Havoc1102

Pretty cool...thats a good idea I should make a city with a lot of industry...maybe Oxnard Crater to the North of Europa...It has a lot of freeways to transport goods on

Thanks for the input astro and nonny, I'll put those theories to the test, the environment advisor is always badgering me about parks... As for your question a2A, uhh, my power system is varied but the budget has become strong enough to support the biggest of power plants, a hydrogen plant, a downloaded microwave power plant which was only recently put in, and a downloaded plasma gasification waste to energy plant, all my power sources are clean. I also want to state that since Europa's beginning, taxes on dirty industry have been made VERY high to chase them off and clean up the environment, now...im at the year 127 i believe...and i've lowered the taxes to try and bring them back, maybe create more jobs and entice developers, but I'm not sure if that'll work.

Okay so I have 4 major cities in the region, but we're only concentrating on the largest, Europa and Irving Bay. Now Europa is on a large plot of land, you know, the largest plot you can build a city on, and it takes up almost 75% of the space within it. The city has about 365,000 people, has an excellent mass transit and transportation system, all bars are in the green except for the environment (cant always fix that can we?) It's a well structured city but...I can't get it to get any bigger, and whenever I zone, it takes several months for that zone to develop, even at the highest simulation speed. The largest City I had before that was Plymouth and it had over 650,000 people, still not much but it could have been better. Irving bay on the other hand is on a medium sized plot, so a plot the quarter of the size of the plot that Europa is on, Irving Bay is only a quarter of the size of Europa, and has more than half it's population, 170,000 people. The entire plot is full, there is no room for anymore development. This city also has an excellent transportation system, and probably has a better environment rating than Europa, anything I zone, will develop really really quickly. Both cities have high demand for all types of zones, and desirability for those zones is easy to come across...so why is it that the town with more space and a lot of demand won't develop and has a litte more than half the population of the smaller city, won't grow? I zone, it won't grow for crap, I've got plenty of schools, hospitals, police stations all that, the city is perfect for development but it won't grow! I'm kinda stumped here help me out.

Hah! It worked! Thanks man Never thought it would be that simple

Hey, speaking of Windows 7, i have a problem. I upgraded to 7 Pro 32 bit from XP pro, took the neccessary files and got rid of Windows.old...took up a LOT of space on my hard drive...anyhow, i reinstalled SimCity 4 brand new, and i patched it up...but it's running like it would on a Pentium III, not a 2.8 Duo...i'm seeing visual glitches and my latest city, Europa, is at about 70,000 people and it lags like CRAZY whenever i move the view around. Keep in mind that i have a really high end computer, as i said, 2.8 Ghz Duo core, GeForce 8800 GT graphics card, 4000megs of RAM, all that, i can run CoD Modern Warfare 2 and GTA4 without breaking a sweat, heck I can play SimCity 3000 easily on this system with no problems, but when I try to run SC4, everything just goes south. Help? :c

Well...call me a ***** too if you like, but I'm just looking on how to install custom buildings...Simcity 4 is nothing new to me and i've been playing SC since 3000, I just need to know what to do with all these files when i download a custom building...halp :c