SimCity4 RH MP Game, revisited

[EPW]

City Statistics 2020

Green=Highest in Region
Red=Lowest in Region

Epwood
EPW
Pop: 78,649
Com. Jobs: 27,195
Ind. Jobs: 17,137

El Dorado
mrmitchell
Pop: 41,047
Com. Jobs: 12,426
Ind. Jobs: 8,522

Y City
Atragon
Pop: 38,351
Com. Jobs: 6,721
Ind. Jobs: 6,395

Mergdale
General Ludd
Pop: 38,783
Com. Jobs: 6,056
Ind. Jobs: 493

Blountburg
Jonny
Pop: 29,258
Com. Jobs: 6,645
Ind. Jobs: 12,791

East Central
Smiley
Pop: 42,060
Com. Jobs: 9,810
Ind. Jobs: 1,758

Fray Bentos
Maquilidora
Pop: 4,278
Com. Jobs: 4,051
Ind. Jobs: 7,552

Bubble Junction
Lemmy
Pop: 50,793
Com. Jobs: 28,175
Ind. Jobs: 8,336

[General Ludd]

Mergdale '25:


Things are picking up a bit for Mergdale - the high wealth residential sector has had a boom, and commercial sky-rises continue to be built. A statue of Mayor Ludd was errected, although the sculpter seems to have mistakenly made it in the image of a woman.

http://s95005245.onlinehome.us/City%20-%20Mergdale.rar

[Jonny]

Blountberg Year 25:

There's been a boom in the commercial sector, and considerable development in the high-tech industrial sector as regionwide Education increases. These two developments have led the way to the development of a growing upper-class in Blountberg.

Res: 39,505
Com: 13,568 (a 104.2% increase from 2020!)
Ind: 15,701

Download 3.03MB

http://home.comcast.net/~jonny11788/Blountberg25.zip

Pics to come...

[Jonny]

Blountberg Year 25 in Pictures.


The Downtown, River South, and Blount Works areas of the city. Note the addition of the new bridge between the prospering Downtown and River South districts.



The southern areas of the city, showing the new commercial district and new high-tech development.

[:) Smiley]

Continuing the People's Struggle for Affordable Housing
East Central 2025

Regional prosperity and investment in education paid off in East Central, with lots of office development. A City Hall has finally been built and downtown is taking off. This was not without its side effects, however - the influx of bourgeuosie led to the razing of low-income housing for shiny condo towers, threatening the homes of the city's people.

[:) Smiley]

To stem the tide, taxes on the invading yuppies were hiked up to 12%, bringing a windfall of revenue and reversing the migration. Many of the newly vacated condos were subsequently converted into residential hotels.

[:) Smiley]

Still, demand for cheap housing kept growing, and was finally only resolved by the construction of another subcity. Two rail stations serve this new dense development.

[:) Smiley]

East Central 2025

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=8873_East_Central_2025.zip

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Goals for 2030:
-Plant Trees near Public Buildings and Historical Housing Project Towers
-Raise Mayor Rating - any suggestions?
-Expand high tech and agricultural industries
-Build fifth satellite city if necessary

[EPW]

Epwood has cleaned up it's act in the last five years. Crime was the first priority of the mayor. Small and Large Police stations were built around the city and crime dropped by more than half in five years.
Traffic was another problem in Epwood.
The subway system was expanded but this proved to be insuffiecent. Therefore another solution was devised: One Way Roads! These were constructed throughout the commercial district and greatly reduced traffic.
Another problem was pollution. Plans to demolish Area 51 were created, but canceled at the last second when it was discovered that it would cost $45,000.
It was then decided that Epwood's famous Industry had to go. Taxes on dirty industry and manufacturing were immediatly raised to 20%.
Sadly, they didn't get the message, so more drastic measures were taken. By 2025, about one third of the dirty and manufacturing industries were demolished, and in there place sprouted cleaner high tech.
To help increase high-tech demand, Epwood decided to increase it's resident's education level. Museums and libraries were constructed around the city, along with this beautiful University:
(and a casino to pay for it)



Commercial High-Rises invaded in force:



The Epwood Stock Exchange Opens, and a statue is built in honor of
the mayor.



