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[Vandal90 0]

If I post this to wrong forum, please move.

So, I am not very good at 3d modeling yet and most of my buildings are generic office towers with no special features.

But I am just full of *****  ideas. Maybe there are buildings like I imagine, but I missed them then.

Well, the point is: ploppable RCI transit-enabled building. But not just roadway/highway through the building, like (awesome) Post Office I found on STEX, no. Monorail station! Well, I want to know if it is possible to make a ElRail/Monorail station with RCI jobs? I know buildings with parkings are present, but I couldn't find any way to make consolidated building with transit stop, jobs, maybe even minor cop station/recreation place inside.

I just am fond of arcologies and idyllic cities with monorails (yes, costly, but very nice-looking and fast), low pollution, parks and cops with defibrillators on every corner. Not a hillbilly town, but an Utopian metropolis with concrete-and-glass buildings.

And monorails going on top of the buildings will make such city feel the "right" way.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Well, the problem is that SimCity hasn't really been designed to allow for mixed use. It's a common wish among the community to have buildings with shops in the ground floor and offices/apartments in the upper floors, but alas, this is not possible to our knowledge.

I once tried to add police station properties to a residential highrise in order to simulate an on-site security service, but that didn't really work - since it was basically a residential building, it lacked the funding slider found on all civic buildings, and thus the police station part considered itself to be funded at zero percent. The result was lacking efficiency and led to complaints by the security advisor.

Now I'm by no means a modding genius, and the fact that I failed at this attempt doesn't prove anything. However, even much more accomplished modders haven't released anything in that vein, although it has been on the wish list for so long. This makes me think that it's probably really not possible.

I haven't experimented with combinations of transit stations and RCI jobs yet, so I don't feel confident enough to make any definite statement in this respect.