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hi i'm stuck at 150,000 on my big city i have 4 cities in a region.... 150,000, 130,000, one farmland no people, and one brand new city i've tried building subways, highways, and the buses and the best i can get is 60 min commute time.... the city has airport, 2 large commerce centers and 5 large population centers surrounding these commerce zones..... with HT industry near the population..... i'm wondering how do i get to the next step.....do i grow out the other cities or add new ones...or do i improve the transport in this one... does anyone have a strategy to build an efficient subway tunnel system....i'm running multiple tunnels but they get clogged easily.....

i tried.... i downloaded census repository and my industrial demand is in -120 for dirty, -10 for manufacturing, -6000 for HT still there are over 2000 jobs provided. it seems there aren' enough people to take the jobs...and also there isn't any demand to create more jobs to attract more people.....the current jobs aren't filling up i'm stuck on somekind of cap i just don' know what....very frustrating...been 19 yrs and i can't get past 900 people..... forgot to add.....just now the game started crashing to desktop repeatedly.....something here is buggy.... Combined posts. You are able to edit your posts with the 'Edit' button in the lower right of your posts rather than posting again. -CaptCity

i just installed bootcamp and am running sc4 deluxe on my mac and then installed a bunch of plugins. for some reason my first cities in a region are not growing beyond a couple of hundred people after 10 yrs....is this normal? i have an industrial town, medium square. hooked with highways where a residential section is separate from teh industyr. south of that i have a commerce/res city with highway connection. both cities are near 10 yrs but no one is moving in at all...under 500 each. i have power, water, schools, clinics, police, fire, bus stops and a nice highway system. i just don't understand. i spent all this time building up a nice planned city and it just doesn't take off. i slashed tax rates. i have nam installed with better pathfinding option checked. then reinstalled it with standard checked... i had cam installed but removed it to no avail the only cheat i have installed is the legalize gambling nets me 30,000. i have other plugins like street buses in roads, i feel like something is hampering the growth like a mod conflict.....what should i do or am i overlooking something major.... rci...res is fairly high. commerce is zero or below and industy is all negative escept for ag..... this after slashing taxes to under 5 percent... please help

i get a lot of zone more office zones requests windows.....and commuter airport windows......but my active demand for those zones co$$/$$$ are in the negative...i don't get it. and the few areas of med dens. comm i do zone, very little grows..... i do have a lot of high density regions...i'm not sure if high dens buildings have grown in all of them. all are watered/powered... i have a plan to zone a 2nd commerical city center and build a highway connection to the main cbd...... if i can find the airport tram i'll put the airport in the industyr city..... i'm thinking i should start a 3rd city in the region but not sure....i want it to start exploding with growth but i'm not sure if i should make it a 2nd industry center, a huge residential aria, a suburb, or another commerce city.......

Just wanted to get some input on why my city is sort of stuck at 77,000 population for some time.... commerce 24000 industry 23,000 i have NAM installed a passenger rail system that runs from the edge of residential all teh way tthru commerce and to industry (HT).... good bus system there's a heavy industry city next door with about 40,000 people...... couple of questions: 1. is it a good idea to replace my rail system with monorail or elevated rail? are those faster options? i've downloaded some high capacity monorail stations and hoping that would solve some issues.. and i like the way they look especially after i use hole digger and create some tunnels from which they emerge into my city........ 2. i have lots of parks, trees, and rewards spread aroudn nicely in appropriate zones....overall very good desirability numbers and mayor rating near 100..... 3. my caps are 3%/11%/5% for R$/R$$/R$$$ 1%/3% for CO$$/CO$$$ 3% for HT demand is neg for co$$ and co$$$, r$$$, and HT. positive for everything else.... 4. wondering if building a highway system is a good idea at this point....i've left spaces.... 5. is an airport required? i guess i'm flying a bit blind as i don't know what steps to take next to truly grow the city. skyscrapers,etc.... i'm just wondering if the failure to expand has to do with transport, demand, zoning? if anyone can suggest some methodical checklist sort of approach.....