I want to take a backup of my city of SimCity 4. In the directory Documents\SimCity 4\Regions\ in Libraries (Windows 7), I have a directory with the name of my city. Do I need to include something else in the backup if I want to restore my city from a fresh installation of SimCity 4? … Read more
In SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition, my city has 40k population and the only red labelled message comes from the public safety advisor. I built a local police station as the message says, but the message didn’t disappear for years of the game-time. When I click “this locale“, the camera zooms in the red ellipse below. … Read more
Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Arqade. Closed 3 years ago. Improve this question Having spent countless hours building, developing and managing cities in Sim City 4, one element of the game has always perplexed me. Whenever a … Read more
I believe my current city meets all the requirements to build the Bureau of Bureaucracy, yet I am unable to unlock it. Many websites state its requirements to be the following: Residential population: 39,000 Mayor rating: 30 Education funding: 101% Health funding: 101% Courthouse has been built My city is as follows: Residential population: 185,000 … Read more
I have a big city with 173,000 population and there are lots of abandoned structures caused by having too long commute times. I don’t have any industrial inside the city because I have them at neighboring cities. To lower commute time I put bus stops literally everywhere, but I still get long commute time. How … Read more
This question already has answers here: How to trade Power between Cities? (4 answers) Closed 8 years ago. I’ve built a usual city. I’ve built a new city with redundant power production right near the first one. I’ve initiated a deal to sell power to the first city successfully. I’ve started a new city right … Read more
In Sim City 4, I have a small city with population 1000. I have one water tower and pipes to give the entire area coverage. I’m using about 1/6 of the water tower’s capacity. I’ve funded the water utility over 100%. However, I’m getting burst and newly rusted pipes every month. I’ve repiped, pushed utility … Read more
I used to love playing SimCity 3000 and was wondering recently what new versions have come out since then. I found SimCity 4 which sounds pretty cool. I switched to an Intel based MacBook Pro half a year ago, and Wikipedia lists couple of bugs that are told to render SimCity unusable. Does anyone have … Read more
I want to upgrade my city’s bus network to a subway network. How do I locate all of my bus stations so I can replace them? Answer One way you can see them easily: Use the “Traffic” data view under Mayor mode. In the top left of the view there is a switch between showing … Read more
Im currently working on a city that’s population has been growing fairly steadily for a while, but it seems to be struggling to get past the 600,000 inhabitants mark. It’s strange because the major rating is full and health, education, police and fire coverage is all funded to capacity. Recently though there has been problems … Read more
