SuperBeber

'lo all, I have a little problem on my city : all was going very well, my city was growing quickly (it was reaching almost 50.000 pop). It was the only city of the region. But suddenly all the desirability level for the commerces fall from the highest level to the lowest (especially for the CO $$$), everywhere on the map ! All my commercial zones are abandonned, due to the low desirability. And that happens everywhere my city is built (I mean, where nothing is build, the desirability level stayed at green, but everywhere res are or something else (even where landmarks are), the level fall in red. All that I have done is build train transit system around the city, and build an another city in the map beside (an only farming city)... Can somebody explain me what could happen ? This is very annoying, and I can't find what is it because of... Thanks a lot (if this isn't enough clear, i'll post screenshots the next time)

thanks for the advice bones1, this is what i made yesterday night, i've moved out many of the useless plugs, and now my plugins folder is clear of undesirable effects !!

Hello all, I was wondering if there was a way that a big pack could be done, a big pack that would have all the bests lot files to have a nice city, like canals, walls, parcs, waterfronts... you know all the thinks to create cities that dont look like anothers... my computer have died, you know the kind of bad overheat that always come in the very bad moment... and I'm so bored to download again all thoses lot files, and keep only the better and again and again... is there a way that such a pack could exist ? i would be very grateful if somebody could make such a thing, or... maybe juste make a list of the coolest lots files... thanks a lot

Thanks to all for your answers, i've bought the stex cd and effectively, there are many good lots on it it's great thanks everybody

Sim1234, bones1, delboysim, pushkin, thanks for you answers... Don't bother anymore, my city is dead, i'll begin a new one... Pushkin, thanks a lot for your help. Indeed I was having the same problem as you. But I think the bug I've had was even more vicious than your's : I was obligated to destruct many of commercials and residentials zones to see the desirability go one green... Si my mayor rank was going down as one goes along as I was destructing the bats... So my city goes rapidly to hell So... I think i'll begin a new one, with the help of the tutorials and advises I've found on your page... thanks anymore for your help, it was very interesting... and as Toroca said : Take it slow, and let it grow... Thanks again see you

Thanks for the help but... is it possible that the desirability level fall suddenly like that ? Everywhere ? It's so crazy !! My city is falling into ruins !! So... I guess i'll have to begin a new one... Is there something that can radically boost up it ?? (is there a mod, or a lot that does that ?...) I'm so bored of beginning new cities...

'lo everybody, i've just started again a new city (one more, but this time, it will be the good one !!), and i just want to have some advices, in particular with the transit system : i've always used road, roads, roads, with bus everywhere... (classic, isn't it ?) But i would like to put in my city others means of transport, like train, tram or el. train Here is my city (just the center) : (there have been some changes since this screenshot, but only minors changes) For now, it is built like that : around all blvds, there are only commercial (med density), and inside, only res med density. (like that, the city is a mix of res and commercials, to reduce commute times...) As you can see, there is a big bldv surrounding all the area, a big ring road. This is where it begins : The question i'm asking me is to know if it would be useful to put a train all along this ring road, useful especially in terms of commute time : would the sims use it if they have to go to the other side of the city's center ? (from one side of the picture to the other side). OR, if you think it will not be useful, does someone have ideas to settle the traffic problems (i have already been obligated to upgrade some streets to roads due to the traffic, whereas my city is less than 10.000 inhabitants), and especially settle this problem before my city grows, where it can become awful ?... Another question : would it be useful to let the train (or tram, or el. train, or something like that) enter in this center ? I mean : if i reorganize all this area, with adding a train even across the area, is it going to be used by the inhabitants ? I think you have understood : i don't use often trams and trains, and I don't really know when it could be useful... so, if you could help me a little, i would be very grateful to you... I must say i'm very proud of my city : it's the first time I succed to build a city without any industry in it !! It's almost 10.000 pop and there is only commercial in it (and since it's the only city in the region, there is no industry at all !!!) ! Lol i was only happy, that's all... thanks !!

Firsto of all, thanks to you both. The only thing I was wondering its if i'd better add mass transif now, to be foresight when my city will have grow more, to avoid destructing areas to put train or something else... It was just in prevention... but if you say that subway was the best, then maybe i'll use subway... (and you know, you can make it have turns, to be more realistic, even if its hard to make) So... thanks to you Soldyne and XpirAment... i was just asking for advices befor my city get worse...... but i'll wait before putting something else than buses... Thanks again

Hi everybody, I was wondering if a mod or just a plugin would exist to replace all the buildings and houses in the game (that obviously looks like american buildings, since they are american buildings, all of them) to make them looks like european styled buildings, you know those kind of buildings that are all adjacent, with fronts that are all sticked ? Because it's impossible to make a city looks like an european one without Porkie's bats, and if I don't want my city to be Paris... how can I do ? (not all ce cities in France for example looks like Paris...) So... has anyone a solution ? Thanks a lot

Thanks everybody ! I've tried some of the bats you've tell me, but not all for the moment... Some looks greats thanks !

'lo everybody, i'm a french student, and i'm playing sim city since the first release of the first sim (yes yes, the first one, the old one with only 4 bats and only a road and a rail...) and then i played sim city 2000, 3000, and now the fourth This site is very helpful, we find all we want here, especially the bats and props (compliments and greats thanks to peg, porkie and simgoober in particular, and to all the others for their wonderful, marvellous plugs !!!) ! So thanks a lot for all the help you're provinding see you all Ber

Here is mine, recently builded (the city is in developpement, so dont mind the poor houses and small buildings) http://img78.imageshack.us/my.php?image=blvdprincipal7ls.jpg

Here are mine... in construction for the moment (sorry Fox if I took your canals shape form but it was so lovely...) the link between the center of the town and the sea http://img81.imageshack.us/img81/8749/canals016px.jpg align=baseline> and the very center... (yes I was having troubles with the St Paul Cathedral ground texture at this time... i think it's solved now...) http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2850/canals025vr.jpg align=baseline> and yours ?...

I will sign too, even if thoses bugs don't show themselves really often... but a bug is a bug, and a existing bug is a bad bug. So we must all sign, to wipe out bugs from the surface of the world !!! And I have a dream today, a dream in which one day all the bugs can be free in their own world, and leave ours forever !!!! (ok ok, I'll shut up) But, to be serious : I'll sign. It's very important.

You see... i've got exactly the problem you have. Know were to start (or almost), but don't know exactly how to keep my city in order as ut growns up... It ends in a carnage of various zots, from the no job to the commut time too long... So... is there anybody could tell us how to have a good beginning for our cities ?... Anyway... good map, Raziaar, it's nice one, and if you have terraformed all of it, very good job, you must have spend a lot of time to do it... Bye