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Thanks Agent Silva!!!! There was a post here yesterday that was advising me that I shouldn't blame Nikola for my downloading issues. But I see it has been removed. Thank you too who ever posted it too! I headed your advice and noted that the hosting site did indeed trick me into believing I was downloading his files. But instead I was downloading their apps instead!! All is good!! I have the industry only files installed and noticed indeed my industrial demands are dramatically reduced! And I too like industry as well, but will settle for this greatly improved version of the game now. I apologize for my comments about Nikola's too!! My bad!!!

I would like for the game to be fixed so that we don't lose students that go off to other cities for education and never return! Kinda boring to have to keep demolishing residences that are no longer educated as the students have flown from the nest!

You're right Agent Silva, I need to work out my problem plagued cities until they go bust! My issue(s) do get researched here on this forum as some time too before I nuke the region. So currently, I began playing my mothballed city this week and noted that my excess freight isn't the case anymore. I do have some freight in the smaller depots but all of the bins are full and my cities haven't grown that much. I am on the fence still have getting Nikola mod though. You're talking about the first mod he made that's just for freight correct? When I finally was breaking down to get it, he had come out with another mod that had perks to be use for the business and residential areas as well. But it was several-several files one had to download and install and that's when I began having issues with hidden apps being installed as well.

I thought it would be interesting to perhaps start a new thread, if one doesn't already exists, to gather tips and suggestions for a new player that might start today playing SC2015. For one, I benefitted a lot by reading these posts in 2014 when I finally gave in and purchase the game and began playing. As I'm approaching my 1 year mark, I've not ventured beyond my starter city may once and believe I'm successful enough with developing the three city map to explore more! What would you advise a "newbie" knowing what you know now. Don't be afraid to even offer mods too! I'll start. My tip/suggestion I've used over and over when building is to wait for the game to ask for you to do something before expanding services. Enjoyed the positive influx of simple and and increase it slowly. What your unemployment and keep education levels on the rise but don't over spend on anything until you have to!

Thanks RMJ!! I didn't play SC2013 this weekend. Kinda got busy with garden chores since it was a great weekend to be outdoors!! But I will play soon.. Garden cleanup and planting is done for the most part. It's just the maintaining stuff from here on out into the summer... Anyway... Pollution and education are the two thing I now keep in check early on indeed. I tend to max out the grammar school as the population grows. Then upgrade to the HS and demolish the grammar school. But once I place the comm. college, that's when the fun stuff starts happening when factories start upgrading and begin saying they can't find a manager as well as the unskilled messages too.. (yes, it was unskilled.) My thoughts were that there are too many low skilled workers until the college education catches up and start placing sims in those jobs. As for the freight, I have been building the small storage warehouse and maxing it out with freight modules as needed. My last region has three neighboring cities only. My plan this time around is to grow the cities at the same rate as possible. I recall seeing fright trucks coming from neighbors to deliver to stores then to the warehouses with the extras. It's all going well for now. I just got bored this this version after becoming frustrated with the last mega city I created in which the middle class bottom fell out of it and the city began hemorrhaging simoleans like crazy. Regardless what I tried, there was no fix so I zapped the region and started over... Stay tuned!!!

RMJohnson, Thanks for the offer of assistance. I think my initial problems were that I was playing the game as I did with SC4. Due to the small footprint for the entire city, I was trying to develop high tech industry as fast possible so that there would be less ground and air pollution issues. And I've even tried making my industrial area as small as possible while developing the other sectors too. Often my business zones begin closing due to no shipments being received even though there are no or little traffic issues. But with the latest city I shelved two weeks ago, I am taking it as slow and long as possible to get things better (think this is the 6th time I've completely restarted the one city map I keep playing for several weeks until it gets bugged!!). I am now doing exactly what you suggested. I am focusing my efforts on the low wealth people and marginally getting medium wealth types too. (I keep getting messages that low-skill people are hindering my factories). No high wealth types yet so I have a lot of jobs available for them!!! I will have to see if I run into freight issues in this version of my city. I see the trucks making freight deliveries and my depots is full of the excess too. Time will tell!!!

Agent Silva, I was turned off with Nicola's RCI mod when I attempted to download it a few weeks ago. I didn't like the fact that there were several files one had to download to get the complete mod to be used as intended. I wanted all the perks I guess. Plus, I noticed that my browser settings were changed and a lot of my defaults were set by other stuff contained in the download. I hate that kinda stuff... I knew he did another mode for just industry but I just didn't want to mess around him it or him at that point. Since then, I just shelved my game for the time being. Was thinking about playing again this weekend and came over to the forum to see "what's new here"... I'm learning to just live with the game as is at this point. When I get backed into a corner with bugs, I just delete the city and start over in a few days. Now those days are turning into weeks I don't play the game...

