champloo08

I hope they have a sandbox/unlimited option that takes resources and trading out

I hope they add a "no resource" mode. Basically free build play

I'm excited about the use of districts!

It happens to me in my larger cites and suburbs. I always thought it had something to do with the population age. Assuming the "older" population carries a lot of wealth, when they die it declines, but normally goes back up for me after a couple of years. Also all demands stay the same and are pretty high.

I would like to see the changes you've made from a sprawled suburb to the new urbanism concept. Show changes from a typically American styled sprawl suburb into transition of urbanism. Basically a reveloped area of a sprawled subrub to a mini city with mixed use developement, walkability, and public transit oriented.

Yes and absolutely not. Cities don't just have a density inside a little box. Now how unrealistic is it to come across a city that has huge skyscrapers but has a imaginary border? Its like filling up a toy box. Now the game should be up to players as its a building/simulation game. (at heart) Have big urban centers and suburbia. with country towns in between. But it should be up to the player. And idk if you ever been to Detroit and Metro Detroit, but it all just kinda merges together... I starts from downtown detroit, midtown, then subruban sprawl for the rest of detroit and metro area with smaller downtowns like dearborn, birmingham, grosse pointe, ferndale, and royal oak sprinkled in. Then you get that are large "employment centers" that feature skyscrapers like Southfield, Troy, and Dearborn.

Its not the same thing. The regions are designed poorly and doesn't make up for lost city size.

Here's a video to support this. The citizens are just filling up the nearest house then moves on to the next one http://youtu.be/WH-CdkSqDSs

So are they going to at least put cities right next to each other in these new regions?

I don't mind the tile size, but I hate the region with the huge spaces between the cities. I don't mind the tile size because I understand everyone's computer is not equipped top handle it , but the spaces between the cities are ridiculous! The tiles could have been side by side and made a city based off of districts then made the surrounding suburbs.

Thats the only thing i worry about, but we'll see how it plays out. Luckly I only had to pay $10 for it.

Welp. The company is trying their hardest for me to keep disliking this game. I'll just wait like 2-3 years before purchasing this. I just ordered Cities XL 2012 to fill that 3D void.

Need a lot of parking for those office workers

I'll wait a few years before I purchase it. I won't to see what the mods will do, because the tiny cities and spaces between them is whats stopping me from purchasing the game.

My favorite suburban office district I've created so far. Its the second largest office district behind my core city. The suburb has largest collection of financial institutions, has a large convention center surrounded my many hotel chains, and features a country club plaza that also features high end retail like Louis Vuitton, Versace, and Hermes.

I haven't played Sim City 4 in awhile and just picked it up again. I'm really disliking this growth I had for a suburb in my region before I stopped playing. The city is the 3rd largest in the region with the population just under 200K and the 2nd largest office district in the with the office population at 400K. The regions population is 4.3 million and the largest city is just at 1.2 million with office population at 650K. The largest city and this suburb is separated by a large body of water, but is connected with a large bridge. The suburb connects to more cities compared to the anchor city, technically the suburb is the center of the region, and has a lot of incoming traffic for the office district in all directions. Now I hate the way my suburb looks with all the high rises and would like to redevelop the whole city with more mid rises, very few sky scrapers, and a larger sprawled area of offices. I'm trying to go for the a mixture with Tysons Corner (DC) and Southfield/Troy (Suburbs of Detroit). I'm worried that redevelopment process will have repercussions with the neighboring cities like large loss of wealth, jobs, abandoned homes, basically the affect of a huge drop in the economy. Do you all have any tips to help me tackle the redevelopment? My Suburban City Tysons Corner (DC) Southfield (Detroit) Troy (Detroit)

Update This is how the redevelopment of my city is going. I like it so far, but I feel like there's still too many tall buildings. What do you think? Also the the redevelopment of the city didn't do too much harm as I though it would have to the rest of the region. Looks like the some residents of the surrounding suburbs would drive to my main city for work.

Ok thanks, are there any parking mods that you recommend?

Has anyone ever set high taxes at the beginning of a new region (13%+) and made them standard for all the cities in the region? Does your region still grow as if the 13%+ is the normal tax amount?

How do you all get your traffic like that without disappearing?

Can't wait for the next update! Looking forward to those mansions growing

Nice, keep up the great workv! Can't wait for you to do the Palmer Woods, Sherwood Forest, Golf Club, Indian Village, and Boston Edison! Will you also feature some Detroit suburbs like Southfield, Dearborn, Grosse Pointe's?

I hope they make it eaiser to make in-ground freeways

Alway nice, can't wait for the next update!