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I went into SC4pac to see what I got. It's pretty simple. CAM/NAM. The only plugin I recently added is Industrial Revolution Mod. Removed it, and nothing changed. I'm just gonna scrap everything and start all over, yet again. Haven't had a good play through since the game was new. Can someone get AI to re-compile this and call it SC4.5?

I have spent hours searching for answers, yet I cannot get ANY high wealth R, Cs, Co, or I-HT. Health, environment, education, safety, traffic, crime, 0% tax rate, high land value, large airport, passenger rail, swimming pools, sports fields, parks and plazas, park aura, landmark aura, clean water and air, town hall, city hall, mayor's house, farmer's market, university, radio station, neighbor connections, desirability, yada yada yada. All perfect. Ran sim at rhino speed for at least 4 years. ZERO high wealth. Demand won't even change. Makes no sense. And this is a pivotal moment--I feel I have to get this last piece in place or I'm flirting with joblessness if I expand without high wealth. It's been a struggle just to get to 55k--zone, delete, re-zone, delete, rinse and repeat, ad infinitum--which is fine, but why this? Had no problem getting high wealth earlier, but changed my mind, and wanted to further develop other parts of city. Now I return to get high wealth, and the game just says no? What could I possibly be missing now?

It's only set in my brain... C:\Documents and Settings\LoBaLL\brain.ini

Success! So, UseExteriorConfig.bmp=false ! That seems to be the one step overlooked. You're still the best Cori! Thanks a bunch. SC4Pac brought me back, and seems to be working great! Now, I'll put those tiles where I want them, and bootstrap this region as a learning testbed.

I put the region .jpg, config.bmp, and region.ini into a folder. Created a new region. Named it Boston--a nice, simple region, but the city tiles aren't where I want them... I used Shift+Ctrl+Alt+R, navigated to the scale_boston.jpg. This is the result I got using your config.bmp. ( I think) config.bmp

Just trying to get any config.bmp to work. Even the simple one I edited (ignore black border from screenshot) won't work, and it's the one that came with the downloaded region. RGB values are 255 -0-0 respectively. Blue are 4x4, green are 2x2 and red are 1x1, etc. Yes, there are 2 layers of "red" cities on edge. Tried SC4 Terraformer. Doesn't work. In fact it makes it worse. Config.bmp has black squares in it, and the colors are off. Tried making new region, and copying config.bmp. Doesn't work. I definitely don't like any of the config.bmps that are generated. All I want to do is make my own config.bmp to work, so I can get started, and here I am again, totally frustrated. Now, decades of revisiting this game, countless hours pouring over STEX, installing, uninstalling, re-installing, modding, searching the internet, etc. I've never gotten this game to work. Even the most rudimentary things just don't work for me. I hate to complain, guys, but I'm at my wits end again. The fact that I'm even making a post here is due to total desperation at this point. So, what gives?