What's your largest city ever?

[Ramona Brie]

(Excuse me, I haven't found a good board for this topic.)

We all build large cities. Admit it. Mine is Camelot Downtown (aptly named for all the CAM testing that will be done and its perfection). Population? 700,094. Really. I expected 545,000 out of it (my largest city before Camelot was 535,619), but got a great chunk more. Speaking of CAM, it's holding stage 11s at least.

What's the population of your largest city ever?

(P.S. I may do pics of Camelot Downtown soon. You'll love the actual core of it, filled with a bunch of NDEX, Cerulean, and BSC work. I think the city is mostly custom content. There's a bit of Maxis around, but this was not what Maxis intended SC4 to do, I'll say that much.)

To be included in the pictures: Northbank Supercenter (a large shopping mall on the north bank of the unnamed river crossing through Camelot), Camelot Central International Airport, the CBD area, Arthur Park in the northeast, Mall Circle in the west, Hotel Highway in the southwest, and all these cool things that only 700,000 people can bring you.

[Travis]

I'd say around 600,000. That, however, was more than a year ago; nowadays I plop everything in my cities, so the population count is a lot lower. 

[thundercrack83]

I've had a few in the around 2-2.5 million, but they weren't exactly "good" cities--just buildings on top of buildings in an effort to see how high I could get the population before my computer would explode!

[Ramona Brie]

I've had a few in the around 2-2.5 million, but they weren't exactly "good" cities--just buildings on top of buildings in an effort to see how high I could get the population before my computer would explode!

Mine's not like that. It still has 20 to 30% open space and trees, and population growth continues even when new areas aren't being zoned.

[Ramona Brie]

It's hit a rather big number...815,295 is the new count as of 1 September.

[Masochist]

200,000 on a large city tile.  I'm so proud of it . 

It's almost all suburban, you see.  Have some areas of high and medium density, and it's mixed in with different levels of industy and commerce.  I'd post pictures of it, but if you've explored the site enough then you've already seen all of the interesting parts of it .

[Ramona Brie]

200,000 on a large city tile.  I'm so proud of it . 

It's almost all suburban, you see.  Have some areas of high and medium density, and it's mixed in with different levels of industy and commerce.  I'd post pictures of it, but if you've explored the site enough then you've already seen all of the interesting parts of it .

Yep. Mine's totally different; it's also on a large city tile.

[Serkanner]

I am true sucker population wise. I most populated city ( medium sized tile ) was 270,000 people ... somehow I always build/grow the cities wide instead of tall/dense ...

[Tarkus]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with smaller largest cities.

The largest I've done was only about 120,000 on a large tile.  And that was a long time ago.  The largest "decent" city I have is about 50,000 (also large tile).  I just find low-density suburban stuff to be more fun to play with in SC4.  There's room for expansion.  I don't necessarily use it all up, but there's just something about knowing it's there. 

-Alex (Tarkus)