IchimaruOO

Yes, I would love to see a picture of your city as well, especially how and where you put your commercial zones! (Among the residents? Or separately? Something else?) Do they get good traffic thru them? What about Land Value? (I could keep this up for pages, lol)

Up until a year ago I had problems with R$$$ abandonment as well, occasionally R$$ too, until I found this great post by Toroca: [ http://www.simphoni....?showtopic=6813 ] So, taking the fact that middle and high wealth sims tend to replace the poor too much into account... R$ 5000 14% R$$ 25000 72% R$$$ 5000 14% You have too many R$$, possibly R$$$, and too few poor sims. The rich cannot survive by themselves, since the workplaces they make demand for don't offer enough jobs for them. Even if R$ only works low jobs, they still provide much needed demand for I-M, Co, I-HT, etc, IF they are well educated. These jobs then can be occupied by R$$ and up. What you need to do is raise taxes for R$$ and R$$$ ABOVE the neutral 9% rate, so they can chase less poor sims out of town. I usually have my residential taxes at 9%, 9.2%, 9.4% for wealths respectively, then raise them later if I see more zots. Then you could bulldoze some of those abandoned mansions, and zone high density to get a few low-wealth apartemnt buildings, then wait for a few years to get them smart again. Good Luck!! (This tax raising worked so far for me. Right now I'm playing a town of 40,000, and have a strong Co demand. Now I just need to be patient, No Traffic can be a powerful business deterrent. So can congestion... Ugh...) Assuming you mean R$, not only they cannot build where richer sims live, they seem to be slower to move into your city when there's great demand for higher wealth sims too. Otherwise, if you put zones (medium-high density) in places that are the most preferable to rich sims (Yes, the game looks there first for new development even for the poor), or cover the location with services (to make it a good spot), it's only a matter of time 'till apartments pop up. (Up to about 6 months) Not directly, no. But adding those facilities raises the poor's education over time, then adding I-M and more commercials when needed gets demand for the rich people to move in, who in turn force out the poor but educated sims, if they are allowed to - hence the need for higher tax rates to discourage such overdevelopment. (The "Stay Out until you're needed" policy, lol)

I noticed that effect of trees on development myself. Whenever I want some high-density buildings in new zones (usually residential), I simply plant about 100$ worth of trees on said zones, and voila, insta-growth!

This approach works very well with low city detail setting in gfx menu, but not so much on higher gfx quality, then there's no real free space on lots due to props. I used to plant trees all the time like this, back when I thought that that advisor's message makes any difference (silly me... ) Anyway... to me: RH + NAM + Industry X4 + Stupid News Filter + Schools & Parks == WIN I often use trees from a tree-mod, but only for aestetic purposes.

Awesomely creative usage of those hol diggers and slope mod! Cheers!

One more process that should never be killed: Sched.exe, the windows process scheduler. I also would recommend not to kill any antivirus processes, because disableing any real-time protections should be enough (maybe? Hehe) BTW, if you have auto-update on, be mindful of that.

This is very useful, I imagine a lot of people lose their game manual, where the SN is printed on its back cover. I've seen a few homes where multiple children live. LONG LIVE CHAOS!

Thanks a bunch, your mirror site proved invaluable to me, now that the official (old) simcity4 site is no more.

Hello Guys! Sorry for reviving this old thread, but after hours of searching the net, this is the only place I found. I'm having the same problem as Airdnasira, but more. This graphic corruption occurs whenever I click any dataview (like Police, Traffic, Health, etc). But the cherry on the cake is that whenever, however I save the city, this glitch appears and ruins the Region View. I can't build large beaches without having a fugly region afterwards. My game version is 1.1.640.0 and European (left-hand drive). I wonder if others have this same problem, or only so far as QuantumEagle described? Edited 17 Jan.: I've tried using software rendering, but the result was the same. I was hoping it was a conflict with my videocard, but now I'm sure it's hardcoded and probably can't be helped.

Very nice!!

Hmm, Since the building is 'worn down', is it possible / a good idea to add a few cracks in the walls to the brown half, and perhaps some worn down or faded paintjob to the green-ish half? Or a graffity?