nathanscottdaniels

Dont you get the Hydrogen Plant for the UFO one? I know it is well worth it whatever the prize is.

I had no choice. I just happened to save right before the neighbor to my young city decided to cancel the power deal. My expenses were only higher than my income for a very short time. But none the less, I had to use the fightthepower cheat or risk everyone in my city leaving. But that was 200 years ago and now I killed my neighbor and built an atomic power plant. The graphs and the utility guy still alert me if my city is using more power than it can generate but nothing happens to the buildings. I can't enjoy it like this. I like the challenge. I tried typing the cheat in again but no effect. Does anyone know how to do it?

How do I stop the region from looking like crap when I load it in SC4? The color's don't change to the SC4 colors and textures until I open and save every one of my 30 cities which can take up to 45 minutes!

I feel stupid again...

Just thought I would throw this in there... You can buy a $400 wind turbine for your own house and set it up. It looks tacky as heck but it will provide your house with all the power it needs all year. It always gets wind if you put it up far enough. But back to Sim City talk. In SC2k, I use to make huge mountains of water and plop dozens of hydro-electric plants. They seemed very efficient. Too bad there are no more waterfalls in Sim Citys anymore.

I have done every UDI mission there is and yet there is still those annoying icons that float around the screen. Is there any way to get rid of them?

My sim is a rich slob so that's not the reason

How do I unlock the extra cars and modes of pedestrian for my sim. It has the number 1 through 10 at the bottom of the list but only 1 is selectable. I will show a screenshot later.

Yeah they are in the plugins folder but I replaced the one I wanted and when I went to that zoom in the game, it died.

I know you can change the background of your city from the blue grid to something else but when I tried, my game crashed. What exactly needs to be done to make this a background? I had already converted it into a png file btw.

I had a fire at my Army base which has no road connection (it's just there for the profit) so I dispatched my fire plane. The fire eventualy went out but I guess no one told the pilot that because about 50 years later, he is still going at it! It isn't a problem just annoying to see that ugly and overly fast plane bouncing around building and dropping water on my base. I demolished the landing strip and it glitched up a bit but the plane went away. Does anyone know how to prevent this from happening again?

I don't see the point in agriculture. It has incredibly low density. You get like 4 jobs for a 6x6 square of land. It also pollutes the water with all of their pesticides and such. I stick with dirty industry until my city matures enough for hightech.

The buildings that border the neighbor called Toxic Town (due to the pollution) are just fine. I get massive skyscrapers all along the edges since Toxic Town is full of nothing but industry. A side-effect is my ID and IM demand are as low as they can go and my IH-T is through the roof. I think most of my problems were due to the fact that bus stops and subway stations were so far apart. Now that I know the sims can change mode of transport, I have a good subway-bus combo system. And a lot more of my sims have jobs.

I finally made a city with over 50K sims but as with all of my cities, there is a bunch of jobless hobos living in it. I have plenty of industries but they are separated from the residents. I put a subway line, a highway, and countless bus stops paired with garages (in the res area) but still the people remain jobless. I check the subways and bus stops and no one is using them. I have the mass transit odinance enabled. What is required for an effective mass transit system? Incidentally, can sims come off one form of transit and onto another? (like getting off the bus and get onto a train to get to their job)

It still isn't working! The instruction manual's and Sim_Air's ideas do not work.