Microbru32

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Dear Editor, The conflict between progress and preservation is an ongoing one and I greatly understand the need to protect the history of our fine town, but let us not confuse age with importance. The buildings themselves lack serious architectural style and I have not heard of any history associated with them (and I've lived here for many years). The old must sometimes make way for greater opportunities. I am well aware of the gentrification issue, so while I am in favor of the demolition, I believe it is important to set aside a portion for low-income housing. Sincerely, Scott

Huh, now I've got another city (on a different map) that's doing the same thing. One second, the residential demand is through the roof, then zero. Not negative, but zero and I am cap maxed for all three res. types. It's a more traditional town design than the Farming one. It's got a mix of res, comm & ind., EQ at 124, water systems, parks, connected to another city with similar stats (except for res. demand). I'm just baffled at what I did to suddenly cap out. I've only got about 3-4000 people in it.

hmm, something to consider. And because I use so few ploppables, it might be feasible to check that. And no, I haven't modded anything recently. The only one this year was the "make grass free" mod.

I wish I knew the answer to that.

Well, so far the Heavy, heavy farming sector has been resistant to change. Schools, parks, clinics et al added and the res. demand stays at zero, cap at 100%. My city is 40 years old and the average age of my population is now about 65 years old. Soon I will have a bunch of 80 year old grizzled farmers.

thanks again everyone (esp. Nonny). To answer the question not really being asked, all of my current residential zones (of which there are few) is low density befitting this farm community.

So here is my problem. See that my residential is maxed out with my pathetic 2,775 inhabitants.

Yes, I am using SPAM. I will have to check out the ditch set on recommendation. And no worries Cefiam. Because I prefer to build with only growables, I don't even think about ploppables much, so when I'm thinking about it, I say things like "plopping in some zones" which is in Sim context, is a silly thing to say. You folks put me at ease and provided good advice. Thanks much. Love this game. I'm not much of a strategy thinker because I tend to think of "city planning" as an oxymoron, building weirdly shaped, oddly zoned cancer-cell spreading communities, often rolling dice to determine zoning and road design.

sorry, I was not paying attention to my terminology. Naw, I'm zoning like normal.

So I'm building a concept map of virtually all farmland, the plan being that once it is all platted, farmland will gradually sell to build houses and business districts. I'm plopping tiny amounts of res and comm here and there, but the screen is around 2/3 full of farms. My residential demand is through the roof, because obviously I'm not building enough. Then suddenly, the demand bar zeros out and even the minimal residential districts I'm putting in won't grow. I tried putting in some parks around the districts and I cut taxes down to 3% on residential and nada, zip, nothing. Any idears out there as to how I can bring some people in? I'm still able to put in some business zones and there's still a high demand for farms despite the industry bar overall being negative.

Is it too much to ask to fix the pop-up that asks me to support, yet sends me to a broken link? The first time I got it I was ready to help. I'm on like the 5th now and my inclination gets less and less despite really enjoying the site.

quite impressive

Seems like all the apartments I see are sided with brick. Out here in the Pacific NW, wood siding is much more common. Any luck in getting a few basic buildings?