In-game tutorials

[atryeu]

Hi everybody, I'm new to the forum and still fairly new to the game. I bought it sometime back and was having some trouble and just recently came back to it.  I don't think I have the Deluxe edition, the cover just says "SimCity 4"... I picked it up for $10 about a year or so ago.  It came with no manual so I've had to try and figure all this out myself 

On the back cover it states "Get started quickly with four fun tutorials plus you can now adjust the game's difficulty settings..."  I have only found the "Mayor" and "Terraform" tutorials. Anybody know where the others are? I haven't found anything to change the difficulty settings still either 

Thanks in advance!

[catty]

A quick check is to have a look at the install location and see what it called the folder when it was installing, on my computer its;

C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\...

If its Deluxe then the tutorials are in the Timbuktu region and you have;

City - Big City Tutorial.sc4
City - Getting Started Tutorial.sc4
City - Making Money Tutorial.sc4
City - Rush Hour Tutorial.sc4
City - Terraforming Tutorial.sc4

If its not Deluxe, then it may be the Rush-Hour version or the SimCity 4 version nether of which I can help you with, except to point you to the updates for these versions on this page  http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?page=6  accept the licence which will take you to the downloads page.

As to difficulty settings when you save a new city name you should have a choice of "Easy", "Medium" or "Hard", each setting will effect your new city in a variety of ways, the most obvious being money, an "Easy" city will start off with $500,000 in the bank, a "Hard" city with only $100,000.

hope that helps   

[atryeu]

Thank you for the reply. Apparently it is just the plain old SimCity 4 version like I thought I had read about some of the Rush Hour features sometime back and couldn't find them in my game anywhere so I had suspected it was the old version. Perhaps I can find the expansion or the Deluxe version for cheap someday

I did download and install a patch last night, or at least tried to. After spending 1hr downloading it (is on dialup *cries*) I ran the patch and checked the log only to find out that it didn't actually patch the program and the version I bought was the latest version already LoL

I forget the default region it starts out in, but mine just lists the "Mayor Tutorial" and "Terraform Tutorial".  I'll look again today, but I when I start a new city all it shows it the confirmation to enter the area, the data for that city (it's blank if there's nothing there yet), the $100k it says you start with, and a button to delete the city.   The back of the case states I should have 4 tutorials and the ability to adjust difficulty settings -_-

I tried to get in touch with tech support before hunting for some fan sites to ask about it but I get errors each time I tried to submit my support request to EA Games

[catty]

Hi atryeu

It sounds like you have a rush-hour or deluxe case, but a SimCity 4 CD only (deluxe and rush-hour have two install disks), as to reporting it to EA Games that's going to be a bit difficult as they appear to have closed down their SimCity links and websites, they have started up a Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/SimCity

Not sure how much help you can get from them now, but we are here if you need questions answered, as to getting a cheap version of Rush-Hour or Deluxe try here

Amazon  http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-4-Deluxe-Pc/dp/B0000C0YW2/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1324372799&sr=1-1

A bit of advice before buying if that's what you decide to do, check what version they are selling and by that I mean is it left-hand (vehicles drive on the left) or right-hand (vehicles drive on the right) version, as they made two versions of the game so they could more easily sell to different countries and its a bit disconcerting if your traffic goes a different way than you are expecting based on real-life experience.

[atryeu]

Hi Catty,

Thanks for the reply. The cover doesn't say anything about Rush Hour or Deluxe. There are 2 install discs with it.  I was looking on Amazon the other night and I seen the exact version I have on there. I don't have the link but it's the one sold by Cosmi. I got it at a Wal-Mart around a year or so ago for $10. I have both cds installed.

I may buy someday but for now I don't have an income and money is hard to come by   I did see the plain Rush Hour expansion (rather than buying the Deluxe and getting part of the game I already own) but the only copies I was finding were $40+ Deluxe I found for $15 and wishlisted for now.

Thanks.