BrokenBrick

I suppose you could get a lot of sims to commute out of the city. You just need several forms of mass transit all headed in that direction, as well as a good highway system. Also if you build your industral sectors near highways or seaports they will use for freight just as well as trains, at least that is what I have found. I have problems with churning out boring cities as well, so I have started a new region that I networked together thoroughly with elevated highways and ferries. You just have to try to plan ahead. I did my best but but almost all of my MT systems are maxed out. I have found though that one good way to reduce commute time is to sprinkle high desnity residential and high density commercial together in small litrle sections. This way you sort of build a patchwork of zones and it makes it easier in some cases for sims to get to work. In any case, I hope I was of some help

Well I have a gig of ram and a radeon 9800 pro. I could increase my virtual memory though. I am going to try running my game directory on my other computer and see what happens. And also try to run a speed below cheetah to see if there is less lag. Part of the lag may be due to the fact that there is a lot of traffic between the city I am working on and the adjacent city; car, elevated rail, subway, and bus. Traffic has already become horrendous going from one city to the other on every mode of transportation I have available.

For some reason time keeps freezing in one of my cities. It is in a large region that I have already networked together with ferries and elevated highways so I'd hate to have to have to blow it up. When I start the game time will run for about a month then stop. If I save and exit to region, then load up the city, it will do the same thing again. Time passes just fine in other cities in my region, and other regions as well. Could it just be lag associated with that one city? I can't think of anything, any help is appreciated