Alba_

A played SimCity 4 a lot. My goal all the time was a city-millionaire. But all that I had is a 700000 population and no visible way of developing further. Not because of lack of free space. It's like the game is going crazy at some point and everything that worked right before - i mean transportation system, connections, rci demands - is not working any more at all... At some point of pretty lucky and constant development something happens - and that's all. And from this point income from mass transit is dropping, zone development is becoming lazy, RCI demand is acting strange, communications with neighbor cities are skyrocketing and dropping to zero in a month... What is it?! Is it normal? Can i do something with that? Please, sorry for my english.

And all that population is possible without NAM or with it? I mean, the game is really going crazy at some point and it is looks like a bug or something... Because any time before that everything works perfectly fine - even pollution and traffic meters are green.

For example i raise a city about 70000 population that is doing fine. Some services, some mass transit and even beautification are in. My next goal is to move all dirty industry to neighbour city. I make connections - highway, rail, avenue and subway; i develop neighbour city with industry high density zoning. But with query tool i see only freight trucks going out of my industry city - no sims are going in or out. I even bulldozed all industry in my first city to force sims to travel to neighbour for jobs. But there was no effect. What am i doing wrong? *First city was on large map, second was on medium map --- Please, sorry for my english.

And monorail seems to be not working at all. 2-4 sims per station and no inter-city travellers. Is it because only reach sims prefer monorails? I demolished all other inter-city connections leaving only two monorail lines and even then they were comletely empty.

It's very strange. Am i having different game version? Maybe i have to patch my SC4D? It's very strange. Adding monorail in my two cities didn't made sims to travel fast through monorail, but it made them to use rail system really hard... Definitly there's something strange going on. But thanks everyone, transportation system between two cities is somehow began to function.

Is it possible that simpy commute times are too long - from the center of a large map city to the center of a medium map city?