SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition

This game hasn't aged well in certain aspects but has aged gracefully overall. Be warned that it is virtually unplayable right "out of the box", but mods to fix it are cheap and abundant. It's still a reference for the city builder genre and I've played it for over 20 years and still learn new things about it. The entry level for SimCity 4 is extremely easy - anyone can get a city that functions, but the depths of gameplay are what makes people keep coming to it. BUGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT: -Traffic is bugged, get the Network Addon Mod - I can't stress this enough. It fixes the issues with traffic and expands mass transit/infrastructure options (bullet trains, pedestrian roads, trams, ground light rail, elevated roads and rails, underpasses, realistic highways, etc...). If you only get one mod, get the NAM. -The opera house reward building has a hidden "capacity" stat based on how many people go to watch the opera. If it gets full the opera starts to drain the education level of the entire city (somehow if the opera is sold out people gradually become morons). This is only going to be a problem for very large and wealthy cities and you can just not build the opera house but there's a mod to fix the bug too. -High-tech industry (I-HT) has a bug where it won't actually employ $$$ Sims due to how the job stats are calculated in-game. There's also a mod to fix that, but ultimately your only realistic late-game options to provide jobs for $$$ Sims in a large cities will be CO$$$ (luxury offices). -The seaports are bugged and won't actually help industry as much as they should. There are several mods to fix this (industry thrives depending on how much stuff it can "export" outside the city. This can be done just by trucks but those trucks clog up roads. Freight trains clog up railways but leave roads relatively free). -A lot of large lots like the country club, airports, county fair, army base, etc... have a bug due to how crime is calculated where the game thinks they're crime hubs. Technically there isn't any more crime there but the security advisor will keep annoying you about building police stations in the vicinity, but even if you surround the building with max-funded deluxe police stations the crime won't go down. It's mostly an annoyance but there's mods to fix that too. -The carpool commute ordinance is bugged and doesn't do anything (I don't know if there's a mod about it though).

I've studied sociology, and I find it so interesting how relevant this game is. The different variables you can play around with make a huge difference in where the game ends up at. An extra school here = tremendous impact, an extra industrial building here = tremendous impact, an extra police station over there = tremendous impact. The list goes on and on. Timing is important as well. Knowing when a city needs something added, removed or replaced is a skill in and of itself. I enjoy figuring out how to make a city thrive, and learning about my mistakes when a city becomes inhabitable or, more devastating, broke. It takes a certain brain and interest to get the most out of this game. Happy it exist.

I am a Linux user. That's why I shouldn't play EA games, because otherwise I would risk being permanently banned.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME, it crashes every 30 mins because its too old and 32 bit. when you create more cities, it crashes even faster!

20年前我是个小学生拿家里的一台破机器玩着这个游戏 对着老父亲发出了各种疑问 为什么我们不交房产税呢 为什么街上有抓不完的小偷 堵车该怎么办 这些思考胜过一切现在小孩玩的鬼手游 真庆幸我的童年玩的是这个游戏

I can't really enjoy the game because it keeps crashing in the middle of playing. I am glad I got it on sale. So I am not out that much money. Update: I have been able to play the game quite a bit. But it took some digging and trying different things. I found the following worked - Going into the library for the game and clicking the little cog for "Manage", click properties, under General, Launch Options I added "-CPUCount:1". I can't find the site I got that fix from, or else I would list it here.

[h1]Um clássico que merece estar na sua coleção![/h1] Se você gosta do gênero de construção e administração de cidades/parques esse é um título que você precisa ter na sua biblioteca. A premissa é básica, você tem um grande terreno, um fundo financeiro relativamente bom e toda a sua criatividade para construir uma bela cidade, mas diferente da politicagem da vida real você precisa se preocupar com o seu teto de gastos ou você vai falir e não tem paraíso fiscal par fugir com dólares na cueca... é game over... Existem vários games que vieram depois com premissas parecidas, mais ou menos complexos, mas SinCity4 continua tendo seu charme, suas peculiaridades, aproveite em uma promoção que você não vai se arrepender!