Meltrik

I could use a little help from you megalopolis builders out there. I am playing on a custom terraing (Eaton) which is all large tiles. I only have three cities so far -my largest at about 350k, and two really small ones, one just being an industry city and the other not much of anything to mention. My question revolves around the demand caps in my main city -I can't seem to get commercial demand to do much of anything at all. My residents will move in, I get the no job zot and then they move out, usually whining about commute times. I have mass transit galore and I use the NAM Z Simulator. I really have a tough time figuring out why they can't find jobs, so I figure it has to do something with the fact my commercial and industry is always in the toilet. I downladed the expanded query tool and find the following information regarding my commercial: Citywide Commercial Capacity: 177,698 Citywide Commercial Occupancy: 202,305 I am trying to divine what those numbers mean. Am I to understand I am capped at 177k, but am somehow trying to pack in 202k? And if so, how do I get the commerce cap higher? I have the rewards placed where their YIMBY benefits commerce, I have freeways making connections to all four neighbors around me whether there is a city or not, and I have a small international airport. What am I missing here? I understand parks relieve the cap on residential, and I don't have a clue on the industry, other than rail connections and seaports. I would like to achieve stage 7 and 8 commercial skyscrapers without having to resort to demand mods and ploppables that do screwy things. I would appreciate any hints you may have.

I am having an odd problem where my R$ and C$ demand are through the roof but when I zone for either all I get is R$$ and Co$$/Cs$$. That may not be a bad thing, until all the R$$ leave due to other problems and I get hardly any city growth at all. Perhaps my problem is I zoned for high density residential too early and am getting these huge R$$ condos with 2000 people, but not enough large Cs$$ and Co$$ jobs to keep up. Not sure. My city has about 85k population, and has been stagnant for a while. Should I try urban sprawl and limiting the number of people with 1x1 and 1x2 zones - I get warnings whenever I do about commute times and such; or should I just try and increase the job capacity for R$$ when they move in and just hope the Cs$$ and Co$$ demand keep up? I think my transportation network is fairly good -I utilize avenues, freeways, rails, el-rails and buses, all pretty effectively. Any ideas would be appreciated!

I recently downloaded the Lot files for the Hydroelectric Dams. The file did not state any dependencies but I note from the comments you need the industrial props file available from the main SimCity 4 website. However, it does not appear to be available from that site any longer. Any way I can get it? Thanks much!