This is driving me nuts, but when I go into SC4, I can't load any of the premade cities that come with the game. I can load the map, but when I click on a region and choose "load city" and select the city I want out of the list, the game just sits there. Nothing happens and the region remains lifeless.

I can terraform the region just fine or build a new city myself, but I want to load New York or San Francisco or any of those that come with the game. The files are all there (I've checked) and I've followed the instructions in the manual step-by-step.

All of this amounts to a big nothing. So will someone please tell me how to load the premade cities? What am I missing or doing wrong?

No, you understood me.

If anyone misunderstood something, it was me in that I mistakenly believed those cities (i.e. New York, San Francisco, Berlin, London, etc) were included as opposed to simply being geographic terrain.

I wish it was a little clearer in-game that those cities aren't there, because in older SC titles (like SimCity 2000) they included pre-made cities.

Thanks for answering my question. :)