Sim City 4 seaports/airports

[redwingsfan19 0]

I have the basic version of sim city 4 and i've built seaports and airports but still come across the same problems.

With seaports, the efficiency just plummets to nothing even though the city has over 10,000 industrial jobs (if that makes a difference).

My main city has over 280,000 citizens and is still growing. So, I built an airport to support the 120,000 commercial jobs but the efficiency also plummets to nothing.

Both ports look distressed and unused even though they are powered, watered, have road, subway, and bus connections.

What is wrong?

[paperboy15 4]

Build more seaports to handle the cargo load (Query the port and check the amount of cargo handled to see if that is the problem...each seaport can only handle 650 somethings per something at 100% funding). I can't remember if you will actually see the efficiency of the original port improve, but you will see the surplus cargo get handled by the additional ports.

Build a bigger airport. If you've already built the international airport, make sure funding is 100% and check to see if your advisor offers an upgrade for the airport.

Welcome to ST!

[redwingsfan19 0]

Hmm.. upgraded my airport to a Large International Airport and it still went distressed, even after my advisors yelling at me to upgrade. Maybe my patch isn't working right or something...

[Cob92 360]

Maybe you have just built a large, thriving metropolis that needs more than one airport. Many major cities have at least one secondary airport. Seaports, the only way to solve this is to flatten out an area of coastline and line it with as many seaport piers as possible. By the way, more industrial does not increase seaport efficiency. Industry gets boosted by the port, not the other way around. The more industry you have, the more seaports you need.

[redwingsfan19 0]

But my city only has about 300k people.

[redwingsfan19 0]

Anyone else have any suggestions?

[crazyyaya 4]

for seaports, make sure your funding is at maximum and place a light house if this dosen't help post pictures

[redwingsfan19 0]

My funding is at maximum but I don't think there is a lighthouse in the basic version of sim city 4.

[Cob92 360]

In SC4, 300k is considered a major city. Besides, if you look at the population of most of the largest cities in America, most of them are under a million.

[Mat'sim 0]

how come some download in sim city 4 are not seen but they are seen some packets

Please!  Do not ask questions in the middle of another topic that are irrelevant to the thread.  You should start a new thread for this type of query, or try a search.  Use the New Topic button to start a new line of questioning.  What you have done here is called Hi-jacking the thread.  Please do not do this in future.  N_O_Body.

Oh, and Tungston has told you what you need to know.

[tungston 19]

If you are talking about the package in the brown wraper, that is because you need extra files [dependencies] to go with the main file.

[Mat'sim 0]

Vorrei susarmi col forum per quello che ho scritto SORRY!!! for me that I am not English it is difficult to understand what you/he/she is written there

[Mat'sim 0]

thanks tungston

[hornet-saint 0]

I can't get my airport to ask me for an upgrade.  It's stuck on 287,000, and I obviously need more.  I have a lot od the modds from this homepage, but I don't see how that would affect it.  Suggestions?

[punkrockgoth1988 1]

What about Crime Rates? Would that affect the seaports/airports? I know Airports attract a lot of crime.

[combot 0]

That is quite odd that you cannot upgrade you airports.

With the seaports the efficiency is a little misleading. It plummets to nothing because the seaport is being overused. Your best bet is to build more seaports, download larger capacity seaports off STEX or build neighbouring connections to your other cities for goods to flow via rail or ground.

[rebakan 0]

Hi. My name is rebakan, it's my first post, I just bought SimCity4 DeLuxe, I'm trying to play "Makng Money tut" and make my city 20.000, but although becomes a blue image, can't put one airport on any place of this city.Can anybody help me? Sorry for bad English, not American citizen. I do thank in advance.

[SC4BOY 21]

Do you have enough money to pay for it? Is the ground level enough?

[rebakan 0]

Thanks for your response.I'm sure I am doing something wrong, but as it is my first time playing, I don't know the answers of those questions, but does the ground need to be leveled? Any place I try to build an airport, the image is blue but the numbers costs are red.So, I don;t know how to do it.

