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Hi, What ploppable trees do you use? I am currently using this and I really love it but its seasonal one is 2*2 I want both seasonal & evergreen (bright & beautiful) ploppable trees those are 1*1. Thank you

OK... I created a thread like this but now instead posting on that thread I decided to open another new thread. So I am doing all correct ... 100% edu, health, fire, police, water, power coverage. Excellent environment and high mayor rating.. RCI is low.. very low...and population stuck at 6000 instead of many many parks and such. I think the reason for low growth can be: What I did was used two roads (yes not streets/avenues,highways) and they formed a criss-cross to form only 4 neighboring connections. Each connection in each geographical directions. Similarly 2-3 rail lines criss-crossing each other and forming 4-5 connection in each geographical directions. Rest were all streets. and NAM 32 installed. Now I think that NAM calculates how much population a city should be allowed without breaking its transport system. And the transport system that I made can support small population only... So is this the reason for stuck growth inspite of doing correct zoning. BTW I like Edinburgh city (Scotland capital) so much Thank you

OK... So after creating numerous threads like these there is a bit of relief from the dead stuck population growth problem that I was having. So my main problem was my population was always stuck at 5000-6000 even after providing all the civic services and I was just wondering what's wrong. So this is what I was doing. As soon as I established my city and the basic railroad network and roadway networks are laid down, I started establishing the Elementary school, the Medical Clinic and the Police station with full coverage to my resident Sims. At this time hardly my population will be about 300-500 as the city is just 5-8 years old. Now as the population rose to some 2000-3000, I established the High School and the City College. Also I made very few (2-3 industry buildings) I-D in my main city and quite a few I-D in a second city only meant for industries. This second city only had some I-D and may be a power plant. Now as the population in my main city rose to 5000, I-M and I-HT would start coming because of extremely good education, health and police system. Also because of extremely high civic services, there was high demand of C$, C$$ and C$$$ and R$, R$$ and R$$$. I also used to zone a lot of low density residential & commercial zones and all of them were filled up as well but they will not grow upwards even after making them medium/high density zones provided with water. And then the dead stuck population problem begins… My population won’t grow above 6000 even after 40 games years. And here is the solution… I think so… So I deleted all my previous cities and started afresh. This time also I created two cities. One main residential city & the other one as main industrial and power generation city. I also used the Industry Doubler Mod though this has nothing to do with population growth. So in my industrial city, I zoned some industrial zones and in my main res. city I zoned some res. zones. Both the cities are inter-connected together. The main concept is that Sims will live in this city and go to work on the neighboring industrial city for work. As soon as the residential (R$) demand went to zero or to -ve, I saved and closed this city to go to the industrial city to create more industrial zones. And as soon as the I-D demand in this city went to zero or to -ve, I saved and closed this city to come back to the residential city to create more zones. And this is the way I continued… And in this residential city, I have only created Medical clinics to provide 100% medical coverage. No more schools, no Police stations and no fire building. The taxes of R$$ and R$$$ are also set to 12% to prevent them from entering the city. And here is my city now So I think what happens here is very much similar to real life situation. If a city becomes too much developed (high civic services) then the population growth slows down drastically. Whereas a city without any education and other services has high population growth. OK...so I will be stopping here for now. Thank you Update: Here is the Regional Railway... taking a massive responsibility

Hi, 1st of all so sorry for my never ending questions. Please don't get tired of me Can some of you show me your railway layout of a complete city of yours. I am really finding it hard to lay down a realistic but nice railway lines layout in my city. I want that my lines can go to all four other neighboring cities through a single rail station. So I want to see how others do a rail layout of their complete city. Even a zoomed out single screenshot of the city will do. I will try to figure out the rail layout with that. Thank you

Hi, What are the other websites to download any SC4 stuffs like >bat files, lots, maps etc. other than STEX and LEX. Here is one I got: http://kurier.simcityplaza.de/ Thank you

Hi, OK see the image: http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12360312/simcity_screenshots/max.JPG In the left image (tutorial), the guy is extruding one face(polygon) with the help of the extrude button. And as he does that he gets white lines on the edges. But in my case, I don't get the white lines which makes it difficult to understand whether extude is really happening or not or how much extrude is done. Why I am not getting those white lines? Thank you.

Lol OK

Sorry, I didn't got you... What are CMD files?

