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Heck, this one is NOTHING compared to Chile (and I live in Concepción). NZ was 7.1 and Chile was 8.8 and rumours say it was 9.2. But the damage was the same. I think NZ bulidings are somehow deficient. Even there was in Santiago (6.9 in there) there was a 55 aprox. story building, and ONE, YES ONE glass broke in the top floor. In my house, only paint fall off.

Can I save my cities, like copying my created regions and save them in the desktop so my cities in there don't get destroyed?

I have a city, with max police funding and spam coverage, but one thing that is bugging me like heck, is that from nowhere a crime wave appeared in the most ridicoulus places: -ALL CRIMES (no exceptions) are no more than 5 squares away from any police station (most are across the street), but from 10 squares radius from police, crime doesn't even exist. -From nowhere, a store got RED CRIME with ASSAULT ACROSS THE STREET from a police station. -When finally a building gets no crime, a building in any other part of the town gets crime (in front of police stations). -I dispatch my police cars with one or two helicopters. I usually spam with 30 cars, but they get there, do nothing, go back. -I have to dispatch the 30 cars aprx 3 times to get the crime out and light the colouring a tad. When I see the crime, I spam the building from all sides and a "perimiter" from surrounding it. After I place stations in front, the crime gets light yellow, but doesn't reduce more. The strangest thing, that in the Country club, there is no crime at all (transparent). EDIT: In a station I have CRIME in it.

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose Look on the STEX for a modd called CrimeDoesntPay. This ups the activity of your cops. Oh, and if you've been monkeying with the police budget, set it back to default. It could be your problem. quote> I have it from a long time ago. From X year it was on. Then next year it still was on, but the crime wave ocurred (yes, I re-encat it). I had deafult police funding during the crime. Then I raised to max after a while (still during crime) Wrecker013 Crime changes in less than a month (2 days I could say) and I (gotta, + 1 if you get it) catch 'em all. My crime graph has only arrest and no "unarrested" crime.

Originally posted by: Dizastrow Maybe you have a corrupt police force and they are in on the crime taking place! quote> This is serious thread.

Thank you, I mispelled the name of my region.

Originally posted by: the00guvna Dispatching police cars does not stop crimes, it only stops riots. And yes, sometimes you will get crime in those odd places. All though I have never seen crime in a police station!!quote> Usually, when you see a crime (like the pie throwing and car jacking), you dispatch police and the crime is stopped and reduces the colouring.. My police don't do anything when a riot happens. I have yellow in the police, but no pie throwing, etc.

Yes, it's because of the EQ. Are you using mods? If not, try to remove education (especially libraries).

Originally posted by: Tommy7777 I use the save alarm myself now too. Really helps you stay on top of saving. Unfortunately, no autosaves exist that I know of, and if one ever does arrive, it will be big. I do recommend getting the alarm even if you don't have many ctds, it will still be very helpful, and can save your hard work from destruction.quote> Sorry for double post THERE IS AN AUTOSAVE!! The link to it was in the SC4 general discussion in a thread that one had a problem having CTDs (it shouldn't be more than page 5) and someone posted a link to a page that was called "SC4 Tools" (Don't exactly remember) which has a slogan "for the serious player" (remember exactly). That page had an autosave.

Well, the thing I always do that improves it from 30 mins to heck... I've left it for a day running and it didn't crash is to (ONLY FOR VISTA WITH DUAL CORES!!!): -Start SC4 -When the region loads DO NOTHING -Press Ctrl+Shift+Esc -Task manager should appear -Go to process -Find Simcity4.exe -Right-click and select "Affinity" -Untick CPU 0 -Close Task Manager and go back to SC4.

No, parks relief R and plazas relief C.

Note (aprox): R$: 80% Mass transit, 10% car, 10% whatever is fastest. R$$: 40% Mass transit, 40% car, 20% whatever is fastest. R$$$: 10% Mass transit, 80%car, 10% whatever is fastest. Also could be that R$$ has no jobs. And yes, zoning HAS impact on traffic, i.e. a fussed grid keeps drive thru traffic off and you could place stations easier. Also you need to place stations is strategic areas, like placing a sub and residential areas in the middle of the houses and a sub in the middle of their work place, would entice more people to ride the sub. Also you could entice even more by placing parkings next to the stations, so they park&ride (train stations do have parking). EDIT: A pic would be useful.

Originally posted by: A Nonny Moose By no commercial demand, I assume you mean none of the five categories are showing above the line. If they are showing below the line, there is something that is not liked by them. Did you try your desirablility display? This should show you any areas that would take commercial buildings if there were any demand. If that is the case, try building a park in one of them. quote> Plazas are better for commercial.

Check for: -Airport -Connections -Landmarks

Maybe your region is corrput. Regions/cities gets corrupt when the saving process is interrupted (i.e rebooting while saving). When something gets corrupt, is an instant crash. No exceptions.

I do not place clinics, since they get easily overcrowded. I only place the large. Also, in the STEX there is a HUGE hospital called Giant Consolidated Hospital (if you're going to place this, place a sub, a bus and a train station (optional), since it has lots of commuters. Also, a lesser known trick, is to reduce the ambulance funding. It affects the radius and it doesn't produce strikes, even on 0 funding.

Place bigger airports and places plazas in commercial districts. That's the best.

Try a waste-to-power plant. There are some on the STEX that don't produce pollution. Also there is an ordinance that makes everything produce no garbage (might be considered cheating):

Originally posted by: ru3za007 Yo Bro... I Wanna Make My Own "Money Tree or Money Park" How To Make It...and What I Need To MAke It...???quote> You need the SC4 plug-in manager and the lot editor (optional). Create a new lot (whatever you want). Change the properties in the SC4 Plug in manager as you want, you can place the plop cost to 0, but the monthly mantainance cost must be $ - X, where X is the cash you want to get and it MUST BE NEGATIVE. If you want, change the lot's physical appereance to make it look as you want with the lot editor.

First, industry prefers Freight trucks over all other transport and will be VERY persistent on sending freight trucks, even if consists on going 3/4 of a med city. So you have to download the No-Trucks in the STEX and close ALL the exits from your industrial areas. Now the will be using freight trains or seaports (if you have one nearby): If the industry lot has contact with rail (passing behind, at a side, etc) they will automatically send freight trains and no station will be used, nor freight trucks (can be useful to reduce costs, real state and reduce pollution). If the industry hasn't contact with rail you have to place a freight station. They will send trucks to the station. If you want automata, they appear in both forms.

Have you got mods that increase demand?