[CaptCity 4,914]

Originally posted by: rebakan

...Any place I try to build an airport, the image is blue but the numbers costs are red...quote>

Red numbers usually indicate you do not have enough money to build the lot, as SC4BOY mentioned. Check the red cost numbers against the amount you have a the bottom of the user interface window.

[rebakan 0]

Thanks for your help. I'll do it.

[RoBbN64 0]

if you cant upgrade your airport, you have too much development around it, no room to expand...

[chrisinphilly5448 0]

Hi.

I am new to building Airports and Seaports. I have several large international airports and a few small ones...but all the downloads I see on here where you can add commercial airliners and props with gates...do these planes take off? Or are they just there for show? And how do you put the gate with a terminal...are there downloads for that? I appreciate your help with this. Thanks!

-Chris

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Welcome to Simtropolis.

Unless you need real emphasis it is not very polite to post in large bold type.

With the question you asked, I think it is irrelevant to the topic of this thread. You should probably open a new thread (push the new topic button) and ask it again with perhaps more information. If you do not specify, the assumption by most forum members is that your game is SimCity 4 Deluxe with a current version of either 1,1,640 or 1,1,641 which is fully up to date with respect to the custom content on the exchanges.

I don't use airports, but I suspect the various models are eye-candy only. Most cities don't have enough ground to take-off a 727 let alone anything bigger. Remember that the maximum city is only 4 Km square, and getting proportional runways into them will take up a lot of otherwise usable space. I believe airports are a specialty item, more for the use of City Journal artists than regular users.

I do use seaports, however. I use the Pegasus CDK Ports Package. Registration at SimPeg is free. Be careful to read all the instructions on these ports, especially if you are using the Network Addon Mod. The Peg ports controller does not conflict with the NAM, but some packages do, and you must be aware of which controller is the best for you. For example, the Sim Peg Agricultural Mod controller is not compatible with the NAM.

You should read over some of the pinned threads in this list before rushing off into custom content. It is not as easy as it sounds.

[jumblo 0]

I am having the same problem, but I have a city over a million people, and a million businesses. I have 4k industries, a large international airport, one seaport, and my region has 1.7 million people. Also, my transit lines are killing the budget. What should I do? Edit the large international airport properties? HELP!

[jumblo 0]

I was just browsing around and found this. it might help. I put four in at once, and they worked well till I had to put another four.

[Cob92 360]

If you want a set of airports to use in normal gameplay, I'd recommend downloading the AC Functional Airports package from SC4Devotion. These airports are designed to have a greater aesthetic appeal than the default airports, but on a Maxis scale. In addition, the main airport in the package upgrades through many stages, making it less necessary to have multiple airports in one city.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

On the other hand, remember that airports are mostly eye-candy and don't address the main issue of Rush Hour, which is getting commuters to work. Try laying down some toll booths on your neighbor connectors to increase your income. There are some neat toll booths on the STEX.

[kidkaboom 1]

HI i have a 4 major citys in my metro 1. bellview pop 760k-with borroughs 1.1 mill 2. palmdale pop 338k-with four borroughs 700k 3.oakland is split into many squares so i will just say borrugh pop 400k 4. new francisco pop 150k (growth only stoped because of small land size. i have many growing citys and towns and a few suburbs but for some reason i cannont upgrade any of my international airports to medium or large and i dont understand why. Can somone please help me? more info on bellview 20% of pop is poor 50% is middle class and 30% is rich i have all rewards in city other than miltary bases good supplys of water but the city is inland it has the a huge commercial and high tech market 600k commercial and 400k high tech market excellent education horrible traffic even cloging up its main avenue i have a subway system that runs through all major citys full health bar little less than half enviroment full safety full land value whole metro is connected by freeway where have i gone wrong with the airport???

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

My friend, if that post was a little better structured with some white space and some paragraphing between thoughts, and perhaps some items it point form, I wouldn't find it so confusing. What I get out of it is how to upgrade your airports.

The answer is that the game will propose the upgrades when you have reached the population and other requirements for it to happen. Just keep building. If you've used up all the land in a tile, start zoning for taller buildings. Just because you zoned some area doesn't cast it in concrete.