

We'll start in the top right, create a starter city with a balanced mix of residential, commercial, and industrial, and just work our way, down the numbers, to eventually build a mega-city, with residential zones feeding into it, and a industrial zone by the bay. For part 1 of this tutorial, it won't be necessary. It isn't necessary to have a good time, but your ultimate city size will be capped at a lower limit without it.

I used the "high capacity" option for this playthrough. NAM version 30, found here is a traffic mod which will make the traffic simulation for SC4 much more realistic.

Get Simcity 4 Deluxe, install the NAM version 30 mod (optional). Simcity has a lot of features, I'll only use a few of them. I'll be playing rather deliberately, simply, and slowly. This is demonstration of one way to play SC4, which I hope will be useful to some people. I am no expert in Simcity, I am not claiming that this is the best, fastest, or most efficient way to play. So much fun, that I wanted to share it here with fellow TL players who might be looking to play Simcity 4 (SC4) again, or for the first time. Like many Simcity fans, I was underwhelmed by the new one, which inspired me to dust-off Simcity 4 and play that again.
