The roadways are clogged at all times, but people still persist in trying to use them."
"The massive amount of subway lines and subway stations are still congested during all times of the day in all neighborhoods of each and every mega-city in the region. "Traffic is a nightmare, both above ground and under," Richie said. The advantage of building a virtual city is the ability to start from scratch. Richie told me that he initially came up with the goal for a 100 million person region "using no mods and no cheats" back in December, and spent a couple months planning things out before beginning construction in March. I'll let Richie's stats speak for themselves:Ĩ1 large city tiles to make one Mega-Regionģ24 Hydrogen power plants (6,000,000 megawatts of energy) Peter Richie spent eight months planning and building a megacity in vanilla SimCity 4, and the end result is mind-boggling (especially as a former mayor myself): 107.7 million people living in one massive, sprawling region. The video above gives us a glimpse, even if it's based on an 11-year-old video game (but a pretty realistic one at that). Keeping a city of that size running is challenge enough, but what happens when they morph into sprawling regions with populations ten times larger? The same report also notes that in 1990, there were ten megacities of 10 million people or more on Earth now there are 28, 16 of which are located in Asia.