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That tree trick works with commercial as well and even with industrial. Beware though as you may get a building you hadn't intended (like high tech appearing in the midst of a dirty industry zone).

It occasionally happens if the game is overloaded. It usually disappears on its own after a while though, so it should not be an issue.

I guess this bridge leads into the underground...

I noticed the same, and the STEX seems to give me corrupt files very commonly (I had to redownload a file four times because it was always corrupt).

I love how the Sims crash into each other when there's a traffic jam.

You can also connect the two cities via subway.

I'm not an expert on game mechanics but I'll try to explain what I know: Dilapidation can occur for three reasons: * Low demand * Low desirability (i. e. crime) * commute time (obviously not applicable to commercial) CO$$$ dilapidates to CO$$ (giving more jobs in return), R$$$ dilapidates to R$$ or R$ (giving more residents, up to 20,000 per building). If the situation improves, the original wealth residents/jobs can reclaim the building.

That's not possible. As a workaround, you could create a small island on the city border where you set up the neighbor connection.

The passenger train station has a built-in parking lot, the monorail station doesn't. You should place parking garages next to the monorail stations, so the Sims can get to the monorail by car.

Those Sims can't get the building construction right

No idea what this is supposed to be...

I could get my mayor rating to -100 after using the bug to plop 200 federal prisons in a row. Yet, no riots appeared.

For planning highways, you should plan them before starting your city because building one in the middle of an established city is very hard to do. Use elevated highways unless you plan to use el-rail (they can't be dragged across elevated highways as far as I'm aware). Try to place them at major transit routes (it's hard to plan that in advance but you can just drag some highways seamlessly across the map and build along them).

You only need enough schools/hospitals to cover the entire map, no matter what the advisors tell you. You only need to build additional ones if a school/hospital is overcrowded.

To 1. At least for me, R