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Kairyu · Local time: Apr 12, 2006, 12:00 AM

I remember doing this once back in my SimCity playing days.
One of things was to never use roads. Low pollution attracts more sims to your city, ironically you don't suffer from traffic problems either while using a railroad system (Even though there is only one train for the entire city.) I guess another thing to remember is to make 3 x 3 donut or U patterns*, I'm not sure why it works it just does =p.

Ha, now I want to know if I can still make a megalopolis

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Jam it back in, in the dark.

Kairyu · Local time: Apr 13, 2006, 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by a lurker

That's not ironic at all. It's logical that, in a city without roads, road traffic would be non-existant.

A huge-as-fuck pain in the ass? Well, yes, but that's not irony either.

Heh, I should say it is hard to get around a metropolis if all the roads were replaced by old fashioned railways; speaking in a real life situation of course

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Oh yeah one last thing you should keep in mind when going for a megalopolis (without cheating.) Is to "stack" your zones. Especially your commercial zones.

Stacking involves bulldozing individual houses on a residential zone then placing a commercial zone inbetween the empty spaces (the residential zones should be one space apart to do this.) Then once the commercial zone is developed bulldoze the R zone completely leaving a mini-commercial zone.

Maybe a diagram will explain this better:

Originally Posted by gamefaqs ;_;

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(one space apart)
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Now, bulldoze a row of houses on each.

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Build new zone (in this example I'll use a commercial zone, I'll just use C's to fill in the space it takes up.)

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Now, bulldoze original residential zones after commercial zone develops.

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Now you have a commercial zone that takes up 1/3 of the space.

As you can see, doing this will take alot of time if done on a larger scale. But if you're patient enough its a sure way of getting a megalopolis

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Kairyu · Local time: Jun 7, 2006, 10:37 PM

Hmm I never tried it with industrial zones. It probably would work but it would be hard to do knowing that residential zones don't grow well in polluted areas. But I do know it also works with stadiums and commercial zones.

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