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This is cool and all.... But when I see beautiful stuff like this, I always think: If I wanted to place my buildings manually, I'd play Societies (brr), and not Simcity 4. :V

They are empty. However, there is a download somewhere on the STEX which has all the landmark buildings in a CO$$$ office building form. By default, the landmarks are kind of useless... They only have a real effect in a fully developed city, with their commercial desirability.

Mine is more of a village than a suburb, but it fits here...

Software rendering mode seems to make it run faster. At least, that's what I use, and I have no performance problems.

Originally posted by: GeneralEtrius You can also be very artificial and plop all your houses and buildings. That's what I'm doing for a "synthetic city" of mine.quote> Personally, I dislike full plopping. I only plop very few significant buildings, otherwise I grow my stuff. If I wanted to manually place buildings, I'd play Societies. :V

There's some mod on the STEX that raises R$$$ minimal desirability requirements, so they won't get abandoned upon completion.

Try putting some crime-decreasing City Ordinances into effect, like night curfew for kids and other stuff. Can't recall them specifically, but there's quite some of them.

Let's get to it immediately: I have a developing region. I tried building a small suburban-ish city on a small coastline tile and zoned most of the town with 1x1 house lots (I have lots of custom buildings for that lot size). Then I start the city and.... Voilá! Two houses grew out of the ground: Those that were on 1x2 lots... I observed it earlier already, but it only became apparent now that, for some reason, in a fresh city, 1x1 houses refuse to grow for me, even if the region is kind of developed (and if my memory serves me right, the growth stage of buildings depends on the population of the region), so... I have no clue why 1x1 houses refuse to grow on a fresh city tile. It's getting really annoying.

So the growth stage doesn't match... But I thought the maximal growth stage of buildings is determined by the region's population... Edit: Or does the region's size and the neighboring cities' development only affect the RCI demand?

Brilliant! Though, at parts, it almost felt like you enjoy torturing your citizens with the worst living conditions possible. :V

The number of customers depends on the traffic pasing by the shop.

First thing that came to mind when reading this CJ: HOLY TITF*CK THIS IS MASSIVE OH MY GOD You sir, have mastered the game mechanics.

Real nice stuff in here, but... I personally rather build themeparks with my good ancient Rollercoaster Tycoon, and stick to cities with SC4.

Many thanks! I was kind of getting worried, because restoring files to their original "subfolder-less" state would've been nothing short of impossible, so I'd have had to dump most of my plugins folder...

I still have my whole Plugins folder from a couple years ago when I was a regular user here, as I carried it over to my nw computer. However, I am a bit worried because of one thing... A couple years ago I decided to make my folder less messy, and organized lots of files into subfolders, and only now did I start worrying that I may have unknowingly broken a whole load of things I have, and I simply don't notice because there's too many things I have downloaded to keep in mind... So, my question is: Does organizing downloaded files into subfolders break plugins?

Well you see, I live in Budapest (Hungary), and dare I say, the last time this city was planned at all was around 1900. The parts of the city from those times are grand. Large avenues, going circular and straight to downtown, good looking buildings from a better age, palaces, streets going in a perfect grid. That was i the early 1900s. But since then, cars appeared, but the streets didn't get any wider, so the downtown is now riddled with barely any parking space and confusing one-way streets that make every normal individual rage after the third turn. And of course, the buildings were beautiful at the beginning of the century, but after WWII, socialism kicked in, and their priorities weren't exactly maintaining the high-class downtown. So now an entire district of downtown is practically a ghetto, with derelict buildings, minorities left and right, and so. In the socialist decades, city planning went pretty chaotic. There's practically no classical middle-class suburbs, because there's large housing complexes full of not-so-middle class inhabitants scattered across them. The first subway was built in 1896, it was practically for show, going under the grandest avenue leading to a large square with museums and the city park. Then, in the 70s, two more subway lines were built. They're useful, but... Well, they are just subways. And only one of them was renovated, the oter one still smells of the 70s...Then came the last two decades. Since the socialist regime's end, the mayor of Budapest is the same guy, and... I don't even know why, because he did not contribute anything to the city. The roads are in a terrible condition, new developments go uncontrolled everywhere, and they just make the city look even more chaotic, there's trash and traffic jams everywhere, and until a couple years ago, there was no highway going around the city, so interstate traffic went straight through downtown. But regardless, I like living here.