majortom1981

keep in mind you can download new buildings for free to help the building selection.

Now that I have the game I really can't be upset at the 1 million cap. To get to the 1 million cap you would need to do a lot of managing of a city. I would get bored with that city by the time I got even close.

This game is meant for specialization. a mining town must stay at low population levels so that traffic is at a minimum. Also use the oil roads so that your service trucks have short cuts around the traffic. trade depot trucks and the mining trucks can use those oil delivery roads.

I had the same problem a few days ago. Your causes could be different, but mine was from a unbalance in C zoning to R. Im not sure exactly how the sim works, but for some reason my C was producing an overabundence of "satisified" shoppers that my R just couldnt soak up (which was ironic considering the graphs were saying I still had unsatisfied shoppers). So all that traffic would just default to trying to leave the city. They werent commuting in or out to other towns (region pop was around 1M with a 300K town next to mine) they just...existed...and their one goal was to leave the city via the exit and disappear forever. I killed the traffic by demolishing some C to replace with R. Once I hit a balance the traffic evaporated. It did have side effects though.....Logic would make you think the few commercial zones left would be booming due to less competition+more residents...yet they are going out of business due to lack of shoppers (WTF?) Its almost like C was producing its own demand in my town. And now the graph says I have a TON of unsatisifed shoppers...yet the happyness ratings in all my R went from baseline high density to max rating after this change...go figure... here is the thread where I spent a day pounding my head into the desk trying to figure out the traffic problems I was having..and why no mass transit seemed to fix it. Also buses are more harm then good. any bus stops in your city and a ton of regional buses start invading your city making traffic worse.

The problem is we still do not know if you will be banned from the game for using the mod yet. maxis employees welcome it and Ea so far says you will get banned.

Can fixing the way the pathing system works be possible like it was in sc4? On reddit they already have idea on how to fix it.

The SimCity section on reddit has a ton of info . Even a pdf on how the engine works which clears up why we have a ton of traffic problems and jobs problems.

Yeah but how many CITIES actually have those big farms? In most places those farms are in the suburbs outside the city limits. This is not a county or state simulator its a city simulator.

Somebody else stated this but the sewage treatment plants put their cleaned water in the ground. So if you put a water pump plant with filter next to it it will suck that water for use of the city .

The smallest parks I think are as big as a high density building. This way you don't have weird open spaces.