simcity 3000 questions

What do landmarks do? I know that in simcity 4, there is a chart in the
manual saying how much each landmark increases the demands or the property
value or the aura (at least I think there is such a chart, based on some
previous posts in this group), but in the simcity 3000 manual, all it says
basically is that you can place up to 10. I looked at several strategy
guides online, and most did not even say that much. I tried placing a few in
my city and seeing what happened, but I could not really tell if or how much
they affected things.

Is there a purpose to them, other than it looking cool to put something like
the arch du triomphe next to the mayor's house.

In a city I built, I made a section of my city that the only transportation
was subways. How does the trash get to the incinerators if there are no
roads or rails. Does the trash get magically ported to the incinerators, or
are there "trash cars" on the subways or what?

How come I have two airports, and upon querying each of them, it says that
air traffic is light, but then commerce is still asking for airports. Is
there any way to determine the location that they want it in.

When the message comes on that says that gridlock is strangling your city
and that you should put up more bus stops and such, how do you determine
where to put them (I already put them on just about every corner. Or should
you look at the map that shows where the heavy traffic is and make double
wide roads in those places (I know that is what they do in "real life,"
judging by how much road construction that is going on near where I live).

Brian Christiansen

"Brian Christiansen" <brian_christians.RemoveThis@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<QYI5d.815$5b1.716@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>...
> What do landmarks do? I know that in simcity 4, there is a chart in the
> manual saying how much each landmark increases the demands or the property
> value or the aura (at least I think there is such a chart, based on some

I don't know about simcity 4 - I'm waiting for the Linux version,
which will probably never happen. However, in simcity 3000 landmarks
are mainly decorative, this is true in all versions, Windows, Mac, or
Linux. That doesn't mean that they're useless: UFOs attack landmarks
first, which means that you can use them to protect your more
important buildings from attack. Also, tiles occupied by a landmark
count as having 0 pollution, which in smoggy areas can signdificantly
improve the desirability of neighboring tiles.

I suspect that the chart you're thinking about for reward buildings,
not landmarks. Each revard building has very specific benefits, which
is why they count as rewards.

> previous posts in this group), but in the simcity 3000 manual, all it says
> basically is that you can place up to 10. I looked at several strategy
> guides online, and most did not even say that much. I tried placing a few in
> my city and seeing what happened, but I could not really tell if or how much
> they affected things.
>
> Is there a purpose to them, other than it looking cool to put something like
> the arch du triomphe next to the mayor's house.
>
> In a city I built, I made a section of my city that the only transportation
> was subways. How does the trash get to the incinerators if there are no
> roads or rails. Does the trash get magically ported to the incinerators, or
> are there "trash cars" on the subways or what?

The game is relatively unsophisticated in it's handling of garbage
transportation.

> How come I have two airports, and upon querying each of them, it says that
> air traffic is light, but then commerce is still asking for airports. Is
> there any way to determine the location that they want it in.

Your airports might not be big enough to develop properly. How big is
each one?

> When the message comes on that says that gridlock is strangling your city
> and that you should put up more bus stops and such, how do you determine
> where to put them (I already put them on just about every corner. Or should
> you look at the map that shows where the heavy traffic is and make double
> wide roads in those places (I know that is what they do in "real life,"
> judging by how much road construction that is going on near where I live).

I haven't figured out Simcity buses. However, I can tell you that
while they do help, they are not sufficient. You must build light rail
or subways or highways to relieve the traffic congestion. The
Subsidize Mass Transit Ordinance will make your mass transit
significantly more effective.

Those are all supply-side solutions. You can also reduce the demand
for traffic by making sure that Sims don't have to travel far to meet
their needs. Make sure that every zone is within a reasonable
distance, through your transportation network, of zones of each of the
other two zone types. Lowering zoning densities, and putting in more
parks, trees, and water, and fewer buildings, will also reduce the
demand.