Re: "Land values low" in a city where %90 of the buildings are valued at "astronomical"?

[deowll]

"-Rob-" <robh...@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:1129707396.9...@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Strange problem I have here.
>
> I'm building a fairly large city that now encompasses 3/4 of the map. I
> placed parks, ponds, and fountains liberally, zoned most of tiles to be
> dense residential or commercial, built plenty of schools, libraries,
> universities and museums, and my land values went through the roof.
> Almost everything was "Astronomical" and I had enough money thanks to
> the tax revenue to build whatever I wanted ($100,000,000+).
>
> Then a month ago I got a message on the crawl saying "Land values low -
> is x a bargain or a slum?" I checked the bar graph and it showed my
> land values had oddly plummeted from the top of the graph to the very
> bottom, but for no apparent reason (not coinciding with anything else
> on the graph). Stranger still, the land value map still depicted a sea
> of dark blue, and almost all of the dense commercial/residential
> buildings I right clicked on were still valued "Astronomical." The city
> is now LOSING money, but the surplus is so huge it isn't really a
> problem yet.
>
> Since then, occasionally the land values return to normal and so will
> my tax revenue, but only for a little while. I've found certain things
> that trigger this. For example, destroying the water treatment plants
> along the river causes the values to rise back to normal; rebuilding
> them causes the values to plummet again.
>
> This is strange. Is this a known bug, and if so, is there a patch for
> it, or am I just doing something wrong? (E.g., building too many YIMBY
> structures or zoning things too densely, or putting NIMBY buildings
> like the water treatment plants too close to astronomicaly valued
> land.)
>
> Thanks.
>

It sort of sounds like you might have so much cash that you have a buffer
overflow that causes you to loose money until you get it down to some number
that doesn't cause the problem then you gain money until it does.