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  1. Rice Paddy

    Hello, Is there a file for rice paddies? Thanks in advance.
  2. Photo of Region

    Thank you.
  3. Photo of Region

    I forgot the name of the program that lets you take a photo of the entire region. Help would be greatly appreciated.
  4. Can't find it?... Ask here!

    Hi, Is there a request thread for SC4 maps?
  5. The Sparkle Kingdom

    Island looks nice, but when I tried to install this map in the game, the map will not show. I only see blank, flat, green space.
  6. BAT Request Thread

    Would someone be able to make rice paddies(Agricultural I-$)?
  7. BAT Request Thread

    National Stadium, Singapore Night View: The stadium first opened on June 30, 2014, and it was constructed by Sports Hub CEO Philippe Collin Delavaud. This BAT will be beneficial, because there are not many modern stadiums for Simcity 4, other than the generic SC4 and a couple of performing arts stadiums. This stadium will fit well with high-tech cities and provide a boost of recreation for Simoleons.
  8. How to Increase City Population

    So here we are. The first picture is the overall region (still a work in progress in some areas) view zoomed and trimmed to show the largest area of my region centered around the city of Sapphire Springs. This portion of the region contains 9 large city tiles and is home to 5.5M Sims. There is the main city which is outlined in yellow. To the north (up) there is a large harbor. The west side (right) is a wealthy housing area still in development and the south side (bottom) is a small extension of the main city. The area most interesting to our discussion is the left side, which is a large slum city bordering the main city. All the pictures are from the main city in yellow for this post: The next image contains the downtown area, labeled as 1 above. This is a CO$$$ area for the most part with some R$$$ on the very edges and stretching out from what can clearly be seen as the main downtown. Next is the transition area between the downtown and the low wealth slums. This area is both residential and commercial and contains many tall skyscrapers as well, yet not as nice of buildings, nor the same density height as the downtown area. Around the interchange in the center there is somewhat higher growth due to the increased traffic and offramps in that area. Lastly is the area of interest to our discussion. The area to the far bottom left is the poorest in the entire tile. High rise tenaments are covering the land and most of the business are small. This portion of the city is also the newest, so some growth of the poor neighborhood is still happening. Going back to the region view in image #1 you can see the area directly to the left of this is a less dense, but equally poor area that extends all the way to the left. This is all R$ and roughly accounts for 1M of the population between the two cities. The remainder of the main city tile is mostly R$$ with a mix in of R$$$. Remember that I am using the CAM for balance and that I have downloaded some of the more prominent buildings. However I have duplicated this with more "vanilla" style out of the box game in similar manner. If you have any questions let me know, regarding zoning, transit, concepts, etc.... Hope this helps somewhat! Thank you for sharing your Downtown with me. It looks spectacular. Did you use landmarks? The skyscrapers are extremely high. I just can never get my commercial buildings to get that high. The problem with my city is that I barely have any space to build my R$ slum area. 70% of my area consists of R$$$ and if I zone R$ areas over those, I will lose a significant portion of my population. My city size is actually quite smaller than the one shown on the image.
  9. How to Increase City Population

    Got very busy with work over the weekend as my firm had a large submittal, but I will look into getting some pics out of my main city/slum tonight. Slow and steady though certainly wins the race. Took almost a year to develop the 9 large city tile area known as Sapphire Springs in my region. Yeah, take your time. RL is more important, for sure. I'm not in a rush.
  10. Lot Request

    Hi, Is this the right place to request a Simcity 4 lot? If this is not the right place, can you tell me where the right place is?
  11. How to Increase City Population

    Hmm, I see. I rezoned a part of my residential and commercial areas and increased my population to 300,000. Just as a note, I am in my 16th year. Thank you for the advice. I am still disappointed, because I am not reaching 1,000,000, but I guess only time will tell.
  12. Zoom-Out Feature

    Thank you. That was extremely helpful.
  13. Zoom-Out Feature

    Hi, I realize that my region is too big for it to be entirely fit into the screen. Is there a way I can zoom out from the region menu so that I can get an image of the entire region in one screen?
  14. How to Increase City Population

    Wow. That is a great deal of plugins. Now, do I have to make it part by part or do all the plugins come in one structure?
  15. How to Increase City Population

    For the most part, R$ and R$$ will grow into high rises as well, providing you zone high density and have enough power/water and ultimately demand. By building a slum of R$ high density away from the city center you can solve some of the problems. It would be important to connect that tile or area with highways or forms of public transit other than bus (which is slow and not ideal for high density). You can attempt to fight building R$ all you want, but the game simply won't let you keep growing without places to balance the population. Another thing that would help is placing down some more landmarks and parks. It will help your city's caps on growth even more for R$$ and R$$$. Having played both with and without BATs and Mods of any kind, I know that building a nice high wealth city form the out-of-the-box game play can be very frustrating because many issues are unresolved. I can post some pics of large city/slums to help if you need ideas. Pictures of large cities and slums would be greatly appreciated.
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