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I don not use a single cheat.

Farms have regular cycles in real life. A blank farm is an actual cycle. I'm surprised they included it in the game. A blank fields propose is to restore some of the minerals back into the ground that where taken out from the last crop. Most farms do not have to do this because of winter (It is to cold to grow anything anyways) Farming takes out a lot of nutrients into the Ground. Some farmers rotate crops. Some leave their fields blank because some crops cannot be rotated

Most likely when you placed a landmark. there was room in your existing commercial buildings.. thus the landmark created more jobs, and where filled really fast.. so fast that the residentail couldn;t handle the extra.. thus your Comerical demand went down. Hope that makes scence?????

The resoan why that your buildings aren't being used to there maximun effect can be a lot of things.. are services near by.. parks.... how about jobs. are there some jobs near by... is there easy access to mass trasit. If none of these are nearby the sim's won't move in the the neiborhood

I can see it now landen99 living in an empty apartment with a shot gun in hand, sitting on the floor. About to shot anyone who knocks on his door. Shaking his fist after Yelling" Thats right get outa here, you hoodlims"

Your mayor rating is red most likely becuase you have to many roads and rail for the people to use. they coudl be upset that there taxes are spent up keeping roads that they do not use... do not really need to worry about mayor rating. It will bet better. adn as the above suggest you could try some missions... that help your mayor rating...

I also just got huge little demand, and little growth. I think how the first poster got a huge spike in population is that he/she had under developed medium andf high zones, that was just houses... would explain alot.. He was only at 22k so the meduim would barly be developped fully.. Thus when he turned on the mod. it caused a huge population boom to all his underdevelopped squares.

4 times seems a lot. But if you don't have the mod each building is around 75 workers. After the mod each building holds around 200 workers... In my industry most of it is still streets. I didn't need to update any of my streets to roads.. The rails lines can handle the extra surge in frieght. 4X seemed like a lot to me too, but once all in place. You will notice it is not that much........ and if it is. There is always an option to delete some industry and put up more housing to handle the extra surge. For mass transit i usaully put bus stops, and perhape a few train stations. It is really up to you.. If your lines aren't in orange to red. Then i wouldn't worry about it........ Just try it out.. You can always take it off. I think

Originally posted by: Ospka1st Hummm Toronto...many traffic for a Canadian City:quote> It has a population of 8 million with the GTA... So of course there will be traffic. 5th largest city in North america

CN tower , Looking at it riight now