The Resident's of Epwood are also much wealthier now than they were five years ago, as incomes increase by $20,000.



Goal's for the next five year's:
-Work to further relieve the traffic problem.
-Complete the conversion to High Tech.
-Replace Coal for Solar Power or possibly Nuclear.
-Get rid of Area 51
-Build an Airport.
-Build a Zoo
-Build some other Goodies

And here is the save:

http://home.comcast.net/~epwood1/City_-_Epwood-2025.zip

[Maquiladora]

Fray Bentos '25

Stats:

4,278 -> 11,612
4,051 -> 5,278
7,552 -> 6,890

Like some of the surrounding region, Fray Bentos has increased its high-tech industries, brought on by the high education, cleaner living, and high taxation on polluting industry. This taxation has given huge profits to Fray Bentos, allowing for a new Solar Plant and Waste-to-Energy Converter, the mayor also added that a second Solar Plant and a scattering of Wind Farms is planned in the next 5 years, to make Fray Bentos the cleanest city in region.

A new high density residential development has also been started, the first in Fray Bentos, this small area has ballooned the population to over 11,000, an extra 7,000 from 5 years ago. This has unforunately not come without its problems, there have been numerous complaints from residents of the old Countryside Development, "they smell and need a wash" said one old lady, the mayor has denied this is a major problem saying, "we'll plant some more trees".

http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php?file=10378_Maq-FrayBentos25.rar

[Maquiladora]

Another kinda dull shot of the high-tech area

[Maquiladora]

and another bridge to the slums

[Lemmy]

Arr, missed New Year's by a month.

Bubble Junction 25

- New residential district
- First skyscrapers
- Up and coming high-tech industry
- Solar power to replace polluting Coal Plants
- New commercial district
- New Landing Strip immediately upgraded to Large to cope with hig demand.
- "Bubble Junction is rolling in riches", to quote an old newspaper, $5k surplus per month.

Pop: 49937
Com: 44792
Ind: 5873


New residential district, upper class mostly, west of Sacaferocious Shops


First commercial highrise:


Up and coming high-tech industry


Solar power plants, to appease the pro-breathing movement.


New commercial district to keep up with high demand


Overview of the city, including the new airport south of Sacaferocious and west of Indisquishable

[General Ludd]

Just Atro now?



I think I might start my Island city this turn...

[Atragon]

Sorry to keep everyone waiting, I've been somewhat busy...

https://www.atragon.ca/simcity/y2025.rar

Residential: 56,208
Commercial: 17,119
Industrial: 6,680

Well, it looks like the commercial demand bubble is starting to burst, despite heavy development of the new central business district, including the construction of a massive landmark, return on investment is lower than expected for this financial period. The budget is still showing a surplus thanks to foresight in road planning and the intelligent placement of toll booths and mass transit, as well as increased tax revenue from the expanded residential populace.

A university was also constructed to ensure the continuing strength of Y City's education system, nearly 100% coverage has been acheived for all forms of education, from elementary to university and beyond. Unfortunately, funding for museums is not available in the budget at this time due to other financial obligations.

Demand for High-Tech industry is trending upwards, unfortunately, the air polution in the main industrial area prevents this expansion from occuring, perhaps once sufficient capital is available to replace existing coal-fired plants with cleaner solar plants. The growing energy demands of the expanding residential populace required the re-activation of the backup coal plant in order to ensure sufficient surplus so as to not jepordize the neighbor deal with Mergdale. This is viewed as undesirable due to the increase in air polution, as a stopgap measure, a tree planting campaign received funding and will mature in a matter of years, filtering out some of the increased polution.