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Simcity 4 certaintly more interesting with how the zoning worked, probably why it got a reputation at the time of being to hard for new players, for old time simcity fans like ourselves adds a nice new dimension to the old format, SC2000 & 3000 got boring once figured out how to create big booming cities. One thing I haven't quite figured out is how each city affects the neighbouring city, how do you create high commerical demand in 1 city from the other? do you just zone purely industrial and residential only? city i showed above was all just res and com to begin with with hightech industrial later on, I am guessing demand worked as was plenty of industry within the region already?

Hello T Wrecks Thanks for your reply yeah I was very chuffed that I managed to make a few of the skyscrapers grow. Yeah the lot sizes was a trail and error, i ended up doing a lot of trial and error to get them to grow, I rezoned most of the map to medium commercial then added some plazas and made bigger zones for the dense commerial. I didn't realise about 4x4 lots, I actally forgot i had custom buildings in my plugin folder (not played the game since 2007 ) so kinda just picking up where i left off 5yrs ago. I notice the new city I started next door has really high commercial and industrial but no residential, this city is clearly having an influence on the city next door? Simcity 4 really is much more complex haha, but I guess that's a good thing. Still getting the stage 8 towers is still quite hard but I'm glad I got 3 sky scrapers to grow! thank you! I guess the custom content towers growing on 4x4 lots is not great idea thou? would it be sucking up to many jobs in 1 tower? would it be a wise idea to remove the towers from the game plugin folder or leave them?

Hello again ok i tried ya advice T Wrecks and managed to get 3 stage 8 skyscrapers, struggled to get anymore thou, I think its cause city not very big even thou region has 3 million sims! lol anyway below some screen shots, 2 buildings not maxis buildings thou i musta installed mods years back but they did grow there own so guessing if mod building was removed wud show maxis stage 8 skyscraper? middle one is a maxis building either way first ever time got skyscapers to grow !

thanks a lot for your advice i shall try this been trying to shift that rubbish dump to a neighbour city as well haha sweep it under the carpet, yeah simcity 4 quite different to sc2000 3k, i can see why everyone feels sc4 be to hard to ever beat with all mods etc and region play it never really get old that game, new simcity have be something very special to replace sc4 but get feeling new simcity be good but not a replacement, sc4 just such a massive simcity game

This is my city and population on second shot as u can see the city is practically perfect apart from the rubbish dumb lol

Hello Simcity 4 fans I recently returned to playing this game after 5yrs, I have built perfect city, perfect health & education, only high tech industry and mostly zoned residential & commercial and everything is in huge demand but i am still struggling to get the stage 8 skyscraper was there ever a cure to this problem? I have rush hour and all patches applied city is 78 yrs old and commercial the highest in demand, no air or water pollution and plenty of landmarks