Need help

[brutus the duck 0]

I really really need help... my biggest city ever only had 110 thousand civilians... I had connected the city with industrial zones and when I reached 100 thousand, it never grew more, I only got 1 skycraper which is abandoned and black... I always get those ugly poor buildings and my taxes are all beneath 6% but I have 1million$

Please help me, it never works , not even with cheats and such, I always get polution,...

Brutus

[schm0 27]

1) Build connecting cities. You need a strong region population to support the production of tall skyscrapers.

2) Build parks and churches. They release demand caps for your population.

3) Separate your industrial zones and put them in a nearby city, then connect it to your main city. This will isolate pollution. Provide mass transit options for your main city to reduce noise and car pollution.

4) Taxes alone aren't the reason why Sims will want to move in.

5) Read the Omnibus forums, they answer a lot of your concerns.

[sebastin 1]

Keep zoning for RES cos and then jobs. Demand for jobs needs to be created by zoning more and more RES. Upgrade some MID res areas to HI RES areas. Educating your sims is vital. Keep adding bus stops and rail/subway/elevated to lower the commute time. With a good planned pub tran with a population of 110 000 u should be able to push car usage to 15 000 - 20 000. Add small parks and small plazas to desired areas these will help a lot for the lots to develop In a block of 6x6 you can have a bus stop in each corner with a park making the block 3x5 and 3 x 6.... and it leaves you with one empty tile what you can develop later, like zoning it for 1x1 kiosk or other local block COM or city service