jalbatross

I'd appreciate a copy. Thanks for the response!

I agree. I've found that good placement of mass transit with the NAM has allowed the city to obtain ludicrous amounts of income even with lowered tax rates.

Yes. If you're playing with no added buildings, the only true high rise buildings you'll be able to get are R$$,R$$$, Co$$, and Co$$$.

Also keep in mind that before the largest Co$$/Co$$$ starts to develop (Stage 8 Buildings) you will need a certain number of these jobs in your region. You can find more information about that here: http://www.simcityce...uilding-stages/ To develop demand for CO in my main city, I took a similar approach to you in developing neighboring cities. I found that zoning a neighboring city with a lot of CS/I-M/I-D with an educated workforce while blocking Co development with max taxes caused regional demand for CO to skyrocket. If you build a specialized neighboring city that zones only I and R, you won't need to adjust the tax rates for CO to block it and you'll be able to extrapolate what kind of demand to expect for CO in your main city.

I recently started a new region with 4 cities. City A, the largest city with the highest concentration of R$$/R$$$ and CO$$/CO$$$, was developing well. Low-wealth jobs for the CO buildings were being filled by neighboring cities in the region, and demand for I-HT, I-M, and CS$/CS$$/CS$$$ was satisfied by placing specialized cities next to City A. Up until about 450k population, City A was able to maintain a stable demand for R with 9.2/9.0/9.3 tax rates. However, demand for all R suddenly tanked into the negative! After opening new cities in the region and checking CAPs with plugins, I found that regional demand for R was still sky-high and that CAPs for R in City A were 30% at the most. It was only after adusting taxes about -0.3% for all R that the demand for R in City A returned to levels that reflected CAP-adjusted regional demand for R. Now, for my question: As cities get larger, does the neutral tax rate become lower? If not, what else could have been causing the demand for R in City A to suddenly plunge so deeply into the negative? If so, are there any sources that point out the specifics of this tax rate decay?