I'm not to sure about the ALWAYS comment. What are the residents supposed to be content with? Just visiting parks?? Just saying!!

I think that it was the medium-class bug that I am/was experiencing. Since posting my comments, I've deleted the map after blowing though $3,000,000 simoleans trying to fix the issue in my city that had 110,000 only. I alway kept exactly half of the middle class employed and no of this class were going to my gambling spots regardless how many times I rebuilt them! Strange thing though is that I was able to always keep two expo centers sold out with middle class folks!! Will be happy to start over cities at this point. My fear though is that next I will be just removing the game and calling myself lucky I've only invested a year of game time in this game. Missing SimCity 4 even more...

Just to add to this post with recent trials to recover middle class folks with various maneuvers it appears that my middle class unemployment is also suffering in my gambling city and affecting middle class . Overall, it appears to be some sort of middle class bug that's causing my middle class folks from being fully employed and visiting the casinos and/or landmarks. Lower and upper class are fully employed/visiting these sites/destinations without any apparent problems I've tried rebuilding my casinos and each time the middle class are not represented. Ready to give up on this game for sure!!

I've been trying to salvage my one casino city way too many times at this point. I've been able graduate it from a fully maxed out tier 1 casino but it begins failing one I get my sleek casino built and almost maxed out after demolishing the tier 1 building. My middle class tourist in the gambling area bottoms out for all my casinos scenarios. I've slowly began destroying tourist building I've placed my two expo cents that are near the casino(s) as well as the train stations. I've been trying to stay away from the bus stations due to the bug that education levels drop as students never return to the city. Anyone have any recent comments to add to this post as advise at this point? Thanks!

Thanks... That must have been it. Was trying to start city off as pollution free as possible. Will play around with it a bit more... Shame this game was a bust as such. Oh well....

I had an very educated city until the bottom fell out of it and now it's just at level 2. In the process of all of this, my recycling items went uncollected for sum reason. I don't see the green bars on my city map. But it metrics on the waste collection tab indicate that I have zero bins collected out of approx. 16K. I have no traffic issues in the city. I think since my city isn't educated anymore at that high level, the trucks are even leaving the recycle plant. I've let the game run for about 3-4 sim days and the trucks never leave. My trash trucks leave like clockwork though... Interesting... don't know what to do other than wait and see at this point.

Thanks for this tip. I think a city I've been struggling with recently has this issue. I've restarted the gambling / landmark aspects of the city three times and each time the results are worst. Will turn off transportation option and give it a try again. I was starting to think that my very successful "Las Vegas" like city was pulling all the tourist and I just needed to be creative in other manner to get this struggling city back into the black and out of the RED...

By "getting the spaceport to work", when you do, will it actually have rockets blasting off or that something we're just imagine happens? Just curious... Thanks

Just curious if I'm expecting too much with alloy usage within the production of TVs. I've noticed that my three TV factories are not using alloy at the same rate they're using the other resources. In fact, I've been able to turn off the delivery of alloy to the factories from local sources with no problems at all. The factories keep pumping out TVs and the allow levels do not change!!! What's up with that??!!! Guess I should just sell off the storage bins of alloy I've been stock piling...

Thanks Ocram!! Guess I best diversify if I'd like to use the alloy stocked at the plant already!

Can't get the gifting to work consistently!! Have been trying to send mostly resources (alloy, processors, TVs etc.) and haven't gotten it to work. Assets leave gifting city but tend not to arrive at destination after having limited success. When I load gifting city, I see the trucks are returning to the city... No traffic issues in recipient city either... Have depots at the entrance. Rest of the town is far away and up on plateau. Any tips to offer? Thanks,

Are you able to post a screenshot of this? Just curious to see what they issue may be. Never heard of this problem myself as I like the mining specialty a lot.

Any tips on how to transfer files from my old PC to my new gaming laptop? Thanks

Ok, so I've been toying around with SimCity for the past month after finally deciding to get back into playing it after stopping with SC4. I heeded a lot of advise offered here and on YouTube as what not to do, etc... Now, going slow and stead, I have too many $$$ and $$ residents and minimal $ ones. And the killer part about this is with a mod I DL to be able to see the actual number of job/ wealth levels each place offers as well as the student/resident and shopper info, I see that at some locations I have 2-3 times more $$ and $$$ employees than req'd. What's up with that? Now I'm building nearby towns and trying to get the $ residents to commute but most of them keep saying they can't find a job even though they leave and my unemployment numbers begin ticking down to zero... Any one have tips/advise.... Thinking of turning off the uni. I have level 5 for education and level 3 for tech... Thanks!!!