Great sim game; some tuning would be helpful

I have been a prlayer of “Sim” games for many years, going back to the first (pre PPC) Macs. SimCity 4 continues to be a wonderful app of that type and works without problem on my MacBook Pro. The improvements over previous versions are significant.

There is one area that could use attention, that of the conflict between Types of industries (clean and dirty). I have found that, as suggested by other comments, setting taxes at 20% to one type or other forces a uniform and non-conflicting population for that city’s industry. I would prefer that Industry ZONING allow for the segregation of types in the same way the building rules perform; they want to segregate. With that a player could control and locate clean and dirty building specifically, avoiding the probable mix and then abandoned or undesirable neighbors (cells).

I’d like to see the ability to bring sub-way traffic to surface but I realize that has conflicts with surface freight. They would have to be separate network types.

The interface is a bit awkward but you get used to it, and considering the sofistication of the game it is reasonable.

CrayZ 47 about SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition