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I already tried that, but the rating only went up by like 10-20 pts and went down again pretty soon. Well, as I said, as sad as it is, I "forgot" this city and I'm playing my old region again... I already thought it was lost (problems with mods after reinstalling), but now it's working again... and thanks to Ordinance, the pop has doubled since I've been playing again^^

I stopped playing it right after the rating went down to about -70 and kept falling down slowly... Still, I really doubt that the tax/moneh/whatevah-mod is the problem... I am playing the region in the picture above atm and its four large size cities with 460k/250k/240k/150k citizens... no problem there and I started all of them with the tax/moneh/whatevah-mod as well Also, I started another new city (about 110k in like 5-10ys, thanks to Ordinance >_&gt and don't have rating problems there either... Must be some bug in the city-file in the very city I have problems with... No other explanation to me

I think best would be the lower right corner with the runways on the water-side.... then you only have to kick off a few buildings (eg. those white stretched ones and the tower) and the planes can "come in" from the water side...

Both just can't be the reason for my problem^^ I am using that money-plugin for quite a while now and it never was a problem... and in that time I built up 4 cities with 150.000++ ppl with nice mayor rating And as I just wrote, with Radical Ordinance my rating increases to an incredible -40, then it stays there (atm) Just keep on trying, we will find the reason some time!!! Bonus: A combined pic of the region with the 4 150.000++-cities... plus some industry in between... (the original pic is standard-screenshot-quality-png... equals some 46,8MB^^)

I actually already filled up all open space that's left with God Mode Trees and I have quite a lot of parks (I think, some examples below). And there's no Business Deals at all Thanks for your try, but I don't think that's the problem Btw, I just keep on playing the city atm (after having made a copy ), the rating has fallen to about -70 and stays there. But let's have a look what kind of impact that rating had on my city. Hmm, let's see... my Downtown has grown nicely... population up by 30% in last 4ys... Well, I'm using Ordinance now and my ratings indeed increase... so whatever >_> pre-sending-edit: lololol... my rating doesn't get better than -40 and I bet it will deacreas again soon... I'd still know what my problem is/was though Pic of some of my parks (in between many buildings theres also quite alot, so this isn't all):

Again, thanks for your replies... What I did by now is copying the city (the file) and just keep on playing the city a bit... Things haven't changed too well and for making it easier for you to see my problem (and figure out its reasons ), I made a jpg out of some of the graphs... I hope it helps^^ Voilá: (warning: German version ahead^^) (in case you don't see what it is: 1st is the 6 different ratings pollution, health, security, traffic, education, land...price(?); 2nd is mayor rating in the city, 3rd is population by groups and 4th is mayor rating, last 2 graphs over last 10ys)

Shocking update: I'm just randomly testing and after adding kinda all missing bonus buildings (from Country Club to Zoo to Statues) as well as their requested airport, my rating is rising again... but around -45 (cheers, 15pts better...) it's stagnating agayn...

Well, thanks for your replies... Gridlock, what kind of downloads do you mean? I haven't added too many plugins since my last bigger cities and I'm not using military stuff or something like it. More info on my city: Year 24 Population 155.504 Rating -60 (from 100 to -60 in ~4years, but seems to stay at -60 now) Travel time took a hit to 12h (but only 2 years ago), now decreasing (~10h now) IQ 170 Life expectation 80 years Pollution (both water+air) ~60 Waste no problem Police works perfectly (edit) Ow, and I forgot: I'm using some finance-plugin (which is actually way too strong), meaning my taxes are ~15-20% (for poor & dirty industry ), 0% for middle-class, 5% for rich and 0% for middle and high class commerce, office and high-tech industry But still: Using the map, the whole town shows red when having a look on the Mayor rating What the hell... Requested pic: Downtown to the lower right side, Industry starts at upper right side, Residents in between. As you can see on the right side, there's still open space, which is about 1/3 of the whole land mass

Short story of what happened before: Tried to use ilive-Reader for the first time to change some values (capcities mostly) but smartly saved as simcity_1.dat and the game refused to start at all... then I reinstalled both SC4 & SC4:RH, patched and replaced the new plugins folder with the old one. Then I started the region I was working on/playing recently, loading the largest city and BAM, game crashes... okay, I had that from time to time before, so I restarted, but just the same afterwards I loaded another city in the same region (its as old as the other one, but rural and much smaller) and I had no problem. I had a look around and waited a moment to be sure, the game wouldnt crash. then exited the city, loaded another (bigger) one and BAM, the game crashed again... of course there must be a problem with some plug in... but I have no idea, what specific one it might be... so Id like to hear your ideas... if it would be a problem with a building, it just wouldnt appear, right? and if it would be a problem with, lets say, NAM, the smaller town wouldnt work either, since it uses it as well... after the long story, a picture of the 3rd city (the 2nd that crashes), approx the same area of the city, just "days" (in game) before "now" Image edited for size, please observe the 800x600 pixel size limit. tungston

I think I have the same problem... I get brown boxes on Maxis Defaults, but after I had a closer look on those buildings that are affected, I saw that all/only the European Style Buildings are affected. I still get (most of) the Chicago, New York and Houston buildings without problems. Other than ILL Tonkso I don't want to block all Maxis buildings, since I just use Plugins as an addition. I know there are quite a lot of people having problems with brown boxes and that there is no solution for it yet (well, I already have that No Brown Boxes thingie), but maybe anyone has an idea, what kind of other Plugin might block these buildings.