CapnLanky

I am just curious how often you use highways. It seems like many people just use avenues (+ subways/busses), but I like how highways look and am trying to rationalize using them. Thanks!

If your ultimate goal is a large city.... is it better to have one region focus mainly on residential, and another focus on industrial and another focus on commerce ect; or is it better to have regions that have a mix of zones? Thanks!

What are the advantages to laying down single residentials in the early game?

So I have a region with about 125k people living in it, 3 industrial cities, a high tech city, a suburb, two high density residential cities and a central business district. One of my high res cities has been operating at a loss and I have recently almost ran out of $$. I have tried scaling back funding on the health/schools but it seems that it gives negative demand for anyone wanting to move into the area. I have the traffic mod as well as a subway system and a couple avenues (could probably use another, but no $$). Even after cutting down funding to bare bones, I still am operating at a 400$ a month loss. Sadly I am out of simoleons and the city is dependent on its neighbor for waste/power. I would be pretty upset if I let this one area with about 30k people and operating at a loss managed to take down the whole economy of my region. Oh, b.t.w., I dont really have any loans out. Any suggestions and thanks for the help, I am pretty new to the game and this community seems awesome. Thanks again.

DP. im sorry, was there anything constructive at all there? ^^ its my first region, and i'm not embarrassed. take a chill pill, its sim city. nobody is getting a career in civic planning here.

DP. im sorry, was there anything constructive at all there? ^^ its my first region, and i'm not embarrassed. take a chill pill, its sim city. nobody is getting a career in civic planning here.

just wanted to give everyone an update, I took out a smaller loan, and rezoned a bunch of commercial. I initially lost 10k of my population, however once the commerce zones got built up a bit, it sprang right back. I am just shy of my initial 30k residents, was able to put fire,police,education ect back to sustainable levels, and am currently earning something like 300-400$ a month. So that is awesome! One thing I dont understand though. My failing city is next to my central business district, which is entirely commerce, much of it is high density. The demand for low and medium service commerce was maxed, and medium commerce offices were in decently high demand too. When liberty city initially started failing I moved over to my central business district thinking that if I fast forwarded time a bit, my buildings would get taller due to the high demand in the previously mentioned areas. But they stayed the same, and it took rezoning in liberty to commerce to take advantage of the demand. What am I not getting about the buildings getting taller with demand thing? Is this a commuting issue? thanks for the continued help, you all are lifesavers.

actually I would have no problem rebuilding the city, I was wondering what kind of effects that would have on the region though, its got 31k residents and 3.5k commerce jobs.

Heres the basic layout of my failing city. I've tried improving the surrounding areas to increase resident demand, and in other zones my demand for people is higher, but for some reason the demand for residents is negative in my failing city; I'm assuming its because i have reduced funding to a number of services. If I got a loan, what should be my immeadiate action after resecuring trash/power from my neighbor?