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Simcity 4 from 2003, I’ve managed to put 100h + of effort in to making an 8x8km tile (4x4km tile is the largest) while making it a 15K x 10K pixel image by massively cropping and cutting in Ps freezing my PC in the process, you can zoom in to grasp 1.5 million sims living in this Megalopolis
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The original raw .png file of this is 200Mb and I can’t share it unless I put it on a drive and let you all download it. My PC freezed too many times during making this on my 8Gb RAM mid range* aptop.
*Ps, some you say it won’t load (image is 17mb), sorry I cannot do anything about it, it may you have a bad connection, low end device, trying it phone may crash Reddit. It is strange I know but if you can try it PC you won’t regret it.*
*Ps again (read through):* Due to demand I uploaded the raw file in my drive, you can download the **full raw 213Mb .png** of it, it has clearer quality than the jpg up close so is much better looking and it is better to look at then in a browser tab. Download if you like and give feedback, but if it does not work on your low end device, then there’s nothing I can do about it. Enjoy: [link here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pcWbqdlp0IrspRW4pjdHKAOjLHdrjYon/view)
This is Zombo com. Nice job!
Wow man, this is really awesome.
That’s amazing friend. Never played SimCity 4 (or any others) but can tell the effort from the photo. Fantastic.
Awesome! Now call in the natural disasters!
The image keeps crashing my iPad, but nice work!
One of my favourite games! It was ahead of its time and I still think it holds up super well, especially with the mods that people have made.
This is so awesome brother! I’m gonna save it and just look around in your city whenever I’m bored LOL
Holy f, this is amazing!! Nice job!
This is awesome!
I enjoyed SimCity as a kid when it came free with my family’s first computer. Never figured out shit besides sending disasters to fuck up the pre-built cities though.
This crashed my reddit when i tried to zoom in
The best Sim City (with the proper mods). Change my mind.
One of my biggest complaints with SimCity 4 is how small the cities felt compared to SimCity 3000.
Lots of room allows me some sense of history in my city. Like, I always leave my first light residential area, for example, as is for the life of the city. It’s like a history district. If the map is too small I feel like I’m still in the beginning of the game by the time I’ve filled it all up, so nothing seems much older or newer than anything else.
I also like incorporating stretches of undeveloped land to add some green and make areas feel distinct from each other. Also very difficult to do when real estate is at a premium.
I digress. This just brought back fond memories of playing SimCity damn near 20 years ago now. So thanks for that. This project is super neat.
Looks amazing dude.
Also, as someone with no qualifications in city planning or historical analysis, the seemingly random spread out metro areas are funny to see. I wonder how this might differ from a real organically grown city.
This is nuts
Dang gangster. You’re cool as fuck for this. My attention span can barely spawn a respectable city, can’t reconcile so much undeveloped space and I lose it. But this is so amazing and great, thanks for sharing !
I really appreciate your design, looks very real world. My cities were always a mess at the high level, horrible with traffic management. Great work!
I haven’t seen a jpeg load from top to bottom since 2009. Thank you for the memories
I had thought it would be cool to have a multiplayer SimCity. Some design it, while others live in it, e.g. Streets of Simcity.
This is beautiful. Those off-diagonal roads really add something to the feel of the game don’t they.
So where are the toxic industrial zones?
Why did they stop making SimCity? It was super popular.
Man Iif Simcity 5(2013) was anywhere as near as huge as 4, I would still play it to this day. Insulting how small EA made cities, and you’re forced to have rows upon rows of skyscrapers which don’t make it look like a legit city.
This is a great project you undertook, great work! Looks gorgeous.
Quite nice work! I like how organic the farming areas look, and how the city, itself, looks quite natural as well.
Very cool that people are still playing it. Amazing you got your city that big! FYI- I did some of the scripting, like the jail breaks and kids running in and out if the schools.
Hold up, is the full image you can’t uppload actually max zoom the whole thing?
Man now I wanna start playing Cities Skylines again…
The problem at least for me is that at a certain point it all stagnates, demand drops to zero so my population doesn’t grow and nothing gets built in the zoned areas. That’s usually when I stop playing and forget about the game until I’m reminded by something like this post lol
This looks like Cincinnati and Covington, KY!
It’s beautiful man but I think U could cramp in a few more million if u really wanted to
Simcity 4 the last great sim city game. Man I miss that game. I got the deluxe version when it came out, so many hours spent making a region and cities so much fun.
I like how your cities are so spread out and have lots of room inbetween anything. I’m gonna have to follow that technique. I always pack everything in and then have no room for proper growth.
Stuff like this is exactly why I love Reddit.
will you ever switch to cities skyline or stick to simcity?
Fascinating how there are like 5 or 6 separate downtown areas
I don’t know why, but I love this image