grs03003

I was building a city which was mostly R$$ when it started to have some pretty bad abandonment issues. The population at the time was around 8,000-9,000 so not very big. Commercial and industrial demand was in the toilet because the neighbor cities were both full of it. Also, demand for residential was through the roof. So it puzzled me that they couldn't find jobs. Then i came across a solution. I checked my neighbor connections and they appeared to be solid. There were multiple rail, monorail, highway, and avenue connections (I never use road connections, they give me traffic headaches). I looked at my avenues and realized that the sims couldn't get to thier jobs because i hadn't built a place for the sims to reverse direction. So at each avenue connection i built a road connecting the two sides so that the sims could turn around. Voila, no more abandonment. This seems like a very obvious thing but i never read anything on any forum regarding it. Obviously it wont solve any massive problems, but for those small localized issues of abandonment, this might be your solution.

rob9926, from how i understand the game i would think that it would do more harm than good. I have always needed to have a commercial service sector of my city, otherwise I end up with severe abandonment issues. Also on IHT I don't think there has ever been a city in which I have sky rocketing IHT demand. For me it has always been low but constant and if I surround that zone with plazas etc it will usually develop over the manufacturing. If there is a surge of IM then it may develop the odd warehouse in that zone but as the demand subsides it usually gets replaced by a max's microchips or something of the sort. Long story sort, its gonna be difficult for you to build blocks of IHT. How your supposed to unlock the spaceport is beyond me. Finally keep in mind that IM is not always such a bad think. It only pollutes when in a big block. I tend to use small clusters and they tend to pollute less than the traffic that uses them.