[Kavvy]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

One of my cities is at 320,000 people (region of 410,000 and only two cities so far) and it's just a damn nightmare. I've (obviously) run out of room to expand, and despite my putting in street cars AND buses (and no intersections for the streetcars to get confused about), traffic is a nightmare. As a result of this, police, fire, and ambulance coverage are as good as useless. Of course the game insists I need more... as I stare at my fire-trucks stopped at a green light because in their infinite wisdom, they decided to make it 'part of the game' that emergency services queue just like normal traffic. Sorry, that's not how a REAL city works!

My city makes money hand over fist thanks to resources, but without destroying the damn thing and redoing it all, the city boundaries just aren't big enough to fit all the important pieces in.

How do you fit resource mining in a city with that population without causing sickening air pollution?


For those not making hand over fist in money -Play this game - plan a new city but start with lots of money so you do it properly not on the fly with patch work

1. tax EVERYTHING at 20% (max).
2. Eliminate expenses you don't need as your city shrinks. I.e. remove all hospitals off the bat, but keep your water treatment plants and destory them only as capacity is freeded - your new utopia doesn't want to start on ground full of sewage
3. Destroy ALL buildings which become abandonded
4. Remove more expenses as needed (every dollar per hour saved adds up alot at the end)
5. See how much money you can make before you only making $4000/hr, at this point, your just killing time
6. DESTROY EVERYTHING THATS left - via disater or bulldozer
7. Plan a new grid - You now have millions of dollars to buy the roads you want off the bat, and to plan for odd shape buildings with your dream grid and setting
8. Buy things you don't normallly have and cause problems to place later - airport, treatment plants, powerplant service roads for future expansion
9. TRY NOT TO build to much waster but still planning for expansion - You will have negative $/hr for a while but you need to get positve again, your bundle of cash will run out before you know it, and you will be poor again, trust me
10. Enjoy utopia .... untill you get back to 250,000 sims at which case despite starting anew all your planning goes down the toilet somehow and your city becomes the same disater it was at the start
11. Repeat

In all honestly, i had a city of 150,000 sims, and i was able to start anew with over $2,000,000 and I am currently enjoying my new set up, but swearing at myself for the mistakes i made again.