Hey all, I'd love your thoughts on this. This has been bugging me recently. I live in San Francisco, which is the second densest city in America, behind New York City of course (largely due to the absurdity of Manhattan's density). So while I'm well aware that there are denser cities in the world, we are right up there for America. I look at my place, and my friend's places (all of us live in the Northern/Northeast section of the city, which is the densest), and I know how many people live in our buildings. When I compare them to SimCity stats, it seems wildly overpopulated, sometimes by three or four times as many people as would be in the real life version. This can also be verified by seeing people who have created insanely dense cities on a large city tile, often with 1,000,000+ inhabitants. Absolutely rad, but considering Manhattan is larger than a large city tile and has a similar population, and is more or less about as dense as a first-world city can get, it just seems unrealistic. Case in point (and this is absolutely nothing against Don Miguel, who is one of my favorite BATers by a longshot, but this building is very similar to one a couple of my friends live in): This is a townhouse. In a wealthy section of a city, this would be occupied by one family, maybe 2-4 individuals. If each floor was converted to a flat or apartment designed for single yuppies or low income families, like is often the case in San Francisco and New York City, you might have an apartment for each floor, with 3-4 people living there, so 9-12 residents, maybe 12-16 if you figure there is a basement unit. This file is 40. Like I said, not picking on him in the slightest, because I feel 95% (if not more) of residential files (both Maxis and custom) are similar, and I feel most BATers probably base population off the Maxis files to begin with. I just thought this would be an easier one to point out than a 20 story highrise. Other case in point: Maxis mansions with like 12 people in them. OK, maybe in the 1850s when people had armies of servants, now it would likely be 2-4 people. What do you all think? Are residential population stats, with both Maxis and user files, accurate? Or are they too high? Is there a "mod" that can downgrade the region to a more realistic population density?