brstilson

I've had SC4 for a while, but I never made a very successful city until last night when I followed some advice I saw about funding levels for buildings and services (I had always just left them on whatever the default level was). Anyway, I had about 50,000 people in my city, and everything was great. I had a growing high-wealth population, high-tech industry was popping up everywhere, my budget was in order, and everything was great. I'd put down residential zones, and they'd immediately be populated by medium and high-wealth sims. I had an elementary school, high school, city college, and university, all funded adequately to meet demand. I barely even needed police (just one small station was enough). Then suddenly, the poor started showing up. I had a section of high-density industrial populated entirely by high-tech industry. Residential zones were in high demand (by the high wealth sims), so I figured it wouldn't hurt to add it next to that industrial section. Well, when I did that, tenements started popping up, and (the weirdest thing), my high-tech industry started disappearing and being replaced by dirty industry! My tax rates at the time were 9% Dirty, 8.2% manufacturing, 7.2% high tech. It was downhill from there, I'd place high density industrial in an area my map said was highly desirable by high tech industry, and dirty industry would fill it. Then, in another section of residential, housing projects starting popping up. So, I guess I want to know what I could have done wrong. I thought lots of highly educated sims would draw high-tech industry, and it seems like that worked for a while. But then suddenly it seems like it stopped working. What did I miss?