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Having a bit more info about stage 8 buildings. I will try to get my CO$$ and CO$$$ total population to 40k+. That will hopefully help getting those stage 8 buildings pop up.

Have a look at There is a lot of useful info about skyscrapers. Minimum requirements for lvl 8 CO$$$ buildings to develop are: 80k population Regional wide commercial Office: 40.000 (CO$$ and CO$$$ combined) In the topic there is also this link which shows you the odds of a certain stage building to be built! Besides that, the required R$$$, EQ and desirablity is also very important.

I downloaded some mods which pretty screwed up my entire region (double jobs from industrie)... So I started a new region. At this point I have three filled tiles: 1 With R+C 1 With ID and IM 1 with (a little) IHT Some things I notice: When Education grows, so grows the demand for IHT (of course) I keep having a major demand in R$ (350k population, 250k+ is R$) I have a HUGE CS$ (and CS$$) demand, which is almost impossible to fix. Is this normal? (I mean, If I want to give into the CS$ and CS$$ demand in my R+C city, C tiles would be a lot more then R tiles. This isn't normal right?

what is a significant population?

After reading in quite a lot of things (including your feedback) I continued my region yesterday. I am getting a grip on how to control R and I demands. To keep it simple I look at it like this: Low wealth & education level wil result in a (main) demands of IA and ID Meduim wealth & education level wil result in a (main) demand of IM High wealth& education level wil result in a (main) demand of IHT Also the Cs$ and Cs$$ demands seems to become bigger right when new sims enter your town. This makes sense because this are 'simple' shops like food markets and stuff like that. Placing them near residential areas seems best. But I really keep struggeling with the Co$$ and mainly the Co$$ demand. My current region layout has 1 'main' city with only R+C (175K residents), two city's with only Industry (D/M/H) and 1 'suburb' which has become half a city to be honest. I actually see some Co$$ and Co$$$ demand in both industrial city's, but non in the main city (of course, there already is some there). But really getting a high demand there, is though for me. But maybe I just have to expand R & I to create that.

Thanks! Looking at your name and profile picture, I am pretty sure you helped me the first time. NAM is installed and so is Rush hour (lol), so that’s good. Thanks for the suggestions about the fix on the STEX. It’s just a bit hard for me to find these downloads. There isn’t a search button for this really.. I guess I’ll filter on popular and look for titles with ‘fix’ in them. So far thanks for that info. I think I had some (extra) traffic fixes before, just can’t remember which one(s). Maybe it was just NAM. Anyway, about my way of playing, I know you’re right. The thing is, is that I like to zone BIG. I often build the maximum square if demand is high, and I guess I shouldn’t do that. Because later on, I get problems when I try to fit in large things like a highway. I should just build 1 block at a time, and see what that does to my demand. Because now, I often have negative demands, which isn’t good either. Anyway, I’ll experiment with this. And about the cheating, I don’t like it :$ doesn’t gives me a lot of satisfaction then. I notice you really love this game, you spend a lot of time on it, but that’s great! I do have to work though, so not that much spare time for me. Anyway, thanks for the help so far. I really appreciate it! My problem is that I love symmetry. Therefore I get a lot of X crossings and I guess I should try to make more T-Crossings, to get less jams. Same goes for putting down railroads & subways. Maybe environment isn’t that big of a problem, but I felt it might was. Seeing that bar in the red and some abandoned houses just makes me feel those two are related. I guess I ain’t patient enough and I overzone. I often wanne get big flats asap, so I build a lot of dense commercial zones. I’ll try your tip and see if that works! Thanks a lot for the help!

I am struggling with some things in Simcity (Deluxe edition) and I want to install some mods to straight things out. 1,5 year ago I had a different account here in which people already gave me some advice, but I can’t find my old account anymore, not the post on the forum. So, my question: What mods should I install? Additional info: I don’t have rush hour (should I get it too?) I do have NAM installed My play style is quick (I am trying to change this), I build large citys in a short time. Main issues: Struggling with traffic (probably fixable if I change my way of building a city) Struggling with environment (really hard one to fix) Struggling to get a city with some really big (high wealth) residential and Commercial (Yeah I kinda want those skyscrapers to pop up) Making profit isn’t really a big problem, but getting all the demands of my sims up and keeping them up is hard. So other general tips are welcome too! If there is more info required (such as screen shots or something), please let me know! Any help would be awesome!

When I try to install the NAM, I get an 7-zip self-extracting archive window. If you try to extract this, I get an error that I can't open it as an archive. Is this problem know and how can I fix it? Edit: I did a redownload and it seems to work now. Sorry for the trouble.