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Ok i got brand new region (NY) with mostly large cities, so started first one and thougt to make it low wealth with agricultural industries mostly. Atm it has 1400 ag, ~30 ID, 3099 r$ and 1100 cs$ population and ag demand was pretty ok, since all of a suden it went in ~minus 5000, and all other things are in minus too, except dirty industries, which i dont have intension to build atm (plan is ~2 larger factories later) taxes are set to 9.0 R$ (20.0 all others), 9.0 CS$ (20.0 others) and 1.0 Ag, 9.0 ID and 20.0 other industries Hers a pic with demand graph: Any ideas why's that and how to get Ag demand in plus, its kinda absurd to me that game wont make farms, but dunno :\ Its also only city in the region atm, and i have bunch of mods instaled (no super demand ordinance or whatever it is tho).. EDIT: deleted pic due to size

lol, i solved smart sims problem by demolishing their houses, so new stupid ones poped up But maintaining low eq seem pretty tricky -.-

ye, sorry for pic's size, anyway, just checked, i got one of those rural deadwoods schools stage 1 which states: Stage 1 - Designed for a rural community with a small school and some paddocks where students can learn animal and farming skills. This has a capacity for 750 students. 1 small library, somehow it pumped EQ to 160 :\ Just deleted school, so will see, btw where can you see eq boosts for schools and education buildings? I dont wanna my sims to be completly dumb, you know How to keep em to 60 EQ?

somy's is good if you have big city, but for smaller one, this will do the great job: https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=14381

also use alt to change direction of arrows, and yes you can zone longer than 3 squares, 4, 5, 8, or whatever, just use ctrl when zoning

have you got dependencies as well? "Dependencies NDEX Global Essentials NDEX Rail-to-Subway Transition: https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=BAT&Str=ndex%20railtosubway%20transition"

to make your city better, just download, download, download and even more download i would reccomand you to search category by category, ie residental, comercal, industry, civic, landmarkd, parks, etc, etc, one by one, and one category at last twice, first check top rated then check popular.. also check new stuff too, and dont forget to get dependency packages as well, i spent 60% of time playing on downloading things only, it might be boring, but at the end you'll have great looking cities

Hope this can help, what i do, i put open grass area 2 squares arround both sides of highway and loth of trees on it, or using bsc parks instead plus trees again, helps a loth. Also, note, to speed up building on new zones, plant bunch of trees on newly zoned area, it will make some building to pop up immediately, tho trees will be lost, but who cares, just be sure to have as much trees as possible per square

Ok, i downloaded Somy japanese urban school: www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm, which seem great for large cities, but seem my sims wont go to it :\ I placed 2 of those to cover entire large $$ and $$$ wealthed city, of ~800k and still growing R population, still i have arround 800 students population in each school, tho coverage is high in entire city? And for example in some of my first cities on medium map where i used generic schools, they are full! Also Somy's is k-12 which should mean it is both ele and high school, and i have also got some other types of larger ele and high schools in some other cities and in some of them sims are willing to go, while they refuse to go in some others.. whys that? And have to add, also got some uber hospital that can hold 30k patients, after placing one, entire city pop went to it, so had to use another one regardless i had bunch of generic hospitals all over the city before that and also 5-6 sport centers so seem only schools have problem? Thanx

ye, i know only certain % goes to school, but only ~2k ppl out of over 800k now, and its both, high and ele school, but ye, i would never thought of that z1 said lol.. Playing this city pretty slow on highest speed mostly, since trying to put an effort in it, a lot of details, parks, even residental blocks with same building types which is hard when you have messed plugin folder so gotta destroy buildings xx times before right one pops up, etc, etc, didnt even realised that over 700 years have passed and that big majority of the pop is over 40 lol thx, wasnt even paying attention on those details since was busy building it and planing here are some older pics which i got to show to a gf who was bothering me what game is that im spending so much time on lol some parts changed slightly after that and its actually quite larger now: http://img687.imageshack.us/i/sc41h.jpg/ http://img715.imageshack.us/i/sc42.jpg/ http://img687.imageshack.us/i/sc43.jpg/ http://img80.imageshack.us/i/sc44.jpg/ http://img638.imageshack.us/i/sc45.jpg/ http://img241.imageshack.us/i/sc46.jpg/ http://img718.imageshack.us/i/sc47.jpg/ http://img297.imageshack.us/i/sc48.jpg/ http://img695.imageshack.us/i/sc49.jpg/ hope you like em, thx and cheers