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Not an expert? You fooled me! I am going to try everything you said. If 200,000 isn't enough than that could be the reason. I am going to try your traffic funneling methods... and guess what the taxes are for my R$$$ - less than 5.0... and they get progressivley higher for the poorer R's... no wonder a few of my R$$$ are getting NO JOB things over thier buildings! How do I get that Jobs in CO$$, CS$$$ ect chart... the Demand for jobs in each $ level? You have it showing the population of poor/middle/rich sims... I have never seen it and it will definately help. How far apart should Commercial/Residential Zones be from Dirty Industry as to not get affected my pollution? As I don't want my Commercial/Residential zones getting affected by the dirty Industrial zones I may have(I dont want ALL of my cities having High tech industry!) One of my maps has Pure Red environment... I don't know why... I don't even have that much dirty industry... and I have been placing parks and trees regularily. I only have one power plant but the Environment is super low... and not rising... OHHH! And when you place a Zone... does it really matter how big the lots are. For example... When you place stuff in a 4 x 3 zone... Two boxes will appear facing one way that are 2x2, and then 4 1x1 zones will appear facing the other way(onto the streets along side the zone). Does this mean in those predesignated Zones, for the entire time im playing(unless I change them) will only 2x2 properties develop(as opposed to the old system where big buildings will just randomly sprout? I hope you get what I mean - does using Ctrl while Zoning make a BIG difference on whether I get big sky scrapers(so I can make 4x4 zones for them to develop?) Thanks! Keep giving me tips! I'm lovin it!

I place a bus stop near every Rail station and I have Bus stops every 3 streets/roads or so. I have lots of bus stops in my city so it can't be that. However, I have no elevated train, no monorail, and no subways... would this really make a difference? How many stops/stations should I put for these following systems? Are elevated rails the same as normal rail stations except with elevated stations? Should I have Subway stops in the same density as bus stops? How about Monorails? I do not have many Large Plaza's downtown... I would place parks/Playgrounds - any of the green things - in areas to make certain places look greener. Is it true (I just heard this) that placing Playgrounds, Basketball Courts, FlowerGardens, Parks, ect in COMMERCIAL Areas do nothing for the land value? That they will only take note to Plaza's, where as Residential areas are the opposite? I will have to try placing more Plaza's and using more types of transportation! Any other tips! I really need them!!!! This will help me but I need more tips! MORE! How come my education rate is climbing incredibly slow in one city despite having many education facilities and high funding! I have even looked at the EDUCATION BY AGE and I have enough for the population? Any pointers on that(I have the main library and university and even a Reading Ordinance!)

Some questtions I need answered by the experts like you Skyscrapers/High Density Buildings Okay, I should say more specifically - getting a rich ($$$) city with High Wealth Office Commercial and High Wealth Residential (Dense) in a downtown area. I currently have a region with over 200,000 Sims, my biggest city according to everything I have read should have quite a few Huge Commerical Office Skyscrapers. Yet the highest I have is a Yates Insurance. I have a few nice, but not very high Residential towers too. Wait! Before you say Is your city watered?. Duh. My city is watered. I have a highly educated work force (180+), 110, 000 people in this city. 53,000 Commercial Jobs. And Commercial zones near many residential zones. Yes! Crime is LOW. Pollution is LOW! (I have a small Industrial Sector almost all of which is High Tech). I have all of the Commercial Rewards, the Tourism Ordiance, A medium sized airport, and high land value. Oh! And I have almost perfect helathcare. Low pollution. The whole deal. In Simcity 2 or 3 I would have many skyscrapers - both Residential and Commercial. I have high wealth citizens all over the place. The ONLY thing I am noticing is Low Customers in most areas. But from what I have read and searched on this site, that usually doesn't effect things too much. (Am I wrong?) I understand this city may be beyond salvagable, so my idea now is to start fresh - How can I make this idea work. I want a densely packed city (The one I talked about is all High Density). How can I make this work? I understand this question has been asked 100's of times and I have searched and found broken answers with things like Are your buildings watered?. Of course they are. JHC. Can someone give me a HUGE list of things that WILL LEAD TO CO$$$ DEVELOPMENT? R$$$ HIGH RISE DEVELOPMENT? Railroads and Parking Garages - How to make them work? Okay. So I place Railroad Stations near Residential and Business/Industrial areas and they are used at most to 25% capacity! No one uses them! Why? Parking Garages are even worse - YES! I do have the NAM. They are still not working. I know wealthy sims will not take busses but If you put a parking garage beside a Train Station(how close does it have to be??) should they not park and take the trains? How many train stations do I need in Residential Areas and Commercial Areas?? Please help me! (Yes... my train stations are watered LOL) Commuters: None What? But the building right next to it has 25 commuters? How come some houses are listed as having commuters while others have (none)? Same with businesss Workers: none How many glitches are in this game? How come some buildings have no workers (thus no routes for me to see how people are getting there!) but when I query them it says they have many workers?? I would love to search and look up MORE AND MORE AND MORE responses to these stupid probably overasked questions, but for some reason this forum goes REEEEAAAAALLLLY slow on my computer, so if someone can just help me out here with asnwers... full answers please... it would be greatly and utterly appreciated! PLEEEASE!