city devoplement

[simoplis_mayor 3]

ok i have a city it has 1,279,232 sims. the demand is off the charts. my income is 198,565, and expences are 162,807. Also my caps are res$ 11 % $$ 23% $$$ 14% co $$61% $$$47% and is 196 years old the prob is that some of the buildings say 0/2741 and no boudy lives there and it takes for ever to devlope now it on a large and is't fully zoned what shold i do?

[Leevo 0]

Check congestion on your roadways. I tend to have similar problems when I start upping the densities of my zones. Chances are your people are moving as a result of their work commute times.

My recent experiment involves a sort of horseshoe shaped one way road with two one way roads between the curve of the shoe and the road it leads to/from. I've got 3x3 dense residential zones seperated by large parks/flowergardens/etc. Two bus stops at every road connection in the residential zone, as well as a parking garage, bus stop, and subway entrance at the exit of each.

Ive got a good amount of bus stops in every commercial/industrial zones as well as as few subway tunnels Which generally lead to other subway entrances adjoining bus stops along my avenues. With exception to the entrance and exit on my high density residential zones this has cut down road congestion substantially, and allowed for higher income development.

Despite my doubling up of bus stops in the residential zones I find they're all operating near or over their capacity. I'm also pulling in about 2k from mass transit after maintenance costs.

[FavreKev04 13]

Do you really have a city with 1,279,232 people or is the just region wide?

[simoplis_mayor 3]

kev yes i do have that big of a city also the whole region pop is over 3,000,000 ill have some screen shots up in a few days

 

leevo i have sub and bus stops every where almost every corner congestion always a prob in that big of a city devlpemnt is just slow and i wanna make it faster but alas im working on terraforming in the region now

[Leevo 0]

commuters only walk about ten squares.. max.. (Not sure exactly what this means, some might be lazy and not go as far?).. so I tend to place stops every 20 squares or so in industrial/commercial zones. I also have the shuttle service ordinance enacted.

[simoplis_mayor 3]

i have the same thing in place

[soldyne 111]

You should be happy with a city that big!!!!  I have only ever gotten cities to the 500k mark.  what is your goal in this city?  how big do you want it to be before you stop and move on?  I would have to say that you have one of the largest cities ever developed by anyone here on the forums.  so really you are in new territory.  you should be telling us how you got a city that large not looking for advice, lol.  any advice we can give, you have probably already implemented. 

 

yes give us screen shots we must see this marvel of a megalopolis!

[simoplis_mayor 3]

thanx soldnye my goal is to fully devlpe it and hope for 2,000,000 sims i guess ill just deal with slow devlopment but right now im working on New Castle's terraforming (the region that the city is in)