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I was reading someplace that there is now a tool that you can raise and lower roads with and I have seen a few city's that has been done in. But In the game I have not been able to find the tool. is it something that needs to be added? I have been away for a few months and am back now

Hello all, I have a few questions about workers and shoppers. I am running a 3 city region on my own I have all three cities running one has made it all the way up to a population of about 115,000 peeps and is running fine. I am working on building up another "tourist city" that has very little industry. It's population has gotten up to about 60,000. The issues I am having are I am getting red zone warnings that there is a worker shortage + also not enough shoppers. I have an airport + air ship + bus regional & local service the only thing I am lacking as far as transportation is ferry. There should be more then enough population in the region to support all three cities I thought workers commuted between cities for work and tourist stuff.... Also two other side notes I also in my tourist city getting warnings that there are not enough freight producers .... I remember reading someplace that your do not need industry to run a city if this is the case why am I getting warnings about freight? Also last question what is the best "Great works" to do? Thanks for your time and help D

I am in agreement with you.

A follow up to my question about freight producers...... if I don't want anymore industrial zones can I use a trade depot to import freight? just wondering if that will work as well

i second what voidtrance says..... i use the incinerator..... Works well in my city of a population of over 125,000

Thank you for the feedback....

Hi everyone just wanted to post a positive comment I had played the "old sim city" for years wanted a new version. And then last year when it came out I got it. I played for a month or two and then stopped for awhile. But have come back stronger then ever I have found a new patients in just letting a city grow slowly and seeing what will happen. Things seem to work so much better when you don't rush the growth... Having a great time....

Hey Great I found it thanks for the help

I have not done this yet buti was wondering.... if any body has tried this and sorry if this has already been talked about. But my question is if all your city services are in place will a city run with out having to watch it? I want to let one of my cities run for say a few hours @ normal speed to build up some cash... Any ideas on this?

I didn't know about the auto pause oh well half hour at a time I guess LOL

Yeah that is the one thing I have thought about was the disasters..... I could see coming back to it and everything be blown up LOL

So fair warning it may not be a good idea to let your 13 year old son start two cities in the same region with you. When they have not got a clue how to run a city. I have never seen so many criminals coming into my city and there have even been some murders too. Im going to need to max out my police coverage just because of him. Lol last I looked his tax rates were set at 20% across the board. Lol

Thanks I'll give that a try. Build no parks and put the services far from the people.

Can I ask one question here.... how do you connect rail to trade ports?

Yep when we get back from vacation im going to take one over and see what I can do. It's also in the red budget wise and he has maxed out all bonds so it's going to be a interesting.

How do you keep the wealth from increasing?

On vaca right now but will have to see if I can't put it on youtube. Before we left on vacation I looked at his cities and they look like an inner city war zone

I get so mad at these services once my population gets up there. I mean after all in real life vehicles on road ways and people yield to emergency vehicles when they respond to a call. Also they are able to blow traffic lights and such. If they were at least able to blow the traffic lights that would be a help.

Yep I don't like rushing things it's more about watching things progress.

I don't doubt that my layouts are not perfect.... I just think these vehicles should have "right of way" just as they do in real life. Thats the point of the lights and sirens isn't it? just saying also my cities are not failing because of this I just wanted to vent.

I had it happen yesterday after I had spent almost a full 6 or 7 hours working on a city when it rolled back I would say about half my work was gone I got so mad I quite for the day and started all over this morning..... i wish there was a way we could save a local copy..... there should be such an option.....

That is not good at all but funny to say the least...... I am sure they will fix it but it will be an add-on like someone already said

HI everyone I would like to ask. I have a region that I would like change the config on to all larger cities or atleast mostly large what tools do I need to do that and where might I find them? thanks for the help

I have an issue with trains..... Or the lack there of I should say..... I have two cities side by side that I have connected via rail line for both passenger and freight. I have put both station types in both cities. and I have yet to see a train the only thing I have seen on the tracks is this little thing that looks like some kind of work truck or little tiny green vehicle just roaming the tracks..... I have NAM 30 installed and I believe all game updates... I am running SC4 with rush hour.... the one city has a pop pf 35,000 and the other is a farming city or town. Any ideas as to what might be wrong??? D

I was just wanted to post this question........ What is the longest running city any of you have had (in sim years) I have been playing on and off for years but never really let my cities go that long before I ended up not playing for a while. And then when I start playing again I start all over.....