Aloha.
Today I got the opportunity to put an Arcology in my city but I did not because we are not supposed to. I filled in all of the map and now I am just letting my city run for a while untill I need to change something or add something. I raised the funding for things like Fire Fighters, Police, Hospitals and Schools back up to 100% and more people have been moving in to undeveloped residential areas. I rezoned some of the old Commercial areas to Residential and that allowed more people to move in. Most of my industreal areas are dense and that allows for more work and jobs in little space.
So my city has been going for a while and I have slowed down expantion of my city. About 1/4 of the city has not been developed yet. I have a moderate amount of cash and could easily fill the map up but i think taking my time with expantion at this point is a good idea. My taxes are low and my population is high. I dont have many blacked out buildings and my citizens seem pretty happy. Ill finish the rest of the map off later and see what that does.
My city was going great and it was growing fast and then I noticed that a lot of my residential and commercial areas were being blacked out. And no one was moving in to those areas. I have re-zoned, made sure there was water and power but I just cant fix the problem. I even lowered taxes to 4%. But my city is very big and doing well in most parts. If anyone can help me out that would be great.
Over the last two days I have built a lot more on to my city. I am a little low on money and I think Ill just let it run for a while and see what happens. I have to put more Fire and Police startions because crime has been up and fires have been happening more whare their arent fire stations. The Hospitals have surprisingly been ok. I have the funding at 100% and i have like 3 hospitals and my people are doing fine. I put in subways and railways around my city so that the public transportation is good and people will want to move in to my city. I also attached my railways to my subways.
Yesterday I earned a lot of money in my city and I dont know if I should just spend all of that money all at once and add a big chunck onto my city or build some then let it run for a while then build some more.
Today I expanded my city across the river in two places. I made more sea ports and air ports. I really dont know what air ports and sea ports do but I think its good to have them. My population is growing fast and I need to provide more job opportunities to the people but I dont know how because I am trying to keep my polution low and avoid adding more industreal areas. Otherwise things are going pretty good.
So I sarted my city yesterday and things were going pretty well. Then like all of the sudden my power plants all blew up. And it sucks because like it cost me like a lot of money. Dang and like one of the industreal things like poluted up my clean water. Wow it is a poopy day in Sim City.