pimpinstein

Haha the same thing happened to me a few weeks back. My problem was that the land where I was trying to create a sunken highway was too close to sea level and therefore the hole digging lots didn't work. When I tried the hole digging lots at higher altitudes they worked perfectly. It's a pain in the ass because I really wanted this sunken highway through my downtown but w/e I had to settle for the elevated instead. Hopefully that answers your problem. If not then I don't know what to tell ya...lol

try building lots of parks and rewards near residential areas.

thanks for the advice once again.. but i still haven't been able to "fix" the problem. the C$ and R$ demands are at a max, but i zone residential away from services to spur low income development and nothing happens!! Peroth: i'll try what u said about playing neighbor cities. the abandoned buildings really don't help. everything is good...the only questionable things are commute time and traffic noise which can be medium or high, but i've replaced streets with roads in many areas to help ease congestion and it seemed to get rid of the problem. Tolomar: the water/power/garbage is all fine. my mayor rating is really high too...like 70 or 80, i think. i don't think i should lower taxes for the rich...i'm trying to encourage R$ to live in my city. i've also heard from many people that you should tax R$$$ higher than any other group in the game.... either way, thanks...here are some more screenshots to see if u can help me figure out whats wrong. thanks. the first pic is a picture of my downtown area. note some of the commercial abandonment by the university and note all of the R$$. the second pic is a picture of a residential development i zoned outside my city center. it was full of R$$, but all the R$$ abandoned so i demolished it all and a few R$ started to pop up. last pic just shows some of the R$$ abandonment and lets you see how my city is full of R$$. ST Banners.zip

ok, thanks for the advice; i lowered the funding on the schools/hospitals to suit capacity and ended up gaining a lot of money from that. something really weird happened though. i built lots of parks and all of my demands are up now, but there are still many abandoned buildings. my R$ population plummetted and my R$$ population skyrocketted during this stretch. many of the abandoned buildings are R$$. regardless of what i do, i can't get R$ growth (even if i don't provide services)....here are some pics of my city that may help you guys see what my problem is: i couldn't attach other pics cuz they were too big, but i also have an abandonment problem in my industrial areas...my tax rates are: R$: 8, R$$: 8.5, R$$$: 9 C$: 6.5, C$$: 7, C$$$: 7.5 I-D: 8.5, I-M: 9, I-HT: 9.5

did u use cheats or any mods??

i have a city of 20k, a region of 45k and i was just wondering how other people who have gotten cities of large populations were able to get massive growth. did you massively zone all at one time or did you zone a few blocks at a time for a long period of time. i see some people who are in year 100 and have a city of 100k when i'm in year 100 and i've got 20k lol....just wondering...also what did you do about your city services?? (police/fire/health) when did you place them?? thanks.

something kinda crazy happened lol...i lowered taxes and now i've got commercial demand, but many of my C$$ and C$$$ buildings are abandoned. the demand for C$ is at the maximum. i have no idea why. i placed a couple parks and still there has been difference. everything is watered and police/health/fire is adequate. i've got the missle thing, the toxic waste dump and the military base in my city but they placed far away from any commercial/residential...i'm not sure if that has any impact. i'm not sure but maybe it's got something to do with my neighbors. i've got 3 now (city pop. at ~19-20k and regional pop at 45k) with sufficient rail/road connections. one has a 13k pop and is almost all residential, the others are mixed but mostly residential. none of the 3 has a much commercial (one has no commercial). i figured if there was no commercial in neighboring cities, then there would be more demand in the big city....i dunno lol...keep the suggstions coming...i'll try to place more parks and see if that makes a difference but for now, i'm out of ideas P.S. one question tho; i know its possible but i was wondering if anyone could show me pictures or state examples of cities that are only one type of zone; such as just industrial. i haven't figured out how to balance the demand because when u have just industrial for example, the demand for residential is overwhelming....

RCI DEMAND ok so i'm a newbie and i have this small city with a population of about 20,000. it's bordered by two other cities (13 k and 5 k populations) so the region pop. is 38k. anyway's, in my largest city, i can't seem to get over the hump of 20k. there is no demand whatsoever for commercial and that seems to be affecting the growth of the city. R and I were also at negative demand, but i lowered taxes, and i was able to get some demand, not much though. I've lowered taxes incredibly (down to 5.5$, 6.5$$, 7.5$$$) for commercial and i used to have them at about 8.5$, 9$$, 9.5$$$, but still no demand. there is also a bit of unemployment in all of my cities. there's not much of a commerical population in any of them. the largest commercial center is my largest city (6k commercial pop. i believe). long story short, i was just wondering if any of you guys knew how to increase commercial demand. PUBLIC SERVICES i also have problems making much money. i'm making a profit of a few hundred dollars each month. i dunno if thats normal for a city/region of only 20k/38k. my primary concern here is city services. in all of my cities, i've made sure to provide adequate police/fire/schools and basically full coverage for health as well. my mayor rating is at about 50 or so. do you think all these services are neccessary, or should i cut down in order save money?? thank you. -alex