Hi, I am sorry for my weak English but what I wanted to ask was that; do your cities (in a single region) follow only American style or only Euro style? I mean do you build your cities like that... I bet, yes many of you do. Mine is a hotch-potch. In my city you may and eventually you will find both US style and Euro style and S.E Asian style buildings and plants too. I don't think that I should build a city of all mixed styles... Right?? Actually I never paid attention to this point before as I was a dummy in SC4. But as I am seeing other's cities, other's CJ's & other's ideas this point struck to me. I use the US style road system. Also I didn't used any custom building from STEX. So all my buildings till now are default Maxis US style. I used lots of flora and today I noticed one tree set I am using is gen. for continental Europe... So doesn't it looks funny? Please guide me in this direction. Thank you

Is this layout realistic & nice? http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12360312/simcity_screenshots/1.JPG

Fantastico Turjan Thank you Cat and Moose

Thank you Everybody... Yeah I agree with all of you... I just wanted to clear my doubts because I thought that I will make a CJ

Let's talk about the main neighbor dealing that we do... The Power deal. 1st scenario To do power deal between City A and City B, City A must have a plant and City B should not have any power plant or even a windmill. (I don't know about custom contents) Now that is wrong and doesn't happens even in real life too. City B can produce (say 500MW/hr power), but it has a req. of 2000MW/hr. In that case it only have to buy 1500 MW of power. But no, City B can't buy any power if it even produces 1MW of power according to default Maxis rules.... 2nd scenario Say city A has a plant and its selling power to city B located on the right side. Now city C, located on the right side of city B can't do any deal with city A. It has to do dealing with city B but city B don't have or can't have power plants. Does this happens in real life? I think No. In real life, we can have a massive plant in one part of the country and power gen. from that plant can be sent to various states through regional power grids. --- In the game, you have to have power plants in every alternate city or such to do deals. Thank you :|

Infact I also do that I just thought that what someone can say if he sees one of city with US roads, US buildings and European trees ... Lola Lola Lol But Yes, I don't think even the original game developers made the game by think about different continents... Its just a game where you use everything to make the most beautiful city... Else Taj Mahal would not have been included in this game...

InfamousJBE, In this link http://hide-inoki.com/bbs/archives/sc4_0856.html how can I get that road style? Will I have to download both the files SAM Default Stop.zip and z_zJPN_SideWalk_Mod2.zip Also by installing them does the total Maxis roads changes to Jap style? Thank you

OK... I see.... So that's not a prob much... Yes, in this game, many things don't match with anything in real life. Many of our cities at the end becomes an International, multi-cultural, multi-language and multi-religion city Edit: I also think that you cannot make a 100% Euro style city yet... We can download lots of lots of Euro style flora & fauna, residential buildings and some commercial buildings but few US style Residential buildings will make its way. There are not simply enough buildings available on the STEX, to make a 100% Euro or S-E style or Indian style building. So no matter how hard one may try, the city will be an International, multi-cultural, multi-language and multi-religion city

I am really having prob with texturing... The textures won't come perfectly or correctly... Also really having a hard time to apply multiple textures. I want to apply one texture to roof of house and another to the walls and another to door/windows but the overall building gets only one texture. I saw soo many YT videos and they are doing soo simple thing but they get perfect texture but mine won't turn up perfect. Also I am using the house dim. as 12m * 12m and texture dim. as 64px * 64px Thank you :/

Thank you JDReece.

Yeah, I only have SC4 in my computer and I am only playing SC4 atm, but today I visited some YouTube videos and also the SC2013 section in Simtropolis and I must say SC2013 is soo refreshing even though it has some limitations. The road textures, the bright buildings, beautiful and colorful modern & ultra-modern vehicles, nice green plants, nice grasses, awesome smooth curved roads and finally the high quality and soothing graphics makes SC2013 so beautiful. Whereas SC4 textures and its models and graphics are so bald and boring. Just a bit of rambling Thank you

And since we talked about green... Here is one video which scientifically proves that plants can speak

...fits well with your name..... Yup, I love green and want to make the world green.. I really hate those megatropollis. I really wish you all the luck and help to make this come true, although it seems impossible, I'm with you. Fred Thank you People on those Megatropolis are all sick and dumb... hahaha

...fits well with your name..... Yup, I love green and want to make the world green.. I really hate those megatropollis.

Here is the summer view. The picture above was taken two months ago, while the one below is from last summer. Taken from another kitchen window. Not a good picture though..... Even with Mods and/or a BAT, it would never look as good as SC4 to me. I hate those "Baby toylike" buildings and BATs of this game. Geeeeez, didn't Maxis have a look at other games like this before? Look at the last Tropico or The Settlers game, graphics are wayyyyyy better looking, no? Fred Beauty... that is what I dream all the time

I hate winter.. that's because I have to get up when its the most comfortable under the warm thick blanket... the morning.