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Yeah I heard that the new Cowboys Stadium will have a capacity of around 80,000 when it opens. The new Giants Stadium will be huge as well, with a capacity of I think around 82,000.

It looks like its coming along really nice. Great pix.

Yeah, but just like they put an asterisk next to Barry Bonds' homerun record for his steroid use, the Patriots will forever have an asterisk next to their 16-0 record this season since it is a known fact that they cheated on multiple occasions to "win" games. Instead of fining Bill Belicheat 250 grand (which amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist) the NFL should have forefeitted all of New England's games for the season AND taken away New England's spot in the 2008 Draft Picks. As for Randy Moss...he's all smok and no fire. He likes to run his mouth, but he's way overrated. Look at what he did (or didn't do) when he was with Oakland. He didn't do squat for the Raiders except flap his gums at every opportunity.

UGH! How disgusting that game against the Giants that was, a game that New York had clearly won. Evidently the Patriots' have gone beyond cheating to win games as it now appears they have at least some of the game officials in their back pocket. How could one of the officials not see what was very clear to us watching the game: a Patriots player trying to poke out the eyes of one of the Giants players? And what was the deal with the penalty against New England getting reversed and the Giants being penalized? Well the eye-poking incident was very clear on TV so I'm sure someone in the NFL that's not a New England insider will bring the issue to the table. No doubt it'll be widely publicized in the media.

Make sure all of your zones have water and your water pumps are in an unpolluted area. Development will stagnate when there's no water, and placing water pumps in a polluted area will produce no water for your Sims. If your city has a lot of farms, watch your pollution levels because farms produce a HUGE amount of water pollution.

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You have to make sure you have sufficient transportation capacity in the area you want to develop. I'm not talking about transportation networks, but transportation capacity...there's a difference. You could have lots of roads, railroad, or subways around your development, but if they are all running at or above capacity you'll see your high-wealth Sims leave the development and the area becomes degraded. I typically set my cities up with the city streets, surface roads, one-way roads, and subways in a grid pattern . With avenues, highways, railroads, and elevated railroads I start at the city center and build both ring routes and radial routes to connect each ring. What I would also suggest is that instead of building a regular avenue, build an "avenue" using two one-way roads in opposite directions, but leave one tile width between the two where either a light rail or elevated rail will go. So far I have found that this design provides transportation capacity that is more than adequate to support a large metropolis.

Actually most solid-surfaced planets have some kind of plate tectonics. Case and point, Olympus Mons is a giant volcano on Mars, and is the highest mountain in the Solar System, with its summit being roughly 30 kilometers above the surrounding Martian surface. Io, one of Jupiter's moons is covered with active volcanoes. I have to agree with those who support more investment into space exploration. We're going to run out of room on Earth, and we're going to have to learn (quickly) how to survive in space and on other planets if the human race is going to survive. You'll be surprised that a lot of the stuff fictionalized in Star Trek may very well become reality within the next 100 years. Maybe not warp drives and teleporting, but certainly laser weapons, electromagnetic force fields are being developed and experimented with. Interesting times we live in.

Very interesting double-deck concept. It reminds me of the "old" Central Artery in Boston and the upper and lower decks of I-93 north of the Charles River. I look forward to it being released.

Looks good. Good luck to you!

It would probably take longer to make double-deck highway puzzle pieces and source code than it would to build a double-deck highway in real life. Anyhow...welcome aboard!

Nena^`: You're absolutely correct about the expressways in Japan. You'll notice while driving on an expressway through downtown Tokyo, buildings are built right up to the edge of the expressway. Especially in urban areas the Japanese will build an expressway directly above (or below) a pre-existing street or avenue to minimize the taking of buildings for the road. The tolls are outrageous in Japan as well. To drive from where I live to downtown Tokyo, a distance of about 30 miles (50 km), will cost me about $20 in tolls. I find it easier to take the train. Another place where they are really starting to expand their expressway network is the Philippines. To get from Manila to Angeles City (where my wife is from), we drove on the North Expressway out of Manila. Much of the North Expressway is similar to an American Interstate highway. There are tolls on expressways, but nowhere near what it costs to drive in Japan. Toll rates in the Philippines are comparable to what you'd pay in the United States. Above is a picture of the North Expressway near Manila. Notice the similarity in design to the Interstate 94 Borman Expressway (Below) just outside of Chicago in northwest Indiana.