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Hey Livin in Sim, thanks for the response. This city only has about 200k residents, compared to others that have a million. I've done some recent infrastructure work and zoning work, about the size of 1/4 of my city and let it run. It may just be the sheer size of so many open zones and all this stuff happening, so I may just have to start and restart until the zones are filled. Thanks for the advice and I'll take a look at that thread!

Hey all, I've had SimCity 4 since it came out. I have a huge region with about 16-20 large cities and half of them have a million or more residents. So my entire region is about 9 million. I have started working on this city that is connected to 4 other large cities. I probably set up a quarter of the map with infrastructure for residential and industrial. When I ran the city on cheetah speed, it stopped running after 3 months. I tried other speeds, but that didn't do anything. I had to restart the game and started the city again and it stopped after 3 months. The other cities run normally. I'm thinking it might be freezing because there is too much going on? I have the NAM, and there have no conflicts with other things I've downloaded. If you guys have any insight, I'd appreciate it!

Do you mean something like a viaduct, like the one in Seattle along the waterfront? Three lanes or so on each level going separate directions? ... I don't know of any on this site ... it would be nice though.

All fixed! Thanks!

In my high-tech industrial areas, which seems to be everywhere in my region now, I usually zone 6x6. And in a few places I will place a block of three large parks and an Air Purification Plant, which rids of air pollution in the general vicinity, which I recommend if you are going to download something from the STEX. It is excellent. The parks help reduce pollution as well, but adds desirability to this area. You could also intersperse the parks as well. I have a city of about 100,000+ high-tech industry only. It's pretty cool. I also have tons of train stations and monorail stations, since I guess these people like commuting that way? And don't forget a police station and fire station in the area. High-tech also likes that. I hope that helps!

Hey guys, quick questions. I recently added the -w after the Target address in my SC4 shortcut to open the game in a window. However, how do I return it to the entire full screen of the laptop/desktop screen? I deleted the -w, however, it keeps on opening in a window. And maximizing the window doesn't help, b/c it just moves the screen around. I would like it to be like before, which is the entire monitor and with no start bar. Thanks!

Thanks for all your input guys! You all make valid points. I think I will first play around with the NAM and see what I can do. I haven't looked at it much yet. Also, my commute time is very long at the moment because I think the commute to the city next door or it just takes a long time. In particular, binobi makes a very good point about how there are so many people in such a small space. Even though I may have alot of train stations, monorail stations, etc, that is still a ton of people for a very small area. I think I will put even more stations around. Also, I have started integrating more commercial and residential. But I may have been too engrossed in my planning and not put enough roads! That may be my number one problem. Trying to maximize space and thinking mass transit would solve the problems, I neglected to put enough roads down for those car-loving Sims. Thanks everyone!

I installed the NAM, but am still getting horrible over crowding and congestion. In my city next door, an industrial town, I have a station is over 800% over capacity. I have started using other train stations, such as Tonko's and this other one. However, it doesn't seem like the NAM did much. Thanks for the advice though.

And no, I don't use the NAM. I downloaded it once, and uninstalled it, as I didn't think it was right for my cities. They were functioning fine ... I think...

Here are links to images of my city. I've only developed on about 1/3 of the map and have about 545,000 residents. The city is in a region of about 7 million people. It's next door neighbor to the west is only high-tech industry (about 120,000 jobs) and to the north, a mix. This city is only residential and commercial. When I design my cities, I usually use the blocks, but with this city, I've experimented with the long blocks and a center area for a two monorail lines and in the middle, I can put civic services. Then train tracks usually surround the entire "block" and I can again put civic services in the 3x whatever swatch made by the train tracks. In addition to train and monorail, I use busses and subways. My roads are also highly congested, but I can fix that with one-way streets later on.

Hi guys, I have been playing SimCity for god knows how long, and have been in a capacity crisis. My passenger train stations are at least 500% used, my MMSB (by Brenda Xue (?) stations (which are amazing, monorail, subways, and busses) are also over 100% used, and my Imperial Bus Stations are at capacity. Are there any other suggestions for downloads from the STEX to help alleviate or at least take care of my mass transit-loving Sims? In particular, a high-capacity rail station maybe with the same size (if possible)? Thanks!

you might want to private message ripplejet since he's on the BSC team that designed the CAM. or go to their website at www.sc4devotion.com and see if they know anything. and i'm not quite sure if this is the right place for a request such as this. i started this thread way back wen like 6 months ago, and it might be better to either 1. post a new thread on your situation or 2. post it in a more applicable location (like in the STEX discussion area, i think).

what do the other two city halls do for the city? are they just for show? or do they have an some sort of impact on demand or whatnot?

i got 1.3 million so far. otherwise, i'm not sure if there is a mod that will do that, unless you want to download the industry quadrupler and zone a lot of industry to make your residential demand skyrocket. but i think it's just playing the game and satisfying your sims.

there's a two page thread resulting from my inquiry into CAM as well. ripplejet explained a lot in this thread. https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=91770&enterthread=y hope that helps!