MoonCheese

I haven't tried this, but you should also be able to use a subway to connect the cities.

I can't download add-ons for SC4 from Maxis because Internet Explorer doesn't work on my computer and Maxis doesn't allow me to get them from Firefox. (I could get the patch fine, but that was about it.) Is there any other site that has these files?

Is there any way to get a lot of similar rowhouses together? I know I've managed that in the past, but now my medium-density residential areas tend to give me random-looking buildings, sometimes like one rowhouse surrounded by apartments or houses, etc. I've tried alternating medium and high density, ploppables, plop cheat, and they abandon 100% of the time and I end up with an ugly ghetto instead of nice rowhouses. They say it's because of "commute time" and the "no car" image pops up on the house and never goes away, then the houses dilapidate and they're listed as having 0 people. Every time. I'm using SC4 with Rush Hour on Windows Vista, and a lot of plugins including the NAM. I do have some growable residential plugins, and I'm wondering if they're somehow interfering, but I'm afraid to take them out because I don't know what will happen to my already-built city (around 100k people).

I don't remember...I installed SC4 and Rush Hour around January or February and haven't done much with it until now. I also haven't been able to download stuff from Maxis's site because it needs IE, and IE crashes on my computer.

Sometimes I can't even play SimCity 4 for a few minutes without it crashing! I thought some plugins were causing it as it used to crash when I plopped in certain bus stops, but I had been doing that for a while before that and it was fine. Now, it seems to crash when I add Maxis things like the courthouse. My computer is a laptop (Compaq Presario C700) with Windows Vista and only 1 GB RAM, but I don't know if I can add more RAM because it's a laptop. Would that potentially solve my problems if I can add RAM? Vista uses over half of it on its own...

Like, ya know, like, whatevarr. Or something. I tend to do that a lot in speech. Not so much in posts or IMs, but sometimes they sneak in. It doesn't really bother me when other people do it.

I prefer denser urban environments myself. I think modern suburbs are very wasteful of space. I think cities should remain dense until the outer edge, and just nature and/or farmland outside of that. That way, people lessen their environmental impact and nature can thrive on its own. Land is claimed for cities very slowly and only when the city is getting overcrowded. There should be railroads (or something more futuristic) linking the cities instead of huge freeways. So basically there'd be no suburban or rural living, just cities and uninhabited areas. However, that's just an idealistic vision that I have. In SimCity 4, I put both urban and suburban areas in, with some rural areas and small towns around the outside (but always with mass transit, even far from the city I at least have buses). I try to build my regions for everyone, so that everyone can have some part of the region they'd want to live in.

Atomic Kitten! I don't like rock very much, only the lighter stuff such as Maroon 5 and Coldplay. I'm more into Europop, techno/trance, and R&B.

I know it's already been mentioned, but metro Detroit really needs mass transit. The buses only run once an hour, only on about 1/3 of the major roads and not very far into the suburbs, and few routes operate on Sundays. Some don't operate in the evenings either. I would stop funding expansions of roads and such for a while, and build a light rail system as well as greatly expanding the bus system. I would also redevelop Detroit and give them better services, especially schools, and try to encourage new development to be in the city rather than sprawling out into the far suburbs.