MegaTowers

[SnakePlissken11 0]

Hey guys,

 

I'd like to start a large conversation on megatowers. What problems have you run into, how have you fixed them if you did and has anyone made any successful megatower cities? However my biggest question is: will sims from one megatower actually utilize malls, offices, and service levels in other megatowers once a skybridge is built between them?

 

I've done some experimenting with them in sandbox and almost always run into problems (and i'm talking about normal towers here). I usually do put in 4 residential apartments of the same wealth level separated by the same wealth mall level, and I even add a park on the 6th level just to be safe. Even though there's 4 apartments and 1 mall, eventually the mall comes up with the "not enough shoppers" problem. On the 7th level I usually add another apartment since I put a park there, and all of the apartments are usually happy, it's just this mall problem that keeps happening. Another setup I did was put 4-5 apartments separated by 2 park levels, so there's no malls, but what I noticed happens is some apartments aren't happy with just parks and want malls too, even though in the game is says you can have either or if you want.

 

Also, this was all done with about 2 small blocks of industry (so I can have freight move to the malls), but other than the megatowers I had no land-based residential or commercial whatsoever. Do you think that factors into the problems?

[Griffon 19]

I've already started a discussion about megatowers here: 

@Xenocity posted very helpful ideas there and I said a few things that could be helpful too.  

You need only one or two Mall levels per city, offices make them profitable, and there are other things in that topic too.

 

To a moderator: Maybe these topics should be combined and possibly moved.

[HazelSaturn007 0]

LOL