SimCity Instructions for:
- Saving a City
- Submitting a City
Saving Your City
Like SimCity 4, the new offline version of SimCity allows you to save your city. This will be helpful as you test out
various ideas. To save your city, click on the three dots in the upper right hand corner (Options menu). That will
bring up this screen:
Save — By selecting ‘Save’ you are saving your city with the same name as shown in the bottom left hand corner of
the screen.
Save As — This allows you to save your current city with a new unique name.
Settings — This allows you to change the game settings (auto save frequency, auto save enabled, etc.)
We recommend saving your city before you start any experimentation. Then create a new test city, by using the
Save As button. If you don’t like the changes you’ve made, you can return to your original ‘Saved’ city.
Note: For the competition, only one city in your region will be judged. However, you will submit the full
region.
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SimCity Instructions for:
- Saving a City
- Submitting a City
Finding Your City on Your Computer
Playing SimCity in Single-Player Mode saves your regions & cities on your computer. While you will access your
cities via SimCity, you need to know where your city is stored so you can submit it to the competition. Once you
have downloaded SimCity and created your first city, take the time to locate the folder.
For each Origin account, SimCity will create a folder on your computer with a unique ID number. This ID is a
combination of letters and numbers (i.e., 9a3b6720b6eb28df). Do not rename this folder. If you do, you will lose
your cities and they cannot be retrieved. If you are using one computer with multiple Origins accounts, you will have
more than one folder in the directory. It is important to note from the beginning what folder belongs to what team.
On a PC: You will find your regions and cities in the Documents\SimCity\Games folder.
On a Mac: Go to Documents/SimCityMedia/Games.
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SimCity Instructions for:
- Saving a City
- Submitting a City
Submitting your City
Log in to Origin (using the account
that has a region to be submitted),
Open SimCity, and Click on Play
Select the Region that contains the
City to be judged
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SimCity Instructions for:
- Saving a City
- Submitting a City
Click Save As
Save the region that is to be
submitted for judging as “[FUTURE
CITY TEAM NAME HERE]”
Click Save As and exit SimCity.
Open Windows Explorer. Doubleclick on Documents.
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SimCity Instructions for:
- Saving a City
- Submitting a City
Double-click on SimCity
Double-click on Games
This cryptically named folder is
what you’re looking for.
IF YOU HAVE BEEN USING MORE
THAN ONE ORIGIN ID ON THE
COMPUTER:
Each Origin ID will create a
cryptically named folder. If more
than one Origin ID was used on the
same PC, there will be a unique
cryptically named folder for each.
Be sure to know which folder goes
with which Origin ID. If you have
just completed the previous steps
1-4 (Save As), the cryptic folder
with the most recent time stamp
will be the one you want.
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SimCity Instructions for:
- Saving a City
- Submitting a City
Within each cryptically named
folder, you will find simple
numbered folders (1, 2, 3, etc.) The
highest number folder (and the one
with the most recently updated
timestamp) will be the one you just
created.
This folder (the highest numbered
folder with the most recent time
stamp) is the folder that needs to
be zipped (compressed) for
submission into the TeamCenter.
Help from IT personnel may be
needed depending upon the
computer setup and available
software.
THESE FOLDERS CANNOT BE
RENAMED OR THE FILES WILL BE
CORRUPTED!
Rename the zip file to a name that
will be easy for you to find and
recognize when you upload it via
the Team Center (2.zip in picture)
The 2.zip file in the previous step is
the file that needs to be uploaded
into the TeamCenter. This is
achieved by clicking “Submit City
Simulation”
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SimCity Instructions for:
- Saving a City
- Submitting a City
Click “Choose File,” then locate the
2.zip folder and click OK. Then
enter the rest of the requested
information and click on Submit
SimCity Information.
You will receive an email
confirming your successful
submission!
IF YOU HAVE BEEN USING MORE THAN ONE ORIGIN ID ON THE COMPUTER:
Repeat these steps for each team that is submitting a virtual city for judging. But, be sure to complete the
submission for one team before you start over for the next team, so that you don’t get confused identifying the
correct file with the date/time stamps.
For each different origin ID/password used to play the game, there will be a different cryptically named folder.
IF MULTIPLE TEAMS HAVE BEEN USING THE SAME ORIGIN ID:
On the other hand, if each team shared the same computer and the same Origin ID/password, their cities would all
be saved in the same cryptically named folder (in the same location as above).
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