Thyme

It is simply because you have all those 1x1 lots. As you can see, houses build where they can build as 2x1. Sometimes the game just won't develop 1x1's if you don't have enough bigger lots available. I don't know why; other times it's no problem. So: zone bigger lots to get the development "going".

Originally posted by: Cobhris96 Of course this scenario would work. I've done it many times in the past and am currently using in my region. quote>I agree, I also do this regularly. Usually I keep I-D and I-M in one city and I-HT in another. To make it profitable, the above mentioned tips are all useful. And if it's a medium map, one can even produce power in a forested corner, no cheats or mods needed. Usually the deamand for I-HT rises so high at some point, though, that one can tax it pretty heavily and still keep it in town.

@maticoreman: you did sound a bit like a sulking child earlier, glad to see you aren't . I have to disagree with your signature, though (it's a little presumptuous); I'm quite happy as a second generation non-believer and non-seeker . What I don't understand about Intelligent Design (and there are many things I don't) is: what use is it? If it is science, shouldn't it have applications? If we consider for one sec that the general scientific community threw out the theory of the mechanism of evolution, and adopted that of intelligent design (if we can call a community scientific if it were to do that just because), then what would happen? What science could be done around intelligent design? How can it be built upon, other than by saying "and he made this, and this, too, and obviously this as it's so cool..."? How can it be applied, as the only thing it says about biological mechanisms is "just because they do"? Isn't it true, in the end, that even if scientists called the truth intelligent design (taking into account that they'd have to call it absolute truth in order to keep themselves from slipping back into evolutionism), they would still have to apply the theory of evolution in their science, because that is a theory based on observations and predictions can be based on it? After all, science is more than the act of writing school text books. It goes on and forward all the time, and it needs building blocks to function. It seems to me that the idea of intelligent design isn't a very useful one outside the writing of school textbooks. All those fields of science besides biology, that were mentioned by someone smarter than me earlier in this thread, that utilise the theory of evolution, what would happen to them if they tried to apply intelligent design? It seems to me like a lot of science could just be cancelled - we could just sit down and state "well, it was all designed, probably even created at the same timepoint, and that's just how it is. There's nothing more to learn." So I'd like to throw the ball to the intelligent design-believers' corner. If you could just stop trying to disprove evolution and old earth for a while and explain what applications the idea of intelligent design has? Make a case for it, so to speak. Without any sarcasm, I'm really interested in hearing about it.

Thyme, I have and I didn't see anything helpful. (I can't say I looked through "every" last page).quote> Well there's one for general purposes: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=146&threadid=78080 And two for On-ramps: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=146&threadid=81554 https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=146&threadid=83514 EDIT: Sorry, I don't know how to make those URLs clickable...

Read the Omnibus, there are tutorials there for sunken highways.

Originally posted by: qsee No, I'm playing on easy mode. What do you mean on by "placing a reward to get rid of the demand cap"?quote> There are caps for demand in SC4. You have to use something to break the cap so that there will be further demand again. Parks are an easy non-cheat way. Place a variety of parks, that might help.

To believe that living creatures can arise from non-living matter takes more faith than any religion; it is ridiculous to defend. quote> I'm sorry, but what exactly do creationists believe then, if not that life arose from non-living matter? Or do you count God as life? Where did God arise from then? Also, if one finds a watch on the beach, do you say, "hey, look what the ocean made in millions of years by accident"? quote> What if you find a seashell, do you say "Hey, look what God just happened to decide to make yesterday"? If I cooked you a 7 course meal, and told you there was no cook, you would know I was lying...quote> So you are saying that it is God who is trying to tell us there is no intelligent designer? My point is, design requires a designer.quote> I guess the question is how we are supposed to just believe that design (I'm thinking purposeful patterns here) is intelligent in the way that one self-aware entity is intelligent. Why should we think that? Where are the creationists' "missing links"? A car will eventually rust away into nothing, but no amount of time, or lightning, will make a pile of rust spawn an automobile. quote> Do you also believe that rotting trees will never be recycled into new trees? Put away the mental gymnastics, gentlemen; use your intellectual capacities honestly! quote> Yes, honestly! Think through what you mean to say before making it public.