(please read the whole post before you start your city)
Hi Sims Fans!
Well, as you probably already know, the SimCity's "Cities of Tomorow" expansion pack offers you the possibility of getting into the Omega world, by building OmegaCo factories.
Later on, you'll be able to expand OmegaCo into the drones market, if you have an OmegaCo Headquarters with a robotics division, but we'll get to that.
The first thing you need to do to start walking towards a high-tech Omega city is picking a place with lots of oil, ore and water (and coal if possible) because OmegaCo factories will certainly need those, and you'll want to spend the least you can in importing materials , at least when your Omega industry is still developing.
You should start off your city like any other: establishing the balance between residential, commercial and industrial and building infrastructures. I know you'll be exited with Omega, but do not get ahead of yourself, there is still a long way before build your first factory.
The next step is to get lots of population, in order to upgrade your city hall twice, and add a department of education and a department of utilities. Then, build a functional educating system with an university and public libraries (to increase your education level) and plop a recycling centre with alloy and plastic reclamation lines.
But what's all that for?
Well, in order to produce drones you'll need processors, and the processor factory is only unlocked if you have at least give medium/high-tech factories, and, as we all know, the factories' tech level depends on the education level, and having a university would help that a lot. Besides, who wants to have uneducated Sims?
As for the recycling centre, as you probably already guessed, produces the necessary resources for the processor factory to work.
(You'll also want to plop a trading depot to store all your materials and import/export them if necessary)
Because OmegaCo factories require lots of power, you might want to build a nuclear/fusion power plant (if you've already researched it at the Academy).
The next department that you need to build is the safety department, because you'll certainly want a hospital and a large fire station with all this pollution.
After all this preparing, we're finally ready to start with the Omega business!
Plop an ore mine and an oil well and the respective storage lots in the trade depot, because these are the resources that OmegaCo factories use.
For now you should be able to extract enough resources for your OmegaCo factories to work, but later on you will probably have to import them.
Now, plop an OmegaCo factory in an industrial zone and watch your city get owned by Omega!
(You can plop more OmegaCo factories, if you like)
Soon, your franchising profits will be enough to build an OmegaCo Headquarters and when you get to 12,500 simoleons in hourly profits you'll be able to upgrade your OmegaCo HQ and get a Robotics Division, and that will allow you to build drone assembly lines at your OmegaCo factories.
Unfortunately, drone assembly lines need processors to produce drones, so you'll have to plop a processor factory, and a processor storage lot in your trade depot. The good news are that, because your recycling centre gives you all the alloy and plastic that you need to produce the processors, you won't need to import more resources or to get in the advanced drilling and mining business.
As you get more profit, you'll be able to expand the OmegaCo HQ with a commerce division and an extraction division to help your Omega industry to grow even more.
Well, that's it, I hope this post has helped you to build your Omega city!
facilities
parts of facilities
zones
resources
Please notice that the names of the facilities can be slightly changed (eg. singular to plural)
Posted by: Diogo
Hi Sims Fans!
Well, as you probably already know, the SimCity's "Cities of Tomorow" expansion pack offers you the possibility of getting into the Omega world, by building OmegaCo factories.
Later on, you'll be able to expand OmegaCo into the drones market, if you have an OmegaCo Headquarters with a robotics division, but we'll get to that.
The first thing you need to do to start walking towards a high-tech Omega city is picking a place with lots of oil, ore and water (and coal if possible) because OmegaCo factories will certainly need those, and you'll want to spend the least you can in importing materials , at least when your Omega industry is still developing.
You should start off your city like any other: establishing the balance between residential, commercial and industrial and building infrastructures. I know you'll be exited with Omega, but do not get ahead of yourself, there is still a long way before build your first factory.
The next step is to get lots of population, in order to upgrade your city hall twice, and add a department of education and a department of utilities. Then, build a functional educating system with an university and public libraries (to increase your education level) and plop a recycling centre with alloy and plastic reclamation lines.
But what's all that for?
Well, in order to produce drones you'll need processors, and the processor factory is only unlocked if you have at least give medium/high-tech factories, and, as we all know, the factories' tech level depends on the education level, and having a university would help that a lot. Besides, who wants to have uneducated Sims?
As for the recycling centre, as you probably already guessed, produces the necessary resources for the processor factory to work.
(You'll also want to plop a trading depot to store all your materials and import/export them if necessary)
Because OmegaCo factories require lots of power, you might want to build a nuclear/fusion power plant (if you've already researched it at the Academy).
The next department that you need to build is the safety department, because you'll certainly want a hospital and a large fire station with all this pollution.
After all this preparing, we're finally ready to start with the Omega business!
Plop an ore mine and an oil well and the respective storage lots in the trade depot, because these are the resources that OmegaCo factories use.
For now you should be able to extract enough resources for your OmegaCo factories to work, but later on you will probably have to import them.
Now, plop an OmegaCo factory in an industrial zone and watch your city get owned by Omega!
(You can plop more OmegaCo factories, if you like)
Soon, your franchising profits will be enough to build an OmegaCo Headquarters and when you get to 12,500 simoleons in hourly profits you'll be able to upgrade your OmegaCo HQ and get a Robotics Division, and that will allow you to build drone assembly lines at your OmegaCo factories.
Unfortunately, drone assembly lines need processors to produce drones, so you'll have to plop a processor factory, and a processor storage lot in your trade depot. The good news are that, because your recycling centre gives you all the alloy and plastic that you need to produce the processors, you won't need to import more resources or to get in the advanced drilling and mining business.
As you get more profit, you'll be able to expand the OmegaCo HQ with a commerce division and an extraction division to help your Omega industry to grow even more.
Well, that's it, I hope this post has helped you to build your Omega city!
facilities
parts of facilities
zones
resources
Please notice that the names of the facilities can be slightly changed (eg. singular to plural)
Posted by: Diogo
