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First: If someone will tell me how to load an image, I will be happy to post a few to make it easier for you to understand my situation. Does Simtrop host images on-site? Second: I am running what has been described as a "pretty much vanilla" version of the game. My streets have no curves, only angles, and no such thing as an overpass. The water is Maxis, and there are not too many "Mod" plugins in my folder. Just to set the ground rules -- a REGION is composed of a random mix of small, medium, and large maps. A small map is 64 x 64 squares. A medium map is 128 x128 squares. A large map is 256 x 256 squares. I buy power from and dump trash in the small maps. They are just bare necessity towns to provide connections and resources. (Though I am considering fixing them up a bit to make the regional map look better. I have built a succession of cities (60 to 100) while learning how the game works and figuring out how to incorporate downloads and Mods from STEX, PLEX, and LEX. And it has allowed me to make a few lots of my own to beautify the cities and to detail some of my industry. I am beginning to get the "itch" to make my cities more realistic in appearance and planning the layout. Hence more downloads will be required for industry, ports, etc. Eventually, I will create a new regional map and try going for the real look of a "satellite view" of a single large city with port zones, industrial zones, etc. (Kinda like LA looks like on Google maps -- suburbs, ports, etc). But that is for the future. My goal for the moment is to see how many people I can get into a single map. This makes your regional view look exactly like what it is -- a series of crowded squares. This goal encourages you to cram stuff into every possible nook and cranny on the map and results in an ugly city that eventually runs out of space. Using a medium map, my largest population reached 333,529 people. No room left to build anything. Using a Large map, my largest population reached 398,611 people. About 2/3 of the map still available, but game speed became frustratingly slow and I decided to switch to another city. Regional population is currently 4,279,849 people with 53 cities connected. I would like to know how other people are doing with their city populations. Am I about right -- or is there a way to get more people into a city? What do other players use as cap-busters for business, etc, etc? Any tips and suggestions will be most welcome.
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