Odd8ball

*rises from his grave* *shakes off the dust* Ok I'm back. Can I join the club?

---------------- On 9/15/2003 11:56:42 PM Screwballl wrote: looks good everyone... also can i please ask that you guys edit your posts and change the size of the pictures down to 800x600 please? thanks alot ---------------- Yeah, my dialup's crawling everytime I read this pos t. Pls. keep it to at at least 640 x 480, and let me enjoy viewing your nice looking cities....

---------------- On 9/9/2003 11:42:55 PM toroca wrote: Taxes are also a significant consideration. In my own experience, setting R$$$ taxes too low results in too many of them moving in, which in turn means that many of them can't find jobs, which results in decay and abandonment. To much R$$$ is almost the ONLY abandonment I ever get. Contrary to popular belief, I don't think Traffic Noise and Traffic-Caused Pollution have much to do with abandonment in large buildings. I've got pristine highrises surrounded on all sides by heavily congested polluted roads, with high Traffic Noise ratings and Medium pollution ratings and they seem unaffected. ---------------- Thanks for the tip, Toroca. My latest city lingered around 1.7 mil - 1.8 million for several years, till I read your post. I always set the R$$$ taxes the lowest my city can handle and the others a little bit higher. The problem I found is exactly what you said, R$$$ sims comes in droves and abandons in a few months, en masse. So, I jacked up R$$$ taxes so much so that it has the lowest demand (but still positive) and sure enough, in just a decade, I got my city to more than 2 million. However, there is also another hitch, if the R$$ and R$$$ sims suddenly spikes, abandonment will also happen because there isn't enough R$$$ sims in the city. I just had this thing happen to my city once, so I have no choice but to lower the R$$$ tax to get them going in again but then jacked it up before they start to mess up the city again. Thanks again....

---------------- On 9/7/2003 1:23:55 AM ALTX wrote: ---------------- hey how did you get a convention center with no maor rating? ---------------- The easiest way is to cheat... the hard way is to put some high density residential zones then after getting the rewards you need, dezone and bulldoze the res zones (and the unnecesary rewards), which I did to this city. This city once had the university and minor/major league stadiums (or stadia?...).

John Skinner, can't see the pic, try uploading it again...

Yup, it's all coommercial, actually, all commercial office about 400k jobs... brett, Linds and Cahalane are probably the most rampant of all CO skyscrapers, having a hard time getting the pedrianas, only a few of them developed in this city. The second hardest is the van prooijen, just got it by repeatedly bulldozing several cahalanes.

I haven't played for weeeks, bu these two are probably my best looking cities:

You think 144 is large, try 7trumpets' LA region, it has more than 400 cities.....yikes!!!!!!!

Make sure it's 200kb or less. Use an image editor to downscale the size.

---------------- On 6/9/2003 7:47:33 AM Sneezy wrote:Thanks, Odd8ball. That really cracked me up ---------------- You're Welcome....

Asscrack Boulevard, eh... What should we call this......Boobtube Express?? ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to the recent content of the series "Fun Screenshots". The ultra conservative SMTRB (Simnation Movies and Television Ratings Board) stamped this post with "WARNING: Parental advice is recommended when viewing this post"

...and people and cars walking and driving through walls...

My turn!!! I'm Ronald, you can call me Ron, 32 yrs old father of 4 kids living in the PHILIPPINES (knock, knock!! Any other Filipinos out there???) Working for an American company (manufacturer of Scanning Acoustic Microscopes) as a Service and Applications Engineer. Got hooked to computer gaming since 16 and played probably the oldest issue of Simcity (dunno if its "classic" but it's DOS based and you can play it on a 360kb floppy disk) on a PC XT running at 8MHz ....... God I'm getting old....