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*FIXED* Game displaying missing props after DirectX glitch
By spiritualfire, October 12, 2025
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- 154 Views
- spiritualfire
- October 12, 2025
Issue with SC4 Plugin Manager
By AP, September 29, 2025
- plugin manager
- 5 Replies
- 153 Views
- rsc204
- September 30, 2025
Game Super Choppy

By Panzerkind_, July 14, 2014
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- 152 Views
- Compdude787
- July 14, 2014
CTD when lowering residential taxes

By nemusd, January 28, 2014
- 1 Reply
- 152 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- January 28, 2014
Question about Sc4 Terraformer

By katherman111, June 8, 2013
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- 151 Views
- katherman111
- June 8, 2013
Multilingual NAM

By Nesral Sredna, April 7, 2013
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- 151 Views
- Nesral Sredna
- April 7, 2013
Odd Graphics Bug

By macguy, November 24, 2013
- 2 Replies
- 151 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- November 25, 2013
SC4 Deluxe not loading.

By KittyFace, July 16, 2013
- 3 Replies
- 151 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- July 19, 2013
Steam Hardware Glitch

By Nirwanda, April 29, 2014
- 2 Replies
- 151 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- April 29, 2014
Certain areas bugged

By skis0, June 29, 2013
- 4 Replies
- 150 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- June 29, 2013
Editing file names?

By nellinator232, February 18, 2013
- 1 Reply
- 150 Views
- jason leo
- February 18, 2013
Game crashes upon clicking the "zones" view layer
By TheMurderousCricket, December 10, 2025
- zones
- layers
- 6 Replies
- 149 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 12
Transportation issue?

By KevinPaul06, June 6, 2013
- 5 Replies
- 149 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- June 7, 2013
Bus lighting bug
By Doni98, January 28
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- 3 Replies
- 148 Views
- Lab Rat
- February 9
Not possible delete the unzoned land?

By ¡No pasarán, December 6, 2013
- 1 Reply
- 148 Views
- ¡No pasarán
- December 6, 2013
Fix SC4 Video tutorial compilation

By Icebite, April 22, 2013
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- 146 Views
- Icebite
- April 22, 2013
whats this?

By sandhu, October 15, 2014
- 1 Reply
- 146 Views
- Cyclone Boom
- October 16, 2014
R$$ won't grow in established cities

By androidboi, July 21, 2013
- 1 Reply
- 146 Views
- Mister Giggles
- July 22, 2013
Waste-to-energy plants and their capacities
By Tommy Vercetti, Sunday at 02:24 PM
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- 9 Replies
- 145 Views
- Ulisse Wolf
- Monday at 11:04 PM
Brown Boxes coming back

By Deimos2k13, May 23, 2014
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- 144 Views
- Deimos2k13
- May 23, 2014
Everything is doubled

By Avskygod0, May 29, 2014
- 1 Reply
- 144 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- May 29, 2014
Bennett Music Corp

By Kuewr665, November 24, 2013
- 0 Replies
- 144 Views
- Kuewr665
- November 24, 2013
Problem with Elevated Rails...

By guerro28, December 13, 2013
- 1 Reply
- 143 Views
- GeometryMath Algebra
- December 13, 2013
Parks and plazas

By Bdub01, June 17, 2014
- 3 Replies
- 143 Views
- Compdude787
- June 18, 2014
Problems with Windows 8.1

By dtrammel, December 14, 2013
- 2 Replies
- 143 Views
- APSMS
- December 14, 2013
Paeng coast guard addon
By PIPICécé, January 26, 2025
- missing models
- 0 Replies
- 143 Views
- PIPICécé
- January 26, 2025
Crime reload game
By PIPICécé, June 20, 2025
- crime
- 0 Replies
- 143 Views
- PIPICécé
- June 20, 2025
City underground now
By MstrFox1982, July 9, 2025
- help
- bugs
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- 0 Replies
- 141 Views
- MstrFox1982
- July 9, 2025
No city preview in the region

By GTT, March 16, 2014
- 1 Reply
- 140 Views
- meister1235
- March 16, 2014
Plugin Packs missing
By bravesatlanta, November 30, 2025
- plugins
- missing
- 1 Reply
- 139 Views
- nos.17
- December 5, 2025

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  By darkscaryforest · Posted: 3 hours ago
  
  Thank you for taking the time to go through my babbling and quote/answer so many questions. You've already helped me quite a lot with the responses.
  I promise to go through this in detail. I really must split my SimCity time into playing and reading to learn more. This thread will be a good source. If you have any time to expand further on what you've said...as it has dezoned some of my previous thinking, I'm very appreciative. Maybe the BEST thing I could ask you is...the city I described. No land. Lots of people without jobs. Low demand, but everything else looking green. What would you have done to fix it and why? For some reason I was assuming it was the opposite but this excellent to know. I appreciate it, but no mods needed for me. I want to learn and adapt to how to play it and now I understand that commercial has a bigger role than I thought it did. This high density response right here...kind of blowing my mind in my understanding of the game. OK so I thought to create demand I must get more sims to move in with well upkept residential zones, but they need jobs to stick around so I indeed am quick to build commercial and industry to keep trudging forward on this zoning treadmill. Yet you stated that you can in fact pool demand and spend it when applicable! How can you create more demand (specifically commercial and industry), banking an excess without engaging in this zone building loop? I always thought if I were to build more of one zone it'll need more of the other to actually develop...but here I am without more land now. What is the way forward? Is there a way I may measure the demand I have pooled? I suppose that's just the RCI graph but I was hoping for numbers like you stated. Another thought: I thought medium and high density zones will rebuild themselves to taller and taller buildings over time anyways. In fact, that's what I expected to happen when I have so many sims that need jobs. But it seems need for jobs, is not the same as demand. For example, those 3000 soaring resident buildings I spoke of used to be tiny apartments. I thought they just suddenly sprouted up into these towering buildings one day. Maybe commercial and industry zones don't do that? Or maybe they do, if there is an excess of demand like you mention?
  
  EDIT
  Reading through that thread..I have a sinking feeling that the problem is wealth demographics which I haven't been paying attention to. IIRC 80% of my sims are $$.
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