MayorMcZack

So I've tried and tried the basic tip of make a residential city in one section and an industrial on it's border and let the industrial city be the jobs for the residential city so it's free of pollution, and I get development, even a pretty good bit, but my finances are almost always in the red... What am I doing wrong so that the city full of industry isn't making any money?

Could you clarify acouple things... what are the CJs? And what's the issue with windows 7... because I'm thinking of upgrading soon...

Howdy folks, I never would have figured this old game was still so popular... I bought it out of a discount bin a couple years ago... played it for a while, always left it on easy and I got pretty bored with it and didn't t touch it for a long time. Out of the lack of anything else to do lately I started playing again, on medium, and am actually having much more fun than I did before, who'd a thunk it right, playing the game right is more fun... Some things I've run into, no one ever uses parking garages... ever... do they only get used when the cities get fairly large? Is there anywhere that lists requirements for city advancement? Because googling "SimCity requirements" just has the computer system requirements... but what I'm looking for is like what they list on the reward buildings, such as you need four city museums to unlock the reward museum, etc, but broader, for instance what populations do I need before I get high rises (I've yet to ever get a high-rise other than a reward or landmark building. No High density zone has ever sprouted a big bad ass building) I try the residential city next to the industrial city thing, but the industrial city hardly takes off, it stays mostly the little one and two square buildings. I'd think they'd sprout the bigger better factories I get in full mixed cities.... well... brain fart... I know I had a couple other issues, but I can't think of them... more to come... Oh... one thing I've noticed after coming here... all these custom looking buildings, roads, etc, is see this BAT here and there, which I'm assuming is a file type... I'm not all that computer savvy, so if someone could give me the gist on what's up with that, it'd be helpful... (like, is it just download them and drop them in the appropriate folder?, etc)

Ah... it's not all that uncommon to have them break even as well, so I guess I'm doing okay. Some I also will stick in some low density residential. Figure poor people have to live somewhere eh? But I did think police presence & parks were required to get High Tech industry... no?

I have some minor experience with 3D modeling so I'd be all about making my own buildings... I'm going to be so busy for the next few weeks I don't have the time to get into it all just yet. I also don't have internet at home, so I can only check this $%&^! out briefly while I'm at school when I need a moment away from classwork.

Right on, thanks folks... I had my parking garages next regular train stations, not ElTrains, so maybe that was it... I also have rather thorough coverage of bus stops so maybe they just didn't need the garage. Or my populations weren't big enough. I remember now the other thing, Freight Train stations almost never get used. I've had them in industrial zones, commercial zones, between the two... in the middle of agricultural cities that are next to fairly densely populated cites... hardly ever get used. I get plenty of industrial that goes right to thr trains, but no one seems to use the freight stations.