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I enjoyed his kindness and devotion over many years.. he will be remembered.. A unique fellow

Without "cheats" you can only have one university. If you have a heavily populated city, you will fill the university to capacity. At that point your only option is to use the college(s). I routinely use them anyways as it does much the same thing at a much cheaper cost and without gobbling up the huge tract of land. I find it especially useful in small, developing cities.

There are some peculiarities about the "rewards". If it doesn't work properly use the "you don't deserve it" entry and just replop it. It can hardly be considered cheating, since you already earned it.

Isn't the power they supply really expensive though? When you take into account the fact that a waste-to-energy plant gets rid of garbage and provides power, the price seems much more reasonable. I will admitt though, the price still is quite high. By the way, I didn't know that you could fund the waste-to-energy plants down all the way and still have them burn garbage, I'll have to try that sometime. Once again, I suppose I should say, if you are looking for cheap garbage disposal, Peg's Garbage Chute is a good option- I use a few in all of my cities now. (Link) Given the "real life" issues with "trash burning power" it's probably realistic. We have a many-millions $ plant built here in Columbus about 30 years ago. It had so many problems and was in various states of no or reduced service it was commonly known as the "cash burning power plant". Eventually it was decommissioned and abandoned at the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to the public (thanks Mr government! )

It may eventually ignite adjacent structures. I'd try to get rid of the power poles or fix the power plant's budget. I use these plants at zero funding all the time and have no problems.. neither fire nor "sparking poles". I have had the sparking poles on rare occasion, so this suggests to me that whatever the issue is, it doesn't relate directly to the 0-funded trash burner.

It appears that the web design intent is to allow people on ST to have a "friend" status similar to FB, etc. This seems to be designed in a similar fashion where someone requests "add friend" then the other person "approves" that status. However I recently found I had been "friended" without my approval (and was being automatically emailed with that persons items of interest). I went to "unfriend" that person only to find that I not only was friended without approving it, but that the only "unfriend" option was to "request of the person to unfriend me' This is totally backward to how it should work and I am guessing is either an error on the code of the web design OR has been improperly implimented by the "admins" for ST. I'd appreciate it if this function were "fixed" so that it worked similar to FB and others. Thanks. This has nothing to do with the person who friended me, but to the proper implimentation of the function.

Plenty of pc power.. perhaps you can show some pics of the "problem cities"

The game is made up of many simulation threads which run loops at date driven intervals.. there is the basic which runs at all times, then some run daily, monthly, and every 3 or 4 months.. and maybe at longer times too.. I expect your are operating on a fairly low power pc (perhaps a laptop, etc) and when that monthly loop runs, you see it slow down while it runs, then it catches up and runs faster again... just guessing

I find most posts here to be incredibly naive.. yes there is a disruption to a formerly stable mid-east government (hmm.. where have we seen this before?) but all that creates is a power vacuum.. it remains to be seen what forces will actually rule Egypt and if it will have even the most rudimentary resemblance to a "democracy". I expect it will be a year to 18 months or even longer before we find out.. and what Obama (or any other US official) thinks of whatever happens will be of only the most peripheral consequence.. and certainly no cause:effect

Thanks.. glad it worked out for you.. yes I'm not quite sure what the problem was (it deals only with AMD's so-called x64 or X2 processors.. AMD doesn't explain the issue very well and I'v eonly seen it affect SC4 (though it may be an issue with other programs) I've had an X64 over 6 yrs now and SC4 is the only one I can tell is an issue. As far as I can tell the patch has virtually indetectable impact on system operation, so I keep it installed at all times.. who knows when it may be causing issues in an unseen manner.

If you search for "seasonal" you probably will find some examples.. this requires multiple models and timed props

The Athlon X2 processors require the use of the Dual Core Optimizer from AMD

Those are really "overflow" functions and if your city is functioning well, the demand will always be high.... further if "newcomers" have any alternative, it will always choose the highest level that can be met given the city conditin.. it's how the game is designed.

Actually as I recall, the simulator defaults to the "normal" traffic values if you don't enter it and make mods.. therrefore it shouldn't have any effect on your city as long as you don't use it. I have not looked recently, but the default used to be "Maxis values" if you didn't select any options.