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This mod was created to make the industrial buildings more realistic in the game. As everyone knows, factories in fact employ hundreds or thousands of people, but in SimCity 4 there is hardly a single operation that offers more than 100 jobs. The number of jobs is quadrupled with the installation of this mod. All heavy, manufacturing and high-tech industries now offer four times the number of jobs. This means that the largest industrial building in the game now provides over 600 instead of just over 150 jobs. Filler buildings (burners, small warehouses, etc.) still have the old values, and I have only modified the larger industrial (anchor) buildings. In addition, I have doubled the amount of revenue of the modified buildings. Otherwise, with the increased number of jobs, industrial demand can be met more quickly, making it difficult to keep industrial cities afloat. In order to make this mod effective, you have to load all the cities of your region(s) after the installation and save them once, otherwise the changes in the job number will not take effect. After opening a city, the demand for industry will most likely fall sharply and many industrial buildings will be abandoned. On the other hand, the demand for residential areas will sooner or later increase sharply due to the increased number of jobs. It is therefore advisable to remove a large part of the industrial zones after loading the cities, so as not to overbalance the game. This download is compatible with all versions of SimCity 4. Staff Note: For technical reasons beyond the author's control, the original file entry was no longer available hosted on the STEX. This re-upload restores it on the grounds of good faith for the benefit of the community. -
Got it to work correctly! Sorry for the false alarm, they are all working beautifully!
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My high wealth city will be ruined, please, help!
toroca replied to borutaj's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion
Glad the mod helped you, Borutaj. As an aside to A Nonny Moose, I'm with Divine Hand. I've seen no evidence whatsoever that the population age has anything to do with anything in regards to abandonment or demand. My cities older than 100 game years or so are all skewed heavily toward the elderly, including one in which more than half of the population was 60+ and I have never seen any kind of die-off as the population supposedly ages. Those cities are, in fact, among the most stable in my region. Unless I demolish or rezone things, they hardly change no matter how long I let them run. The graphs never shift, either. If what you've said were true and there was any basis on reality, these cities would be fluctuating wildly all the time, but that never happens. -
What you describe is not a real economy. There's no such thing (especially in the modern era) as a self-sufficient city, which is what the kind of economy you describe largely sounds like. SC4's economy is actually not bad, in terms of the demand types. Cities with a high level of well-educated workers in the real world DO attract more office and high tech workers and businesses than a rural city, which is liable to attract a more uneducated workforce for more laborious but less skilled job types. Most things that real cities use are imported from elsewhere, and most things that real cities produce are sent elsewhere to be sold.
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Those of you whining that I broke your game: If you'd learn to follow instructions and read the Readme, you wouldn't have had problems. I quote: "If you currently have landmarks in ANY of your cities, you MUST demolish them before you can install this mod. If you don't, you will not be able to enter any cities with landmarks already in them, because the game will crash to the desktop."
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The ST 6.0 Department of Technical Affairs
toroca replied to Craig-Abcvs's topic in Simtropolis Related
Is anyone else experiencing problems with posting comments on the STEX? I've been trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to reply to people who've posted questions (and in one case derogatory comments) on my mods. I'll type it up, submit it, and it appears from my end that it's been added to the comments. However, when I come back later, my comment is gone. I'm not posting anything inappropriate, and even if I were, what I've posted is nowhere NEAR as bad as the language used in several of the comments I'm trying to reply to on the Functional Landmarks Mod. After multiple tries, I've been able to get MOST of my comments posted so they stick, but I'm still having trouble. I at first thought that my missing comments had been deleted, but now I'm pretty sure they're not actually getting added to the database since they're gone immediately if I reload the comments after posting something.
