RodFlanders

Yeah something happened beyond my control because somehow, everything clicked and here I am building TV's. thanks guys!

When it comes to gifting, this is how I do it. Set you gift up in regin view and submit the request, the switch into the normal view of the city you sent the cash FROM. you should soon, in about 5-10 real time minutes (on cheeta speed) see a message saying that your funds were sent to the target city. NOW switch to he target city, slap on cheetah speed, and again, in 5-10 real minutes you should see the cash hit. Works this way every time for me.

Buying both the metals HQ commerce division upgrade and the trade HQ metals upgrade is silly since they provide the same unlocks. I'd say that picking the wrong upgrade here has the potential to badly a screw up your city. What you should have done is build the smelting division first followed by the metals division at the trade HQ (shifting enough goods for the next unlocks is hard without trade ports)

The problem was I couldn't get a smelting plant because I couldn't seem to make enough cash... But I just kept adding trading ports and that eventually did the trick. Now I have a smelter, so now I can hopefully sell alloy to the point that I can upgrade one last time.

Long story short. I have about 11 coal and ore plants, fully equipped. I have two trade ports, each with all trucks populated, full coal and ore storage, and both have freight rail connections. Now the problem. I can't seem to sell more than 480k metals per day, which means I can only get the first metals/trade upgrade (I picked commerce division and metals division already respectively). Many of my coal/ore mines are closed and full at times, and both trade ports end up full of coal at 400 each frequently. My city has next to no traffic issues... What gives? Why can't I make more cash and get to the smelting and advanced coal mine expansions??

How'd you like the series? Anything I could have improved on or done better? They are on the long side so I haven't started um yet, but I will try to soon!

Yup I also noticed the trees disappearing, it really stinks.

Thanks to this thread I've created a region that includes multiple small towns like this, each serving a unique purpose within the region. Mine doesn't look as cool, but trying to keep a town small yet efficient certainly adds depth to the game!

Thanks for the post, I will check these out over the weekend!

Great thread. I'm totally going to give this a shot!

[quote name='paeng' timestamp='1303563673'] [quote name='RodFlanders' timestamp='1303504781']How did you make he lakes/rivers with the rock borders and the cobblestone type bottom?[/quote]Check in at the PLEX (www.simpeg.com) and search for 'Ponds' and 'Streams'... :-) [/quote] Thanks!!

How did you make he lakes/rivers with the rock borders and the cobblestone type bottom?