SC4 question

[J. M. Pescado]

Lies and propaganda. Kewians cannot be good at anything!

[jrd]

I completely suck at SC4. But I am a god at SC3.

[Giggy]

SC was awesome.
I use to play SC 3000 on my very very VERY old pc (a piece of crappy pc hardware) and I loved it
(That was when I was a bratty 8 year old)

[jefrir]

The money balance in SC4 does seem a bit off - you start off without enough for the basics, and then end up getting more in than you can possibly spend - rather like the Sims, really. I also find large cities tend to end up with high unemployment, but no businesse will move in, even with much-reduced taxes.
I now have SC original running on a BBC emulator, but as it came from a download and therfore without a manual, I have absolutely no idea how to play it. Any tips (such as what the hell the buttons do) would be gratefully received.

[maxon]

God the original SC was so simple you can just work it out by poking the buttons.  Really.

My all time favourite was SC 2000 - I played and played and played that.

I didn't like SC3, I found it too difficult but SC4 is relatively easy once you get the hang of it. There were some nice mods for it too - I remember DL a canal system and city train stations straddled over the tracks.

[moondance]

I sometimes play SC4 without any mods at all, just to prove that I can run a city successfully without going broke--usually I gotta have my mods though.  For me, it's more fun when I don't have to think about money--transportation and pollution are headaches enough--so I have a mod that allows me to start with some insanely high amount of money.  The mod also puts a big multiplier on the incoming taxes, and I wish it didn't do that, but I don't know how to change it.  I wind up setting all the tax amounts to 1% just so that it's not always operating in the black. (I got the mod at Simtropolis--can probably find a link for it if anyone who is tired of running out of money quickly wants it.  My version is for SC4 with RH, but I think there is one there for SC4 only, as well.

Actually now that I think about it, even when I don't have in the simoleon mod, I still have to have the network add-on mod and the fix to prevent the opera house from trashing the entire education system, so I guess I can't play with "no mods at all."  Hmm.

For me SC3 was the easiest of them all.  For SC2000 I had to use the funds cheat most of the time, but with SC3 it was just a matter of accepting a couple of the deal offers early on and demolishing them once the city could support itself.  I still liked some of the cheats though, particularly the one that caused ALL industries to be high tech.  And the "call cousin vinny" thing--I think that's SC3 and not SC2.