Rob's Guide to SimCity 4 - Lesson 1 - Basic Concepts, Zoning and Utilities for Your First City

Hey kids! Let me know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions on this 4-part series here! If I get enough questions, I'll do a "Questions and Corrections" vid!

So how can a i rotate things? ¿End and Home key?

I don't care about the age of the graphics. The art in this game is outstanding. I just wish you could curve roads and work with the terrain better. Imagine if you could merge this game with Cities Skylines, taking the best from both.

Why do you breathe so fuckin violently? The hell is wrong with you?

Meh

Great Video Thanks!

How can I turn my buildings? I press the Home and N Key?

Can you use a separate water tower for industrial only ?

Gold mine. Thanks a lot.

Unwatchable

i cant type in a name
it just doesnt register any key presses
but the keyboard works normally in game

why do you audibly suck in air every few words?

I feel like I'm back in grad school and getting anxious because I'm not taking notes! Good stuff I'm going to watch the whole series. Thanks!

Advanced Tip:
You don't need to connect all your pipes. Meaning, you can have separate plumbing networks so that your residential isn't polluted by industrial.

It's sooo fucking annoying when you click a tutorial and you are instantly faced with TONS of mods ... literally wtf is so hard about uninstalling mods before recording.

Wow now i know why i couldnt get over 3k people. 😂

I skip every 10 seconds to hear heavy breathing xD

Amazing tutorial.

Oh the memories....I miss the background music from this game. so relaxing.

thanks

Probably has some good information but Rob could be more direct with his instructions and with less gibberish, and stop moving his mouse around to distraction. Simply stated, he's annoying!

OMG, so much unnecessary language

Late to the game, but when you hit about 5,000 residents, I only had 2,000. Putting medium density residential only made black buildings. No apartment buildings. Growth just stopped. Even when put on cheetah speed, no growth occurred. This is a continued problem with all my cities. Suggestions?

Breathing much jesus

Best sim city guide I've found but damn the way you breath when you talk is driving me insane

Bro.. take a hit of your inhaler before recording, you sound like a Volus lol

This game is a deceiving one. I started playing it thinking it was a piece of cake, but it is more complex than it looks

If you want to provide water to industry then just build a separate water supply

“ I’ll keep the video short “ then the video is Like an your long

late teens are not kids!

i used to play SimCity 4 on my dad's old computer when i was in elementary/intermediate school, until the pc broke. I never knew the game was this complicated, but i would play for hours until i was forced to get off. e.g., I never knew that pollution could shut off water pumps (or if i did, i forgot lol)

i went searching for disc 2 since it wasnt in the cd case, and found in the computer's cd drive. unfortunately it was corrupted/corroded and i wasnt able to make an backup (thankfully ISOs are available online)

How to build 4x4 or bigger ones

Is there a way to play this on Mac?

How can I download this on mac book

Can you do a tutorial of how to do the NAM, I cannot get it on mine

awesome, thank you!

Just Getting Back into the game after 20 years! Very Useful Indeed! Thank you!

will watch later

The graphics in Sim City 4 are something else. It may not look like the best you can get now, but it's got character.

Can you have a separate water tower for industry and don't connect residential and industrial pipe systems together? Wouldn't that prevent industry from contaminating residential water supply?

holy shit slow the fuck down when u speak. youre sucking in more air than there is on the planet

Pro Tipp:

You can change the region with only large tiles
go to: Documents\SimCity 4\Regions with the name of that Region
open the bmp file with paint and edit the pixels. You need to zoom in.
1x1 Red Pixel = a small tile
2x2 Green Pixels = medium tile
4x4 Blue Pixels = large tile

You can paint all pixels in blue to get a region with only large tiles. You can even increase the map region

This is still the best city builder game, even after all this time.

i grew up on 3000 unlimited and the jump to 4 was surprisingly hard for me, but this is really helpful! I appreciate you!

So water provided to industry through pipes pollute water as welll? Did not know that, great video

I downloaded mine from the internet archive. It's incredibly fun.

Jesus your hyper breathing made me anxious brother.

Haven't played in years. I pulled out my CD and tried to play. Quickly I was just going bankrupt. Then I found these tutorials. My city is now growing and making money! Fabulous!

Thank you for the tutorial

how can i make it 16:9?

your breathing almost made me stop watching this. holy shit dude take a normal breath. talking talking talking, clearly using every gasp of air in your lungs, talking talking SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS