SimCity

Wrapping up Dullsville &

San Francisco Start

Dullsville Wrap-up So you may remember that I never got a win text in Dullsville so I let it run for a while, but then forgot to do screen shots so I had to replay this. This is the second run through: First fire in game even after turning off disasters, what happened?

Dullsville Wrap-up It is 2000 and there has still been no win text so I decided to just let it go and not worry about it, I know I got to Metropolis level.

Dullsville Wrap-Up See, I won, and not by a small amount.

And now on to the next thing.

San Francisco So I saved Dullsville, exited the game, restarted and selected San Francisco USA, which is the scenario based on the 1906 Earthquake.

Scenario text at the beginning of the challenge. Thing to note, this is a five year challenge so I was able to play one round in one day unlike Dullsville which took a week to complete, and then longer to try and get the win text.

I just wanted to show what the whole city. I am really hoping I can win this because there is a lot of clear land and I could make a better Grid city with this map.

I have played through this three times so far, this is the first and I placed four fire stations around the city and let it run. Once the fires showed I bulldozed all of the areas around them and then realized too late I needed to start rebuilding.

This is the city’s starting statistics and it has to still be a Metropolis as the end of the five years.

I failed, I failed all three times.

But I didn’t fail by a whole lot so I tried again with the same plan but rebuilding sooner and failed worse.

So my third attempt involved covering the place in Fire Stations, but I didn’t really leave money for rebuilding so I ran out with two years still to play.

Thoughts and what I will do next time

•  So when I selected this, the help text in the game file said it was difficult whereas when I looked it up online it was suggested this is one of the easiest one to complete. I tend to lean towards difficult.

•  The online guide suggest building fire stations after the earthquake next to all of the fires. Then working on police once all of the roads and electricity is reconnected.

•  I think this one is just going to take luck and good timing. •  Also, I figured out how to change the default speed of the game to

slow instead of fast by changing one of the files in the game (it was a text file) and I found it by accident, but it really helps not have to miss several months on really short challenges.