cnyle

This sim is driving me crazy, where's the balance at? After running an hour or so today, I'm now getting my R$$$ either going to R$$ or leaving all together, and my R$$ is dropping to R$. For me, just starting out, it seems like you satisfy one area only to have an effect or another. Is this where the bug fix comes into play? I read about it and it seems like it takes some work to get it installed. This might sound like a gripe, I'm not but its hard to see my city turning dingier (if thats a word lol) by the minute. Also one other question, on the damand graph, the numbers on the side do they represent the actual number of say how many R$$ that is needed? I see some areas that are topped out to 6000.

As far as my style goes, I'm just trying to make everyone happy and to keep my city in the black. Which at this point things are going really well profit wise. This was driving my nuts to see a new building pop up, and by the time I made my rounds checking the entire city, they would be gone when I made it back to them And to Metalpuritan, I did mean demand when I first started asking about my problem. The demand for I-HT the bar is all the way to the top.

I think I might have THIS problem figured out. I started looking at everything to see what might be going on, and what I found was what I would consider moderate air pollution around the abandoned HT buildings. Using some of the anti-pollution trees seemed to fix the problem. I even noticed some of the buildings changing from the dingy gray back to their original color. I have zoned more industry and it has all filled in with HT. So time will tell, but infamousjbe did touch on another problem starting to happen, but now I have some R$$$ abandonment. I will keep a watch on it for a bit and see what happens, if it continues I will look into the I-HT bug fix. Thanks for the help, I'm getting close to 100,000 sims for the first time.

I wanted to add, the buildings never seem like the have a full work force in them either. And before they do move out, when things are looking dingey, the jobs might be something like 8/48 or some way lop sided number like that.

Answering from the top, Nope on the I-HT bug fix, I do not have that installed, secondly as far as the desirability goes its all the way up for I-HT, and once it did reach a high point, I zoned an area away from my dirty industry just for the HT. They will build, but they just wont come lol. And lastly I have version 1.1.638.0. I was hesitant to install any mods too soon because I wanted to get the hang of things before I started adding a lot of content, but in reading all the past topics about the traffic problems, I did install the NAM, that and the police mod to calm things down at the airport and that's it for custom content.

I have a pretty good city going finally but I have something going on with my IHT. I have a high demand for IHT, but once I zone and they build, the buildings will become abandoned soon after. All the requirements are met, as far as I know, but I can't figure out why the buildings keep going abandoned. Also, whats the thought on the research labs. Should I plop one down or not. I can do either the regular or advanced lab, but I have read about the radiation pollution and I dont want to create any further problems for my city. Thanks!

I found a fix sorta, I came across the launcher from logic-bomb, and I will say it fix this problem and a couple more, great program.

I couldn't leave well enough alone, but the other night I was looking at the graphic resolution setting and I changed my screen size to the 1900x1600 setting, now when I try to start the game I get a black screen with a message of "Cannot display this setting". The problem I have is that I cannot find the file that contains the settings to change them back so I can start the sim. I have also tried the options with you can change the string on the short cut, but when I try and apply the new commands, I get a notice saying "Target Box Is Not Valid Make Sure The Path And File Name Are Correct. Well as far as I can tell they are correct, but its a no go. I will add that in my config-log.txt I found the line under "Numbers" for the screen width and height, they were set to 1900x1600. I changed those, tried starting the sim, got the same message, and when I went back to my config-log.txt, the lines were reset back to 1900x1600. Sorry to go on and on here, but I just trying to think of anything to tell you all that I have already tried. Thanks for any help I can get.

I just wanted to post an update, but I've got it figured out now. Thanks for the set up ideas Moose, but thats a little above my knowledge level lol. Now if I could only figure out a way to get more time to spend building!

I'm trying to wrap my head around what you said Moose. "you can both be logged in concurrently if he uses another PC to log in to your machine" By this do you mean he could be on our laptop and access this computer? I have user names set up on her for the family, but we always just use mine. I will add the os is XP but I cannot understand how I can access this computer from another unless going through some kind of network set up?

Thank you very much Joe. I guess where we were both doing the tutorials first thats where it didnt save right. I think we will have alot of fun with this once we get through the learning curve. "Boy, I wish my dad had said "hey son, let's play SimCity 4 instead of cleaning the garage today." Too funny!

Hello all, this is my first post here, so please be gentle lol. I have searched as many tags as I can think of to find the answer to my question, but I've come up empty. I would like to know if and how to save and load in SC4. I know how to save but using the ctrl-s keys, but how do you load? And also, I would like to play this with my son, can we both have our own cities going on the same install? Thanks and I look forward to digging into this great sim.