The Startup of Sim City, Part 2

Allright! Part 2! YEAH!
Let's do this! I've been playing this game more and more and get lost almost everytime because of the "worker shortage" or whatnot. So let's just go for the startup of a city!

STARTING UP A CITY

All right, first of all we need to connect the city to the main road so we can get people to move in and get to work here. let's start by taking the low density street, so we don't waste all our money on the road.

There we go! now we've made our self places to put up the zones, as you can see I've already done that. The green zones are residential and the blue ones are commercial, yellow are industrial, but I haven't put up any yet because I want them further away from the neighbourhood since it's lowering the land value

CITY NEEDS

Now our City wants the basic needs as Water, Sewage pump and power. This is an easy thing to do as I'll just show you where to put the water as it is a graphical picture on where you got the most water.

As you can see the darkest overlay is where you have the most water and will bring the water tower max water.

HAPPINESS

We finally got our Town Hall and as we can see the happiness on our Sims goes up as we plopped the building down, In this building you can get upgrades for better water/sewage pump and alike.





LAND VALUE

Now this is one of the important thing to look after, you got alot of graphical map to look for, but the Land Value is in my opinion the most important one to look after since it increases the income for residental and commercial areas.

 As you can see on this graphical map, the only place with land value is where the faint blue circle is. And if you look at the window to the top right, it gives us the information on what kind of colours gives certain buildings and happiness. Let's try to improve a neighbourhood and maybe there will be more "high valued" citizens in our city.

How to do so? well just plop a Park down and keep on connecting them by clicking on the edit button in the Simple Walkway Window. Notice the Simdollar Icons right next to the park name, there is three of them and they will give you a high value aera where people can "upgrade" themselves to be high value Citizens or shops.





You have a wide Variety on what kind of parks you want, Some times they fit right in but at times you actually need to think before you're playing them down. 
The shame is: it's a grid building and you can't freely build the park as you want. Which then again is going to force you to spend more time on making the parks look beautiful in your city rather than if you had the free build mode in my opinion. 

Now then! after plopping down 2-3 connections to the park, you can see the land value has increased drasticly, but bear in mind, the expensive parks also have expensive upkeep, so make sure you can pay for it.

There we go! As you can see, there is already high valued resident and some of the commercial areas are upgrading aswell.

Be Aware that you need certain valued residences in your city to employ the different Industrial and commercial buildings.





And this concludes today's "intro" on starting up a City in Sim City, To be honest, the City zone is faaar to small, and they are even talking about adding an expansion pack for improving the zie. GG EA, GG!
Sigh... oh well even how much i hate this game I also love it at the same time. 


I'll come back to the part Where you Specialize your city into a Gambling, Mining, Oil or Tourism City!