Strategist01

Originally posted by: wuen2001 Usually I will keep my taxes at default 9%. When the time is right, I will reduce taxes for high wealth residence, manufacturing, and high tech industry. Then the economy is stable, I will slowly eliminate dirty industry. That's where I got stuck with high commute time and growth bottleneck.quote> well i generally leave the taxes alone for the firs 10 years or so, but then i adjust them to what i said, and i usually have a ton of high wealth people and industry as well as commercial, its not as much as the medium wealth, but they pay, so i'm okay! i also have avenues running around the edge of the map, as weel about 9 tiles apart from each other, in a grid formation. i also use bustops that function as subway stations, so that when my roads are too congested, i just lay a subway system, and problem solved!

Ok, well what i do is i work according to maxis set rules: if a tax is set to below 4%, i will get a huge demand, if its above 12% i will have a negative demand. if i don't want a certain group, usually later on in the game when i don't want poor ppl, or rich ppl, i set the poor ppl to 10%, as every 0.1%, above 9.5%, you get a decrease of 100 in demand, and the rich to about 9.8%, with med wealth commercial ( service+office) set to 7%, and Low wealth commercial set to 9.5%, and high wealth9%. for industrial i set I-D to 13%, I-M to 7% and I-HT to 3.9%. my game usually works well on those settings i let it run for ten game years, and i'm okay! i play mostly on the easy setting.

wow, nice city there! love the Twin entrance towers! and the way there are flags at their base ^^.

well its still the bread basket of Africa, its just that weevils and cockroaches and locusts had a go at it, and it didn't win.

well its still the bread basket of Africa, its just that weevils and cockroaches and locusts had a go at it, and it didn't win.

@ DTA: well, south africa is pretty stable, and we also have to deal with Zimbabwe's troubles. in fact everybody looks to us to see what help we can give. i personally say we should sanction petrol against Zimbabwe, so that their forces run out of petrol, then we invade( with help from Britain, of course ), and depose Mugabe! there, problem solved!

very nice city, there you got going! i especially like your wavy walls...* does mexcan wave*

Congratulations, on your promtion! weel done, you earned it.

i got 57.58% and i live in AFRICA! South Africa to be precise. i think that was pretty good for some one who doesn't live there..

youre welcome.

@ MrB: well i was talking about sc4 terraformer, as i thought that was what you used to edit the whole region. now that i realize youve just been working in the game it makes this whole process much more wonderous.

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=16031 https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=16030 these are two dependant textures from cycledogg for modding your terrain. hope that helps Phil!

i just had a thought about this and was wondering if maybe the reason you can't edit those played upon tiles is (if you're using sc4 terraformer) maybe because they're locked? 'cos when i was playing around with a region it prompted me to lock/unlock certain tiles...just throwing it out there, hope it helps.

wow, this whole process is just simply amazing! Mr.B, you are a master at terraforming (pity about the crashes though)! keep up the good work! btw, wonder if terraforming could be considered art? i mean you get digital art, so this would count right? just my random mind wandering(randomly)...

Wow! great work, although i don't like that much red... keep it up!

wow, great work there, nice residential, although all that red isn't for me... Keep it up!

@ zotus: but sc4 is rendered using a 3d engine, it was the first to do that. simcity 3000 just used 2D sprites. but is does look a bit 2d...

nice airport you got going there! plus a good city on the whole. and no more denver!!!! yay! lol.

well, the sims don't like to live near industrial, so make a a residential block out of the way of the industrial. that should help...