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Hey all! First of all. This is an awesome forum! I have been playing SimCity 4 for a while again (after playing this a lot as a kid) and I come here often for tips and mods. I have quite a decently sized region at the moment (1.5 million inhabitants). I have a question concerning the growth stages. I have got a small island directly connected to my city-centre. I assumed the growth stages applied to regional capacity, but then dense lots should also appear on this island right? It seems though city-size also still plays a role here, since hi-rise wont grow. Is there anyone which can explain how this works? What factors play a role in growing denser lots/hi-rise? Thanks! Niek
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Vanilla SimCity 4 Retro play ! SimCity 4 with help from the community has changed so much over the years that the original features like the growable stages have over grown with so much Bat´s, Lot´s Mod´s that a short game doesn´´t reveal the core mechanics of the initial game with it´s rewards. Vanilla gameplay I include Rushhour and the Network addon and any mod or patch wich doesn´t drasticly change the feel of the original, money cheat mod´s I leave as a choice as , core player´s can do without but most of us may prefer some little financial support so that´s the only exception I leave for gameplay ! Gameplay as at the start was even at the start hard to come bye, so often a time of real patience, little lot edited releaved choice of something new, today you start playing with all there is, building style or growht stages are overgrown with new additions wich maybe more rewarding pushing the core game features and the city tilesets to the background. Core civic services setting up is the first task to achieve. Even at standard there´s expensive to buy and maintain. Growing without, economic growht will boom but furthur economicly development will stall eventualy. Landmarks and rewards are the second hurdle for a succesfull development, first aswell very expensive, rewards diverse small or large, depending on the to be achieved challenge. Airports, harbours, and growable lots will show the influence of these game features on the local economics, development from poor to medium area goes allmost instant, rich area´s are more reliant on enviromental factors like noise, ground, air pollution and green arround SimCity Building Index http://simcity4buildings.net/index.php?lang=eng gives a systematical index of all growable lots wich are in the core game what they are, wich tile set, wich growing stage they will appear and furthur details ! Hope this topic will review all those features and show some authentic screenshots to enjoy the game mostly as it supposed to be ! Sincerely yours, Kschmidt
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Upon installing Maxis Blocker and reading a topic about "Build all styles option does not work" I felt problematic. So, I would like to ask/clarify something. If I have Lot A & Lot B with the same growth stage and lot size, but Lot A has 10 occupancy and Lot B has 6 occupancy, the game would pick Lot A to grow on a zone since it has higher occupancy to satisfy the demand? Is this the only factor for the game to choose a lot to grow? Are there other factors? Is it random? Because I'm experiencing a situation where there is only this one group of lots, (I installed) grows for stage 1. Even if I have like 5 other lots with the same growth stage and lot sizes as the mentioned "group of lots" or even all tile sets enabled. Has any of you experienced this too? What kind of solution/s did you do?
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Hi guys ! I have a few questions about stages. If my region reaches stage 8 residential, what does happen to the lower stages buildings ? I know there are some R$ stage 8 buildings, so it's not related to the $ level... are the stage 8 buildings just mixed up with the lower stage ones or is it some kind of different wealth level ? And another question. Are there mods to control stages ?? To remove them ? To allow only certain stages ? (I'm rebuilding my plugins folder and I would like to be able to test everything before starting a big new region, it would be very helpful to have such a thing, in conjuction with a demand mod) Thanks for your expertise.
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I've read every now and then that the regions have "stages" and that is how the game develops either medium sized buildings or skyscrapers. But how can I know that in my region? How do I get that information? how many region stages are there? Thanks in advance.
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Hello Simcity 4 fans I recently returned to playing this game after 5yrs, I have built perfect city, perfect health & education, only high tech industry and mostly zoned residential & commercial and everything is in huge demand but i am still struggling to get the stage 8 skyscraper was there ever a cure to this problem? I have rush hour and all patches applied city is 78 yrs old and commercial the highest in demand, no air or water pollution and plenty of landmarks
