Any advise?

[kelvinyck 0]

i am just a new hand for SC4D and i was from HK and i have some questions about my city, can anyone kindly to give some advise?

1)my city is now 200 years, but just only has 26000 people living in. is that normally? i feeling it's develop very slowly... 

2)i saw many amazing pics in here while i want to ask that isn't all of sky-high buildings and pop out from the game automatically?? or your guys put them into the game? is that possible i can develop them without any Mods Lots ect??

sorry about that i am not good in english as i was from asia but i love this game as yours!!!

thank you

[Tolomar 5]

well sounds like theres no development because of maybe because of something simple, like lack of  water or not zoning at higher density...maybe even not enough garbage disposal or proper civic building coverage...you should have higher development by 200 yrs....unless you purposely stagneting growth in the city

start at greyveil's thread...make sure you have all the essential files

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=110&threadid=58510&enterthread=y

get the NAM and the SC4tool programs from the mod download section:

https://www.simtropolis.com/modding/index.cfm?p=details&id=390

https://www.simtropolis.com/modding/index.cfm?p=details&id=380

[jackel.22 3]

1) try using neighbour connections 26k people is really quite under developed for 200 years.

2) yeh most of the stuff in cjs is eye candy. thoes buildings are plopable and can either be downloaded off the stex or some other site.

[kelvinyck 0]

thanks guys!!

Tolomar:

i have done all things that is saids and even building the airpot....or hospitals policestations schools ect, are built already and coverd all of map. The tax rate are all under 10% as well...but just stay around 26000 ....

Jackel:

i have already tried neighbour connections...

really don't know why it won't develop faster...

[kingmadmushroom 0]

I have had similar problems but i Just zoned as much Res. as possible and it seemed to work?......

[kelvinyck 0]

And the RCI keep telling me that i need more comercial zone i could do it ,but i wonder why some players no need to much lands to increase the number of citizens and also big-high buildings will apear....PS. i have used higher density for all kind of lands...

i have saw a pics from someone, he just used about 30% lands for zoning but over 200K peoples there, now i used about 80% of the map....who know why??

[soldyne 111]

you said you have neighbor connections, but do your neighbor cities have any development in them? the purpose of having neighbors is to share demand. when you start building up the neighbor cities and having them specialize (industry city, dump city, Central Business District, suburb, etc) then all the connected cities will begin to feed off of each other and begin to grow.

It takes a lot of extra work but it is worth it, and to a degree, necessary.

[kelvinyck 0]

Soldyne:

Thank you very much!! i really didn't develop neighbor cities..i will try now. For the further question, isn't it is the only way to

make my city grow? is that possible make it growing faster without develop cities?<---just ask, i will try anyway.

[Bones1 96]

You can grow big cities, even if you only have 1 city in your entire region. It's more difficult than developing with neighbours, but certainly possible. I've grown a single-city to almost 1 million pop, but it was on "easy" and was the ugliest metropolis I've ever built. Basically, it was just a big, flat grid with lots of avenues and subways. Now, I stick to cities with much less high-density, and much more interesting landscape features. I also have lots of cities in my region, and all the bus and rail traffic makes generating cash (from transit fares) super easy (even on "hard" level). Almost feels like cheating.