Dutch houses (Vanderaap) barely growing

[derwilly 17]

hi guys!

it's been a long time since I played SC4 and dropped by.

I'm having sort of a problem. I decided to start fresh an Amsterdam-based city, going easy with my plugins and using mostly Vanderaap's beautiful houses.

Thing is, I am having a really hard time to see the city grow. Some residential plots never get built at all.

I do have experience with this game, I know that I have to provide jobs, services, roads, no pollution, parks, landmarks, etc. I am even using the radical demand mod that so much happiness provided me in the past. But now, nothing.

So, is it just me or has anyone of you had problems building a Dutch city? are these houses really demanding on the quality of jobs or services? any ideas?

any help will be appreciated!

derwilly

EDIT: I am using the maxis blocker mod, all styles being built, radical demand

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

You may want to try using a maxis blocker to keep away everything you do not want to grow. Sometimes the game just doesn't pick the buildings you want so you have to force it into building from your plugins. If you only put a certain style of buildings into your plugins, that is the only thing that will develop which is nice for stylized cities like you are trying to make.

Also, and this is a dumb mistake I have made in the past, make sure the building style is set such that your buildings will grow. I don't think Dutch buildings will grow on the game's default Chicago and NYC tilesets

[derwilly 17]

thanks SimHoTToDDy! I already have that mod, sorry. That's why some plots remain undeveloped. Oh and I checked that building style, too. Nothing happens

[ev 3]

most of the vanderaap and haarlemergold buildings are 1x1 or 1x2, so zone in 1x1 medium or high density lines. thats what i do.

[kolnikov inc 1]

you have to know what size the lot is (1x1, 1x2, 2x2), what stage it grows in, and what wealth level it is.

also there's a artificial demand increase mod called activedem which can create demand for high wealth buildings....its what i use to get haarlemergold's buildings to grow.

[Treason04 11]

I have the same problem, tried all of the above, but certain buildings just wont appear in the game, particularly haarlemergold's. My favorite set of buildins indeed, but even under the building plop code the buidlings dont render in the game.

[Treason04 11]

I have the same problem, tried all of the above, but certain buildings just wont appear in the game, particularly haarlemergold's. My favorite set of buildins indeed, but even under the building plop code the buidlings dont render in the game.

[fernfishapeidiot 11]

Just a shot in the dark. Vanderapp and Haarlemmergold are both known for very long file names. I've had problems even trying to move the files around (e.g. copying). It may be that the files aren't being read properly. Now, my question: can file names be changed?

[Gath22 15]

Or get rid of the maxis blocker, and use the buildingplop cheat as soon as the zones are used, that's how I make my cities