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Ok, so all you need to do is: Accept the request by clicking on "I'll Do It" (or whatever it says). Where the mission badge appears on the upper-right of the screen. hover your mouse over the icon and click on the red "X". That will stop them asking for Max Man every five damn minutes. Ah ha! YES. Thank you so much, AshTym!

I'd love to know the answer to this too!

I use the incinerator. It causes air pollution, but when placed with the wind direction in mind, I haven't had any troubles with it. I usually start burning as soon as I have enough money to buy. The dumps take up too much precious land space. As the other commenters have said, the recycling center also works great... when you can get it to work!

Hi guys! Just wanted to report that I tried this trick with mixed results on my city with 100k population. I raised taxes across the board to 16% during the hours of 1am-5am. I made a nice chunk of money, but by 3am, industry was complaining about the high taxes. By 5am, residential was complaining, and after the experiment was done, later in the day, several of my medium wealth residential buildings suddenly had 'bad neighbors'. Low wealth was popping up in my medium wealth areas, because land value had dropped. Also, several of my low wealth apartments suddenly had 'no money', while others were just complaining that it was too bad taxes were so high. So, if you choose to do this, it will give you money in a pinch, but beware the reprecussions. The money is coming straight from your Sims' pockets. If I try it again, I will only do it 1 hour at a time and see if I can get away with it. 24 hours, as the original poster suggested, would have ruined my city.

youre lucky, I have about half my hotels abandoned, I destroy them, they reappear. The ones that arnt broke, release waves of taxis right at the start of the morning rush creating massive gridlock. Oh man. I want to love this game, but traffic is the biggest nightmare. It seems to me that if you want hotels, you can build the casino and/or create tourist attractions so they pop up in your commercial zone. If you want to get rid of the hotels, for now, it seems like you need fewer tourist attractions to keep commuters from neighboring cities from clogging up your roads. Also, if you keep all of your jobs filled, less commuters from neighboring cities -- keep jobs unfulfilled, more commuters.

I have casinos with empty hotels and Sims standing outside saying 'No hotels here. Leaving town!'

A day later, the gifted money finally came through to my city. Yay!

Just wanted to weigh in and say I'm having this issue as well. Gifting between regions does not seem to work.

Per @Charlie_Sin (PR Manager for SimCity) March 1 4:08PM Twitter status: "Tip for my fellow North Americans: @simcity unlocks on Origin at 9:01pm PST on Monday, March 4. That's 273,150 seconds from now."

Is the game available for download via Origin at 12:01am on 3/5? Is that how it works? I've never downloaded a game on release day.

I don't believe so. I think the only name you can actually edit is the city name. Well that would be a shame since that's always been something I've enjoyed doing in SC4. Back when my parents used to own car dealers in California, I'd rename the car dealers in SC4 to their company name, and an assortment of other businesses that I'd visited in my life. I too am getting the impression that you can't rename the buildings. The webcast guys would let Twitter and Facebook viewers vote on a name, but I noticed they weren't actually editing the building names in the game. Must have just been an 'in theory' activity. Quite a shame, because I would really love to add that personal touch to my landmarks.

I've been watching (and enjoying!) the live broadcasts all week. One question: The hosts have been taking Twitter/Facebook comments from viewers and allowing them to re-name buildings and landmarks (ie: The University, the baseball field, etc.). Does anyone know if we will actually be able to edit the names of buildings, businesses, landmarks, etc. like in SC4?

It's March 1st. I pre-ordered through Origin, and I don't see an option to download ("start loading") the game. Anyone know how to do this? That was only Amazon (regarding March 1) as far as I know, and Amazon changed their wording to now say: "Note: this game will not be available for pre-load prior to launch." (With no date.) I don't think Origin ever claimed March 1 in the first place. Thank you for the info! It really would have been nice to be able to download the game in advance. I'm sure that launch day will take some extra time. 12GB is no small file!

It's March 1st. I pre-ordered through Origin, and I don't see an option to download ("start loading") the game. Anyone know how to do this?

I got invited too! It's only a 4 hour window. Beta 2 took almost 2 hours to download, and this new Beta is supposed to be a full version of the game. I wonder if we'll have much of a chance to play.