I like both games, and indeed played both when i was younger, but honestly can't remember/aren't familiar enough with the subtle comparisons to get into nitpicking. ((**I think however sims 2 let you use city layouts from SC4 to make custom neighbourhoods, but it only picked up terrain and normal roads in the transition)) (You already have water dammit! and I know damn well I just demolished those buildings - the roads needed upgrading and they were in the way! Maybe in SC3000 their feedback was more important than in SC4, but wasn't that the job of the advisors?) They were annoying anyway, always complaining about stuff which wasn't even an issue/was obvious. They were sims 1 characters that you could import( sims 2 wasn't even out when SC4 was released**, let alone sims 3), and even then you didn't have to import to get access to sim characters, you could access them entirely within SC4, importing just allowed you to get a specific sim from the first game and bring them to your city. But if you wanna focus on your power grid, that's cool. and yet I have had the science center for a century, which takes an EQ of 135. 'Sure, I have quasi-realistic traffic modeling. How do you get the university in Sim City 3000 Everything I can find online says you just need an EQ above 105. It was just more subtle, less in your face. That was the nice thing about SC3k, really. You can see which roads are heavily trafficked in one of the map overlays, then if you build other roads which are both close enough and parallel it'll reduce the traffic on the main road, and more importantly, it'll lower your road maintenance costs overall. Oh and while the system wasn't as detailed, there is a traffic management system in SC3k. Which isn't a bad gamme, but I should miss a feature of SC4 unless I go buy another, mostly unrelated game. If the feedback had been somehow changed based on your Sims' personality or something that would've been cool, but as it stands it's just a way to sell more copies of The Sims 3. In SC4, you had to import your own sims from The Sims 3 to get THE SAME DAMN FEEDBACK. In 3000 you had the ability to get feedback from random citizens. It has improved city management features and graphics.

I prefer SC3k just because of the lack of a The Sims tie-in. SimCity 3000, also known as SC3K, is the 3rd release of the City-builder simulation series Sim City.

Simcity 3000 patch