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NostalgiaG33k
11 years ago

Keeping residential buildings small

Hello,

I was wondering if there was a way to keep residential buildings at the "home" level rather than "apartments" or "skyscrapers".  I try to make my city as close to realistic as possible and I want to have a smaller section of my city that is just residential homes.  

I've visited some towns where I've notice an abundance of "homes" in a section and it progresses to "apartments" and "skyscrapers". 

So I would love to have these homes stop upgrading and so I can actually have a "town" portion of the city.  

Also, could someone tell me what the difference between; requesting new upgrade plans and asking to upgrade a different building is? (the two arrows and the cancel icons).  They both seem do to the same thing.  Any advice would help.

Thank you much,

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    From what I understand is that you cannot permanently stop a building from being fully upgraded. The "request new plans" means you simply ask for a new "recipe" of materials required to upgrade your building. If for instance it's asking for 19 nails and there is no way you will ever have enough space, it's probably a good idea to request new plans.  Usually they make it more difficult.

    The "asking to upgrade another building" is similar to the new plans...IF you have another building ready to upgrade...it will go to that until you have no more and it will always come back to the incomplete buildings.  These cities with the low buildings (such as Mayor Dan's) must have hardhats all over the place if viewing from the mayor....but visitors never see the hardhats or other noise.  So if you don't mind the hardhats - you can keep your buildings short.

    I know what you want and I feel the same way. A lot of people have asked this and EA still hasn't addressed it.

  • NostalgiaG33k's avatar
    NostalgiaG33k
    11 years ago
    Thank you for your response. It would be really cool if they would integrate this into the game at some point soon. And superheroes to save the city from disasters. That would be really cool
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago
    You have kind of answered your own question, if you click on the upgrade a different building, as long as you have buildings to upgrade it will leave that one and pop somewhere else.

    That's how you keep a section of your city as houses or apartments etc.

    Apart from that, if you put them on the pollution zone from a factory, they won't pop a hard hat, but they will complain a lot. 😉

    That probably works for any pollution zone, trash, sewer etc. But I have only done it with a factory.
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    11 years ago

    +1

    There should be a way to deselect any building that is offering an upgrade. Maybe bribe the commissioner so the hardhat disappears for a certain amount of time before the building is viable for upgrade again. The Mayor would have the ability to keep some buildings as they are (for as long as the Mayor wants to keep refusing upgrades).

    We could feel like we are actually planning the city instead of just working for the server.

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