A while back, Haljackey posted a series called “Building a City from Scratch” on Youtube. It was exactly what it sounds like. He showed the entire process of filling a large city tile in SimCity 4 in real time modulo one or two technical glitches where screen capturing failed, etc. If you’re at all into SimCity 4, it’s quite amusing to watch him struggle through the building process.
Now I’ve decided to do a similar series of videos. My play style is different and my basic goals are a bit different. Where Haljackey employed various cheats to build large tracts of his city all at once at an urban level of density, I chose to grow the city from the bottom up without any money cheats.
Haljackey’s series ran for 100 parts. I don’t expect this one will be that long, but who knows?
Fair warning: this is in real time. That means no monkeying with the playback speed.
Without further ado, part 1: