mayor_brando

Hi all, i'm new here! I've been playing Simcity4 for a long time, and I have a question that i'm sure you've been asked before: How do you get skyscrapers? I've seen pictures of cities that look as big as New York, with skyscrapers everywhere, but I never get any! I CAN get residential skyscrapers, but I can never get commercial ones! I've tried everything, like: Zoning high density putting in landfills lowering taxes putting in schools for the residential increasing traffic And much more! I have cities of 80,000 with no commercial skyscrapers whatsoever. And the demand for offices is large, so I have no idea what i'm doing wrong! I hear you have to have a commercial population of 45,000 to get skyscrapers, but I never have enough room to zone for more commercial! Please help!!!!!

Yeah, I haven't heard of any hurricanes either so far this year except for Bill. I have heard it might hit the Northeast around Cape Cod.

Originally posted by: blade2k5 Scum like this don't deserve any compassion or mercy. I say just put a bullet in his head and be done with it, but that's the easy way out.quote> I agree, or maybe they should just take him off treatment for his cancer and leave him in a cell, alone, for a few days.

I also have this same problem; I am planning to start building a Chinatown in my city very soon now, and most of the Chinatown buildings on the STEX are just a bunch of Maxis buildings plopped together in some weird combination. But I did find this.

Those boxes mean you're missing dependencies, which are usually stated in the description or readme. You also might wanna look at this thread.

I got this to grow in three years. It's definetly not my best city, but it's my largest; 550,000, so it's average growth per year is about 185,000 per year. And, yes, I used some mods.

Because they have proved incredibly inept at governing the islands with wholesale corruption and illegal selling of Crown Land.quote> At the behalf of the poor colonists, can you please define "Crown Land"? Sounds a bit like a posh sub-development.

Originally posted by: Merlin of Flyote Originally posted by: screamingman12 My first question: Why does it seem like the US has so many more crazy people than any other place else? quote> Perhaps it's the US way of life, anti-social, selfish and too many guns.quote> You sound a bit anti-social yourself. You can't group a whole nation together just because of a few crazies. Also, you know that there are crazies and mass-killings in the rest of the world, do you not? Yes, we have too many guns, which, like I said, is why we need gun control, but that's for another topic.

I usually just plop the mayor's house and put some open grass areas all around it, then put trees, pathways, etc.

I don't think it matters which way the arrow's pointing. Also, ped-mall can go in front of commercial and industrial buildings, but not residential, and it's usually a good idea to have a bus stop/subway nearby.

Yeah, this would fit better in the Show us Your Oddities Thread.

Unfortunetly, residential buildings that are plopped will usually abandon due to commute times. It's best to just try to grow the residential buildings you want.

There are plenty of water and air purification downloads on the STEX. Just search for "purification". Alternativly, you could make your own with the Lot Editor and Plugin Manager.

Download the NAM, then just drag the monorail over the highway and it should form a cross.

I have a question: Do you know if this will work with other job multipliers, such as the industry quadrupler?

There is also the RCImulti mod, which has an option to totaly eliminate traffic congestion.

NEW YORK – A small plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter carrying Italian tourists over the Hudson River on Saturday, scattering debris in the water and forcing people on the New Jersey waterfront to scamper for cover. Authorities believe all nine people aboard the two aircraft were killed. Another helicopter pilot on the ground at the heliport for Liberty Tours, which operated the doomed sightseeing craft, saw the plane approaching the helicopter and tried to radio an alert to the pilots, police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The warning wasn't heard or didn't happen in time. The collision, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg said was "not survivable," happened just after noon and was seen by thousands of people enjoying a crystal-clear summer day from the New York and New Jersey sides of the river. "First I saw a piece of something flying through the air. Then I saw the helicopter going down into the water," said Kelly Owen, a Florida tourist at a Manhattan park. "I thought it was my imagination." The two aircraft went down just south of the stretch of river where a US Airways jet landed safely seven months ago. But this time, there was no miracle. "This is not going to have a happy ending," Bloomberg said. Hours after the collision, he said he thought it fair to say "this has changed from a rescue to a recovery mission." The National Transportation Safety Board was investigating the cause of the collision. Two bodies were recovered in the water, one floating free and one in the wreckage, and other bodies were spotted in the debris in the river, the mayor said. The crash victims included five Italian tourists and a pilot on the helicopter and the three people on the plane, including a child, Bloomberg said. Witnesses described seeing a low-flying plane smashing into the helicopter, and then wreckage scattering. One of the plane's wings was severed by the impact. Buzz Nahas was walking along the Hoboken, N.J., waterfront when he heard the impact, then looked up to see the plane without one of its wings "fluttering" into the water. "There was a loud pop, almost like a car backfire," he said. "The helicopter dropped like a rock." The plane, headed for Ocean City, N.J., left Teterboro Airport in New Jersey at 11:54 a.m., the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in a statement. It had landed at the airport 25 minutes earlier with the pilot aboard to pick up two passengers. The plane had started its journey in Pennsylvania, an official familiar with the plane's flight path told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly. The plane, a Piper PA-32, was registered to LCA Partnership in Fort Washington, Pa. The company's officials couldn't immediately be identified. The helicopter was a Eurocopter AS 350 owned by Liberty Tours, a sightseeing and charter company. It was struck by the plane shortly after lifting off from a heliport on Manhattan's West side. On the Hoboken, N.J., waterfront, people scattered as pieces of debris fell from the sky. A wheel from one of the aircraft lay on Hoboken's Sinatra Drive. "We saw the helicopter propellers fly all over," Hoboken resident Katie Tanski said. Afterward, much of the wreckage sank quickly into the river. The accident happened in a busy general aviation corridor over the river that is often filled with sightseeing craft on nice days. Pilots have some freedom to pick their own route, as long as they stay under 1,000 feet and don't stray too close to Manhattan's skyscrapers. The skies over the river are often filled with pleasure craft, buzzing by for a view of the Statue of Liberty. Steve Riethof, a volunteer at the Aviation Hall of Fame in Teterboro, said Saturday that pilots headed for the Jersey Shore from Teterboro generally fly through Manhattan. Accidents happen every few years. New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor died when their plane hit a skyscraper while flying a popular sightseeing route in 2006. In January, the river was the scene of a spectacular aircraft landing that resulted in no loss of life after a US Airways flight taking off from LaGuardia Airport, in Queens, slammed into a flock of birds and lost power in both engines. The plane crash-landed in the river, and all 155 people on board were pulled to safety. The identities of the victims of Saturday's crash were not immediately released. Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman Maurizio Massari confirmed there were Italians aboard the helicopter and said the ministry was working to find out further details through diplomats and authorities in New York. Paolo Casali, from Rome, was scheduled to take a helicopter tour with Liberty after noon on Saturday, but her 13-year-old son, Lorenzo, was too scared to go. "I feel very, really lucky," Casali said. "I think God was in our life. Today is the beginning of a new life, to catch every moment, every minute of this life." A person who answered the phone at a Liberty Tours office said the company would be releasing a statement. The company runs sightseeing excursions around the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and Manhattan at costs ranging from $130 to about $1,000. Two years ago, a Liberty helicopter fell 500 feet from the sky during a sightseeing trip. The pilot was credited with safely landing the chopper in the Hudson and helping evacuate her seven passengers. In 1997, a rotor on one of its sightseeing helicopters clipped a Manhattan building, forcing an emergency landing. No one was hurt. quote> Link I wonder how it happened; I heard it was a clear day at New york.

Originally posted by: Lampala The town hall meeting issue really is bothering me. The people being called un-american "mobs" and everything are simply voicing the opposition to the bill passionately.quote> I saw a thing on CNN yesterday where Ron Reagan was being interviewed about the disruptions at healthcare meetings. He claimed that at one one such meeting in Arizona, a gun fell out of the pocket of a man who was standing up, yelling against the new healthcare plan. Another incident occured when an elderly man told one of the protesters to calm down, and the protester yelled in the man's face. If you call that "passionately voicing the opposition", then you're horribly mistaken. When anyone tries to ask a question that challenges the bill, they will either get answered with "stop being disruptive"...quote> Mabye that's because they are being disruptive by yelling out the question, which is completely unnessescary. ...or "the bill will get everyone insured, only the evil rich people will be taxed, and you don't have to switch to the public plan."quote> Many rich people are CEOs who got us into this recession in the first place; I think they can survive a minor tax hike. And you don't have to switch to the public plan; that has already been decided. Which would you rather put your life in the hands of? - A private industry which is always competing to provide the best products and services to people and always looking to innovate. - The government, bogged down in beauracracy and with little encouragement to provide more than mediocre products and services since it has no competitors to lose business to.quote> Lemme fix that: - A private industry which is always competing to provide the cheapest products and services to people and always looking to get their money. -The government, elected by your vote and with your vote as encouragment to provide good products and services, along with an option for people to keep their own private insurance. Keep in mind that you can always vote people out of government office; you can't do that with private corporations. In Portsmouth, N.H., Obama will speak directly about his proposal to ban insurance companies from denying individuals coverage because of pre-existing conditions. During a Friday trip to Bozeman, Mont., he will talk about how his plan would block companies from dropping an individual's coverage if he or she becomes ill. And in Grand Junction, Colo., the president will talk about how the Democrats' plan would end high out-of-pocket costs in some policies.quote> If this is true, thats a pretty good reform of the existing system.That is unless it just makes them raise thier prices and drive every one off thier private insurance.quote> That it is.

Originally posted by: RedImperator There are two different ways to do it, and one of the tools (which I think is a Maxis default) looks terrible, with a hump in the highway and the overpass doing a stupid and ugly up-and-down thing. The problem is those ramps aren't 15 meters deep, so they pull the highway up towards street level and (for some reason) make the overpass jagged.quote> The solution to this is to dig 15m, then raise the terrain a little bit and you won't get those nasty bumps. This is an example. I think it looks pretty good, with only one minor bump on the overpass.