Nice start on your city. Also i have good news, i found some pics of my city too :D.
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LOL mine is called New Baltimore.
the monthly costs of the windmills would be more then just 1 coal plant. and the coal plant would have 4 times the power.
Or buy natural gas and have lots less pollution. I never use coal plants. They're too dirty.
What do those mods do? They seem to add nothing but really odd models.
I remember one called SimMars that changed everything to a Mars atmosphere.
Just a heads up for everyone: No matter HOW good your computer is you may still get lag in big cities.
Tips to run it at its best:
-It hates multi-cores. Set SimCity4.exe's affinity to only one processor.
-Set rendering mode to Software. Makes no sense, yes, but it works a lot better.
-Disable any forced anisotropic/antialiasing/whatever via graphics control panels. This game doesn't support those that well.
-Make sure your paging file is at least 4GB. I have mine at 4.5GB just in case.