SimCity4 RH MP Game, revisited

[Atragon]

Sorry about not getting the city updated to '15 tonight guys, just not enough time.

Will upload it as soon as possible tomorrow.

[mrmitchell]

I think if I move the cemetary and reconnect the highway it'll work.

Redrew the highway and it works! Now have the connection.

[EPW]

Its not near your cemetary, did you try uploading your city?

BTW, how did you get so much money?

[mrmitchell]

BTW, how did you get so much money?

Saving it. I didn't even begin to lower my taxes until 2011 or somewhere abouts then; I cut them a lot more in 2014.

(Oh, and BTW, I was legitimately offered the Casino with no U-Drive-By or anything, so therefore I figured it was just like any other business deal one might be given...)

[EPW]

Originally posted by mrmitchell

Saving it. I didn't even begin to lower my taxes until 2011 or somewhere abouts then; I cut them a lot more in 2014.

(Oh, and BTW, I was legitimately offered the Casino with no U-Drive-By or anything, so therefore I figured it was just like any other business deal one might be given...)

Thats cool, I spent all of mine in the first 5 years. Did you get the freeway to go through?

[mrmitchell]

hats cool, I spent all of mine in the first 5 years. Did you get the freeway to go through?

I've had pretty big budget surplusses, too. IIRC in 2010 my funds reserve was at about $12,000...

Yes, I got hte highway to go through, thanks

[:) Smiley]

In the meantime I've been doing some joyriding and joyflying around East Central, Blountberg, and Y City. Driving in East Central is a huge pain and is best avoided, as it involves getting out of alleys and side streets onto the one clogged main road.

Y City was fun to drive in, having wide avenues and freeways. Flying was enjoyable as well. The plot to cripple its industrial base turned out to have extremely high collateral damage due to the clustering of power plants and industry.

Blountberg was somewhere in between, with more roads but heavy traffic. Experiments suggest that a nuclear power plant explosion has the potential to take out the entire new commercial district.

[Lemmy]

To Bubble Junction:
I added a new avenue from the Blount Manufacturing area, but you'll have to add a bridge to get to it; it's not imperative at this time.
I also added a subway connection near the existing road connection... if you hook that to your commercial districts, a lot of the middle class residents living near my downtown will take it to their jobs in your city, relieving congestion on the road connection.
Our rails also aren't hooking up, maybe you could take a look at that...

Well, from your save it looks like you made a second rail connection to Bubble Junction, and ignored the connection i made. (assuming you created the rail connection after loading my save)

Also, it seems i got a major edge reconciliation problem. I cannot get the avenue connection without doing the reconcile thing...but if i do that i'll end with -$45k and no power plants.

So untill i have the funds to reconcile (or my neighbours reconcile instead ) i can't accept any new connections.

[Jonny]

Well, for whatever reason your first rail connection never appeared on my map; I'll see if I can work that out.

If you manually rebuild the avenue connection from my side, you may get it to appear on your side without reconcilation...

[Maquiladora]

Also remember to import all cities, not to just replace the file, or at least thats fixed my connection problems a couple of times.

[Atragon]

Sorry it took so long, here's Y2015: www.atragon.ca/simcity/y2015.rar

Thanks to the road connections between me and EPW and Ludd, I had massive budget surpluses due to tolls on commuters, with this income, I was able to almost completely convert my dirty industry over to manufacturing, start zoning a new industrial district for high tech (anything else that tries to build there gets nuked), expanding my education system to include a new highschool, and starting in on the commercial district.

The only downisde of all this is that I have about half as many industrial jobs as I used to have.

[EPW]

City Statistics 2015

Green=Highest in Region
Red=Lowest in Region

Epwood
EPW
Pop: 41,437
Com. Jobs: 17,461
Ind. Jobs: 20,471

El Dorado
mrmitchell
Pop: 30,897
Com. Jobs: 7,280
Ind. Jobs: 7,567

Y City
Atragon
Pop: 20,548
Com. Jobs: 3,724
Ind. Jobs: 5,287

Mergdale
General Ludd
Pop: 36,889
Com. Jobs: 3,482
Ind. Jobs: 591

Blountburg
Jonny
Pop: 23,773
Com. Jobs: 3,109
Ind. Jobs: 11,609

East Central
Smiley
Pop: 33,439
Com. Jobs: 9,440
Ind. Jobs: 1,898

Fray Bentos
Maquilidora
Pop: 4,783
Com. Jobs: 2,736
Ind. Jobs: 9,863

Bubble Junction
Lemmy
Pop: 48,890
Com. Jobs: 18,173
Ind. Jobs: 7,439

[Atragon]

Wow, major job shortages...

[EPW]

This is the freeway connecting my city and Y city. As you can see dispite the 1000s of commuters coming from Y city, none of them make it to my city. Is this normal?

[Atragon]

Weird.

Are you looking at the same time period (morning vs evening rushhour)?