Tuneman

I try to set them back up, but my settings totally disappear when I start the game up again. and for the high, medium, and low settings, none of them are selected at all!

Wierdest thing ever: I have never had this problem. I read this thread, opened up sim city to play, and i found the same thing is happening to my city! No joke.

I have a Core 2 Duo overclocked at 2.3 GHZ, 8800 GTS superclocked, and 2 gigs of ram. This game is slow when zooming in and out, and moving around. Tell me how you did it.

Those tan tiles, does anyone use them?

how big do you make your zones 4x4? some of them seem pretty big

I totally interchange residential, commerical, and industrial. I really don't have many "sections" that simply have 1 type. Is this bad?

Also I know for res and com the popular grid styles are 4x4 and 6x6, but what about industrial?

Yeah I was thinking of doing that, I will have to deal with a huge loss of revenue right at the beginning though, I hope I can handle it. Also, at what point population should I start thinking of putting an airport in? Where should I locate it? Also, at what population so you start seeing the big skyscrapers, I have about 100k in my city, and I have a few, but they are of the smaller variety, and disperssed around the map.

Well I sort of have that problem right now, I am trying to get all of my dirty industry out of my city, and just have it high tech. Both my I-M and I-D bars are all the way down, but they still wont move out. Also my res bars are down and they wont go back up, what should I do?

Whats the advantage to these? How should you set these up?

I've had my residential bar positive with NAM

Everything was fine the last time I saved it, and when I loaded my city up today, my water deal with a neighboring city was gone, and also if I were to get rid of my power and garbage deal, I would not be able to redo the deal. Whats going on?

Are they usually/always 4x4?

what are these stages that I keep seeing? are they stages of a building, or stages of your population that determine the size of the building. It just seems to strange some of those huge buildings are only 4 of those tiny squares I have a city with 80k people, and although they aren't sky scrapers, a great deal are 4x3

When looking at all the pieces of land from the region view, instead of showing my city, it simply shows a completley blank green region. Whats the deal?

Thanks!

Firstly, how large should my blocks be, I am interested in making hi-rises and whatnot, and should make the blocks to be able to fit hi-rises from the beginning of the game? I was wondering if there were any "dirty cities" and whatnot that I can download, because my main lot doens't have any neighbors, so I wanted to be able to start from scratch without having to put in any dirty industry or power plants. Thanks.

Where can I download empty custom regions? Also when I try importing power, I can agree to buying it on the city deals menu, however, even after I make a connection, I still can't get power to my zones. whats happening?

I just really hate building a city up and then having to demolsih certain great buildings/setups in order to make for a highway I'm not even sure people would use.

Ok thanks for the answer guys, last question, when you are zoning a piece of land and you hit 'alt' and drag it does one thing, and when you do 'ctrl' drag, it does another. The zoned land ends up looking a little different before it is built; with one its a solid color block, with another it is seperated by lines, like normal. What difference does it make?

OK sweet, and also should I plan out how I want my highway/mass transit system should work before I start, or can I wait till I build my city a lot, and then buldoze what I want to fit the transit system? Also for my dirty city, how large should i build this before I focus on my main (large tile) city? Should use another city that has 500 water pumps and then just import my water? Also will only need to create a road to connect to the dirty city and then my demand for dirty industry will go down immediatley? Should I use 4x4 or 6x6 right from the beginning, or make larger sqares at the beginning, and then change in later? Cause I see pictures like this ( ) and it looks like they use pretty huge blocks, like 12x12

So any larger and its bad? cause I used to do 8x12, and it seemed ok, its just that I had really long commutes.