work. Offices will need a mix of Skilled Workers and Executives, while heavy industry demands a lot of Unskilled proles to keep the factory fires burning.
As citizens flock to your paradise, more ambitious projects such as super-hotels and huge landmarks become available. These require a lot of workers on all tiers to run, and plenty of cash to support, but will keep the population happy.
Maintaining your citizens’ happiness also means providing public services such as schools, hospitals and leisure centres. A clever series of visual overlays shows a hot and cold view of your map, flagging up any areas that are sorely in need of some attention. The key to avoiding a horrible financial crash is to expand slowly and keep an eye on the often overly fragile economy.
Going global
Cities XL had a multiplayer element that let players link their cities online for a subscription fee. This has been dropped for Cities XL 2011, but there’s a similar singleplayer feature. Every city you build takes its place on a spinning globe map. These cities can be linked so that they’re able to trade resources with each other. This allows your richer cities to aid your failing ones, adding a good incentive to start new towns.
It’s a pretty game, too. You can hover far above your town and zoom all the way down to street level, but the roads themselves are static and lacking in character. Poor, crimeridden areas don’t become rundown. Prosperous business areas don’t grow or thrive. I’m told I need fire stations but I’ve never seen a fire. The only indications of success and failure are the dollar and population figures at the top of the screen, and the occasional pop-up alert.
That’s the trouble with Cities XL 2011. It’s efficient and handsome, and satisfying to a point, but is ultimately soulless. Victory means creating a massive city in which nothing is really happening. It can be an absorbing challenge to get to that stage, and the ability to link your cities adds some longevity, but I could never shake the feeling that I wasn’t so much building a new place as completing a mathematical exercise. Nevertheless, it’s a solid enough sim for those eager to fill a SimCity-shaped hole.
Now you can enjoy all the excitement of SimCity 4 on Steam! Get SimCity 4 and SimCity 4 Rush Hour in one convenient package. Create, grow, and breathe life into your ideal urban environment. Fight disasters both realistic and fantastic. Govern your own virtual metropolis as you s
Now you can enjoy all the excitement of SimCity 4 on Steam!
Get SimCity 4 and SimCity 4 Rush Hour in one convenient package. Create, grow, and breathe life into your ideal urban environment. Fight disasters both realistic and fantastic. Govern your own virtual metropolis as you see fit.
