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I too have always wanted random disasters to happen. I mean when you do it yourself you know whats coming. But with the randomness it requires you to think on your toes real quick. I would love for something like this to be a mod. Would it possible to make a mod like this? I'm not programmer but if it's possible to even bring up disasters then maybe.

Wow, I can definately say now it is a bug or something screwy going on. I used the Super Demand mod and guess what? Commercial and Industrial shot up. Residential is STILL in the negatives with the SUPER DEMAND mod. Once I let it run around 5-10 years the residential goes back up gradually. Then I take it off and it's still positive. So I thought hmm definately looks like some type of cap. So I used the cheat to unlock all of the rewards to think maybe i demolished one by accident and couldnt rebuild it. So I built every reward there. Still in the negatives and population stagnates around 27,700 without going up once. So I guess every time it messes up like this I just turn on super demand let it run a few years. Meh a bandaid fix for a bigger problem I suppose.

I know I have to do stuff like mentioned above. I do have some other cities connected to it, didn't help. I had maybe a tiny surge in commercial demand, but I zoned some and it built 2 buildings and disappeared. Checked all my graphs and charts and everything is positive. As of now the city is completely dead. No one seems to want to move in, and no new jobs are being created. Once people abandon the houses, no one ever occupies them again. Sigh, what a waste of time. I guess I'll have to download this super demand mod. Tried to do it without 'cheating' but I guess it's required for this case. FYI I do have the network addon mod.

Aye I could try that. One thing I have been reading is that if you demolish a reward then you can't get it back or if you go over the requirements it won't offer it again. The thing is I demolished my city beforehand and I'm wondering if that is causing the majority of the bugs. Because as it stands now, my population won't even go past 30,000.

Thanks for the replies guys. My jobs are next to my residential areas (commercial) then I have industrial after it. So basically I have commercial as a buffer between the industrial areas. I have tried to build my residential up, but like I said, no jobs are being created so MASSIVE no job zots everywhere. I have not activated super demand mod. Here's a pic of my city: Basically I had the problem when I setup my second 'district' of my city. (The left) What I seemed to see happen was the guys on the left wanted all the jobs from the guys to the right. The thing is, the left had plenty of jobs and plenty of lots available for more jobs. But for some reason they WANT to go over the right ones. Result is the guys on the right get starved out of their jobs and goto the left. Then because of the commute time I get lots of No Job zots, Abandonment, and $$$ downgraded to $$ and others to $. What I did was severed all road connections to eachother and had them independent from eachother. It seemed to stabalize both over a period of like 2 years. So I went ahead and tried to connect them again. Well they went for eachothers jobs again. Here's an example pic: If I run cheetah, theres like a few month period where the jobs are all fine. Then afterwards they all popup everywhere, then after a year, they go away for a few months again, then repeat... My demand has went to crap again. I have built all my rewards, have plenty of parks and plaza's (small and big). If I remember correctly this is why I quit playing this game. Because this no job thing, invisible caps, and bugs like this ALWAYS ALWAYS happens. And the worse thing of all is they give you no indication of how to solve it. I think my cap is somewhere around 30,000 not sure what to do.

Thanks for the replies. Yeah initially all taxes were 9% when I had the problem, so that wasn't really the issue. I do seem to have problems with some having commute time. For instance if I zone next to them, nothing will build there, and instead they will take a long way to commute. I mostly have 4x4 grids, some a little bit bigger, and some smaller but nothing too huge. I seem to have a problem with long commute time. Even if the buildings all around a specific house have a short commute, one in the middle has a long commute, even with buildings next to it with a longer commute time. Not sure what's going on. I'll look into it more later today.,

Well this is my problem. Basically the demand for residential is really high. However commercial and industrial demand isn't going anywhere. Basically they want houses, but don't want any jobs apparantly. That is until you build residential and then you get no job zots everywhere. I have no idea what to do. I use to play a while back but there were so many late game problems including this RCI demand problem (and traffic, but thats another story). Anyone have an idea on how to solve this?

So I just made a new region and started a brand new city. Around 15 years into it my commercial and industry demand are plumeted and my residential is off the charts. The problem with this is now it is getting to the point where the residential I build have no jobs because there is no demand for commercial/industrial. I have not touched the taxes. I have not enacted any ordinaces. I have plenty of zones layed out for industrial and commercial, and plenty of gaps in the ones I do have. I have built all the rewards they have given me so it's not really a cap. Anyone else have problems where a type of zone is off the charts and the rest are below?

I have some problems with commute time on one side of my city. Heres whats going on. My city is split into 2 sides on a river. On the left side is where I started to build my city in the beginning. Everything is great, no abandonment, no jobs missing, anything like that. Anyways as I fill out the left bank of the river. I decide to go ahead and invest some money on the right side and do what I normally do: I setup some industry area and let it build up. Then made some houses for people to move in close to the neighborhood and some commercial zones near them as well for shops and jobs. Well as time goes by I notice that tons of people are leaving their houses on the right because of commute time. For some reason they aren't going to commercial or industrial zones close by, infact they aren't even trying. So i thought maybe the people on the left bank were for some reason going across the river for those jobs over here even though they have plenty on the left side. So i destroyed the bridge linking the 2 and it only got worse. It seems both sides somehow started to rely on jobs from the opposite sides and abandonment went rampant on the right. Even some abandonment happened on the left which I havent even seen in 50 years of sim-time. Any thoughts? I am completely stumped on what to do. I don't want to have to resort to demolishing the ENTIRE right side and start over again.