SimCity 4 > Basics
Basics
After you launch SimCity 4, and get past the long title graphics, you are ready to begin.
- Regions, Cities And Tiles
- The blank slate of SimCity 4 and how it's set up.
- Modes
- First, shape; then, build; finally, report.
- Zones
- Mapping out where your sims live, shop and work.
- Measures Of A City
- The two qualities that make or break a city.
- Measures Of A Sim
- The two qualities of the sims which underlie your city.
- Speed
- How fast to run your simulation.
- Advisors
- A panel that tells you what you're doing right or wrong.
Written by Andy West on 14 October 2003; revised 7 February 2010.