Discouraging R$$$ sims?

[Goit 0]

How can you get the R$$$ to stop developing so much, because they suddenly build like 10 R$$$ skyscrapers, then all of them don't have jobs, then they get delapidated.

[io_bg 249]

Increase their taxes.

[Goit 0]

For some reason the rich have a tendency to move in faster. I have a higher demand for poor residential buildings, but somehow the rich keeps building even if their demand is lower.

[spa 968]

Someone did a mod a while back to reduce R$$$ desirability to combat this problem. If you're looking for something more adventerous in expanding the game, I think the CAM mod has tweaks that have addressed this as well.

[tungston 19]

I think bones1 made such a mod, you could search the STEX for bones1.

[Livin in Sim 83]

I happened to have it in my bookmarks, if you haven't found it already.

Have fun.

--Liv

[Goit 0]

I already downloaded that mod, but with a lot of trees and healthcare, even that mod doesn't work anymore.

And my main problem is jobs, not desirability.

[canis39 2]

i agree with io_bg...a tax increase should do the trick. what's your R$$$ tax rate right now?

[Goggles 1]

I have the same problem. Does the difficulty level of the game at all affect how desirable your city is to higher wealth sims?

Also, is there a way the desirability data view can be tweaked somehow? It seems to be very sensitive to even the slightest change in desirability. Right now 30% of my large city tile is apparently 100% green for R$$$... and I only have a population of 16,000 with about 30% of the map developed...

[Prophet42 1,501]

If you set the R$$$ taxes to 9.2% this will discourage the wealthy from over developing yet not make them all leave town.  No mod required.

[io_bg 249]

Prophet42, it depends on the desirability. If it's too high, you'll sometimes have to set the taxes to more than 10 - 11 %

[Goit 0]

Originally posted by: canis39 i agree with io_bg...a tax increase should do the trick. what's your R$$$ tax rate right now?quote>

It's at 10 percent already. Maybe I need to go to like 12.